Officials in Taiwan worked to lift a TransAsia Airways propjet out of the Keelung River in Taipei Wednesday after the plane clipped its wing on a freeway overpass and cartwheeled into the river, killing 26.
Jordan officials executed two al-Qaeda prisoners on Wednesday, one day after the Islamic State showed a video of Jordanian hostage Lt. Muath Al-Kaseasbeh being burned alive.
The Earth's crust under Iceland is reportedly "rebounding" as the island's great ice caps melt due to global warming.
Pope Francis has declared that assassinated Salvadorean Archbishop Oscar Romero died as a martyr, expediting the way for his beatification. The late archbishop is now one step away from being declared a saint as those pronounced as martyrs do not require a miracle to enter the process of ...
A young hitchhiker got the surprise of his life when none other than Uruguay President Jose Mujica and his wife, Lucia Topolansky, picked him up from the road sometime last month.
Coalition airstrikes have killed a chemical weapons expert of the Islamic State, with the U.S. military saying this will help in crippling the operations of the Islamic militant group.
The Islamic State terror group has released a video that purportedly shows the Jordanian pilot who was being held hostage being burned alive.
Icelanders announced this week that they will be building their first temple to Norse gods since the end of the Viking age, when Christianity became the primary religion in the country.
An Egyptian court sentenced 183 members of the Muslim Brotherhood political party to death this week, indicating a continued crackdown on religious and political dissidence in the North African country.
An insurance company in the United Kingdom told a Christian minister that she could lose coverage of her car policy because she put stickers in her car.
The rise of the Islamic State was a result of human rights abuses as governments tend to neglect addressing such in the face of security threats, an international human rights watchdog body said.
Chinese authorities have detained multiple pastors and church workers from Beijing Jiaquan Church, an independent house church that has operated in the capital for more than two decades. ChinaAid founder and President Bob Fu said his organization is “urgently concerned for the safety, health and legal rights of every Jiaquan pastor and church co-worker who has been taken away.”
A planned church in East Java Province in Indonesia is facing renewed opposition from Muslim residents who argue that an address discrepancy in permit documents should halt construction. Residents in the Dukuh Kukun area of Babat Jerawat Urban Village, Pakal District, Surabaya, say the address listed on the official permit does not match the church site in the CitraLand housing complex.
National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School may continue pursuing plans to become the nation’s first religious charter school while its legal challenge to an Oklahoma law moves forward, a federal judge ruled. According to Baptist Press, the National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation is challenging provisions of the Oklahoma Charter Schools Act that bar religious organizations from operating publicly funded charter schools because of their religious character.
Former President Joe Biden received an award from Planned Parenthood of Delaware on Thursday and used his remarks to defend his abortion-rights record while encouraging supporters to continue their efforts. Biden spoke at Planned Parenthood of Delaware’s 22nd Annual Chocolate & Champagne Gala in Claymont, where former first lady Jill Biden presented him with the Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award.
A bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators called on President Donald Trump to raise China’s persecution of Christian pastors and other religious minorities during his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington this week. Led by Sens. Ted Budd, R-N.C., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., the lawmakers thanked Trump for diplomatic pressure they said helped secure the July 3 release of Beijing Zion Church founder Ezra Jin after 266 days in detention.