"Mothers, give your children milk." This was how Pope Francis encouraged mothers to breastfeed their babies in public in a message he delivered during the baptism of 33 babies in the Sistine Chapel in Rome over the weekend. The Catholic Church leader poured holy water on the foreheads of 13 male and 20 female infants during the event.
The Nigerian government should move forward with its election despite increasing violent attacks from the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday.
A region in China has approved a ban on its residents from wearing burqa in "an effort to curb growing extremism," Chinese state media announced this week.
Malaysia's crackdown on militants serving the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) appears to be tough enough to be felt by the extremist group as the latter reportedly issued a warning to prospective supporters not to use Malaysia as a transit point to Syria.
A week after the terrorist attacks on the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, the British government has called for a new anti-terror law in cyberspace.
South Korea has dramatically shifted its position regarding talks with North Korea, with President Park Geun-hye expressing willingness to sit with the North Korean leader in the negotiating table without preconditions.
The Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris has already released its new issue, less than one week after a terror attack that killed 12 of its key employees.
Cameroon\'s government announced Tuesday that it succesfully killed 143 Boko Haram militants in a recent battle, just days after the terror group reportedly slaughtered 2,000 in neighboring Nigeria.
A week after the terrorist attack on the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, the British government called for a new anti-terror law in cyberspace.
Indonesian search and rescue teams finally retrieved on Tuesday the cockpit voice recorder (C.V.R.) of the Air Asia passenger jet that crashed of Java Sea more than two weeks ago.
LANCASTER, Pa. — Four years in the making, the production “David” opened at Sight & Sound Theatres this year and explores the journey of an unassuming shepherd boy who became a king.
Secular intolerance has a “chilling effect” on Christians who are having to practice “various forms of self-censorship” as they're finding it difficult to express their faith freely in society, according to a new report detailing accounts from four countries.
Gunmen suspected to be Islamic Fulani herdsmen barged into a Catholic Church in southwestern Nigeria, opened fire and detonated explosives while the congregation was celebrating Mass on Pentecost Sunday, killing at least 50 worshipers, including women and children. It's feared that some Christians were also abducted after the attack.
For more than 1,500 days, Nigerian Christian teenager Leah Sharibu has been held captive by the Boko Haram terrorist group as Christians continue to be the target of attacks in the West African nation.