"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 Islamic State terror group has released a video that allegedly shows a boy shooting and killing two Russian \"spies.\"
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.
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) marked its 180th anniversary with online gatherings. Founded in London in 1846, the WEA represents more than 650 million evangelicals through nine regional alliances spanning 160 countries. Hundreds of participants from more than 20 countries joined two Zoom events on Sept. 23, scheduled at different times to accommodate multiple time zones.
A public forum titled “Seeking the Essence of the Church” was held on the 25th at Queens Central United Methodist ...
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.