More or less 2,000 dead bodies have been discovered, most still remaining strewn in the bushes, in what Amnesty International described as the "deadliest massacre" involving extremist group, Boko Haram, in Nigeria.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the continent's "meningitis belt" no more thanks to the efforts of a global team of scientists, drugmakers, and philantrophists who created a tailor-made and affordable vaccine against the deadly disease.
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has refused to hear a complaint by online taxi service firm Uber Technologies Inc. over a ban of its activity in the city of Hamburg.
The Sri Lankan army defied orders from President Mahinda Rajapaksa to keep him in his post "by force" even after he lost his bid for a third term on Thursday, the campaign spokesman of the new president claimed on Saturday.
Russia has amended its road safety laws that ban those with certain disabilities from driving, hoping it will reduce fatalities from traffic accidents.
Top Muslim scholars and community leaders in Paris have strongly condemned the violence committed in the name of Islam during its Friday prayers in France.
The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) has announced that two Ebola vaccines will be tested through its volunteers in West Africa.
Final-stage trials of experimental Ebola vaccines are set to start in January or February in the worst-hit West African countries as scientists and drugmakers race to block the disease that has claimed over 8,000 lives, said the World Health Organization on Thursday.
Indonesian search and rescue teams reported detecting a \"pinging\" sound coming from the wing tail of AirAsia flight 8501, suggesting that the important black box remains intact or near the plane\'s wing.
French police ended two connected hostage situations in France on Friday by storming a Jewish supermarket and a small printing company and killing the two brothers suspected of being behind the Charlie Hebdo attack, as well as their accomplice.
Hollywood actress and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Angelina Jolie met Pope Francis on Thursday after a screening of her film "Unbroken" at the Vatican.
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.
The Presbyterian Church in America has voted to leave the National Association of Evangelicals due to the ...
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.