Chancellor Angela Merkel and most of her Cabinet are set to join on Tuesday a rally for an "open and tolerant Germany" arranged by Muslim leaders amid the country's growing anti-Islam movement.
Qantas has topped the list of world's safest airlines released by a website.
Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has surprisingly criticized not the perpetrators but the victims of the deadly attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, becoming the first renowned international figure to do so, The Australian reported.
Israel expects the migration of more than 10,000 French Jews this year, an upward trend over the years that is seen to further accelerate amid the killings at a kosher grocery store in Paris, according to a senior government official.
A student in Egypt has reportedly been sentenced to three years in jail after announcing he is an atheist on social media.
The international community is criticizing the White House and the Obama administration for missing a march in France that was meant to show unity following the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack last week.
German newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which reprinted cartoons from the French weekly Charlie Hebdo, became the target of an arson attack on Sunday as government officials condemned another round of anti-Islamization rally.
The governments of Iran and the United States both agreed to explore ways that can hasten the negotiation process over Tehran's nuclear program in a meeting that will begin in Geneva on Wednesday, an Iranian official disclosed.
Malaysian militants have reportedly been taking personal loans from local banks and money lenders to fund their travel and living expenses as they join fellow militants in the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in their struggle in the Middle East.
The Catholic Church in the Philippines remains to be one of the biggest players in the country's stock exchange, led by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila (R.C.A.M.), online news site Rappler reported.
Search and rescue teams have yet to find crucial flight recorders even after successfully lifting the mangled tail of an Air Asia plane that crashed off Java Sea two weeks ago, Indonesian authorities said on Saturday.
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.