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.
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.