A U.K. government official has proposed banning protesters from gathering outside abortion clinics in order to protect women from harassment.

Bashar Warda, the Chaldean Archbishop of Erbil, has called on President Donald Trump to redirect U.S. aid to 20,000 Iraqi Christian families who were driven from their homes by Islamic extremists.

A former resident of an orphanage in Scotland has told a child abuse inquiry that a six-year-old boy had died 10 days after being beaten by a nun.

Christians and other minority groups in Pakistan have been gripped with fear following the anti-blasphemy protests that have brought the country to a standstill over the weekend.

Pope Francis has urged Myanmar's leaders to respect the human rights of all ethnic groups in the country, but he avoided using the term "Rohingya" in his addresses to officials.

An Egyptian TV host has been suspended after she suggested that it was more understandable for terrorists to carry out attacks on Christian churches than on mosques.

The Vatican's top astronomer has said that some scientists appear in public proclaiming themselves to be atheists in order to gain credibility, but there is a surprising number of people in the field who actually attend church.

A former confidante of the Pope John Paul II has claimed that the late pontiff had a prophetic vision that Europe will be invaded by Islamists.

A British missionary who was kidnapped in Nigeria last month had been killed by his captors after he sang the hymn "Amazing Grace," his fellow captives revealed.

Catholic officials in Italy are threatening to file criminal defamation charges against former altar boys after they accused an older seminarian of sexually assaulting them while living in the Vatican.

Israel's Population and Immigration Bureau has reportedly ordered the deportation of a daughter of a Holocaust survivor based on claims that she had been baptized as a Christian when she was a baby.