CB Condez

Multi-Grammy awardee Adele has lately come under fire after she compared singer Beyoncé to Jesus Christ.

A Christian group has made a call for prayer for the UK's newly elected political leaders following local elections held last week, including new London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who is the first Muslim to hold such an office in a major western capital city.

Dozens of migrants in Hamburg took part in a mass baptism and communion on May 5, sealing their conversion from Islam to Christianity. However, some expressed doubt on their motives.

UNESCO has adopted a resolution in April that apparently ignores Jewish claim to the Temple Mount and Western Wall. In response, a Christian representative to the United Nations is asking Christians to condemn the resolution.

The controversial "Get Them Married" retreat, initially slated to take place in Kansas, was cancelled because of the outcry against the premise behind the event. Those behind the retreat have reportedly called it Christian persecution.

Chief Justice Roy Moore of Alabama is at risk of being removed from the bench once again, this time because of his views on same-sex marriage.

Research involving growing a human embryo in a laboratory has had a breakthrough, but it had to be stopped before reaching the set legal limit of 14 days. This has raised the desire by scientists to have the limit extended beyond two weeks, but there is still the question on ethics.

The United States Deparment of Education released the names of the institutions that have requested for exemption to Title IX, a legislation that bans discrimination based on gender. These colleges have applied for the exemption primarily because the statute conflicts with their religious stance.

According to research by Barna group, 35 percent of practicing Christians would rather read Christian non-fiction, almost double than the 18 percent who like Christian fiction. The April top selling religious/faith-based books include several Christian non-fiction titles.

Christian bakers in the United States are not the only ones getting sued for "gay cake" issues. A couple in Ireland who refused to make a cake iced with a pro-gay slogan two years ago is waiting for an appeal hearing this week.

A former Christian Brother, who worked at St. Augustine's Orphanage for boys in Victoria, Australia in the '60s, pleaded guilty to multiple charges of indecent assault and was found guilty for multiple counts of buggery and one of attempted buggery.