Chiqui Guyjoco

More than a hundred clergy members and candidates from the United Methodist Church have officially come out as lesbians, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and intersex (LGBTQI).

Pope Francis stated that the Vatican should study the possibility of having women serving as deacons in the Catholic Church.

The longest-held U.S. prisoner in North Korea, missionary Kenneth Bae, was released in November 2014 after two years of ordeal. Bae urged those who remain as detainees in the communist country to not lose their hope of being freed.

Evangelist and North Carolina resident Franklin Graham has thanked North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory for standing firm on the recently passed bathroom law despite what he referred to as "bullying and intimidation" from the Obama administration.

Giwa barracks in Maiduguri, Nigeria, which holds suspected Boko Haram members, has witnessed this year the death of 11 children less than six years of age, including four babies, due to the unsanitary conditions in the military detention center.

Neophyte politician and transgender Geraldine Roman is the first transgender politician elected to the House of Representatives in the predominantly Catholic Philippines.

A teenage girl was burned by a local jirga in another of Pakistan's "honor killing" on April 29 in Galyat's Makol village for helping her friend elope.

British Prime Minister David Cameron was caught on camera describing Nigeria and Afghanistan as "fantastically corrupt countries," prompting the Archbishop of Canterbury to react in defense of the Nigerian president.

A Chaldean priest revealed that Iraqi Christians blame the U.S. government for the Islamic State invasion of Iraq in 2014.

Pastor of Empowerment Temple Church in Northwest Baltimore Rev. Jamal Bryant is supposedly the father of a son born out of wedlock and there's a DNA paternity test to prove it.

An Egyptian court on Saturday, May 7 ruled a death sentence for six individuals including two Al Jazeera journalists on charges of endangering national security by passing over important documents to Qatar during the administration of ousted president Mohamed Mursi.