The Obama administration is planning on adding pressure for schools to comply with the Title IX stipulations especially on the issue of transgender student rights in federally-funded schools, report says. This comes in a head on collision with North Carolina's bathroom bill, House Bill 2, which ...
Costa Rican and current United Nations (UN) Climate Change Secretariat, Christiana Figueres, is stepping down from her position in July, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is eyeing former Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa for the said post.
Italian police were successful in uncovering and preventing planned terrorist attacks on the Vatican and Israeli embassy in Rome, leading to the arrest of four Morrocan individuals who are suspected to be Islamic extremists.
Franciscan priest in Aleppo Fr. Ibrahim Alsabagh has been working in northern Syria for two years now and has witnessed the worsening state of the country's war. He says the conditions in Aleppo has just gone from bad to worst, describing the cemetery-like eerie silence of the streets where almost ...
Lebanese-American former Miss USA Rima Fakih born from a Shia Muslim family has been posting biblical quotes on her social media accounts in late March which sparked speculation that the beauty queen may have converted to Christianity.
Chick-fil-A has announced that it is opening another branch at Queens Center Mall this fall after a series of branches were put up in Manhattan. The announcement prompted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to urge New Yorkers to boycott the soon-to-open chicken restaurant.
Renowned church leader and best-selling author Rick Warren is worried about the future of churches and wants church planters to shift their focus from church growth to quality. In his monthly extended prayer, Warren says God spoke to him to not just pray but to take action and help his fellow ...
In its "Three Rectification and One Demolition" beautification campaign where church buildings or crosses are most often deemed as illegally constructed, China adds one more in its growing list of demolished Christian churches.
Fulani herdsmen allegedly supported by Boko Haram has once again attacked Christian villages April 25 killing at least 27 indigents. The series of death and destruction which previously took place in the central region of Nigeria have started to spill over the southern states. Many perceive that ...
Governor of Kaduna state Nasir El-Rufai proposed the Religious Regulation Bill last October which, if passed, would ban street evangelism and what the government may consider as offensive preaching. Violation of the proposed law which applies to all religions including Islam would mean up to two ...
A Christian woman is in serious condition after being raped and badly beaten by Muslims in Eastern Uganda as an act of retribution following their imam's imprisonment for her testimony that the mosque leader killed her father.
LANCASTER, Pa. — Four years in the making, the production “David” opened at Sight & Sound Theatres this year and explores the journey of an unassuming shepherd boy who became a king.
The Presbyterian Church in America has voted to leave the National Association of Evangelicals due to the ...
Secular intolerance has a “chilling effect” on Christians who are having to practice “various forms of self-censorship” as they're finding it difficult to express their faith freely in society, according to a new report detailing accounts from four countries.
Gunmen suspected to be Islamic Fulani herdsmen barged into a Catholic Church in southwestern Nigeria, opened fire and detonated explosives while the congregation was celebrating Mass on Pentecost Sunday, killing at least 50 worshipers, including women and children. It's feared that some Christians were also abducted after the attack.
For more than 1,500 days, Nigerian Christian teenager Leah Sharibu has been held captive by the Boko Haram terrorist group as Christians continue to be the target of attacks in the West African nation.