Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has surprisingly criticized not the perpetrators but the victims of the deadly attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, becoming the first renowned international figure to do so, The Australian reported.
Israel expects the migration of more than 10,000 French Jews this year, an upward trend over the years that is seen to further accelerate amid the killings at a kosher grocery store in Paris, according to a senior government official.
German newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which reprinted cartoons from the French weekly Charlie Hebdo, became the target of an arson attack on Sunday as government officials condemned another round of anti-Islamization rally.
Malaysian militants have reportedly been taking personal loans from local banks and money lenders to fund their travel and living expenses as they join fellow militants in the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in their struggle in the Middle East.
The Catholic Church in the Philippines remains to be one of the biggest players in the country's stock exchange, led by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila (R.C.A.M.), online news site Rappler reported.
U.S. wages posted their biggest drop in at least eight years even as payrolls increased in December.
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.
Two medical organizations have recommended getting a human papillomavirus (H.P.V.) test to assess women for cervical cancer before using Papanicolaou – or Pap – smear screening. Although the new guidance, as published in Gynecologic Oncology, the Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease and Obstetrics & Gynecology, is not accepted by all major medical groups, it gives some direction to doctors interested in using H.P.V. test for screening, according to lead author Dr. Warner Huh.
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.
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.