Republican leaders said they are planning how to handle the looming Congress clash with the White House over immigration policy as Speaker John Boehner remained firm in using the budget of the Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.) as leverage against the President.
Hollywood actress and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Angelina Jolie met Pope Francis on Thursday after a screening of her film "Unbroken" at the Vatican.
French weekly Charlie Hebdo is set to print a million copies next Wednesday, almost 30 times than usual, despite the killing of its leading cartoonists.
The American Red Cross' refusal to stop receiving donations from tobacco companies risks damaging the reputation of the global Red Cross brand, said a top official with the humanitarian network.
Radical Islamists were the main persecutors of Christians worldwide last year, not only in the Middle East but increasingly in sub-Saharan Africa as well, a yearly survey monitoring religious freedom showed.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday offered help to Prime Minister David Cameron in tackling abuses of Britain's welfare system by migrants in the European Union, but remained firm in her conviction that freedom of movement in the bloc should not be touched.
Palestine is set to formally become a member of the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) on April 1 amid Israel's earlier move to suspend the transfer of crucial tax revenues to the former.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa asked voters to elect him for the third time as presidential polls on Thursday bring the country to crossroads.
U.S. authorities on Tuesday seized $18 million worth of assets from the owners of a defunct Massachusetts compounding pharmacy linked to the national meningitis outbreak in 2012 which killed 64 people and made around 750 ill.
After more than two months of pro-democracy protests, the Hong Kong government is set to start a second round of consultation for political reforms.
Cuba has released some of the 53 people the United States regards as political prisoners after relations between the two countries thawed after half a century, the US State Department said on Tuesday.
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.