Salman Rushdie, an award-winning author who once received a death fatwa from an Iranian clergy, has expressed his support for the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo following an attack that left 12 people dead in Paris, France, on Wednesday.
More than 80,000 Haiti nationals are still living in more than 100 refugee camps five years after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake destroyed the country's capital Port-au-Prince, an international rights group said.
.Almost 5,000 Christians were killed while more than 1,000 Christian churches were attacked due to faith-based ideologies, with several Africa countries seeing the largest increase in Christian persecution, an annual report on religious freedom said.
A group of researchers may have just discovered the most Earth-like planet with a rocky surface and flowing water outside the Solar System. Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said that planet Kepler 438b, which orbits a distant star in the constellation of Lyra 475 light years away, could be as hospitable to life as Earth.
Mixed reactions are certain to greet embattled Bill Cosby, who is about to return to stage for the first time on Wednesday night since being accused of sexually assaulting women last year.
After a limited release in the U.S. last year, the controversial comedy film "The Interview" is set to be screened in around 200 theaters in Mexico and Britain on Feb. 6.
Nepal has joined several countries that recognize the third gender, announcing the issuance of passports to sexual minorities by adding a third gender category.
Syrians have become the largest refugee population with more than 3 million or about 23 percent of people escaping war in their home countries all over the world, the United Nations said.
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.