U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently received criticism for suggesting that Israel form a \"two-state solution\" with Palestine in order to preserve Israel as a Jewish state.
The new Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said in a speech this week that his plan for the 2016 House of Representatives includes a \"complete alternative to the left\'s agenda.\"
U.S. President Barack Obama addressed the nation in a rare Oval Office speech on Sunday evening regarding the recent San Bernardino mass shooting, describing the tragedy as an \"act of terrorism.\"
A former pastor was recently arrested in Michigan for reportedly handing out flyers regarding jurors\' rights in front of a local courthouse.
An atheist group has reportedly set up its own \"holiday scene\" next to a Christian nativity in front of an Indiana courthouse.
Russian president Vladimir Putin announced this week that Turkey will \"regret\" its recent downing of a Russian warplane carrying out airstrikes in Syria.
A district attorney\'s office in New York has said that the recently-identified mother who left her newborn child in a manger in a Queens church will not face charges.
The mother allegedly involved in a secretive church beating in New York earlier this year is set to appear in court this week on charges of first and second degree assault.
Pope Francis recently discussed religious fundamentalism as a "sickness that is in all religions\" following his three-day visit to Africa.
The suspect who recently opened fire on a Colorado Planned Parenthood is reportedly set to face a judge this week, shortly after the state's governor called the suspect's actions a form of "terrorism."
Police were called to a church in the Bronx borough of New York City this week after a priest discovered a newborn infant who had been placed in the church\'s holiday Nativity scene.
A Christian pastor who has spent years building relationships with Muslims and a historian who has studied Islamic history and doctrine debated whether Islam’s theological and political teachings allow the religion to coexist with Western society. Roberts said he once feared things like Sharia, or Islamic law, but realized the U.S. Constitution wouldn’t allow it.
A Christian teacher with 28 years of experience has filed a discrimination claim against a school in northeast England after being dismissed following a pro-life response to a student’s question about abortion. Anita Meston, 63, is suing Biddick Academy, a state-funded secondary school in Washington, Sunderland, according to ADF International, which is supporting her case.
A Christian pastor is facing a criminal charge after refusing to leave a sidewalk outside the Chinese Embassy in Washington while protesting China’s treatment of religious minorities. The Rev. Patrick Mahoney, leader of the Christian Defense Coalition, said in a Sept. 28 Facebook post that he was “arrested by the United States Secret Service for peacefully praying on a public sidewalk in front of the Chinese Embassy.”
Christian leaders are divided over plans to livestream the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the former Army major convicted of killing 13 people and wounding 32 others in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. Hasan, who served as an Army psychiatrist, represented himself during his 2013 military trial, acknowledged carrying out the attack and was sentenced to death.
A Maryland appeals court has rejected a challenge brought by 37 churches against the United Methodist Church’s Baltimore-Washington Conference over property and financial requirements connected to leaving the denomination. A three-judge panel of the Appellate Court of Maryland unanimously ruled in 'The Methodist Church of Cape St. Claire et al. v. The Baltimore Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church, Inc., et al.'