2016 presidential hopeful Marco Rubio spoke out against the United States\' acceptance of Middle Eastern refugees this week, warning President Obama that some of the refugees could be Islamic extremists.
Pope Francis spoke out against the recent Paris terrorist attacks that took place Friday evening, saying there are "no justifications" for the tragedy that killed 129 people.
The One Million Moms activist group is reportedly protesting the American Girl doll company for featuring a family with same-sex parents in their recently-released magazine.
The controversial satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo has received criticism for reportedly printing offensive cartoons regarding the recent Russian airliner crash over the Sinai Peninsula.
Russian authorities announced Friday that they would be grounding all flights to Egypt until they figure out the cause of a recent Russian passenger airliner crash that killed 224 passengers as it traveled over the Sinai Peninsula late last week .
The Church of Latter-Day Saints announced this week that it has revised a policy that now describes same-sex married couples as apostates and bars children of same-sex married couples from becoming baptized until they are 18-years-old.
While some have criticized 2016 presidential hopeful Ben Carson for his lack of political experience, the retired neurosurgeon recently took to social media that he has served a different and important role in life as a neurosurgeon.
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.'