The NFL said in a statement Tuesday that Kansas City Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah should not have been punished during Monday\'s game when he took a knee in prayer after scoring a touchdown against the New England Patriots.
An Idaho woman reported missing by her family was found in her preacher father's hometown in Mississippi this past weekend. The woman says she has no idea how she arrived in Mississippi.
The United States announced this week that in a recent airstrike against the Islamic State in Syria, U.S. fighter jets struck a grain silo, but no indicated of civilian fatality has been confirmed.
Virginia State Police have announced that they have connected forensic evidence for the suspect associated with the recent disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham and another student, Morgan Harrington, five years ago.
Emergency crews recovered five more bodies involved in this weekend's volcano eruption in Japan before crews had to end their search efforts for the day due to toxic gases.
A CBS sports analyst announced this week that he will try to avoid saying the NFL team name Washington Redskins in their upcoming match against the New York Giants.
An ESPN correspondent has been suspended from the sports news network after he called NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a \"liar\" in his handling of the current Ray Rice domestic dispute scandal.
An immigrant who sought asylum in a church in Portland, Oregon to avoid deportation is receiving support from the town\'s mayor and local community.
The United States announced Thursday that it has successfully identified the brutal Islamic State extremist who beheaded American hostages James Foley and Steven Sotloff in August.
The United Nations announced Thursday that the Islamic State has publicly executed a female human rights lawyer in the town of Mosul, Iraq, claiming she was guilty of apostasy for critical Facebook posts.
A German-American journalist who had been held hostage by pirates in Somalia for over two years was released this week.
Nearly 80,000 people gathered with Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell and 2819 Church at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Saturday for a large-scale evening of prayer and worship. Ed Newton, senior pastor of Community Bible Church in San Antonio, attended the event, known as “ACCESS — That Powerful Hour of Prayer.” Free tickets for the gathering were claimed within eight hours.
A South Carolina judge is preparing to dismiss lawsuits filed by the United Methodist Church’s South Carolina Conference against nearly 70 congregations seeking to leave the denomination while retaining their properties. The conference said Tuesday that Circuit Court Judge Brian M. Gibbons had informed the parties that he intends to dismiss the cases.
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.”