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U.S granted temporary sanctuary to the Christian grandson of the co-founder of notorious Hamas terrorist group in West Bank until it is deemed he is safe to be backed in his homeland.

A devoted Christian convert from Islam, who Iran authorities arrested in 2013 because of her religion, went on hunger strike to protest the maltreatment she is getting from officials of Evin prison facility.

Four people were killed as a group of young Muslims went berserk because one of the victims, a Christian, posted in his social media account comments they considered blasphemy to Prophet Mohammed in Pandogari town in central Nigeria.

At least 700 migrants, mostly Eritrean women and children, drowned in their perilous attempt to reach Italy's shores. Their journey ended in a shipwreck on the Mediterranean Sea in a span of three days.

Is martyrdom in Quran a deception? Islamic scholars answered it with a "yes," but American renown radio host Rush Limbaugh thinks the matter of interpretation will remain unsettled.

A 30-year-old Hindu was to die soon from kidney failure, but a glimpse of hope came. Auxiliary Bishop Jacob Muricken of Palai diocese offered to donate one of his kidneys so Sooraj, who is from the Indian state of Kerala, will live for more years

A German pastor held a Muslim funeral for a 17-year-old jihadist who fought and died for the Islamic State in Syria inside the Protestant St. Pauli Church in Hamburg, drawing public resentment including some of his colleagues in faith.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant received the inaugural Samuel Adams Religious Freedom Award for standing firm in defending religious liberty over business interest, and the lobby by advocacy groups.

Christians in Turkey's controlled territory in northern Cyprus are now allowed to attend church service only once a year on either Christmas or Easter.

Israel flaunted what advocates thought LGBT discrimination is hideous, successfully hosting its first ever Miss Trans-Israel 2016.

The world's largest Muslim organization admitted that the problem of extremism sprang from the Islam teachings, which need to be revised to become in accord with the modern world.

Brazil's 'March for Jesus' gathered Hundreds of thousands of evangelical Christians who took the streets of Sao Paolo, turning it into the "largest Christian event in the world."

Amid ISIS's ferocious campaign in Syria and Iraq against Christians and the Yazidis, Pope Francis is urging the Christian world to pray that God may reach the hearts of the terrorists, and stop them from sowing "death and destruction."

It's a size of a palm, yet the distraction it brings is immense that sometimes we Christians forget our relationship with God or our routine spiritual commitment with him. But things are a reverse, and smartphones won't be a bad news if we care for our faith and firmly fight back the temptations from modern technology.

A Baptist pastor and his three sons were killed, his wife and 11-year-old daughter were critically injured Saturday morning after their car was rammed by an 18-wheeler truck in Carthage, Texas.

A church pastor in Sudan is feared to get a death sentence if the government, known for its notoriety against Christians, will accuse him of crimes against the state, which carry a penalty of death. The pastor has been illegally detained for five months without any charges made against him.

An influential Christian church leader in the South Pacific island republic of Samoa is urging the government to enact a law that bans the entry of Muslims into the country, labelling them as a security threat.

A priest of Anglican Church in South Africa and daughter of Cape Town former Archbishop Desmund Tutu abandoned her vocation after entering into a same-sex marriage, a matrimonial vow that her church does not recognize.

For the children of Syria, divine intervention is their only hope for peace to their homeland. Concrete actions, not words of support from the international community is the other cry of aid workers and doctors to protect them from deadly attacks.

Government persecution of Christians in China has increased sevenfold since 2008 affirming China's ambition to take control of all religious organizations, a Texas-based charity institution China Aid reported.

Eighteen school girls, ages 5 to 12, were charred beyond recognition in a blaze that gutted down Pitakiatwittaya Christian School in the Chiang Rai Province north of Thailand last Sunday.

Incoming presumptive Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is losing reverence to his Catholic faith quibbling about its leaders' immorality, corruption and other wrongdoings even calling some of the bishops "sons of whore" and the institution itself as the "most hypocrite."

Two church pastors were arrested along with 30 other men and women in Tennessee last Friday as authorities intensified their campaign against human trafficking and prostitution.

Vietnam released from prison a Catholic priest in time for the visit of U.S President Barack Obama in the communist state.

A Christian high school in Wichita, Kansas prohibits admission of a child with a gay relative, or even practices or promotes LGBT at home