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A lawmaker and former education minister of India was arrested for the rape of a 16-year-old girl- a leap to the country's crackdown on human trafficking closely watched by anti-slavery activists.

Christian and South Africa's top anti-corruption official fear for her life after learning that a group of men has been hired to kill her.

A leading right activist in Pakistan known for being vocal against Taliban and other radical Islamist group was shot dead while on a dinner with a journalist in an outdoor café in southern port city of Karachi.

Scientists in Brazil are focused on women and their new-born twins in their investigation of the mysteries of Zika epidemic in their country, and among their subjects are the twins from a Christian couple in Santos, Sao Paulo state.

Midlothian Police is facing a blank wall in the case of a 45-year-old fitness instructor who was found dead inside Creekside Church near Dallas on April 18 with multiple puncture wounds in the head and chest.

The death of the 16-year-old girl, who was drugged and burnt alive simply because she helped a couple elope, jolted every Pakistani, but as new evidence traced that it was a so-called "honor killing" with a "jirga"- an outlawed tribunal council - anger swept the country.

The election campaign in Philippines took a surprise when Christian group Iglesia ni Christo (INC) endorsed Rodrigo Duterte for president, and Sen. Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos for Vice President.

Vatican received 544 reports of suspicious disbursement in 2015, nearly four times higher than the prior year, but the financial watchdog official was quick to interpret it as a result of the "new awareness" of reporting obligation, not as a crime.

China has lodged a diplomatic protest with the U.S government after an American bipartisan federal body reported that violations of religious freedom in China last year is "severe."

Presbyterian and legendary bond investor Bill Gross who is managing the $1.3 billion (assets) Janus Unconstrained Bond Fund is suggesting on how to help boost the U.S economy through a "helicopter money" concept. His figurative idea of "helicopter money" was made popular in 1969.

Former Mexican foreign minister Patricia Espinosa was favored to be the next head of the UN Climate Change Secretariat.

Italian police thwarted the alleged plot to "attack" the Vatican and the Israeli embassy in Rome with the arrest of four people, all Moroccan nationals, for conspiring to join the Islamic State Thursday last week.

Saddened by new story surrounding the death of a six-year-old girl in Naples, Pope Francis called for a "severe punishment" for pedophiles saying the case was tragic and should not be tolerated.

Many Christian politicians rushed in defense of the Muslim minority criticizing the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) on its divisive initiative by declaring Islam incompatible with the constitution.

The suburban town of Pazardzhik in Bulgaria came out with its piece as the first ever to ban burqa among the Muslim women citing its risk to security and to safeguard trust between communities.

Turkish lawmakers are not in accord with a new Constitution whether it adopts secularism or restore the role of religion in public life, which before was the governing mandate in Turkey until it was overturned in 1920.