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A North Texas man has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for raping a 12-year-old family friend and trying to sell her for sex to bar patrons -- who refused. Prosecutors on Thursday announced the penalty for 30-year-old Ricky D. Davis of Fort Worth. A Tarrant County jury on Wednesday convicted Davis of aggravated sexual assault of a child and trafficking a person under age 18, then ordered concurrent 99-year prison terms, according to the Associated Press.

Not Jon Gosselin, who after making it big on "Jon & Kate Plus Eight," suffered through a messy divorce in 2009 and now is serving restaurant patrons in Pennsylvania in search of the simpler life, according to ABC News. After the show, Gosselin, 36, told “Entertainment Tonight” it has been "next to nearly impossible to find work," so he began working at Black Dog, a restaurant in Beckerville in Eastern Pennsylvania.

Francis Chan, at this week's Identity Unleashed Conference with basketball super star Jeremy Lin in San Francisco, spoke about how big God is next to death. He gave a powerful message about the God in Heaven who's looking down on Earth and desires our worship and gives followers of Christ certain eternal security in Heaven with Him.

The joy of Iran’s Facebook and Twitter fans was short-lived as authorities on Tuesday restored blocks on social networks after filters were lifted for several hours overnight.

NFL player and devout Christian Adrian Peterson does not take performance enhancing drugs, but rather "juices on the blood of Jesus," the Minnesota Vikings running back wrote in a recent article for the newly-launched website, Monday Morning Quarterback.

In his first interview since his son’s suicide in April, famed pastor Rick Warren told CNN that he knew his son, Matthew, had bought a gun, dismissed rumors that Matthew was gay and said he doesn’t blame God for the tragedy.

Despite its purported cleansing properties, holy water could be more harmful than healing, according to a new Austrian study on "holy" springs.

Surely Hannah Montana was blushing as she watched Miley Cyrus perform at the recent MTV Video Music Awards. But how did Miley Cyrus go from a faithful Christian with a purity ring to her latest performance of “Wrecking Ball?”

What’s the psychology of scarcity and poverty? Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir, was recently released. Its authors study people for a living -- often people who lack money.

A recent report showed the Chinese mainland saw more than 2.4 million Protestant Christian followers baptized during the five years to the end of 2012, with experts saying more people are turning to the religion for help and spiritual consolation.

Fresh from the Group of 20 summit meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia, China's president referred to Kazakhstan as an increasingly important energy supplier for China and an anchor for its new “marching westwards” policy, which looks to quickly strengthen economic and strategic relations with Central Asia.

A new Chinese anti-satellite test could showcase an ability to reach medium-Earth orbit. Doing so, some analysts say, would underscore that country’s ability to place not only the constellation of U.S. Global Positioning System navigational satellites at risk, but also a similar Chinese system.

Vince Gill was targeted by the fringe church, infamous for its decidedly un-Christ-like displays of anti-gay views and protests at the funerals of soldiers, because he has divorced and remarried. The church considers that adultery,

The trip didn't result in the release of imprisoned American missionary Kenneth Bae. Expectations had been high that Rodman, on his second trip to North Korea this year, would parlay his friendship with the 30-year-old dictator into the release of the jailed U.S. missionary. According to The LA Times.

In China, single women older than 30 -- and even in their mid-to-late 20s -- can find themselves branded as sheng nu, or “leftover women”, and are often under intense pressure to get married.

A secret meeting between a representative of the Wyoming chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a Ku Klux Klan organizer ended with the Klan organizer paying $50 to join the civil rights organization, participants said.

Hundreds of Syrians are apparently killed by chemical weapons, and the attempt to protect others from that fate threatens to kill many more.

Something else that makes Leah Darrow so endearing: a book she co-authored called "Decent Exposure" that's coming out in the next few weeks, her month-old baby - her first, named Agnes Regina - and her husband, Ricky Soldinie. The three live in Denver but came to Dallas this weekend so Darrow could speak at Modesty Matters - a Bible-based event at the Mansfield location of Hawaiian Falls.

"Modesty Matters" provided an opportunity for the community to celebrate modesty in the midst of the waterslide-racing, pool-splashing summer fun of a family-oriented, Bible-exhorting waterpark. Celebrities included two-time Grammy-nominated artist Sanctus Real, Leah Darrow, formerly of "America's Next Top Model" and current international speaker and Steve "Sting" Borden, a Hall of Fame professional Wrestler and film and TV actor.

Would you willingly eat chicken nuggets processed in a country that has no intention of meeting U.S. food-safety standards? Most Americans likely wouldn't, reports Bloomberg.

North Korea has rescinded U.S. envoy Robert King's invitation to visit Pyongyang - and basketball superstar and playboy Dennis Rodman recently landed in North Korea, according to Christianity Today.

The network declined to reshoot portions of Dads, despite the Media Action Network for Asian Americans' plea that FOX fix or remove scenes it deemed racist, foxnews.com reports.

A new Pew survey of people in 39 countries from around the world finds that people tend to have a more favorable view of the United States than they do of China, but with wide variations across regions and countries, according to The Washington Post.

Asian-Americans have traditionally had the lowest unemployment rates among different ethnic groups in the U.S. Many Asians say their parents instilled a work ethic in them that drives success, but add that there are positive and negative stereotypes working for and against them in the workplace, according to an NBC affiliate in Pennsylvania.

An elaborate temple-like structure atop a block of apartments southeastern China is an illegal hazard that should be torn down, residents say.