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A church in southern California has asked for prayers after its pastor was arrested for multiple counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor.

New York Democratic Activist, Jacob Schwartz is arrested for "more than 3,000 images" and less than a hundred videos of child porno files found on his laptop computer.

The owner of child porn site "Playpen" Steven Chase is sentenced to 30 years behind bars leading to the arrest of 900 website users across the globe and the rescuing of 300 children.

After accusing her cousin of raping her at gunpoint, a 19-year-old woman in Pakistan has been sentenced to death and accused of "seducing" her attacker.

City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee and the other five former leaders of the church have been permanently restricted from managing or holding positions of leadership in any charity.

The archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Louis in Missouri is putting his foot down in defiance of a city ordinance that criminalizes “discrimination” against advocates of abortion.

"We met all the requirements of Parkland High School to start a club at the school and were denied simply because we are pro-life. The school is not only denying my right to start a group but denying the opportunity for others at my school to learn about the greatest human rights social injustice of our time.”

Religious freedom scored a victory when a Kentucky court ruled that Hands On Originals, a shirt printing business, did not engage in unlawful discrimination when it refused to print shirts promoting a gay pride parade.

A 16-year-old Christian boy in Pakistan who was accused of blasphemy for sharing a post on Facebook was denied bail for the second time.

It may come as a surprise that India owns a notorious rape rate, numbering in at a whopping six crimes reported daily. Regarding this fact, it is not uncommon for the predators to force abortions on their victims.

The Muslim superintendent of a hospital in Pakistan has been accused of forcing his Christian staff to memorize Quranic verses -- and carrying out harsh punishments on those who refuse to comply.

As outgoing Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, known by his Chinese nickname Ahok, serves his two-year jail sentence, the Bible is his only companion.

Franklin Graham has said that the imprisonment of the Christian governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama - better known by his nickname Ahok, is a "total miscarriage of justice" and evidence that "Islam wants domination".

In what is being called a "sad day for Indonesia", the Christian governor of Jakarta, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama - better known by his nickname Ahok, has been sentenced to two years in prison by a court that found him guilty of blaspheming the Quran.

Steve Green, president of Hobby Lobby, has encouraged Christians to continue fighting for religious liberty, warning that there will always be those who attempt to take those freedoms away.

Franklin Graham has come under fire for issuing a blistering rebuke to Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge after it was announced that she and her husband, Prince William, are seeking 1.6 million from a French magazine that published topless photos of Kate in 2012.

In a rare win for Ethiopia's Christian community, three believers falsely convicted and imprisoned for burning down an Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) building have been cleared of all charges by a Supreme Court judge.

A prominent Ohio pastor accused of of taking part in repeated sexual acts and the sex trafficking of a 14-year-old girl preached about the danger of "church cover-ups" in a 2014 sermon.

"Fixer Upper" star Chip Gaines has responded to a lawsuit brought against him by his former business partners by quoting a Bible verse about overcoming darkness.

A married Pennsylvania pastor who admitted to sexually assaulting and impregnating a teenage member of his congregation been sentenced to three to six years in prison.

Two Muslim doctors and a third person have been indicted on female genital mutilation charges (FGM) after being accused of targeting young girls for years to carry out the "barbaric and illegal ritual" in a Detroit-area clinic.

An 11-year-old boy in Malaysia has died after he was brutally beaten with a water hose for making noise in his school's Islamic assembly building.

It's been over two months since pastor Raymond Koh mysteriously disappeared, and the lack of information surrounding his vanishing has caused some to speculate that "the authorities may have had a hand in all this."

A Georgia pastor and married father-of-ten has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for molesting two teenage members of his church congregation.

Russia has officially banned Jehovah's Witnesses from freely practicing their faith, as the country's Supreme Court has declared the religious organization an "extremist group".