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After years of being persecuted for turning his back on Islam, a Christian man was forced to leave his home in Manningham, Bradford when threats against his life intensified.

A Kurdish church leader has shared how his elderly father tried to kill him after learning he had converted from Islam to Christianity, and how he was routinely tortured and threatened by Muslims while living in makeshift camps in northern France.

The symbiotic relationship between familial degeneration and the philosophy of statism. As of 2011, a whopping 47.6% of all households consist of homes headed by mothers. The fact of absentee fathers and the devastating effects on children in association with spiritual, emotional, and social troubles is hardly an obscurity anymore. What is less often known or acknowledged, however, is the philosophical and subsequent outcome of the degeneration of what Ronald Reagan so famously labeled the cornerstone of society: the family.

Political Solutions to prohibit familial degeneration presented in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Christian parents of a 14-year-old girl in the U.K. took legal action against their local council for supporting their daughter’s transition to another gender.

A Northern Irish bakery that refused to bake a cake iced with a pro-gay slogan lost its bid to overturn its prosecution for discrimination on Monday as a local court rejected an appeal based on its owners' Christian beliefs.

Christians and other religious minority groups in German migrant shelters suffer attacks from both Muslim refugees and Muslim staff of the migrant shelters, according to a survey released by a nonprofit organization.

In an effort to prevent radical Islam from advancing across France, National Front leader Marine Le Pen has proposed that all religious garb - including Christian crucifixes and prayer beads to the Jewish kippah - be banned from the country.

Austria plans to convert and possibly tear down the house Hitler was born in to prevent it becoming a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.

A Christian nursing home in Neuchatel in Switzerland must perform assisted suicide to patients who ask for it, according to a federal court order.

A group of young people in eastern Germany threatened three Syrian refugee children with a knife and hit them before chanting right-wing slogans on Thursday evening, police said.

The sheer number of Muslim refugees from Syria compared to Christians are staggering. We are talking about a ratio of 185 Muslims to 1 Christian refugee.

Major powers must unite to stop the carnage in Syria as the collapse of U.S.-Russian peace efforts would be a setback for United Nations operations aimed at saving lives, the top U.N. aid official told Reuters on Friday.

The petition calls for a ban on surgical abortion and on the use of contraceptives that induce abortion.

Signs and items reflecting religion in work places throughout France are increasing. With that growing presence has come more religion-based conflicts, a new study found. Called "More Visible," the report was published on Thursday by the Observatory for Religion in the Workplace and the Randstad Institute.

Americans commemorated the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on Sunday with the recital of the names of the dead, tolling church bells and a tribute in lights at the site where New York City's massive twin towers collapsed.

Anjem Choudary, Britain's best-known Islamist preacher, was jailed on Tuesday for five years and six months for encouraging support for Islamic State, ending years of frustration for police who had struggled to pin charges on him

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known as the "saint of the gutters" during her life, was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis on Sunday, fast-tracked to canonization just 19 years after her death.

Disillusioned by the horror perpetrated by followers of Islam, Muslim refugees in Switzerland and Germany are converting to Christianity at a dramatic rate after experiencing the love of Christ and hearing the truth of the Gospel, according to a new report.

A freak lightning storm has killed 323 reindeer in a remote mountainous area of Norway, officials said on Monday. Dead animals were found lying on top of each other, many with their antlers entangled, after the thunderstorm on the Hardanger plateau in southern Norway on Friday.

Isaac, a 17 year-old from Ghana, holds back tears and looks down as he tries to describe the six months he spent in a Libyan jail where he says not a night would pass without someone dying.

A powerful earthquake devastated a string of mountainous towns in central Italy on Wednesday, trapping residents under piles of rubble, killing at least 38 people and leaving thousands homeless.

Austrian conservative politicians called for a ban on full body veils on Thursday, saying the veils would hinder women to integrate into the mainly Catholic Austrian society.

Scottish law requires public schools to host six religious observance sessions a year, although school officials may choose to have more. To counterbalance, representatives of the Humanist Society Scotland (HSS) now are providing to parents who are concerned about religious influence in schools an atheist handbook as a guide for how to challenge teachers.

Thousands of Christians who fled persecution in Iraq and Syria are once again suffering at the hands of Islamists in refugee camps in Germany, prompting lawmakers to call on the government to deport migrants who insult or attack believers.