A letter written by Kayla Mueller – the latest American citizen to have died while being held captive by Islamic State militants – was made public by her family on Tuesday after the White House confirmed her death.
David Morrissey, who played the Governor in the hit post-apocalyptic television series "The Walking Dead," is set to play the part of a general as he joins Halley Berry in CBS' science fiction drama "Extant."
The World Health Organization has revealed that new cases of the Ebola virus have risen for the first time this year on the three most affected West African countries – Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
A wanted Islamic terrorist linked with Al-Qaeda is now believed to be dead following a disastrous raid conducted in the Philippines by Filipino police commandos last Jan. 25, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has announced. The raid led to the death of more than 40 members of an elite unit of the ...
Jordan has sworn to eradicate the so-called Islamic State while announcing the killing of 7,000 ISIS fighters after three days of airstrikes. In another major development, the United Arab Emirates has announced that it is set to join the airstrikes on the jihadist group based in Syria and Iraq.
Doctors at a hospital in Missouri said a 14-year-old boy who had been declared dead for nearly an hour had his heart beating again after his mother started praying loudly, Fox News reported on Friday.
Pope Francis is set to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Sept. 24 this year, the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church to do so, House Speaker John Boehner announced on Thursday.
Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner drew rebuke from Chinese netizens for mocking the accent of her hosts when she visited China last week to drum up financial support for her country.
U.S. President Barack Obama called the visiting Dalai Lama a "good friend" during their first public encounter in Washington last week, a move that infuriated Beijing which described the American president as "playing with fire."
Harvard University has joined other schools that have banned professors from having sexual or romantic relationships with their students.
Attention, Tom Clancy fans: The most awaited video game "The Division" is now available for advance orders online.
Two United Nations experts have called on Iran to explain the confiscation of St. Peter’s Evangelical Church in Tehran and the eviction of Christian families from the property. Reports emerged in July that Iranian authorities had seized the church, described as the country’s oldest Protestant congregation, and removed Christian residents living on the site.
President Donald Trump used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to draw attention to the persecution of Christians worldwide, criticizing the U.N. Human Rights Council for giving the issue little attention while condemning some of the world’s most repressive governments. “Christians are being persecuted all over the world; it's not even believable. I never thought I'd say it, but it's been happening for a long time.”
Fulani militia attacks in one county in Plateau state, Nigeria over the weekend killed at least eight Christians, including a Baptist pastor and a church employee on their way to church services on Sunday (Sept. 20), sources said.
Excavations beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem have revealed an ancient garden and burial landscape that archaeologists say is consistent with the description of Jesus’ burial site in the Gospel of John.
The Church of England has withdrawn an interfaith award from a Pakistani Muslim cleric after past comments praising Osama bin Laden resurfaced. Lambeth Palace announced Thursday that it had rescinded the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation presented to Maulana Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi on Sept. 11.