More than one in eight Danish voters want a party more critical of immigration than the already-hardliner Danish People's Party (DF) as the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) movement spreads to Denmark.
The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has marked "educated, professional" women for execution, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has disclosed.
The first doses of the experimental vaccine against Ebola virus by drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline have reportedly been shipped to the Liberian capital of Monrovia.
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi vowed on Thursday to make the country attractive to foreign investments despite the region's continuing political strife even as he defended the crackdown on political opponents.
To curb "violent and terrorist activities," China further tightened its grip on its Muslim-majority Xinjiang region last year, almost doubling the number of arrests authorities made the previous year amid the continuing ethnic tensions between Uighurs and Han Chinese, state-run China Daily has ...
Hamas has reportedly called on the Lebanese Hezbollah to unite with the group in fighting Israel.
Nigeria's national security adviser has called his own country's soldiers as "cowards" after they failed to protect civilians from Boko Haram extremists, denying suggestions that soldiers were not properly equipped to fight.
Pope Francis is set to visit New York City as part of his three-city trip to the U.S. in September, according to Vatican officials. The highest leader of the Roman Catholic Church will be travelling to the U.S., his first-ever visit, to attend the World Meeting of Families, which will be held in ...
U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called for a revamp in how the National Health Service (N.H.S.) handles suicides, urging hospitals to adopt a successful approach in Detroit in a mission to end such.
Islamic authorities in Malaysia have asked three teenage girls to present themselves in the investigation in Kuala Lumpur over their behavior with K-Pop stars B1A4.
Mali's minister of health has announced that the country is now free of Ebola, as 42 days have passed since its last patient tested negative for the deadly virus.
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.