Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has surprisingly criticized not the perpetrators but the victims of the deadly attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, becoming the first renowned international figure to do so, The Australian reported.
Israel expects the migration of more than 10,000 French Jews this year, an upward trend over the years that is seen to further accelerate amid the killings at a kosher grocery store in Paris, according to a senior government official.
German newspaper Hamburger Morgenpost, which reprinted cartoons from the French weekly Charlie Hebdo, became the target of an arson attack on Sunday as government officials condemned another round of anti-Islamization rally.
Malaysian militants have reportedly been taking personal loans from local banks and money lenders to fund their travel and living expenses as they join fellow militants in the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in their struggle in the Middle East.
The Catholic Church in the Philippines remains to be one of the biggest players in the country's stock exchange, led by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Manila (R.C.A.M.), online news site Rappler reported.
U.S. wages posted their biggest drop in at least eight years even as payrolls increased in December.
Sub-Saharan Africa is the continent's "meningitis belt" no more thanks to the efforts of a global team of scientists, drugmakers, and philantrophists who created a tailor-made and affordable vaccine against the deadly disease.
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court has refused to hear a complaint by online taxi service firm Uber Technologies Inc. over a ban of its activity in the city of Hamburg.
The Sri Lankan army defied orders from President Mahinda Rajapaksa to keep him in his post "by force" even after he lost his bid for a third term on Thursday, the campaign spokesman of the new president claimed on Saturday.
Two medical organizations have recommended getting a human papillomavirus (H.P.V.) test to assess women for cervical cancer before using Papanicolaou – or Pap – smear screening. Although the new guidance, as published in Gynecologic Oncology, the Journal of Lower Genital Tract Disease and Obstetrics & Gynecology, is not accepted by all major medical groups, it gives some direction to doctors interested in using H.P.V. test for screening, according to lead author Dr. Warner Huh.
Final-stage trials of experimental Ebola vaccines are set to start in January or February in the worst-hit West African countries as scientists and drugmakers race to block the disease that has claimed over 8,000 lives, said the World Health Organization on Thursday.
Algerian special forces raided a Christian worship gathering at a humanitarian shelter on Sept. 4, detaining all 12 people present on suspicion of holding an unauthorized non-Muslim religious service. Police entered the site and transferred the 12 detained Christians to the Bethioua police station.
Nearly 100 students have been baptized during five periodic worship gatherings held at a Christian high school in Colorado after athletic competitions. Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch launched the 5th Quarter gatherings in fall 2024 and holds the student-focused worship and testimony events twice each academic year.
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.