Republican leaders said they are planning how to handle the looming Congress clash with the White House over immigration policy as Speaker John Boehner remained firm in using the budget of the Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.) as leverage against the President.
Hollywood actress and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Angelina Jolie met Pope Francis on Thursday after a screening of her film "Unbroken" at the Vatican.
French weekly Charlie Hebdo is set to print a million copies next Wednesday, almost 30 times than usual, despite the killing of its leading cartoonists.
The American Red Cross' refusal to stop receiving donations from tobacco companies risks damaging the reputation of the global Red Cross brand, said a top official with the humanitarian network.
Radical Islamists were the main persecutors of Christians worldwide last year, not only in the Middle East but increasingly in sub-Saharan Africa as well, a yearly survey monitoring religious freedom showed.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday offered help to Prime Minister David Cameron in tackling abuses of Britain's welfare system by migrants in the European Union, but remained firm in her conviction that freedom of movement in the bloc should not be touched.
Palestine is set to formally become a member of the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) on April 1 amid Israel's earlier move to suspend the transfer of crucial tax revenues to the former.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa asked voters to elect him for the third time as presidential polls on Thursday bring the country to crossroads.
U.S. authorities on Tuesday seized $18 million worth of assets from the owners of a defunct Massachusetts compounding pharmacy linked to the national meningitis outbreak in 2012 which killed 64 people and made around 750 ill.
After more than two months of pro-democracy protests, the Hong Kong government is set to start a second round of consultation for political reforms.
Cuba has released some of the 53 people the United States regards as political prisoners after relations between the two countries thawed after half a century, the US State Department said on Tuesday.
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.