A top law enforcement officer has said the recent security video of running back Ray Rice was made available to the NFL back in April, although the football league has denied having access to the footage that shows Rice beating his wife in a hotel elevator.
Missouri carried out its eighth execution of the year on Wednesday against convicted murderer Earl Ringo Jr., who reportedly quoted from the Quran before being injected with the lethal drug pentobarbital. The inmate denied receiving any sedative before his execution.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has spoken out against the recently-released security video showing Ray Rice beating his wife, calling the footage \"sickening.\"
Missouri lawmakers will vote this week to decide whether a mandatory 72-hour wait period will be added to the state\'s abortion law.
A human rights group is questioning recent killings in China by police against suspected terrorists, suggested that perhaps the country's police is using excessive force in an attempt to control terrorist attacks.
A Florida service has been planned for the American journalist recently beheaded by Islamic State militants near Iraq.
At a NATO summit in Wales on Friday, officials agreed to create a massive rapid response force that will be prepared to respond to Russian aggression in the Ukraine.
A self-described Christian conservative group is reportedly planning a protest in Arlington, Texas this coming week to express its opposition for the Dallas Cowboys\' decision to add openly-gay player Michael Sam to its practice roster.
The family of a 16-year-old South Carolina boy has sued the state's DMV after the young transgender man was forced to remove his makeup for his driver's license photo.
A source close to the U.S. government recently said that there is a \"very strong probability\" that U.S. forces successfully killed a top al Qaeda-linked leader in Somalia over the weekend.
The well-known St. Patricks\' Day parade in New York City announced Wednesday that it would be ending its centuries-old ban on allowing openly gay groups to march in its annual parade.
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.