2016 presidential hopeful Ben Carson recently said that he would have attempted to stop the Oregon gunman from opening fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon last week.
In its latest military participation in Syria, Russia launched missiles from warships this week, allegedly targeting Islamic State strongholds in the Middle Eastern country.
2016 presidential hopeful Ben Carson has spoken out regarding gun control and the recent community college shooting in Oregon, suggesting that it is more reasonable to have an authority figure armed on campus to protect students in the event of a mass shooting.
The pastor of a local Oregon church has recalled \"[his] family\'s hero\" who reportedly saved his daughter from being killed during the recent shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.
2016 presidential hopeful Donald Trump said recently that he would \"absolutely\" hire fellow candidate Ben Carson as a member of his staff if he were to become president.
A couple who served as the ring bearer and flower girl at a wedding 17 years ago married in that same North Carolina church last month.
Russia has denied that its recent airstrikes in Syria targeted the opposition of President Bashar al-Assad, arguing that it instead targeted Islamic State strongholds.
U.S. President Barack Obama called for stricter gun control laws Thursday after another mass casualty school shooting rocked the nation.
The state of Georgia put to death the first woman in 70 years this week despite pleas from Pope Francis to spare her life.
Creationist Ken Ham has spoken out against a recent video in which science educator Bill Nye discusses abortion, accusing the television personality of promoting the "murder" of fetuses and "attacking" the Bible.
The embattled Kentucky clerk at the center of a dispute over same-sex marriage has lost another bid to be exempt from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples based on her Christian faith.
The leaders of France's two main Protestant umbrella organizations have agreed to create a standing forum for dialogue and cooperation, following a two-day meeting both described as unprecedented. Delegations from the executive boards of the Protestant Federation of France, known by its French initials FPF, and the National Council of Evangelicals in France, or CNEF, met Sept. 3-4 at the Domaine du Lazaret in Sète.
Evangelicals in the United Kingdom are “younger, more ethnically diverse, and more likely to be male than the wider population,” according to a new report from the Evangelical Alliance UK. “Adults under 35 are the age group most likely to identify as Evangelical and to hold Evangelical beliefs,” the report reads. “Approximately a third of the most committed Evangelicals come from ethnically diverse backgrounds, while an estimated 60% of Evangelicals are male.”
President Donald Trump has nominated Cissie Graham Lynch to serve as U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, a State Department position focused on promoting religious liberty abroad. The White House announced that the nomination of Jane Lynch, better known as Cissie Graham Lynch, had been sent to the Senate for consideration.
American Bible Society research suggests that Christians who are more active in their faith and Bible reading are less likely to struggle with forgiving themselves and others. Overall, 29% of respondents said “It is really hard for me to accept myself once I’ve messed up” was “true of me,” while 56% said it was “not true of me.”
The Archbishop of Canterbury has withdrawn an interfaith award given to Pakistani Muslim cleric Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi after past remarks praising Osama bin Laden resurfaced, raising questions in Pakistan about why he was recommended for the honor by Church of Pakistan’s Moderator Bishop Azad Marshall.