Salman Rushdie, an award-winning author who once received a death fatwa from an Iranian clergy, has expressed his support for the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo following an attack that left 12 people dead in Paris, France, on Wednesday.
More than 80,000 Haiti nationals are still living in more than 100 refugee camps five years after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake destroyed the country's capital Port-au-Prince, an international rights group said.
.Almost 5,000 Christians were killed while more than 1,000 Christian churches were attacked due to faith-based ideologies, with several Africa countries seeing the largest increase in Christian persecution, an annual report on religious freedom said.
A group of researchers may have just discovered the most Earth-like planet with a rocky surface and flowing water outside the Solar System. Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said that planet Kepler 438b, which orbits a distant star in the constellation of Lyra 475 light years away, could be as hospitable to life as Earth.
Mixed reactions are certain to greet embattled Bill Cosby, who is about to return to stage for the first time on Wednesday night since being accused of sexually assaulting women last year.
After a limited release in the U.S. last year, the controversial comedy film "The Interview" is set to be screened in around 200 theaters in Mexico and Britain on Feb. 6.
Nepal has joined several countries that recognize the third gender, announcing the issuance of passports to sexual minorities by adding a third gender category.
Syrians have become the largest refugee population with more than 3 million or about 23 percent of people escaping war in their home countries all over the world, the United Nations said.
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.