While American children play with toys and video games, a disturbing video has surfaced from the Middle East showing a \"cub\" of the Islamic State undergoing military style training under live fire. The boy is no more than five years old.
The majority of Americans still support the death penalty for those convicted of murder, but support for the punishment among the general population has declined precipitously since 1994, Gallup claims in its new findings. Most major American religious denominations also support abolishing capital ...
A Detroit pastor shot and killed a man who attacked him with a brick during Sunday morning services Oct. 18, the Detroit News has reported. The man who attacked the pastor had claimed the pastor had fathered a child with his wife during an extramarital affair.
A Christian minister in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand was gunned down by Hindu nationalist gunmen at his home Oct. 12, UCANews, an independent Catholic news source, has reported.
Baseball great Lance Berkman is advocating the defeat of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), which – if passed – would allow men who \"identify\" as women to use women\'s restrooms and vice versa. In particular, the ordinance eases the path to public acceptance for transgenders.
New Haven\'s local NBC affiliate has reported that a sign with anti-Semitic slogans was hung on a pole near, but not on the campus. The news station said a local psychiatrist, Dr. Gary Plotke, discovered the sign near Yale-New Haven Hospital. It read, \"YALE IS A JEW HOLE – LET\'S ROUND THEM ...
Governments in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Southeast Asia continue to fan the flames of religious persecution, but \"non-state actors\" – terror groups – are the greatest threat to religious freedom, Secretary of State John Kerry says in the U.S. State Department\'s annual report on religious ...
The first \"Greater Church of Lucifer\" will open later this month in a Houston suburb and just in time for Halloween, organizers of the venture have said.
A British priest who is married to his homosexual partner is now a member of the Church of England\'s General Synod – the church\'s governing body and the group that supposedly sets theology for the churches of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
The University of Florida has reached a compromise with the atheist Freedom from Religion Foundation over the presence of a biblical inscription on a newly-constructed campus building.