A TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a river less than 15 minutes after taking off from a downtown Taipei Songshang Airport on Wednesday, killing 26 people and leaving 17 missing, officials said. The ordeal was captured by a dashboard camera as the ATR 72 propjet slammed into a highway before ...
Michigan will recognize about 300 same-sex marriages that were performed last year in the short window between when a federal judge struck down the state\'s ban on gay marriage and when a U.S. appeals court put the decision on hold, Governor Rick Snyder said on Wednesday.
Pope Francis met with a transsexual and his fiancé at the Vatican Saturday after speaking with him earlier on Christmas Day. The pontiff spoke to 48-year-old Diego Neria Lajarraga, a Spanish man who said he had been treated as an outcast in his parish after undergoing gender reassignment surgery.
Despite a tough loss to the New England Patriots because of an interception on the goal line, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, a Christian, still found a reason to thank God for the opportunity to go to the Super Bowl back to back. He and his team lost to the Seahawks 28-24 because of a ...
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who is expected to run for president again in 2016, defended his position on homosexuality, calling it a biblical issue, not a political one. Huckabee appeared on CNN\'s \"State of the Union\" seeking to distance himself from the softer tones of more moderate ...
The Mormon church altered their approach on gay rights Tuesday to take a more moderate position with gay rights advocates, according to reports. The LDS leadership called for anti-discrimination laws for LGBT persons to be balanced with religious freedoms.
President Obama encouraged India to foster the idea of religious freedom before leaving the country for Saudi Arabia. India has a history of strife between Hindus and religious minorities like Christians and Muslims, with a string of churches being vandalized in the past few months.
A U.S. blizzard swept past New York City and struck hardest at some 4.5 million people around Boston, dropping nearly three feet of snow in areas and triggering high tides that breached a seawall and forced residents to flee their coastal homes.
Congressional Republicans abandoned a late-term abortion bill Wednesday after intraparty debate regarding the details of the legislation and some Representatives claims that women voters would feel alienated. The bill would have outlawed abortions after 20 weeks, when fetuses can reportedly feel ...
The Pope defended the Catholic ban on contraceptives and population control programs Monday while ending his weeklong tour of Asia. While aboard the return flight, he told reporters during an hour-long press conference that Christians should not be \"like rabbits\" -- referencing a woman he met who ...