Swiss court OKs assisted suicide

February 15, 2007

Mental illness, not terminal illness, may now be grounds for physician-assisted suicide in Switzerland. A Feb. 2 decision from the highest Swiss court opened the

Vandals damage Protestant church in Turkey

February 8, 2007

SAMSUN, Turkey — Assailants on Turkey’s Black Sea coast vandalized a Protestant church Jan. 28, days after nationalists from the region murdered a well-known Armenian

Migrants fuel growth of evangelicals across Europe

February 1, 2007

Decked in Sunday finery, the chattering line stretches out the door and up a gritty block of warehouses and homes in this working-class Paris suburb.

Two-Thirds World birthplace of new Christendom

February 1, 2007

ATLANTA — A new Christendom, originating from the Two-Thirds World, is rising to take the place of the old, according to George Bullard, church consultant

German court bans Muslim head scarves in schools

January 25, 2007

BAVARIA, Germany — Muslim teachers in southern Germany may not wear headscarves or any other symbol of their faith that could be construed to clash

Vatican officials may have found Paul’s tomb

January 4, 2007

ROME — Archeologists with the Vatican say they have unearthed a sarcophagus that may contain the remains of the apostle Paul. The 8-foot coffin was

China again defies Vatican by naming new bishop

January 4, 2007

XUZHOU, China — China consecrated a new bishop in its state-sanctioned Catholic Church Nov. 30, 2006, defying the Vatican’s claim to exclusive authority over the