BANGLADESH — Two Christian women in Bangladesh’s northern district of Jamalpur said village officials extorted relatively large sums of money from them — and severely
BAHAWALNAGAR, Pakistan — Threats of “blasphemy” charges in two provinces in Pakistan have sent a Christian cleaning worker and a young interfaith couple into hiding.
The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has chosen Palestinian Bishop Munib A. Younan as its next president, the first Arab to lead the Geneva-based umbrella group
PAJE, Tanzania — Christian university students on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar, a predominantly Muslim area off the coast of East Africa, have been denied
Six months before she was scheduled to be released on drug charges, Marilyn Shirley was raped in 2000 by a guard at the Texas prison
WASHINGTON — The most sweeping changes to the Catholic Mass in 40 years will be rolled out in 2011, the U.S. bishops announced Aug. 20
AMHERST, N.Y. — The Amherst, N.Y.-based Center for Inquiry (CFI) has changed the name of its International Blasphemy Day to International Blasphemy Rights Day in
In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12, perhaps no story was more distressing than the plight of thousands of
