In an unusual incident on Tuesday evening, Muslim and Christian residents of the town of al-Khader near Bethlehem clashed after Palestinian terrorists tried to hide from the Israel Defense Forces in
The United Nations Security Council met to discuss concerns over human rights violations for the first time in five years on Thursday. The council discussed accusations of the country's political and ...
A Muslim mob destroyed Christian churches and homes after rumors that two Christian men desecrated a Quran, Pakistani police said Thursday. Police estimate about 6,000 people participated in the riots...
Children play on fishing boats in Dakar, Senegal, on June 24 Associated Press/Photo by Zane Irwin, file Senegal’s foreign ministry on Thursday said 38 people...
This issue of A Public Witness takes you to Chicago to hear a taste of religious leaders calling for the people of the world’s religions to work together for religious freedom and to make a more peaceful and just world.
Families of some of the nearly 3,000 victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks received a letter this week from federal agencies that said officials are considering a plea agreement for several suspects....
The proposed loan to the Museum of the Bible in Washington underscores the deepening ties between Israel and evangelical Christians in the U.S, whom Israel has come to count on for political support, tourism dollars, and other benefits.
A frenzied mob on Wednesday descended upon a Christian colony in Pakistan's Punjab province, attacking and ransacking as many as eight churches, setting them on fire and vandalizing adjoining buildings.
Sydney Magistrate Gareth Christofi ruled on Thursday that 69-year-old Houston had a valid reason for not reporting his father Frank Houston's abuse of Brett Sengstock to police in the 1970s, reported The Associated Press.
A Christian mother in Santa Catarina, Brazil, is facing legal fines and has been threatened with loss of her son s custody because she withdrew him from public school in favor of homeschooling
An American nurse who was kidnapped in Haiti and released last week says that one worship song in particular had become her battle cry after she and her daughter were abducted in late July