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Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known as the "saint of the gutters" during her life, was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis on Sunday, fast-tracked to canonization just 19 years after her death.

The City Harvest Church (CHC) trial in Singapore has captured the attention of many over the past year concerning the alleged misuse of church funds. Ex-CHC fund manager Chew Eng Han has been allowed to go against the S$21m suit without having to fork out S$1.5m in security.

Gold medal Olympian and U.S. gymnast Simone Biles has something gigantic to pray about this Sunday after her first place, individual all-around finish Thursday evening at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janerio. This world gymnastics champion and first-time Olympian is a Catholic. She has said she routinely lights a candle to St. Sebastian, the patron saint of athletes and of Rio, before each meet.

Within the first minute of winning the 100 meter freestyle and setting a new Olympic record Thursday evening in Rio de Janeiro, U.S. winner Simone Manuel was asked by a TV broadcaster what was going through her mind. An emotional Manuel replied: "All I can say is all glory to God."

Persecution is a cross that all of us Christians must bear, as it was obviously stated by our Lord Jesus Christ Himself. A Middle Eastern Christian woman urged the American believers not to pray for persecution to stop. Now that's character!

Pastor Stephen Anderson who leads the flock at the Faithful Word Baptist Church that is located in Tempe, Arizona, has surely ruffled more than his fair share of feathers after he intends to prove male superiority among his congregation by inviting them to an arm wrestling match.

World Vision's Gaza Director Mohammed El-Halabi was charged by Israel's Shin Bet that he is a Hamas operative who infiltrated the Christian charity organization, using his influence and position to secretly divert millions of pounds to the Islamist group.

While Advantage Academy campuses in the Dallas, Texas-region are "God's schools" according to founder and former pastor Allen Beck, the public schools are being criticized by Wisconsin-based watchdog group Freedom From Religion Foundation for putting the Bible in every subject and for promoting one particular religion.

It is very rare that the minority in any nation would be able to rule over the majority and lord it over them. In fact, the opposite tends to happen -- the minority ends up being sidelined or even persecuted, and this is what has been happening to Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Christians.

Christian prisoner Maryam Zargaran remains in Iranian prison despite seeing her health plunge to new lows after a hunger strike that has lasted more than three weeks.

As Pastor Andy Foor settled into what he thought was going to be a peaceful Saturday morning of fishing on the Kenai River in Alaska, he suddenly heard screaming. A woman had slipped into nearby water. Foor uttered a prayer and cast his line. God oversaw what happened next.

"Pokémon Go and sin no more," Westboro Baptist Church representatives stated in an online post with an image of Jigglypuff after a "Pokémon GO" user named LoveIsLove saw the church was marked as a gym and claimed it with a Clefairy. Westboro Baptist Church leaders now are locked in an epic battle for control of a Pokémon Go gym-the group's headquarters.

A recent wave of kidnappings in upper Egypt of female teenagers has the local Christian community there "paralyzed," warns International Christian Concern representatives. ICC issued a news release, indicating at least seven disappearance cases now have happened, and that the missing girls were taken "likely to be forcefully married and converted to Islam."

Authorities concluded red fluid on a blood-spattered shirt, which was dropped off at a dry cleaner by the father-in-law of a Texas woman murdered inside a church, was not from the victim. The man, Randy Bevers took the shirts to a Midlothian dry cleaner four days after the April 18 murder of Terri "Missy" Bevers. Terri Bevers was found dead inside the Creekside Church in Midlothian, about six miles away from the dry cleaner.

A billion humans, or one in seven people on Earth, do not have the full Bible available in their native language. But there is an organizational network of Christians whose mission it is to change that statistic by 2025 through the work of the United Bible Societies.

The death sentence for Asia Bibi is like Chernobyl's nuclear cloud: it contaminates everything around it. After Asia's arrest, her husband, Masih, and her children went into hiding. They have moved house 15 times in five years. They could not even attend Asia's judicial hearings. It is too dangerous for them. Her husband was forced to quit his job.

In what is being hailed as a victory for freedom of religion across the US, an atheist activist who brought legal action against a Texas church to stop the construction of a 230-foot cross on its property has dropped his case after the church counter-sued the atheist.

A Baptist pastor and his three sons were killed, his wife and 11-year-old daughter were critically injured Saturday morning after their car was rammed by an 18-wheeler truck in Carthage, Texas.

A priest of Anglican Church in South Africa and daughter of Cape Town former Archbishop Desmund Tutu abandoned her vocation after entering into a same-sex marriage, a matrimonial vow that her church does not recognize.

For the children of Syria, divine intervention is their only hope for peace to their homeland. Concrete actions, not words of support from the international community is the other cry of aid workers and doctors to protect them from deadly attacks.

A new report from persecution watchdog ChinaAid has revealed that a total of 20,000 Chinese Christians suffered religious persecution in 2015 as the Communist government continues its campaign seeking to stunt the growth of Christianity in the country.

Rep. Joseph Kennedy III, grandson of the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and other Democratic lawmakers this week introduced a new bill to amend the law to stop federal legal claims and state laws that go beyond protecting religious freedom and instead tread on others' constitutional and statutory rights. Backers of the "Do No Harm Act," say the federal "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" was born of good intentions, but went terribly wrong.

It may surprise some people to learn Vincent Furnier - also known as the singer of bizarre lyrics and macabre stage theatrics, Alice Cooper - was born the son of a minister, especially given the rocker used to simulate animal sacrifice, and even his own execution, on stage. However, these days, Furnier called on his religious faith to found Solid Rock, a teen ministry in Phoenix, Az., aimed to keep kids out of trouble during non-school hours.

Christians in Pakistan took to the streets and gathered in front Lahore High Court to protest the planned demolition of four churches to pave the way for the construction of a new railway, a report that Pakistani authorities vehemently denied.

After nearly eight months, China has released from prison pastor Zhang Chongzhu, who was arrested for protesting against the government's demolition campaign against Christian crosses and churches.