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At least 30,000 people took to the streets of Jakarta on Sunday calling for tolerance and unity two days after a massive protest was held against the city’s Christian governor over blasphemy allegations.

A former Islamic sheikh in Uganda suffered torture from Muslims in the community after news got out that he had left the Islam faith to embrace Christianity.

Jakarta’s Christian governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, popularly known as Ahok, was emotional and spoke softly as he asked people to pray for him while he goes on trial for blasphemy.

At least 200,000 conservative Muslims gathered in Indonesia in a show of force to call for the arrest of Jakarta's Christian governor over accusations of blasphemy.

What do you get when a bunch of kids give their own take of the Christmas story while adults act out the details? A hilariously adorable video that has been viewed 22 million times and shared almost 600,000 times to date.

The Foursquare Church community is grieving the loss of eight members who died in the Colombia plane crash on Monday that took the lives of almost everyone on board, sparing only six survivors.

A group of Electoral College voters from Colorado formed a nonprofit organization that seeks to fund campaigns in an attempt to stop Donald Trump from becoming president.

A Jewish American businessman and investor is paying it forward by supporting Christian missionary doctors who are serving African communities because these people have answered the call to “love the stranger.”

Texas state health department announced the proposed rules requiring the burial or cremation of aborted fetuses and fetal parts will take effect on Dec. 19.

Two recognized prophets in the body of Christ have issued these urgent prayer alerts, both concerning the Electoral College.

“The Pastor Is In,” reads the sign below the prayer booth that a pastor set up on a sidewalk outside his New York church, and people are stopping by and asking for prayers.

Brooklyn Nets point guard Jeremy Lin did not play on Sunday’s game, and it could take a while before he goes back to court.

Satan uses many weapons against Christians, but there is one thing he likes to use most, his “kryptonite” for believers, that weakens them like no other weapon could. However, there is a way to overcome it.

California-based evangelist Mario Murillo encouraged believers to stop looking to president-elect Donald Trump as some kind of savior and to start "waking up" to the task that God assigned the church and heal disunity in the body of Christ in order to usher the nation to revival.

Some groups are claiming Donald Trump got elected because of fake news, which proliferated social media during the election. But who is behind these stories and why do they publish them?

British Prime Minister Theresa May should be careful not to “abuse her position” to promote her faith, an organization that promotes secular democracy said.

Is the leadership of president-elect Donald Trump, who was strongly supported by the evangelicals primarily because of his promise to appoint pro-life Justices to the Supreme Court, going to open the door for Christians to have greater influence in the U.S.? Here's what some evangelicals have to say.

Former Rep. Allen West said unless the culture of killing the country’s future generations is stopped, “God will not bless America.”

New satellite images of the two most notorious North Korea prison camps show undeniable proof that the government, while persistently denying the existence of such camps, continues to upgrade the torturous facilities that appear to be “very much in working order.”

Questions about a “double standard” of discrimination have arisen when the fashion designer who clothed Michelle Obama for years announced she refuses to work with future first lady Melania Trump out of her opposition to Donald Trump.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan sided with a lower court’s ruling that Joelle Silver, a biology and anatomy teacher at Cheektowaga High School, should take down religious items in the classroom, such as posters, drawings and even the sticky notes with verses attached to the back of her desk.

A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that the abortion rate in the U.S. has decreased to its lowest level in decades, with 664,435 babies losing their lives to abortion annually.

After two years, justice was finally served for a Pakistani Christian couple burned to death as 13 Muslim extremists were convicted and sentenced for the crime. The Pakistan anti-terrorism court sentenced five men—Mehdi Khan, Riaz Kambo, Irfan Shakoor, Muhammad Hanif, and religious leader Hafiz Ishtiaq—to death and imposed penalties of Rs200,000. The other eight were sentenced to two years in prison for their involvement in the crime.

The family of a soldier who was killed when he stopped a suicide bomber in Afghanistan was booed in an airplane after the captain announced they should leave the plane first.

Actor Tim Allen, star of ‘Last Man Standing,’ commented on how “hypocritical” Hollywood is to bully the supporters of Donald Trump, whom they themselves accused of being a bully.