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Disturbing new details have emerged regarding the murder of Pastor Antonio Armstrong, a former Texas A&M and Miami Dolphins linebacker, and his wife, Dawn, both of whom died after being shot by their own son.

God is slowly but surely being removed from different aspects of our lives, as evident in the latest incident that involves the removal of a Christian flag from a Georgia courthouse due to a complaint from an atheist activist group.

In a major win for religious freedom, a Canadian court on Tuesday ruled that a Christian university that requires its staff and students to abstain from sex outside of marriage and homosexual behavior cannot be banned from having its law school accredited.

Lawyers for a transgender high school student in Virginia asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to keep out of a legal dispute about bathroom rights, an issue that has emerged as an increasingly divisive one in the United States.

John Hinckley Jr., who wounded U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three other people in a 1981 assassination attempt prompted by his mental illness, should be freed after 35 years and released to live with his mother, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.

A pastor imprisoned for his faith in China's central Guizhou province has revealed he is thankful for his incarceration because it has allowed him to draw closer to God and "better listen to the Lord's voice."

The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada welcomes today's Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decision in Trinity Western University v. Nova Scotia Barristers' Society. In a decision that focused on administrative law, the court agreed with the lower court ruling that the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society (NSBS) did not have the statutory authority to reject Trinity Western's (TWU) proposed law school based on the university's Community Covenant.

A transgender woman was charged in Idaho on Wednesday with voyeurism after secretly videotaping a young woman trying on swimwear in the fitting room of a Target retail store, authorities said.

Evangelist Franklin Graham said those who value religious freedom should be "very concerned" following the Supreme Court's decision to turn away an appeal by a family-owned pharmacy that cited Christian beliefs in objecting to providing emergency contraceptives to women.

Dozens of protesters in Louisiana on Tuesday chanted slogans and held up signs demanding justice for a black man fatally shot in an altercation with two police officers hours earlier, video postings on social media showed.

South African Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius was sent to prison for six years on Wednesday for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, the latest twist in a trial that has gripped the world.

The FBI will recommend to the Justice Department that no prosecution is warranted as a result of its yearlong investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state, agency Director James Comey said on Tuesday.

Just over a year after Dylann Roof opened fire during a Bible study at Emanuel AME Church, killing nine people including the pastor, the families of the victims along with five survivors have filed wrongful death lawsuits against the federal government.

In a major defeat for religious freedom, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday that a Christian University can be denied accreditation because of its belief in traditional marriage.

A day before it was due to come into effect, a federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law permitting those with religious objections to deny wedding services to same-sex couples and impose dress and bathroom restrictions on transgender people.

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. has warned that the Supreme Court's decision to turn away an appeal by a family-owned pharmacy that cited Christian beliefs in objecting to providing emergency contraceptives to women under a Washington state rule is an "ominous sign" for those who value religious freedom.

Two Christians and a Muslim have been sentenced to death for blasphemy Pakistan after allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad. In addition to the death penalty, the two Christians have also been given a 35-year life term in prison.

A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away an appeal by a family-owned pharmacy that cited Christian beliefs in objecting to providing emergency contraceptives to women under a Washington state rule, prompting a searing dissent by conservative Justice Samuel Alito.

A federal judge on Monday ruled that clerks in Mississippi may not recuse themselves from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples based on religious beliefs, despite a bill passed by the state legislature intended to carve out that exception for them.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Texas abortion law imposing strict regulations on doctors and facilities in the strongest endorsement of abortionrights in America in more than two decades.

Evangelist Franklin Graham has expressed frustration over the fact that "it's okay for everyone else to have freedom of speech except Christians" after a Colorado pastor was forced to remove his church's Jesus-related ads on public transit benches.

Interpretation of religious neutrality associated with speeches delivered at U.S. flag-folding ceremonies is under debate, leading toward a potential federal lawsuit. A flag-folding speech attempted at Travis Air Force Base near the Bay Area in northern California sparked controversy, and raised questions about referencing God and prayer in military ceremonies. Now, the major question is where military control ends and individual rights begin.

Since 1932, two memorable signs that proclaimed "This Is God's Country - Please Don't Drive Through It Like Hell" greeted people traveling through Hondo, Texas. When Freedom From Religion Foundation representatives asked city officials to remove the signs, Mayor Jim Danner said Monday, "There's no way in hell we're going to take those signs down."

While emphasizing that Oscar Pistorius, the South African Olympic star convicted of murdering his girlfriend in 2013, "has to pay for what he did," the victim's father has said his Christian faith has allowed him to forgive the athlete.

A Phoenix, Ariz., mother reportedly shrieked in religious fervor even as her three, missing young sons were found stuffed in a closet after being stabbed to death and partially dismembered, newly released court records indicate. Octavia Rogers, 29, was released from a hospital and booked into jail Sunday in Phoenix on suspicion of three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of the boys, who were 8 years, 5 years and 2 months old.