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A church in Maryland will have to pay $12,000 for being a refuge for the homeless in the area.

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.

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.

The Roddenberry family from Florida are praying for their neighbors and other citizens of Gatlinburg affected by the wildfires.

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.

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.

Students and society would benefit if religious education was included as a core subject in all schools' curriculum, said education expect Dr. Amelee Meehan, who works in faith leadership for the Catholic Education an Irish Schools' Trust (CEIST), the Trustee body for 110 Voluntary Catholic Secondary Schools in Ireland.

Recent NASA findings show the number of galaxies are much more than what humans originally thought. Leaders of the apologetics' group, Answers in Genesis, say this is proof the Bible is true.

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.

Trump appoints Christian billionaire and education reform advocate Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary as many see that she could be the voice of Christians in the new administration.

A recent Stanford study has discovered that students themselves, who are supposed to be able to think critically, also find it challenging to call out fake news from real news online.

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.

The musicality of birds is so complex and almost similar to that of a human that it contradicts evolutionary predictions, a new study says.

A 19-year-old teen who is "unapologetic" regarding his support for the pro-life movement has won the Niagara by-election and became the youngest member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario.

An after school Satan Club is set to begin on Dec. 14, just a few days before Christmas, in an elementary school in Tacoma, Washington. The Satanic Temple said the presence of Good News Clubs in schools makes it necessary to establish after school Satan Clubs to counter the Christian club’s teachings.