Indonesia's president said on Monday his country remains a model of moderate Islam, countering critics who point to mass rallies by radical Muslims and the jailing of a Christian politician for blasphemy as evidence its reputation is crumbling. "Pluralism has always been a part of ...
Washington should act on behalf of Mideast Christian refugees, who are facing death and destruction at the hands of determined killers.
The brutal mistreatment of religious minorities is the norm in Muslim-majority countries.
Martin Scorsese and Pope Francis swapped stories about Japan's "hidden Christians" on Wednesday after a Vatican viewing of the director's epic new film on the subject. In a private audience, Scorsese presented the pontiff with two religious Christian paintings from 17th-century Japan that he says ...
Pope Francis urged Catholics and Lutherans on Monday to forgive the "errors" of the past and forge a future together, including sharing the Eucharist, as he marked the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation by traveling to secular Sweden with a message of Christian ...
araqosh Iraq A handful of faithful gathered in a burned-out church Sunday for the first Mass to be celebrated in two years in Qaraqosh, which was once Iraq's main Christian town. Iraqi forces retook Qaraqosh from the Islamic State group days earlier, as part of a ...
A bomb blast in a park in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Easter Sunday has killed 65 people and wounded 300, a provincial government spokesman said. The explosion took place near the children's rides in Gulshan-e-Iqbal park — which was crowded with Christians ...
Republican support for promiscuous U.S. military intervention and Islamic dictators did much to bring down disaster upon Middle Eastern Christians.
Christian faithful from around the world descended Thursday on the biblical city of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations at the traditional birthplace of Jesus, as an outburst of Israeli-Palestinian violence dampened the typically festive mood. Before the celebrations began, Israeli authorities said three Palestinians involved ...
Pope Francis is going ahead with plans to visit the conflict-wracked Central African Republic, but his top bodyguard is doing an unusual, last-minute on-site survey to determine if security concerns require any changes to the itinerary, the Vatican said Thursday. Francis is expected to visit ...
Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis has become a hero to many conservative Christians who see her refusal to issue marriage licenses after the Supreme Court effectively legalized same-sex marriage as a litmus test for religious liberty in an increasingly secular culture. But lost in the ...
Al-Shabaab gunmen killed 14 people, mostly quarry workers, officials said, in an overnight attack on a residential complex in northeast Kenya that the Islamic militant group said had targeted Christians. Many died in their sleep, the Kenya Red Cross said. The raid, in the town ...
