RELIGION November 7, 2018 UN rights resolution would condemn abuses against Rohingyas A draft U.N. resolution would strongly condemn the continuing "gross human rights violations and abuses" against Rohingya Muslims and urgently call on Myanmar's government to end discrimination and provide a path to citizenship for the embattled minority.
RELIGION November 7, 2018 Jewish students remember "Night of Broken Glass" in Berlin Jewish students in Berlin on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," when Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria.
RELIGION November 7, 2018 79 kidnapped Cameroon students freed, says church official The 79 school children kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a school in Cameroon have been released, but two of the three staff members abducted are still being held, said a church official.
RELIGION November 6, 2018 Italy working to help Pakistani Christian in blasphemy case Italy said Tuesday that it is working to help relocate the family of a Pakistani Christian woman acquitted eight years after being sentenced to death for blasphemy, amid warnings from her husband that the family's life is in danger in Pakistan.
RELIGION November 6, 2018 China dismisses criticism about mass detentions at UN China on Tuesday once again rejected criticism of its treatment of ethnic Muslims, telling the United Nations that accusations of rights abuses from some countries were "politically driven."
VIDEO November 5, 2018 Author Jan Karon shares her faith in 'Bathed in Prayer' Karon releases latest book in the New York Times bestselling Mitford series.
Christianity November 4, 2018 Asia Bibi, Christian woman accused of blasphemy, seeks asylum amid violent protests The Christian woman in Pakistan who was on death row for nearly a decade before being acquitted by the country's top court last week is now seeking asylum elsewhere, after widespread violent protests throughout the country.
Middle East November 4, 2018 Egypt says perpetrators of attack against Christians killed Egypt said Sunday that security forces have killed 19 militants in a shootout, including the gunmen suspected of killing seven Christians in an attack on pilgrims traveling to a remote desert monastery.
Middle East November 4, 2018 Bahrain opposition leader sentenced to life by high court A Shiite cleric who was a central figure in Bahrain's 2011 Arab Spring protests was sentenced to life in prison Sunday on spying charges.
RELIGION November 3, 2018 Defense lawyer in Pakistan blasphemy case flees country The lawyer for a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy charges after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan has fled the country, fearing for his safety, her brother said Saturday.