May 17, 2016 10 gay activists detained in Georgia Police in the former Soviet republic of Georgia say they have detained 10 gay rights activists who were painting graffiti on the fence of the Georgian Orthodox Patriarch's office.
May 17, 2016 Pope stands by French cardinal facing abuse cover-up claims Pope Francis has voiced support for a French cardinal who has faced allegations of covering up cases of pedophile priests in his Lyon parish, saying he shouldn't resign.
May 16, 2016 Crews to clear thousands of mines from site of Christ's baptism Officials estimate the area is littered with more than 3,000 antipersonnel and antitank mines and an unknown number of improvised explosive devices.
May 16, 2016 Iraq's Kurds urge Jews, other religious minorities to come, practice faith Even as religious minorities face genocide at the hands of Muslim extremists in Iraq, officials in one part of the country are actively courting Jews to return to the land of their ancestry.
May 16, 2016 Bangladesh police arrest suspect in gay activist's killing Police in Bangladesh say they have arrested a suspected Muslim militant for his alleged involvement in the killing last month of a gay rights activist and his friend in the capital.
May 16, 2016 Pastor formerly on death row arrested a third time in Iran Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, a house church leader from the Church of Iran denomination who was acquitted of apostasy in 2012 after being sentenced to death by hanging, was arrested once again, this time along with his wife and a church member, by Iranian authorities on Friday, according to U.K.-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide.
May 15, 2016 'Life is horrible': Syria's Christians fear total genocide Only a handful of mostly sick or elderly Christians remain in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, and Syrian Christians fear the forces that have brought that city’s population of Gospel followers to the brink of extinction could do the same for the entire nation.
May 15, 2016 Bangladesh police say Buddhist monk killed in monastery Police say a 75-year-old Buddhist monk has been killed in a monastery in southeastern Bangladesh.
May 13, 2016 Top Lebanese Hezbollah military commander killed in Syria Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group said Friday that its top military commander Mustafa Badreddine was killed in an explosion in the Syrian capital of Damascus, a major blow to the Shiite group which has played a significant role in the conflict next door.
