Pakistan’s Minister of Minorities Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti,has launched a public campaign aimed at annulling controversial blasphemy legislation amid concerns Thursday, February 12, over Islamic extremism against Christians and other minorities in the country.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni urged Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday, February 11, to join a national unity government after official results gave her Kadima party a narrow lead.
A Chicago-based pro-life law center has launched a law suit against staff of a clinic involved in a botched late-term abortion in hopes it will result in charges of “infanticide” and “change public opinion” about this controversial procedure.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni looked set to become Israel’s second female prime minister as her centrist Kadima party won Tuesday’s parliamentary election, exit polls showed.
The United States new Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled a new bank-bail out plan of at least $1.5 trillion to safe the financial system, as the president warned that America’s economic crisis was more serious than previously thought.
Dozens of British legislators expressed concern Tuesday, February 10, over reports of massive church closures in Burma, seen as “the most significant crackdown” on Christian activity in the military-ruled Asian nation in years, an advocacy group told Worthy News.
The Vatican and several Italian church leaders expressed their pain Tuesday, February 10, about the sudden death of a 38-year-old woman who ignited a fierce right-to-die debate that divided Italy.
An Armenian Christian and a former Muslim who were among possibly dozens of Christians detained in Iran since last month were free Monday, February 9, after authorities unexpectedly released them, a well-informed source told Worthy News.
A Chinese Christian human rights lawyer, who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Price last year, has been detained by Chinese police but his whereabouts remain unknown, his friend said Monday, February 9.
Poland confirmed Monday, February 9, the authenticity of video footage showing the beheading in Pakistan of a Polish engineer abducted over four months ago by Islamic militants linked to the groups Taliban and possibly Al-Qaeda.
Amid mounting international pressure the frail Christian activist Shuang Shuying, 79, was released Sunday, February 8, after spending two years in prison, and went immediately to see her dying husband, Hua Zaichen, 91, in a Beijing hospital, Worthy News learned.
An influential United States-based Christian rights groups has warned of increased persecution of Christians in “many Islamic countries” and said that even in India, often described as the world’s “largest democracy”, believers faced the worst violence in recent years.
The United Nations announced Friday, February 6, it has stopped sending humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip after militants of the Hamas group apparently seized 300 tons of supplies, in the second such incident this week.
Ukraine says a cargo ship laden with weapons, which was held by pirates off the coast of Somalia since September, has been freed, Worthy News monitored Friday, February 6.
One of Britain’s most wanted men has been detained in the Hungarian capital Budapest on suspicion of massive tax fraud, police told Worthy News Friday, February 6.
United States President Barack Obama has signed an executive establishing a reorganized White House Office on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships for only “secular purposes”, not evangelism, Worthy News monitored Friday, February 6.
Russia’s nuclear power chief said Thursday, February 5, that his country plans to start up the Bushehr nuclear reactor in Iran this year, despite international concerns the project is part of a wider nuclear program.
The United Nations admitted Thursday, February 5, that the Israel Defense Force (IDF) did not hit a United Nations-run school, correcting its earlier media statements that a massacre occurred within the U.N. education facility.
United Nations aid workers said Thursday, February 5, they were struggling to provide aid to the desperately needy in the Gaza Strip after police forces from the ruling militant Hamas group stormed a U.N. warehouse.
As of last week, 601 miles of the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border is now completed, however 69 miles remains to be built to meet the goal set by the former Bush administration, according to Customs and Border Protection spokesman Lloyd Easterling.