The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit placed an indefinite hold on California same-sex marriages Monday, overruling the order of U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker who paved the way for such unions to start on Wednesday.
Rifqa Bary, a young Muslim-turned-Christian girl who fled her home amid fears she would be killed turned 18 Tuesday, August 10, and is now released from Ohio state custody, Worthy News has learned.
U.S. President Barack Obama says he supports a plan to build a mosque and Islamic cultural center in New York, near the scene of the deadly September 11, 2001 attacks. It was the first time the president has expressed his opinion about the intense controversy.
The California ban on homosexual marriage, known as Proposition 8, was overturned last week and is now awaiting an appeal, Worthy News has learned. Chief United States District Judge Vaughn Walker said same-sex marriages will resume on August 18, barring an overturn of his ruling during the appeals process.
Ted Stevens, former United States Senator from Alaska was killed in a plane crash in a remote area of Alaska on August 9, 2010. He served in the U.S. Senate as Senator of Alaska from 1968 to 2008, where he was narrowly defeated by Democrat challenger Mark Begich following a corruptions trial in which he was convicted on all seven counts.
Six American and two European aid workers were murdered in northern Afghanistan along with two Afghan colleagues as they were returning to Kabul from a medical mission in a remote mountainous area, Worthy News learned on Sunday, August 8.
Missionary Avery Willis, the co-founder of one of the world’s largest evangelistic movements ‘Call2all’, has died after losing his battle with leukemia, his family and the movement’s president confirmed Friday, July 30. He was 76.
Bomb attacks killed at least 64 people, including an American aid worker, and injured several American Christians among others at two sites in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, where people gathered to watch the World Cup, Worthy News learned early Monday, July 12.
anniversary of Europe’s worst massacre since World War II in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. Survivors have expressed frustration over the United Nation’s perceived failure to prevent the killing of more than 8,000 Muslims by Serb forces in July, 1995.
Masab Hassan Yousef, the son of a prominent Hamas leader who became a Christian and spied for Israel will be granted political asylum after the Department of Homeland Security dropped its objections, Worthy News learned late Wednesday, June 30.
United States President Barack Obama has accepted the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal as the U.S. commander in Afghanistan and is replacing him with General David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, The Associated Press (AP) news agency reports citing senior officials.
American President Barack Obama will receive “absolute power” to shut down the Internet, according to proposed U.S. Senate legislation seen by Worthy News Friday, June 18.
Masab Hassan Yousef, the son of a prominent Hamas leader who became a Christian, is facing a deportation hearing on June 30 in San Diego because the U.S. Department of Homeland Security views him as “a threat to America’s national security”, Worthy News learned Monday, June 14.
International Christian broadcaster GOD Television was to air Thursday, May 6, the United States’ National Day of Prayer (NDP), amid concerns among Christians that the annual event may be banned following a controversial court ruling.
Christians in Kyrgyzstan continued praying and caring for injured survivors of their Central Asian nation’s bloody uprising that killed at least 84 people, as gunfire interrupted a rally Thursday, April 15, of ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, witnesses and Christians said.
The US-based Christian charity World Vision said Wednesday, March 10, it has suspended operations in Pakistan after militants stormed its offices, killing six staff members and injuring several others.
Amid international pressure, North Korea released an American missionary Saturday, February 6, and sent him to China after holding him for more than a month, officials confirmed.
United States President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described international religious freedom as “important” at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, but a group investigating persecution of Christians said the administration should turn its words into deeds.
A Chinese Christian human rights lawyer was missing for 363 days Tuesday, February 2, but an advocacy group said it now believes he is still alive.
Glenn Penner, who became a key voice for persecuted Christians as leader of advocacy group The Voice of the Martyrs Canada (VOMC) has died after losing his battle with cancer, officials said. He was 48.