Jolekha Begum is eight months pregnant but the Muslim primary school teacher still travelled more than 150 kilometres across Bangladesh on a wintry morning in late January to worship at a miracle-bestowing shrine that has gained fame nationwide. This year, about...
Have the monks from one of the last monasteries in eastern Turkey finally won their battle? In 2014, fifty properties belonging to the Syrian Orthodox Church were expropriated by the government in southeast Turkey. Among them were several ancient monasteries where a...
Pope Francis says a Catholic woman sentenced to death under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and a Nigerian woman who was captured by Jihadist militants Boko Haram are both “martyrs.” He made the remarks during a private audience in the Vatican with the husband and daughter...
When mechanics Taye and Kehinde Hamza agreed to service a vehicle at their workshop in Nigeria’s Bauchi State in 2010, they could never have imagined the years of hell which would follow. The car, it turned out, belonged to a Boko Haram fighter, and the job was enough...
The Rev.Billy Graham, a fiery Baptist preacher who was easily the most famous evangelist of the 20th century and for decades one of the world figures most admired by Americans, died early Feb. 21 at his home in Montreat, according to the Billy Graham Evangelistic...
