SHYMKENT, Kazakhstan (Radio Free Europe) — A court in Kazakhstan has acquitted a woman who was charged with illegal missionary activity after she showed another person how to download the Bible on a smartphone. The South Kazakhstan Regional Court, in the city of Shymkent, found Dilobarkhon Sultanova not guilty on March 13. Continue reading this story […]

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (Fox News) — A Florida teenager—who had previously been investigated for “alleged violent tendencies”—watched jihadist videos and read the Koran “to give him courage” before stabbing a 13-year-old boy to death and seriously injuring two others at a birthday sleepover Monday, cops said. Corey Johnson, 17, was charged with first-degree murder […]

BERLIN (Associated Press) — German prosecutors said Monday they were notified that a former Nazi death camp guard dubbed the “Accountant of Auschwitz” died before he could begin serving his 4-year sentence. Hannover prosecutor Kathrin Soefker said a lawyer informed her office that Oskar Groening, 96, died Friday in a hospital. The office is awaiting […]

(Inside Edition) — A 9-month-old baby has been rescued after she was found in the middle of the street in upstate New York. In a heart-wrenching video taken by a bystander, the small baby can be seen crying as she lies in the middle of the road by herself. Eventually, a stranger picks up the distressed baby. […]

(ABC News) — Howard Burack always knew he was adopted. “I grew up in a nice, upper-middle-class family in a nice, suburban area north of New York City, in Rockland County, and normal childhood, normal whatever, great parents,” said Burack, who was born in 1963. He told ABC News’ “20/20” that his parents adopted him […]

(Newsweek) — A 1,200-page dossier containing the names of 34 “actively gay” priests and six seminarians in Italy has been sent to the Vatican by the archdiocese of Naples. The allegations were compiled by Francesco Mangiacapra, a gay male escort who told local media he couldn’t put up with the priests’ “hypocrisy” any longer. “The aim is […]

EDMOND, Okla. (KOKH) — A Christian speaker spoke at the University of Central Oklahoma on Monday. Ken Ham, a creationist who founded Answers in Genesis, gave his presentation to a packed auditorium. The university president extended the invitation for Ham to speak during free speech week. “Freedom of speech and expression is fundamental to who we […]

(ChinaAid) — According to Christians in China’s central Henan province, the local public security bureaus and religious affairs bureaus have started targeting house church members with threats and fines since early February. A new initiative in Nanyang, Henan, explicitly forbids any kind of religious gatherings in people’s homes. Anyone caught attending or hosting meetings outside […]

(Newsweek) A convicted pedophile who was sentenced to 300 years for sexually assaulting six children has been freed from Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility in Colorado. Michael McFadden, 46, was released on Tuesday after the Colorado Court of Appeals decided his right to a speedy trial had been violated. McFadden’s trial, which was scheduled for 2015, […]

(Radio Free Asia) — A Vietnamese pastor and democracy advocate held in custody since last July is in failing health in jail, with injuries suffered in a beating last year still not fully healed, the man’s wife says. Nguyen Trung Ton was arrested on July 30, 2017, in a roundup of members of an online […]