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A House intelligence committee meeting was abruptly terminated when Justice Department officials refused to be sworn in before briefing the lawmakers.
South Korea is considering restricting Christian missionaries' travel to the Middle East, where their evangelical work makes them vulnerable to terrorist attack.
The U.S. Census Bureau has told Utah's elected leaders it won't count Mormon missionaries serving overseas in the nation's next head count.
With the help of CIA spotters, the Peruvian air force shot down 15 small civilian aircraft suspected of carrying drugs, in many cases without warning and within two to three minutes of being sighted, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday.
The CIA withheld information from the White House, Justice Department and Congress about the 2001 shooting down of a plane over Peru carrying an American missionary family, part of a yearslong cover-up of lethal violations in U.S. drug-interdiction procedures, according to a classified internal CIA report.
Police say Kenyan robbers armed with clubs and machetes have attacked a missionary couple from Canada and the United States.
Safety pins and screws are still lodged in 15-year-old Ami Ortiz's body three months after he opened a booby-trapped gift basket sent to his family. The explosion severed two toes, damaged his hearing and harmed a promising basketball career.
Begun in 1960 after a 20-year-old college student said he experienced a vision from God, Youth With a Mission has grown into one of the world's most formidable Christian missions groups.
Two Mormon missionaries who got lost during a hike in Martinique this week were found, hungry but unharmed, on the slopes of a volcanic peak on Thursday, authorities said.
China has closed two businesses whose owners allegedly sought Christian converts in a traditionally Muslim region and also revoked the visa of an American citizen for illegal proselytizing, a rights group said Wednesday.
Now playing across Nigeria: The saga of a church that self-produced a few films and became an instant mogul in the country's giant movie marketplace known as Nollywood.
Prisoners of a White GodPrisoners of a White God was produced by Czech anthropologist Tomas Ryska.
Tangled webSandra was a woman who always seemed to desire the very best -- in the very worst way.
BBC NEWS | Africa | Pakistanis shot at Somali mosqueI find the Pakistani link to Somalia peculiar, though Pakistan does have a history with Somalia.
Former Gitmo detainee accused of killing 3 missionaries (OneNewsNow.com)Critic of Islam says he can't understand why President Obama and the United Nations are not expressing more outrage over the execution-style murder of three Christian missionaries in Yemen...
India struggles with attacks on ChristiansNearly a year of attacks on Christians have put India's leaders on edge, and the latest flare-up in violence drew an angry denunciation from the country's Sikh prime minister as "acts of national shame."
Missionary Deconverted by Amazon Tribe | Friendly Atheist by Hemant MehtaInstead, [the Pirahã] brought him to atheism. "The Pirahãs have shown me that there is dignity and deep satisfaction in facing life and death without the comfort of heaven or the fear of hell and in sailing toward the great abyss with a smile."
Missionaries accuse Brazil of allowing infanticide, Faked infanticide in documentary from Youths on a MissionBRASILIA, Brazil — Evangelical Christian missionaries have launched a campaign against what they claim is the widespread practice of infanticide among Amazonian Indians.
U.S. Army Allows Embedded Christian Missionaries, then Conveniently Loses Records The last three episodes of the second season of Travel the Road were filmed in Afghanistan, with the aid and participation of the U.S. Army.
As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God Those who want Africa to walk tall amid 21st-century global competition must not kid themselves that providing the material means or even the knowhow that accompanies what we call development will make the change. A whole belief system must first be supplanted.
Missionaries stir unease in north Africa[Excerpt:] - RABAT - A new breed of undercover Christian missionary is turning to Muslim north Africa in the search for new converts, alarming Islamic leaders who say they prey on the weak and threaten public order.
CIA Misled Congress, Justice Dept. Over 2001 Incident, Probe Finds "The CIA repeatedly misled Congress and the Justice Department in their investigations of the 2001 shoot-down of a Peruvian plane carrying U.S. missionaries, according to findings of an internal CIA probe released today by congressional officials."
How an Amazonian tribe turned a missionary into an atheistA RIVETING and hugely satisfying report on BBC Radio 4 today tells the story of a missionary who was charged by an American missionary group with taking the Gospel to the little understood Pirahãs tribe in the Amazon – only to realise how ridiculous his faith in Christianity w …
I have been a Mormon my whole life. But after the church's campaign of hatred to ban gay marriage, I finally renounced my membership.Nov. 13, 2008 | I cried with joy when I heard that Barack Obama won the election, but that joy didn't last long.
An email has been forwarded to me detailing the recent wave of anti-Christian violence in the Indian province of Orissa. It came originally from the cousin of a volunteer with the group YWAM (Youth With A Mission).
Islamist Violence In Sydney And The Attitudes That Enable It "In a part of Sydney known as 'Little Lebanon', two Mormon missionaries who were walking to their apartment when one was hit from behind (unprovoked) and then 'dog-piled' by a gang of Muslim men who then proceeded to start stabbing him.
India struggles with attacks on ChristiansNearly a year of attacks on Christians have put India's leaders on edge, and the latest flare-up in violence drew an angry denunciation from the country's Sikh prime minister as "acts of national shame."
'Hugging' lion video inspires movieOne of the most-viewed YouTube videos of the reunion features Whitney Houston belting out "I Will Always Love You" in the background to footage from a 1971 documentary about the two men visiting Christian a year after they sent him to Africa to be reintroduced into the wild.
Woman killed when fire set to India orphanageSuspected Hindu hard-liners set fire Monday to an orphanage run by Christian missionaries in eastern India, killing one woman and seriously injuring a priest, police said.
Cloned puppies expose old mysteryA woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull is the same woman who was accused of making a Mormon missionary her sex slave 31 years ago.
Cloned puppies expose old mysteryA woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull is the same woman who was accused of making a Mormon missionary her sex slave 31 years ago.
The strongest religion in the Philippines is the Roman Catholic Faith, however missionaries have flooded in mainly from the USA to convince Filipino's that there is alternate faiths to give them what they say is the only way to heaven.
Opinion: Developmental Aid Workers Are Killing Africa A series of African intellectuals is currently calling on people to finally just let Africa be and stop treating its inhabitants as if they were suicidal (more...). Trade, they say, is a much better solution to the problem than aid is.
China's quake region faces more dangersThe danger is far from over in the mountainous terrain where last week's earthquake struck, with the risks of landslides, avalanches and...
Unholy row in Jordan over missionariesJordanian Christians are up in arms over the activities of foreign missionaries in the Muslim conservative kingdom which is rich in biblical sites, including the spot where Jesus was baptised.
Jordan Arrests Christians'Eight people have been arrested in Jordan for propagating the Christian faith, according to a Saudi newspaper.
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