The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops vowed Tuesday to forcefully confront the Obama administration over its support for abortion rights, saying the church and religious freedom could be under attack in the new presidential administration. In an impassioned discussion on Catholics in p...

Mary is a pretty five-year-old girl with big brown eyes and a father who kicked her out onto the streets in one of the most dangerous parts of the world. Her crime: the local priest had denounced her as a witch and blamed her “evil powers” for causing her mother’s death. ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The death toll rose to at least 75 on Saturday in the collapse of a ramshackle church school in Haiti when rescue workers uncovered a room with 17 dead, many of them children, officials said. Rescuers worked through the night under giant generator- powered lights...

Rahm Emanuel: The House Rahm Built FROM THE ARCHIVES: How Chicago’s profane, ruthless, savvy operative, remade the Democrats in his image He was hurtling down an asphalt road in upstate New York on the 47th trip of his ferocious campaign to win back the House. A lecture, even from hi...

Chinese hackers have penetrated the White House computer network on multiple occasions, and obtained e-mails between government officials, a senior US official told the Financial Times. On each occasion, the cyber attackers accessed the White House computer system for brief periods, allowi...

Decisions by voters in Florida, Arizona and California to join residents of 27 other states with constitutional protections for traditional marriage have prompted threats of violence against Christians and their churches. “Burn their f—ing churches to the ground, and then tax t...

Christians who have been persecuted by Hindu militants in 12 Indian states could face more bloodshed after another Hindu activist, Rashtriya Swayamsevak, was reportedly shot dead by Maoists this week. India’s Communist Party estimates that more than 500 Christians have been killed by...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Increasing numbers of people seeking assisted suicides in Switzerland do not suffer from a terminal illness, according to a study released on Tuesday whose findings were rejected by a right-to-die group. Researchers from the University of Zurich and the Zurich University...

By Bob Cusack Posted: 11/04/08 11:30 AM [ET] Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday defended the so-called Fairness Doctrine in an interview on Fox News, saying, “I think we should all be fair and balanced, don’t you?” Schumer’s comments echo other Democrats’...

A former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama’s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had “an open line between them” to discuss policy and strategy, either dire...