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Court orders Arkansas to recognize gay marriages as judge slams 'shameless disrespect for fairness'
A court in Arkansas ordered state officials on Tuesday to recognize more than 500 same-sex marriages performed in May last year.
Pentagon bans discrimination against gays and lesbians; Says gays in uniform now free to serve their country openly
Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced on Tuesday that the Pentagon has updated its Military Equal Opportunity policy to ban discrimination against gays and lesbians.
Nigel Benn: How the Dark Destroyer found faith
Former drug addict and one of the most successful British boxers ever, Nigel Benn, is now a volunteer with Hillsong Church and says his "new drug is serving people".
Baghdad: 70 per cent of Christian homes illegally seized
Title deed documents have been falsified and the majority of Christian-owned homes illegally seized, according to a member of Baghdad's municipal council.
Gospel for Asia fights accusations of financial impropriety, cult-like behaviour
GFA is fighting accusations of a lack of financial transparency and that it practises an authoritarian form of church discipline.
Female genital mutilation still a problem in Nigeria despite new law banning it
Activists in Nigeria push for a systemic cultural shift to end the practice of female genital mutilation despite the enactment of a law already banning the harmful procedure being signed last month.
ISIS not only destroying cultures; it's also profiting from sale of antiquities
The Islamic State has discovered another way of destroying cultures and making money from them at the same time-- by selling off antiquities from Iraq and Syria to the black market.
Islamic State to turn historic Mosul church into a mosque for its fighters
Islamic State is to convert one of the largest churches in Mosul, the Syrian Orthodox Church of St Ephraim, into a mosque for its radical fighters.
As ISIS gains ground, Obama admits US still has no strategy to defeat it
US President Barack Obama has revealed at the G7 summit of world leaders on Monday that the country still has no "complete strategy" to fight against the Islamic State which has scored victories in Syria and Iraq.
NSA may be transcribing your phone calls, Snowden documents reveal
The National Security Agency (NSA) may not just be listening to your phone calls. It may also be keeping transcripts of your private phone conversations.
In some US hospitals, patients get charged over 10 times the cost of healthcare
The cost of healthcare in 50 hospitals in the United States is more than 10 times higher for uninsured patients compared to the actual cost for patient care, a recent study published on a medical journal revealed.
Arkansas denial of gay wedding validity is 'shameless disrespect', judge rules
Around 500 marriages have been in legal limbo since gay marriages were suspended less than a week after they began.
US set to send hundreds of troops to Iraq
A decision to send several hundred more trainers and advisers to help Iraqi forces is likely.
Transgenders medically fit to serve military â largest US doctors' group
Seeking to overturn a ban imposed by the federal government, the American Medical Association (AMA) recently affirmed that transgender individals are medically fit to join the United States' military.
ISIS sell captured girls into sex slavery for the price of a packet of cigarettes
'This is a war that is being fought on the bodies of women', says UN envoy.
Iraq: Despite thousands fleeing ISIS, churches are full of new believers
Hundreds of thousands of Christians have been forced to flee Iraq as Islamic State continues to tighten its grip, but still people are turning to Jesus, a church leader has told Christian Today.