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A Rhode Island union is on the offensive after a school district denied nearly 200 teachers' requests to have Good Friday off work.

A Chinese pastor has been sentenced to a year in prison for protesting against the removal of a cross from a church in Zhejiang province.

"He was the son of Christ from his birth, not my son," says the mother of Milad Makeen Zaky.

Churches have welcomed mourners in the wake of Tuesday's Germanwings Airbus crash in the French Alps, which killed all 150 people on board.

Iranian-backed Houthi Shi'ite militants seized the central city of Taiz at the weekend.

Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani asked for the troops to stay.

The cockpit voice recorder was damaged but can still be used.

A Nigerian Archbishop has said that the country must undergo drastic changes, whatever the outcome of Saturday's presidential election.

A Colombian pastor was fatally shot in an attempted robbery in the city of Sincelejo on Saturday.

An explicit video posted to YouTube showing a group of people attacking a synagogue in London at around 1:20am on Sunday morning.

A California attorney has proposed a controversial ballot initiative that calls for the execution of homosexuals.

The Chilean teen who posted a heartbreaking video asking to be allowed to die has changed her mind, her father recently reported.

Most white evangelicals vote Republican, but a successful candidate will need a broader support base.

Huang Yizi could face seven years in jail if he is convicted.

Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako has condemned both terrorists and arms manufacturers.