Chile Congress eased a strict ban on abortion that was in effect since the final days of the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship, 1989.
Polygamy, an abandoned practice between FLDS church supporters, led to a major health crisis in a fundamentalist Mormon town.
In “gifted” girls case, parents from Pennsylvania were sentenced to up to seven years in prison, while the perpetrator was found guilty on 17 charges.
The investigation showed that at least 547 young members of the Regensburger Domspatzen boys’ choir were subjected to physical abuse over six decades.
Henriette, a 17-year-old Christian girl, was allegedly murdered by her father because of dating a Muslim boy in the central Israeli town of Ramle.
An 81-year-old former Cardiff Koran teacher has been jailed for 13 years because of several child sexual assaults in a 10-year period (1996 - 2006).
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin signed into law a bill that would allow elective Bible courses in public schools and it took effect Friday, June 30.
In the Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer case the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that taxpayer money can be used to support church projects that are secular.
The ‘controversial’ “Origin of Life and Evolution” section will be removed from biology classes in high schools in Turkey starting in 2019.
A teenage Muslim girl from Virginia was beaten to death early Sunday after overnight Ramadan prayers and police say it wasn’t a hate crime.
