Muslim migrants, who were attempting to flee to Italy from Libya onboard a boat last week, reportedly pushed 12 fellow passengers overboard, thus killing them, because they belonged to a different religion. According to police officials in Italy, the 12 pushed overboard happened to be Christians, and 15 suspects have been arrested for causing their deaths at sea.

Cities in Canada must ban prayer during council meetings, ruled the Supreme Court of Canada last week.

Gallup International recently released another one of its international surveys, identifying 60 percent of the world’s population to be religious.

A recently finished study by an Israeli geologist has significantly increased the chances that an ancient tomb located on the outskirts of Jerusalem was the final resting place of Jesus Christ and his family members. The new findings by Aryeh Shimron made use of a chemical fingerprint to link a bone box, or ossuary, inscribed with the words ‘James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus’ to a tomb that is located inside a rose garden amidst several ordinary apartments at a Jerusalem suburb called Talpiot.

Republican Rand Paul told religious leaders during a prayer breakfast that the First Amendment does not say religion has to be kept out of governance.