Fifty years after Brother William Stuart Houston sexually abused six boys, the 77-year-old has been sentenced to 12 years and nine months of jail.
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu recently said that the country’s new constitution would feature the principle of secularism.
Police arrested four members from a banned militant group, who are suspected of having hacked to death a professor in northwestern Bangladesh.
The Catholic act of penance is typically conducted in private, but 16 teenagers confessed their sins publicly to Pope Francis at St. Peter’s Square.
Trupti Desai led a group of women into Mumbai’s Haji Ali Dargah but not the sanctum sanctorum, where women have traditionally been barred.
Pastor Michael Orten not only employed a man convicted of rape of a child, but also defended the crime, comparing forcible rape to stealing candy.
Two Navajo siblings sued the Mormon Church after claiming they endured horrific sexual abuse as participants of an Indian Student Placement Program.
Mormon leaders urged church members last month to practice tolerance towards other religions despite apparent political differences.
A 1.7 percent increase in growth leaves Mormons dismayed as this depicts the slowest growth rate for the denomination since 1937.
National Geographic Channel’s premiere of “The Story of God” with Morgan Freeman reportedly set record ratings for the network.
