The Christian community in Surabaya has been particularly hard-hit by Sunday\'s sea crash of AirAsia Flight 8501.The Mawar Sharon Church lost at least 41 members; the Bethany Church lost five family members of congregants.
Hundreds of Protestant churches, particularly in the eastern Zhejiang Province south of Shanghai, have been targeted over the last year as part of an apparent government crackdown on the growth of Christianity.In at least 300 instances, churches\' crosses that soar over treetops are torn down. In ...
As bodies are being recovered and the world is just starting to grieve the loss of 162 lives in the crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, other families are expressing gratitude for being spared from death aboard the ill-fated airliner. The survivors include a former beauty queen and nine family members ...
Extensive support by Indonesia\'s military in the air, sea and ground search effort to locate the crashed AirAsia Flight QZ8501 has put its armed forces on display during a national tragedy. While leading the way in these tragic circumstances, the military has an opportunity to continue to polish ...
Pope Francis told the U.N. Climate Change Conference \"the time to find global solutions is running out\" and indicated he will attempt to energize the world\'s faithful to fight what he considers a crisis through a \"collective response\" by hosting a 2015 encyclical calling the world\'s 1.2 ...
Suspected Islamist militants opened fire in a remote town in northeast Nigeria, killing at least 15 people. The attacked occurred Monday in Kautikari, according to witnesses and a security source, and came just after many had celebrated Christmas mass. Kautikari is near the Cameroon border, just 10 ...
Indonesian rescuers searching for an AirAsia plane pulled bodies and wreckage from the sea off the coast of Borneo on Tuesday, prompting relatives of those on board watching TV footage to break down in tears.
Relatives waiting for news of those on board AirAsia\'s Flight QZ8501 broke into tears as they watched rescuers begin pulling bodies and wreckage from the sea off the coast of Borneo Dec. 30. The plane, which lost contact with air traffic control early on Saturday in bad weather on its way to ...
A Christian missionary from Korea, his wife, and their one-year-old daughter are among those on the AirAsia jet that went missing Sunday and is presumed to have crashed. The couple moved to Indonesia several months ago where Park Seong-beom, 37, and Lee Kyung-hwa, 36, began teaching Korean and ...
A missing AirAsia jet carrying 162 people could be at the bottom of the sea after it was presumed to have crashed off the Indonesian coast, an official said on Monday, as countries around Asia sent ships and planes to help in the search.
Pope Francis held a Christmas mass Dec. 25 and condemned acts of violence and terrorism all around the world. \"Truly there are so many tears this Christmas,\" he said in a speech to thousands at St. Peter\'s Basilica in Vatican City.
A month after he was first detained by Chinese authorities, Peter Hahn, the Korean American Christian aid worker who ran a vocational school in the border region of China and North Korea was arrested last Friday.