While some kids are waiting to see what Santa brings for Christmas, children with a cleft palate, clubfoot, or bowed legs and other congenital abnormalities in the Philippines are blessed this Christmas with the opening of the Tebow CURE Hospital in Davao City.
The Sydney hostage crisis is over as Australian special forces stormed the Lindt Chocolat Café where a gunman held 16 people captive. Man Haron Monis, an Iranian jihadist, had been wielding a shotgun and a machete while demanding to speak with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbot.
A Palestinian man has thrown a chemical substance believed to be acid at an Israeli family in the occupied West Bank on Friday, injuring a man and four children, Israeli police and the military said.
The horror that is Ebola is not going away any time soon, and Time magazine yesterday honored the commitment of those who stay and fight, and those who go and fight, by naming Ebola Fighters as its Person of the Year. Among those highlighted is Dr. Kent Brantly, the courageous Samaritan\'s Purse ...
Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old Pakistani Nobel Peace laureate, has set her sights on another prize: becoming the prime minister of her country. The young woman, who has been outspoken for the need for women\'s education, spoke about her ambitions and the need for reform while in Oslo, Norway to ...
The Pope has encouraged those shopping during the holiday season to abstain from purchasing products made by slaves, according to a future speech made available on his website. In his 2015 Message of Peace titled \"No longer slaves, but brothers and sisters,\" he preaches to consumers about forced ...
Catholic bishops joined with various U.N members to call for a worldwide end to fossil fuels at the organization\'s Conference of Parties or COP20, and it seems their effort has succeeded. On Monday, 60 leaders of various countries agreed on a negotiating text to aim for \"zero net emissions by ...
Only one year after the Category 5 super typhoon Haiyan swept through central Philippines killing thousands, the nation was hit Saturday by Typhoon Hagupit.While Typhoon Hagupit caused significant damage to agriculture and homes among coastal communities, the death toll was significantly lower than ...
A former British inmate of Guantanamo Bay said CIA \"torture\" of terrorism suspects, detailed in a U.S. Senate report on Tuesday, had fueled violence and the rise of Islamic State and that cataloguing it wouldn\'t help.
Even before Typhoon Hagupit made landfall last Saturday, Christian aid groups already were onsite prepared for the lashing meteorologists predicted to cross the myriad of Philippine Islands.World Vision has distributed hygiene kits and water to 2,000 families in three of the nation\'s 24 ...
The rash of violent deaths of Americans has captured the attention of the world in recent days, but even without that, weariness with the subject of Ebola has pushed to the background what the World Health Organization has called an \"international health emergency that requires a coordinated ...
An Egyptian criminal court sentenced 185 people to death Tuesday for attacking a police station near Cairo in 2013, which resulted in the deaths of 12 officers. The attack happened on the same day that security forces massacred hundreds of protesters who supported Islamic President Mohammed Morsi, ...