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President Obama places odds of reaching nuclear deal with Iran at 'less than 50-50'
US President Barack Obama has put the odds of ironing a nuclear deal with Iran at "less than 50-50," telling Democrats that he will not accept a bad deal just for the sake of having a legacy.
$5,000 bounty announced for anyone who kills Pakistani Christian woman Asia Bibi
The spouse of the Christian woman in Pakistan who was sentenced to death after she drank from the same vessel used by Muslim women said a bounty was set by a lynch mob over her head to kill her.
ISIS militants burn women and their sons alive in Iraq for refusal to join group
Women and children are not exceptions to the brutal terror campaign of the Islamic State as five women and their sons were burned in the Anbar Province after they refused to give their children to the jihadist group, a tribal leader who has been fighting the ISIS in Central Iraq said.
New rules allow US transgender inmates to pick housing, clothing, pronoun they prefer
Immigration officials will now allow transgender women to be detained with female inmates, in an attempt to give transgender detainees better detention conditions and protect them from sexual assault.
Israeli scientists create world's smallest Bible whose text could fit on tip of a pen
The world's smallest version of the Bible, conceived by Uri Sivan and Ohad Zohar, was created by scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, located in Northern Israel.
Pope Francis: Love of money is 'the devil's excrement'
"The service of the common good fades into the background" when ambition predominates, said Francis in Bolivia.
Surprise, surprise... Baylor University isn't OK with gay sex after all
Baylor University is a conservative institution which didn't even lift a ban on dancing until the 1990s and still retains a ban on alcohol on campus.
Harry Potter and the Christian concern: seven things we no longer seem worried about
Christians often panic about cultural phenomena, but the 'concern' seems to burn itself out, writes Martin Saunders
Meet the Christians who are fasting for Ramadan
Many Christians have decided to take part in Ramadan this year, and are tweeting about their experience using the #Christians4Ramadan hashtag.
Britain's housing crisis: Why the Church needs to join in the fight
The success of Church campaigns to see a Living Wage and tackle payday lending could be undermined if we don't also help to tackle Britain's housing crisis, writes Canon Dr Angus Ritchie.
Oregon bakers fined $135,000 for refusing gay wedding cake 'will not relent'
The Christian owners of an Oregon bakery ordered to pay a $135,000 fine for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple are requesting a stay of enforcement, meaning that they will not have to pay up unless their appeal fails.
Vincent Nichols plans to turn thousands of churches into 'missionary parishes'
The most senior Catholic cleric in England and Wales has announced plans to turn thousands of churches in England and Wales into "missionary parishes".
Pat Robertson says ISIS beheadings could be 'the best thing that ever happened to the world'
Brutal murders carried out by Islamic State could be "the best thing that ever happened to the world", televangelist Pat Robertson has claimed.
Mark Driscoll's return to high-profile ministry continues with string of public appearances
The return of controversial pastor Mark Driscoll to high-profile ministry is continuing with appearances at churches and conferences in the US and abroad.
Citing decreasing resources, US Army plans to lay off 60,000 soldiers, civilian workers
Almost 60,000 soldiers and civilian personnel in the U.S. Army are expected to lose their jobs in the next two years as the Obama administration contemplates the next move it should take against militants from the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq.
Israel and Gaza: a year after the war and still most evangelical Christians don't get it
Gaza has become a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions, yet many evangelicals seem strangely indifferent, writes Jeremy Moodey.