Number of victims keep rising, 6,500 injured. Country tries to recover from chaos, international help strats coming in. Aftershock on Sunday caused more avalanches.

A gujarat woman displayed immense courage to rescue her 19-year-old daughter from the jaws of an adult crocodile in Thikariyamubarak village.

Baikal contains 20% of the world’s fresh water. If the lake's level drops below 456 metres, it could cause irreversible harm to the ecosystem.

Ethics expert Luc Olekhnovitch is grateful that France’s new end of life law excludes euthanasia, but hopes palliative care will continue to be developed.

The bill, which complements the previous law of 2005 about the end of life, is perceived as a compromise between pro-life and pro-euthanasia.

Taliban bombers are said to have detonated their explosives near the gates of St John's Catholic Church and the Protestant Christ Church.

Deputies from the left sought to push the “end of life” draft bill further, but the three amendments were rejected by 89 to 70. Next week sees the definitive vote on the new bill. 

Three evangelicals in Egypt describe the atmosphere after the death of the 21 martyrs. “Christians have more freedom, and are more protected now than before.”

A Canadian pastor has been missing in North Korea for more than a month, raising fears he may have been detained.

Christianity was born in Bethlehem, in what's now the West Bank. Places like Qatar and Bahrain have seen their Christian ranks surge from basically nothing a century ago to 10% and 13% of their respective populations.

A giant hole of fire in the heart of the Karakum Desert, creating a surreal other-worldly scene.

And using mentally-challenged kids as suicide bombers, says UN Watchdog

31 cases of attacks on Christians registered in December alone. Believers create United Christian Forum with helpline. 

The Chinese Communist Party worries that, on current trends, China will be the largest Protestant country in the world by around 2030.

On Sunday, nearly 200 people attended a prayer meeting for Goto and his family, said Kazuto Takahashi, pastor at the United Church of Christ in Japan in Denenchofu, Tokyo, where Goto was a member.

Apparent death of kidnapped journalist follows days of back-door negotiations between Islamic State and government Shinzo Abe

The Haifa District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment on Sunday, against seven Israeli Arabs, including a lawyer from Nazareth, for their alleged role in attempting to set up a branch of Islamic State in Israel.

Radicals burn down 7 churches, most of them of evangelical comunities. Violent reactions in Pakistan, Jordan and Algeria.

The provincial government passed into law the requirement for drivers of the taxis that seat as many as four to seven riders, to have scripture verses on the back.

Forty-one passengers of AirAsia Fight QZ8501, which crashed on Sunday with 162 people on board, were reportedly members of a single church in Indonesia.

Terror group ISIS has reportedly killed over 150 women and girls, some of them believed to be pregnant, for refusing to become sex slaves and marry jihadists.

The Saudi Arabian government has reportedly passed a law that imposes the death penalty on people caught smuggling Bibles into the majority-Muslim country.

Pastor Saeed Abedini pens moving Christmas letter from prison to family and believers: 'These days are very cold here'