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After a week in which the new president of Iran skirted religious rights issues even as he received a letter from an imprisoned pastor, religious...

Muslim herdsmen killed 15 Christians in Nigeria's Kaduna state Saturday morning, two days after suspected Islamic extremists in Yobe state killed...

Euthanasia deaths in the Netherlands jumped 13 percent last year to constitute about 3 percent of all deaths in the European country.

Our 24/7 news cycle is consumed these days with American politicians sparring over the debt ceiling and the implementation of President Obama's...

When the church has addressed lust, the focus has almost exclusively been directed at men, as if lust were a gender-specific sin.

The Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition in Washington, D.C., will leave for Turkey on Sunday in an attempt to...

A listing of hot cultural items from the the Internet, music, television and movies.

Far from being a "lost decade," the thirties are a time that God teaches us some important lessons.

In an age when bipartisan political agreement is nearly non-existent, the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly last week to create a...

"I'm afraid to get out from my home and walk in the streets of the village," says Father Youannis Shawky, a Coptic priest. "The situation is so...

Local authorities in Laos are threatening Christians in three villages with expulsion unless they renounce their faith, with residents in one...

Here at Focus, we’ve been privileged to welcome many influential people for visits. Some are well-known Christian leaders and others are from the...

The Lord has been gracious to provide encouraging reviews of my newest book.

Parents and teens are sometimes on the same page, at other times differ, and have unrealistic expectations about college and the future.

The four-day siege at the Westgate shopping center in Nairobi came to an end on Tuesday. The Kenyan government confirmed that 61 civilians and six...