The FLDS church and heirs of a former prophet want a Utah judge to remove a fiduciary who oversees a polygamous community's property trust, alleging the trustee's actions have left the trust in "decidedly worse" shape than when he took over its...

The U.N. refugee agency is considering an asylum request from the Iranian leader of the Raelian Movement, a sect that believes in extraterrestrials. She is being detained in Istanbul for not carrying a proper passport when she arrived in Turkey last...

Five pastors arrested without a warrant in China’s Shanxi Province as they were en route to file a complaint over the demolition of their church building have been sentenced to prison terms of three to seven years. In one of the most oppressive...

Defending her 26 October decision to ban a Baptist congregation in the capital Dushanbe for meeting for worship in a private home without state registration is Judge Soliya Ismailova of Somoni District Court. She rejected the Baptists' argument that...

Some 1,000 seminary students are resisting efforts to evict them from the former municipal building of West Jakarta, Indonesia where they have taken refuge after Muslim protestors drove them from their campus last year. In July 2008 hundreds of...