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The new movie is based on the best-selling erotic novel of the same name by E.L. James that includes bondage, dominance and sadomasochism.

IN a controversial name change, the England and Wales branch of the institution, has renamed itself as ‘Platform 51’ claiming that its original name “no longer stands for who we are.”

Sex work is such big business in Thailand that the International Labor Organization estimates, conservatively, that it generates 7 percent of the country’s gross domestic product.

FRANCIS Chan, best-selling author of Crazy Love and Erasing Hell, founding pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, Calif., and founder of Eternity Bible College, spoke to the 60,000+ attendees at the Passion 2013 Conference this past week.

Saudi Arabia has been on the US State Department's Country of Particular Concern (CPC) list since 2004. Countries on the list can be subject to economic sanctions but the WEA states in a new report that these have been waived in the case of Saudi Arabia since 2006.

IN some of the dry and dusty Palestinian and Bedouin villages they still circumcise their boys after the seventh day. Hidden away in some Palestinian homes are Jewish mezuzahs and tefillin.

A top Nigerian military official believes he knows the whereabouts of girls kidnapped last month, but he says the nation's military will not use force to try to rescue them, a state news report said Monday.

THERE is a declining depth of commitment among born-again Christians to their faith over the last 20 years, according to a “State of the Church” study by the Barna Research Group released this week.

WYCLIFFE Associates, a global organization that empowers national Bible translators around the world, has launched a new effort to place Bible stories into the hands of people groups without the translated Scriptures.

In an interview, Mohammed al-Rubai said, "These houses belonged to Christians who fled from Baghdad, seeking refuge from violent attacks targeting them and their homes.”