TEHRAN — A video clip showing the violent death of a 26-year-old woman during Saturday’s riots in Tehran has captured the world’s attention and turned her into an icon for Iranians who are leveling an ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- No one gives medals for martyrdom. Yet women – especially mothers – have been conditioned to put others’ needs ahead of their own. It’s easy to blame the patriarchy. You could sum ...

This month, as we celebrate the lives of accomplished women who’ve been left out of most of our history books, we will no doubt hark back to the beginnings of the women’s rights movement in our ...

On a single night forty years ago in June, the Islamic Republic of Iran hanged 10 Baha’i women in a square in the city of Shiraz. Their crime was refusing to renounce their beliefs in a faith that ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A Philadelphia woman was arrested Friday on charges she tried to join and martyr herself for the Islamic State group, a day after two women in New York were charged with plotting ...

Thousands of Catholic mothers in central Vietnam have been urged to look after their families and educate their children in the faith following the example of their patroness who died for the faith.

There are some women who have monuments dedicated to them due to the things they have accomplished. Joan of Arc is a young martyr held highly in French history. She has 36 monuments dedicated to her, ...

The COVID crisis throws into relief what happens when grief has—quite literally—nowhere to go. The evidence suggests that most people summon strengths that surpass their own expectations. Was your mom ...

The Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional), supported by Europol, has arrested a young woman, inspired by jihadist terrorism, who was willing to join fighters for the so-called Islamic State in ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – A Philadelphia woman was arrested Friday on charges she tried to join and martyr herself for the Islamic State group, a day after two women in New York were charged with plotting ...