American televangelist Pat Robertson caused controversy when he said on TV that it may be acceptable to divorce a spouse suffering from Alzheimers because he or she is “not there” anymore. It reflects a growing attitude that marriage is in the same category as consumable items like computer accessories that can be abandoned and replaced.

The man who shot dead the Governor of Punjab Province over his support for reform to blasphemy laws has been sentenced to death. Mumtaz Qadri admitted killing Salman Taseer in January because of his support for changes to the controversial laws, which rights groups say are being misused to persecute Christians in the Muslim-majority country. Qadri was Mr Taseer’s personal bodyguard when he gunned down the minister near his home in Islamabad on January 4.

Leila Lopes from Angola has been crowned Miss Universe at the 60th anniversary of the beauty pageant Monday night, and has thanked God.

When asked what physical trait she would change on herself, Lopes said: “Thank God I’m very satisfied with the way God created me and I wouldn’t change a thing,” on Tuesday, the day after winning the Miss Universe crown.

WASHINGTON -- China may be America's fiercest competitor on the world stage, but pretty soon Chinese men will be competing against each other to keep their family lines alive.

By the year 2020, between 40 to 50 million Chinese men won't be able to find wives. Human rights groups blame the situation on a modern-day genocide against baby girls. They call it "gendercide."

"This girl tends to be aborted, killed right after birth, abandoned and trafficked," Chai Ling told CBN News.

Ling founded a group called All Girls Allowed to address the problem and raise awareness.

June marked the one-year anniversary of the program. They celebrated with lawmakers on Capitol Hill by signing a declaration to end gendercide, calling special attention to China's one-child policy, which they say has resulted in killing about 50 million girls.

AMSTERDAM (AP) - The Dutch Catholic Church and the Salesian order are investigating revelations that a Salesian priest served on the board of a group that promotes pedophilia with the full knowledge of his boss.

The order's top official in the Netherlands, Delegate Herman Spronck, confirmed in a statement that the priest - identified by RTL Nieuws as 73-year-old "Father Van B." - served on the board of "Martijn," a group that campaigns to end the Dutch ban on adult-child sex.

The group is widely reviled but not outlawed.

"Of course we reject this and distance ourselves from this personal initiative" on the part of the priest, Spronck said in a statement. "Membership in such organizations does not fit with the ethos of the Salesian order."