Fathima Rifqa Bary

Fathima Rifqa Bary, the Muslim teenager from Columbus, Ohio, who converted to Christianity and ran away to Orlando, is being treated for uterine cancer. Rifqa, now 17, has already undergone two operations and will have a third one on Thursday,...

The fate of Fathima Rifqa Bary is now in the hands of an Ohio court. Rifqa -- the teenage runaway whose story of Muslim-to-Christian conversion made national headlines in August -- is back in her home state today, after spending three months living...

The Orlando pastor who helped a Muslim-turned-Christian girl when she fled her home in Ohio is denying allegations by a colleague that he knew he was breaking the law by aiding the teen. A former church administrator, in a sworn statement filed with an...

A former administrator at an Orlando church told investigators that the church's pastors who took in a teenage runaway this summer knew that they were doing something unlawful. In a sworn statement filed this week in Ohio, Brian Smith stated that "many...

An attorney representing the mother of the 17-year-old girl who ran away from her Muslim family in Ohio and showed up in Orlando as a convert to Christianity said Florida Gov. Charlie Crist issued an "unfortunate" statement that politicized a family...

Activists today will gather in Orlando for the next chapter in the ongoing saga of a 17-year-old Christian convert who fears for her safety after running away from her Muslim home in Ohio. Fathima Rifqa Bary's court appearance is expected to draw...

The father of an Ohio teenager who ran away to Florida, saying she was afraid her father would kill her for converting from Islam to Christianity, on Thursday said he loves his daughter and wants her to come home. "Whether she is Christian or whatever...

Did the Orlando pastors who sheltered an Ohio teen convert who feared her Muslim family help the girl run away to Florida? A Department of Children and Families document just obtained by the Orlando Sentinel indicates there's a possibility. A hand-...

The attorney for an Ohio runaway who said her Muslim father would kill her for converting to Christianity, on Monday said the real danger is her father's mosque. John Stemberger, attorney, conservative Christian activist and leader of the Florida...

From the sidelines, the Muslim community watches the saga of Fathima Rifqa Bary with sadness and weariness. What looks to many Muslims like a family squabble between Muslim parents in Columbus, Ohio, and their runaway daughter in Orlando has become...

It started with a middle-of-the-night phone call. Beverly Lorenz wanted to go to bed. But when a fearful teenager she barely knew — a girl she met through the Internet social-networking site Facebook, living 1,000 miles away — asked if they...

The pastors who made national headlines after taking in a teen Muslim-to-Christian convert from Ohio are reorganizing their Orlando church. What that means isn't clear, though pastor Blake Lorenz is upbeat. "The lawyers are trying to figure out which...