North Korea warned on Tuesday that it can \"strike\" whenever necessary if faced with a \"nuclear threat\" from the U.S., which is currently carrying out annual military exercises with South Korea.
Israel\'s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Congress this week regarding what he believes to be a \"bad deal\" between the U.S. and Iran that involves the Middle Eastern country halting its nuclear program.
The terrorist group Boko Haram has released a graphic video that show beheadings of hostages, echoing similar tactics used by Syrian-based terrorist group the Islamic State.
A week ahead of the anniversary of the unexplained disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Australia will lead a trial of an enhanced method of tracking aircraft over remote oceans to allow planes to be easily found should they go missing.
North Korea may lift its travel restrictions enacted four months ago as a response to the recent Ebola outbreak, multiple tour agencies reported this week.
The Islamic State reportedly released 19 Christian hostages on Sunday after kidnapping over 220 Assyrians last week in Syria, activist groups say.
In its largest effort against the Islamic State, Iraqi troops carried out an offensive operation this week on the terrorist group's stronghold of Tikrit.
A young woman was beaten and burned alive by an irate crowd at a market in Bauchi, Nigeria, on Sunday after she refused to be bodily searched, prompting people to suspect that she was a suicide bomber.
Ebola survivor Nancy Writebol and her husband David have decided to go back to Liberia to resume their missionary work.
The wife of a hostage killed at the hands of the Islamic State\'s recently identified \"Jihadi John\" says she wants the terrorist captured alive, rather that dying an \"honorable death\" in action.
An American atheist blogger living in Bangladesh was recently killed during a machete attack that may have been related to recent threats he received from hardline Muslims.
Chinese authorities have detained multiple pastors and church workers from Beijing Jiaquan Church, an independent house church that has operated in the capital for more than two decades. ChinaAid founder and President Bob Fu said his organization is “urgently concerned for the safety, health and legal rights of every Jiaquan pastor and church co-worker who has been taken away.”
A planned church in East Java Province in Indonesia is facing renewed opposition from Muslim residents who argue that an address discrepancy in permit documents should halt construction. Residents in the Dukuh Kukun area of Babat Jerawat Urban Village, Pakal District, Surabaya, say the address listed on the official permit does not match the church site in the CitraLand housing complex.
National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School may continue pursuing plans to become the nation’s first religious charter school while its legal challenge to an Oklahoma law moves forward, a federal judge ruled. According to Baptist Press, the National Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School Foundation is challenging provisions of the Oklahoma Charter Schools Act that bar religious organizations from operating publicly funded charter schools because of their religious character.
Former President Joe Biden received an award from Planned Parenthood of Delaware on Thursday and used his remarks to defend his abortion-rights record while encouraging supporters to continue their efforts. Biden spoke at Planned Parenthood of Delaware’s 22nd Annual Chocolate & Champagne Gala in Claymont, where former first lady Jill Biden presented him with the Sonia Schorr Sloan Service Award.
A bipartisan group of 10 U.S. senators called on President Donald Trump to raise China’s persecution of Christian pastors and other religious minorities during his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington this week. Led by Sens. Ted Budd, R-N.C., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., the lawmakers thanked Trump for diplomatic pressure they said helped secure the July 3 release of Beijing Zion Church founder Ezra Jin after 266 days in detention.