Arab League officials voted Monday to actively combat militant Islamic groups like the Islamic State, saying that the allegiance of Arabic countries must combat the growing terrorist group on legal, political, defense and security levels.
A human rights group is questioning recent killings in China by police against suspected terrorists, suggested that perhaps the country's police is using excessive force in an attempt to control terrorist attacks.
At a NATO summit in Wales on Friday, officials agreed to create a massive rapid response force that will be prepared to respond to Russian aggression in the Ukraine.
President Barack Obama and Great Britain\'s Prime Minister James Cameron presented a unified front against the Islamic State terrorist group on Thursday, saying in a speech that they will not take orders from the Islamic extremists.
A source close to the U.S. government recently said that there is a \"very strong probability\" that U.S. forces successfully killed a top al Qaeda-linked leader in Somalia over the weekend.
The United States has released a statement saying it is "sickened" by the recent video purportedly showing the beheading of American journalist Steve Sotloff by the Islamic State militant group. Sotloff is the second American captive to be executed by the terrorist group in the past month.
A video released Tuesday claims to show the beheading of Steven Sotloff by the Islamic State jihadist group, allegedly as retribution for recent U.S. airstrikes in the U.S.
Religious freedom advocates told a gathering in Texas that armed conflict and state surveillance are undermining the methods Christians have used to defend persecuted believers. They said a divided global church is poorly placed to respond.
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) marked its 180th anniversary with online gatherings. Founded in London in 1846, the WEA represents more than 650 million evangelicals through nine regional alliances spanning 160 countries. Hundreds of participants from more than 20 countries joined two Zoom events on Sept. 23, scheduled at different times to accommodate multiple time zones.
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.