The children of Saeed Abedini, the American pastor currently jailed in Iran, have made a video pleading President Barack Obama to help free their father from Iranian prison as he serves his second year of an eight-year sentence.
The United States confirmed Monday that it would be sending arms directly to Iraq's Kurdish forces to combat the growingly-powerful Islamic State. This announcement comes after the U.S. performed airstrikes in the Middle Eastern country and provided humanitarian airdrops to stranded religious minorities.
Pope Francis has recently condemned the ongoing violence in Iraq on behalf of the Islamic State, saying over the weekend that the international community must "stop these crimes and re-establish the rule of law."
In its push to conquer eastern Syria, the Islamic State jihadist group has reportedly beheaded two people and executed 23 others in the past five days, international media outlets report.
The U.S. launched its second round of airstrikes against Islamic militants late Friday, using drones and fighter jets to drop multiple bombs near the northern city of Irbil in Iraq.
Rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip Friday as the Hamas group ended its 72-hour cease-fire agreement with Israel.
Nigeria has become the latest country in Africa in recent weeks to declare a national state of emergency over the recent and rapid spread of the Ebola virus.
Kent Brantly, the U.S. aid worker receiving treatment in Georgia for the Ebola virus, released a statement Friday confirming his health was improving.
The Islamic State jihadist group has reportedly destroyed churches and forced 200,000 people to flee their homes in northern Iraq overnight, just as the Pentagon announced it had carried out an airstrike on an artillery convoy belonging to the militant group.
Officials in Sierra Leone and Liberia are clamping down on travelers in their nation as they try to enforce a strict quarantine to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus.
The Obama administration is reportedly considering an airstrike and a possible delivery of emergency supplies to religious minorities, including Christians, that have recently been displaced in Iraq by the Islamic State militant group.
LANCASTER, Pa. — Four years in the making, the production “David” opened at Sight & Sound Theatres this year and explores the journey of an unassuming shepherd boy who became a king.
The Presbyterian Church in America has voted to leave the National Association of Evangelicals due to the ...
Secular intolerance has a “chilling effect” on Christians who are having to practice “various forms of self-censorship” as they're finding it difficult to express their faith freely in society, according to a new report detailing accounts from four countries.
Gunmen suspected to be Islamic Fulani herdsmen barged into a Catholic Church in southwestern Nigeria, opened fire and detonated explosives while the congregation was celebrating Mass on Pentecost Sunday, killing at least 50 worshipers, including women and children. It's feared that some Christians were also abducted after the attack.
For more than 1,500 days, Nigerian Christian teenager Leah Sharibu has been held captive by the Boko Haram terrorist group as Christians continue to be the target of attacks in the West African nation.