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.
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.
A public forum titled “Seeking the Essence of the Church” was held on the 25th at Queens Central United Methodist ...
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.