The Pentagon is set to send up to 1,000 soldiers and personnel to train Syrian rebels against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (I.S.I.L.), spokesman Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a press briefing on Friday.
A Malaysian man believed to be the leader of an Islamic State (ISIS) terror cell in Australia has been deported to his home country on Wednesday after he was arrested last month.
Pope Francis has called on local politicians to be honest and to hear the pleas of the poor, in his speech on Friday after his courtesy call to Philippine President Benigno Aquino.
A Muslim employee of a kosher grocery store in Paris is set to receive French citizenship next week in recognition of his heroic act after he helped protect customers from an attack by an Islamist gunman.
Two Italian women working for an aid group have finally returned home after being taken hostage in Syria for more than five months ago.
Pope Francis is set to accord sainthood later this year to the Blessed Junipero Serra, the 18th century Spanish Franciscan who founded nine mission towns in California.
Sympathizers of the Islamic State militant group on Monday hacked the Twitter and Youtube accounts of the U.S. military command in-charge of operations in the Middle East.
Malaysia's crackdown on militants serving the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) appears to be tough enough to be felt by the extremist group as the latter reportedly issued a warning to prospective supporters not to use Malaysia as a transit point to Syria.
A week after the terrorist attacks on the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, the British government has called for a new anti-terror law in cyberspace.
South Korea has dramatically shifted its position regarding talks with North Korea, with President Park Geun-hye expressing willingness to sit with the North Korean leader in the negotiating table without preconditions.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and most of her Cabinet are set to join on Tuesday a rally for an "open and tolerant Germany" arranged by Muslim leaders amid the country's growing anti-Islam movement.
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.