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China: Mother of captured Christian human rights lawyer writes emotional open letter to her son
The mother of Chinese Christian human rights lawyer, Zhang Kai, has published a harrowing open letter to her son
'My captivity was like being born again': Catholic priest who miraculously escaped ISIS speaks out
Father Jacob Murad, the Syriac Catholic priest who was captured by ISIS, has spoken of his experience as a prisoner
Pope to issue post-Synod document on the 'joy of family'
The Pope is expected to follow-up the three-week Synod on the Family with an exhortation on "the joy of the family"
'It could have been a massacre': Shell hits Aleppo church during Sunday service
Seven people were injured when the shell hit the Church of St Francis in the Azizyeh residential district.
Catholic leaders issue unprecedented appeal to UN on climate change
Roman Catholic cardinals, patriarchs and bishops have issued an unprecedented appeal to the UN to produce a "truly transformational" agreement to tackle climate change when it meets at the long awaited conference in Paris.
Hobby Lobby owners under investigation for illegal import of ancient biblical artefacts
One of America's most high-profile Christian businesses is under investigation for illegally importing ancient Middle Eastern artefacts.
30-foot Hindu idol of good fortune falls on crowd of worshipers in India; 1 dead
The 30-foot statue of Ganesh has reportedly collapsed on a crowd of Indian worshipers during the recent Immersion Festival, killing one and hurting three others, according to the Christian News.
ISIS claims deady suicide attack on mosque in Saudi Arabia
Militant group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia.
Pentagon 'used Christian aid group to spy on North Korea'
An investigation claims that HISG received funding from the Pentagon connected to espionage in the secretive state.
Another evangelical church demolished in Muslim-majority Sudan
There are growing fears for Christians in Sudan after another church was destroyed.
Gun control: We need universal background checks, say US police chiefs in rebuff to NRA
Police chiefs from across the United States called on Monday for universal background checks for firearms purchases.
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Rescue teams rush to help earthquake victims
Thousands spent the night outdoors in near-freezing temperatures, reluctant to go back inside.
Group records ISIS acts of terror in Mosul, Iraq's Christian heartland: Beheadings, amputation and torture on daily basis
Hundreds of sickening episodes of beheadings, amputations and tortures for the period of September alone have been exposed in a dossier that shows anew the brutality and terrifying life under the Islamic State militants.
Shiite men mourn death of their prophet's grandson by cutting scalp, whipping bodies
Shiite Muslim men and young boys have been beating themselves with sharp blades and chains and even cutting their scalps with daggers reportedly to commemorate the death of Husyn ibn Ali, grandson of Prophet Muhammad.
Donald Trump: No terrorism if Saddam, Gadhafi had not been ousted from power
The late ruthless dictators Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi may have gained infamy and elicited hate for the various atrocities they committed to their own people, but for Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, they would've made the Middle East more stable.
US bombing of Afghan hospital that killed 22 a 'premeditated massacre,' says MSF
US military may have purposely targeted a hospital in Afghan's Kunduz city, killing 22 people including 12 medical staff of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF), according to a report by the Associated Press (AP).