Live updates on faith, culture, politics, and humanitarian issues impacting Christians across the globe.
Fidel Castro to US: you owe us millions
Posted on Thursday, August 13, 2015
Fidel Castro marked his 89th birthday Thursday by insisting the United States owes Cuba "many millions of dollars" because of the half-century-old American trade embargo.
Russia and Nato ‘actively preparing for war’
Posted on Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Russia and Nato are actively preparing for war with one another amid the greatest build up of military tension in Europe since the end of the Cold War, a new report says.
China Rattles Markets With Yuan Devaluation
Posted on Tuesday, August 11, 2015
China devalued the yuan by the most in two decades, a move that rippled through global markets as policy makers stepped up efforts to support exporters and boost the role of market pricing in Asia’s largest economy, Bloomberg…
Iran blocking access to nuclear personnel, U.N. inspector says
Posted on Thursday, August 6, 2015
Undermining one of President Obama’s primary arguments for the nuclear deal with Iran, the head of the United Nation's nuclear watchdog agency said Iran has refused to allow U.N. inspectors to interview scientists and military officers to investigate…
Iran Warns of ‘Third World War’
Posted on Thursday, August 6, 2015
A senior Iranian official on Wednesday warned of an impending "third world war" that will be sparked by terrorists, according to regional reports.
Iran Already Sanitizing Nuclear Site, Intel Warns
Posted on Wednesday, August 5, 2015
The U.S. intelligence community has informed Congress of evidence that Iran was sanitizing its suspected nuclear military site at Parchin, in broad daylight, days after agreeing to a nuclear deal with world powers, Bloomberg reported.
United Nations Members Establish 15-Year Global Development Agenda
Posted on Tuesday, August 4, 2015
In what the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, described Monday as the organization's "to-do" list for the next 15 years, its 193 member states have agreed on an agenda for global development that aims to eliminate poverty…
Iran publishes book on how to outwit US and destroy Israel
Posted on Monday, August 3, 2015
While Secretary of State John Kerry and President Obama do their best to paper over the brutality of the Iranian regime and force through a nuclear agreement, Iran's religious leader has another issue on his mind: The destruction…
U.S. to withdraw carrier from Gulf amid Obama budget cuts
Posted on Monday, August 3, 2015
The United States' air strike capabilities against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) may take a serious hit this fall as the U.S. will be without an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf for the first time…
