Live updates on faith, culture, politics, and humanitarian issues impacting Christians across the globe.
EU gets one million migrants in 2015, smugglers seen making $1 billion
Posted on Wednesday, December 23, 2015
More than 1 million refugees and migrants came to the European Union this year, while almost 3,700 died or went missing in perilous journeys which reaped huge profit for smugglers, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday.
Iran, Russia Begin Swapping Nuclear Materials
Posted on Thursday, December 17, 2015
Russia and Iran are beginning to trade sensitive nuclear materials, an activity that is at least in part condoned by the Obama administration and permissible under the tenets of the recent nuclear accord, according to U.S. and Iranian…
Obama says US military hitting Islamic State harder than ever
Posted on Monday, December 14, 2015
President Barack Obama said the United States military and allied forces are hitting the Islamic State group harder than ever and threatened the group’s leaders, after he opened a rare meeting of his National Security Council at the…
US Intel: ISIS May Have Passport Printing Machine, Blank Passports
Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2015
With the U.S. and other countries on high alert for ISIS attacks, American authorities are warning the terror group's followers may have infiltrated American borders with authentic-looking passports ISIS has printed itself with its own machines, according to…
Putin says he hopes Russia won’t need to nuke ISIS
Posted on Thursday, December 10, 2015
Nearly three months after Russia began its own campaign against the Islamic State in Syria, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that he hopes his military won’t have to rely on nuclear weapons to wipe out the terror group.
Ethicists square off over editing genes in human embryos
Posted on Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Debate over the use of powerful new gene editing tools in human eggs, sperm and embryos grew heated on Tuesday as scientists and ethicists gathered at an international summit to discuss the technology, which has the power to…
Declaring ‘new beginning,’ EU and Turkey seal migrant deal
Posted on Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Turkey promised to help stem the flow of migrants to Europe in return for cash, visas and renewed talks on joining the EU in a deal struck on Sunday that the Turkish prime minister called a "new beginning"…
