Live updates on faith, culture, politics, and humanitarian issues impacting Christians across the globe.
Islamic State Advances Further Into Syria’s Aleppo Province
Posted on Monday, June 1, 2015
Fierce battles between Islamic State and other fighters raged in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on Monday, a day after the extremist group seized villages near the Turkish border and came within miles of the main highway…
Opec under siege as ISIL threatens world’s oil lifeline
Posted on Monday, June 1, 2015
Thick black smoke rising from the Baiji oil refinery could be seen as a dirty smudge on the horizon as far away as Baghdad after fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) set fire…
The world is drowning in debt, warns Goldman Sachs
Posted on Monday, June 1, 2015
The world is sinking under too much debt and an aging global population means countries' debt piles are in danger of growing out of control, the European chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management has warned.
NATO and Russia Stage Rival Air Combat Exercises
Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the third major Russian military exercise over the past three months in response to six-member states of NATO beginning military exercises this week over the Arctic.
Russia Masses Heavy Firepower on Border with Ukraine
Posted on Thursday, May 28, 2015
Russia's army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week.
Iran Declares ‘Successful’ Negotiations with Russia on S-300 System
Posted on Monday, May 25, 2015
Moscow and Tehran have concluded negotiations on the delivery of the Russia's long-range S-300 surface-to-air missile system to Iran, which should take place "within a short period," said Iranian Deputy Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, on a visit in…
Ireland Backs Gay Marriage in Landslide Vote
Posted on Monday, May 25, 2015
Ireland's referendum saw 62.1 percent of Irish voters say "yes" to changing the nation's constitution to define marriage as a union between two people regardless of their sex. With the move, Ireland became the first country in the…
ISIS Now Controls 50 Percent of Syria
Posted on Friday, May 22, 2015
After seizing Palmyra on May 20, the Islamic State (ISIS) now controls 50 percent of Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Thousands from Around the World Join ISIS
Posted on Thursday, May 21, 2015
Between 16,000 and 17,000, according to one independent Western estimate, men and a small number of women from 90 countries or more who have streamed to Syria and Iraq to wage Muslim holy war for the Islamic State.
