The boy – who says he is 10 years old and goes by the name of Yusuf – claims he is the son of a U.S. veteran who fought in the Iraq War and that he immigrated to Islamic State territory with his mother two years ago, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute…
The Turkish directorate of religious affairs is set to seize over 50 churches, monasteries and cemeteries belonging to the Christian Syriac community in southeastern Turkey.
The United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, today released a report saying that since January 1, 2017 the Islamic terror group Boko Haram has used 83 children– most often under the age of 15– as human bombs, a four-fold increase over the previous year. Boko Haram, which literally means “Western education is forbidden,” typically targets Christians,…
When Kennedy next decided to pray at midfield after a game, coaches and players on both teams joined him — as did members of the general public and media. After the game, the school district “received complaints from parents of band members who were knocked over in the rush of spectators on to the field”…
Advocates say the issue is most urgent in Tasmania, where several Christians have already fallen foul of the state’s Anti-Discrimination Act, including Catholic Archbishop Julian Porteous, who was taken to a tribunal in 2015 for advocating traditional marriage. Some Coalition MPs and church leaders have begun lobbying for religious freedoms to be legislated alongside same-sex…
As the Lebanese army wages an offensive against an Islamic State enclave near the border of Syria, Lebanese civilians — Christian and Muslim — are working side by side, not far from the frontlines, to feed some 5,000 soldiers. The project was spearheaded by Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross, a Lebanese Carmelite nun who…
ISIS appears to have taken their dead with them. But in the two-year occupation, the graves in the Christian cemetery were desecrated. “ISIS couldn’t have done this by themselves,” says one local Christian leader. “Many locals came from towns nearby when ISIS came to loot and to destroy. ISIS destroyed where their faith required it…
Former Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., who served 34 consecutive years in Congress, just returned from his fifth trip to Iraq. Now a distinguished fellow and co-founder of the 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative, which seeks to preserve religious liberty on a global scale, Wolf had a grave warning to American politicians who are hesitating to offer…
Yesterday we reported that Al-Shabaab killed 4 people in Kenya last week. Today reports from CatholicCulture.org says the dead were a 17-year old Catholic boy, Kadenge Katana, and a church elder, Joseph Kasena, along with the elder’s brother. Witnesses report that the three were killed after the 17 year old and the elder refused to…
According to the US Department of State, between 80,000 and 120,000 North Koreans have been jailed for religious reasons, relegated to a life-time of concentrations camps or penal servitude. Despite this, Christianity is growing.