A Facebook post from North Carolina pastor Steven Furtick launched a social media firestorm Monday between those who called it heresy and others who said it needed more context.
Leaked security footage shows ruthless mistreatment and deplorable conditions in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison. In one clip, guards drag an emaciated man through the parking lot and up two flights of stairs. Later, guards take turns beating a prisoner.
For the second straight year, the celebration of Ramadan has been restricted by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Muslims have more freedom to move and celebrate than they did last year.
The number of people who need help surviving another day rose 40-percent this year, the UN reports. COVID-19 made life even harder for the world’s most vulnerable people groups.
In an effort to limit the strength of al-Shabab, a militant Islamic group based in Somalia, the United Nations has voted to prevent the sale and shipment of bomb components to the East African country.
On Tuesday afternoon, an explosion rocked the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray province, killing two civilians and injuring many more.
New research says the Beirut Explosion on August 4th was one of the largest non-nuclear manmade explosions in history. The blast yielded a force similar to 500 tons of TNT, or one-twentieth the strength of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
Today marks seven weeks since the World Health Organization began describing COVID-19 as a “global pandemic.” See our full coverage here. Since March 11th, the number of infections worldwide has climbed from 131,135 to 3,006,833. These rates will likely skyrocket as the virus reaches refugee camps.
One week ago today, more than 4,000 displaced Syrian children braved the journey back into Syria for their national exams for grades 9 through 12.
In the year 725 AD, a Bavarian bishop named Willibald toured the Holy Land and later reported having seen the church of Peter and his brother Andrew.
Christianity’s core belief is that the Son of God took on human form, died for our sins and then rose from the dead to give us eternal life. But if Jesus Christ didn’t come back to life, it undoes His claim to be the all-powerful, […]
History’s four-part event “Jesus: His Life” explores the story of Jesus Christ through a unique lens – the people in his life who were closest to him. Each of the eight chapters is told from the perspective of different biblical figures, all of whom played a […]
