The Pentagon is set to send up to 1,000 soldiers and personnel to train Syrian rebels against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (I.S.I.L.), spokesman Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a press briefing on Friday.
A Malaysian man believed to be the leader of an Islamic State (ISIS) terror cell in Australia has been deported to his home country on Wednesday after he was arrested last month.
Pope Francis has called on local politicians to be honest and to hear the pleas of the poor, in his speech on Friday after his courtesy call to Philippine President Benigno Aquino.
A Muslim employee of a kosher grocery store in Paris is set to receive French citizenship next week in recognition of his heroic act after he helped protect customers from an attack by an Islamist gunman.
Two Italian women working for an aid group have finally returned home after being taken hostage in Syria for more than five months ago.
Pope Francis is set to accord sainthood later this year to the Blessed Junipero Serra, the 18th century Spanish Franciscan who founded nine mission towns in California.
Sympathizers of the Islamic State militant group on Monday hacked the Twitter and Youtube accounts of the U.S. military command in-charge of operations in the Middle East.
Malaysia's crackdown on militants serving the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) appears to be tough enough to be felt by the extremist group as the latter reportedly issued a warning to prospective supporters not to use Malaysia as a transit point to Syria.
A week after the terrorist attacks on the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, the British government has called for a new anti-terror law in cyberspace.
South Korea has dramatically shifted its position regarding talks with North Korea, with President Park Geun-hye expressing willingness to sit with the North Korean leader in the negotiating table without preconditions.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and most of her Cabinet are set to join on Tuesday a rally for an "open and tolerant Germany" arranged by Muslim leaders amid the country's growing anti-Islam movement.
Two United Nations experts have called on Iran to explain the confiscation of St. Peter’s Evangelical Church in Tehran and the eviction of Christian families from the property. Reports emerged in July that Iranian authorities had seized the church, described as the country’s oldest Protestant congregation, and removed Christian residents living on the site.
President Donald Trump used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to draw attention to the persecution of Christians worldwide, criticizing the U.N. Human Rights Council for giving the issue little attention while condemning some of the world’s most repressive governments. “Christians are being persecuted all over the world; it's not even believable. I never thought I'd say it, but it's been happening for a long time.”
Fulani militia attacks in one county in Plateau state, Nigeria over the weekend killed at least eight Christians, including a Baptist pastor and a church employee on their way to church services on Sunday (Sept. 20), sources said.
Excavations beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem have revealed an ancient garden and burial landscape that archaeologists say is consistent with the description of Jesus’ burial site in the Gospel of John.
The Church of England has withdrawn an interfaith award from a Pakistani Muslim cleric after past comments praising Osama bin Laden resurfaced. Lambeth Palace announced Thursday that it had rescinded the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation presented to Maulana Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi on Sept. 11.