Thousands of Assyrian Christians fled their villages near Hasaka earlier this week as news spread the Islamic State was on the attack, kidnapping even the elderly, women and children.Hasaka, located in northeastern Syria near the borders with Turkey and Iraq, had served for one hundred years as a ...
Alabama\'s Chief Justice Roy Moore made clear his belief that whatever the Supreme Court decides in regards to same-sex marriage later this year the state courts, including those in Alabama, will have to fall in step. Moore, 68, made the remarks in an interview with the Associated Press. He also ...
A Syrian Baptist pastor whose congregation has so far escaped Islamic State militants sent an urgent prayer request this morning about the \"absence of solutions\" for the \"kidnapping, slaughtering and immigration\" of Christians and others at the hands of brutal terrorists. The pastor, whose ...
While Italian officials tighten security at the Vatican and other sites around Rome following veiled threats in a video revealing the horrific beheading of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIS just 100 miles from Italy\'s borders earlier this month -- some Italians take to social media to joke about what ...
The burning alive in a cage of a Jordanian pilot; the beheading of 21 Coptic Christians on a beach in Libyia; the torching of 40 police officers and tribesmen just outside an air base in Iraq; the death of a humanitarian worker in captivity in Syria; and the abduction of at least 35 Egyptian farm ...
According to multiple news reports, Islamic State terrorists have upped the stakes in their jihadist savagery, killing 40 people near al-Baghdadi, burning alive mostly police officers and tribesmen. An Iraqi-born pastor says the killing is justified - to ISIS radicals - who will not take prisoners, ...
At an unfinished mall where scores of refugees are crammed into shell-like storefronts devoid of color or glass – a child tells a reporter she asks God to forgive ISIS. It\'s an unlikely thought – but not altogether unusual in this place where families gather. These are the Christians who have ...
Dr. Nabeeh Abbassi grew up as a Christian minority in a military camp where his father was stationed in Zarqa, Jordan. In the 1960-70s \"there were no issues at all,\" Abbassi, 51, said. It wasn\'t until radical Islamists through the Muslim Brotherhood began to \"brainwash\" the young people that ...
A \"five-foot-sassy-independent-on-occasion-stubborn-twenty-something-woman\" decided she deserves something more for Valentine\'s Day, and wants people to know \"Fifty Shades of Grey\" is not even close to attracting her to line up at the theater. Melissa Meredith even tosses the movie\'s main ...
Despite earlier reports it could have been a hate crime, officials now believe the killing of three Muslims could have sprung from a neighbor dispute over parking and noise inside a condominium complex. Self-described \"gun-toting\" avowed atheist Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, appeared angry and ...