Nineveh is now an archeological site, but more than 2,700 years ago it was one of the largest of ancient cities. It also was the place where Jonah preached and more than 120,000 persons believed God and the king declared no one should eat, but everyone should \"cry mightily to God, turn from evil ...
As headlines reported Jordan\'s military response to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria\'s brutality in burning alive in a cage a captured Jordanian Air Force pilot, the United Nation\'s Committee on the Rights of the Child released a statement detailing the savagery of Islamic terrorists against ...
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a possible 2016 presidential contender, canceled three scheduled media appearances in the U.K. on Tuesday, amid a controversy over his comments on measles vaccinations.
ISIS militants released a video Tuesday purporting to show Jordanian pilot First Lt. Muath al Kasasbeh being burnt alive while held captive in a cage. Jordanian state television said the pilot was actually killed Jan. 3, long before the terrorist organization demanded a prisoner swap for failed ...
Boko Haram fighters have killed more than 100 people in the north Cameroon town of Fotokol, murdering residents inside their homes and a mosque, a local civic leader said on Wednesday.
A TransAsia Airways plane crashed into a river less than 15 minutes after taking off from a downtown Taipei Songshang Airport on Wednesday, killing 26 people and leaving 17 missing, officials said. The ordeal was captured by a dashboard camera as the ATR 72 propjet slammed into a highway before ...
About one hundred ancient clay tablets from Babylon dating back 2,500 years corroborate details which confirm elements of the Bible\'s account of the 70 year exile of Israel.For instance, the clay tablets mention a \"village of the Jews\" by the river Chebar, a waterway recorded by name in Ezekiel ...
Pope Francis met with a transsexual and his fiancé at the Vatican Saturday after speaking with him earlier on Christmas Day. The pontiff spoke to 48-year-old Diego Neria Lajarraga, a Spanish man who said he had been treated as an outcast in his parish after undergoing gender reassignment surgery.
Abortion is up for discussion in one of seven predominantly Catholic, Latin American nations that until now have had a total ban on abortion.Chilean President Michelle Bachelet has sent to the Congress of the long, thin nation on the west coast of South America a bill to decriminalize abortion in ...
For more than four decades Steve Hayner ministered to young people. He died Jan. 31 from cancer at age 66 and a celebration of his life is to take place Feb. 23 at Peachtree Presbyterian Church in Atlanta.\"He lived his final days with the same joy in the Lord that was the hallmark of his life of ...
The lands of Edom, Ammon, Moab, Philistia, Phoenicia, Assyria, Mesopotamia, Babylonia and the Sinai Peninsula are playing a significant role in the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria\'s (ISIS) terrorist war for control of territory in the Middle East. It is part of the fertile crescent which also is ...
It was not jet lag that got to Franklin Graham after a week-long trip to three nations in Southeast Asia.It was a lack of human kindness.Graham, president of Samaritan\'s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, spoke two days after his return from Vietnam, Cambodia and Burma (also ...