Two North Carolina-based missionary groups are pulling non-essential staff out of Liberia in response to the Ebola crisis.
The Islamic jihadists who took over a big chunk of Iraq have now destroyed the historic tomb of the biblical prophet Jonah.
Monday marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, a war that permanently changed the face of Europe and the Middle East.
President Obama's decision to nominate Rabbi David Saperstein to the post of Ambassador for International Religious Freedom is drawing mixed reactions.
Russia lashed out Saturday at the latest round of Ukraine-related sanctions imposed by the European Union, saying they endanger the fight against international terrorism.
Two Christian aid workers were killed in a vicious attack on an Afghanistan street Thursday.
French officials are blaming bad weather for the fatal crash of an Air Algerie flight over the West African state of Mali.
A battered cross stands a the top of a one-roomed prayer hall in Zhejiang Province, China today. It's an act of defiance by a community of about 100 Christians.
Before World War II, Jews waited too long to leave an anti-Semitic Europe and ended up trapped. French Jews don't want to make the same mistake again.
For nearly 2,000 years Mosul, Iraq, has been home to a thriving Christian community. Now, the terrorist group Islamic State has driven nearly all of them out.