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3 Years After, Parents of Nigerian Girl Abducted by Boko Haram Still Plead for Her Release
YOLA, NIGERIA - Three years ago this month, Boko Haram abducted 110 girls from a school in Dapchi, in Nigeria’s Yobe state. One girl remains in captivity. Her parents remain hopeful she will be freed but say the government is doing nothing to...
Pope Francis Encourages Iraq’s Christians to Forgive and Rebuild
AMMAN - Pope Francis Sunday visited Christian communities in Iraq’s north, where the Islamic State group carried out its worst devastation, to bring encouragement and solace to those who suffered numerous atrocities and are trying to rebuild their...
UN: Houthi Attacks in Northern Yemen Risk Triggering Humanitarian Crisis
GENEVA - The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling for the fighting to stop in northern Yemen’s Marib governorate, warning escalation of hostilities there is endangering the lives of hundreds of thousands of...
European Powers Press Iran to Back off Latest Nuclear Move
BERLIN - Germany, France and Britain pressed Iran on Saturday to back off the latest planned violation of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, saying that Tehran has "no credible civilian use" for uranium metal. The International Atomic Energy...
UN: More Than 2 Million Children in Ethiopia's Tigray in Need of Aid
About 2.3 million children in the Tigray region of Ethiopia have been cut off from humanitarian assistance for over a month, the United Nations said Tuesday. “We are extremely concerned that the longer access to them is delayed, the worse their...
China Conducts Two Trials in Crackdown on Audio Bibles
WASHINGTON - Chinese courtrooms this month were the scene of two trials prosecuting Christian businessmen for selling audio versions of the Bible, a new crackdown that is part of a government campaign to “eradicate pornography and illegal...
Al-Qaida 'On the Ropes' After 2 Decades of War
WASHINGTON - Key U.S. officials are not backing down from their assessment that core al-Qaida, while still a threat, is in decline, brushing aside intelligence suggesting the terror organization remains entrenched in Afghanistan and may be growing...
Pompeo Says China is ‘Gravest Threat to Future of Religious Freedom' in Jakarta
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described Communist-run China as “the gravest threat to the future of religious freedom” Thursday in Indonesia, the last stop of his four nation regional tour. Secretary Pompeo praised the majority-Muslim...
Global COVID Count is More Than 37 Million
Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reported early Sunday there are more than 37.2 million global COVID-19 cases and more than a million deaths. The U.S. with more that 7.7 million coronavirus cases is leading the world in the COVID caseload....
Greece Scrambles to Rehouse Homeless Migrants, Refugees on Lesbos
LESBOS, GREECE - For Rahaf al Mohammed, the Moria refugee center was a living hell, but now, after militant arsonists last week razed what has been frequently described as the worst in Europe, she refuses relocation to a new, fenced encampment 10...