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Faith leaders urge international action for internally displaced persons
Dozens of faith leaders have urged heads of state not to turn their backs on the world's 40.5 million internally displaced people.

Hopes fade for dozens buried in chapel during landslide
Hopes are fading of finding survivors from a massive landslide that buried a chapel in the Philippines on Saturday.

Islamist militants execute two Christian bus passengers in Kenya
Islamist terrorists in Kenya boarded a bus last week and executed two Christian passengers, reports International Christian Concern.

Italian missionary priest kidnapped in Niger
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the kidnapping, which was confirmed on Tuesday by the Nigerien and Italian governments.

Central African Republic: Christians massacred in suspected Islamist attack
Dozens of people are feared dead after suspected Islamist rebels attacked civilians in the Central African Republic earlier this month.

Christian agencies bring relief to devastated Philippines
Christian relief organisations have begun responding to the disastrous storm that has devastated parts of the Philippines.

Freedom Sunday: Uniting the global church to end slavery in our lifetime
This Sunday, over 5,000 churches in 48 different countries will gather in the hope of giving these stories a different ending.

Zimbabwe's churches faced with 'special challenge' after fresh cholera outbreak
Zimbabwe's churches are being urged to take action to curb the spread of cholera after more than two dozen people died from the disease in the past two weeks.
Pope tells the Mafia to repent
Pope Francis appealed to Sicily's Mafia on Saturday to abandon a life of crime and violence, saying the island needed "men and women of love, not men and women 'of honor,'" using the term mobsters apply to themselves.

Hurricane Florence evacuee comes to faith in Christ as hope shines through destruction
Stories of hope and faith have been emerging even as Hurricane Florence continues to pound the Carolinas

God didn't send Hurricane Florence because He is mad, says Franklin Graham
Franklin Graham has sought to assure people Friday that Hurricane Florence is not the result of God's anger.

Chelsea Clinton says an abortion ban would be 'unchristian'
Chelsea Clinton has said that, as a "deeply religious person," the idea of America going back to a pre-Roe v. Wade society where abortions were banned is "unchristian."

Extremists beat Indian pastor with brick, expel him from village
An Indian pastor has told of how he was attacked by Hindu extremists and forced to leave his village.

Miracle after 10-year-old son survives being impaled by meat skewer
The family of a 10-year-old Missouri boy is now thanking God for sparing his life after he was dangerously impaled in the face by a nearly foot-long meat skewer.

Salvation Army teams deployed as Hurricane Florence hits the Carolinas
Salvation Army teams have been deployed in eastern US to provide immediate relief for people affected by Hurricane Florence.

Billy Graham's daughter says she trusts God to heal her from cancer
Evangelist Anne Graham Lotz has said she's putting her trust in God following her breast cancer diagnosis, even if she might not find out His plan in this life.