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The Spiritual Benefits Of 'Liquid Bread': How These Monks Took Up Beer For Lent

Back in the 1600s, a certain group of Catholic monks took it up in a big way during this season of fasting, by shunning solids and relying instead on 'liquid bread': otherwise known as beer.

Islam Will Surpass Christianity As World's Largest Religion By 2070, Pew Predicts

Islam is the fasting growing religion in the world, and will be the largest in the world by 2070, new research suggests.

Five Christians Jailed In Ongoing Chinese Crackdown

Five Chinese Christians are being jailed for buying and selling Bible devotionals in an ongoing state crackdown on religious freedom.

Women And Child Migrants Subjected To 'Terrifying' Sexual Abuse While Trying To Cross Into Europe

Driven from their African homes by extreme poverty, thousands of migrant women and children are pushing ahead in their journey of hope to Europe despite the horrors that await them along the way.

Sudan Has 'Declared War Against Christians' To Stop Them From Leading Muslims To Christ, Says Pastor

The Sudanese government has not officially announced it. However, a pastor who was once wrongfully imprisoned in the country has revealed that Khartoum has virtually "declared war against Christians."

Christians Handed 7-Year Imprisonment In China For Buying And Selling 'Forbidden Devotional Books'

In China, buying or selling Christian reading materials could be enough ground to land believers in jail.

Christian Charity World Vision Partners With Tech Companies To Help Thousands Of Kids Get An Education

This week in Amman, Jordan, World Vision is partnering with Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Cisco and other big tech companies to try to bring a new approach to educating the many thousands of child refugees who have seen their futures sacrificed to war.

Don't Knock Homeless Who Drink A Glass Of Wine â It's Their Only Pleasure, Says Pope Francis

Pope Francis has given an exclusive interview to an Italian magazine run by the homeless â the equivalent of the UK's Big Issue.

Egypt's Muslims Stand With Persecuted Christians, Condemn ISIS Attacks

As Coptic Christians flee the terror of ISIS in northern Egypt, Islamic authorities in the country have condemned the jihadist violence, standing in support of the Christian community.

ISIS Now Using Even Dogs Strapped With Explosives To Attack Advancing Iraqi Forces

The Islamic State (ISIS) has gone to the dogsâfiguratively and even literally.

'No Reincarnation Without Permission' Say Chinese Authorities In Fresh Crackdown On Religion

China regards Christianity as a hostile Western force but hates other faiths just as much. The new document states also that Tibetan Buddhist leaders cannot be reincarnated without government approval.

ISIS Suicide Bomber Told His Parents He Was Going To Marry 72 Virgins In Paradise After Martyrdom

What motivates suicide bombers to claim their own lives and wreak havoc and destruction? One family, whose son ended his own life in a suicide bomb attack against Iraqi security forces last year, got the answer to this question after he sent them a farewell note before he launched his suicide bomb attack.

Islamist Extremism Rising In Philippines; Militants Threaten Christians, Behead German Hostage In Latest Act Of Terror