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30-foot Hindu idol of good fortune falls on crowd of worshipers in India; 1 dead
The 30-foot statue of Ganesh has reportedly collapsed on a crowd of Indian worshipers during the recent Immersion Festival, killing one and hurting three others, according to the Christian News.
ISIS claims deady suicide attack on mosque in Saudi Arabia
Militant group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia.
Pentagon 'used Christian aid group to spy on North Korea'
An investigation claims that HISG received funding from the Pentagon connected to espionage in the secretive state.
Another evangelical church demolished in Muslim-majority Sudan
There are growing fears for Christians in Sudan after another church was destroyed.
Gun control: We need universal background checks, say US police chiefs in rebuff to NRA
Police chiefs from across the United States called on Monday for universal background checks for firearms purchases.
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Rescue teams rush to help earthquake victims
Thousands spent the night outdoors in near-freezing temperatures, reluctant to go back inside.
Group records ISIS acts of terror in Mosul, Iraq's Christian heartland: Beheadings, amputation and torture on daily basis
Hundreds of sickening episodes of beheadings, amputations and tortures for the period of September alone have been exposed in a dossier that shows anew the brutality and terrifying life under the Islamic State militants.
Shiite men mourn death of their prophet's grandson by cutting scalp, whipping bodies
Shiite Muslim men and young boys have been beating themselves with sharp blades and chains and even cutting their scalps with daggers reportedly to commemorate the death of Husyn ibn Ali, grandson of Prophet Muhammad.
Donald Trump: No terrorism if Saddam, Gadhafi had not been ousted from power
The late ruthless dictators Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi may have gained infamy and elicited hate for the various atrocities they committed to their own people, but for Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, they would've made the Middle East more stable.
US bombing of Afghan hospital that killed 22 a 'premeditated massacre,' says MSF
US military may have purposely targeted a hospital in Afghan's Kunduz city, killing 22 people including 12 medical staff of the Doctors Without Borders (MSF), according to a report by the Associated Press (AP).
President Obama's policy shift on keeping troops in Afghanistan gets mixed reaction
President Obama's plan to let US military troops stay in Afghanistan through the end of 2016 has received mixed responses from Republicans and citizens alike.
Tens of thousands of migrants living in German tents face woes as winter nears
The situation of refugees in Germany appears gloomy in the coming months as winter approaches and there are no fixed accommodation to house the thousands of asylum seekers particularly those living in tents.
Archbishop of Erbil: Iraqi Christian refugees are losing hope of returning home
Although the humanitarian situation for displaced Christians in Iraq has improved, thousands of Iraqi Christians are still fleeing, Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil told Aid to the Church in Need.
Obama urged to hold Indonesia to account over religious persecution
Religious intolerance should be high on the agenda in President Obama's meetings with Indonesia's President Joko Widodo, a religious freedom charity has said.
Christian woman gang raped by three Muslim men in Pakistan
A Christian woman has been gang raped by three Muslim men in her home in Kasur, Pakistan.
Pope Francis calls for prayerful and practical response to refugees: 'The Church does not abandon them'
Pope Francis drew the attention of the Bishops at the synod to the refugees once more, speaking in St. Peter's Square to call for a continued response in prayer and practical work to the refugee crisis during Angelus prayer.