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\'Hey ISIS, you suck!!!\' U.S. Muslim group launches billboard drive to show terror organisation does not represent Islam
'Hey ISIS, you suck!!!' U.S. Muslim group launches billboard drive to show terror organisation does not represent Islam

ISIS is not us. To project this message, a group of American Muslim professionals have launched a billboards campaign to shout out loud and clear that the terrorist organisation does not represent true Islam.

Atheist teacher who didn\'t trust Christians turns to Christ after prayers miraculously healed her mother
Atheist teacher who didn't trust Christians turns to Christ after prayers miraculously healed her mother

No mind is too rigid, no heart too hard to resist the transforming power of Christ.

Pakistan textbooks teach children to hate Christians, describing them as \'outsiders, unpatriotic and inferior\'
Pakistan textbooks teach children to hate Christians, describing them as 'outsiders, unpatriotic and inferior'

How could religious extremism be curtailed if it is actually being taught in schools? The question arises in Pakistan where a study has found out that Muslim schoolchildren are being taught to hate Christians and other minorities in their textbooks, according to AsiaNews.

Some 1,000 Christian millennials gather in Indonesia to stand up for Biblical truths
Some 1,000 Christian millennials gather in Indonesia to stand up for Biblical truths

Millennials are often thought to be always concerned with the inessential: parties, gadgets and other material things. Around 1,000 millennials however recently gathered in Indonesia to prove that they can also move for the things that are spiritual and essential.

Nigeria: New Boko Haram leader exposes deep divisions
Nigeria: New Boko Haram leader exposes deep divisions

Boko Haram's appointment of a new leader and his apparent rejection by the group's figurehead exposes wide divisions among the Nigerian jihadists as they come under pressure from the country's military.

Number of U.S. women who use contraceptives that kill babies has doubled
Number of U.S. women who use contraceptives that kill babies has doubled

A recent federal survey revealed that the number of women in the United States who use contraceptive devices that have adverse effects on unborn babies has almost doubled during recent years.

Here\'s how Christians worldwide can help the persecuted faithful in the Middle East
Here's how Christians worldwide can help the persecuted faithful in the Middle East

Roman Catholic Church leaders and faithful recently outlined ways on how ordinary citizens can extend some form of assistance to Christians who cannot fully practice their faith in predominantly Muslim nations in the Middle East

Christian girl recalls horror when Islamist radicals attacked and burned their home in Egypt

Imagine the horror that gripped members of a Coptic Christian family in Egypt when they saw a mob of angry Muslim radicals attacking and burning their home in the middle of the night.

Pastor with \'unswerving faith in Jesus\' mercilessly beaten to death by Maoist rebels in India
Pastor with 'unswerving faith in Jesus' mercilessly beaten to death by Maoist rebels in India

A Christian pastor was "mercilessly" beaten to death by Maoist rebels in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Fides News Agency reported.

ISIS reportedly executes pregnant mother, kidnaps her 4 children for trying to flee Iraqi village
ISIS reportedly executes pregnant mother, kidnaps her 4 children for trying to flee Iraqi village

No atrocity is too gory for Islamic State (ISIS) militants to turn away from. In one of their latest barbaric acts, the jihadis executed a pregnant woman and took away her four children, after they tried to flee their village in Iraq, the MailOnline reported.

Christianity in peril in Mideast as Christians feel abandoned, betrayed by West, says patriarch
Christianity in peril in Mideast as Christians feel abandoned, betrayed by West, says patriarch

Unless Christians are protected, Christianity will soon die in Syria, Iraq and even Lebanon. The warning came from Patriarch Ignatius Youssef III Younan of the Syriac Catholic Church of Antioch.

Islamic persecution of Christians can\'t stop Iranians from finding faith in Jesus as more testimonies pour out
Islamic persecution of Christians can't stop Iranians from finding faith in Jesus as more testimonies pour out

Imprisonment, beatings and even death—those things don't scare newly converted Christians in Iran anymore as their number continues to grow at an amazing rate.

Islamic State \'almost completely\' ousted from Syria\'s Manbij city
Islamic State 'almost completely' ousted from Syria's Manbij city

US-backed forces trying to oust Islamic State militants from the Syrian city of Manbij took "almost complete control" of the city on Saturday,

Nigeria: Boko Haram leader threatens attack on Christians, bombing of churches, humanitarian missions
Nigeria: Boko Haram leader threatens attack on Christians, bombing of churches, humanitarian missions

The leader of Boko Haram has recently issued a new threat, this time involving the extremist group's new mission to the fight the "Christianization of Society."

As the Rio Olympics starts, here are the best pictures of Christ The Redeemer
As the Rio Olympics starts, here are the best pictures of Christ The Redeemer

This week, sports stars have flocked to the feet of one of the best-know depictions of Jesus. Here we look at some of the most stunning photographs of this beautiful monument.

Swedish church to use drones to drop thousands of Bibles in ISIS-controlled Iraq
Swedish church to use drones to drop thousands of Bibles in ISIS-controlled Iraq

A major evangelical free church in Sweden is preparing to use drones to drop thousands of Bibles into areas of Iraq controlled by Islamic State