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Seven years after Syria's bloody civil war erupted, forces loyal to the government are preparing for a major military assault on the last remaining rebel-held province of Idlib, located in the northwest part of the country. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2PonxIW

Two recent attacks against Christians in Pakistan emphasize the worsening conditions for believers in the predominately Muslim country.   from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2N17qDI

A Nigerian Christian schoolgirl who remains in captivity because she refuses to denounce Christ is calling on her government to fight for her release. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2PRlOgn

Pew Research recently conducted a study on what being a Christian looks like in different countries around the world. The study found that the most committed Christians in the world live in Africa, Latin America, and the United States. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2PgGjC0

Iran's hardline government has sentenced four Christians to harsh prison terms for putting their faith in Jesus Christ. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2orjqRf

Hundreds of thousands of people in the flood-battered Indian state are beginning the arduous task of rebuilding their lives following the worst floods to hit the region. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2BZbCj8

Scott Morrison, the new prime minister of Australia, brings something extra to the country's highest position – his Christian faith. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2NmXzVL

More than 18,000 people committed their lives to Jesus Christ through the efforts of the Luis Palau Association's Bogota Festival held in Bogota, Columbia earlier this month. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2PFIaBs

Pope Francis issued a sweeping apology Sunday for the “crimes” of the Catholic Church in Ireland, saying church officials regularly didn’t respond with compassion to the many abuses children and women suffered over the years and vowing to work for justice. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2o9gEzI

The Vatican’s retired ambassador to the United States has purportedly penned an 11-page letter accusing senior Vatican officials of knowing as early as 2000 that the disgraced former archbishop of Washington, ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, regularly invited seminarians into his bed but they still promoted him to cardinal. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2oemn7f

Pope Francis said at the start of a visit to Ireland on Saturday that he shares the outrage of rank-and-file Catholics over the failure of church authorities to punish the “repugnant crimes” of priests who raped and molested children. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2P9R8Gf

Historic flooding in India leaves hundreds dead and a million people homeless. See what ministries on the ground are experiencing as they mobilize to help flood victims.   from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Ln4OeG

The head of the jihadist terror group known as ISIS or Islamic State says growing tensions between the United States and Turkey over the fate of American pastor Andrew Brunson shows that America's influence and power are diminishing around the world. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Mxcv7t

A man launched a deadly knife attack near Paris, France and the Islamic State swiftly claimed responsibility. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2wf0k59

In a stunning letter published over the weekend, a major U.S. bishop claimed there’s a “homosexual subculture” within the leadership of the Catholic Church. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2OXVmQV

Nabeel Qureshi, an American Christian speaker who converted from Islam and served as a speaker with Ravi Zacharias International Ministries prior to his death from stomach cancer in 2017, is the author of the book “Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus.” The article below is adapted from that book, which first came out in 2014. A third edition of the book, expanded to include new bonus content and reflections, has just been released. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2BBXufr

For over 2000 years, Nineveh Plains was the historical homeland of Chaldean, Syriac and Assyrian Christians. ISIS emptied it within days. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2w4Poqk

Pope Francis says 'never again' as he addresses sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church - calling it a crime. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2P0rgMT

Internationally renowned LGBT activist Val Kalende has publicly denounced her lesbian lifestyle and says God completely transformed her with his love. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2MuPfag

Radical Muslims are focused on destroying and delegitimizing Israel – the historic homeland of the Jewish People — and they fan the flames of antisemitism wherever they can. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2BKbvrJ

An Indonesian court has sentenced a woman who complained about a noisy mosque to 18 months in prison for blasphemy. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Ps2juA

Conservatives and Christians in the United Kingdom react to the idea of giving medical advice on fertility treatment to "gender-confused" children. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2MCCPwb

Indonesian officials have defended a street parade that involved veiled kindergarteners carrying replica weapons, with police saying they will arrest the person who uploaded a video of the event to Facebook. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2nTEr6F

Jakiw Palij, 95, admitted he falsely claimed to be a farmer and factory worker during World War II to gain entry into the United States 25 years ago. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Lf5hPH

"Our state and our country need a spiritual awakening, and that starts right here, right now, with us. The last great revival in our country began in California, and we say, 'Lord, do it again!'" Pastor Laurie preached.   from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2LeQDYM

Thousands of evangelical churches in Rwanda are being temporarily shut down because of new government requirements.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2w1F42t

Thousands of evangelical churches in Rwanda are being temporarily shut down because of new government requirements.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2OSTkSg

A young American couple was brutally murdered by alleged ISIS terrorists while biking along the Afghan border. Evangelist Franklin Graham believes this couple's tragic death is an important lesson for everyone – there is in fact evil in the world and it is alive and well. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2MGgz4g

Bans on Islamic burqas are spreading across Europe. Denmark banned face coverings in public places earlier this month. The move made it the fifth European country to do so. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2OOLZmM

Bans on Islamic burqas are spreading across Europe. Denmark banned face coverings in public places earlier this month. The move made it the fifth European country to do so. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2N3VsWF

Christians living in the world's second-largest Muslim-dominated country are constantly on guard, worried that their lives could be in danger at any moment from radical Muslims. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2L96acI

An unknown attacker fired shots at a guardhouse outside the US embassy in Ankara, Turkey this morning. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2OQopFX

Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India’s Kerala state, as authorities rushed to bring drinking water to the most affected areas, officials said Sunday. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2vUZlH5

Historic flooding threatens to steal countless lives, homes, and schools in in Kerala, India. Gospel for Asia is on the ground providing disaster and urging believers everywhere to pray. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2MWZoIX

A massive crackdown on religious freedom has for years been underway in China, where churches are being demolished, Bibles confiscated and posters of Jesus replaced with imagery of President Xi Jinping. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2nIPlMC

Christianity and Judaism are different branches on the same family tree. Built on the teachings of Jesus Christ – a Jew living in the land of Israel – Christianity shares with Judaism the sacred text of the old testament, a set of values rooted in ethical monotheism, and a belief in the infinite value of every human life. Despite these commonalities, the historic relationship between Christianity and Judaism has been marked by conflict, prejudice, persecution and tragedy. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2vGuwFV

Two Catholic priests belonging to an underground church in China's Gansu province have been dismissed after local authorities accused them of holding an illegal Christian summer camp for youngsters. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2PcUE3k

American pastor Andrew Brunson has received another setback as he remains detained by the regime in Turkey.   from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Mtz4cj

Black clad youths in masks were responsible for burning 80 cars in several Swedish cities Monday night. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2KU1V4u

With Turkey's currency crashing, the government's response has been to blame outsiders and double down on bad economic policy that is only making it worse.   from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2KQqFea

A bridge over an industrial area in the Italian city of Genova partially collapsed during a sudden and violent storm on Tuesday, leaving vehicles crushed in the rubble below. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2w5fngQ

Police in the United Kingdom have arrested a man who crashed a car into barriers next to Parliament in an incident that British police said they are investigating as a terror attack. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Mnmo6I

Iran's Islamic regime has sentenced an Iranian couple to prison for practicing Christianity and also sentenced every member of their church to one year in prison.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2KP6j4R

Operation Blessing responded within hours of a series of powerful earthquakes that left hundreds of Indonesians dead, and thousands injured on the island of Lombok   OB teams traveled to the earthquake zone, bringing much needed help to people living outdoors in tents.   from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2KNDJku

Turkey's currency fell Friday after its economy was rattled by the United States' move to slap the country with more tariffs. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Mo8fGr

Life for most people in Venezuela is already terrible, so it might be hard to believe that it is about to get even worse, but it is. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2OwV3wk

Hundreds of thousands of people from South Sudan have fled to the Bidi Bidi Refuge Settlement in Uganda to escape their country's ongoing brutal civil war. Here victims and their victimizers find healing through faith in Christ. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2nuJxGq

A Iranian Christian, whose possible deportation to Iran by the Swedish government made international headlines, has married.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2vBqgr5

More than 70,000 people have signed a petition calling for the release of jailed Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani. He's been reportedly sentenced to ten years in a prison notorious for persecuting Christians. Pastor Nadarkhani was also sentenced to two extra years of "internal exile" for allegedly "promoting Zionist Christianity." from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2vGAI0L

A nurse in Great Britain who was dismissed from her nursing job for talking to patients about Jesus now has her full rights to practice nursing restored. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2OZRMXu

There is more to the story of an Afghan migrant whose deportation from Sweden was blocked by an activist and then went viral on social media.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2OqO4Fk

An airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite rebels hit a bus in a market in northern Yemen on Thursday, killing at least 20 people, including children, and wounding as many as 35, Yemeni tribal leaders said. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Oqjnjn

Once again, a well-known pastor is making headlines across the country. And, as is too often the case, the story is about sexual misconduct and even sexual abuse. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2KFDrMr

Argentina's Senate rejects bill to legalize elective abortion amidst protests on both sides of the issue. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Mg3izp

According to a recently released report, three children in Belgium under the age of 18 were given lethal injections after they chose to die. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2vrAkCO

America's favorite quick-service restaurant, Chick-fil-A, is expanding to Toronto next year, according to the restaurant’s president and COO Tim Tassopoulos. However, some locals are vowing to boycott the restaurant, arguing on social media the brand has “no place in Canada” and that it should “stay out.” from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2M5xIoQ

An Islamic cleric in Iran has taken a bold step to oppose the hardline Islamic regime of his country. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2KFoaer

A relatively new evangelical organization known as The Covenant Christian Coalition (CCC) is hoping to bring about interdenominational unity. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2M4JFLy

More and more Americans are ignoring the Word of God and creating a biblical literacy problem in the U.S. See how one Bible ministry group is working to change that.   from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2AR04hf

More and more Americans are ignoring the Word of God and creating a biblical literacy problem in the U.S. See how one Bible ministry group is working to change that.   from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2OkrNIW

Saudi Arabia is pulling thousands of Saudi students out of Canada in retaliation after a Canadian official criticized the country's human rights record. And it doesn't stop there. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2vqbNht

Turkey's president claims the CIA and Mossad, Israel's national intelligence agency, are planning a rescue mission of American pastor Andrew Brunson. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2M6gRkU

Syrian Orthodox Christians' Church destroyed by arson's fire in Sweden. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2M3pFYT

A massive new wave of persecution of Christians has been taking place in China. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2OPxAHH

A new group is uniting "evangelicals and other Christian leaders" from around the world for the sake of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Congress of Christian Leaders has unveiled its first group of board members prior to their first meeting to be held later this year.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Od0EHZ

Officials at the International Monetary Fund are warning that the hyperinflation already devastating Venezuela is about to get worse. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2ONjzKE

MATARAM, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, killing at least 39 people and shaking neighboring Bali, one week after another quake on Lombok killed more than a dozen. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2KsVqWm

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro dodged an apparent assassination attempt when drones armed with explosives detonated while he was delivering a speech to hundreds of soldiers being broadcast live on television, officials said. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2OItwsF

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro abruptly cut short a televised speech and soldiers present broke ranks and scattered after hearing several explosions Saturday in what the government called an attempted attack on the socialist leader. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2naDSF9

Turkey’s president said Saturday the country will freeze the assets of two United States officials in retaliation for sanctions against Turkey’s justice and interior ministers over the detention of an American pastor. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Kr5PBL

Roller-coaster nuclear diplomacy between the United States and North Korea hit highs and lows on Saturday as the countries’ top diplomats traded polite words and barbs, leaving efforts to rid the North of its atomic weapons at an uncertain juncture. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2n99OJX

Henrietta Mears' faithful Bible teaching, mentoring, discipling and passion for God and His Word has deeply affected countless people, nearly one hundred years later. Her influence lives on through the lives of those she discipled, and the ripple affect of who they discipled.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2AFOh5k

A Christian doctor's retweet puts his career on the line and carries an even larger message to parents. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2KoK2uk

"Brunson needs to come home, as do all the Americans being held by the Turkish government," Pompeo told reporters. "It's pretty straightforward. Pastor Brunson is an innocent pastor and they need to let him return to the United States." from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2AJ8rv4

Nonstop monsoon rains have caused massive flooding in several provinces in the Philippines. In the central island of Luzon, rice fields are still submerged in floodwaters after more than a week, destroying what would have been a bountiful harvest. And that is why Armando was thankful when his 10-yr-old son Armand, brought home a pail of relief goods from CBN Disaster Relief.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2AG6OOY

A rare medieval Bible has finally been returned to England's iconic Canterbury Cathedral after being missing for 500 years. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2n4rAho

An Anglican priest on the Caribbean island of Barbados has been strongly condemned for giving his public support and encouragement to the LGBT community and attacking the Bible in the process. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2OEpOjD

Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church teaching about the death penalty, saying in a new policy published Thursday that it is always "inadmissible" because it "attacks" the inherent dignity of all humans. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2MamkUl

A one-time professional wrestler turned neo-Nazi leader grappled with God and found Christ’s forgiveness. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2O2yfUK

“At the president’s direction, the Department of Treasury is sanctioning Turkey’s minister of justice and minister of interior, both of whom played leading roles in the arrest and detention of Pastor Brunson,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders announced Wednesday. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2vvbvoO

A British court today granted anti-Islamization activist Tommy Robinson release on bail while he appeals a contempt of court conviction for live-streaming outside a criminal trial earlier this year.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2LQrIz7

Turkish court denies American Pastor Andrew Brunson's release despite the threat of U.S. sanctions. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2LUVsuE

Protesters took to streets of central Iran for a second day chanting "death to the dictator" and "Khamenei, shame on you! Let go of your rule" as the people's anger against the regime's Islamic rulers intensifies.   from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2vpkzfa

"Doctors can't work under the threat of prison time," said Maria de los Angeles Carmona, head of gynecology the state-run Eva Peron Hospital. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2M7vJvU