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Hagia Sophia – Istanbul’s former 6th-century Greek Orthodox cathedral and architectural wonder of the world – could soon become a mosque. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3gohC4r

A new report out of the UK is sounding the alarm about the potential genocide of Christians in Nigeria. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3eJGSl5

Pastor Beaten by Mob, Church Set on Fire as Violent Christian Persecution Escalates in India from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3ge9h37

Militants attacked the stock exchange in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Monday, killing at least three people - two guards and a policeman, according to police. Special police forces deployed to the scene of the attack and in a swift operation secured the building, killing all four gunmen.    from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2ZhSTrj

This month, in the rocky mountains of Skardu, Pakistan, researchers have uncovered a mysterious 1,200-year-old cross weighing up to three tons. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2VsFJXj

President Donald Trump on Sunday denied that he had been briefed on reported U.S. intelligence that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan, and he appeared to minimize the allegations against Moscow. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Vrykb3

Pakistan is considered one of the worse violators of religious liberty in the world according to the US watchdog on religious freedom, but the State Department allows the nation a special waiver to protect it from punishing sanctions. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/31iq3tE

The latest report on human trafficking around the world is out, and it's not good news. The State Department released its annual Trafficking in Persons or "TIP" report Thursday. Republican Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, who helped form some of the nation's human trafficking laws roughly 20 years ago, says it's a tough but fair report.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3eIMlc0

A Venezuelan activist is warning Americans that the torching and toppling of historical statues could be a sign of what lies ahead - loss of our country to a devastating idea like Socialism. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2zZ8pzK

Beijing's strategy to buy, cheat and steal its way to global dominance is working. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Vdf1C8

A proposed national security law for Hong Kong leaves its clergy concerned over the potential loss of freedom. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Z2zx9L

The persecution of Christians in India is on the rise with a report of one believer being murdered for his faith by Hindu radicals in his own village. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2NjP0N3

The English town of Reading mourned Monday for three people stabbed to death in what is being treated as a terror attack, gathering for a moment of silence as police questioned the suspected lone attacker. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2YkVqSq

Voddie Baucham, an American who is currently Dean of Theology at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia, appeared on The Glenn Beck Radio program Thursday to explain the social justice and Black Lives Matter movement and warn believers of it’s often “anti-Christian” message. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3epq0zH

Voddie Baucham, an American who is currently Dean of Theology at African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia, appeared on The Glenn Beck Radio program Thursday to explain the social justice and Black Lives Matter movement and warn believers of it’s often “anti-Christian” message. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/37UZBHF

Regent University’s School of Divinity announced the launch of four new graduate degree programs that can be completed within 12 months. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2YZbecN

British police say they are treating a stabbing rampage in a park that killed three people as a terrorist attack. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3fJ9P0r

Tensions between India and China are on edge after violent clashes broke out between Indian army soldiers and Chinese troops high in the Himalayan Mountains. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2V0beYJ

North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just inside its border in an act Tuesday that sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy with the United States.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3e9WZZ0

In Iraq, thousands of women and girls who were kidnapped when the terror group took control in 2014 have yet to be returned to their homes. After five years as an ISIS sex slave, Leila Taalo has been released and speaks to journalists. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2AD0RTI

Despite an Islamic government that systematically harasses and imprisons Christian converts and indoctrinates its youth into Islam, Christianity is growing at unprecedented rates in Iran. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/30GoKEu

Militants believed to be aligned with the Islamic extremist groups Boko Haram or Islamic State West Africa Province attacked a nomadic community in northeastern Nigeria Tuesday, killing 81 people.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3hoVIyX

While still in the middle of the deadly COVID-19 outbreak that struck its population earlier this year, China's communist regime waged more relentless persecution against Christian congregations throughout the country. Now comes word that 250 crosses were removed from church buildings in just one province over a period of four months.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Uxpo3k

Imagine being so persecuted in your own community that even when a member of your family dies, you're prevented from burying them. That's exactly what has happened to several Christian families in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3hiU0PZ

North Korea said it will cut off all communication channels with South Korea at noon Tuesday as it escalates its pressure on the South for failing to stop activists from floating anti-Pyongyang leaflets across their tense border. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2UptFG6

The annual commemoration of D-Day in France sees fewer World War 2 veterans each year. Their dwindling numbers combined with the worldwide pandemic led to an almost complete no show. One American WWII veteran, however, took his place on the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, and did his best to mark the occasion  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2UnGDUt

New Zealand marked a major milestone on Monday, reporting that there are no active cases of COVID-19. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3dWhN5O

Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao is thinking of running for the presidency in his native country, the Philippines.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2UkSLpy

Islamic militants in Nigeria are continuing their murderous attacks against Christian villages.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2XJHj92

The annual commemoration of D-Day in France sees fewer World War 2 veterans each year. Their dwindling numbers combined with the worldwide pandemic led to an almost complete no show. One American WWII veteran, however, took his place on the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, and did his best to mark the occasion  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3f3tOqk

After Cristobal regained tropical storm status on Friday, the storm gained more strength over warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday. The storm has its sights set on the Gulf coast of the United States, where tropical storm and storm surge warnings were in effect. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/378JfL7

Despite an Islamic government that systematically harasses and imprisons Christian converts and indoctrinates it’s youth into Islam, Christianity is growing at unprecedented rates in Iran. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2BIPbPD

Armed Islamic militants killed 27 civilians in central Mali in three attacks on predominately Christian farming villages in less than 24 hours, local officials said on Thursday. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3eRFuMS

At least the dead will always be there. All too many have been, for 76 years since that fateful June 6 on France’s Normandy beaches, when allied troops in 1944 turned the course of World War II and went on to defeat fascism in Europe in one of the most remarkable feats in military history. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3eWv7aq

Six years ago, Leila Taalo was kidnapped by ISIS along with her entire family. They are Yazidi, an ancient people who were brutally oppressed by ISIS when the terror group flooded into their area in Northern Iraq in 2014. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3cC7rH0

Six years ago, Leila Taalo was kidnapped by ISIS along with her entire family. They are Yazidi, an ancient people who were brutally oppressed by ISIS when the terror group flooded into their area in Northern Iraq in 2014. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3gWttHH

A Pakistani couple sentenced to death for blasphemy six years ago is still waiting for their appeal to be heard. But the family of the poor Christian couple from the town of Gojra says the end of their long ordeal could soon be in sight.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/377ApgW

Rev. George Hargreaves, an Oxford-educated minister in Great Britain, was being repeatedly shunned at work for his biblical beliefs on sexuality. Now an appeals tribunal has taken his side. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/36ZD641

Today is the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. This year, the Chinese government is repressing the annual vigil in Hong Kong. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3cA6SgI

A school security guard injured at least 39 people in a knife attack at a kindergarten in southern China on Thursday morning, state media reported. The motive remains unknown.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2XtnXEO

Many doctors and research scientists have voiced their concerns about a big study published last month by a major medical journal that undermined attempts to really study hydroxychloroquine. The study wasn't actually a clinical trial and may have not been accurate. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/36UUKWC

Over the weekend, a top medical official in Italy said the novel coronavirus — the illness that locked down much of the U.S. for three months — is losing its potency and is no longer nearly as lethal as it once was. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Uawbjk

President Donald Trump called upon the nations of the world to end religious persecution on Tuesday.   from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3dt17mt

Six months into this pandemic, many questions remain, including, did it really begin in a wet market in Wuhan, China? Or did it escape from a nearby laboratory? And what were the lies that allowed it to spread so far, so fast? from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/36WwWBq

Six months into this pandemic, many questions remain, including, did it really begin in a wet market in Wuhan, China? Or did it escape from a nearby laboratory? And what were the lies that allowed it to spread so far, so fast? from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2yWRYDz

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) is urging officials to take all necessary steps to see that its chairman of the Nasarawa State unit, Bishop Joseph Masin is safely released from his captors. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/3dpjf0u