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Evangelical Christians from the United States have sent disaster relief teams to Ecuador to assess the damages caused by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake. According to reports, the death toll has reached more than 500 people, and over 2,500 people are injured or missing. Officials said that this is the worst disaster the country has had in the last 30 years.

A solar eclipse, the rare event where the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, can only be seen in certain places when it happens this week. For those that are there to see it, please follow some eclipse safety procedures which will allow you to enjoy the astronomical event without any risk of blindness. Sadly, no one in the United States will be able to get the full effect of it. This will all change in 2017 as there will be a solar eclipse visible in the continental United States.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump is not averse to torture -- he said so himself. He firmly said that to combat terrorists who employ brutalities, the United States should also employ brutal tactics.

Last week, the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee has passed a resolution calling on the U.S. State Department to declare the violence against Christians and other religious groups in the Middle East as genocide. However, as the number of organizations urging the government to come up with a proper label continue to rise, the deadline to call the situation as genocide is also getting nearer.

A refugee camp for the indigenous Lumad people in the Philippines was burned down at around 2 a.m. on Wednesday. Various organization and certain officials suspect that the incident was carried out intentionally by paramilitary groups backed by the country's armed forces.

The fourth-born sibling among the famous mega-family starring in TLC's TV series "19 Kids and Counting," Jill Duggar Dillard, is in Central America with her husband, Derick Dillard, and son Israel, doing missionary work through the organization Seekers of Souls (S.O.S.).

Republication presidential candidate Donald Trump is "not Christian" due to his views on immigration, Pope Francis said on his way back to Rome from Mexico Thursday. However, the pope said he did not want to advise American Catholics about voting related to Trump.

John Brennan, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, revealed during an interview at CBS's "60 Minutes" that a massive attack by ISIS on the U.S. is bound to happen. He also said that the CIA knew that the terrorist group was planning an attack on Paris days before the mass shooting in the city occurred last year started.

On Thursday, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned the deployment of foreign ground troops in the war-torn Syria could result in a "new world war". This threat comes after the collapse of the latest round of peace talks to end the long-running civil war in the country.

An increasing number of students from China who are attending American colleges are finding solace in Christianity. It's also clear the number of Chinese converts to Christianity among those students is growing rapidly.

A riot that broke out at a prison facility in Mexico has left 49 inmates dead and 12 others injured. The violent incident also highlighted the serious issues with the prison's system that previously went unnoticed.

Wherever they may be in the world, Ash Wednesday should remind Christians around the world that they are sinners in need of a savior, and that their salvation comes at the sacrifice of God's Son.

Ahead of Pope Francis' trip to Mexico Friday, he prayed during his weekly Angelus Address from St. Peter's Square that the international community would aid Syrian refugees seeking asylum in the West.

A 21-year-old ISIS sympathizer planning to shoot up a 6,000 member megachurch in Detroit, Michigan has been arrested by authorities following a months-long investigation.

Though about one-third of the nation is expected to feel the impact of the monster blizzard of 2016, Washington DC is being watched especially closely. Washington DC is expected to get at least two feet of snow. The situation is expected to be so severe, that many government offices in DC closed at noon, and the Washington DC National Guard has been called up to support the nation's capital.

President Barack Obama pardoned three Iranians charged with sanctions violations as U.S. authorities moved to drop charges or commute prison sentences for five other men, according to lawyers, court records and people familiar with the matter.

$1 million from the Tempelton Religion Trust went to investigating the Christian response in the face of global persecution.

The last time that Missouri saw such severe flooding was in 1993, according to Missouri Governor Jay Nixon. He also said that, "It's very clear that Missouri is in the midst of a very historic and dangerous flooding event. The amount of rain we've received, in some places in excess of a foot, has caused river levels not only to rise rapidly, but to go places they've never been before."

When most people think of Mexico, they don't think of persecuted Christians. About 83 percent of the Mexican population is Catholic. So other faiths are definitely in the minority. However, Evangelical Christianity is apparently growing, which may explain in part why some Mexican states have become hostile to them.

A group of Christian women who have decided that they will no longer sit idly by and let ISIS kidnap and rape them have risen up to take arms against the deadly ISIS.

With the rise of ISIS and the increasing reports of sex slavery among Yazidis and Christian women in war-torn Syria and Iraq, media reports are picking up the story of a modern-day Jewish Schindler who has decided to pay it forward by doing his part in saving female prisoners from ISIS slave handlers.

Hundreds of refugees entering Norway have been discovered with images of Islamic State flags, executions, and severed heads on their on their mobile phones, exacerbating widespread concerns the terrorist group may be using the refugee crisis to smuggle extremists into Europe.

ISIS, otherwise locally known as Daesh, may be the most feared terrorist organization on the planet today. But besides their unspeakable atrocities, many question the organization's origins or where they come from. Now Jonathan Cahn claims that the terror group may actually have Biblical roots.

Remember when you were young and adults would ask what you'd like to be when you grew up? If you were like most kids, you probably named "astronaut" as one of your desired careers.

MSNBC's Chris Hayes seems to think that the Colorado abortion clinic shooter and California shooters aren't truly any different from one another. Representative Steve King (R-Iowa) argued that the focus that the shooters had in the two incidences are very different. King argues that Jesus, "never raised his hand to injure anyone specifically, but Muhammed did. There’s a big difference in this. They’re [radical Muslims] carrying on the traditions that are centuries old."