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Authorities in Spain have arrested seven individuals suspected of supporting ISIS.

The head teacher of a primary school in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, was mocked and challenged on Twitter after her claims that evolution was "a theory" and there was "more evidence that the Bible is true" caught the attention of peers, parents and industry researchers.

With Europe currently nailed as the core of the world's refugee crisis, it has been revealed that half a million Syrians in Jordan considered going to Europe. Also, Munich officials said that a cartoon swimming pool etiquette guide for migrants pre-dates the crisis.

One of the last people to visit Sir Terry Wogan before he died Sunday, Jan. 31, was lifelong friend and Catholic priest, Father Brian D'Arcy, leading to speculation the self-confessed atheist may have turned back to God in his final weeks. Wogan died at the age of 77 after suffering from cancer.

The number of refugees dying en route to Europe has surged to a record-breaking high this January. On the last count, at least 230 refugees already died while trying to escape their home countries to reach Europe, sparking widespread concern.

As many as 80,000 refugees and migrants who arrived in Sweden in 2015 could be returned to their home countries. Swedish authorities already asked the police and the country's migration agency to be prepared for the possible expulsions of refugees.

A video was released on Sunday by ISIS which featured some of the Paris attackers performing beheadings. Since one of the terrorists featured in the video was killed in the Paris attacks (Bilal Hadfi) it was determined that the footage was shot before the Paris terror attacks. However, the head of the EU's law enforcement agency has reason to believe that the terrorists who performed the Paris attacks are in the process of pulling together multiple large-scale attacks across Europe.

A pilot project intended to relocate 1,000 refugees to Italy on humanitarian visas is being finalized through an Italian ecumenical mission in Lebanon this week. The $1.42 million program is being largely financed by Waldensian Evangelical Church supporters, one of the religious groups that Italian taxpayers can select to receive a small percentage of their federal income taxes.

When it comes to the royal family, the pregnancy of Kate Middleton always makes news, even if it isn't news. The issue is that many sources want to capitalize on being the first to report that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting, as well as project the date of a possible birth. Even though the royal family wants to keep any news of pregnancy within the family (at least at first), this doesn't stop Kate Middleton pregnancy rumors and news updates, and here are the latest.

Demonstrators in Warsaw, Poland are claiming that Poland is in the process of becoming a "Democratic Dictatorship." There were 20,000 peaceful protesters that gathered in front of State Broadcasting Center (TVP) to express their ire about a bill that Polish President Andrzej Duda signed into law last week. The bill basically gives the Government control over the polish media.

Protests erupt as alleged sexual assault cases that took place on New Year's Eve in Cologne, Germany, have risen from 379 to 500.

French police shot dead a man wielding a meat cleaver after he tried to enter a police station on Thursday, the anniversary of militant attacks in Paris, shouting "Allahu akbar" (God is Greatest) and wearing what turned out to be a fake suicide belt.

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

France this week commemorates the victims of last year's Islamist militant attacks on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket with eulogies, memorial plaques and another cartoon lampooning religion.

An Islamic State video showing a young boy in military fatigues and an older masked militant who both spoke with British accents should be viewed as a propaganda tool, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday.

A British couple were convicted on Tuesday of plotting an attack in London after the husband sent out tweets asking for advice on which targets he should hit, alerting police to a stockpile of chemicals at their home.

Schools in the United Kingdom must teach students that Britain is "in the main" a Christian country and are also not required to promote non-religious worldviews, the Education Secretary has said.

At least four Western countries took the unusual step on Thursday of issuing Christmas security warnings for Westerners in a popular Beijing diplomatic and entertainment district as police stepped up patrols.

Greece late on Tuesday enacted a human-rights' bill which allows civil partnership agreements between same-sex couples despite protests and opposition from political parties and the powerful Orthodox Church.

When Lakeisha Holloway plowed her car through crowds of pedestrians on a Las Vegas, Nevada sidewalk, one of the first questions asked by reporters included wanting to know if it was an act of terrorism. While the Sheriff over the investigation has said that he doesn't presently see that as a motive, the Paris and the San Bernardino, California attacks have left people in a great deal of fear about Muslim extremists, ISIS and terror groups.

During this year's Royal Christmas message, Queen Elizabeth will reportedly discuss her personal faith and belief in the continuing role of Christianity in British life and amid the continued persecution of believers worldwide.

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.

Many of previously cited Vatican finance deficiencies have been addressed in the Holy See system, states a Dec. 15 report released by MONEYVAL, the Council of Europe’s anti-money laundering committee. However, council representatives still urge money laundering prosecutions be ramped up. The uniqueness of the Holy See system, a state in which there are neither banks nor a market, presents unique situations regarding compliance with current standards that counter money laundering and the financing of terrorism.

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.