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A 70-year-old Christian in Pakistan was jailed on blasphemy charges on the same day 106 Muslims accused in a 2013 attack on a Christian colony were acquitted.

ISIS punished two children who refused to kill civilians by cutting off their hands.

Two pastors and two new believers in the Middle East who were sent to prison for their faith received favor from a jail officer whom Jesus visited four times in a dream.

Over 700 human rights and international religious freedom advocates have signed a letter to President Donald Trump urging his administration to "signal your commitment to people of faith and freedom of conscience" by moving swiftly on a nomination for Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.

The Syrian refugee crisis has long passed catastrophic proportions, and there does not seem to be any end in sight to it for the moment. Here is a snapshot of where young refugees get their forty winks.

President Donald Trump's decision to prioritize Christian refugees over Muslims will only hurt - and not help - those persecuted for their faith in the Middle East, a leading Christian patriarch has warned.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday suspended the entire U.S. refugee resettlement program for at least 120 days while tough-vetting rules are established by executive order. Moreover, Trump's order banned all foreign nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States at least for the next 90 days.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday suspending the entire US refugee resettlement program for at least 120 days while "extreme-vetting" rules are established; U.S. religious leaders are urging the new administration to remember to base the new policies on mercy and compassion while ensuring the security of the nation.

Archaeologists unearthed an ancient wall in southern Israel that could provide evidence for a Biblical account described in the Old Testament.

A 16-year-old Christian boy who suffered for two years under the brutal rule of ISIS has shared how, in an effort to force him and his mother to convert to Islam, fighters would beat them, stick them with needles, and threaten to kill them.

Now that we are half a dozen years after the Arab Spring began, is there hope for a brighter tomorrow?

After overtaking Christian towns across Iraq, ISIS beheaded church statues and used ancient religious structures as shooting ranges, according to a disturbing new report.

The truth is as I'm sure some of you have surmised by now, this isn't your great-great-great grandmother's suffrage. While it is tempting and even seemingly noble to empower women---and, don't get me wrong, there is an appropriate time and place for it---the very women cited for their movement of suffrage would cringe at the subjects deemed "rights" now.

A member of a royal family in the Middle East is now in prison and facing a death sentence because of his faith in Christ.

An elderly Christian widow has shared how ISIS militants forced her to spit on a cross, mocked her for speaking the language of Jesus, and threatened to kill her unless she converted to Islam.

French President Francois Hollande said during the Paris peace conference that if the two-state solution will not be adopted, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will have adverse effects in the Middle East.

Five human rights and anti-Taliban activists in Pakistan have disappeared under suspicious circumstances within the last week, raising questions about personal security and freedom of expression in the restrictive country.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the conference is "rigged," that it was deliberately set up to establish measures against Israel and that it destroys chances of achieving true peace.

While many countries have opened their doors to Muslim migrants from the Middle East, the journey has not been as easy for Christians in search of new homes after fleeing from intense persecution from their countries. However, an aid agency that extends help specifically to Christians is working to change the picture.

After coming under fire for failing to secure the release of an Indian Catholic priest kidnapped 10 months ago in Yemen by Islamic extremists, government officials in India have defended themselves by saying the priest went to the embattled country "ignoring the central government's orders not to go", even though he'd lived and worked in the country for 14 years.

A mother and son who escaped ISIS' rule after spending two years in captivity have opened up about the atrocities they endured at the hands of the terrorist group, including forced conversions and witnessing gun-wielding Jihadi children kill prisoners.

As if written straight from the Book of Acts, the story of an Islamist militant’s sister who was bitten by a venomous snake and whom Jesus completely healed is only one of many miraculous accounts among Muslims in the Middle East.

A Muslim extremist yelling the phrase "Allahu akbar [Allah is the greatest]!" slashed the throat of a Christian shop owner in Egypt, instantly killing him because he sold alcohol, a persecution watchdog has revealed.

A Christian in Pakistan has been accused of desecrating the Quran and arrested on charges of blasphemy after refusing to allow Muslims to build a water treatment plant on church property.

Muslims in Pakistan have filed a blasphemy charge against a Christian in retaliation for refusing their demand that he and others cede church land to them, sources said.