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A Kurdish church leader has shared how his elderly father tried to kill him after learning he had converted from Islam to Christianity, and how he was routinely tortured and threatened by Muslims while living in makeshift camps in northern France.

In a powerful story of redemption and grace, the former Imam of Mosque who hated Christians embraced the Gospel after Jesus Christ miraculously raised him from the dead and offered him a dramatic message.

There are at least 1,131 Christians, whose names and location of death have been recorded, killed by the Islamic terror group ISIS, according to a report submitted to the U.S. State Department.

With an overwhelming number of at least 18,800 civilians murdered at the hand of ISIS within the past two years, it may not come as a surprise that Iraq has declared support in favor of presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The symbiotic relationship between familial degeneration and the philosophy of statism. As of 2011, a whopping 47.6% of all households consist of homes headed by mothers. The fact of absentee fathers and the devastating effects on children in association with spiritual, emotional, and social troubles is hardly an obscurity anymore. What is less often known or acknowledged, however, is the philosophical and subsequent outcome of the degeneration of what Ronald Reagan so famously labeled the cornerstone of society: the family.

Political Solutions to prohibit familial degeneration presented in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

An elderly Christian widow has opened up about the atrocities she endured under the Islamic State terrorist group, revealing jihadists forced her to spit on a crucifix, stamp on an image of the Virgin Mary, and threatened to kill her if she did not convert to Islam.

Islamic State forces in Iraq have abducted tens of thousands of men, women and children from areas around Mosul and are using them as "human shields" in strategic sites in the city as Iraqi troops advance, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday.

A 9-year-old Christian boy facing the death penalty after being accused of burning the Quran has been released from prison thanks to the efforts of politicians and humanitarian groups.

A young Iraqi Christian girl displaced by ISIS, who made headlines last year after saying God's grace enabled her to forgive her tormentors, has said she can't wait to return home now that her hometown is almost liberated.

A rescue mission led by the Iraqi security forces miraculously extracted about 30 girls trapped in a Christian school building in Kirkuk, Iraq that ISIS attacked early Friday morning.

An Assyrian Christian woman has shared how members of the Islamic State terrorist group brutally murdered her son because he refused to deny his faith in Jesus Christ.

In a powerful display of triumph over evil, Iraqi forces erected a cross atop St. Barbara Church in Karemlash, a predominantly Christian town less than 18 miles southeast of Mosul, after liberating it from Islamic State.

Islamic State expanded its attacks on Monday against Iraqi army and Kurdish forces to relieve pressure on its militants confronting an offensive on Mosul, its last major urban stronghold in the country.

A deep tunnel, booby trapped with an improvised explosive device, burrows under houses at the entrance to the village. Nearby, an anti-personnel mine lies half buried in a dirt road.

The Syrian army and its allies see a risk that Islamic State will regroup in eastern Syria as it is forced from the Iraqi city of Mosul in a U.S.-backed operation, posing new risks for President Bashar al-Assad.

Great suffering is occurring in Iraq and Syria. The region is ravaged by terror. Millions have been forced from their homes. Christians and other ethno-religious minorities have suffered genocide at the hands of the Islamic State (ISIS).

A Catholic nun working with Christian families in the war-torn city of Aleppo has criticized Western media for failing to report on the plight of those in regions controlled by the government of Bashar Assad.

Behnam Abboush won't feel any safer if Iraqi forces drive Islamic State out of their stronghold of Mosul. That's why he and 300 other Assyrian Christians in the paramilitary force under his command are taking matters into their own hands.

Iraqi government forces launched a U.S.-backed offensive on Monday to drive Islamic State from the northern city of Mosul, a high-stakes battle to retake the militants' last major stronghold in the country.

At least 17 migrants are missing after a night-time rescue of more than 100 others from a partially submerged rubber boat off the coast of Libya, the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) said on Thursday.

As Islamist groups warned of reprisals for a possible acquittal in Pakistan's highest profile blasphemy case, the country's Supreme Court today delayed ruling on an appeal against the death sentence given to Christian mother of five Aasiya Noreen.

Pakistani officials have banned 11 Christian television channels, leaving the country's 2.8 million Christians with no public media presence for the first time in nearly two decades.

Islamic State on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a mass shooting that killed at least 18 worshippers at a shrine in the Afghan capital, raising fears of sectarian violence after a string of attacks on the country's Shi'ite minority.

Three Christian converts in Iran are appealing their sentences after they were charged earlier this month with "acting against national security" and consuming alcohol during Holy Communion.