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An outspoken Baptist minister has come down hard against Christian churches that don’t accept gay marriage or question global warming, declaring that “Muslims and Christians worship the same God” but that Muslims are sometimes closer to the teaching of Jesus

The Iranian government has reminded people that Valentine’s Day is banned because it promotes Western culture and rituals.

The Indonesian city of Banda Aceh has banned celebrations of Valentine’s Day this weekend, arguing the holiday violates Islamic law.

The New Hampshire exit polls shows that two-thirds of GOP primary voters in New Hampshire back Donald Trump’s call for a temporary pause to Islamic immigration until the feds have a fix for imported jihad.

The Yazidi all-female battalion group the Sun Ladies continues to grow in Iraq to fight against the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

The Egyptian military has started rebuilding destroyed Christian churches and properties, years after the Muslim Brotherhood tore the buildings down.

Recent reports suggest that over a thousand converts to Christianity from Islam currently live in Italy, but hide their conversions for fear of retaliation from the Muslim community against themselves and their families. A 55-year-old Egyptian chemical engineer who now

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has released pictures of a jihadist in a wheelchair executing alleged spies in Libya, where the group continues to grow.

President Obama criticized Hollywood and the television industry for contributing to Muslim stereotypes by frequently portraying them as terrorists.

President Obama spoke warmly about Islam during his speech at a mosque today, highlighting the contributions that Muslims had made to the fabric of American society.

During a campaign rally in Keene, New Hampshire, “Democratic Socialist” presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) referred to a 2012 tweet sent out by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump where the billionaire jokingly said the Chinese created climate change for their own benefit.

An Muslim athlete from the United States will bring Islamic politics to the 2016 Rio Olympics by wearing an Islamic headcloth, or hijab, during fencing competition.

An article in the Huffington Post this week proposes that Christians acknowledge Muhammad’s greatness and accept him as a prophet as a way to move forward in interreligious dialogue. Writer Craig Considine writes that he is a Christian with deep

Residents in Dudu, located in northwest India, discovered their statue of Mahatma Gandhi defaced with Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) propaganda this week.

Russian MP Oleg Nilov of the Fair Russia Party wants the government to have the ability to shut off the internet in Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) regions across Syria and Iraq.

Peter Salama, regional director of UNICEF in the Middle East, is reporting Syrian children continue to be forced to fight in the nation’s civil war, dying in classrooms.

Persecution in Turkey has forced many of the 45,000 Christians, who fled the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria, to hide their true identities and pretend to be Muslim.

Four suicide attacks killed at least 29 people and wounded 65 in Bodo, Cameroon, which is a popular target for Boko Haram.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak declared the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) poses a “very real” threat to the Asian country after the group threatened the nation as a backlash to numerous arrests.

In Pune, India, 17-year-old Savan Rathod was able to tell his father that a mob burned him alive after he admitted he was Hindu.

A court in Egypt has allowed Cairo University to ban female professors from wearing the Islamic niqab in the classrooms.

Four rich Pakistani Muslim men allegedly killed a Christian girl after she shrugged off their sexual advances.

Mirna Hana, 12, fled the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) for Lebanon months ago. She took her talents to the national program The Voice Kids, where she stunned the judges with her breathtaking renditions of “Yesterday in a Dream” and “Let It Go.”

Christians in Cameroon gathered around mosques to protect Muslims near the Nigerian border from Boko Haram attacks.

Survivors at Bacha Khan University have called Professor Syed Hamid Hussain a “martyr” after he fired back at Taliban jihadists storming the school, allowing his students to flee to safety.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) released a report estimating the slave population of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) in Iraq at 3,500.

A tenured Kent State University professor is under federal investigation for alleged involvement with the Islamic State terrorist organization. Both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are investigating the matter.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)’s latest issue of Dabiq does not disregard its female readers, publishing a piece with advice for widows of jihadists. Various female jihadists write the article for the section “To Our Sisters.” The author of this issue provides the article with a more tame voice than previous issues.

Taliban members in Pakistan have claimed responsibility for the deadly attack on a university in the northern region.

An Afghan man fled to seek the support of the Taliban after he chopped off his wife’s nose in northern Faryab province.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has started auctioning off property belonging to Christians in Mosul, Iraq, as a way to raise funds.

A Sikh man and his friends from Brooklyn claim a flight attendant on an American Airlines flight kicked them off because they looked “too Muslim.”

Beloved American missionary Michael Riddering, 45, from Florida, perished in the al-Qaeda attack in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Reports have emerged from Syria that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has abducted at least 400 civilians from Deir ez-Zor, Syria, after a mass beheading that took more than 100 lives.

Recently liberated Ramadi citizens are telling media the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) tortured them and used them as human shields when Iraqi forces moved into the city.

A report exposes Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists at a “jihadist university” in Raqqa, Syria, preparing and modifying weapons, including surface-to-air missiles capable of targeting passenger planes.