Ukraine: Pro-Russian rebels launch large-scale attack
Ukraine said Wednesday a major attack on government positions by pro-Russian separatists has begun, with 15 people killed so far.
Year: 2015
Let God be a ‘she’, says Church of England women’s group
A group within the Church of England is calling for God to be referred to as female following the selection of the first female bishops.
Temple Mount preacher: Jews make Passover bread with children’s blood (Video)
An Islamic preacher on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem told congregants that the Nazis burned the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust because they had been kidnapping children to use their blood in Passover bread. He also claimed that Jews worship Satan, plotted the 9/11 attacks, and control the Freemasons who sacrifice their wives and children in secret ceremonies.
Congress sends NSA phone-records bill to president
Congress approved sweeping changes Tuesday to surveillance laws enacted after the Sept. 11 attacks, eliminating the National Security Agency’s disputed bulk phone-records collection program and replacing it with a more restrictive measure to keep the records in phone companies’ hands.
Obama: There is no military option to stop Iran
U.S. President Barack Obama told Israeli television that the emerging deal between Iran and world powers is the only way to prevent Tehran from obtaining nuclear weapons, and that “a military solution will not fix it,” the Times of Israel reported.
Obama: I’ve Restored the U.S. as the ‘Most Respected Country in the World’ (Video)
President Barack Obama said his administration has restored the United States as the “the most respected country on earth,” during a town hall meeting with YSEALI Fellows, an exchange program for community leaders from ASEAN, The Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Russia to begin building Iran’s second nuclear power plant
Russia’s state atomic energy company on Monday announced it would begin construction of a second nuclear power plant in Iran’s Bushehr region later this year.
Islamic State Advances Further Into Syria’s Aleppo Province
Fierce battles between Islamic State and other fighters raged in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on Monday, a day after the extremist group seized villages near the Turkish border and came within miles of the main highway connecting Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, to Turkey.
Obama Declares June as LGBT Month
The White House issued a proclamation by President Barack Obama calling on Americans to celebrate the ‘great diversity of the American people’ declaring June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.
Pakistan to Curb Blasphemy Law Abuse
Pakistan intends to introduce new legislation to curb the misuse of that nation’s notorious blasphemy laws.
Opec under siege as ISIL threatens world’s oil lifeline
Thick black smoke rising from the Baiji oil refinery could be seen as a dirty smudge on the horizon as far away as Baghdad after fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) set fire to the enormous processing plant just over 100 miles north of the capital last week.
Flocks don orange to support Middle East Christians
Orange is the new color for Sundays, as the movement to wear the color either in clothing or on ribbons – to raise attention to the Christians executed by ISIS.
Country-wide drill to prepare for massive three-front rocket attack
Israel will be briefly jolted back into last summer’s ordeal with rockets, sirens and army maneuvers beginning Sunday, as the military’s Home Front Command holds a yearly emergency drill simulating three enemies attacking the country at once.
The world is drowning in debt, warns Goldman Sachs
The world is sinking under too much debt and an aging global population means countries’ debt piles are in danger of growing out of control, the European chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management has warned.
Surveillance powers lapse with no deal in Senate
The National Security Agency lost its authority at midnight to collect Americans’ phone records in bulk, after GOP Sen. Rand Paul stood in the way of extending the fiercely contested program in an extraordinary Sunday Senate session.
U.S. bombers hold fire on Islamic State targets amid ground intel blackout
Nearly 75 percent of U.S. bombing runs targeting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria returned to base without firing any weapons in the first four months of 2015, holding their fire mainly because of a lack of ground intelligence and raising questions about President Obama’s key tactic in pushing back an enemy that continues to expand its territory in the war zone.
Pakistan: Muslim Mob Attacks over ‘Blasphemy’ Accusation
Hundreds of Muslims attacked an entire community of Christians Sunday night after a blasphemy accusation that one of the Christians had set fire to papers with Quranic verses on them.
Nigeria: 3 attacks in 10 days
In reprisal to losing ground to government forces, Islamists belonging to Boko Haram have killed dozens of Christians during 10 violent days in Nigeria’s Adamawa state.
Netanyahu Backs ‘General Idea’ Behind Arab Peace Initiative
While stopping short of fully endorsing the Arab Peace Initiative, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that he welcomed the general idea behind it — a regional agreement between Israel and the moderate Arab states.
Uzbekistan: Prisoners of Conscience
Christians in Uzbekistan are becoming “prisoners of conscience” just for exercising their religious rights.