ldquo Israeli society is in a state of shock rdquo after the recent election Rabbi Ron Kronish a leading interreligious educator and activist in Israel told me in this exclusive interview in which he analyzes the results and what is likely to happen now The Rabbi who has lived in Israel for th

What drove three well-integrated British schoolgirls to join the Islamic State?

Turkey on verge of being 'overwhelmed' as thousands flee Islamic State

The Syrian refugee crisis—now totaling nearly 4 million refugees—has reached a “tipping point,” in which countries in the region are no longer able to handle the flow of refugees across their borders, warned U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops officials who recently traveled

Here is how Chris Kyle introduces himself in the opening of his autobiography American Sniper 2013 Many will come to know him as he is portrayed by Bradley Cooper in the blockbuster movie of the same name Every story has a beginning Mine starts in north-central Texas I grew up in small towns w

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York said Islamic State militants terrorizing the Middle East are a distortion of ldquo genuine rdquo Islam much as the Irish Republican Army was a ldquo perversion rdquo of Catholicism Dolan rsquo s comments to CNN on March 3 reflect similar statements about the Is

"Why don't they speak out?" Faced with the savage persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in Syria and Iraq, that is a question one often hears as the atrocities of the so-called Islamic State continue in the name of Islam.

The River Thames froze in January of 1649 nbsp The King asked Thomas Herbert the Parliamentarian official attending him to dress him in two shirts lest the rabble watching him die think that he shivered from cowardice Charles insisted ldquo I fear not death Death is not terrible to me bl

Assyrian Christians in the Nineveh Plain, with the help of a group of Americans, are building a fighting machine to stand toe-to-toe with the Islamic State group to preserve their homeland, their history and their heritage.The Nineveh Plain Protection Unit, or NPU, is a battalion of 350 to 500 men t

Asked that God recognize these men killed for their faith