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For decades, Rabbi Abraham Cooper has fought anti-Semitism through his work at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and that fight is continuing. Recently, though, he was also asked to join the fight against religious persecution around the globe as Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom or USCIRF.
The new Israeli government led by Benjamin Netanyahu is promising a tougher line against Palestinian terror groups. CBN News spoke in northern Israel with one expert who is tracking this growing threat to Israel’s security. From Mt. Gerizim in Samaria, known to much of the world as the West Bank, one can see the expanse of land promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the book of Genesis. Mt. Gerizim itself is known in scripture as the “mountain of blessing.”Thousands of years later, though, this area is now home to many Palestinian terror groups.
A Christian church leader and his wife are among four Christians arrested in Iran in the last few weeks.
A 37-year-old father of four was killed on Jan. 2 after participating in a Christian-Muslim debate in eastern Uganda at which 13 Muslims put their faith in Christ, sources said.
Iran in a closed-door trial convicted a Belgian aid worker of espionage and collaboration with hostile governments, Iranian media reported Tuesday. Olivier Vandecasteele was sentenced to 40 years in p...
In this issue of A Public Witness, we look at the role of Christianity in Brazilian politics and consider what the violence on Jan. 8 means for churches. While many reporters and commentators draw comparisons between Jan. 6 and Jan. 8, religion is too often left out of the conversation.
A province in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan has allegedly passed a measure banning women from seeing male doctors, according to reports
Amid global headlines surrounding the arrest of American-British former professional kickboxer and social media influencer Andrew Tate on charges of human trafficking, an anti-sexual exploitation ...
A small group of us met Friday night at Layton Avenue Baptist Church in Milwaukee to remember the life and ministry of Kathy Gariety. Along with two other International Mission Board (IMB) medical workers, William Koehn and Dr. Martha Myers, Kathy was killed 20 years ago when a Yemeni man…
Jonas Kang was stuck. Kang, director of the Korea World Missions Association, had several young couples who wanted to be sent as missionaries, but no opportunities to send them.
