BAMAKO, Mali (Daily Mail) — Armed jihadists have killed at least three people in a deadly shooting rampage and taken 170 hostages at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali. Automatic weapons fire has been heard on the seventh floor of the 190-room hotel, where it is thought as many as 10 militants have been […]
PARIS — The mastermind believed to be behind the coordinated terror attacks that killed over 130 Parisians on Friday died during Wednesday’s pre-dawn raid on an apartment building in a suburb of Paris, officials have confirmed. Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, was originally believed to have been in Syria, but officials were tipped that he was holed […]
Nigeria (Huffington Post) — The suicide bomber exploded as truckers were tucking into dinner at the bustling marketplace where vendors urged them to buy sugar cane. At least 34 people were killed and another 80 wounded in Yola, a town packed with refugees from Nigeria’s Islamic uprising, emergency officials said Wednesday. Later Wednesday, two more […]
SAINT-DENIS, France — A female suicide bomber blew herself up on Tuesday as French police conducted a pre-dawn raid on an apartment building in an operation to locate the mastermind associated with Friday’s massacre in Paris. Police closed in on an apartment building in Saint-Denis, a suburb of Paris, and according to reports, a woman detonated […]
JÖNKÖPING, Sweden – A Swedish court has ruled against a woman who was denied employment by three medical facilities over her convictions not to assist with abortion procedures, declaring that facilities have a right to require midwives to perform abortions. In November 2013, Höglandssjukhuset women’s clinic rescinded a job offer to new midwifery graduate Ellinor Grimmark […]
BEIRUT (CNN) — Nine people have been arrested in connection with a pair of deadly bombings in Beirut, Lebanon’s interior minister said Monday. The terror group ISIS claimed responsibility for the Thursday attacks that left more than 40 people dead in south Beirut, traditionally a stronghold for Hezbollah militants. CNN hasn’t confirmed the authenticity of […]
PARIS — The California-based band Eagles of Death Metal was playing their song “Kiss the Devil” at the moment that three terrorists stormed a Paris theater Friday and began opening fire, reports state. “Who’ll love the devil? Who’ll sing his song?” the song’s lyrics ask. “Who will kiss the devil on his tongue?” Photos of […]
A new video released by the barbaric Islamic group ISIS, which identifies itself as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, is threatening to “strike America at its center in Washington” after taking credit for the French massacre that killed over 130 last week. The video begins with news footage of Friday’s attack in Paris, […]
(Christianity Today) — In 2006, Indonesia passed a law requiring minority religious groups to collect signatures from the local majority group before building houses of worship. For instance, when Indonesia’s largest Protestant organization decided to build in a suburb of Jakarta, it was required to secure signatures of approval from 60 Christians and 90 people […]
MANCHESTER, England — A woman in the United Kingdom who refused her doctor’s advice to abort after she was diagnosed with cancer while pregnant has given birth to healthy twins. Holley Tierney, 25, was 23 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Doctors originally thought she only had a pulled muscle, but when she pressed for […]