A new study released by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity is showing the world overall is growing more religious and will likely continue in that trend for many more years.
According to the report “Christianity In Its Global Context, 1970-2010”, an almost ten percent increase in religious belief is expected by 2020. In 1970, 80 percent of the world’s population was religious, 88 percent in 2010 and is predicted to be 90 percent by 2020. Continue reading
Chinese state media has raised the death toll from Monday’s dual earthquakes to 94.
Hundreds are injured and the death toll is likely to rise as rescuers reach some of the more remote parts of the Gansu province. The majority of the deaths are reported to be residents of Dingxi city within Gansu. Continue reading
British Prime Minister David Cameron released a plan Monday to limit access to internet pornography.
“I feel profoundly as a politician, and as a father, that the time for action has come,” Cameron said. Continue reading
The death toll in China’s Dingxi earthquake has risen to at least 75 with over 400 injured according to relief workers in the area.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the region was actually hit by two quakes last evening. The first was just under a 6.0 magnitude and very shallow with a depth of just 6 miles. A second quake, a 5.6 magnitude, hit the same area an hour later. Continue reading
Sales of existing homes fell 1% in June across the country according to the National Association of Realtors.
Sales fell to an annual rate of 5.08 million in June. That figure is lower than the revised version for May which was lowered to 5.14 million. Continue reading
The European Union reached a unanimous agreement to list the Lebanese group Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
Hezbollah, backed by the Iranian government, has been playing a role in helping Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad fight against the rebels attempting to overthrow his government. Continue reading
Iraqi officials say hundreds of inmates have escaped from two Iraqi prisons after gunmen stormed the complexes.
Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad and Taji to the north were both assaulted late Sunday night. Continue reading
Syrian government forces in northwest Syria have killed thirteen members of the same family, almost all women and children. Some reports from activists groups in the region say some of the victims were burned alive.
The massacre happened in Bayda near the seaport of Banias. The family was in a Sunni village where government supporters have been trying to rid the area of Sunnis. Continue reading
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake rocked New Zealand Sunday evening causing damage and power outages but spared the country a tsunami according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The quake was centered 35 miles off the coastline south of the capital city of Wellington at a depth of just over 6 miles. Continue reading
A group of archeologists in Israel have made a controversial claim that they have discovered a palace belonging to King David.
A huge fortified complex at Khirbet Qeiyada, if actually a palace of King David, would be the first palace of his to be unearthed. Continue reading