Global Prayer Alerts

WASHINGTON — The United States is warning that crushing the Islamic State’s self-declared caliphate will not be enough to deal the terror group an enduring defeat – a message Washington delivered even as it pulls the majority of U.S. forces from...

BEIRA, MOZAMBIQUE — Her name is Chuva, which in Portuguese means rain. For four days that was all she saw as she clung to her rooftop in the cyclone's aftermath and prayed to be saved. Maria Chuva clasped her 5-year-old daughter, Amiel, to her...

BAGHUZ, SYRIA / WASHINGTON — Thousands of civilians have evacuated from Baghuz, Syria, in the past two days as U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are trying to recapture the last stronghold of Islamic State (IS) in eastern Syria. More than...

WASHINGTON — The last defenders of the Islamic State terror group's self-declared caliphate are refusing to surrender, clinging to their last sliver of land while hiding among hundreds of civilians. Commanders with the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic...

KARACHI, PAKISTAN — Pakistani police have fired tear gas and wielded batons to disperse a rally by Islamic radicals in the southern port city of Karachi against the acquittal of a Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy. But despite the...

A new study by a defense analysis company indicates there was a 33 percent drop in global terror attacks in 2018, and terrorism fatalities fell to a 10-year low. Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center released its annual Global Attack Index on...

WASHINGTON — The deadly al-Shabab attack that rocked a luxury hotel in Kenya’s capital of Nairobi Tuesday, killing 14 civilians, including one American, is seen by many experts as a signal of resilience by the Islamist militant group that has been...

SAN SALVADOR — El Salvador's murder rate, still one of the highest in the world, dropped for the third year in a row, authorities said Wednesday. With 3,340 murders in 2018, 15 percent fewer than the previous year, El Salvador's murder rate of 51...

A tsunami struck beaches along Indonesia's Sunda Straits late Saturday local time, killing at least 62 people and injuring nearly 600, the country's disaster agency said Sunday. The casualties occurred in three regions -- South Lampung in Sumatra...

ROME — More than 300 migrants were rescued Friday off the coast of Libya by the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms. But now they are facing Christmas at sea after Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Italian ports are closed and they will not be...