Global Prayer Alerts

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan is denouncing a U.S. decision to place it on a list of countries Washington says are the worst offenders of religious freedom. “Pakistan does not need counsel by any individual country how to protect the rights of its...

Deaths caused by terrorism have fallen in the past three years worldwide, a new global study found. The sixth annual Global Terrorism Index, published by the Sydney-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), said terrorism deaths decreased...

BENI, DRC — The Democratic Republic of Congo is in the throes of its worst-ever Ebola outbreak, with more than 420 cases in the country’s volatile east, and a mortality rate of just under 60 percent. But this outbreak — the nation’s tenth known...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico's incoming foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Tuesday that to contain migration pressure in Central America and southern Mexico, an effort on the scale of the Marshall Plan that rebuilt war-ravaged Europe would be needed...

Officials in California say the number of people missing from the deadliest wildfire in the state’s history has risen to more than 1,000 and the death toll has increased to 71. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said Friday that a list of the missing,...

At least 42 people have been killed in a wildfire raging in northern California, making it the deadliest wildfire in the state's history. Authorities say 228 more are unaccounted for, days after the so-called Camp Fire swept over the town of...

The man accused of killing 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue pleaded not guilty Thursday in a U.S. federal court on 44 charges that include murder and hate crimes. Robert Bowers, 46, spoke little during the brief court appearance beyond saying he...

Desperation and frustration are rising on the central Indonesian island of Sulawesi, where more than 1,200 people were killed in last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami. Reports from the scene say residents in Palu, the city hardest hit by...

Tropical depression Florence dumped heavy rains across a swath of the southeastern U.S. on Monday, leading to new worries about vast flooding from a storm that has already killed at least 17 people. The National Hurricane Center said the storm now...

Emergency officials are urging millions of residents along the southeastern U.S. coast to finish preparations ahead of the onslaught of Hurricane Florence. The storm is expected to make landfall later this week, unleashing damaging winds and...