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With an overwhelming number of at least 18,800 civilians murdered at the hand of ISIS within the past two years, it may not come as a surprise that Iraq has declared support in favor of presidential candidate Donald Trump.

The symbiotic relationship between familial degeneration and the philosophy of statism. As of 2011, a whopping 47.6% of all households consist of homes headed by mothers. The fact of absentee fathers and the devastating effects on children in association with spiritual, emotional, and social troubles is hardly an obscurity anymore. What is less often known or acknowledged, however, is the philosophical and subsequent outcome of the degeneration of what Ronald Reagan so famously labeled the cornerstone of society: the family.

Political Solutions to prohibit familial degeneration presented in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Smithsonian Institute's first curator of religion in more than a century is the son of a priest and a nun. Peter Manseau is a scholar who is trying to remind Americans of the nation's diverse religious history, including the messy and splendor infusions. "You can't tell the story of America," he said, "without the role of religion in it."

Twitter, Spotify Netflix, Amazon and Reddit experienced downtime from DDoS attacks earlier today, affecting those living in the East Coast.

Is politics a dirty game? Should Christians shun from it? Not so, as Mike Pence intends to fight the good fight in the realm of politics.

As the Venezuela crisis becomes worse and the government continues to refuse aid, churches are mobilizing to help the poverty-stricken nation.

Four Catholic missionaries were tortured and killed in Mexico, presumably by an armed gang who abducted the men outside their church in La Ruana in the western state of Michoacan.

Major powers must unite to stop the carnage in Syria as the collapse of U.S.-Russian peace efforts would be a setback for United Nations operations aimed at saving lives, the top U.N. aid official told Reuters on Friday.

Thousands of people in Mexico took to the streets to show their opposition to the proposed legalization of same-sex marriage.

Two of the church's priests at Our Lady of Fatima Church in Poza Rica, Veracruz state, Mexico, were found dead on Monday, and were last seen Sunday. The bullet-ridden bodies of the priests were found on a roadside.

A Toronto man was charged with second-degree murder after he allegedly stabbed to death a 28-year-old man near the York University campus in Toronto Tuesday. Neighbors told police the stabbing was fuelled by a repetitive argument over religion.

Americans commemorated the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on Sunday with the recital of the names of the dead, tolling church bells and a tribute in lights at the site where New York City's massive twin towers collapsed.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump campaign representatives confirmed they halted television ads for the anniversary tribute of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, keeping with a tradition of avoiding partisan presidential politics on 9/11. The New York-based nonprofit, 9/11 Day, sent letters to presidential candidates, asking them to stop their public political activities for Sunday's observance; the group instead encourages a national focus on service and remembrance.

An evangelical organization, For Life and Family, recently gathered 300,000 signatures in support of a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex couples from getting married in the country. The signatures were presented to the Chamber of Deputies after a march. The initiative also would add bans against abortion and sex education in schools into the constitution.

It can be pretty difficult to be puffed up with pride when you walk away with a medal at the Olympics, but USA divers David Boudia and Steele Johnson are extremely grateful to God for helping them achieve this target at the Olympic Games 2016 Rio.

At least two people were killed and more than a dozen others, many of them teenagers, were wounded in a shooting early on Monday outside a Florida nightclub that was hosting a party for all age groups, authorities said.

Saturday's "Together 2016" prayer and music event in Washington, D.C., organized by evangelist Nick Hall, was aimed at attracting millennials, with the purpose of giving people an opportunity to "reset," or get a second chance. Although Hall, a college pastor and founder of PULSE, started planning the occasion several years ago, it ironically came at a time of violence across the world, a time during which Christians are seeking solace.

More than 100 naturalization ceremonies nationwide, featuring 7,000 people becoming U.S. citizens this July Fourth holiday, also will be celebrating the 240th anniversary of the 1776 signing of the Declaration of Independence.

The United States warned its citizens on Tuesday of possible summer terrorist attacks in Europe, saying targets could include the European soccer championship in France, although a U.S. official said there was no specific threat information.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant received the inaugural Samuel Adams Religious Freedom Award for standing firm in defending religious liberty over business interest, and the lobby by advocacy groups.

Brazil's 'March for Jesus' gathered Hundreds of thousands of evangelical Christians who took the streets of Sao Paolo, turning it into the "largest Christian event in the world."

After the senate's decision, president Dilma Rousseff was suspended from the presidency today. While many the leftists in tried to denounce it was a "coup", and ex-president Lula declared "war", the so called social movements closed roads and threatened a nationwide strike. Nothing changed the decision. Thy even asked the Pope for "help", he answered the country needs prayer and dialog.

Faith leaders and scientists have formed a coalition to urge Barack Obama to undertake "meaningful" steps to minimize the threat of "nuclear catastrophe" ahead of the President's visit to Hiroshima, Japan on May 27.

An expectant mother from Evansville, Indiana, has reported seeing an image resembling Jesus Christ on the cross in the sonogram image of her baby boy, which she believes is a sign from God.