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The US State Department is preventing an accounting of more than $2.5 billion that has been handed out in Afghanistan. The revelation comes from witnesses at a Congressional hearing and while the ...

Today is a national holiday in Afghanistan as the Taliban terrorist organization celebrates the second anniversary of a disastrous U.S. retreat from the country.  The commemoration marks their return to Kabul and ...

A government watchdog group is disappointed that the U.S. State Department left Nigeria and India off its annual list of countries where religious freedom violations are most concerning, despite pleas from advocacy ...

A new program aims to reach Afghan Christians who are forced to conceal their faith. In November SAT-7’s Persian-language channel launched a new social media initiative, Church4Afghanistan, comprised of a new brand ...

Christians who remain in Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover last summer routinely face persecution and torture from the Taliban government. “There are still Christians in Afghanistan,” said Todd Nettleton, an author and ...

Two Republican representatives are sparring over the role of faith in politics. Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois is equating politically active Christians as a “Christian Taliban” in his criticisms of Rep. Lauren ...

Husain Andaryas was a religious fighter in the war against the invading Soviet army in Afghanistan in the early 1980s, but almost a year after the Soviets left, he converted to Christianity. ...

The Pentagon this week revealed the White House and Secretary of State have not been honest about the number of Americans abandoned in Afghanistan. It is now confirmed that at least 450 ...

The U.S. special envoy to the Taliban has quit, saying the Biden administration’s efforts to prevent Afghanistan from becoming terror haven is failing. U.S. ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad tendered his resignation on Monday ...

The headline on the National Catholic Register story is simple and timely: “Trapped by the Taliban, Praying for Escape from Afghanistan.” But it is not a headline you’ll find in most media. The ...

The Biden administration’s political agenda cost lives in Afghanistan, Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley said. “Joe Biden and his team were more interested in advancing their phony culture war than they were protecting ...

Women are now banned from studying or working at Kabul University after the Taliban’s newly appointed chancellor takes office. Mohammad Ashram Ghairat, a BA degree holder, stepped into the role of chancellor of ...

In his speech to the U.K. parliament on Sept. 6, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson updated the House of Commons on efforts to evacuate British nationals, British forces and Afghan colleagues from ...

After the U.S. surrender of Afghanistan to the Taliban left millions at risk, Israel has come to the rescue of 41 women. The UK’s Telegraph is reporting that among those moved covertly out ...

Christians under Taliban rule in Afghanistan are among more than 340 million people around the world suffering persecution for practicing their Christian faith. The annual March for the Martyrs will take place ...

A pregnant 25-year-old California woman who remains abandoned by the Biden administration in Afghanistan described her ordeal in an interview with Voice of America.  She wonders whether she will ever make it ...

Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck is putting his money where his mouth is. His organization the Nazarene Fund has rescued 5,100 Christians and other at-risk people from Afghanistan after the Taliban ...

Samaritan’s Purse has partnered with Tim Tebow to bring aid to Afghans fleeing the Taliban. The effort is ramping up as more than 300,000 people are said to be on the move ...

The Taliban has executed Afghanistan’s most famous singer. Fawad Andarabi, a national icon considered by some the country’s version of singer John Denver, was dragged from his home and shot in the head. ...

Just weeks after President Joe Biden promised Americans no citizens would be left in Afghanistan, hundreds remain behind enemy lines as the last U.S. military plane took off at 11:59 p.m. Aug. ...

International Christian Concern, which monitors persecution around the world, is pleading with Christians to pray for Afghan believers.  They face persecution and death in the face of the Taliban’s takeover of the ...

The scenes coming out of Kabul, Afghanistan after it fell to the Taliban last week are frightening on so many levels. It has been reported that women and children have been attacked and killed ...

At least 10 U.S. service members have been killed by the bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan today. The dead include 11 Marines and one Navy Medic. It marks the first deaths in the Country ...

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan will make that country a hotbed for terrorism. That’s the assessment a group of high-ranking Israeli military officials said. The letter comes as the Taliban is holding ...

As world leaders blast the Biden administration for creating a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, French President Emmanuel Macron says there’s moral responsibility to get people out. In a tense phone call in ...