The death toll from widespread flooding and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has risen to at least 604, according to the country’s National Disaster Management Agency. Thousands remain missing or displaced as emergency teams struggle to reach isolated communities.
Calling it one of the largest child-recovery operations in U.S. history, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that 122 children were rescued from child predators and abusers in a U.S. Marshals-led statewide operation billed “Operation Home for the Holidays.”
A Nigerian pastor has told reporters that Islamic extremists have marked him for assassination for calling on the Nigerian and U.S. governments to help protect Christians against genocide.
No one dies in a tragedy or atrocity that wasn't going to die. Whether you or I leave this earth in an event like one of those or peacefully in our sleep, we all still die. And then what?
Amber Smith, wife of country star-turned-minister Granger Smith, has opened up about the heartbreak of losing her 3-year-old son, River, and the faith that carried her through it, a story she tells with raw honesty in her forthcoming memoir, The Girl on the Bathroom Floor.