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112 people per second open a Bible app

11 Dec 2015
Every second, the world conducts 40,000 Google searches, creates five new Facebook profiles, and opens YouVersion’s Bible App 112 times. In the app, three bookmarks are created, four verses are shared, and 18 verses are highlighted.…

IS commander searches monastery for weapons, finds Bibles

04 Dec 2015
Sister Hayat, an Iraqi nun, lived a quiet life of devotion in a Dominican monastery near Mosul. She worked in an orphanage and taught anthropology at a local university. Then IS overran the city and the…

North Korea: digging a new nuclear-test tunnel

04 Dec 2015
Satellite photos show images dating from October and early November of the addition of a fourth tunnel at test site Punggye-ri, on North Korea’s east coast. The new tunnel is under mountains where North Korea conducts…

Venezuela: parliamentary elections on Sunday

04 Dec 2015
It has been over two years since president Hugo Chavez died, giving way to an ‘economic war’ on the Venezuelan people. Violence from the opposition has led to Venezuela looking more and more like a powder…