• Christian Nik Wallenda's Untethered Chicago Tightrope Walk Set for Sunday, Nov. 2

  A date has been set for Christian Nik Wallenda's Chicago tightrope walk: Sunday, Nov. 2. A follow-up to his successful Skywire Live With Nik Wallenda walk across the Grand Canyon in 2013, "The King of the Highwire" will attempt to walk across the Chicago skyline untethered - as first announced in April as part of the cable network's new slate.

  

• China: Nearly 5,000 Dogs Killed Due to Rabies Fears in Yunnan Province

  Municipal authorities in Baoshan, in the southwestern province of Yunnan, have killed 4,900 dogs and vaccinated 100,000 in its anti-rabies campaign, Xinhua news agency reported. This comes after rabies was blamed for the death of five people, according to CNN.

  

• US and Scores of Countries Trying to Stem Tide of Citizens Joining ISIS

  America and scores of other countries are desperately trying to prevent their citizens from joining ISIS. The United States has seized on the issue, pushing for a legally binding United Nations Security Council resolution that would compel all countries in the world to take steps to “prevent and suppress” the flow of their citizens into the arms of groups considered to be terrorist organizations, according to The New York Times.

  

• Video Shows Police Beating Christians In Chinese City Wenzhou, 'Jerusalem of China'

  There have been some extraordinary recent scenes of defiance in the middle of the night from Communist Party police and the faithful in the Chinese city known as "the Jerusalem of China."

  

• Christians Pray for Ending Genocide by Islamic Fundamentalists in Iraq, Syria, Nigeria

  Christians of Bangalore offered mass prayers and expressed solidarity with the thousands of innocent people who are being persecuted and subjected to inhumane violence and other atrocities by the Islamic fundamentalists in Iraq, Syria, Nigeria and other countries Sunday.