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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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) delivers speeches all the time, but most of the time, they don't feature him leaving the stage while being booed. And yet, that's exactly what happened.

Rapper and outspoken Christian Lecrae recently spoke to CP Voice about how he juggles the responsibility of fathering three children with a career on the road as a full-time artist.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria released a video on Saturday that showed what appeared to be the beheading of a British citizen, David Haines, an aid worker who is seen kneeling on a bare hill in a landscape that appears identical to where two American journalists were killed by the group in back-to-back-executions in the past month, according to footage and a transcript released by SITE Intelligence, which tracks the terrorist group, according to The New York Times.

From the confines of his prison cell, Pastor Saeed has written a letter to Iran's new president asking for his freedom.

Pope Francis wished Jews around the world a “sweet and peaceful” new year, using the traditional Jewish greeting of “Shana Tova,” according to a statement from the World Jewish Congress (WJC) and The Huffington Post.

Rick Warren, senior pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif., recently preached a sermon called “Surrender: The Path to Peace,” from a series titled “Getting Through What You’re Going Through.”

The Chinese Communist Party announced this week that a senior official responsible for overseeing state-owned corporations was under investigation, according to The New York Times.

An “abortion video game” designed to show the obstacles Texan women face when pursuing the procedure has sparked controversy, with pro-life supporters noting it completely fails to acknowledge the life at stake and offers no voice to the unborn baby, reports The Christian Post.

The U.S. State Department has said it will send a special envoy to North Korea in hopes of freeing Kenneth Bae, an imprisoned U.S. Christians who was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor, supposedly for plots he had made against the government.

In his speech Wednesday that commemorated the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the first black president emphasized the work of anonymous foot soldiers in securing gains in racial equality.

Police in northern China launched a massive search Wednesday for a woman accused of gouging out the eyes of a 6-year-old boy.

A series of antitrust investigations by Chinese regulators are part of efforts to toughen enforcement of a 2008 anti-monopoly law and are not just directed at foreign firms, the official China Daily recently reported.

No matter how much politicians try to spin the narrative on our $17 trillion national debt crisis, they can’t hide the real financial struggles under which our nation is crumbling, reports The Christian Post.