Reports of brutal punishments inflicted by Islamic State continue to emerge, including women having their hands cut off and men being flogged for using mobile phones.
The General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK has said we must pray for and forgive Islamic State militants in the wake of a video purporting to show the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians by the terrorist group.
A local nun in the war-torn city of Nebek in Syria is working to find housing for Christian families who were displaced by fierce fighting between jihadists and government forces in December.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned the "terrible cruelty" of the murder of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya, as well as the killings in Denmark and Nigeria over the weekend.
Kurdish forces backed by US-led air strikes have regained control of at least 163 villages around the Syrian town of Kobani after driving back Islamic State militants in the past three weeks, a group monitoring the conflict said on Saturday.
A missile-firing drone killed at least six in Afghanistan on Monday including a veteran militant believed to have defected to Islamic State from the Taliban, Afghan officials said.