Some 40 leaders, including a dozen from Africa as well as China and Brazil’s president, are gathering in Paris to work out a United Nations-backed new global financing pact. The gathering in the French capital includes a proposed pause in debt repayments for nations facing poverty and disasters.
Responding to a dramatic increase in demand, the US Prison Fellowship ministry has now delivered more than 1 million Bibles to inmates in American prisons since 2019, The Roys Report (TRR) has reported. The US has both the highest number of prisoners in the world (2,068,800 – around 25% of the world’s prison population), and the highest rate of incarceration in the world (625 prisoners per 100,000 people) according to a World Population Review report for 2023.
The Davis School District in Utah has voted unanimously to keep the Bible in all its school libraries, reversing an initial committee’s decision to remove it from elementary and junior high libraries on the grounds that it contains “vulgarity and violence” that is not appropriate for children, KSL News reports.
According to a report by the International Christian Concern non-profit organization, Turkey’s government has been blocking Protestant missionaries from entering the country by “weaponizing” Turkish entry laws against Christians.
The U.S. Coast Guard says all five people aboard a submersible that tried to reach the Titanic shipwreck have died in a “catastrophic implosion.”
A New Zealand Disciplinary Tribunal has revoked the teaching certificate of a Christian man who refused to use the preferred name of a transgender student, the New Zealand Herald (NZH) reports.
A new report by Giving USA shows that charitable giving in America fell sharply in 2022, with less than half the population making donations, the Washington Times reports. Last year’s decline in giving represents only the fourth time in 40 years that year-over-year donations fell.
Two brothers in eastern Uganda who recently accepted Christ were severely beaten and then disowned by family members enraged that they had left Islam, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
A new survey of American Protestant Churchgoers shows that watching live-stream church services instead of attending in person remains a popular option, with nearly 40% saying they watched online more than five times in the past year, Relevant Magazine reports. The poll was conducted by Lifeway Research between September 19-29, 2022 with 1,002 participants.
Friends and family members hope for miracles as “noises” were heard in the search for a missing submersible carrying five people who tried to reach the Titanic shipwreck.
Parts of central Paris seemed a warzone late Wednesday after a natural gas explosion sparked a blaze in buildings injuring scores of people.
Former Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice John Durham testified Wednesday that the federal government had no substantive basis to begin its 2016 probe into Russian collusion with the Trump campaign.
There have been hundreds of known or suspected terrorists apprehended at the northern and southern borders in the current fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data.
The House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to censure California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff after previously failing to do so in an earlier vote.
For the first time, U.S. regulators on Wednesday approved the sale of chicken made from animal cells, allowing two California companies to offer “lab-grown” meat to the nation’s restaurant tables and eventually, supermarket shelves.
A Chinese aircraft carrier group led by the vessel Shandong sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, Taiwan’s defense ministry said, amid heightened military tension over the island Beijing claims as its own territory.
Hezbollah forces invaded Israel’s sovereign territory and established a military position over a week ago, local broadcaster Kan revealed on Wednesday. Following the unusual case, a security committee met to discuss the incident.
The United Nations secretary general wants to introduce a worldwide digital identity document (ID) system linked to individuals’ bank accounts.
The arrival of 11 Ukrainian prisoners of war in Hungary freed by Russia in a church-mediated deal without Ukraine’s knowledge has led to tensions between Kyiv and Budapest.
The Israeli military launched a counter-terrorism raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on Sunday to arrest terrorists planning deadly attacks against civilians in Israel.