The US Supreme Court will today hear arguments over whether states can remove former president Donald Trump from 2024 presidential election ballots because of his conduct before and during the breach of the US Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.
A recent report on the status of Christianity around the world shows that – despite intense persecution in many countries there – the largest number of Christians are in the Global South, and that Asia (five regions) has the fastest growing Christian populations of all. Titled ‘Status of Global Christianity, 2024, in the Context of 1900–2050,’ the report was published by the US-based Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC).
A spate of extremely violent attacks on Christians in Pakistan’s Punjab Province was manifest again when a Muslim man attacked two Christian women with an ax and attempted to rape one of them last month, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
According to US officials, a drone strike carried out by the US in Baghdad resulted in the deaths of three individuals associated with the Iranian-backed Kata’ib Hezbollah militia organization, among them the leader of the group’s activities in Syria.
The federal government is on track to spend $1.6 trillion more than it brings in this fiscal year with new projections published Wednesday showing federal spending is projected to remain unsustainable in the decades to come.
A $118 billion deal that combined a batch of foreign funding for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan with a slew of controversial border provisions failed in the U.S. Senate Wednesday. The text of that bill was unveiled Sunday, but support imploded almost immediately.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has disclosed that Iran’s Islamic regime has transferred more than $150 million to the Hamas Palestinian terror organization, i24News reports. The disclosure is consistent with a 2021 report by the US State Department that Iran is the “leading state sponsor of terrorism.”
Several civilians were killed and injured in an Israeli strike on Syria’s Homs area, Syrian officials said Wednesday.
Two bomb explosions have killed at least 22 people in Pakistan’s Balochistan province on the eve of general elections, officials say.
The hopes of the anti-Islam Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders’ to become prime minister of the Netherlands were dwindling Wednesday after coalition talks collapsed.
Two US Christian aid and advocacy organizations have reported that North Korea’s government is so hostile to Christians that it has imprisoned tens of thousands of believers in labor camps described as “comparable to Nazi death camps.”
A court in Vietnam has sentenced an evangelical Christian man to 4 1/2 years imprisonment on charges of “secession and incitement” for holding prayer meetings in his home, the Christian Post reports.
A young Christian film director in the United States has made a pioneering new documentary that gives a wide-ranging perspective on worldwide evangelism and the thriving condition of Christianity around the world, the Christian Post (CP) reports.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday against impeaching U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, with four Republicans joining all Democrats in voting against impeachment.
During a visit to Lebanon, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron stated achieving peace would be unattainable as long as Hamas controlled Gaza. However, he emphasized that offering Palestinians the opportunity for statehood was “absolutely vital for the long-term peace and security of the region.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) criticized President Joe Biden for his threat to veto a standalone aid bill for Israel in their “hour of greatest need.”
A new report by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) raises serious concerns about Iran’s ability to build a nuclear bomb, marking a significant escalation by assigning its highest warning level, “Extreme Danger,” for the first time since it started monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities in the 1990s.
Australia was weighing its options Tuesday after a Chinese court gave a suspended death sentence to a prominent China-born Australian pro-democracy activist on Monday. The Australian government, which has repeatedly raised his case over the years, said it was appalled.
Continuing the suspension of its funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA), the United States announced it is looking to provide assistance to Gaza Palestinians through other aid organizations instead, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports. Together with several other western powers, the Biden administration suspended its funding of UNRWA last month following credible allegations that 12 of the agency’s staffers had participated in the Hamas’ Oct.7 genocidal attack on Israel.
A federal appeals court dealt former President Donald Trump’s defense a major blow Tuesday when it said he doesn’t have presidential immunity to protect him from charges of election interference in his Washington D.C. case.