A narrative that a “civil war” or “cold war” between federal law enforcement officers and their state and local counterparts at the southern border in Texas – which has been circulating among a range of pundits – isn’t valid Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas Department of Public Safety and the Border Patrol union argue.
The Attorney General for Idaho has filed an emergency motion asking the US Supreme Court to reverse a lower court’s decision and allow into effect a new law which bans trans gender treatments for minors, the Christian Post (CP) reports.
Russia claims jailed opposition leader and anti-corruption crusader Aleksei Navalny died of “natural causes” but refuses to release his body until his mother agrees to a “secret funeral,” Navalny’s mother and his spokeswoman said Thursday.
An international Christian organization helped to free 1,500 Sudanese civilians from slavery last year, bringing the total number freed to more than 100,000 over 30 years, CBN News reports.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Feb. 13 rebuked the Punjab Province government for only charging 18 of the 304 Muslims who were arrested for attacking Christians during a riot in Jaranwala last summer, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
A 2,000 year-old coin of a type some experts describe as a “widow’s mite” was recently discovered near Israel’s Dead Sea by a young boy who was evacuated to the area following the Oct. 7 genocidal attack on Israeli civilians by the Hamas Palestinian terror group, All Israel News (AIN) reports.
Authorities in India’s Assam state have fined two American Christians $500 each for allegedly violating their tourist visas by preaching the Gospel and leading people to Christ at various locations, Christian Today India (CTI) reports.
Three “Palestinian terrorists” shot at commuters stuck in a traffic jam near Jerusalem, killing one Israeli and injuring several others, before being gunned down by armed civilians, Israeli police confirmed early Thursday.
Cracking down on Christianity it perceives as a threat to its authoritarian power, Iran’s Islamic regime last year arrested a record number of Christians across the country, targeting Bible distributors in particular, the Christian Post (CP) reports.
Iran is reportedly providing Russia with a massive number of highly accurate ballistic missiles, deepening the military cooperation between the two U.S.-sanctioned countries and raising concerns in wartorn Ukraine and Israel.
Over 7.2 million illegal immigrants have entered the United States under President Joe Biden’s administration according statistics provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This figure exceeds the population totals of 36 individual states within the country.
An Israeli air strike on a residential area of Syria’s capital, Damascus, killed at least two people, Syrian sources said Wednesday, but Israel did not confirm or deny the attack.
An American missionary has met with senior officials at the US State Department in an effort to secure the release of 11 pastors imprisoned in Nicaragua on trumped up charges of money laundering and organized crime, CBN News reports. Britt Hancock of the US-based Mountain Gateway missionary organization made his recent appeal to lawmakers in Washington even as he himself also faces criminal charges in the matter.
Christians in South Africa are organizing a nationwide Feb. 25 afternoon prayer event in express support of Israel, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Alabama’s Supreme Court ruled on Feb. 16 that frozen embryos are children, and that they can therefore be the subject of a wrongful death suit, the Associated Press reports. The unprecedented decision may terminate the practice of freezing embryos for in vitro fertilization (IVF) in Alabama, critics have noted.
The Israeli Knesset resoundingly passed a vote of 99-11 in favor of the government’s statement opposing the unilateral acknowledgment of a Palestinian state in response to rumors that Western nations, spearheaded by the Biden administration, are considering such a recognition.
U.S. Rep. Roger Williams, a Republican from north Texas who served as Texas’ Secretary of State under former Gov. Rick Perry, has filed a bill to have the federal government reimburse Texas for its border security costs.
U.S. officials have reportedly warned allies that Moscow will launch an anti-satellite nuclear weapon into orbit this year, a potentially devastating move threatening the West’s military and communications capabilities.
Hindu extremists in India’s Chhattisgarh state violently assaulted a Christian man and his father and brother last week after he refused to renounce Christ and return to Hinduism, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reports. Christians in Chhattisgarh state have been increasingly violently targeted by Hindu extremists who, emboldened by the ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, are seeking to impose their version of the religion as the dominant ideology in India.
Tensions rose in Jerusalem on Wednesday after Israel’s government said it would impose restrictions on the access of Palestinians to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of East Jerusalem during the Muslim month of Ramadan amid “security needs.”