Amid rising concern over attacks on minority faith groups around the world, a bipartisan coalition of United States Senators last week introduced a resolution urging the State Department to expand its support for international religious freedom as “a fundamental right and a cornerstone of US foreign policy.”
A court in Faisalabad, Pakistan has acquitted the two Christian men who were falsely accused of committing blasphemy offenses that led to major riot in Jaranwala on Aug.16 last year, Morning Star News reports.
Devoted Indonesian Christians say they remain concerned about churches being targeted by Islamists despite government pledges to improve the situation for minority faiths in the world’s largest Muslim nation.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday he “fully stood behind” his remarks about sending Western ground troops to war-ravaged Ukraine and urged allies not to be “cowards.”
Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok has signed a bill allowing Sweden’s entry into NATO, but Budapest declined to endorse Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the next chief of the military alliance.
Former President Donald Trump continued to dominate Republication presidential primaries on Super Tuesday, adding Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Virginia to the win column shortly after polls closed in the six states.
Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist organization, fired a massive barrage of rockets at the Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona on Tuesday evening after a White House senior adviser visited Beirut in a diplomatic effort to cease hostilities along the Israel-Lebanon border.
Former President Donald Trump continued to dominate in early Super Tuesday results. He was declared the winner in Virginia and North Carolina shortly after polls closed in the two states.
The Iranian-backed terror groups, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, have declared their intention for Ramadan to be a “month of terror,” calling for the “continuation of the Battle of al-Aqsa” as they called for Islamic nations to unify against Israel.
The government of Nicaragua has been engaged in human rights abuses against civilians that are “tantamount to crimes against humanity,” a panel of UN-backed human rights experts warned on Thursday. Commissioned by the Human Rights Council, the experts made their findings during an investigation into President Daniel Ortega’s violent crackdown on political dissidents, the Associated Press reports.
Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a 2,000 year-old coin inscribed ‘Year One of the Redemption of Israel,’ from the time of the Jewish Bar Kochba Revolt against the Roman Empire in Judea, the Jerusalem Post reports.
A new report by the Article 18 persecution watchdog draws attention to the plight of “faceless” Christians facing intense government persecution in Iran.
he UN’s nuclear watchdog has admitted it no longer knows how much uranium ore concentrate Iran has accumulated or how many centrifuges and other inventory required for multiple nuclear bombs it has now produced, the Jerusalem Post reports.
The NATO military alliance launched a massive exercise Monday to defend its expanded Nordic territory as concern mounted that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would escalate into a broader world conflict.
Suspected Iran-backed Houthis cut four Red Sea underwater cables providing internet and telecommunications worldwide in a further escalation of the crisis in the Middle East sparked by the Israel-Hamas war, officials said Monday.
Within hours of a federal appeals court decision Monday allowing a new Texas law to stand that makes illegal entry into the state from a foreign nation a state crime, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito stayed the appellate court’s decision.
France became the world’s first country to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution on Monday, despite appeals from church leaders to reconsider the move.
A coalition of Arab states is pressing the United States and its Western allies to convince Israel to consider a renewed plan for Palestinian statehood that would result in a permanent ceasefire in the current war against Hamas, Fortune reports. Led by Saudi Arabia, the coalition includes Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
In a piece of welcome news for historically persecuted Christians in Indonesia, Minister of Religious Affairs Yaqut Cholil Qoumas has requested the Directorate General to ascertain whether regional Indonesian churches have been unjustly refused building permits and to facilitate the establishment of places of worship, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. Christianity is legal in Indonesia, but the Muslim-majority country has consistently blocked the establishment of churches and impeded believers’ right to express their faith.
States do not have the power to remove former President Donald Trump from their presidential primary ballots under the 14th Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Monday.