A pastor in Nepal is seeking to be given a fine instead of the one-year prison sentence he has received for proselytizing, despite being ordered by the Nepalese Supreme Court to begin his jail sentence pending appeal, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
A U.S. District Court handed Texas its first win in a lawsuit challenging the validity of an omnibus spending package Congress passed in late 2022 that it argued would create an undue burden on the state.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily rejected U.S. President Joe Biden’s suggestion that American support was waning for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza and that a ceasefire should be reached by next week.
A Dutch court has sentenced the head of a violent Dubai-based “super cartel” that supplied a third of Europe’s cocaine to life imprisonment over several murders and attempted killings.
Moscow on Tuesday warned Ukraine’s allies that sending troops to fight in Ukraine would lead to the “inevitability” of war between Russia and the NATO military alliance.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed that Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas are planning to exploit the upcoming Ramadan period as a catalyst for escalating the war, saying that it was planning “the second stage of October 7.”
Hezbollah, the terrorist organization backed by Iran, launched 60 Katyusha rockets across the Golan Heights in what the group stated was a retaliatory move against Israeli strikes in eastern Lebanon. Hezbollah claimed the rocket barrage aimed at an Israeli military base in the Golan was a direct response to “Zionist aggression” near Baalbek, a city located over 62 miles from the border, earlier that day. The strikes near Baalbek marked the deepest confirmed Israeli attacks since the onset of cross-border hostilities.
Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., face a partial government shutdown deadline this week and another separate shutdown early next week, setting up a chaotic Congress and frantic dealmaking, or lack thereof, before Friday.
A new poll conducted by The Economist/YouGov shows that nearly half of Americans would support a national 16-week abortion ban. The poll was conducted on Feb. 18-20 among 1,562 adults with a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
Amid war and generally exceedingly high tensions in the Middle East, terror-sponsor Iran is reported by the UN to have further increased its total stockpile of enriched uranium required for a nuclear bomb, the Associated Press reports.
Continuing its crackdown on house churches and censorship of Christian materials, China’s ruling Communist Party has now blocked a popular prayer and Bible and app from being available to mainland Chinese citizens, CBN News reports.
The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) maintains 12 secret bases in Ukraine to help the war-torn nation and the U.S. gather intelligence from Russia, well-informed American sources have revealed.
Attacks against American churches have skyrocketed over the last decade due to growing anti-Christian sentiments in the United States, says a leading research and advocacy group in a new report.
Denmark has joined a growing list of countries which have registered record-breaking levels of antisemitic incidents since the Hamas genocidal attack against Israel on Oct. 7, the Washington Times reports.
Europe edged closer to a broader war with France’s President Emmanuel Macron refusing to rule out sending ground troops to Ukraine, though a U.S. diplomat told Worthy News that NATO military alliance forces are already in the wartorn nation.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that an Israeli military operation in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, might experience a slight delay if an agreement on a weeks-long ceasefire with Hamas is reached. However, he maintained that achieving total victory in Gaza could be expected “weeks away” once the offensive starts.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Nahal Brigade uncovered an extensive tunnel network measuring 6.2 miles (10 km) in length beneath the Gaza Strip. This network, utilized by Hamas for movement from the northern to the southern regions of Gaza, is currently being demolished, the IDF announced on Monday.
Suspected Islamic terrorists murdered 15 people in an attack on a Catholic church in Oudalan province, northern Burkina Faso on Sunday, Christian Today (CT) reports.
Hungary’s parliament has approved Sweden’s membership of the NATO military alliance, the last member state to do so, ending an impasse that lasted months.
Eleven members of the US-founded international Youth With A Mission (YWAM) evangelistic ministry were among those killed in a devastating traffic accident in the city of Arusha, northern Tanzania on Saturday, the Christian Post reports. The names of those involved in the accident have not yet been disclosed for security reasons.