An evangelical Christian leader in Guizhou Province, China has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment on unfounded charges of fraud and “inciting subversion of state power,” Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) reports.
A newly Christian 19-year-old girl in Uganda was burned with a flat iron by her Muslim father after he learned she had left Islam, Morning Star News reports. Christianity is legal in Uganda but converts from Islam are vulnerable to violent attacks from Muslim extremist relatives if they choose to leave Islam for Jesus.
A new survey shows that nearly half (47%) of British Jews have considered leaving the United Kingdom after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas triggered an international outpouring of antisemitism. The UK, in particular, saw massive, weekly, anti-Israel protests, with British Jews reporting they felt unsafe.
There is outrage in the Netherlands after a statue of Anne Frank, one of the most famous victims of the Holocaust, or Shoah, was vandalized again in Amsterdam with pro-Palestinian graffiti.
ritain was preparing for more upheaval Monday after massive anti-migration riots that a senior Conservative Party official seemed to partly justify following the killing of three girls, allegedly by the teenage son of Rwandan parents.
A full-scale uprising was underway Monday in Bangladesh as longtime authoritarian Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reportedly fled the country and protesters stormed her palace in deadly clashes.
The leaders of seven European Union countries have demanded that Venezuela publish detailed voting results from last week’s presidential election, which granted incumbent President Nicolás Maduro a victory despite opposition protests.
There was more human suffering in the Russia-Ukraine war on Sunday, with officials confirming that Russian shelling of a residential area killed one person and injured two in the strategic logistical hub in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region. The reported attack came after Ukraine said it struck and sank a Russian Black Sea Fleet submarine and damaged several prized Russian S-400 air defense systems in Crimea.
Israel faced even more security challenges Monday after fresh confirmation that Turkey has blocked cooperation between the NATO military alliance and the Jewish nation.
Europe’s tallest volcano, Mount Etna, erupted over Italy’s island of Sicily, impacting air traffic.
Russia has canceled plans at the last minute to deliver missiles and other military equipment to Yemen-based Houthi fighters after pressure from the United States and Saudi Arabia, several sources say.
Somalia has plunged into mourning after at least 37 civilians were killed and scores injured in an explosion on a famous beach in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in an attack the government blamed on militant Islamist group al-Shabab.
Concerns are mounting about the growing number of displaced persons in Ukraine as Russia makes gains on the front lines.
Tensions rose Saturday after U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin overrode a plea agreement reached earlier this week for the accused mastermind of the September 11, 2001, attacks and two other defendants, reinstating them as death penalty cases.
Israel and the U.S. are bracing for a potential Iranian retaliatory strike on Israel as soon as this weekend, with Israel’s military on high alert and the Pentagon deploying military assets to counter any attacks from Iran and its terrorist proxy groups.
Recent reports indicate that an alleged Israeli airstrike targeted Syria’s Dabaa Airport near the Lebanese border, an area known for Hezbollah’s smuggling of Iranian weapons.
The United States triggered a highly accurate recession indicator as recession fears led to the largest stock selloff since December 2022. California, the nation’s largest economy, triggered the same indicator in late 2023.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) killed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s (PIJ) deputy head of weapons production, Mohammed al-Jabari, and dozens of other “terrorists,” the Israeli military said early Friday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia should be represented at a second peace summit set for November after the first such gathering convened by Ukraine last month in Switzerland was held without Moscow’s involvement.
U.S. President Joe Biden has confirmed that Russia has released three jailed Americans, including The Wall Street Journal newspaper reporter Evan Gershkovich and one American green card holder. “Paul Whelan, Evan Gershkovich, Alsu Kurmasheva, and Vladimir Kara-Murza” are returning home, he said.