A Christian woman in India’s Odisha state is recovering after she was stripped naked and brutalized until she blacked out by Hindu nationalists enraged at her faith in Christ, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
Congressional Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation allowing people with state-issued concealed carry licenses or permits to carry a concealed handgun in any other state in the US, The Center Square (TCS) reports.
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Meta Platforms (which owns Facebook and Instagram) has publicly criticized the US Biden administration for demanding that Facebook restrict content deemed misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic, Axios reports. Indeed, Meta announced on January 7 that it will cease working with third-party fact-checking organizations.
The Jewish community and others in Italy were reeling from violent weekend protests over the death of Ramy Elgami, a 19-year-old Egyptian man, following a police chase in late November.
Investigators demanded Friday that Nigeria’s government ends “the reign of terror” against Christian communities after scores of Christians were killed by Islamic fighters in the last days of 2024.
The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider reinstating certain preventative care coverage requirements under the Affordable Care Act that were struck down by the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
A Belgium-based group named after a Palestinian girl it claims was killed by Israel’s military in Gaza has launched a global hunt for Israeli troops and others, including Christians, accused of “war crimes” against Palestinians, a Worthy News investigation shows.
A self-declared Egyptian “revolutionary” linked to a group that ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has launched an Islamist “movement” to also topple Egypt’s leader, Worthy News, established Sunday.
Numerous Christians in and around Los Angeles were preparing to pray Sunday without a church building as many houses of worship were destroyed in the American city’s worst wildfires on record.
An explosion at a gas station triggered a massive fire, killing at least 15 people, in an area of central Yemen controlled by Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, officials said.
At least 16 people have been killed as massive wind-fed fires swept through 37,000 acres in the greater Los Angeles area, impacting entire communities ranging from the rich and famous to the poor.
Los Angeles continues to be surrounded by fire as more than 6,000 firefighters from California and nearby states work to suppress the flames. The two biggest fires continue to be the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire. Both fires broke out on Tuesday amid the major Santa Ana winds rising to 100 mph and as of Friday evening, they are both active and minimally contained.
The federal government borrowed $710 billion in the first three months of fiscal year 2025, with 10 days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
President-elect Donald Trump lashed out at Democrats and the New York judge who sentenced him to an unconditional discharge, meaning he won’t go to jail, before taking office on Jan. 20. He said he will appeal the sentence.
Fires in Los Angeles, America’s second-largest city, and other areas in the U.S. state of California have killed at least 10 people while hundreds of homes were destroyed, officials said.
Nearly 400 Christian leaders and 30 church groups have urged India’s government to defend the Christian minority after hundreds of attacks against Christians, including more than a dozen around Christmas.
Egyptian Archaeologists on Wednesday announced the remarkable discovery of 3,600-year-old rock-cut tombs and artifacts during an excavation on the west bank of the Nile near the historic city of Luxor in Upper Egypt, The Media Line (TML) reports. With origins in ancient times, Luxor has been described as the “world’s greatest open-air museum.”
Christians in Nigeria’s Plateau state have been warned to spend the next few weeks on high alert against attacks by Fulani radicalized Islamic herdsmen as three more believers were murdered on Monday (January 6), bringing the number of such killings to 11 since early December, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
Political rivals united in grief Thursday as they attended Jimmy Carter’s state funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington before the 39th president’s final journey back to Georgia for burial.
An Iranian top commander for Syria has, for the first time, publicly admitted that Iran suffered “a major defeat” with the ouster of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, a close ally of Tehran.