Amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, groups of elderly, frail Ukrainian Holocaust survivors have been safely evacuated to Germany – the very country which unleashed the Holocaust and murdered six million Jews during WW2, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
Ukrainian and Russian negotiators met in Turkey on Tuesday for the first face-to-face talks in nearly three weeks, with Ukraine seeking a ceasefire without compromising on territory or sovereignty as its forces have pushed Russians back from Kyiv.
Ukrainian officials say a Russian missile hit the regional administration building in the southern Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv, killing at least seven people and wounding 22.
A Ukrainian church in Kentucky has raised around $145,000 from a bake sale it put on to help Ukrainians displaced by Vladimir Putin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine Christian Headlines (CH) reports.
Belgium and the Netherlands said Tuesday they are expelling 38 suspected Russian spies from their territories.
Russia said Tuesday it would reduce its military activities, including around Ukraine’s capital Kyiv after suffering heavy battlefield losses.
At their historic summit in the Israeli Negev town of Sde Boker on Monday, the top diplomats of Israel, the US and four Arab nations announced that the conference would be the first iteration of a permanent regional forum, as they reaffirmed the importance of growing ties between Israel and the broader Middle East.
British military intelligence says Moscow is due to send more than 1,000 mercenaries into eastern Ukraine as the Russian military suffered heavy losses.
Russian troops are trying to “break through” Ukrainian defensive positions northwest and east of Kyiv in an attempt to advance toward the capital city, the Ukrainian armed forces said on Monday.
While managing the trauma of Vladimir Putin bombing their homes, countrymen, and cities, Ukrainian mothers fleeing the carnage are also having to watch out for human traffickers posing as pastors to abduct their children, Faithwire reports. Christian aid workers say the issue of trafficking at Ukraine’s borders as refugees seek to escape is the biggest issue for prayer right now.
The White House has rushed to deny that U.S. President Biden called for regime change when saying Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” The president made the remarks in Poland where he ended his tour to Europe to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Christians expressed mounting concern Friday about the whereabouts of a missing missionary abducted in Ukraine by invading Russian troops.
In what will be a first for Israel, the country was poised to host a summit between US Secretary State Antony Blinken, the foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt, and Foreign Minister and Prime Minister-designate Yair Lapid starting Sunday. The two-day summit, to be held at Kibbutz Sde Boker in the Negev Region, is the initiative of Lapid.
The US and Israel are committed to ensuring that Iran does not acquire a nuclear weapon, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said at a Sunday press conference in Jerusalem, as the allies acknowledged differences over negotiations with Tehran.
Amid Europe’s largest land war since World War II, 7 in 10 Americans expressed low confidence in President Joe Biden’s ability to deal with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a new NBC News poll, and 8 in 10 voiced worry that the war will increase gas prices and possibly involve nuclear weapons.
Ukraine’s embattled President Volodymyr Zelensky says his nation inflicted “powerful blows” and “significant losses” on invading Russian troops, but many Ukrainians continue to suffer relentless airstrikes and shelling.
U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Poland on Friday after attending summits where he and other Western leaders declined to offer the more robust military assistance demanded by war-torn Ukraine.
One of Israel’s international missions is to lead the way in providing whatever help is needed when international disaster strikes. The war in Ukraine is no different. Israel has established field hospital, which is also teaching a lesson in forgiveness.
North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, escalating its weapons program while world leaders are gathered in Europe to focus on Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Hungary has opened a charity shop selling products made by Christian refugees in Jordan as part of the Hungarian government’s efforts to prevent migration towards Europe.