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Author and talk-show host Eric Metaxas is urging leaders to speak up against the evil in today’s world “There are many pastors and Christian leaders being silent in the face of evil ...

Protestant martyrs of the faith will now be honored alongside their Catholic counterparts under a new initiative to recognize those from other Christian traditions. Pope Francis has commissioned a new working group ...

The United Nations and Swiss government, concerned by the spread of artificial intelligence, held a summit this week to address how to control and benefit from it. More than 3,000 experts from ...

Bangalore, India — often called the “Silicon Valley of India” — boasts a captivating atmosphere where rapid growth coexists with a rich religious landscape and a thriving technology hub. It’s a city ...

“They still draw pictures!” So wrote the editors of an influential collection of children’s art that was compiled in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War. Eighty years later, war continues to upend children’s lives in ...

A massive iron gate slides aside. Beyond it, rows of grimy, barred windows tower above a grey courtyard. Old blankets drape as sun-shields over some, drying clothes hang from others, and a ...

Vladimir Putin remains hidden Monday, after a phone call between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President Joe Biden. The two talked Sunday after news that Wagner mercenary group had stood down from ...

President Vladimir Putin has told residents of Moscow to stay off the streets as an armed rebellion unfolds in Russia. Military vehicles are now on Red Square surrounding the Kremlin. Putin, speaking ...

After exceeding box office expectations in the United States, the “Jesus Revolution” movie now is being shown internationally. Codirector John Erwin says that the hit movie has been released in Singapore, Indonesia, ...

Empowered21, a relational leadership network representing the more than 650 million Spirit-empowered Christians, will host Amsterdam2023, a three-day conference and one-day stadium event on at Amsterdam RAI and Olympic Stadium. Influential leaders ...

A half-century ago, Billy Graham led a powerful outreach in Seoul, South Korea. Last weekend, his son Franklin did the same. A crowd of about 70,000 people overflowed the Seoul World Cup ...

Vladimir Putin is placing Russia’s age-old religious art at the service of his war aims. In Moscow, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour echoes to Orthodox chants and prayers. It’s packed with ...

This year, which is the 75th anniversary of the rebirth of modern Israel, also may be prophetically significant, says Jeffrey Johnson, Ph.D., founder of Israel Today Ministries. “What is so unprecedented in ...

Another male soccer player who identifies as transgender has injured a female player during a match. The transgender player’s aggressive shoulder check sent the female player to the ground where she lay ...

Authorities in Ukraine are evacuating almost 100 towns after the country’s second-largest dam and hydroelectric power plant was blown up. The Kakhovka Dam, under Russian control since its invasion, has now unleashed a ...

On an upcoming trip to the Middle East and North Africa, Jill Biden, the U.S. first lady, will visit Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Portugal, but not Israel. And Antony Blinken, the secretary of ...

Losing track of receipts is nothing new. The Israel Antiquities Authority recently announced that a 2,000-year-old receipt was discovered along the City of David’s Pilgrimage Road in Jerusalem. The road, which is ...

The Christian publishing ministry Crossway and its partners have an ambitious goal to distribute one million Bibles in the global south “If we care about the future of the church — the ...

Drone attacks on Moscow have exposed division within Russia with some citizens taking to social media to support the attacks on an area dubbed the “Russian Beverly Hills.” The war is increasingly ...

The Russian war against Ukraine has come to  Moscow Tuesday as dozens of attack drones attacked the city. Drones struck the Russian capital in what one politician called the worst attack on ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken by phone with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss normalization between the two countries, officials said Monday. The talks come amid an intensive ...

The Australian grandmother tasered by a police officer has died, heightening public outrage. Clare Nowland, who was 95 years old and suffered from dementia, was tasered May 17 by police in a ...

Last week the Norwegian Health Inspectorate announced it would revise its current guidelines on so-called “gender-positive care” for minors, saying it was no longer considered evidence-based. The commission also acknowledged that the growing ...

Israel will work with Saudi Arabia to offer direct flights to Muslim citizens who will make the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca next month, the foreign ministry in Jerusalem said on Monday. Israel ...

Speaking at the Truman Presidential Library May 11, Michael Herzog, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, shared the crucial role the 33rd president played in the formation of modern-day Israel. “I think ...