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The war in Ukraine marked its one year anniversary with no end in sight, and a defiant President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowing the nation will defeat the much larger Russian military. World leaders ...

President Joe Biden secretly traveled to Kyiv, Ukraine from Poland on Monday, in a historic show of support as the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion approaches. Biden met with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, ...

A proposal to reform the Israeli judicial system has led to protests in Jerusalem. Despite pleas from President Isaac Herzog, tens of thousands of Israelis from around the country demonstrated outside the ...

Survivors are proving their resilience in Turkey. Rescuers pulled out several people alive from collapsed buildings on Monday and were digging to reach a grandmother, mother, and daughter from a single family, ...

Thinking of vacationing in Mexico? Think again. The U.S. State Department has advised against travel to most of its tourist regions because of kidnappings and crime. The U.S. issued its highest-level warning for the ...

Two more earthquakes have shaken Israel in the last 24 hours measuring 3.3 and 3.9 on the Richter scale, respectively. The first was in central Israel and the second was in Lebanon ...

BENONI, South Africa — Merchants gathered at a busy intersection in this Johannesburg suburb in 2020 to sell a variety of goods ranging from food to tires. Among the sellers were unemployed ...

The death toll from this week’s earthquakes in Turkey and Syria has surpassed 16,000. Some local authorities told media outlets that the number could triple in the coming days. “We always see ...

More than 5,000 people (updated to 16,000) are reported dead from earthquakes and at least 285 aftershocks in Turkey and Syria. Authorities state that hundreds of thousands are injured as crumbling buildings ...

The nation of Israel again is giving the world an example of how to love its enemies. On Monday, it sent a 150-person military aid mission to Turkey in the wake of ...

Google has announced its own artificial intelligence chatbot called “Bard” that will compete with the controversial Microsoft ChatGPT. It’s being called a chatbot arms race. “Two years ago we unveiled next-generation language ...

Pope Francis urged the young people of Congo to work for a peaceful and honest future this week, getting a raucous response from a generation that has been particularly hard-hit by the ...

Last month, a woman was arrested in Britain for silently praying near an abortion clinic. What led to the arrest? Was she blocking access to the clinic? Harassing women seeking an abortion? ...

The Christian population in Israel is growing slightly, according to a report issued at the end of 2022. The report, released by the Central Bureau of Statistics. found that Israel’s Christian community grew by ...

North Korea once again is the world’s worst persecutor of Christians,  according to the latest World Watch List report prepared by the religious persecution watchdog Open Doors US. The document, released annually since 1993, ...

American tourists in Cancun, Mexico are being caught in the crosshairs of a violent turf war between Uber drivers and a competing taxi firm. A rash of attacks on passengers and their ...

Abortion again was the leading cause of death worldwide in 2022, with the number of abortion deaths nearly four times those from infectious diseases. More than 44 million abortions were performed last ...

South Africa, once a stalwart ally of the West and democratic principles, is solidifying its position in the sphere of Russia and Communist China. It will hold joint military exercises with those ...

The 2022 report from the Open Doors organization says “persecution of Christians has reached the highest levels” since it began accumulating data for its annual “World Watch List” three decades ago. Hostile ...

The atmosphere at the Pentecostal church in the city of Kasindi in eastern Congo was upbeat on Sunday as hundreds gathered for a series of baptisms. The congregation swelled beyond capacity, forcing organizers ...

Trapped in a body and unable to respond, Martin Pistorius awoke to tell shocked doctors and family he was aware of every minute, including unspeakable abuse while in his “vegetative state.” In ...

As the nation of Israel commemorates its 75th anniversary this year, it remembers the vision of Theodor Herzl. The refined Jewish gentleman living in Europe saw a growing hatred of Jews in ...

Canada will supply Ukraine with a new surface-to-air missile system to protect its cities and infrastructure. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau informed President Joe Biden of the purchase on the sidelines of the ...

As Russia ramps up its relentless bombing of Ukrainian cities and towns, 30 Ukrainians who have been stranded in Kansas City for 10 months are going home. They were in the United ...

Islamic militants murdered 21 Egyptian Christians on a beach in Libya in 2015. The gruesome video of the beheadings elicited outrage around the world. Now a Christian organization wants to fulfill the ...