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Pakistani Christians say they are not surprised that social media platform Facebook-parent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he was “almost sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan.”

United States Vice President JD Vance has told the European Union that its “massive” regulations on artificial intelligence (AI) could strangle the technology and rejected content moderation as “authoritarian censorship.”

A Russian national imprisoned in a U.S. jail on money laundering charges has been freed in exchange for the release of American schoolteacher Marc Fogel from prison in Russia.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced Wednesday that he and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to talks on a ceasefire to the war in Ukraine, but Washington said calls for Ukraine’s pre-2014 border are “unrealistic.”

U.S. billionaire Bill Gates, whose foundation supports the development of vaccines, has warned of a new global pandemic that could wipe out more than 10 percent of the world’s population of over 8 billion people.

Iowa’s Supreme Court ruled last week that the state can implement its new “heartbeat law” which bans abortion at six weeks gestation is constitutional and may take effect. The law had been temporarily blocked following a legal challenge by abortion provider Planned Parenthood.

The Biden administration has allowed more than 5 million immigrants to enter the United States, and an additional nearly 2 million immigrants have been detected attempting unauthorized entry into the country, according to a recently released Congressional report.

President Joe Biden continues to play defense after a disastrous debate performance last week with many in his own party calling for him to withdraw from the Democratic ticket.

The United States said Tuesday it would pay vaccine maker Moderna, known for COVID-19 jabs, $176 million to accelerate developing “a pandemic influenza vaccine” to treat bird flu in people.

The president of the United States has “absolute immunity” when acting in his core constitutional duties, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a landmark decision Monday.

Daily attacks by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization on Israeli targets, ongoing since October 7, reached their highest point in August, according to data released by the Shin Bet security agency on Thursday.

During a press briefing to foreign media on Wednesday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his stance that Israel cannot abandon the 7.8 mile long Philadelphi Corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border without first implementing a viable plan to prevent weapons smuggling into the Gaza Strip.

Israeli authorities reported that over 100 rockets were launched at northern Israel on Wednesday by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization. In Kiryat Shmona, some of the rockets directly struck homes, sparking fires. Police and emergency teams quickly responded to the scene to provide assistance and assess the damage.

Under the newly formed United Kingdom government, led by Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, the UK has altered its policy toward Israel amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza by prohibiting the export of certain weapons, announcing a ban on some arms export licenses to Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a rare apology to the families of six Israeli hostages recently executed by Hamas in a press conference on Monday. He stressed the necessity of international pressure on Hamas and emphasized that Israel would retain its military presence in the Philadelphi Corridor, a critical buffer zone along the Gaza-Egypt border, underscoring the strategic importance of the area.

The United States Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has recommended that the transcontinental country of Azerbaijan now be placed on the US State Department’s list of Countries of Particular Concern (CPC) because of intensifying violations of religious freedom, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. The USCIRF made its recommendation in its new annual report on the status of religious freedom around the world.

Suspected angry Muslims raided a house church in Indonesia’s East Java province, just days after a similar incident in which two were injured, a pastor and other Christians told Worthy News on Friday.

A pastor in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania says he has forgiven the man who nearly shot and killed him during last Sunday’s church service.

The major US music ministry Winter Jam has seen over 34,000 professions of faith in Christ from young people in America this year alone, Christian Headlines (CH) reports.

Pennsylvania pastor Rev. Glenn Germany attests it was a “miracle of God” that the loaded gun aimed at him by Bernard Polite during a church service on Sunday would not fire because it was jammed, Christian Headlines (CH) reports.