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The leader of a major European Jewish organization urged governments across Europe on Monday to take immediate action against the sharp rise in antisemitism, which is prompting thousands of Jews to leave the continent.

Hungary’s Jewish community has remembered Ágnes Keleti, the world’s oldest living and one of the most successful Olympians, until she passed away at age 103 this month.

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.

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.

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.

More than 1.7 million foreign nationals have illegally entered the U.S. in the first six months of fiscal 2024, the greatest number for this time period in U.S. history.

Terry Anderson, the Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press (AP) agency who said his “Christian faith” helped him deal with being held hostage for nearly seven years in Lebanon, has died at age 76, Worthy News learned Monday.

According to a new lawsuit, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is unlawfully gathering data on every citizen who invests in the stock market.

President Joe Biden signed into law an expansion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) following its approval by Congress in a bipartisan 60-34 vote late Friday night. This extension concludes a rigorous six-month debate over the intelligence law, which critics argue was misused by federal authorities against U.S. citizens. Although the intelligence community secured enhanced surveillance capabilities, opposition efforts succeeded in limiting the duration of these powers to two years. 

With Ukraine increasingly fearing it could lose the war, the U.S. House of Representatives approved $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel, and other U.S. allies in a move immediately welcomed by Kyiv.

Israel’s parliament (the Knesset) has voted overwhelmingly to reject a Palestinian state, even if that state were part of a negotiated settlement with the Jewish nation, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

Senior representatives from the US, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority met in Tel Aviv last week for secret talks on reopening the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza as part of a hostage and ceasefire deal, the Axios news outlet reports exclusively.

US President Joe Biden said this week that Saudi Arabia wants to “fully recognize” Israel in exchange for American weaponry should it need to defend itself against other Arab nations or Iran, the Times of Israel (TOI) reported. 

Archaeologists excavating in central Israel have uncovered 3,200-year-old artifacts, which they believe provide evidence that the Biblical story recounting the arrival of the Israelites in the Promised Land following their Exodus from Egypt is true.

Nearly 40% of French Jews are considering immigration to Israel after a far-left, pro-Hamas party won the most seats in France’s recent elections, Israel’s Committee for Immigration, Absorption, and Diaspora Affairs has been told.

In an effort to curb evangelism, Hindu lawmakers in India’s Assam state have passed a law criminalizing “magical” prayer for healing, Christianity Today (CT) reports. 

The slaughter of Christians in Nigeria at the hands of Islamic jihadists is ongoing with impunity, and on Feb. 28, two more Christians were murdered and dozens kidnapped in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. Islamic terrorists have murdered some 60,000 Nigerian Christians since jihadism took hold in the country in 2009.

A new report by the Open Doors Christian persecution watchdog shows that Christian women in countries ruled by oppressive regimes are being increasingly subjected to forced marriage, the Christian Daily reports. The report reveals that Christian women face the threat of forced marriage in 84% of the countries ranked on the Open Doors World Watch List of the top 50 countries where Christians are persecuted.

Vietnam’s ruling Communist party has designated as terrorist organizations two human rights groups which support the country’s largely Christian Montagnard minority indigenous community, Premier Christian News (PCN) reports.

Parents were praying and hoping their children were alive Friday after gunmen kidnapped more than 200 school pupils in northwestern Nigeria in the biggest mass abduction from a school in a decade.