World News
U.S. President Donald J. Trump has urged Ukraine not to target Moscow with long-range missiles despite suffering death and destruction following massive Russian strikes.
The Netherlands is the first European Union nation to ration electricity as its power grid is overwhelmed by demand.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a preliminary trade deal with Indonesia, just days after threatening a 32% tariff on the Southeast Asian nation. The agreement marks the fourth such deal since Trump launched his aggressive “reciprocal tariffs” campaign in April aimed at closing America’s trade deficit and boosting U.S. exports.
One of Pakistan’s most influential courts ruled Tuesday that a judicial commission will investigate the abuse of blasphemy legislation in a historic move that could impact minority Christians, a senior lawyer confirmed to Worthy News.
European Union leaders issued sharp warnings Monday after President Donald Trump threatened to impose sweeping 30% tariffs on EU imports by August 1, a move they say would severely disrupt nearly $2 trillion in annual trade between the two economic powerhouses.
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US News
President-elect Donald Trump announced on Sunday his intention to designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations in an effort to combat the growing influence and violence associated with these groups. In addition, he revealed plans to launch a comprehensive anti-drug advertising campaign within the United States.
President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 Americans on federal death row on Monday.
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday (Dec. 18) agreed to consider a request by South Carolina to deny public funding to Planned Parenthood on the grounds that, in addition to providing healthcare services, it is the nation’s leading abortion provider, Reuters reports.
U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump received a major legal victory Thursday as a court in the U.S. state of Georgia disqualified the Atlanta prosecutor who brought an election interference case against him and his allies.
The United States Department of Justice has filed suit against the city of Brunswick in Georgia for wrongfully trying to shut down a Christian charity that has served the homeless since 2014, the Christian Post reports.
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Israel News
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will convene the security cabinet in Tel Aviv on Tuesday to approve a 60-day ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon, following over a year of conflict, despite opposition from northern leaders and some coalition members, according to multiple reports by Israeli media.
The United Arab Emirates said Monday police arrested three Uzbek nationals for the killing of an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi in an assassination that Israel called an “antisemitic terror act.”
Several people were wounded Sunday as Hezbollah launched over 250 rockets and drones at northern and central Israel, according to the military and medics. In response to the relentless attacks, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) targeted Hezbollah’s command centers in southern Beirut.
Israel’s government said Sunday that an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who disappeared in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was killed in a “heinous antisemitic terror act” and indirectly blamed Iran for his murder.
In an unprecedented move, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over the war in Gaza that places the leaders at risk of being detained across over 120 member states of the ICC.
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Christian News
An evangelist who led Muslims to Christ in eastern Uganda was found dead in a pool of blood and tied with ropes soon after he texted his pastor that he was surrounded by Islamists, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
A court of appeals in Iran has sentenced a Christian Armenian man to 10 years imprisonment for alleged “proselytizing,” Barnabas Aid reports.
Christians have appealed for prayers as a new video apparently posted by the Islamic Boko Haram group shows Nigerian Pastor Paul Musa wearing an orange jumpsuit and kneeling in front of a masked gunman, pleading for his life and that of his wife.
Extremist Hindus in India’s Chhattisgarh state last week hacked to death a female relative of theirs because she left Hinduism to follow Christ, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
Following reported pressure from a powerful hardline Islamic group, a court in Punjab Province, Pakistan last week granted bail to 52 Islamists accused of lynching 74-year-old Nazeer Masih Gill in Sargodha on May 25 over false blasphemy accusations, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
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