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Several world leaders united in condemnation of a mass shooting in Indian-controlled Kashmir that officials said killed at least two dozen people.

The body of the late Pope Francis will be transferred to St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday to lie in state until his funeral on Saturday morning, the Vatican announced.

U.S. evangelist Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the Evangelical aid organization Samaritan’s Purse, urged Christians to pray for the Catholic Church following Pope Francis’s death.

China on Monday warned it will retaliate against countries that align with the U.S. in ways that harm Beijing’s interests, as the escalating trade war between the world’s two largest economies increasingly entangles other nations. Beijing specifically cautioned against trade agreements with Washington that come at China’s expense, vowing countermeasures in response.

The United States will reduce its military presence in Syria to fewer than 1,000 troops in the coming months, Pentagon officials said Friday, as it consolidates forces to reflect the evolving mission to defeat ISIS.

Authorities said Tuesday that emergency workers were suspending the search for six people missing after a major bridge collapsed in the city of Baltimore in the U.S. state of Maryland.

A new study shows that the number of US women who had self-managed medical abortions increased by nearly 28,000 in the six months following the US Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision to revoke the federal right to abortion up to viability through its decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization.’

One of America’s iconic bridges, a kilometers (miles) long bridge in the U.S. city of Baltimore, collapsed into the Patapsco River early Tuesday after being hit by a container ship, footage showed.

A panel of New York appellate judges came to former U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s aid Monday, ruling that he must post a $175 million bond within ten days. The initial bond of nearly a half billion dollars was decreased by more than $275 million.

Scientists at a prominent American university are getting closer to “creating” human embryos without women enabling gay couples to have children of their own.

Israel’s military suffered setbacks Thursday after officials confirmed that five troops were killed in a “friendly fire” incident in Gaza while elsewhere, an Israeli air force base in northern Israel was hit by the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militia.

Amid heightened tensions with Egypt since Israel began its ground operation against Hamas in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday intimated that Egypt was holding Gazan civilians “hostage” by not working with him to reopen the Rafah Border Crossing for humanitarian aid to enter the war-torn enclave, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

Israel came under pressure Wednesday to accept an independent Palestinian state as Arab countries plan to join a U.S.-led peacekeeping force in wartorn Gaza, Western and Arab officials confirmed Wednesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (Likud) clashed on Wednesday over the future governance of the Gaza Strip after the current war with Hamas, exposing divisions within the ruling Israeli coalition government.

Israeli tanks advanced deeper into eastern Rafah on Tuesday, reaching residential areas of the southern border city, where over a million displaced individuals had sought refuge amid the conflict with Hamas in Gaza.

Eleven Church of England bishops have announced that they reject the denomination’s House of Bishops’ plans to introduce blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples in legal partnerships, Christian Today (CT) reports. The ceremonies involve denomination-approved Prayers of Love and Faith that clergy who have chosen to conduct such blessings can use.

Amid other recent reports of Christian spiritual revival around the United States, a church in Texas announced it has seen a “record-breaking” number of baptisms for the third consecutive year, CBN News reports. The Champion Forest congregation in Houston, Texas saw 755 baptisms this church year (October 1 – September 30), CBN reports.

On the same day Palestinian jihadists launched their wholesale slaughter and kidnapping of Jewish civilians in Israel, Islamic terrorists in Nigeria continued their years-long genocidal campaign against Nigerian Christians by abducting 30 more Christians in southern Kaduna state on October 7, Morning Star News reports. 

A pastor in Nepal has lost his appeal against conviction on false charges of forcibly converting Hindus to Christianity and will now spend a year in prison, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. Nepal is no longer officially a Hindu state, but Nepalese Christians are subjected to persecution from radical Hindu groups who want the country to return to Hinduism.

Amid the global plagues of sex trafficking and child pornography, the US-based Christian organization All Things Possible Ministries has helped to free 40,000 trafficked women and children around the world, CBN News reports.