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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law the ratification of a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement with Iran, solidifying long-term military and diplomatic ties between the two allies, according to Russian state media.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance, a devout Catholic and the last known foreign leader to have met Pope Francis before his death, has expressed sadness about the pontiff’s passing at the age of 88.

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88, at his residence in the Vatican’s Casa Santa Marta, the Vatican confirmed Monday.

“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling celebrated Easter by welcoming a British Supreme Court ruling that trans women are not legally considered women under British law.

Iran and the United States held a second round of nuclear talks Saturday in Rome, where both sides agreed to begin drafting a potential deal. Iran’s foreign minister confirmed the move, while a U.S. official reported “very good progress.”

President Joe Biden signed the $1.2 trillion spending bill into law, narrowly avoiding a government shutdown despite missing a midnight deadline.

The number of illegal border crossers has increased significantly since Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas implemented a range of policies he said were designed to reduce “irregular migration” and create a “legal pathway” for foreign nationals to come to the U.S.

Federal agents apprehended a record number of criminal noncitizens in fiscal 2023, according to several reports.

There was hope for a 62-year-old man with end-stage kidney disease for an extended life on Friday after an American hospital successfully transplanted a pig kidney into the patient in the world’s first such operation.

The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the appeal of a Catholic couple who lost custody of their 16-year-old son after he went against his parent’s religious beliefs and began identifying as a girl, USA Today reports.  Mary and Jeremy Cox of Anderson, Indiana, filed their appeal to the Supreme Court after a two-year-long fight against the state’s removal of their son, who is now no longer a minor.

The Israeli military has intensified its operations in northern and central Gaza and Rafah, urging more neighborhoods to move to designated safe zones over the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, Israeli aircraft struck over 120 Hamas targets throughout the Gaza Strip, as detailed in a statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Monday.

Israel began its 76th Independence Day with subdued celebrations due to ongoing conflict with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The annual torch-lighting ceremony was pre-recorded and broadcast Monday night, marking the first Independence Day since the escalation of hostilities on October 7.

Qatar, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have announced they reject Israel’s suggestion that Arab countries control civil administration in the Gaza Strip after the current Israeli-Hamas war there has ended, the Jerusalem Post reports.

At 8 pm local time on Sunday, May 22, Israel came to “a halt for 24 hours” to mark “one of the most difficult Memorial Days since our country’s founding,” Israel’s government said.  

Israel’s government was weighing its options Saturday after the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member in a move that Israel described as “a prize for Hamas.”

China’s ruling Communist Party is continuing its crackdown on Christianity by removing crosses from churches and adding new restrictions to religious activities, Missions Box reports. 

A plaintiff in Malaysia who converted to Islam to marry a Muslim woman has been told by a civil high court that he cannot now renounce his Islamic identity and return to his original identity as a Christian, Free Malaysia Today (FMT) reports.

Loren Cunningham, the visionary founder of the global missions and evangelism movement Youth with a Mission (YWAM), who preached the Gospel to virtually every corner on Earth, has died from cancer.

Authorities in southern Laos have told dozens of Christian converts to leave their homes because their faith goes against “the dominant village religious belief in animism or traditional spirits cults,” Christians told Worthy News Thursday.

An evangelical team found a teenager in eastern Uganda to have been locked up and nearly starved to death by his Muslim father because he had become a Christian, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. While Christianity is legal in Uganda, former Muslims who become Christians are vulnerable to attacks by Islamic extremist relatives and community members.