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Christians anxiously watch a decision by Nicaragua’s autocratic president to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is ready to work under U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s “strong leadership” on peace talks with Russia and wants a minerals and security agreement with the United States.

A Russian airstrike on a military training ground in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region likely killed dozens, sources say.

Australia is on high alert, and people have been warned to leave or prepare for the worst as a tropical cyclone is on track to cross a densely populated part of the country’s coast for the first time in 50 years.

The U.S. pledged over $65 billion in military aid to Ukraine under former U.S. President Joe Biden, but President Trump suspended it temporarily after a heated Oval Office clash with Ukraine’s president, casting doubt on support from its key ally.

In a bombshell decision, the Colorado Supreme Court decided on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to be on the 2024 presidential primary ballot.  The court has effectively barred Trump from pursuing the presidency due to his involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, referencing the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, a measure dating back to the post-Civil War era.

In what has been described as a miracle, a baby in Clarksville, Tennessee, was found unharmed in a tree after a deadly tornado ripped through his home, tearing off the roof and sweeping him up out of his crib, ABC News reports. Although his home was completely destroyed, four-month-old Lord Moore suffered only a cut to his face in the tornado, which killed three people and injured dozens of others as it stormed through Clarksville on Dec. 9.

Republican Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has signed a new bill granting police the authority to detain illegal immigrants. This legislation also empowers local judges to order their departure from the country. This move aims to combat the influx of illegal immigration that has overwhelmed the state since the onset of the Biden Administration, challenging the extent to which a state can enforce immigration laws.

Questions were raised early Monday after a car hit a motorcade vehicle as U.S. president Joe Biden left his campaign headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, late Sunday.

The Christian parents of a trans-identified child in Indiana have filed a petition asking the US Supreme Court to intervene after the state’s Department of Child Services removed their son from their care after disagreements over his gender identity and welfare, the Christian Post (CP) reports. The petition argues for the protection of parental rights and free speech, and for the free exercise of religion.

The United States has put forward an alternative draft for a United Nations Security Council resolution to ‘“support for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza as soon as practicable, based on the formula of all hostages being released,” according to Reuters, and such a move “would have serious implications for regional peace and security, and therefore underscores that such a major ground offensive should not proceed under current circumstances.”

A Dutch Christian foundation supporting efforts to provide the Gospel, Bibles, and humanitarian aid to Jews is among the latest pro-Israel groups to distribute its publication in a sealed envelope amid mounting antisemitism in the Netherlands.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced on Sunday that the battalions of Hamas in Khan Younis have been dismantled, with an impending offensive in Rafah expected in the near future.

Israel’s cabinet unanimously rejected any attempts by Western countries to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian State on Sunday, saying such a move would reward unprecedented terrorism and prevent any future peace agreement. 

Israel faced major security challenges Thursday as Iran prepared to attack the Jewish nation while Arab countries and the United States pushed for the creation of a Palestinian state.

The much-persecuted, tiny Christian community in Iraq has taken the historic step of launching a new public television channel broadcasting only programs conducted in their native Syriac language, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. Syriac is an ancient language derived from Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke while He walked the Earth.

Having buried women and children in a mass grave following yet another Fulani Islamist attack on Christian communities in Nigeria’s Plateau state last month, local church leaders are encouraging their communities to stand in faith and are praying for God’s intervention in the ongoing genocidal slaughter of believers, Morning Star News (MSN) reports. At least 50,250 Christians in Nigeria have been murdered by Islamic jihadists including Fulani herdsmen, Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa since 2009.

Pastors have been jailed, and churches have been closed in India’s Uttar Pradesh state by Hindu nationalists intent on stifling Christianity and the spreading of the Gospel in their region, Morning Star News reports. 

Pat Robertson, the famed American televangelist who once ran for president and founded the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), has died. He was 93, his son and the network announced.

Christian leaders in South Sudan have issued urgent calls for peace after the Bishop of Morobo and his driver survived a violent abduction by armed insurgents on Monday, Christian Today (CT) reports. The kidnappers claimed to be members of the National Salvation Front, a militant group opposed to the South Sudanese government.