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Amid rising concern over attacks on minority faith groups around the world, a bipartisan coalition of United States Senators last week introduced a resolution urging the State Department to expand its support for international religious freedom as “a fundamental right and a cornerstone of US foreign policy.”

A court in Faisalabad, Pakistan has acquitted the two Christian men who were falsely accused of committing blasphemy offenses that led to major riot in Jaranwala on Aug.16 last year, Morning Star News reports.

Devoted Indonesian Christians say they remain concerned about churches being targeted by Islamists despite government pledges to improve the situation for minority faiths in the world’s largest Muslim nation.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday he “fully stood behind” his remarks about sending Western ground troops to war-ravaged Ukraine and urged allies not to be “cowards.”

Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok has signed a bill allowing Sweden’s entry into NATO, but Budapest declined to endorse Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte as the next chief of the military alliance.

Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist organization, fired a massive barrage of rockets at the Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona on Tuesday evening after a White House senior adviser visited Beirut in a diplomatic effort to cease hostilities along the Israel-Lebanon border.

Former President Donald Trump continued to dominate in early Super Tuesday results. He was declared the winner in Virginia and North Carolina shortly after polls closed in the two states.

The Iranian-backed terror groups, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, have declared their intention for Ramadan to be a “month of terror,” calling for the “continuation of the Battle of al-Aqsa” as they called for Islamic nations to unify against Israel.

The government of Nicaragua has been engaged in human rights abuses against civilians that are “tantamount to crimes against humanity,” a panel of UN-backed human rights experts warned on Thursday. Commissioned by the Human Rights Council, the experts made their findings during an investigation into President Daniel Ortega’s violent crackdown on political dissidents, the Associated Press reports.

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a 2,000 year-old coin inscribed ‘Year One of the Redemption of Israel,’ from the time of the Jewish Bar Kochba Revolt against the Roman Empire in Judea, the Jerusalem Post reports.