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Moscow-installed officials accused Ukraine of killing at least 28 people at a bakery in the Russian-occupied city of Lysychansk.

The Netherlands’ military has dropped four pallets containing medical supplies and other aid from a great height over the Gaza Strip in the first such operation by Dutch forces, several officials said Sunday.

Many Republicans already are criticizing a border bill expected to be voted on in the U.S. Senate. Former President Donald Trump blasted the proposed legislation Monday, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., called it “dead on arrival.”

Tensions remained high in Europe on Monday, where desperate farmers protested over the weekend, blocking crucial border crossings between Belgium and the Netherlands and clogging the streets with their tractors in other countries.

Causing alarm that soon there will soon be nothing left of Iraq’s historic Christian community, more than million Christians have now left the country due to war, persecution, government corruption, and unemployment, the Catholic Register reports. There are now just some 150,000 Christians in Iraq, compared to around 1.5 million in 2003.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief wants Hungary to share its experiences with helping persecuted Christians “with the rest of the world” amid mounting anti-Christian and anti-Jewish sentiments, a government official said.

A Christian pro-life activist in the United Kingdom has been found guilty of breaching a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) by holding a sign outside a London abortion clinic with the words: “Psalm 139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.” Stephen Green was convicted at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court on Friday; the abortion clinic he had been at is run by MSI Reproductive Choices, formerly Marie Stopes, in Ealing, west London.

Two Christian brothers in Punjab Province, Pakistan were abducted last month by Islamic extremists who brutally tortured them and ordered them to confess allegiance to Islam or be killed, the Christian Post (CP) reports.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) plans to introduce a bill on the House floor next week to allocate $17.6 billion in emergency funding to Israel. This move comes at a critical time, coinciding with the anticipated release of legislative details by Senate and White House negotiators this weekend. The discussions aim to reach a border security agreement alongside President Biden’s request for $106 billion in supplemental funding. 

The threat of war continues unabated with the deployment of three troop divisions to the northern border, according to an announcement from the Israeli military on Saturday. Israel has issued a stark warning to Hezbollah, elaborating on strikes that, according to Israel, have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of terrorists attempting to destabilize the already tense border.