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The Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN), one of the world’s largest Christian evangelical churches, denied Tuesday that its late founder was involved in widespread abuse and torture.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has prostate cancer, and his recent secretive hospitalization was for surgery and later to treat a urinary tract infection linked to that operation, but his “prognosis is excellent,” doctors said Tuesday.

Denmark has amended its penal code, making it a criminal offense to commit blasphemy, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. The law appears in section 110 of Denmark’s penal code and was passed by the Danish parliament in December 2023.

Suspected Fulani Islamic jihadists slaughtered 41 Christians and kidnapped numerous others in Nigeria’s Kaduna state on Jan. 3, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

The population of Israel is expected to pass 10 million in 2024, including a growing number of Christians, Israel365 News reports. Statistics provided by the Central Bureau of Statistics show that Israel had some 9.842 million citizens at the end of 2023, representing an increase of 1.9% from the year before.

The US Supreme Court on Friday ruled that Idaho can implement an abortion ban that could criminalize doctors who perform the procedure in emergency situations, even before a final ruling is given on whether the state’s legislation conflicts with federal law, the Christian Post reports.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Israel late Monday after announcing that countries in the region are willing to normalize relations with the Jewish nation under the condition that it will lead towards a Palestinian state.

U.S. lawmakers will hold a hearing Thursday on “woke ideologies” influencing the military and how that may be negatively impacting national security, including recruitment of new members.

Calling for Congressional hearings, international religious rights groups have slammed the Biden administration for omitting Nigeria from its annual list of Countries of Particular Concern on Thursday, the Christian Post reports. Despite well over 52,000 Christians having been slaughtered and five million displaced by Islamic jihadists in the country since 2009, this is the third year running that Nigeria has been left off the US CPC list.

Using groundbreaking Israeli technology that measures the Earth’s magnetic field, archaeologists in Israel have been able to verify the timing of the Biblical destruction of the Philistine city of Gath by Hazael, king of Aram, as recorded in 2 Kings 17:17, All Israel News (AIN) reports.