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Opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot appears poised to receive the mandate to form Israel’s next government after securing recommendations from 67 lawmakers, dealing a significant political setback to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following last month’s inconclusive elections. President Isaac Herzog announced Thursday that he would assign the mandate on Sunday after […]
Originally published in Christian Daily International Iran has replied to only one of the eight communications UN human rights experts have sent it about Christians since 2011, and that single reply described Christian converts as a threat to national security, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of […]
Originally published in Christian Today Jordan has carried out airstrikes in southern Syria in response to a church attack that killed nine people, saying its forces targeted Islamic State strongholds. Gunmen opened fire during a funeral at the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint George in the village of Hammoud, in […]
Originally published in Premier Christian News A Christian TV channel has been launched for believers in Afghanistan despite authoritarian Islamic Taliban rule restricting Christianity. Mozhda TV is the first Christian TV channel and began broadcasting on Saturday October 24, in a country where Christian materials have been banned and were […]
Originally published in Worthy News The wife of imprisoned Iranian pastor Joseph Shahbazian has been ordered to begin serving a 13-year prison sentence, nearly a year after her conviction, Christian sources told Worthy News. Lida Alexani, 58, was summoned to Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison on October 9, according to Christian […]
Originally published in CBN Next Tuesday, Israeli voters will cast ballots in the first election since the Hamas massacre and kidnappings of October 7th, 2023. In a tight race between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the opposition parties, the polls are reflecting a sharp divide over assigning responsibility for Israel’s […]
By Charles Gardner, UK Correspondent As antisemitism spreads its poisonous tentacles across the UK, politicians and other influencers were absorbing the harrowing truth of how Britain prevented thousands of Jews from escaping the Holocaust. At a meeting in the British House of Commons to which leading representatives of the Jewish […]
Originally published in Worthy News Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence imposed on a 24-year-old Sri Lankan migrant worker over a social media comment deemed insulting to Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, following diplomatic intervention by Sri Lanka and appeals from human rights advocates, officials said Wednesday. Sri Lanka’s […]
Originally published in Worthy Christian News Israelis gathered across the country on Wednesday to mark three years since the Hamas-led October 7 massacre, pausing to remember the roughly 1,200 people killed and 251 taken hostage on the deadliest single day in Israel’s history. Commemorations began at 6:29am, the moment the […]
Originally published in CBN News They boarded a routine flight to Israel and landed with new heroes among them. Now, as passengers from FlyDubai flight 1073 describe their miraculous survival, Israeli authorities are digging deeper into what may have been behind the attempted hijacking of the jet. As Prime Minister […]