Palestinian Christian organizations accused Western Christian leaders who voiced their support for Israel after the Oct. 7 Hamas terror attack of being "complicit" in "Israel's violence and oppression" in the days following the deadly blast at a church in Gaza.
A Pakistani court has granted bail to a Christian couple accused of blasphemy, citing insufficient evidence. A rights group has called it a “landmark judgment,” which has sparked calls for changes to the nation’s controversial blasphemy laws.
Nicaragua has freed 12 Catholic priests and sent them to Rome following negotiations with the Vatican. The clergy had been held as political prisoners in a country that persecutes all who are deemed critical of the government.
Hamas terrorists subjected civilian women, grandmothers and children to extreme sexual violence, a Rabbinate corps member of the Israel Defense Forces responsible for preparing victims' bodies for burial has told media, calling the acts “worse than the Holocaust.”
A former U.S. congressman said several of his relatives were among the casualties when an Israeli airstrike hit a church in Gaza, which killed at least 18 people.
Judith Raanan and her daughter Natalie, 17, abducted by Hamas earlier this month, have been released, the Israel prime minister's office and White House announced.
Arab leaders scrapped a planned meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden Wednesday after Hamas claimed that a hospital in Gaza was struck by an Israeli airstrike, resulting in hundreds of deaths. U.S. officials said on Wednesday, however, that the blast in the hospital complex parking lot was not caused by Israel, but by a jihadist group within Gaza. .
The Myanmar military, also known as the Tatmadaw, killed at least 29 internally displaced civilians in a bombing attack on a camp in the Buddhist-majority country’s Christian-majority Kachin State. Another 55 were wounded, according to rebel groups.
Hindu nationalist government officials in northern India's Uttar Pradesh state have demolished a Pentecostal mission center and arrested 18 people amid concerns over the persecution of the Christian minority in the country, according to reports.
A Minnesota woman, known for protesting Israeli military actions in Gaza, is among the over two dozen Americans killed by Hamas in Israel earlier this month, according to her daughter.
