Christian News from a Biblical Worldview

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the United States will not launch additional military strikes against Iran before the November 3 midterm elections, citing ongoing diplomatic negotiations with Tehran while maintaining Washington’s economic and military pressure on the Islamic Republic.

Iran-backed Houthi rebels intensified ballistic missile attacks against Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, on Thursday, disrupting international flights, threatening critical infrastructure, and raising fears of a broader regional war as fighting spreads toward Islam’s holiest cities.

At least 33 people have been killed and 18 others wounded in a Russian glide bomb attack near two passenger buses in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, authorities said Thursday, as escalating Russian strikes claim growing numbers of civilian lives.

Nearly one million requests for emotional and psychological support have been recorded in Israel since Hamas launched its October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks, revealing the devastating mental health toll of three years of war, displacement, and continuing security threats.

Israelis gathered across the country 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.

The U.S.-backed Board of Peace marked the third anniversary of the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre on Wednesday by renewing its commitment to a Gaza Strip that is demilitarized, deradicalized and no longer capable of threatening Israel.

The USS Abraham Lincoln returned Thursday to San Diego and the cheers of an enthusiastic crowd after the aircraft carrier’s extended deployment in the Middle East.

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and wounded an illegal immigrant from the Dominican Republic during a targeted enforcement operation in New York City on Thursday, sparking protests and renewed controversy over President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

U.S. President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of a former Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people at a Texas military base in 2009, with the convicted killer scheduled to be put to death on December 3 in what would be the first execution carried out by the American military in more than six decades.

Jim Bakker, the American televangelist who built a multimillion-dollar Christian broadcasting empire before his career collapsed amid sexual and financial scandals, has died at age 86, his family announced.

More than half a billion Christians worldwide face restrictions that make obtaining or reading the Bible difficult or dangerous, according to a new international report revealing the enormous challenges believers face in accessing God’s Word.