Christian News from a Biblical Worldview

U.S. peace envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Sunday as the Trump administration intensified efforts to restart negotiations aimed at ending the nearly five-year war between Russia and Ukraine.

Indonesia halted operations at six airports Sunday, including the main international airport near Jakarta, the capital, disrupting hundreds of flights after the Anak Krakatau volcano spewed ash high into the atmosphere.

Two of U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s top envoys arrived in rainy Moscow on Saturday carrying what he described as a proposal to end Russia’s war against Ukraine, following another round of deadly Russian missile and drone strikes.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that removing Iran’s ruling regime has become Israel’s “central mission,” telling senior military officials that the goal is now “within reach” as Tehran faces mounting pressure from Israel, the United States, and regional fallout from its terror network.

The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday it had completed clearing a strategic Hezbollah underground facility beneath the Ali Taher Ridge in southern Lebanon and was preparing the tunnel complex for demolition.

President Donald Trump sought to reassure Israel on Wednesday as renewed fighting between the United States and Iran raised fears of a broader regional escalation, saying Israel “should not worry” and predicting the conflict with Tehran would not last much longer.

The U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs in August, dramatically exceeding economists’ forecasts and delivering the strongest sign in months that the American labor market remains resilient. The unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%.

A federal judge on Friday extended a block preventing the U.S. Postal Service from enforcing new mail-ballot requirements ordered by President Donald Trump, escalating a legal battle over election procedures less than two months before the November midterms.

U.S. lawmakers are raising fresh concerns that China, Russia and other American adversaries could use electromagnetic pulse weapons to cripple the nation’s electrical grid and critical infrastructure, potentially plunging large portions of the country into darkness.

A Russian strike on an ammunition depot near Kyiv triggered massive destruction that also wiped out a Christian humanitarian aid warehouse serving thousands of war-affected Ukrainians, while dozens of people were killed in the surrounding area, aid workers and officials said.

Lothar Velten, one of Germany’s best-known evangelists and a leading figure in the nation’s tent mission movement, has died after some six decades of preaching the Gospel in Germany and Austria, his ministry confirmed. He was 82.