Christian News from a Biblical Worldview

Brazil has been plunged into a bitter election dispute after leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was declared the winner of Sunday’s presidential runoff, defeating conservative Senator Flávio Bolsonaro following a controversial last-minute judicial decision to extend voting by two hours.

Serbia’s longtime leader Aleksandar Vučić has conceded defeat in Sunday’s parliamentary elections after preliminary results indicated that a student-backed opposition movement had secured a majority, potentially ending 14 years of rule by his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).

Bulgaria appeared headed for a presidential runoff Sunday after exit polls showed acting President Iliana Yotova narrowly ahead of pro-Western challenger Andrey Gyurov in an election overshadowed by Russia’s war in Ukraine and deadly attacks on commercial shipping in the Black Sea.

Israel enters the final hours of a fiercely contested national election campaign, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fighting for political survival against former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, whose rising Yashar party leads in the latest polls.

Israel launched a massive two-day military exercise Sunday, simulating coordinated surprise attacks across multiple fronts as tensions with Iran intensify and security forces prepare for potential attacks ahead of Tuesday’s national elections.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has directed the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Mossad, and other security agencies to pursue the overthrow of Iran’s Islamic regime, declaring that removing Tehran’s leadership is the only lasting solution to the nuclear threat facing Israel.

Two senior Federal Bureau of Investigation officials were taken into federal custody Friday on charges of lying to Congress and criminally obstructing its investigation into the financial dealings of Hunter Biden, son of former president Joe Biden.

This November, roughly one third of gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial seats are up for reelection. A quarter of U.S. states’ secretary of state seats are up for grabs. And 296 state executive offices in 43 states are on the ballot, according to data published by the nonprofit Ballotpedia.

The Trump administration filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday after a federal judge again blocked it from constructing a border wall system in the Big Bend region of Texas.

Thousands of Jordanians gathered Sunday to mourn eight of the nine Christians killed when suspected Islamist gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church, in what was described as the country’s worst such attack in decades.

An estimated 800 mourners gathered Thursday in the central Dutch town of Veenendaal to bid farewell to Bible teacher and gospel musician Ab Klein Haneveld, whose uncompromising biblical teachings and commitment to evangelism influenced generations of Christians in the Netherlands and beyond.