Afghanistan struggled on Tuesday with the aftermath of a powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake that officials said shook the north of the troubled country, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 640 others, while also damaging the historic Blue Mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif.

At least seven people were killed and several others injured Tuesday after a passenger train crashed into a cargo train in central India, according to senior local government officials and railway sources.

Christians appealed for prayers Tuesday after Typhoon Kalmaegi, locally known as Tino, left at least one person dead and forced tens of thousands to flee as it swept through the central Philippines, officials and aid workers said.

Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, 71, announced Monday that he had formed a new governing coalition with right-wing and anti-Islam partners, triggering immediate controversy over his plan to appoint a foreign minister accused of racist and abusive behavior.

The aftermath of Spain’s worst flooding in recent memory became clearer Monday as Valencia’s regional president, Carlos Mazón, resigned after enduring months of political and public backlash over his handling of the 2024 floods that killed more than 200 people.

Tensions remained high in Serbia’s capital Monday after opponents and loyalists of President Aleksandar Vučić clashed in Belgrade during a rally marking one year since the Novi Sad train-station collapse that killed 16 people.

Ukraine was weighing its options Monday after U.S. President Donald J. Trump said he will not currently approve the transfer of long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, despite Kyiv’s urgent requests as Russian strikes intensify around Pokrovsk and other eastern front-line areas.

Two prominent female survivors of Britain’s grooming-gang scandals have resigned from a government-backed panel advising a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation, amid concerns about how authorities are handling one of the country’s worst social crises.

British police have arrested two men on suspicion of attempted murder after a mass stabbing aboard a high-speed passenger train traveling through eastern England late Saturday left 11 people injured, several critically.

Mexico’s president has expressed her shock after a festive weekend turned tragic Saturday when at least 23 people, including children, were killed and a dozen others injured in a fire and explosion at a discount store in northwestern Mexico.

Israel’s Supreme Court issued a temporary injunction Friday halting the dismissal of Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar, just hours after the cabinet voted to remove him by April 10. Responding to the order, Prime Minister Netanyahu wrote on X: “There will be no civil war! Israel is a state of law, and the government decides who leads the Shin Bet.”

Thousands of people protested outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Thursday night while his cabinet unanimously voted early Friday to dismiss Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar.

Senior US and Israeli officials are set to hold high level talks concerning Iran’s nuclear program next week in Washingtons.

Israel announced Wednesday it has sent troops back into Gaza with a “focused ground operation,” in central and southern Gaza over the past 24 hours, aiming to broaden security zones and create a partial buffer between northern and southern Gaza.

Thousands of Israelis protested in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, opposing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership, the renewed war in Gaza, and his plans to dismiss Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar.

Hamas says that Israeli strikes have killed the head of its government in Gaza, where Hamas-controlled authorities claimed Israel’s actions killed more than 400 people.

Israel launched a surprise operation in Gaza, on Tuesday night targeting 80 locations simultaneously lasting less than ten minutes fulfilling Israeli leaders’ warnings that they would unleash the “gates of hell” unless all hostages were released.

The governor of the U.S. State of Minnesota says a gunman posing as a police officer has killed a senior Democratic Minnesota lawmaker and her husband on Saturday in an apparent “politically motivated assassination.

Residents in the U.S. city of San Antonio plunged into mourning Saturday after record-breaking rainfall triggered severe flash flooding, leaving at least 11 people dead, dozens injured, and causing widespread damage in the area.

A federal judge in Massachusetts issued a sweeping injunction on Friday against President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at imposing new national election rules, ruling that the president lacks constitutional authority to unilaterally change federal voting requirements.

In a narrow 214-212 vote, the House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a $9.4 billion federal spending rescission package aimed at slashing foreign aid, public broadcasting funds, and codifying cuts initiated by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a cost-cutting initiative championed by President Donald Trump and led by Elon Musk.

A coalition of left-leaning legal groups is attempting to block an Arkansas law that requires the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, launching yet another challenge in the broader cultural war over America’s religious heritage.

The U.S. government recorded a $316 billion budget deficit in May, the Treasury Department reported, marking a 9% year-over-year decline as rising revenues and calendar adjustments pointed to potential fiscal improvement. When accounting for timing shifts in benefit payments, the adjusted deficit narrowed to $219 billion, a 17% drop compared to May 2024.

In a striking shift after more than a decade of decline, a growing share of Americans now say religion is becoming more influential in American society, according to a new Gallup poll released Wednesday.

A street evangelist who was shot in the head while sharing the Gospel in Glendale, Arizona last year has credited the love and grace of God for a remarkable recovery that defied his doctors’ expectations and allowed him to return to preaching, ABC15 reports.

Despite warnings and outcry from local and international religious rights groups, Fulani Islamic terrorists are continuing to murder Christians in Nigeria with impunity, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. More Christians are killed for their faith in Nigeria each year than in the rest of the world combined: well over 50,000 believers have been murdered by Islamic terrorists since jihadist terrorism took hold in the country in 2009.

Brazil’s isolated northwest Amazon region is experiencing a remarkable spiritual revival with an unprecedented number of local residents putting their faith in Christ and new churches being planted through the missionary activity of evangelical believers, CBN News reports exclusively.

The UK-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) non-profit advocacy organization has reported that Islamic extremist militants in northern Syria have seized control of 500 acres of farmland belonging to Christian farmers in the town of Ras Al-Ein.

Amid ongoing persecution against Christians in India by Hindu extremists, a pastor and several other believers were assaulted during a Hindu nationalist attack on a church service in Odisha state on Sunday, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.

Religious communities in Ukraine are in an increasingly “dire” situation as invading Russian forces, and authorities harass, blackmail, and threaten violence against ministers and churchgoers, raid, loot, and destroy worship centers, and gather personal data on believers to put them under surveillance, Mission Eurasia reports.

More than a dozen Nicaraguans with the U.S.-based evangelical group Mountain Gateway are among some 135 prisoners released by Nicaragua’s government after months of negotiations with the United States, several sources confirmed.