“Arise, shine, Bethlehem, for the light of peace has dawned anew.” With these words, Bethlehem celebrated the traditional lighting of its Christmas tree on a packed Manger Square on Dec. 6, 2025, following a two-year hiatus.
Security force officials and media gather outside a damaged building from a suspected Indian missile attack near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan controlled Kashmir, on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. ...
Smoke billows following Israeli airstrikes targeting a power plant and Sanaa Airport, in Sanaa, Yemen, May 6, 2025. Associated Press / Photo by Osamah Abdulrahman ...
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Monday announced a 30-day ban on mining in Peru’s northern Pataz province, the day after 13 mining workers were found dead. The Peruvian armed forces will seize c...
Israel will give Hamas a last chance to agree to a hostage deal until after the Middle East visit of U S President Donald Trump next week, an Israeli official told local media outlets on Monday
The Australian Labor Party won the most seats in Parliament on Saturday, giving party leader Anthony Albanese another term as prime minister. Counting will continue for several days, but the Labor Par...
While Trump attended Francis’s funeral, he and JD Vance have clashed with U.S. bishops in general and Francis in particular over the administration’s hard line stance on immigration and its efforts to deport migrants en masse.
A rights watchdog chronicled a record 344 new blasphemy cases in Pakistan in 2024, highlighting increased abuse of the country s condemned blasphemy laws
Armenia, a small country around the size of Maryland located just north of the Middle East – surrounded by Muslim countries to the east (Azerbaijan), west (Türkiye) and south (Iran) – adopted Christianity as a people in 301 A.D., making it the first Christian nation in the world. Last week,…