Two men of traditional tribal religion in central India on April 13 assaulted a pastor and his family for their Christian faith in an attempt to chase them from their land and home, sources said.
The announcement was "extremely painful and difficult for all concerned" and came in response to what the parish called a "threat to the parish and the clergy."
A Russian missile attack that killed at least 35 people in western Ukraine, some 15 miles from NATO member Poland, has stirred anxiety among Poles near the border.
The war in Ukraine is forcing believers outside Russia to either stay loyal to the church leadership in Moscow despite its support for the invasion, leave the church in protest or seek a messy middle ground.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett held separate phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday in an attempt to mediate the crisis between the two warring nations.
Iranian state television reported Monday that the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard arrested members of a “network" working for Israel that planned to sabotage Iran’s major underground nuclear facility at Fordo.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia stepped up its bombardment of Kyiv on Tuesday, devastating an apartment house and other buildings, while civilians in 2,000 cars fled Mariupol along a humanitarian corridor in what was believed to the biggest evacuation yet from the desperately besieged seaport.
Supplies are running low in Mariupol, a Ukrainian port city of about 430,000 that Russian troops have surrounded for 12 days. A cease-fire opened an evacuation corridor from Mariupol toward the weste...