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At least 27 people died and seven others were injured after a minibus taxi carrying members of a Christian congregation crashed into a haulage truck in Zimbabwe.

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In the aftermath of the disaster in Nepal, two hydropower workers have been found alive in a tunnel more than a week after the flooding. Crews continue to search for other workers who may have survived in air pockets inside the mud-filled tunnels.

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In the aftermath of the disaster in Nepal, two hydropower workers have been found alive in a tunnel more than a week after the flooding. Crews continue to search for other workers who may have survived in air pockets inside the mud-filled tunnels.

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The U.S. is on track for a historic first: an entire year without resettling a single Christian refugee from the countries where believers face the most persecution.

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The sight of young men cheering wildly and jumping up and down in their bathing trunks after a lake baptism is a sight one might never have seen in Sweden years ago. However, a mighty move of God is underway in what has long been seen as one of the least religious nations on earth.

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What was supposed to be a massive weekend of Christian worship and celebration in the United Kingdom came to a heartbreaking halt after a pastor was killed in a devastating accident at Big Church Festival.

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Christians in Iran are facing intense persecution and significant economic hardship due to the ongoing conflict. Despite these severe challenges, a Christian satellite ministry reports that the Church is showing remarkable resilience and even experiencing spiritual growth.

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The death toll from the flash flooding disaster in Nepal continues to rise. At least 900 people are confirmed dead across Nepal and China, and 4,700 are missing. As rescuers race against the clock to reach survivors, CBN's Operation Blessing is on the ground helping provide much-needed relief.

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Officials fear another wall of mud, rock, and water could soon come crashing down on victims of the Nepal mudslide. A natural dam is in danger of breaching, potentially sending a second wave through the valley.

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Violent gang members in Port-au-Prince have massacred nearly 50 people — many of whom were Christians — and burned down a sanctuary of an evangelical church. They killed animals in the area as well.

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It was a catastrophic scene as people raced to escape the deadly torrent of water and earth that tore through a valley in Nepal along the Tibet border on Wednesday. Surveillance video captured the exact moment an unstoppable, 20-foot wall of water destroyed everything in its path.

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It was a catastrophic scene as people raced to escape the deadly torrent of water and earth that tore through a valley in Nepal along the Tibet border on Wednesday. Surveillance video captured the exact moment an unstoppable, 20-foot wall of water destroyed everything in its path.

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A Chinese pastor and missionary, racing against a stage four cancer diagnosis, is desperately seeking to be reunited with his wife and children in the U.S.

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A new tragedy is being reported in the ongoing genocide against Christians in Nigeria. At least 27 Christians have been killed in attacks over the past day. 

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For Johnny Reeves, a missionary pilot with JAARS, reaching Papua New Guinea means flying into airstrips carved into mountainsides, where gravel, grass, mud, and clay replace the paved runways found at conventional airports. For one flight, however, the cargo aboard his Kodiak airplane was more significant than anything he had carried before.

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Thousands of Christians from across the United Kingdom and beyond are preparing to gather in Manchester this month for Battle for Britain, a three-day gathering calling believers to pray, fast and intercede for the nation.

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CBN's Operation Blessing is on the ground in Pereira, Colombia, working with a church partner and volunteers to prepare and distribute thousands of meals to those most in need.

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An American missionary who was kidnapped last October has been released. As CBN News reported, Kevin Rideout was seized in the West African nation of Niger on Oct. 21 by three gunmen. 

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An American missionary who was kidnapped last October has been released. As CBN News reported, Kevin Rideout was seized in the West African nation of Niger on Oct. 21 by three gunmen. 

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Residents across Europe stopped to stare into the heavens on Wednesday, mesmerized by the first total solar eclipse over mainland Europe since 1999. These photos capture the mood of the moment in a powerful way.  

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Sensing the need to spiritually fight for freedom in Iran, leaders of prayer movements in America and around the globe are urging Christians to intercede on August 14th for the Islamic-nation stronghold, as well as for harvest in the Middle East and the world.

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The world is set to observe a remarkable heavenly event this week. A total solar eclipse is arriving on Wednesday, August 12, and it's just one of a series that some observers are calling "a Golden Age of Solar Eclipses."

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A driver in Birmingham, England was denied car insurance unless he removed a homemade "Jesus loves you" message from his vehicle. 

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Search and rescue teams are digging through the rubble after a powerful earthquake hit western Colombia. At least 132 people are dead, hundreds are missing, and rescuers are racing to find survivors before it's too late. 

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A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake has struck western Colombia, killing at least 111 people and damaging hundreds of buildings. President Abelardo de la Espriella declared an emergency to expedite funding for recovery. 

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Security forces have rescued 163 more kidnapped Nigerians from jihadi captivity. The freed hostages, mostly women and children, were among over 300 total kidnap victims recently rescued.

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A persecution watchdog is sounding the alarm about the worsening situation for Christians unfolding around the globe.

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A suspect has been arrested in connection with the death of a 38-year-old missionary who was killed in Athens, Greece.

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Operation Blessing Philippines is celebrating three decades of Christ-centered humanitarian work, marking 30 years of bringing hope, healing, and practical assistance to communities affected by disasters, poverty, and crisis both in the Philippines and around the world.

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This is one of the most isolated places on Earth. Towering mountain ranges, dense jungles, and deep river valleys have kept entire communities separated from the outside world for thousands of years. In many parts of the country, there are no roads. No highways. No easy way in or out.

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This is one of the most isolated places on Earth. Towering mountain ranges, dense jungles, and deep river valleys have kept entire communities separated from the outside world for thousands of years. In many parts of the country, there are no roads. No highways. No easy way in or out.

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An immigrant crisis has rocked Spain after roughly 60,000 migrants flooded into the Spanish city of Ceuta, located in northern Africa on the border with Morocco.

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Four-thousand Christians gathered this week for the Arise Asia 2026 Missions Conference to rally around the goal of reaching three billion people with God's good news.

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A Christian pastor recently released from a Chinese prison is feeling a mixture of joy and sorrow. Although Ezra Jin Mingri is happy to be reunited with his family in the U.S., he's deeply burdened for the religious prisoners still in China. 

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At least 30 Christians were killed in an attack on their village in Kaduna State in Nigeria on Sunday. Truth Nigeria reports the number of killed actually exceeds 60 people, citing multiple attacks.

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India's government took a surprising blow this month when nationwide protests forced a high government official to resign. The success of that civil uprising is giving hope to others who are standing up to the government. That includes Christians, who are calling on lawmakers to drop measures that threaten freedom of religion.

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It's been just over a month since the June 24 earthquakes devastated Venezuela. The death toll is now above 5,500 as teams removing debris continue to find bodies. More than 23,000 people are living in temporary locations. CBN's Operation Blessing is on hand to help those who've lost their homes.

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While capitalist democracies celebrate Indian leaders and draw up trade and military agreements, a deep unrest among young students across India is taking on ominous tones. On Monday, July 20 — the opening day of Parliament’s Monsoon Session — that unrest arrived at the gates of power itself.

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More than four decades ago, the late Dr. Pat Robertson introduced the Bible to Japan through CBN's Superbook, an animated Bible series originally created for Japanese children. 

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A global prayer movement is crying out on behalf of Nigeria's Christians as the West African country has become the most violent spot in the world for Christians. In 2025 alone, more than 3,500 Christians were killed at the hands of Islamic militants. Reports indicate that the number could be as high as 7,000.

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America's recent softening to Islam in the wake of widespread cultural acceptance will inevitably lead us down a risky path. As someone who grew up under radical Islam and is now free, I am frightened by subtle signs many Americans seem to be missing. 

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Fifteen years ago, a young Ukrainian couple left everything behind to follow what they believed was God's calling to one of the most remote places on earth. They arrived with little more than faith, a dream, and no idea how profoundly their lives, and the lives of countless others, would be changed. 

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As Christian persecution rages, Joel Veldkamp, head of international communications at Christian Solidarity International, continues sounding the alarm on the dire state of affairs.

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A TikTok creator from Birmingham, England who spent years defending Islam to more than 100,000 followers is speaking out about his decision to embrace Christianity — describing the theological doubts, death threats from former supporters and a series of vivid dreams involving Jesus.

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King Charles asked Labour Party leader Andy Burnham to form a new government today, making him Britain’s seventh prime minister in just a decade.   

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In a country plagued by violence, a remarkable transformation is taking place. Once mainly known for drugs and murder, one Colombian city is witnessing a revolution sparked by faith and fútbol. 

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As the world anticipates the thrilling finale of the 2026 World Cup — where legends have been made, hearts broken and entire nations riding the emotional rollercoaster of every key play — competitors and fans alike are reminded of the electric rush that comes with the pursuit of glory. 

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Finnish Parliament Member Päivi Räsänen says she has been banned from traveling to the UK after the British government revoked her electronic travel authorization (ETA), after first approving it. 

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London police have arrested a man who threatened to shoot Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage. 

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World Cup fever is running high in North America as the tournament is now down to the last four teams. While fans are focused on the games, believers are bringing the gospel of Christ to this international championship event.

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Alex Reads Tarot — a now-former occult content creator — shocked fans late last month, when she announced she was deleting all her previous TikTok content and would no longer perform Tarot card readings because she had become a Christian.

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Although Muslims remain a small percentage of the population in the European Union and United Kingdom, their numbers have grown to over 50 million, making Islam the fastest-growing religion there. There are now more than 30,000 mosques across the EU.

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The death toll from two Venezuelan earthquakes on June 24th has climbed past 4,500 as more bodies are being discovered in the rubble. The survivors, many with no homes, now face the risk of disease due to a lack of sanitation, clean water, and a shortage of medical care.

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Given an 800-mile border with Russia and a history shaped by war, Finland has spent decades designing a culture to withstand crisis. Beneath the streets of Helsinki, there's an entire second city. Infrastructure currently used for daily life was built for the possibility of war

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World Cup fever is running high in North America as the tournament is now down to the last four teams. While fans are focused on the games, believers are bringing the gospel of Christ to this international championship event.

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The family of a Chinese pastor who was just released from prison is expressing thanks to President Trump and everyone who prayed and fought for his release. But Pastor Jin "Ezra" Mingri, who was jailed for nine months after Chinese authorities raided his church, is now issuing a call to prayer.

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Before I traveled to Venezuela to help with earthquake relief, I carried certain expectations with me. I went to help with Operation Blessing, the humanitarian organization I'm privileged to lead. Like a lot of Americans, most of what I knew about Venezuela came from headlines.

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A profound spiritual transformation is unfolding in the Amazon. Evangelical Christianity is reshaping the region's spiritual fabric, leading to new converts and churches. CBN News traveled to Brazil's northwest Amazon region to witness it firsthand for this exclusive report.

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What if your daughter went to school one morning and never came home? Then, when you finally found her, a judge told you that you couldn’t even speak to her for ten minutes? That’s not a hypothetical. That’s what’s happening right now to the family of Neha, an 18-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan.

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Generation Z Protestant churchgoers are outpacing other cohorts in church attendance frequency and in sharing Jesus — but there are key areas where this younger generation is lagging.

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The family of a Chinese pastor who was just released from prison is expressing thanks to President Trump and everyone who prayed and fought for his release. But Pastor Jin "Ezra" Mingri, who was jailed for nine months after Chinese authorities raided his church, is now issuing a call to prayer.

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Two weeks after a pair of devastating earthquakes struck Venezuela, little hope remains that anyone will be pulled alive from the rubble. The death toll now stands at more than 3,600 people, and tens of thousands are still missing or injured.  

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In 1940, during the Soviet occupation in Vilnius, Lithuania, church buildings were turned into prisons, storage facilities, and even asylums. Now, many of those same church sites have been restored, as Lithuanians take back not only their history, but their identity.

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The death toll keeps rising in Venezuela, and reports indicate tens of thousands of people are still missing. CBN's Operation Blessing is there in Venezuela, operating a relief kitchen to prepare thousands of meals, packing them up, and sending them out to the streets.

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One week after devastating earthquakes struck Venezuela, rescue crews and aid workers are still racing to reach survivors and deliver desperately needed relief. 

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Morten Bødskov, the immigration minister of the Danish nation, announced this week the government is launching talks to determine whether a nationwide prohibition on the Adhan — a five-times-a-day call to prayer ringing out from loudspeakers affixed to mosques — could be approved without violating Denmark’s constitutionally protected rights to religious freedom.

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Militant Muslims have carried out a new round of bloody attacks against Christians in the African country of Nigeria. Fulani militants killed as many as 22 people in the town of Mushere in Plateau State.

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On June 29, Christians around the world will pause to observe the Day of the Christian Martyr. Church tradition marks this as the date the Apostle Paul was beheaded outside Rome. While history often highlights prominent men who laid down their lives for the gospel, there is another deeply convicting lineage of faith: the legacy of Christian women who refused to deny their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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CBN's Operation Blessing is deploying to Venezuela in the aftermath of back-to-back devastating earthquakes. The death toll has hit 589 and is expected to climb, with more than 4,000 people hurt and thousands more still missing.

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Thousands of Romanians protested in Bucharest on Saturday over Sweden's refusal to return Sara and Tiana Samson to their parents, Daniel and Bianca. The girls are Romanian citizens from a Christian family who lived as residents in Sweden. They were seized from their parents under false pretenses by Swedish social services three and a half years ago.  

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Powerful earthquakes struck on three continents in 24 hours, collapsing buildings, rattling homes, and killing at least 32 people. Venezuela was the hardest hit when back-to-back quakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5 quakes hit on Wednesday, collapsing buildings and sending panicked residents into the streets. A 7.2 earthquake shook northern Japan, and some residents in a rural area of Northern California sustained injuries from the strongest quake since 1940.

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Thousands of Romanians protested in Bucharest on Saturday over Sweden's refusal to return Sara and Tiana Samson to their parents, Daniel and Bianca. The girls are Romanian citizens from a Christian family who lived as residents in Sweden. They were seized from their parents under false pretenses by Swedish social services three and a half years ago.  

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The men's soccer team from the tiny country of Curaçao is setting records this year, and glorifying God as they do it. 

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The United Kingdom's Prime Minister Keir Starmer is stepping down. Less than two years after he won a landslide election, Starmer announced his resignation today. 

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A Texas couple whose marriage was once on the brink of total collapse is now helping other struggling spouses find faith, hope, and achieve matrimonial survival through Jesus.

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A judge in Brazil has sentenced a mother and father to prison for 50 days because they homeschool their children, accusing them of "intellectual neglect" and failing to teach them "tolerance and diversity."

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Officials in Toronto say hired gunmen are targeting Jewish sites. Police say young people are being recruited through encrypted messaging apps and recording their attacks in order to get paid.

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Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago, thousands of Ukrainian children have been taken into captivity and are still being held and brainwashed by Russian authorities.

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Since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine more than four years ago, thousands of Ukrainian children have been taken into captivity and are still being held and brainwashed by Russian authorities.

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At the G7 meeting in France, European leaders are hoping to convince President Trump to re-engage in negotiating a peace between Ukraine and Russia. Some Eastern European nations are actively engeaged in helping Ukraine.

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The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officially confirmed the existence of an El Nino last week. The weather event is expected to peak in the months ahead and could reach historic strength.

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The U.S. and Iran reached a tentative deal to end the war last night. Vice President JD Vance says the agreement will "fundamentally transform the Middle East."

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Actor Neal McDonough is on a mission to live out his faith in Hollywood, creating fulfilling content that helps shape hearts and minds.

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The United States and Iran have reached an agreement to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz, offering relief to the global economy more than three months since fighting began. 

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The Iranian regime's ultimate goal is the destruction of Israel and America. Reza Safa is very acquainted with the radical Islamic belief, which views Israel as the little Satan, America as the great Satan, and all other non-Muslims as infidels. 

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Edmund Burke famously said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." In a joint statement this week, 30 archbishops, bishops, and rabbis stressed, "Iranian authorities have exploited the climate of war as a cover for intensifying repression and suppressing growing dissent inside the country, with dozens executed..."

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Seeing Jesus in dreams and visions. Suddenly questioning everything they’ve been taught since childhood. Christianity is seeing a noticeable surge in the Middle East, which leaves many asking: Why are so many Muslims all across the world coming to faith in Jesus?

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Can a nation come back from the dead? An article in Foreign Policy magazine 10 years ago suggested Sweden was committing national suicide with its open-door immigration policy. 

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A 30-year-old man from Sudan appeared in a Belfast court Wednesday charged with attempted murder over a stabbing attack that left a man seriously injured and triggered anti-immigrant violence in several parts of Northern Ireland.

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NATO officials warn Russia is already waging war with the Western alliance, with a constant campaign of under-the-radar attacks against its eastern flank; a shadow conflict, fought through cyber-attacks, disinformation campaigns, drone incursions, and more.  

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Roughly 60,000 Christians recently gathered for a four-day event to mark Pentecost in one of the world's most secular countries.

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Christians in Sudan have long faced hardship, targeted for persecution or death. Now four years into the civil war, they're even more vulnerable yet remain undeterred. 

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Rescuers searched ruined buildings in the southern Philippines on Tuesday to ensure no one was still trapped a day after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the country in a half-century killed at least 37 people and displaced more than 32,000. 

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Christians in Sudan have long faced hardship, targeted for persecution or death. Now four years into the civil war, they're even more vulnerable yet remain undeterred. 

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A magnitude 7.8 earthquake has rocked the southern Philippines, killing at least 19 people and injuring over 200. The quake struck Monday, causing significant damage in the Mindanao region.

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Are UFOs demons? One of the nation's top exorcists might have lost his position for reaching that very conclusion.

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"Islam is dead in Iran," says Mohamad Faridi. He grew up in Iran's Islamic martyrdom culture and was trained to be a shaheed in the IRGC until he found out about Jesus. Now, as thousands of mosques close and the Islamic regime loses its grip on the hearts of its people, something extraordinary is happening.

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Palau is often described as one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Yet beneath the postcard-perfect scenery, this tiny Pacific island nation is playing an increasingly important role in one of the world's most consequential geopolitical contests: 

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A massive Russian attack on Ukraine this week damaged homes, businesses, and even a church. More than 600 drones and dozens of missiles rained down on Kyiv Tuesday in one of Moscow's biggest attacks of the war. 

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The gospel of Jesus Christ was proclaimed this weekend in a country that has historically been known as a "graveyard for missionaries." Evangelical Christians in Spain are calling it a big answer to prayer after massive crowds showed up to hear Franklin Graham preach about God's gift of salvation.

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