“O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen on your walls; they will pray day and night, continually. Take no rest, all you who pray to the Lord.” —Isaiah 62:6
The number of confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has climbed to 933, including 245 deaths, Health Minister Samuel Roger Kamba has said.
For several months, Waseem Masih took pride in his work, doing his part to keep the province of Punjab in Pakistan clean. Masih, a Christian, was employed under the Suthra Punjab initiative — a province-wide sanitation reform launched by Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz…
TEHRAN — In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Saeed Khatibzadeh, outlined Tehran's position on upcoming negotiations, the implementation of a recent memorandum of understanding, and broader regional stability, issuing a clear warning to…
The heated debate in Tehran revolves around whether the agreement can absorb external shocks without collapsing into renewed confrontation — or whether it is structurally closer to a managed pause in a continuing cycle of escalation.
At least five people were killed in an Israeli air strike on the southern Lebanese town of Arabsalim on Saturday morning, Lebanon's state news agency NNA reported.
Fighting flared anew in Lebanon on Friday, with authorities reporting 47 killed in Israeli airstrikes and Israel announcing the deaths of four of its soldiers. The violence is the worst since the sealing of a US-Iran deal to halt the wider Middle East war, which was supposed to…
According to an Israeli source, Israel will not continue attacking Hezbollah for the time being, with the 80 sites targeted being the full response to the recent Hezbollah drone attacks.
The leader of an extremist group that carried out so-called "Sharia patrols" targeting people suspected of drinking alcohol in Russia's Kabardino-Balkarian Republic has been sentenced to four years and three months in a penal colony.
Videos circulating on social media this week appear to show extensive damage inside Mar Kiryakos Church in the village of Sharanish in Iraq’s Dohuk Governorate, prompting concern among Assyrians and other Christians over the fate of one of the area’s historic churches.
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On Jan. 3, Egyptian Christian Augustinos Samaan was sentenced to five years of hard labor after he was convicted of “contempt of religion” and “misuse of social media.” Samaan has a YouTube channel on which he posts apologetics videos comparing Christianity and Islam.
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La detención en prisión puede poner en riesgo la vida del disidente y maestro espiritual ruso. The post Un Llamado Humanitario Urgente sobre el Caso de Konstantin Rudnev first appeared on Bitter Winter.
DUBAI, June 19 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon killed at least 15 people on Friday, state news agency NNA said, while Israel said the attacks launched overnight were aimed at what it described as Hezbollah targets in several areas.
Religious leaders in the Central African Republic say they were stunned the United States deported migrants without cultural or familiar ties to the landlocked African country last Friday. They questioned why people who fled religious and political persecution were sent to a…
Pastor Anwar Hossain often travels an hour’s drive from his home in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital, to his native village to catch up with family and friends. When he last visited in April, his trip had a more pressing purpose: to comfort families devastated by the loss of their…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has announced $107 million in emergency funding to help contain an expanding outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, warning it could become one of the worst on record.
When media spread intolerance, and authorities promote discrimination, violence is a logical consequence. The post Hate Crimes Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses in Western Europe first appeared on Bitter Winter.
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Christian relatives of a 13-year-old girl in Pakistan allegedly abducted, forcibly converted to Islam and married to an older Muslim man fear she could be trafficked, as they continue efforts to recover her.
The Syrian Democratic Forces transferred no fewer than 6,547 detainees to Iraq, among them 4,743 Syrians, including dozens of children and adolescents, and 1,804 foreigners from nearly 61 nationalities Available in: English العربية Damascus – In a brief report, the Syrian…
DUBAI, June 17 (Reuters) - Iran and the United States will end fighting on all fronts, per MoU details published by Iran's official IRNA news agency on Wednesday, adding both countries to end naval blockades in the region.
ABUJA, Nigeria (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Fulani herdsmen on Tuesday (June 16) killed five Christians in a mining site Plateau state, central Nigeria, sources said. The five Christians were working at a mining site in the Gero area of Gyel village, in…
A public agitator turns online polemics into real-world intimidation against a vulnerable minority. The post The Saga of AROPL: Syed Ali Akhbari, The Enforcer of the Narrative first appeared on Bitter Winter.
According to two sources familiar with the discussion, ministers were told that Iran's economy had deteriorated sharply under the US-led naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian authorities killed and injured civilians in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in violation of international humanitarian law, and as part of a wider pattern of strikes on Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, Amnesty International said today.
On 3 June 2026, the New Cairo Misdemeanour Court sentenced prominent activist and writer Ahmed Douma to one year in prison with labour on charges of spreading “false news”. These charges stem from his article, published on 25 March 2026 by Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, about the impact…
African leaders convened a high-level virtual summit on Tuesday to rally support for the continent’s $518 million response plan to curb the Ebola outbreak in East Africa.
The source added that all of the drones had been intercepted by the US military before they pose a threat to commercial or US military ships and personnel.
Around 11 a.m. on Sunday, June 14, communist authorities raided Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, and arrested dozens of believers. Roughly 30 SWAT officers and another 60 police officers reportedly entered the hotel conference room where the church had…
Armed assailants have taken a woman and her young daughter from a health centre in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said, raising fresh concerns over the spread of Ebola in the region.
Muslims living near the proposed site of the Javanese Christian Church (GKJ) in Banyuanyar Village, Solo City, Central Java, Indonesia, protested its construction on June 11, citing the church’s lack of a building permit.
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A few weeks after Tuareg fighters pushed the Malian Army and its Russian supporters out of the northern city of Kidal, hundreds of metal balls the size of oranges rained down on the nearby community of Tadjmart.
Strife is growing in eastern Chad’s ethnic Zaghawa communities amid allegations of support for Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia. Suspicions of Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Déby’s support for the paramilitary RSF can be traced to the beginning of…
An evangelical church in Leipzig has closed its cafe following 26 attacks attributed to radical elements. The decision reflects ongoing security concerns faced by the church.
Thirteen dead and 12,500 households have been displaced after the president's contested term extension triggered the capital's worst political violence in years
TEHRAN – Iranian intelligence authorities announced the dismantling of an organized terrorist cell in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, arresting four suspected members before they could carry out planned attacks.
The Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, one of Orthodox Christianity's oldest and most sacred monasteries, was among the targets in Russia's latest overnight attack on June 15. Images of the religious site in flames sparked outrage and horror throughout Ukraine and…
