Worthy Christian News

The stench of death is never far away. Yet a Christian community on Sumatra island, overlooked by Muslim authorities, found reasons to “praise God” over the weekend as they received food, medicines, and other goods to cope with the aftermath of Indonesia’s deadliest flooding in years.

A senior U.S. official has expressed cautious optimism that negotiations to end the war in Ukraine may be nearing a breakthrough, even as violence continues across several front-line regions.

Contact has been restored with imprisoned Russian journalist Nika Novak through her lawyer after more than a week of “alarming silence,” Worthy News learned Sunday, easing fears among colleagues and relatives that she had been secretly transferred or harmed in Russian custody.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on December 7 that the U.S.-brokered cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is close to completing its first stage and is expected to transition soon into a “more difficult” second phase centered on disarming Hamas and demilitarizing the Gaza Strip.

Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal on Saturday again called for Israel’s destruction, publicly rejecting U.S.- and U.N.-backed demands that the Iranian-supported terror group disarm and accept a demilitarized Gaza under the terms of President Donald Trump’s ceasefire and transition plan.

US President Donald Trump is preparing to unveil Gaza’s long-awaited “Board of Peace” and formally announce the transition to phase two of Washington’s Gaza stabilization plan within the next three weeks, Axios and additional US and regional officials said Thursday. The move would mark the most significant diplomatic step since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect nearly two months ago.

White House border czar Tom Homan said on Dec. 7 that the Trump administration has located more than 60,000 children who were illegally smuggled into the United States—many of whom were rescued from sex trafficking, forced labor, and other forms of abuse.

Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano has roared back to life, hurling red-hot lava nearly 1,000 feet (about 300 meters) into the air and sending a towering plume of ash and volcanic gases to more than 20,000 feet (over 6,000 meters), officials and eyewitnesses said Sunday.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump expressed outrage Saturday about “illegal migrants” after a Honduran man was accused of stabbing a passenger on a light rail train in the city of Charlotte in the U.S. state of North Carolina — the second such attack there in less than a year.

A Catholic priest remained missing in northern Nigeria Thursday after being abducted from his residence in Kaduna State, Worthy News learned.

A funeral was underway in Pakistan on Saturday for a prominent Gospel preacher who was shot and killed in a Friday attack, less than three months after he survived another assassination attempt by suspected Islamic extremists, friends told Worthy News.