Preparations were underway for the first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church to pray, without using a Bible, at the start of ceremonies leading up to the inauguration of Barack Obama as the United States’ first black president on Tuesday, January 20.
The world’s main Bible translation organization has unveiled a plan to ensure that every person will be able to read the best-selling and most-translated book of all-time in its own language by 2025.
Chinese security forces expelled well-known evangelist and leader of China’s growing house church movement, Pastor ‘Bike’ Zhang Mingxuan, from the capital Beijing Friday, January 16, while he was praying for a dying Christian man, a well-informed advocacy group told Worthy News.
The militant group Hamas has rejected a cease fire with Israel and Iran said the country has no “right to exist,” after Israeli forces killed a Hamas minister and struck a United Nations compound in the Gaza Strip.
Survivors of a spectacular crash landing into the Hudson River thanked God on Friday, January 16, that the right pilot at the right time guided a crippled US Airways jetliner safely into the Hudson River — saving all 155 people aboard.
Christians in the Gaza Strip faced another terrifying day Thursday, January 15, as Israeli forces pounded the Gaza Strip and Hamas militants fired rockets towards Israel, believers said.
The militant group Hamas admitted Thursday, January 15, that Israel had killed one of its key ministers in a major air strike in Gaza City, while the United Nations expressed outrage that Israeli forces attacked a U.N. compound used by refugees.
A US Airways Airbus A320 plane came down in the Hudson River in New York City, Thursday, January 15, and ships rushed to the scene to rescue passengers.
A song written by American Christians to encourage embattled Israel, entitled, “A Prayer Under Fire,” has aired for the first time on Israeli radio and television, Worthy News learned Wednesday, January 15.
With freezing temperatures across most of Europe, there was heated anger, Thursday, January 15, especially in Eastern Europe about the suspension in natural gas deliveries from Russia through Ukraine. The gas crisis comes at a difficult time for leading politicians, especially in Bulgaria, where some 2,000 people have demanded the government’s resignation over allegations of corruption.
A new audio message released Wednesday, January 15, allegedly from the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden, has called for all Muslims to launch a holy war to stop the ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza, according to Islamist websites.
Suspected militants fired several rockets into Israel from neighboring Lebanon Wednesday, January 14, the second such attack in a week, residents and Israeli officials said.
The Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has warned that the world economy will decline more than previously anticipated.
Heavy shelling of areas surrounding Gaza City commenced today as the Israel Defense Force (IDF) pressed deeper into the Gaza Strip as Israeli tanks have taken up positions in Gaza City. Palestinian sources report that this is the first time since the beginning of the conflict that Israeli tanks have taken positions in the city.
With the death toll of Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip reportedly rising to over 900 and Hamas militants firing rockets deep into Israel, anti and pro-Israel protests have spread throughout the world, with some of them turning violent.
A Christian missionary remained detained in India Tuesday, January 13, more than a week after he was detained in the state of Madhya Pradesh for allegedly forcing people to convert to Christianity, his organization said.
A national security organization in the United States has warned American Christians of more violent incidents against them and said churches are in most cases not prepared to deal with attacks.
More than half of Americans no longer consider Christianity as the nation’s main religion while one in three Christians say “Jesus sinned while He was on earth,” a new study claims.
A senior official involved in Israel’s ongoing offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip has said Israel does not want to re-occupy the Palestinian territory, and he accused the United Nations of being “an Israel bashing parade” and supporting Hamas.
Eastern Europe was anxiously awaiting the resumption of natural gas deliveries from Russia Monday, January 12, after Russian energy giant Gazprom said Ukraine signed a fresh copy of a gas transit monitoring agreement.