US Federal Reserve Leaves Rates Unchanged
The U.S. Federal Reserve, the world’s most influential central bank, held interest rates at a 23-year high on Wednesday but did not immediately indicate when it would begin cutting borrowing costs this year.
The U.S. Federal Reserve, the world’s most influential central bank, held interest rates at a 23-year high on Wednesday but did not immediately indicate when it would begin cutting borrowing costs this year.
The United States says the drone attack that killed three U.S. service members in Jordan was carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias that includes the militant group Kataib Hezbollah.
Israel’s defense minister has urged his nation to prepare for an imminent war with the massive Iran-backed Hezbollah militia based in neighboring Lebanon and a broader armed conflict in the Middle East.
The NATO military alliance has begun its largest exercise since the Cold War, involving 90,000 troops as several European nations prepare for a possible war with Russia.
Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF) has formally complained to California’s Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), accusing school officials of unlawfully refusing to let the ministry hold its after-school Good News Clubs in public school facilities, CBN News reports. The US Supreme Court ruled in 2001 that, under the First Amendment, public schools must give equal access and equal treatment to Christian clubs as they do to secular clubs.
During his appearance before the Congressional House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on Wednesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray underscored the escalating threat of Chinese cyberattacks against vital U.S. infrastructure, including electrical grids, pipelines, and critical cyber systems.
US homelessness spiked by a dramatic 12% in 2023 compared to the year before, after the pandemic-era American Rescue Plan financial provisions expired, Relevant reports.
The Israeli ambassador to Sweden said Wednesday that the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, the capital, was the target of an “attempted attack.”
Israel confirmed Tuesday it has begun pumping large volumes of seawater into “Hamas terrorist tunnels,” defying U.S. and experts’ warnings that it may endanger hostages while threatening clean water supplies in the Gaza Strip.
Christians in Pakistan are cautiously celebrating a major victory for religious freedom as the Pakistani government has decided that non-Muslim children will be exempt from previously required Islamic studies in school and will be able to study the Bible instead, the International Christian Concern (ICC) aid and advocacy organization reports.
Fears were mounting Wednesday of civil war within the United States as Texas troops cut access to federal agents to part of the U.S.-Mexico border after a massive influx of migrants fleeing armed conflicts, persecution, and poverty.
The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security voted along party lines early Wednesday to advance two articles of impeachment against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
As the Islamic jihadist slaughter of Christians in Nigeria’s Middle Belt continues unabated and with impunity, suspected Fulani terrorists murdered five more Christians in Benue state on Jan. 18, just days after 10 Christians were murdered in the state on Jan. 7, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.
Antisemitic acts in France nearly quadrupled in 2023, compared to the previous year, according to a warning from the country’s leading Jewish interest group. The Council of Jewish Institutions in France (Crif) attributed this sharp increase in incidents to the aftermath of the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is urging two committees to resolve their differences and swiftly combine their conflicting bills to overhaul the government’s controversial surveillance law, according to The Washington Times.
The syphilis outbreak in the U.S. shows no signs of slowing down, as the rate of infectious cases increased by 9% in 2022, according to a recent federal government report on sexually transmitted diseases among adults.
Evangelical leaders, legislators, and intercessors will gather in Washington D.C. on January 31 for the “National Gathering for Prayer and Repentance,” which organizers called for “pray prayers of serious repentance” for America.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, during his visit to the southern border on Monday, announced that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have killed or injured approximately half of the estimated 30,000 members of Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented on the reported agreements regarding hostages, prisoner exchanges, and a ceasefire. He asserted Israel would not release thousands of terrorists and that the conflict would not conclude until Israel achieved a complete victory, fulfilling all its objectives, including the elimination of Hamas from the Gaza Strip.
Christians in the Southeast African island country of Comoros are bracing for continued persecution as Sunni Muslim President Azali Assoumani was reelected in a disputed election earlier this month, the International Christian Concern aid and advocacy organization has reported. Catholic and Protestant Christians make up a tiny percentage of Comoros’ overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim population of less than one million people.