Christian News from a Biblical Worldview

An Indonesian court sentenced former education minister Nadiem Makarim, the co-founder of Indonesia’s largest start-up, Gojek, to 10 years in prison Tuesday in a controversial corruption case that has raised concerns at home and abroad over the country’s legal system.

Political uncertainty remained Monday in Serbia after Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced he would resign within weeks and call early presidential and parliamentary elections following 18 months of student-led anti-government protests.

Residents of Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, awoke Monday to a fresh aftershock as rescuers raced to find survivors four days after twin earthquakes devastated parts of the country, killing nearly 1,500 people and injuring more than 3,000.

Israel’s Ministry of Defense has completed a new series of advanced tests of the Iron Dome air defense system, validating major upgrades intended to strengthen the nation’s ability to confront increasingly complex aerial threats, including rockets, cruise missiles, and drones.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israeli forces will remain inside the Security Zone in southern Lebanon until Hezbollah no longer poses a threat to Israel, warning that the Iran-backed terror group will not be permitted to rebuild along Israel’s northern border.

The Israeli government has unanimously approved a proposal to recognize the mass killing of Armenian Christians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I as genocide, a historic step that acknowledges one of the darkest chapters of Christian suffering in the modern Middle East.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states may bar transgender women and girls from competing on female school sports teams, handing a major victory to advocates who have argued that girls’ and women’s athletics must be protected on the basis of biological sex.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to restrict birthright citizenship, preserving a long-standing constitutional interpretation that grants U.S. citizenship to most children born on American soil, including those born to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present in the country.

A U.S. Army captain was recently sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to secretly slipping an abortion medication to a pregnant soldier, resulting in the loss of her unborn child and renewing calls for the federal government to take action.

The Texas State Board of Education has approved a new required reading list that will place selected Bible passages before millions of public school students, marking one of the most significant moves in decades to restore biblical literacy to American classrooms.

A court in Pakistan has acquitted a second Christian of blasphemy, just days after another believer was also cleared of similar charges.