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The small but devout Christian community in Gaza is slowly starting the process of rebuilding after Israel and the genocidal terrorist organization Hamas agreed to a peace deal, brokered by the White House, this week, Father Gabriel Romanelli of Gaza City’s Holy Family Church said on Monday.

President Donald Trump will honor late Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday afternoon, which would have been his 32nd birthday. 

Charlie Kirk, who was a champion for free speech, a devout Christian, and the founder of Turning Point USA, would have been 32 years old today.

The Chinese Communist government launched its biggest crackdown on Christians in years over the weekend, detaining dozens of pastors from “house churches,” including Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri, the founder of one of China’s biggest evangelical churches.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced a bill on Wednesday aimed at shielding Americans from Islamic Sharia Law.

Christian music superstar Forrest Frank says he will no longer attend awards shows because he feels the glory belongs to God, not himself.

A man has sparked outrage after climbing onto an altar in St. Peter’s Basilica, dropping his trousers and urinating in front of stunned onlookers. 

President Donald Trump is making extraordinary efforts to return to Washington, D.C., next week to personally award the late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a White House ceremony coinciding with what would have been Kirk’s 32nd birthday.

The Church of England has drawn international backlash over an “ugly” graffiti art installation at Canterbury Cathedral, one of the oldest Christian structures in England.

A pizza delivery driver is being showered with blessings thanks to a kind-hearted pastor in Castle Rock, Colorado.

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem – the top Catholic authority in the Holy Land – issued a statement on Thursday celebrating the news that the jihadist terrorist organization Hamas had agreed to accept an agreement to end its war with Israel brokered by President Donald Trump.

The opinion editor at the far-left Washington Post reportedly fired more than a half-dozen employees over the recent Yom Kippur holidays.

Dr. Ben Carson will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Donald Trump in recognition of his service and leadership.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) delivered remarks on the Senate floor warning that radical Islamic extremism continues to pose a grave danger to the United States, invoking past terrorist attacks and urging renewed vigilance against the spread of extremist ideology at home and abroad.

Archbishop Ignatius Aphrem, the patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church, told the Kurdish outlet Rudaw in an interview published Wednesday that the president of Syria, former al-Qaeda offshoot terror leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, personally promised that he would respect the rights of Christians.

Italy will work to fight “Islamic separatism” and “counter-societies where Sharia law” reigns with a proposed new law.

New York City’s Democratic Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani marked the two-year anniversary of Hamas’s October 7 massacre by accusing Israel of waging a “genocidal” war — bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble, alleging “war crimes.” He further declared “our government has been complicit through it all” — with Republicans and others erupting, calling the post “beyond disqualifying, heinous, disgraceful, and vile,” and blasting him as a “mouthpiece for Hamas propaganda.”

Pope Leo XIV received a copy of “Nicaragua: A Persecuted Church,” an extensive report detailing thousands of acts of Christian persecution.

The Vatican announced on Tuesday that Pope Leo XIV will make visits to Turkey and Lebanon beginning in late November, his first international travel as the head of the Catholic Church.

Netflix is pushing an “ungodly and dangerous agenda on our children and grandchildren,” Christian evangelist Franklin Graham said in response to the backlash against Netflix following various children’s shows repeatedly showing inappropriate LGBT+ scenes.

Police were reportedly warned years before the Manchester synagogue terror attack by neighbours of Jihad al-Shamie about the future Islamist extremist becoming “radicalised”.

The Israel Allies Foundation (IAF) on Sunday released its 2025 list of the Top 50 Christian Allies of Israel, led by Pastor Paula White-Cain and honoring the late Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, recognizing influential Christian figures who have “stood with Israel during these critical times,” with IAF President Josh Reinstein calling their support “a testament to the enduring bond between the Christian and Jewish communities.”

Members of a pro-Palestine protest in Rome reportedly defaced a statue honouring the late Pope John Paul II with graffiti that described him as a “fascist”.

The Manchester synagogue terrorist, Jihad al-Shamie, was out on bail for a suspected rape at the time of the attack, which claimed the lives of two Jewish people on Yom Kippur.

Church attendance and Bible sales have surged in recent weeks, with faith leaders around the country dubbing it the “Charlie Kirk Effect,” Turning Point USA announced on Friday.

“Liberal” Archbishop threatens a split in the wider Communion, given the conservative attitudes of many African and Asian churches.

A sculptor turned his grief over Charlie Kirk’s assassination into a beautiful tribute that will be installed at a Florida school.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) sent a letter to the CEO of the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) on Thursday pressing for answers after a Christian pastor was allegedly blocked from entering a chapel at the airport during a Muslim prayer service. 

More than 8,000 college students gathered on Tuesday at the University of Tennessee to worship Jesus Christ at a UniteUS campus event.

Venezuela’s socialist regime kicked off its mandatory 2025 “Christmas season” on Wednesday with a fireworks show launched from the Helicoide (“The Helix”), its largest and most infamous torture center.

Conservative radio host and author Dennis Prager made his first on-camera appearance since his injury in November 2024, sharing that he is “thrilled to be alive” and has been, for years, “philosophically prepared” for “this terrible thing that I have encountered.”

The sacred bones of a much-loved French Carmelite nun and Catholic saint, Thérèse of Lisieux, began a tour of the U.S. at a metro Detroit parish named in her honor.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping told his Politburo on Monday that tougher law enforcement in religious affairs was needed to complete the project of “Sinicizing” all faiths, which means making them all subordinate to the authority of the Chinese Communist Party.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) decided against receiving a “Lifetime Achievement Award” for his work on immigration from Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich after facing harsh opposition from several Catholic bishops and pro-life organizations for his longstanding support of abortion.

Pope Leo XIV said he considered President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza a “realistic proposal” and that Hamas should accept it.

Nigerian Christians say their communities are under siege by Islamist “bandits” who are planning nothing less than genocide.