President Donald Trump’s accusations that Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is a “jihadist” seeking to impose Sharia law have drawn condemnation from El-Sayed and renewed scrutiny of claims about Islam’s religious legal tradition in the United States. Trump made the remarks Oct. 25 at a campaign rally in Port Huron, where he also said
Pope Leo XIV has submitted a mail-in ballot in Chicago for the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, the Holy See Press Office confirmed Friday, making him the first pope known to vote in a U.S. election. The ballot was cast ahead of the Nov. 3 elections. Vatican News reported the Vatican’s announcement. “Pope Leo XIV has exercised
England needs about 940 additional adoptive families for children currently awaiting placement, according to a new report from children’s charity Coram and Adoption England. The findings have prompted Christian debate about whether the rise of IVF, surrogacy and egg freezing is contributing to the decline in adoption recruitment. The report, Every Day is Everything, said 2,060
Open Doors is urging Christians worldwide to sign a petition calling for protection, justice and restoration for believers and other vulnerable people facing violence in sub-Saharan Africa. The Arise Africa petition seeks 1 million signatures. Organizers plan to present it to the African Union, the United Nations, the European Union and national governments in 2026. The petition
Right to Life UK is marking the 59th anniversary of Britain’s Abortion Act with an estimate that 11,256,470 abortions have taken place across the United Kingdom since the law received royal assent in 1967. The pro-life organization published the estimate on Oct. 27, the anniversary of the Act’s passage. Its memorial page says the figure represents
Tens of thousands of Israelis living abroad returned to Israel for Tuesday’s Knesset election, a surge driven by the country’s first national vote since the Hamas-led attack of Oct. 7, 2023, and the wars that followed in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. Israel generally does not permit citizens to vote from abroad. The AID Coalition’s Fly&Vote initiative
Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob apologized after a White House video showed him and 11 other Catholic bishops praying over President Donald Trump, saying the administration turned a private policy discussion into a public political image. “The meeting was in no way an endorsement of the president, his policies, or his party,” Grob wrote in his Oct.
Jordanian security forces arrested three suspects Monday in connection with a shooting at a Greek Orthodox church that killed nine people and injured dozens during a funeral in the southern Karak governorate. The Public Security Directorate said the suspects were found before dawn hiding in an abandoned house in the area of al-Jadeeda, near the village
Christian commentator Samuel Sey will be deported from the United States after Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained him at an Ohio airport, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The 39-year-old Ghanaian-born writer was arrested Oct. 21 at Columbus International Airport and is being held at Butler County Jail in Hamilton, Ohio. “Sey has no pending
Mozhda TV began broadcasting Oct. 24 as a satellite channel aimed at Afghan audiences, with its founders describing it as Afghanistan’s first television channel dedicated to Christian programming. The launch brought together church leaders, mission partners and Afghan believers after decades of prayer and cooperation among Afghan Christian leaders and mission organizations. Shoaib Ebadi, executive director