Israelite commander Barak depicted in the Huqoq synagogue mosaic. | Courtesy of Jim HabermanAn excavation team in Israel has discovered the first known depiction of
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Franklin Graham asks Putin and Zelenskyy for a Holy Week ceasefir
Franklin Graham appears in a screen capture of a video from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association | YouTube/Billy Graham Evangelistic AssociationAs more than 1,300 civilians
World Vision helps Ukrainians, Romanian office complex houses 450
An office complex in Iasi, Romania, has been converted into a shelter for Ukrainian refugees fleeing their war-torn country. | World VisionA Romanian office building
Pastor, 3 others killed in Nigeria by suspected herdsmen
Men march along the truck carrying the coffins of people killed by the Fulani herdsmen, in Makurdi, Nigeria January 11, 2018. | REUTERS/Afolabi SotundeSuspected Fulani
Archaeologists find rare 2,000-y-o ‘Balm of Gilead’ gemstone seal
An ancient street unearthed by Israeli archaeologists appears in a screen capture of a video from Israel Antiquities Authority. | YouTube/Israel Antiquities Authority Official ChannelArchaeologists
Iranian authorities order pastor back to prison to serve 5 years
Iranian authorities have ordered a pastor from the Church of Iran denomination to return to prison to begin serving a five-year sentence for “sectarian activities,”
12-year-old Christian girl abducted in Pakistan by Muslim man
A pakistani girl is shown in this photo. | Reuters/Zohra BensemraThe family of a 12-year-old Christian girl from Pakistan’s Punjab province who was abducted by
Religious freedom advocacy group unveils 2021’s top 3 persecutors
A North Korean soldier looks from a watchtower on the banks of the Yalu River, just north of Sinuiju, North Korea, March 31, 2017. |
Nigerian Christian girl details harrowing escape from Boko Haram
Joy Bishara, a Nigerian Christian who was kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014, discusses her abduction and escape at International Christian Concern’s 2021 Persecutor of
German pastor fined for sheltering Iranian refugee in church
The Rev. Stefan Schörk, who granted asylum to an Iranian man in his church in Pegnitz, Germany, in January 2021, has been fined for “aiding