BUTLER, Pa. (BP) – A rally for former President Donald Trump was interrupted Saturday afternoon following what appeared to be gunshots. Trump was speaking at a campaign rally when several pops rang out. After lifting his hand to his ear, Trump ducked to the ground at the crowd behind him scattered.
Armed assailants attacked two churches in Nigeria’s Kogi State in recent weeks and abducted worshippers, a United Kingdom-based human rights organization focused on international religious freedom reported.
NEW YORK (BP) – New York state is on track to legalize physician assisted suicide for adults in early 2026, joining 12 other states and Washington D.C. that allow such intervention.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of War Pete Hegseth released a video Tuesday evening (Dec. 16) announcing immediate changes to directives given to military chaplains.
PEMBROKE, N.C. – Two Morning Star Ministries leaders drove 2,100 miles in a 26-foot U-Haul box truck across Interstate 40 after Thanksgiving to deliver 2,000 Christmas shoeboxes and other gifts for Native American youngsters in Oklahoma, New Mexico and as far West as Flagstaff, Arizona.
NAZARETH, Israel (BP) – Yasmeen Mazzawi, an Arab Christian who attended Nazareth Baptist School as a teenager, observed an unexpected joy as Christmas returned to her hometown of Nazareth for the first time since the start of the Israel-Hamas War.
KADUNA, Nigeria (BP) – Nigerian Christian leaders verified Dec. 16 that Christians there are persecuted for their faith, refuting a growing international narrative that violence in the deadliest country for Christians is not religion-based.
SYDNEY (BP) -- The international Jewish community is mourning during its annual Festival of Lights after gunmen killed at least 15 and injured dozens at a Hannukah celebration in Sydney Dec. 14.
Williston, VT (BP) -- After leaving Vermont, returning again feels like entering spiritual darkness. That’s how one volunteer at Aspire Now Pregnancy Care Center in Williston, Vermont, described her experience serving mothers in a state that is leading the nation in abortion access.
ARLINGTON, Texas – In a story of life transformation filled with twists and turns only God could orchestrate, Michael Ray Lewis, a former atheist and horror filmmaker, gave his life to Christ and has become a Christian apologist.
WASHINGTON (BP) – Young men are not leading a revival in religiosity, Bible reading and churchgoing in the U.S. today, Pew Research said in its latest findings, bucking 2025 reports from other top researchers.
