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  May 14, 2026

  Iraqi Christian woman wins legal battle over state-imposed Muslim religious identity

  An Iraqi court has ruled in favor of a young Christian woman to protect her identity, allowing her to have her religious status corrected in the government’s official database after she had been automatically registered as Muslim under Iraqi law. The ruling could set an important precedent for many Christians in Iraq facing serious legal and personal consequences because of state-assigned religion.

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  May 11, 2026

  India’s Tamil Nadu state elects first Christian chief minister, actor-turned-politician C. Joseph Vijay

  C. Joseph Vijay, a 51-year-old film star-turned-politician, was sworn in as chief minister of Tamil Nadu on Sunday, becoming the first Christian to hold the office in the second-most-populous southern state in India, a country where Christians are persecuted and account for less than 3% of the population.

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  May 11, 2026

  Children of detained Pastor Ezra Jin, Jimmy Lai hoping for fathers' release after Trump-Xi meeting

  The children of two men imprisoned by Chinese authorities, house church leader Pastor Ezra Jin and Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, say they're counting on President Donald Trump to raise both cases when he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, with Trump’s trip to China beginning this week.

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  May 11, 2026

  Pastor Robert Jeffress says Trump knows biblical view of gov’t better than Pope Leo

  Pastor Robert Jeffress said President Donald Trump has a better grasp of what the Bible teaches about government than Pope Leo XIV, specifically on the question of military action against Iran, entering a public dispute that has already seen Trump call the pontiff weak on crime and foreign policy.

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  May 10, 2026

  Trump statue ‘Don Colossus’ isn’t ‘golden calf' worship, Pastor Mark Burns claims

  Pastor Mark Burns, a televangelist and ally of President Donald Trump, pushed back twice within days against comparisons of a newly unveiled golden statue of Trump to a biblical idol, insisting the effigy was an act of honor, not worship.

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  May 9, 2026

  Hantavirus cruise outbreak: 5 critical facts you need to know

  In the span of a few weeks, an expedition cruise from Argentina toward Cape Verde turned from an exclusive wildlife voyage into an international public health emergency after the MV Hondius became linked to an outbreak of hantavirus.

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  May 4, 2026

  Islamic State kills 12 Christians in Nigeria attack: report

  Terrorists from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) killed at least 12 people and burned a church building in an attack on a Christian village in northeastern Nigeria’s Adamawa State, according to the international Christian aid organization Barnabas Aid.

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  May 4, 2026

  Israeli police arrest man who attacked nun near King David’s tomb amid global condemnation

  Israeli police arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of assault after he attacked a French nun near King David’s Tomb in Jerusalem, with investigators examining whether the attack was racially motivated.

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  May 4, 2026

  Alabama megachurch pastor resigns abruptly, calls decision 'heartbreaking'

  The senior pastor of Shades Mountain Baptist Church, a congregation of roughly 7,800 members in the Birmingham suburb of Vestavia Hills, Alabama, announced his resignation Friday in a video posted to social media, saying his final Sunday sermon was two days away and asking his congregation to “please pray like crazy.”

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  May 3, 2026

  Trump, Iran warn of war escalation; Hezbollah-IDF battle in Lebanon leads to strike hitting convent

  President Donald Trump warned Saturday that he could order fresh military strikes against Iran if Tehran “misbehaves,” even as both governments exchanged competing proposals to end a war that has severed a fifth of the world’s oil and gas supplies for more than two months.