Amid Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza and conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced Sunday that the IDF will create a buffer zone in southern Lebanon to protect evacuated residents who return to their homes in northern Israel, the Jewish Press (JP) reports.

An Iranian Christian man has been released from Iran’s notoriously harsh Evin prison after serving nearly half of the ten-year sentence he received for starting an illegal evangelical group, Church in Chains (CIC) reports. Ruled by an authoritarian extremist Islamic regime, Iran ranks 9 on the Open Doors World Watch List 2024 of the top 50 countries where Christians are persecuted.

Overtly hostile to Christianity, authoritarian regimes like China’s ruling communist party can use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to monitor and oppress believers in Christ, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has warned.

Iran’s feared Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani, who had not been heard from since Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s capital Beirut early this month, has appeared in Tehran, Iranian sources say.

An 80-year-old former officer with East Germany’s feared Stasi secret police has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for the murder of a Polish firefighter at a Berlin border crossing 50 years ago.

The European Union imposed sanctions on seven Iranian officials and entities, including airlines, for supplying ballistic missiles and drones to Russia for use against Ukraine in its invasion.

Israel on Monday accused the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) of allowing Hezbollah to set up military bases and store its weapons on the border with the Jewish nation.

Acting with ongoing impunity as their slaughter of Christians continues, Fulani herdsmen in central Nigeria’s Benue state murdered two Christians on Wednesday, Oct. 9, and two others on Thursday, Oct. 3, Morning Star News (MSN) reports.

Israel’s military announced Monday they had uncovered an extensive underground Hezbollah base in Lebanon from where the Iran-backed group planned “a larger massacre” in Israel than the one carried out by Hamas on October 7.

Human rights activists report that China has exposed hundreds of North Korean Christians to torture, enslavement, sexual violence, and imprisonment by forcing them to return to North Korea and the violent dictatorship of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un in the last year, Christian Daily International (CDI) reports.