An earthquake of at least 6 magnitude hit the northern part of Indonesia’s Sumatra island Sunday, and Christians living there told Worthy News they could feel the impact in their home.

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine just hours after Ukraine and Russia seemed to open their doors slightly to direct peace talks.

Pakistani Christians on Sunday urged nuclear-armed neighbors Pakistan and India to immediately end their fighting as clashes rapidly escalated hours after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire was supposed to come into effect.

As tensions rose Saturday between India and Pakistan, at least one widow was mourning the death of her only son, a Christian teenager shot and killed by a Muslim in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

Ukraine claims to have busted a Hungarian spy ring operating on its territory that collected intelligence for a possible Hungarian invasion of the country.

A U.S.-brokered truce between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan was violated just hours after the truce began, residents observed.

European leaders visited Kyiv on Saturday to discuss the road toward peace between Ukraine and Russia, and to remember the fallen soldiers. Their visit came a day after Russia remembered the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany.

China’s and Russia’s leaders deepened their partnership in Moscow where a massive military parade recalled the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany.

Robert Prevost was elected as the first American pope on Thursday, appearing on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica as Leo XIV.

At a recent meeting in Wuhan, Christian media in China were instructed to increase their coverage of Xi Jinping’s thoughts and key Communist Party documents, according to a religious liberty and human rights magazine.