Omar Yanez was practically shaken out of bed on the morning of Oct. 7 by the siren alarms that were blaring outside his apartment in Jerusalem.
Trained Texas Baptist Men volunteers headed to Israel Oct. 8 after the nation erupted into warfare the day before, preparing to provide meals both for Israelis and Palestinians.
Members of a tour group from Georgia and a Kentucky Baptist are among other Southern Baptists in the Holy Land but are safe, four days after Hamas militants bombarded Israel with rockets in a surprise attack.
As the nation of Israel was under attack on the morning of Oct. 7 by Hamas militants, two words began to echo on nearly every news report were “unprecedented” and “surprise.”
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned atrocities committed by the ruling military regime in Myanmar as “inhumanity in its vilest form.”
A new report from Open Doors and World Relief found the number of Christians finding refuge in the U.S. after fleeing persecution in their native countries dropped from 32,248 in 2016 to 9,528 in 2022 — a decline of 70%.
The exact whereabouts of human rights lawyer Lu Siwei, who was arrested in Laos in July, appear uncertain.
“Blasphemy laws are inconsistent with international human right law,” the report states.
Religious freedom and human rights conditions in Iran — which already were bleak — have “sharply deteriorated,” the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom reported in an update released Sept. 11.
Mediterranean storm Daniel released torrential rains overwhelming usually dry riverbeds and collapsing two dams in Libya.
