Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics reported about 184,200 Christians living in the country at the end of 2025, an increase that continued a steady climb from prior years. The bureau said the Christian community grew by 0.7% in 2024, following gains in 2023 and 2021 that came from both natural increase and a net migration balance. These are not advocacy claims. They are official counts. They show Christians remain a visible minority whose presence is stable and edging upward inside Israel.

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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the firing-squad execution of former Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at the Fort Hood base in 2009, is set to become an unprecedented event in the nation’s history.

Approved by US President Donald Trump, the plan has drawn bipartisan criticism and condemnation from human rights advocates and religious leaders, who say it risks turning an execution into a public spectacle.

Virginia State stripped Women of Victory and Bethel Campus Fellowship of their official club status on August 6, 2026.

The new Campus Ministries Policy placed both groups under United Methodist Reverend Thomas Wynn.

Neither group can so much as schedule a meeting, start a prayer circle, or plan a social gathering without Wynn signing off first.

The policy cut both clubs loose from the national ministries they had been affiliated with for years.

by Tyler Durden

France is tearing itself apart as far-left riots, a dire fiscal situation and years of unfettered mass migration collide, while President Emmanuel Macron loses his grip and his approval rating craters, raising the prospect of a victory for right-wing candidate Marine Le Pen in next year's presidential election.

Posted by Tyler Durden:  Authored by Robert Williams via Gatestone Institute,

"This could be the first election in Sweden where the Muslim immigration that we have had is decisive in a parliamentary election," predicted the leader of the Sweden Democrats, Jimmie Åkesson, days before Sweden's election on September 13.

Former Israeli prime minister says failure to challenge calls for killing and starving Palestinians has eroded Israel’s moral standards

Nadav Rapaport in Tel Aviv, Israel

There are "no innocent people" in Gaza and Israel should "also kill two-week-old babies" in the Palestinian enclave, Israel's former prime minister Yair Lapid has recounted young Israelis telling him.

American tax payers. Here is the American tomahawk missile, made in Tucson, Arizona and paid for by American people , right before it obliterated Christians at a church in Holy land. https://t.co/es4ggfnucm

— Irlandarra (@irlandarra2019) October 5, 2026

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Mohammad Amin Ahmadi, scheerpost.com

The Massachusetts Attorney General's investigation covered the Dioceses of Worcester, Springfield and Fall River. Findings include that "more than 270 Catholic clerics abused nearly 1,000 children across the three dioceses."