Middle East
Iran's Assembly of Experts has named Mojtaba Khamenei, 56, as the country's new supreme leader following the assassination of his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in U.S. and Israeli military strikes on February 28, 2026.
Middle East
Iranian women have endured over 47 years of systematic oppression under the Islamic Republic, and on this International Women's Day, their courageous resistance demands the world's attention.
Middle East
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican's Secretary of State and its highest ranking diplomat, has delivered an unusually direct condemnation of the ongoing United States and Israeli military strikes on Iran, calling the erosion of international law "truly alarming."
Middle East
Forty one members of Calvary Chapel Summerville in South Carolina have safely returned to the United States after being stranded in Israel for nearly a week during the Iranian counterstrikes that rocked the region.
Middle East
Nearly 30,000 people have been displaced across Lebanon after a wave of overnight airstrikes shattered a fragile ceasefire on March 2, 2026, plunging the nation's Christian communities deeper into crisis.
Middle East
On Saturday, February 28, 2026, the United States military and Israeli Defense Forces launched Operation Epic Fury, a coordinated assault targeting hundreds of sites across Iran. The strikes hit leadership compounds, government ministries, missile production facilities, nuclear sites, and...
Middle East
A drone attack struck the Blessed Michael McGivney apartment complex in Ankawa, a Christian suburb of Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan region, on the evening of March 4, 2026. The blast completely destroyed the chapel inside the complex and damaged a nearby convent belonging to the Chaldean...
US
United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has declared that prayer plays a central role in "every decision" the Trump administration makes regarding the ongoing conflict with Iran.
US
A prominent Shiite mosque in Dearborn, Michigan held a memorial service on Sunday, March 1, 2026, honoring the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed during Operation Epic Fury, a joint U.S. and Israeli military strike on Iran.
Persecution
As US and Israeli airstrikes rain down on Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and decimating military targets, a forgotten community is caught in the crossfire: Iran's Christian minority, already ranked the 10th most persecuted in the world by the Open Doors 2026 World...
Middle East
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has called on the State Department to place Turkey on a Special Watch List for severe violations of religious freedom, citing the mass expulsion of foreign born Protestant Christians from the country.
Middle East
Bishop Aldo Berardi, the Apostolic Vicar of Northern Arabia, has suspended all church activities across the vicariate following a wave of explosions that rocked Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar on February 28, 2026.