Nationwide protests erupted mid-March in Lebanon and have become relatively common. Hundreds of protestors marched through Beirut in recent weeks to demand political resolution.
Ten years ago today, the Arab Spring movement sparked massive protests in Damascus, Syria. Demonstrations called for “a Syria without tyranny,” Middle East Eye reports. Syrian Christians sought change too and received an answer they didn’t expect.
About 300 refugees from a Christian minority community from Myanmar held a demonstration in India’s capital on Wednesday against last month’s military takeover in their country and demanded the immediate release of Aung San Suu Kyi and other Myanmar leaders.
Haiti prepares for country-wide protests as opposition leaders call on the current president, Jovenel Moïse, to step down. Some are concerned he is trying to amass too much power, and want elections for a new parliament.
In the aftermath of the US. Capitol invasion on Jan. 6, Christian artists took to social media to condemn the violence and stress the reality of spiritual warfare.
A leading campaigner for Christian freedom in China has received death threats and been hounded from his home, according to Release International.
NBA star Karl-Anthony Towns revealed he has lost seven members of his family to COVID-19, including his mother who died as a result of the virus in April, stating that he has seen ‘a lot of coffins in the last seven months’.
Police in Belarus have arrested hundreds as protests continue and a nationwide strike picks up steam.
As outrage and protests continue to shake Kenosha, Wisconsin after the police shooting of another young Black man, the mother and the pastor of Jacob Blake’s family are calling America to prayer.
The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (RRT) is sending crisis-trained chaplains to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where the area is in turmoil with violent protests surrounding the police shooting of Jacob Blake on Sunday.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko visited a factory in Minsk Monday and was booed and heckled by workers who chanted “Leave!” in unison. Many people have turned against him after a suspiciously one-sided election result. Read more here.
Firebrand North Carolina Bishop Patrick Wooden Sr., of the conservative Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, slammed newly minted Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris as “ain’t good for black folk” in a politically charged sermon Sunday.
