Faith Wire, By Tré Goins-Phillips: A young woman in the Khunti district of Jharkhand has become the fifth victim in a string of Christians killed in India because of their faith. The woman, 25-year-old Suman Munda, was found dead on…

The Guardian, The Guardian, by Oliver Holmes, Helen Sullivan, and Rebecca Ratcliffe: Here are the main developments: • The Lebanese government has declared a two-week state of emergency after two huge explosions on Tuesday killed at least 135 people and injured around 5,000. •…

Daily Caller, Marlo Safi: The Chinese Communist Party has waged a “total war” on faith and has sanctioned the U.S. officials who’ve brought attention to Beijing’s treatment of religious minorities, the U.S.’s ambassador of international religious freedom Sam Brownback told…

Faithwire, By Tré Goins-Phillips: Leaders for a Christian ministry in the United Kingdom have said they’ve received death threats and the bank accounts associated with the organization have been shut down following a “mob rule” campaign from LGBTQ activists. The…

The Federalist, By Jordan Davidson: While rioters previously attacked federal buildings, businesses, and even officers, this weekend, they found a new target: Bibles. A video posted to Twitter on Saturday shows rioters holding Black Lives Matter signs tossing Bibles into a…

CNS News, by John Jakubisin: Conservative radio host Mark Levin warned people living in the suburbs that the violence taking place in inner cities is coming for them. “I would say this to people in the suburbs: that’s you next,” he…

France 24: Israel’s parliament took a step towards criminalising gay “conversion therapy” on Wednesday, giving preliminary approval to a bill banning the practice widely regarded as a human rights violation.  The bill, introduced by the head of the left-wing Meretz…

Daily Caller, Shelby Talcott: PORTLAND, ORE. — Riots in Portland continued Saturday evening, with one leading to a fire being set inside a police union building and another continuing to target the federal courthouse. Portland has seen over 50 days…

Watchers, Teo Blašković: According to MetService meteorologists, the storm dropped 220 mm (8.6 inches) of rain on Whangarei from 19:00 LT on July 17 to 07:00 LT on July 18. ‘We call this a greater-than-500-year return period,’ the service said….

The Guardian, Julian Borger: The Trump administration has been consulting the former government lawyer who wrote the legal justification for waterboarding on how the president might try to rule by decree. John Yoo told the Guardian he has been talking…

Breaking Israel News, by Dr. Rivkah Lambert Adler: A new message, begging Jews who live in the diaspora to get to Israel, has been released from an unusual source.  Daniel, a Jewish man living in Israel, is known by his first…

Fox News, By Ronn Blitzer, Bill Mears, Shannon Bream: The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down a ban on taxpayer funding for religious schools, in a narrow but significant win for the school choice movement. In the 5-4 ruling, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts,…