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American officials looked on Sunday as Israel opened a newfound Roman-era street at a divisive archaeological site in east Jerusalem, a move that deepened Palestinian animosity toward the White House’s mediation efforts. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2FVmo9N

President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping agreed to a cease-fire Saturday in their nations’ yearlong trade war, averting — at least for now — an escalation feared by financial markets, businesses and farmers. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2RJreeC

Turkey's church sees trouble ahead. American Pastor Andrew Brunson, testified this week before the US Commission on International Religious Freedom about the coming danger. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2LpSSw7

Bishop T.D. Jakes is one of the most popular and successful Christian leaders in America, and you might think he's happy about all that fame. But in an interview with Steven Furtick from Elevation Church, Jakes admits he almost quit working in ministry at one point. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2LwiKX8

A Christian doctor in England could lose his medical license for interjecting faith into his meetings with patients. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2NgKAJG

The Telegraph reports that the future king made his comments during a visit with the Albert Kennedy Trust (AKT), a charity that works with homeless youth in London. The charity said it was the first time a member of the royal family visited an LGBTQ youth charity.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/31TE8LS

A victim of anti-Semitic violence is calling on people across the world to fight darkness with light. from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2Xd7je7

Approximately 100 Christians were massacred by Muslim terrorists in the West African nation of Mali this month.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/2RASTyj

It may surprise you that the fastest growing church in the world is in Iran.  Yet that’s the assessment of those who have seen and heard the remarkable story of millions turning away from Shiite Islam and turning toward Jesus Christ.  from CBNNews.com https://ift.tt/31TTHmS

In a blow to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, an opposition candidate declared victory in the Istanbul mayor’s race for a second time Sunday after the government-backed candidate conceded defeat in a high-stakes repeat election. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/31MSPQQ

U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said Sunday that Iran should not "mistake U.S. prudence and discretion for weakness," after the U.S. abruptly called off military strikes against Iran in response to the shooting down of an unmanned American surveillance drone. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2IZt5br

The Greek Orthodox church of the United States, a far-flung denomination of 1.5-million members, on Saturday installed its first new leader in 20 years — a lifelong European whose top priority is completing construction of a shrine in New York City linked to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2KwKnQh

President Donald Trump ordered a military strike on Iran last night. But while the plan was still in its early stages, he pulled back and cancelled the attack. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/31P0Ip2

Today is World Refugee Day, a time when the world recognizes the plight of 68 million displaced people around the globe. One refugee we introduced to you four years ago was a little girl from Iraq. Myriam's story went viral, touching people around the world. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2RoGIVn

Book publishers are pleading with President Donald Trump to not impose what they are calling a “Bible tax.” from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2IWZ9N5

A Canadian family has filed a civil rights complaint with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario after their six-year-old daughter became overtly confused when her first-grade teacher taught the class to question their gender.  from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/31Issf2

A Christian man in Egypt has been arrested after being accused of insulting Islam on Facebook. The 25-year-old Coptic Christian, Fady Yousef, was arrested on June 11 near Cairo.  from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2Xgy94v

A mom travels 9,000 miles on a mission to secure her daughter's freedom, held captive because she refuses to deny Jesus as her savior. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2WUnvfb

GEM, Girls Embracing Mothers, is a program that unites girls with their mothers who are behind bars. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2MYJu5h

Every year, around Memorial Day, social media feeds are littered with references to John 15:13, but is it possible we’ve misunderstood what Jesus was saying in the popular New Testament passage? from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2Fl18K5

According to Legal Evangelical Association Development (LEAD), a non-profit advocacy group providing legal aid to persecuted minorities, 28 Christian girls became victims of abduction, torture, sexual harassment, rape, forced conversion and forced marriages in Pakistan from November 2018 to June 2019.  from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2IQohVM

The US Chamber of Commerce is calling on the Trump administration to end its trade war with China, warning tariffs could cost $1 trillion over the next 10 years. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2wZ9t1v

An extradition bill that would have sent criminal suspects to communist China for prosecution seems to be dead for now, but Hong Kong's student protest movement against the heavy-handed rule of Beijing has come back to life. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2Y3uDrn

Last month after the British government dropped a proposed definition of Islamophobia, the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), the largest Islamic organization in the United Kingdom, called for the ruling Conservative Party to be investigated for Islamophobia. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2ISBtt6

A year-long study just concluded and released Monday in London by an independent international tribunal concludes that China is killing prisoners in order to harvest their organs. Most of the victims are detainees from the Falun Gong religious movement.   from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2Zq46o4

The world just celebrated the 75th anniversary of the D-day landings. But in the lifetimes of those who survived the Second World War, anti-Semitism is again a threat to Jews in Germany.  from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2InTtg0

Egypt's state TV says the country's ousted President Mohammed Morsi has collapsed during a court session and died. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2KopFSw

A record number of migrants from Africa are illegally entering the US through the southern border. In just one week, the border patrol in one sector detained more than 500 migrants from African nations on the US side of the border.  from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2KWDYNN

Last week's attack on oil tankers near Iran only heightened tensions from the US who say Iran is to blame.  from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2XRWpab

As lights turned back on across Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay after a massive blackout that hit tens of millions people, authorities were still largely in the dark about what caused the collapse of the interconnected grid and were tallying the damage from the unforeseen disaster. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2KmzLDw

Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex have released a photograph of their 6-week-old son Archie for Father’s Day. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2KSbhBz

Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents, mostly clad in black, jammed the city’s streets Sunday in a vehement show of opposition to proposed legislation that has stoked fears of expanding control from Beijing in this former British colony. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2RjrRvx

A  church located in a heavily populated Muslim migrant area of Sweden was targeted for a second time by bombers early Friday.    from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2ReZ7nm

The wife of a Chinese pastor was released from jail this week, six months after being arrested with her husband and other church members.  Their church building was also closed by the government. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/31wIc4w

The Notre Dame cathedral is holding its first Mass since the April fire that ravaged the edifice’s roof and caused its masterpiece spire to collapse. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2XaATQP

Thousands of migrants hoping to make it to a better life in the US begin their trek in Colombia. From there, they walk through the Darien Gap, a treacherous jungle trail to Panama.  from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2wSOihA

From synagogue shootings in the United States to Christians imprisoned in Iran or China, Jews and Christians are under assault in today’s world. Acts of both anti-Semitism and Christian persecution are rising around the world. But a new organization is challenging the church to confront these acts of hate.   Hoping to bring the two forces together, Susanna Kokkonen has launched Hope for Persecuted Peoples. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2KlbWvU

Two oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz were reportedly attacked on Thursday, an assault that left one ablaze and adrift as sailors were evacuated from both vessels and the U.S. Navy rushed to assist amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2F66lW8

Last week, Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias and others visited Angola Prison in Louisiana, one of the largest penitentiaries in the country.  from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2ZnDUuy

At least 19 Christians were killed in an attack June 9 on the village of Arbinda in Africa's northern Burkina Faso, the AFP reports.  from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2WBazzE

A captured and now repentant Canadian ISIS fighter recently revealed a plot for operatives to travel from Syria and gain entrance into the US through the southern border with Mexico, using active routes taken by migrants. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2KJOPdS

Wayne Cordeiro, pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu, Hawaii, is praying that American Christians become more like Chinese Christians.  from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2KcQ462

Police in Australia have closed almost 200 daycare centers after finding the private businesses were linked to the Islamic State, motorcycle gangs, and large-scale fraud. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2R72Nrv

Hundreds of cars wait for gasoline inside Venezuela, as tough sanctions and hyperinflation cripple this oil-rich nation's economy. The petroleum infrastructure here is broken and output continues to decline. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2IyR0y5

Pope Francis recently went on record again rejecting the idea that people can choose or change their genders, insisting that men and women are the biblical complement to each other in order to make children. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2IwRJjj

The northeastern African nation of Eritrea is continuing its tradition of persecuting any type of Christianity not authorized by the state.  from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2XxYAzu

President Donald Trump on Sunday dangled the prospect of renewing his tariff threat against Mexico if the U.S. ally doesn’t cooperate on border issues, while some of his Democratic challengers for the White House said the last-minute deal to avert trade penalties was overblown. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2WWrL20

Hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through Hong Kong on Sunday to voice their opposition to legislation that would allow people to be extradited to mainland China where they could face politically charged trials. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2MCGMlK

As the Roman Catholic church’s sex abuse scandal grows ever wider in scope in the U.S., bishops convene for a national meeting in Baltimore on Tuesday under heavy pressure to acknowledge their oversight failures and give a larger role to lay Catholics and secular authorities in confronting the crisis. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2EUuPBB

The archbishop appointed to investigate the former leader of the Roman Catholic Church in West Virginia says he should not have redacted from his report to the Vatican the names of clergy, including himself, who received a portion of $350,000 in cash gifts from Bishop Michael Bransfield. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2K5oPKo

President Donald Trump announced late Friday that he had suspended plans to impose tariffs on Mexico, tweeting that the country “has agreed to take strong measures” to stem the flow of Central American migrants into the United States. But the deal the two neighbors agreed to falls short of some of the dramatic overhauls the U.S. had pushed for. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2MwsSBs

Make no mistake, the world is trying to intimidate and marginalize Christians. In the Western world, atheists and secularists have created a culture that belittles the followers of Christ in an ongoing effort to bully—yes, I’ll use that word—us into silence. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/319Iuhw

Sweden's first openly lesbian bishop says she has more in common with some Muslims than with conservative Christians and believes Christians and Muslims pray to the same god. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2wD5Cad

Niels Hoegel liked to bring about cardiac arrests in his patients by injecting them with overdoses of heart medication and other drugs because he enjoyed the feeling of being able to resuscitate them. Sometimes he succeeded in bringing them back, but in at least 87 cases they died, making him what is believed to be modern Germany's most prolific serial killer. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2XqnZuU

A 17-year-old who was raped multiple times as a child has been ended her life after doctors agreed that she was going through unbearable emotional anguish and allowed her to starve herself to death.  from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/31gIpZp

Today, President Donald Trump and France's President Emanuel Macron honored the men who took the Normandy beaches. And some of those men – well into their 90s – were on hand. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2EPIHNt

As the sun rose Thursday over the Normandy coastline where thousands of men bled and died 75 years ago, a fast-diminishing number of World War II veterans remembered D-Day, and hoped the world never forgets the sacrifices made to dismantle Nazi tyranny. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2WnE6wG

A church in the British town of Rochester has launched an unconventional initiative it hopes will encourage more people to darken the sanctuary doors. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2IpNpTb

While you might have seen a decrease in mainstream media reporting regarding Christian persecution, there has only been an increase in the persecution taking place against Christians around the world. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2IncduP

It's been almost 25 years since the beginning of the Brownsville revival and Pensacola Outpouring. Now the ministry known as "Christ for all Nations" is asking God to do it again. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2JXM88V

As the United States and many other nations are pausing to remember the 75th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday, June 6, CBN News takes a look back at that heroic day where thousands of men gave their lives in order to defeat an enemy who sought to enslave the entire world. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/31eqWAK

Parachutists are jumping over Normandy again, just as soldiers did 75 years ago for D-Day - but this time without being shot at. Engines throbbing, C-47 transport planes dropped group after group of parachutists, a couple of hundred in all - including a 97-year-old D-Day veteran, Tom Rice. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2wBLRQb

It's clear that Donald Trump drives the British Left crazy.  But while they were out in full force protesting, the president seemed to have a smoother than expected trip. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2Kr0i1E

The man known as "China's Solzhenitsyn" has a warning.  from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2HWzEfy

Hundreds gathered on Capitol Hill Tuesday to mark one of the darkest days in the People's Republic of China’s history.  It was a rally to remember the Tiananmen Square Massacre 30 years ago this week. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2WJrDmd

Hundreds gathered on Capitol Hill Tuesday to mark one of the darkest days in the People's Republic of China’s history.  It was a rally to remember the Tiananmen Square Massacre 30 years ago this week. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2WqNYWD

President Trump met Tuesday with outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May during his visit to the United Kingdom, looking for an even better trading relationship between the US and the UK. Meanwhile, the US is on track to slap new tariffs on Mexico, Trump said during his visit to the UK.  from CBNNews.com http://www.cbn.com/api/urlredirect.aspx?u=http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/2019/june/as-trump-touts-trade-in-uk-visit-tariffs-on-mexico-set-to-kick-in

Pope Francis has officially approved a change to the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:13 that replaces "lead us not into temptation" with "do not let us fall into temptation." from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2XkXHdn

A gunman was arrested after killing at least four people and wounding several others Tuesday in the tropical Australian city of Darwin, officials and media said. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2KrwRMU

An excavation in Egypt may have uncovered the oldest church ever discovered in the North African nation. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2MraR7J

Sudanese security forces attacked a protest camp in the capital Monday, opening fire, torching tents and killing at least 13 people, as they cleared away the months-old sit-in that was demanding the military yield power, witnesses and protest leaders said. from CBNNews.com http://bit.ly/2Xne9d9