Katie O'Malley, Mission Network News

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake devastated parts of eastern Afghanistan late Sunday.

As of Tuesday, the death toll has passed 1,410 people, with thousands more injured and over 5,400 homes destroyed. Almost all of the deaths were in Kunar Province, Afghan officials said Monday.

Increasing political tension in Uganda’s election season has Christian educators concerned. 

President Yoweri Museveni has held office for nearly 40 years. Ever since he seized power in 1986, Uganda has been “comparatively stable, but increasingly authoritarian,” according to a 2025 report from the U.S.-based Congressional Research Service. Uganda has never had a democratic transition of power.

The civil war in Myanmar runs deep. Even the 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck on March 28 hasn’t stopped the military junta from bombing villages.

“It’s a multiplied crisis because of the coup that happened several years back. The military took over the nation, and they are still fighting an insurgency in the country,” says Joe Handley with A3.

The lives of women and girls continue to be systemically devalued in Iran today. 

A new report is out from a UN fact-finding mission. It adds more evidence to the documentations of human rights violations surrounding Iran’s 2022 “Women, Life, Freedom” protests, some of which carry through even to today. 

Complexities in Syria have reached a new pitch after the events of last week.

Thursday, March 6, a band of Alawite fighters from the old regime killed more than a dozen soldiers in the coastal town of Jableh affiliated with the new government. 

But it might not have “started” on Thursday. Samuel* with Redemptive stories says, “They killed, the reports say, 16 to 20 soldiers related to a dispute…. There [are] suspicions that there was some act done even before that, which then this [attack on soldiers] was recompense for that previous act.”

Three years ago yesterday, in the early morning of February 24, 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. 

It may have started out as a “special military operation” as Russia’s president called it. But after three years and tens — probably hundreds — of thousands of lives lost on either side, it’s another story.

There’s a battle for hope in Haiti. Up to half of Haiti’s gang members are children, a recent estimate from UNICEF says, and they are subject to graphic abuse. 

Yet it’s possible for kids to leave the gangs. They just need help to do so.

It’s been nearly a week since Syria’s de-facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa assumed the role of interim president. 

More than 1 million Haitians have been displaced by gang violence as of the past year. That’s according to a report with data from December 2023 to December 2024. Over half of the displaced are children.

Syria’s de-facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, met with Christian clerics in Damascus on New Year’s Eve. This positive step came after several alarming incidents in the week leading up to Christmas.