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US targets Putin’s daughters: US imposes sanctions on Russia
Washington — The U.S. announced Wednesday a new sanctions package against Russia in response to reported atrocities around Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv, which includes economic penalties on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s adult children and top Russian security officials.
The additional sanctions were rolled out in coordination with the Group of 7 and European Union and are designed to impose “severe and immediate economic costs” on Russia for its brutalities in Ukraine, the White House said.
“As long as Russia continues its brutal assault on Ukraine, we will stand unified with our allies and partners in imposing additional costs on Russia for its actions,” the White House said in an announcement of the sanctions.
The measures include a ban on all new investment in Russia, increased sanctions on Russia’s largest financial institutions and state-owned enterprises, including Sberbank and Alfa Bank, and sanctions on Russian government officials and members of their families. Those targeted by the full blocking sanctions include Putin’s two adult daughters, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s wife and daughter, and members of Russia’s Security Council, including former President and Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.
The actions targeting Sberbank and Alfa Bank, Russia’s largest private bank, freeze any of their assets touching a U.S. financial institution and prohibit U.S. citizens from doing business with the two banks. The sanctions on state-owned enterprises, which are not yet named, prohibit any U.S. citizen from doing business with the entities.
Like with earlier economic measures on Russian financial institutions, there is a carve-out for energy.
The measures are intended to “degrade key instruments on Russian state power” and impose swift economic harm on Russia.
President Biden told reporters at the White House on Monday that he would seek additional sanctions on Russia after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Bucha, a city outside of Kyiv, where Ukrainian officials said they discovered the bodies of civilians after Russian forces withdrew from the area.
“You saw what happened in Bucha. This warrants him — he is a war criminal,” Mr. Biden said of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “But we have to gather the information, we have to continue to provide Ukraine with the weapons they need to continue the fight, and we have to get all the details so this can be an actual — have a wartime trial. This guy is brutal, and what’s happening in Bucha is outrageous, and everyone’s seen it.”
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan also told reporters at the White House to expect further sanctions announcements “this week.”
In a virtual address to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, Zelenskyy detailed to the 15-member body what he said were war crimes committed by the Russian forces that have invaded Ukraine, accusing them of deliberately killing adults and children, and trying to burn their bodies.
“Russian troops are deliberately destroying Ukrainian cities to ashes with artillery and airstrikes. They are deliberately blocking cities, creating mass starvation. They deliberately shoot columns of civilians on the road trying to escape from hostilities. They even deliberately blow up shelters where civilians hide from airstrikes,” Zelenskyy said.
While Russia has dismissed the shocking scenes as “fake,” News has witnessed firsthand clear evidence of atrocities in the towns and villages surrounding Kyiv. In the streets of Bucha, bodies were found in the streets, while scores more were dumped into mass graves.
The devastation left by Putin’s troops has prompted new calls for harsher sanctions against Russia, including a total cut-off of oil and gas imports. Germany and France have already expelled dozens of diplomats, suggesting they were spies.
Since Russia launched its attacks against Ukraine in late February, the U.S. and its European allies have united to launch coordinated sanctions intended to cut Russia off from the global economy.
Russia’s economy is forecast to contract 15% or more in 2022, a collapse of Russia’s GDP that will erase the past 15 years of economic growth, according to an analysis from the Institute for International Finance.
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‘We’re Going to Light Up This World’: National Day of Prayer to Lift God’s Word to Combat Darkness
This year’s theme for the 73rd National Day of Prayer is “Lift up the Word – Light Up the World” from the Biblical passage in 2 Samuel chapter 22. It reads in part: “O Lord, You are my lamp. The Lord Lights up My Darkness.” It is a message that organizers say is needed now more than ever.
“It seemed all we were talking about was darkness,” Kathy Branzell, President of the National Day of Prayer Task Force told CBN’s Faith Nation. “‘Oh, America’s getting darker, our schools are getting darker, my neighborhood’s getting darker.'”
Branzell explained, “While that might feel true, the truth is darkness is the absence of light. This year by lifting up the Word, we know His Word in prayer won’t return void and we’re going to light up this world.”
The annual National Day of Prayer, which was established by Congress in 1952 and signed into law by President Harry S. Truman, is a call for Americans to humble themselves before Almighty God, to seek His guidance, wisdom, and blessing.
Branzell said events like the unrest and anti-semitic protests on college campuses should guide how Christians pray.
“We are praying God’s presence on those campuses. We are praying for the Holy Spirit to come in and for hatred to be diminished and for love to come in and to take over,” she said.
The hope is that the light already breaking through at some schools will spread to others.
Author and speaker Jennie Allen who has witnessed repentance, revival, and mass baptisms on several college campuses said many students are ready to hear the message of salvation.
“Gen Z is different,” Allen said in an interview on CBN News’ The PrayerLink. “They are open to God, and they want to confess their sin. They’re sick of the world and they want something different. Not all of them, but a lot of them.”
“And I think what the older Church needs to hear and believe is that it’s possible,” added Allen. “God is doing it again. He is awakening His people. And so, to pray and to pull those kids into your life and your home and disciple them because they’re hungry.”
In a nation divided by politics, race, and hot-button social issues, organizers realize that only a unified Church can pray with power. That is why the National Day of Prayer is partnering with the National Unity Weekend movement which brings churches together every June to teach on unity and serve their communities.
Bishop Derek Grier of Grace Church in Dumfries, Virginia is the founder of the group.
“If there was ever a time our nation needed unity it’s right now—particularly before we go into this election season,” Grier told CBN News. “And as the Church unites around the things that we have in common, the things that we disagree over become minor. And with that, people in our various communities can run into the church as a place of refuge.”
A refuge of light that outshines the darkness.
Sources:BREAKING CHRISTIAN NEWS
Nigeria — Armed “bandits” shot and killed Reverend Manasseh Ibrahim on Tuesday, April 23, in Kaduna state as he traveled to a church conference.
The reverend served under the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA) Kaduna Central District Church. Violence in Kaduna state, often directed toward Christians, has left thousands of believers in a state of fear.
“Christians who are direct victims of banditry and insurgency in Kaduna state are fed up with the inability of the Nigerian government to find a lasting solution to the incessant killings of innocent Christians,” said Yahaya Kinge, chairman of the local Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN).
Terrorist organizations such as Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and Islamic Fulani militants have caused countless atrocities throughout northern Nigeria in the last decade, causing the deaths and kidnappings of thousands.
Between the fall of 2022 and 2023, 4,118 Christians in Nigeria died for their faith, and 3,300 were kidnapped, according to Open Doors’ World Watch List. Despite the regular occurrence of violence, witnesses often describe a visible lack of response from government entities.
Witnesses interviewed by International Christian Concern (ICC) staff describe police watching nearby as militants and sometimes members of the community attack places of worship. They also share that different members of the community riot and cause enough damage to prevent trials, keeping Christians accused of crimes in jail.
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നൈജീരിയയിലെ ഒരു ഗ്രാമത്തിൽ ഫുലാനി തീവ്രവാദികൾ നടത്തിയ ആക്രമണത്തിൽ 12 ക്രൈസ്തവർ കൊല്ലപ്പെട്ടു. പുലർച്ചെ രണ്ടുമണിക്കാണ് ഫുലാനി തീവ്രവാദികൾ ആക്രമണം നടത്തിയതെന്ന് പ്രാദേശിക വൃത്തങ്ങൾ അറിയിച്ചു.
മംഗു കൗണ്ടിയിലെ തിലേംഗ്പാൻ പുഷിത്തിലെ കർഷക സമൂഹത്തിൽ, ഫുലാനികൾ ഒരു പ്രകോപനവുമില്ലാതെ മാരകായുധങ്ങളുമായി ആക്രമിച്ചതായി റസിഡൻ്റ് ഇസ്രായേൽ ബംഷക് പറഞ്ഞു. “ഇരകളിൽ ഭൂരിഭാഗവും ആക്രമണകാരികളിൽ നിന്ന് രക്ഷപ്പെടാൻ കഴിയാത്ത സ്ത്രീകളും കുട്ടികളുമാണ്”- ബംഷാക്ക് വെളിപ്പെടുത്തി. ഫുലാനി ഇടയന്മാരാണ് ആക്രമണം നടത്തിയതെന്ന് മാംഗു ലോക്കൽ ഗവൺമെന്റ കൗൺസിൽ ചെയർമാൻ മർകസ് ആർതു പറഞ്ഞു.
പ്രകോപനമില്ലാതെയുള്ള ആക്രമണങ്ങൾ തടയാൻ തന്റെ സർക്കാർ ശ്രമിച്ചിട്ടും, അക്രമികൾ കൂടുതൽ ക്രൂരമായ ആക്രമണങ്ങൾ തുടരുന്നതിൽ ഗവർണർ കാലേബ് മുത്ഫ്വാങ് ദുഃഖം രേഖപ്പെടുത്തി. യാതൊരു പ്രകോപനവുമില്ലാത്ത ആക്രമണങ്ങൾ ആയതിനാൽ ക്രിസ്ത്യാനികളോട് ഉറച്ചുനിൽക്കാൻ മുത്ഫ്വാങ് അഭ്യർഥിച്ചു. സുരക്ഷ കൊണ്ടുവരാൻ തന്റെ സർക്കാർ സുരക്ഷാ ഏജൻസികളുമായി സഹകരിക്കുന്നത് തുടരുമെന്ന് അദ്ദേഹം പറഞ്ഞു.
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‘We’re Going to Light Up This World’: National Day of Prayer to Lift God’s Word to Combat Darkness
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