LOVES PARK, Ill., March 31, 2026 /Christian Newswire/ — In an extraordinary display of unity, Russian and Ukrainian Christians in Israel have come together to help families affected by Iran’s ongoing missile and drone attacks. Russian and Ukrainian Christians living in Israel — including recent immigrants and descendants of immigrants — have set aside the “elephant in the room,” the war in Ukraine, to launch a joint grassroots aid effort in their communities. They are hand-delivering groceries and other supplies — and bringing hope — to desperate families in several Israeli cities targeted by Iran and its proxies. Families with young children are having to run to bomb shelters in the middle of the night as sirens wail overhead. “There is tension in the air,” said Pavel, pastor of a local Ukrainian church. “People are ready at any moment to run to the nearest shelter. If the sirens go off several times during the night, it becomes very hard to carry...

LOVES PARK, Ill., Jan. 22, 2026 /Christian Newswire/ — A one-of-a-kind aviation ministry is flying into the remotest areas of Far East Russia in the heart of winter so that “frostbite evangelists” can share the gospel. In Russia’s Far East — home to the vast frozen tundra of Yakutia, officially the coldest inhabited place on earth — temperatures in January and February often plummet to minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit, minus 50 Celsius. At such extremes, exposed skin suffers frostbite in seconds, and eyebrows freeze solid. But that does not stop missionary pilots supported by Illinois-based Slavic Gospel Association (SGA) from landing on snow-covered runways in the “middle of nowhere” to take the “good news” to many isolated Russians, including indigenous minorities, who have never heard about Jesus Christ. Their U.S.-built Cessna airplanes can be fitted with skis to land in the most difficult conditions, often visiting sparsely populated villages hundreds of...