As Christian communities light up in dialogue over Kanye West’s conversion and recent album, the rapper opened up about his faith journey in a recent interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1.

“This is such a win for the Kingdom,” Kanye said, according to Faithwire. “For Kanye to come back home, from going from ‘Jesus Walks’ to ‘I Love It’, to say to God, ‘I tried it my way, it’s not working out. Everything is in shambles. I’m ending up in debt, making this money but still ending up in debt. My public standing is in shambles. I’m not in good shape. I’m having ups and downs with my health. People calling me crazy. People not wanting to sit with me. I had to just give it up to God.”

West recently moved to a ranch in Wyoming with his family. When Lowe asked him what he hopes the ranch will be in 20 years, West acknowledged that he didn’t know, that God would give him direction. 

“I have some visions,” he said, “but the more that I’m in service to God, I just clear my head and wake up more empty every day and let God do the driving and just use me as he may. You make plans, and God laughs.”

Other the past year, West has slowly changed after his conversion last April, becoming more at peace with God and seeking Him in his work. He recently committed to abandoning secular music and…

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg hopes for a world without weapons, according to the Washington Examiner.

In a recent roundtable discussion with leaders from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim congregants in North and South Carolina, the 37-year-old Afghanistan war veteran invoked his religious beliefs to push forward peace.

“The commitment to peace that is such a core teaching of Jesus is also something that I think is a core goal of the right kind of American foreign policy,” he said.

“It doesn’t mean that we ignore threats. It doesn’t mean that we unilaterally disarm. It doesn’t mean that we can move tomorrow toward a world with no weapons, although that is the world that we are called to envision. It does mean that we can take steps that will move us closer to that reality.”

As a herald of the “Christian Left,” Buttigieg has regularly voiced his faith in political conversations. The roundtable aimed to discuss how faith relates to other political decisions besides same-sex marriage and abortion. The married gay man and member of the Episcopal church spoke on foreign policy.

“When it comes to our actions abroad, I think that in many ways, the question is how near can we approximate the radical teaching that we are to love our enemy,” he said. “I think the best we can come to it in our time is to see the humanity…

Grammy and Dove Award winner Kirk Franklin said he is boycotting Trinity Broadcasting Network, the Gospel Music Association, future Dove Awards shows and all affiliated events after comments he made about a fatal police shooting were edited out of his recent acceptance speech—for the second time in four years.

Franklin announced his decision Monday on a video he posted on his Instagram and Facebook accounts. Franklin won a Dove Award for Best Gospel Artist at the Oct. 15 Dove Awards and, during his speech, the singer shared customary thanks to his wife, Tammy, and support team before turning to an officer-involved shooting in his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas. He asked the audience to pray for 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson, a black woman who was shot and killed through her window by a white police officer. Her 8-year-old nephew was with her and witnessed the shooting.

“I’m just asking that we send our prayers for her family and for his and I’m asking that we send our prayers for that 8-year-old little boy that saw that tragedy and we just lift them up and I’m asking that you pray with us … just pray grace and mercy over their lives in the name of Christ our king,” he noted in an unedited clip of his speech posted on YouTube.

But when the Dove Awards were broadcast five days later on TBN, that portion of his speech had…

The Islamic State spokesman, a man poised to become the next terror leader of the group, was killed in Syria by U.S. forces, according to the U.S. State Department.

Islamic State spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir was considered “number two” to leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a senior State Department official told Fox News. Al-Baghdadi was also killed in a separate U.S. attack in another border town on Saturday night.

“Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops,” Trump wrote. “Most likely would have taken the top spot — Now he is also Dead!”

Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot – Now he is also Dead!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019

Gen. Mazloum Abdi, the top Kurdish leader for the Syrian Democratic Forces, tweeted to confirm the attack: “Following the previous ops, a senior assistant for al-Bagdadi is called Abu Hesen al Mouhjir was targeted in a village named Ein al Baat near Jaraboul city, the mission was conducted via direct coordination of SDF Intel & US military apart the ongoing ops to hunt ISIS leaders.”

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported Muhajir’s death, saying he was traveling in a convoy when he was…

The city council of Oslo, Norway’s capital, has agreed to ban all services and products made in Israel’s settlement communities, according to CBN.

“The Palestinian people, who have to deal with the illegal occupation of their territory every single day, deserve international attention and support,” said Sunniva Eisvoll, leader of the Oslo chapter of the Socialist Left Party. “It is a shared global responsibility to help ensure that human rights and international law are not violated. I am proud that the Oslo City Council is now taking steps to prevent goods and services purchased by the city from supporting an illegal occupation of Palestine or other territories.”

The decision, motivated by the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, is part of the newly-elected Socialist Left, Labour, and Green Parties’ platform. Oslo is not the first Norwegian city to enact the ban, however. As reported by the BDS Movement, they join five other municipalities—Trondheim, Tromsø, Vaksdal, Hamar, Lillehammer, and Nordland—already prohibiting purchases.

The new resolution comes in the wake of an international call from Michael Lynk, U.N. independent expert on human rights in Palestinian territories, to ban all Israeli settlement products.

“No occupation in the modern world has been conducted with the international community so alert to its many grave breaches…