Globe Trot: Israeli Christian schools protest funding cuts

ISRAEL: Christians in Nazareth are protesting Israeli state funding cuts to church-run schools, delaying their opening. The dispute actually affects mostly Israeli-Arab Muslim students, who make up the majority of the schools’ 33,000 pupils.

HILLARY: WORLD Magazine turned up in Hillary Clinton’s emails from her private server released this week. In a 2010 email from Clinton insider Phillipe Reines, he complained with a link to our story about “one of those crazy right ‘magazines,’” which “notes that the home you referenced in your Prayer Breakfast remarks has since closed.” The home she opened with Mother Teresa actually was sold in 2002, and apparently never processed any adoptions.

HUNGARY: Thousands of migrants are stranded in Budapest’s central train station, and hundreds of Eurostar passengers were delayed boarding scheduled trains as Europe’s migrant crisis deepens.

SWEDEN: Center Party leaders, long opposed to joining NATO, have announced they favor the move in light of Russian advances in Ukraine. Moscow is threatening that any Swedish move toward NATO will provoke “countermeasures.”

IRAQ: A remarkable education venture has opened the first school among Yazidis displaced by ISIS. Christian administrators are working with Yazidi and Arab educators to provide schooling for Yazidis and Arab Muslims in Iraqi Kurdistan—all part of WORLD’s 2015 Hope Award coverage.