July 25, 2104 – ROME – A mother put on death row for refusing to reject Christianity met Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday, just hours after she fled Sudan. Meriam Ibrahim was flown out of the country with her American husband and two young children. She was blessed by the pontiff during a private audience and…
19 July 2014 – From AhramOnline, and Egyptian news source: “On Friday, Mosul’s mosques called through loudspeakers for Christians to leave, after centuries of being part of the once cosmopolitan city’s social fabric. Fadi said he could not afford to flee and argued that the prospects for those who did were hardly better. Islamic State (IS)…
This just in today… “Maiduguri: Suspected Islamist militants killed dozens of people in an attack on three Nigerian villages, including one targeting worshippers at a church, a few kilometres from Chibok, the scene of an abduction of more than 200 school girls. Residents said the gunmen riding on motorcycles opened fire on worshippers and pursued them…
Very sad. Another young person lashes out and kills seven classmates, because he felt “rejected” and without hope for the future. He posted a video outlining his feelings about being rejected and without love, and his plan to have revenge. “Severely mentally disturbed” is how he is being labeled by the authorities. Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/24/elliot-rodger-video-confession_n_5385175.html So…
ABC News – May 19, 2014: Lawyers for a pregnant Sudanese woman plan to appeal an Islamic judge’s decision that she be flogged with 100 lashes and then be hanged for marrying a Christian man and converting. Amnesty International and Western embassies are expressing alarm over the harsh sentence meted out to Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag,…
Here is a recent post by Dr. Jerry Pattengale….. “How the ‘Jesus’ Wife’ Hoax Fell Apart” By Jerry Pattengale May 1, 2014 7:17 p.m. ET In September 2012, Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King announced the discovery of a Coptic (ancient Egyptian) gospel text on a papyrus fragment that contained the phrase “Jesus said to them,…
There was another announcement this week that an ancient scrap of papyrus which refers to “Jesus’ wife” is “not a forgery”. This document was discovered and announced 2 years ago – this is not “news”. What is new is that after 2 years, people have come to the conclusion that it is not a “modern…
COBE Satellite Detects Left Over Radiation from Creation Event UPDATE! March 17, 2014 – Scientists discover further evidence of ‘cosmic background radiation’ from an initial ‘creation event’. From a story today in the “Washington Post”: “In the beginning, the universe got very big very fast, transforming itself in a fraction of an instant from something almost…
A new scientific has just been released which, once again, proves that the James Ossuary, (the box that contained the bones of James, the brother of JESUS), indeed appears to be authentic. Here is a summary of the Abstract, and a link to the site from which you can download the article: An archaeometric analysis…
We went and saw with our small group the new ‘Son of God’ movie just out Feb 28, and it was amazing. Very true to the Scriptures, I was very moved. I highly recommend it. Besides the main move website, the producers have also constructed a ‘resources’ web site to enable people to share. Here…
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