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Zeeshan Yaqoob, Global Christian Relief Pakistan has witnessed an increasing number of allegations of blasphemy against Christians over the past months, particularly since a Quran-burning incident took place in Sweden in January. Allegations in the police report regarding the case in Sweden included claims that blasphemous content praised the Quran burning. Police in Pakistan managed to […]
University of Kentucky computer scientists used AI technology to read an ancient script that was burned when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD. The scrolls were so fragile that scientists could not even attempt to unroll them, or they would be destroyed. Instead, as part of a competition called the Vesuvius Challenge, scientists released thousands of […]
Rev. Ralph West II, is the son of Rev. Ralph West, founder and senior pastor of The Church Without Walls in Houston, Texas. | Screenshot/The Church Without Walls | YouTube/The Church Without Walls Rev. Ralph West II, the son of Rev. Ralph West, founder and senior pastor of The Church Without Walls in Houston, Texas, […]
The Israeli army has dropped leaflets in Gaza, warning people to leave Gaza City and the Northern Gaza Strip. Hamas, the terrorist ruling government in Gaza, called on the people to stay in their homes, claiming the evacuation orders were a hoax. 1,500 people in Gaza have been killed in the retaliatory siege, and 6,600 […]
iStock/1408224238 A new study reveals that religious people tend to have better mental health outcomes than their non-religious counterparts, a phenomenon that is more pronounced in more religious countries. Gallup, in conjunction with the Radiant Foundation, released a new report titled “Faith and Wellness: The Worldwide Connection Between Spirituality & Wellbeing” on Oct. 10. The […]
The view of Golden, Colorado, from a room at the Table Mountain Inn. | Dennis Lennox I’m in an old mining town located where Colorado’s plains meet the mountains. As the iconic arch that spans Washington Avenue — the main street in all but name — proclaims, this is also “where the West lives.” Golden, […]
One of my dearest friends was born in a kibbutz two miles from Gaza. His village was able to evacuate when Hamas launched its murderous assault last Saturday. However, a neighboring kibbutz called Kfar Aza was targeted by the terrorists. Yesterday, my friend forwarded to me a survivor’s description of what happened: A thriving […]
It seems that just about every time there’s a major conflict in the Middle East—such as the recent horrific attacks by Hamas on Israeli men, women, and children—someone raises the question: Are we on the way to Armageddon? Is the end of the world just around the corner? Armageddon is listed in the book of […]
J. J. Kimche is a doctoral student in Jewish history at Harvard University and the author of an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal I hope you’ll read in its entirety. It begins: “Hamas’s attack on Israel was a small-scale Holocaust, a moment no Jew alive with the tiniest speck of communal feeling will […]
The Soviet Union was well known for rejecting so-called “bourgeois” morality in ways that led to rejecting reality. Economically this meant squashing human self-interest in favor of state control. So, basic modern commodities like cars and plumbing could take years for the average Russian to secure. Marxist-inspired agricultural science rejected “Western” science and led to the deaths of millions as crops […]