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Originally published in Christian Today In July 2012, Naghmeh Abedini’s life changed in an instant. Her husband Saeed, an Iranian-born American pastor, was arrested in Iran for his involvement with house churches. After two months of interrogation under torture, he was charged with threatening the security of the state and […]
Originally published in Raw Story Iraq’s first Christian-only brigade of regular forces graduated Thursday to help retake the community’s towns and villages from the Islamic State group. The new brigade will answer to the government of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, whose peshmerga fighters are playing a leading role in the […]
Little did the young Iraqi refugee girl know that her comments about forgiveness would go viral. When interviewed recently by Sat 7 reporter Essam Nagy, 10-year-old Myriam shared her heart about life as a refugee in Erbil, Kurdistan. She told Nagy that she forgives ISIS for forcing her family from their […]
Originally published in Times of Israel Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned today (Tuesday, March 3, 2015) in a landmark address to the joint houses of Congress that a nuclear deal taking shape between Iran and Western powers “paves the path for Iran” to a nuclear bomb, rather than blocking […]
Originally published in World Watch Monitor Sources from Syria’s embattled Hassaka province confirmed at midnight on Tuesday, February 24, that at least 72 Assyrian Christian families – thought to be around 200 people – from three villages have been captured by the self-proclaimed Islamic State. Reportedly taken to the Arab Sunni […]
Originally published in Breaking Israel News The latest episode in a history of tension between the Obama administration and Israel has escalated to a new level, with US Vice President Joe Biden opting out of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech before a joint session of Congress on […]
Originally published in God Reports For more than 46 months Syria has been going through a bloody and destructive civil war. From Aleppo pastor Samuel has been ministering to the suffering people. Below is his latest report on what Syrians face on a daily basis. Last week I went to […]
Originally published in CBN.com Members of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, are honoring D. Myles Munroe, the late Christian pastor who died with his wife and other members of his ministry during a plane crash last November in the Bahamas. According to The Jerusalem Post, Munroe’s son, Myles Munroe, Jr, is […]
Originally published in Christianity Today United States President Barack Obama met Naghmeh Abedini, wife of an imprisoned American pastor in Iran, on Thursday and told her that freeing her husband is a top priority. Obama took the time to meet Naghmeh hours after his seventh State of the Nation address […]
Originally published in Fox News A team of researchers made a surprising find when examining a papyrus-wrapped mummy mask — they found what they believe to be the oldest-known copy of a gospel in existence. The researchers found a fragment of the Gospel of Mark that dates back to about […]