By Jennifer LeClaire, Charisma News— If you type “is Pope Francis antichrist” into Google, you’ll get about 425,000 results in .37 seconds. By way of comparison, if you ask Google the same question about Pope Benedict you only get 137,000 and it takes a little longer—.47 seconds. So why do so many people think—or at…
Country Total population Christian population Christian % Country Total population Christian population Christian % North Korea 25.2m 300,000 1.20% Like everyone else, Christians in North Korea must worship the nation’s leader, and belonging to another religion makes you an enemy of the state. Thousands of Christians are imprisoned, and many have reportedly been tortured and…
By Rachel Avraham, Jerusalem Online— As Jews around the world mourned the destruction of the First and Second Temples on Tisha B’Av, Palestinian Media Watch has exposed that the Palestinian Authority has systematically denied that such a temple ever existed. PA Deputy Minister for Jerusalem Affairs Salwa Hadib proclaimed: “Jerusalem is not only a religious…
By Natan Sharansky, Washington Post— These days, like many Israelis and American Jews, I find myself in a precarious and painful situation. Those of us who believe that the nuclear agreement just signed between world powers and Iran is dangerously misguided are now compelled to criticize Israel’s best friend and ally, the government of the…
By Olive Tree Ministries— You don’t have to be Jewish to realize that the world may be sitting right on top of a major moment of biblical prophecy of significant proportions. In keeping with that understanding, maybe this is a year for Christians to sit with the Jewish people and accompany them in mourning and…
By AP– Israel’s ambassador to the United States implored congressional Republicans on Wednesday to scuttle President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran and Western powers as the White House dispatched senior administration officials to Capitol Hill to make the case for the accord. The intense lobbying on both sides of the issue reflected the importance…
By Earl Cox, Israel Always— While it’s no longer news it’s still shockingly unbelievable that President Obama and the P5+1 group (United States, United Kingdom, Russia, China, France and Germany), have agreed to a nuclear deal with Iran; the world’s largest supporter and exporter of terror. Iran currently has a nuclear program in place and,…
By Rabbi David Wolpe, Times— This is no time for celebration I suppose all hatred has an element of irrationality. Yet some hatreds are more irrational than others. For thousands of years, hatred of Jews has been unique. Sometimes acts of hatred, such as confiscating Jewish wealth or property, served utilitarian purposes for rulers or…
By Tricia Miller, Breaking Israel News— The stated mission of the biannual Christ at the Checkpoint (CaTC) conferences in Bethlehem “is to challenge Evangelicals to take responsibility to help resolve the conflicts in Israel/Palestine by engaging with the teaching of Jesus on the Kingdom of God.” This mission has been carried out through the targeting…
By Raphael Ahren, Times of Israel— World Jewry is finding it increasingly difficult to support Israel due to its ongoing conflict with the Palestinians, leading many communities to shun discussing the Jewish state altogether, a new major study has found. The trend is eroding the Diaspora’s support for the Jewish state, warns the report by…