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  • Firefighters Battling Forest Fire in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem

    By: Tzvi Joffre – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com Strengthening winds in the area have caused the fire to intensify. Some 24 firefighting teams and six firefighting planes reported that they were battling a large, wind-driven fire near Hadassah-University Medical Center, in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem on Monday. Teams from the Jerusalem, Dan and central divisions and the Israel…

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  • China Seizes Children from Christian Parents, Threatens to Send Kids to Re-education Camps

    By: Leah Marieann Klett – The Christian Post; christianpost.com A member of China’s Early Rain Covenant Church says the Chinese Communist Party continues to persecute members of the church by threatening to send their children to government re-education camps or forcibly remove adopted children from their parents. In a video released Wednesday alongside a new…

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  • Remains of 286 Jewish Holocaust Victims Uncovered in 2 Basements in Ukraine

    By: Marcy Oster – Jewish Telegraphic Agency; jta.org The remains of 286 Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust were found in two basements in a town in southwest Ukraine. The remains, mostly women and children, will be buried in a mass grave in the ancient Jewish cemetery in Sataniv, Ynet reported. The town had an…

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  • China Orders Christians to Take Down Crosses, Images of Jesus; Worship Communist Leaders, Not God

    By: Leah MarieAnn Klett – The Christian Post; christianpost.com Amid the coronavirus outbreak, poor Christian villagers in China have been ordered to renounce their faith and replace displays of Jesus with portraits of Chairman Mao and President Xi Jinping or risk losing their welfare benefits. Religious liberty magazine Bitter Winter reports that in April, officials with China’s…

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  • Netherlands Admits to Paying Terrorists Who Killed 17-Year-Old Israeli

    By: Lahav Harkov – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com The killers of Rina Shnerb are members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated terrorist group in the EU. Dutch civil servants took a picture with one of the terrorists charged with killing 17-year-old Rina Schnerb, The Jerusalem Post has learned, despite their government’s denial of…

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  • The US State Department’s Clumsy Calculus of Palestinian Terror

    By: Michael Freund – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com Failure to properly count the number of Palestinian terror attacks necessarily minimizes their importance, suggesting that they and their victims don’t really matter. A number of years ago, on a visit to Manhattan, I entered one of the countless souvenir stores that dot the area in Times…

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