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  • US State Department Changes Name of Eastern Jerusalem Palestinians in Annual Report

    By: Jackson Richman – Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org The official description of Palestinians residing in eastern Jerusalem is now “Arab residents” or “non-Israeli citizens,” instead of “Palestinian residents,” in the department’s annual global human-rights report. The U.S. State Department has changed its official description of Palestinians living in eastern Jerusalem from “Palestinian residents” to “Arab…

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  • Iran Extends Christian Convert’s Sentence 2 Years for ‘Evangelical Zionist Christianity’

    By: Samuel Smith – The Christian Post; christianpost.com 65-year-old Iranian Christian convert who was sentenced to three years in prison for “insulting Islamic sacred beliefs” in January has been sentenced to two more years in prison while nine other converts lost appeals of their five-year sentences. Article 18, a nonprofit Christian persecution watchdog group, reports that convert…

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  • Is the Coronavirus an End-time Biblical Plague?

    By: Michael Brown – The Christian Post; christianpost.com Does the Book of Revelation predict the coronavirus? Is it one of the prophesied, end-time plagues? If so, does that mean that this is just a harbinger of much worse things to come? There is no denying the seriousness of the virus. As Bill Gates noted in the New England…

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  • Why Iran Is Such a Coronavirus Threat

    By: Amir A. Afkhami – Politico; politico.com For years, Tehran was remarkably good at fighting epidemics. This time, a bungling and an isolated regime is worsening global risk. The U.S. could actually help. Since Iran announced its first cases of the novel coronavirus more than two weeks ago, a growing number of analysts and physicians…

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  • A Palestinian State Benefits No One

    By: Ryan Jones – Israel Today; israeltoday.co.il More and more Palestinians say they simply can’t live without Israel It is widely assumed that a Palestinian state will not only benefit the Palestinian Arabs, but is crucial to their future as a “people.” But, as legendary Hollywood producer Jerry Belson wrote for an episode of Odd Couple back in the…

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  • Nigeria: 5 Churches Burned, Many Christians Killed in Boko Haram Invasion

    By: Anugrah Kumar – The Christian Post; christianpost.com More than 100 Boko Haram militants opened fire sporadically and indiscriminately and set churches and houses on fire, killing many people, in the town of Garkida in Gombi area of the northeastern state of Adamawa, according to initial reports. At least five churches were destroyed, including two…

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