Saving Lebanon | Opinion
Read ›: Saving Lebanon | OpinionBy: Shoshana Bryen – Newsweek; newsweek.com It was hard to miss the videos of the double explosion in Beirut. The first one was really big; the second was eye-poppingly enormous! And in horrific color. The damage was truly terrible, and the casualty count is rising. So, first, it should be said that thoughts and prayers…
Israel Offers Medical Aid to Lebanon, Response is Silence
Read ›: Israel Offers Medical Aid to Lebanon, Response is SilenceBy: Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com “It’s a shame that people will die for no reason.” The heads of several Israeli hospitals have reached out to Lebanese officials and the United Nations offering medical support to the country’s wounded. “It hurts to see the children – little children – crying and injured,” Dr.…
Firefighters Battling Forest Fire in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem
Read ›: Firefighters Battling Forest Fire in Jerusalem’s Ein KeremBy: 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…
China Seizes Children from Christian Parents, Threatens to Send Kids to Re-education Camps
Read ›: China Seizes Children from Christian Parents, Threatens to Send Kids to Re-education CampsBy: 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…
Remains of 286 Jewish Holocaust Victims Uncovered in 2 Basements in Ukraine
Read ›: Remains of 286 Jewish Holocaust Victims Uncovered in 2 Basements in UkraineBy: 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…
China Orders Christians to Take Down Crosses, Images of Jesus; Worship Communist Leaders, Not God
Read ›: China Orders Christians to Take Down Crosses, Images of Jesus; Worship Communist Leaders, Not GodBy: 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…
