From Orlando Sentinel - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Abraham didn’t exist? The Exodus didn’t happen?
The Bible’s Buried Secrets, a new PBS documentary, is likely to cause a furor.
“It challenges the Bible’s stories if you want to read them literally, and that will disturb many people,” says archaeologist William Dever, who specializes in Israel’s history. “But it explains how and why these stories ever came to be told in the first place, and how and why they were written down.”
The Nova program... Read Full Story
OneNewsNow Reports — A major victory has been won for those who want elective Bible courses taught in Texas public schools.
The Texas Attorney General’s office said the guidelines for new elective Bible courses are constitutional. A state law passed last year allows school districts to offer high school courses on the Old and New Testaments and their impact on culture and society.
Jonathan Saenz with the Plano-based Free Market Foundation says similar courses have been approved in public... Read Full Story
An Arab Christian activist calls Barack Obama naive when it comes to foreign policy matters, particularly when dealing with the Middle East.
Brigitte Gabriel, founder of Act! for America, is outraged that Obama is going to meet with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank. A Palestinian official has told CNN that the meeting will take place July 23 in Ramallah, though the Obama campaign has had no comment on the report.
Gabriel says a meeting between Obama and Abbas will... Read Full Story
A number of Muslim nations have taken a resolution to the United Nations that would prohibit defamation of a religion — theirs. By Charlie Butts
Dozens of Muslim-dominated countries want protection. Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law & Justice explains what that entails. “They’ve put forward what’s called a ‘[Combating] Defamation of Religions’ resolution which would amend the U.N.’s Declaration of Human Rights and would make it a criminal act and violation of international law to... Read Full Story
Honor Killings are normal in Islamic nations governed by Sharia Law.
These murderous attacks on females are common in Turkey and countries of the Middle East, according to UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund. UNICEF defines the practice as one “in which men kill female relatives in the name of family ‘honor’ for forced or suspected sexual activity outside marriage, even when they have been victims of rape.”
Human Rights Watch defines “honor killings” as follows:
Honor crimes are acts... Read Full Story
The “Mediterranean Union” Is Born: Intriguing, Disturbing, And Prophetic?
Joel Rosenberg reports — An intriguing new geopolitical entity was born over the weekend that could in ways small and large dramatically change the course of Europe and the Middle East in the years ahead. At a series of ceremonies in Paris — in a palace overlooking the River Seine — leaders from 43 countries comprising 756 million people met officially to form the “Mediterranean Union,” to fight terrorism, end WMD... Read Full Story
International economic crisis demands that prophets prepare themselves to move beyond personal prophecy into marketplace authority.
Recession and economic uncertainty is all around us. Wall Street panics every time The Dow Jones Industrial takes a deep dive. The value of the US Dollar is also at an all time low and declining. The unrest in the middle east is driving gasoline prices sky high world wide. All this while liberal socialists promise to eliminate vital tax cuts that would strengthen... Read Full Story
OneNewsNow reports — A Texas middle-school principal widely criticized for forcing students to sit through a pro-Islam presentation without parents’ knowledge or permission has been hired by the Houston Independent School District.
As OneNewsNow reported in June, nearly 900 students at Texas’ Friendswood Junior High were required to attend a pro-Islam lecture by two representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The program presented Islamic opinion on religious issues as fact... Read Full Story
CEO says company has obligation to ‘make a difference … and we do’
WorldNetDaily Reports - Those who oppose homosexuality for religious reasons are participating in “hate,” according to an official for McDonald’s, the worldwide purveyor of Big Macs and Happy Meals.
“Hatred has no place in our culture,” corporate spokesman Bill Whitman told the Washington Post in response to a campaign by the American Family Association for a boycott of the burger-and-fries outlets because of the corporation’s... Read Full Story
A Canton man is suing a Tennessee-based Bible publisher, claiming their versions of the Bible that refer to homosexuality as a sin violate his constitutional rights and has caused him emotional pain and mental instability.
Bradley LaShawn Fowler, 39, is seeking $60 million from Zondervan, based in Cascade Township, and another $10 million from Thomas Nelson Publishing in the lawsuits filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Fowler says he and other homosexuals have... Read Full Story
