Iran: We will consider US Army equivalent to Islamic State

Iran: We will consider US Army equivalent to Islamic State

(Worthy News) – Iran will consider the U.S. Army equivalent to the Islamic State group if Washington designates its Revolutionary Guards Corps a terrorist group, Iran’s Tasnim news agency quoted the Guards’ commander as saying on Sunday.

The news agency quoted Mohammad Ali Jafari as adding that the U.S. was mistaken if it thought it could pressure Iran into negotiating on regional issues.

On Friday, the White House press secretary announced that U.S. President Donald Trump will soon unveil new responses to Iran’s missile tests, support for “terrorism” and cyber operations as part of his new Iran strategy. [ Source: Israel Hayom (Read More…) ]

Awaken the Dawn: A Weekend of Worship Fills the National Mall

Awaken the Dawn: A Weekend of Worship Fills the National Mall

(Worthy News) – The big swath of park land between Capitol Hill and the Lincoln Memorial known as the National Mall was filled with an unprecedented event this weekend: 24/7 worship meant to bless God and call His presence down on America.

“It’s all about King Jesus,” said Melody Frazier-Morris of Messiah Ministries International. “We’re lifting His name up. It says ‘if I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me.’ We want to see that Third Great Awakening.”

Every state and region had a tent on the Mall for the event called “Awaken the Dawn,” all of them offering praise and adoration around the clock all weekend long. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

Thousands of Women to Repent for Racial Sins of America in Worship Rally on National Mall

Thousands of Women to Repent for Racial Sins of America in Worship Rally on National Mall

(Worthy News) – This weekend’s worship festivities on the National Mall will culminate on Monday in the form of a day-long women-led worship rally in which people from all across the United States will be called to pray for a “Jesus Movement” to sweep the nation and foster racial reconciliation, gender equality, and for an end to abortion.

Thousands of women are expected to gather in Washington, D.C. for “Rise Up,” a worship-focused revival calling on Americans to repent for the country’s history of racial and gender-based injustices and for the country’s embrace of abortion.

The women’s worship rally comes just over 20 years after hundreds of thousands of Christians gathered on the National Mall on Oct. 4, 1997, for the male-centered Promise Keepers’ Stand in the Gap rally. [ Source: Christian Post (Read More…) ]

Huge demonstration against Catalan independence in Barcelona

Huge demonstration against Catalan independence in Barcelona

(Worthy News) – Hundreds of thousands of people are marching in Barcelona to demand Catalonia rejects independence and stays with Spain.

March organisers Societat Civil Catalana claimed 930,000 people turned out, but Barcelona police put the total at around 350,000.

The demonstration comes a week after the Catalan government held a referendum on secession that was condemned as illegal and unconstitutional by the Spanish government. [ Source: Sky News (Read More…) ]

Sessions outlines broad exemptions for religious freedom

Sessions outlines broad exemptions for religious freedom

(Worthy News) – Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued government-wide legal guidance Friday that urges sweeping protection for religious freedom and could impact a series of pending policy decisions involving health care, LGBT rights and even disaster relief.

Sessions billed the 25-page memo directed to all federal agencies as a response to an executive order President Donald Trump signed in May, promoting efforts to promote “religious liberty.”

That order triggered a major showdown within the administration as religious and social conservatives pressed for treatment that could essentially allow them to ignore anti-discrimination requirements, particularly in the area of sexual orientation, while more moderate forces warned that upending existing protections would trigger an uproar that could derail other administration priorities. [ Source: Politico (Read More…) ]

Trump: I want to give peace a shot before I even think of moving embassy

Trump: I want to give peace a shot before I even think of moving embassy

(Worthy News) – US President Donald Trump said in an interview broadcast on Saturday that he wanted to give a shot at achieving peace between Israel and the Palestinians before moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

In June, Trump signed a temporary order to keep the US embassy in Tel Aviv, despite a campaign promise he made to move it to Jerusalem.

In an interview with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee on the TBN program “Huckabee,” Trump noted his administration was working on a plan for peace between the two sides.

“I want to give that a shot before I even think about moving the embassy to Jerusalem,” he said. [ Source: Jerusalem Post (Read More…) ]

The FBI’s New U.S. Terrorist Threat: ‘Black Identity Extremists’

The FBI’s New U.S. Terrorist Threat: ‘Black Identity Extremists’

(Worthy News) – As white supremacists prepared to descend on Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, the FBI warned about a new movement that was violent, growing, and racially motivated. Only it wasn’t white supremacists; it was ‘black identity extremists.’

Amid a rancorous debate over whether the Trump administration has downplayed the threat posed by white supremacist groups, the FBI’s counterterrorism division has declared that black identity extremists pose a growing threat of premeditated violence against law enforcement.

“The FBI assesses it is very likely Black Identity Extremist (BIE) perceptions of police brutality against African Americans spurred an increase in premeditated, retaliatory lethal violence against law enforcement and will very likely serve as justification for such violence,” reads the report, marked for official use only and obtained by Foreign Policy. [ Source: Foreign Policy (Read More…) ]

California’s deadly hepatitis A outbreak could last years, official says

California’s deadly hepatitis A outbreak could last years, official says

(Worthy News) – California’s outbreak of hepatitis A, already the nation’s second largest in the last 20 years, could continue for many months, even years, health officials said Thursday.

At least 569 people have been infected and 17 have died of the virus since November in San Diego, Santa Cruz and Los Angeles counties, where local outbreaks have been declared.

Dr. Monique Foster, a medical epidemiologist with the Division of Viral Hepatitis at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters Thursday that California’s outbreak could linger even with the right prevention efforts. [ Source: LA Times (Read More…) ]

For First Time Since 2005, Four Hurricanes Make U.S. Landfalls in One Season

For First Time Since 2005, Four Hurricanes Make U.S. Landfalls in One Season

(Worthy News) – Nate made landfall around 7 p.m. CDT Oct. 7 near the mouth of the Mississippi River as a Category 1 hurricane, then made its final landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi, just after midnight Oct. 8.

Together with a trio of Category 4 hurricane landfalls in less than a month’s time from late August through late September, this is now the first time since the record-smashing 2005 hurricane season there has been as many as four U.S. landfalls in one season, all occurring within 45 days from Aug. 25 through Oct. 8.

That 2005 season featured five U.S. landfalling hurricanes: Cindy, Dennis, Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

The landfall of Harvey and Irma at Category 4 strength was already a historic event, marking the first time two Atlantic hurricanes struck the U.S. in the same year. With Puerto Rico taking a direct hit from Maria, the U.S. has now endured landfalls from three Category 4 hurricanes.

Category 4 or stronger Atlantic hurricane landfalls in the Lower 48 are a rare occurrence, with only 27 documented since 1851, including Harvey and Irma. Three of those 27 landfalls were Category 5 hurricanes.

Puerto Rico has experienced four Category 4 or stronger landfalls, including Maria, which was the strongest landfall there since 1928. [ Source: Weather (Read More…) ]

Israel strikes Hamas post after Gaza rocket fire

Israel strikes Hamas post after Gaza rocket fire

(Worthy News) – The Israeli military said on Sunday it destroyed an outpost belonging to the Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Sunday after Gaza militants fired a rocket toward Israel.

The rocket set off air raid sirens in southern Israel but fell short, landing inside Palestinian territory, the Israeli military said in a statement.

“In response, an (Israeli) tank targeted and destroyed a Hamas outpost in the southern Gaza Strip,” it said. [ Source: Reuters (Read More…) ]