Day: November 28, 2017

Senate leaders eye changes to tax bill to win over GOP holdouts

Senate leaders eye changes to tax bill to win over GOP holdouts

(Worthy News) – Senate Republicans negotiated changes to their tax reform legislation Monday, with leadership working to alter the bill to win the support of their conference members and then quickly pass it later this week.

Two Senate Republicans have said they are “nos” on the bill as currently written, on the grounds that it doesn’t provide tax breaks large enough to small businesses: Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Steve Daines of Montana, who declared his opposition Monday.

At least a handful of other Republicans, including ones who say they’re worried the tax cut could ramp up the federal debt, are uncommitted and seeking significant changes. [ Source: Washington Examiner (Read More…) ]

European Christians March Against ‘Christianophobia’ After Court Rules to Remove Cross from Pope Statue

(Worthy News) – Some 350 Europeans rallied together to protest a French court’s decision to remove the cross from Pope John Paul II’s statue.

France’s State Council, the country’s highest court, said the cross violated a 1905 law calling for the strict separation of church and state. According to Express, the court says the statue can stay, but the cross must come down “within the next six months.”

Critics are calling the move a blatant example of “Christianophobia.” [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

European Christians March Against ‘Christianophobia’ After Court Rules to Remove Cross from Pope Statue

(Worthy News) – Some 350 Europeans rallied together to protest a French court’s decision to remove the cross from Pope John Paul II’s statue.

France’s State Council, the country’s highest court, said the cross violated a 1905 law calling for the strict separation of church and state. According to Express, the court says the statue can stay, but the cross must come down “within the next six months.”

Critics are calling the move a blatant example of “Christianophobia.” [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

European Christians March Against ‘Christianophobia’ After Court Rules to Remove Cross from Pope Statue

(Worthy News) – Some 350 Europeans rallied together to protest a French court’s decision to remove the cross from Pope John Paul II’s statue.

France’s State Council, the country’s highest court, said the cross violated a 1905 law calling for the strict separation of church and state. According to Express, the court says the statue can stay, but the cross must come down “within the next six months.”

Critics are calling the move a blatant example of “Christianophobia.” [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

European Christians March Against ‘Christianophobia’ After Court Rules to Remove Cross from Pope Statue

(Worthy News) – Some 350 Europeans rallied together to protest a French court’s decision to remove the cross from Pope John Paul II’s statue.

France’s State Council, the country’s highest court, said the cross violated a 1905 law calling for the strict separation of church and state. According to Express, the court says the statue can stay, but the cross must come down “within the next six months.”

Critics are calling the move a blatant example of “Christianophobia.” [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

European Christians March Against ‘Christianophobia’ After Court Rules to Remove Cross from Pope Statue

(Worthy News) – Some 350 Europeans rallied together to protest a French court’s decision to remove the cross from Pope John Paul II’s statue.

France’s State Council, the country’s highest court, said the cross violated a 1905 law calling for the strict separation of church and state. According to Express, the court says the statue can stay, but the cross must come down “within the next six months.”

Critics are calling the move a blatant example of “Christianophobia.” [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

U.K. Raises Awareness of Persecuted Christians by Lighting Buildings up Red

U.K. Raises Awareness of Persecuted Christians by Lighting Buildings up Red

(Worthy News) – On Nov. 22, the British Houses of Parliament and more than 30 churches and schools, mostly in the U.K., bathed their buildings in red light to bring attention to the worsening problem of Christian persecution around the world.

The initiative was part of Red Wednesday—the second annual centerpiece of Aid to the Church in Need’s efforts to remember the most persecuted religious group in the world. Special services and vigils also were held throughout the week. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) urged people to wear red, the color of martyrdom, and post photos on social media using the hashtag #RedWednesday.

Speakers of the House of Commons and House of Lords agreed to participate in Red Wednesday after constituent pressure, according to ACN. [ Source: Christian Headlines (Read More…) ]

Rather than disarm, Hamas vows to attack Israel

Rather than disarm, Hamas vows to attack Israel

(Worthy News) – Palestinian terror movement Hamas again refused to disarm on Monday ahead of a key reconciliation deadline, instead threatening to carry out attacks against Israel in the West Bank.

By Friday, the Islamists are due to hand over control of the Gaza Strip to the internationally recognized Palestinian government, based in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

But the future of their armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, remains unclear. [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]

Iran-backed militia in Syria says it’s ‘fully prepared’ to battle Israel

Iran-backed militia in Syria says it’s ‘fully prepared’ to battle Israel

(Worthy News) – The head of a large Iranian-backed Iraqi militia that has been fighting in Syria said his group was “fully prepared” to fight Israel if Damascus asked it to.

Sheikh Akram al-Ka’abi, the leader of Iraq’s Hezbollah al-Nujaba, told the Lebanese news network Al Mayadeen Friday night his group would participate in a Damascus-led attack on Israel’s Golan Heights.

“We are fully prepared to participate in any war with the Syrian Arab Army to liberate the Golan if the Syrian state agrees or requests so,” Ka’abi said. [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]

Suicide attack targets area southeast of Baghdad

Suicide attack targets area southeast of Baghdad

(Worthy News) – Two attackers shot several civilians on Monday in the Nahrawan area southeast of Baghdad before one blew himself up and the other was killed by security forces, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said, without providing official casualty figures.

Local media reported at least 17 people were killed and 28 wounded.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, described by an interior ministry spokesman as “a terrorist attack by two terrorist suicide attackers who fired indiscriminately on citizens in the Nahrawan area”. [ Source: Reuters (Read More…) ]