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(Worthy News) – Previously unseen Dead Sea Scroll fragments, which had been stored in cigar boxes since archaeologists unearthed them in the 1950s, were identified and unveiled at an international conference on Tuesday in honor of the 70th anniversary of the scrolls’ discovery in Jerusalem.

The tiny fragments, all thought to be taken from Qumran’s Cave 11, are game changers and provide new puzzle pieces towards completing the picture of known published scrolls, experts said.

One of the fragments, unusually written 2,000 years ago in anachronistic First Temple script, may even point to a wholly unique, previously unknown manuscript. “This fragment could not be attributed to any one of the known manuscripts,” the conference organizers said. “This raises the possibility that it belonged to a still unknown manuscript.” [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – The European Union’s foreign service condemned remarks on the Holocaust by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as “unacceptable,” echoing criticism on Wednesday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In strikingly blunt language from Brussels, the European External Action Service said in a statement: “The speech Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivered on 30 April contained unacceptable remarks concerning the origins of the Holocaust and Israel’s legitimacy.

“Such rhetoric will only play into the hands of those who do not want a two-state solution, which President Abbas has repeatedly advocated.” [ Source: Jerusalem Post (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Even Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s diplomatic friends condemned him.

Friends and foes alike blasted Abbas as an “antisemite” and a “Holocaust denier,” after he charged that the Nazis killed Jews in the Holocaust because they were money lenders.

“The Holocaust did not occur in a vacuum, it was the result of thousands of years of persecution,” UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said on Wednesday.

“This is why attempts to rewrite, downplay or deny it are dangerous.”

Mladenov along with the European Union, Sweden, Germany and US officials from both the Trump and Obama administrations spoke out sharply against Abbas’s words spoken Monday night to the Palestinian National Council in Ramallah. [ Source: Jerusalem POst (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Dr. Ronnie Floyd, the president of the National Day of Prayer, tells Newsmax that he believes the National Observance being held Thursday evening in Statuary Hall could be the start of something truly historic — the next great spiritual revival to heal an American commonwealth torn by enmity, strife, and mistrust.

The former president of the Southern Baptist Convention adds: “We’re due — we’re overdue — for the next Great Awakening in the United States.”

But before a spiritual revival can occur, Floyd says, Christians must learn to set aside their differences for the sake of a greater cause.

“A divided church cannot call a divided nation to unity,” says Floyd. “And we need desperately as the church, all followers of Jesus Christ, to come together around what really matters and come together for the good of the nation.” [ Source: NewsMax (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Three American Christians detained in North Korea have reportedly been moved from a labor camp to a hotel on the outskirts of the capital city Pyongyang.

Sources inside the Department of Defense told CBN News, Kim Dong-chul, Kim Sang-duk and Kim Hak-song were all moved from a labor camp early last month.

Sources say they are being given health care and are resting. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has warned Syrian’s civil war may be about to escalate and enter a new phase.

On video link from his secure bunker, for fear of Israeli assassination, he addressed supporters in the Bekaa Valley ahead of Lebanese elections.

Voters are going to the polls there for the first time in nine years, with the small Mediterranean country having been under the leadership of Prime Minister Saad Hariri since December 2016. [ Source: Sky News (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday against scrapping an international deal on Iran’s nuclear programme unless there was a good alternative in place.

U.S. President Donald Trump has been threatening to pull out of the agreement, leading to diplomatic tensions with Iran as well as with U.S. allies keen to preserve the agreement.

“If one day there is a better agreement to replace it it’s fine, but we should not scrap it unless we have a good alternative,” Guterres said in an interview with BBC Radio 4. [ Source: Channel News Asia (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – The ancient ruins of what is thought to be a Christian refuge or early church was discovered in Manbij, Syria, according to reports.

The ruins were found in territory that was previously under ISIS control after the group invaded the city in 2014.

Abdulwahab Sheko, head of the Exploration Committee at the Ruins Council in Manbij, had been studying the area and ruins. He said ISIS did not notice the area and dumped garbage on the empty mound of land near the ruins. [ Source (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – President Trump lashed out at his own Justice Department again on Wednesday, tearing into officials for not cooperating with document requests from congressional Republicans while warning he could “use the powers” of the presidency to intervene in the dispute.

“A Rigged System – They don’t want to turn over Documents to Congress,” the president tweeted, in an apparent swipe at the Justice Department.

A Rigged System – They don’t want to turn over Documents to Congress. What are they afraid of? Why so much redacting? Why such unequal “justice?” At some point I will have no choice but to use the powers granted to the Presidency and get involved!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 2, 2018

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(Worthy News) – President Trump’s top legal adviser called former FBI director James B. Comey a liar who should be indicted.

In an interview Wednesday night on Fox News Channel, former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani also criticized special counsel Robert Mueller for his demands against a sitting president, which he called unprecedented.

His criticism of Mr. Comey, whom Mr. Trump fired as FBI chief, was based on his giving to a friend his memos on his conversations with Mr. Trump. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

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