EU offers UK Brexit extension options, initially to April 12

(Worthy News) – The European Council on Thursday offered the UK two different Brexit extension options.

The UK has been seeking an extension for the Article 50 exit process to allow for an orderly exit.

The offer:

    Option 1: If the UK parliament votes for the withdrawal agreement next week, it can delay exiting until May 22 to ratify the text.
    Option 2: If it does not approve the deal, the EU will offer a shorter extension until April 12.
    If it rejects the deal and takes the shorter extension, it can then decide whether to seek a much longer delay and vote in the European elections, or whether to leave on May 22 with no deal.

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‘We Are God-Fearing Men’: Brazil’s President a Friend to Trump and Biblical Values

(Worthy News) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro came to America to tell President Donald Trump he not only admires him but is also a friend of the United States.

“It is time to overcome old resistances and explore the very best potential between Brazil and the United States. After all, it is fair to say that today, Brazil does have a president who is not anti-American,” Bolsonaro said during a press conference in the Rose Garden Tuesday.

During a two hour meeting at the White House, the two leaders signed agreements and discussed how to work together to end the upheaval in Venezuela. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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Trump greets Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, says ‘strongly’ considering NATO privileges for Brazil

(Worthy News) – President Trump on Tuesday gave a warm welcome to the new Brazilian president, saying the relationship between the U.S. and Brazil has “never been better” and suggested that Brazil could be given North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) privileges.

“We (the U.S.) are looking at it strongly, we are very inclined to do that, the relationship that we have right now with Brazil has never been better, I think there was a lot of hostility with other presidents, there is zero hostility with me,” Trump said as he sat alongside President Jair Bolsonaro. “We are going to be looking at it strongly in terms of whether it is NATO, or something having to do with alliance, but we have a great alliance with Brazil, better than we’ve ever had before.”

Brazil has been seeking the status of “major non-NATO ally,” which is a step short of full NATO membership. That would allow certain financial advantages not available to non-NATO members. [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]

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VP Pence gets ovation at Hispanic evangelical summit; new ‘Life Manifesto’ unveiled

(Worthy News) – Vice President Mike Pence gave a closed-door address and received a standing ovation last Thursday before a gathering of the largest Hispanic evangelical coalition in the United States.

Over 300 faith leaders gathered for the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference’s annual Justice Summit hosted at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. Capping off the event were remarks by the 59-year-old vice president.

According to a press release, Pence received a prolonged standing ovation. In his remarks, Pence reportedly declared that once the southern border is secure, the Trump Administration is going to fix “this broken immigration system.” [ Source: Christian Post (Read More…) ]

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Trump to host PM Netanyahu at White House next week

(Worthy News) – U.S. President Donald Trump will host Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House next Monday and Tuesday, the White House said, reaffirming the two leaders’ close ties.

The announcement came shortly after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Tel Aviv on Wednesday and planned to deliver remarks alongside Netanyahu.

“The president and the prime minister will discuss their countries’ shared interests and actions in the Middle East during a working meeting on March 25,” the White House said in a statement. Trump will host a dinner for Netanyahu on Tuesday night. [ Source: Israel Hayom (Read More…) ]

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Nigerian Christians Saved From Captors by Jesus, Angels, and Snakes

by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – 72 Nigerian Christians, who had converted from Muslim backgrounds, were recently saved in a series of miraculous circumstances involving angels, snakes, and one apparition by Jesus after being kidnapped by Boko Haram.

Initially, the group consisted of 76 men, women, and children. The four men who led the group became the group’s first and only martyrs when militants demanded they renounce their faith and convert to Islam on pain of death.

According to a report by Barnabas fund, while waiting with fear and trembling to meet the same fate as their husbands, several mothers in the group were told by their children that Jesus had appeared to them in the night and had reassured them that “all will be well.”

The promised deliverance arrived the next day when gunmen lined several of the captives up against the wall and submitted the same terms to them.

Mysteriously, before a single shot went off, the captors began screaming about snakes and dropped their weapons. Some fled the scene, while others died instantaneously as if overcome by an unseen force.

“You don’t need to do that,” one of the children told an adult from the group who attempted to pick up a weapon abandoned by a fleeing Boko Haram militant, according to a witness.

“Can you not see the men in white fighting for us?”

All 72 Nigerian believers were rescued without a single human hand being raised in their defense, in a country where 300 Christians have been killed by Islamic militant groups in February and March of this year alone.

“We can’t allow that to happen,” were President Trump’s words last year to Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari with reference to the spate of Christians killed in his country by Islamic extremists.

While International Christian Concern’s 2018 special report ranked Nigeria as having the highest death toll for Christians in the world, with estimates ranging from 50,000 to 70,000 people martyred for their faith in the last two decades alone, Open Doors USA speculated that 3,731 of last year’s 4,136 Christian martyrdoms occurred solely within Nigeria.

Nigerian Christians face a dual-pronged threat from Boko Haram and Fulani Herdsmen militias, the one intent on creating an Islamic State in West Africa through forced Christian conversions, the other seeking to appropriate the lands of Christian farmers under the justification of Islamic law.

The highest rating for violence in Open Doors USA’s score system for Christian persecution belongs to a country where bloodshed from Islamic extremism has led some to term Nigeria’s situation “genocide.”

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U.S. Concerned Sale of American Warplanes to Turkey Could Boost Russian Intel Ops

(Worthy News) – The Pentagon is urging caution surrounding a contested military deal with Turkey that would see it purchase several American-made F-35 warplanes that U.S. officials fear could be exploited for intelligence purposes by Russia, which has parallel military deals with Turkey.

The transfer of American F-35 jets to Turkey has emerged in recent months as a key sticking point in the United States’s military alliance with Ankara, which has been strained due to the Turkish government’s efforts to grow closer to Iran and Russia.

U.S. defense officials, speaking to the Washington Free Beacon, expressed concern about the arms deal, warning that Turkey’s Russian allies could exploit the F-35s advanced computer systems by hooking them into the Moscow-made S-400 missile defense systems, which Turkey also operates. [ Source: Washington Free Beacon (Read More…) ]

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Pompeo and Netanyahu Take Aim at Iran During Key Middle East Tour

(Worthy News) – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is traveling in the Middle East this week and CBN News is with him. He has an extensive agenda, but one item looms very large: find a way to halt Iran’s growing power in this volatile region.

As CBN News has been reporting for years, Israel is Iran’s main target. That conversation was a major part of discussions between Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“The Ayatollah has declared that the annihilation and destruction of Israel is his primary goal. With such threats a daily reality of Israeli life, we maintain our unparalleled commitment to Israel’s security and firmly support your right to defend yourself,” Pompeo said Wednesday. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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Syria, Russia and Iran condemn US recognition of Israeli sovereignty over Golan

(Worthy News) – Syria and its allies Russia and Iran on Friday condemned US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which the Jewish state captured from its northern neighbor in the 1967 Six Day War.

Quoting an unnamed foreign ministry official, Syria’s official SANA news agency slammed the decision as “irresponsible” and a violation of United Nations resolutions concerning the territory’s status.

“Syria strongly condemns the irresponsible declaration of the American president, which again proves the US’s blind tendency in favor of the Zionist entity and its unreserved support for its aggression,” the official said. “The Syrian people remain committed to the liberation of the Golan Heights by all means at its disposal.” [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]

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Israel shells Hamas post after explosion of balloon-borne bomb from Gaza

(Worthy News) – An Israeli tank struck a Hamas military post in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, hours after an airborne explosive device apparently launched from the Palestinian enclave exploded in Israel.

The Israel Defense Forces said the tank strike was in response to “exceptional” violent rioting by Palestinians along the border fence, as well as the launching of incendiary balloons and explosive devices toward Israel throughout the day.

Israel as a policy holds Hamas responsible for all violence coming from Gaza, which the Islamist terror group seized from the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority in 2007. [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]

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