Iranian parliament labels entire US military as terrorist

(Worthy News) – Iranian lawmakers on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that labels all U.S. military forces as terrorist, state TV reported, a day after Washington ratcheted up pressure on Tehran by announcing that no country would any longer be exempt from U.S. sanctions if it continues to buy Iranian oil.

The bill is a step further from the one last week, when lawmakers approved labelling just U.S. troops in the Middle East as terrorist, in response to the U.S. terrorism designation for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard earlier this month.

The Trump administration re-imposed sanctions on Iran, including on its energy sector, last November, after pulling America out of the landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]

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Poll: Two-thirds of Israeli Jews support unity government without Haredi parties

(Worthy News) – Over two-thirds of Israeli Jews want the ongoing coalition talks to end with a unity government that excludes the ultra-Orthodox parties and advances religious pluralism, according to a public opinion poll published Tuesday.

Sixty-six percent of the Jewish public prefers a government that includes the two largest parties — Likud and Blue and White (which both won 35 seats in April 9’s elections) — and that leaves out the ultra-Orthodox Shas and United Torah Judaism parties, a poll conducted by the Hiddush organization for religious pluralism found, as opposed to 34% of Jewish Israelis who support a more narrow coalition, including the ultra-Orthodox parties and maintaining the status quo on issues of religion and state. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to form a 65-strong coalition including the two ultra-Orthodox parties; Blue and White is set to lead the opposition. [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]

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‘Unplanned’ Earns $17M, Supporters Launch Plan to Take Film Straight to Planned Parenthood Clinics

(Worthy News) – Box office success for “Unplanned” continues to grow after total sales hit $17.2 million this weekend. With only a $6 million budget, Pureflix’s pro-life movie started making a profit on its opening weekend, after debuting with $6.1 million.

“Our hope is to launch a nationwide campaign to eventually show ‘Unplanned’ in front of Planned Parenthood abortion clinics across America,” explained Rev. Patrick Mahoney, director of the Christian Defense Coalition which is sponsoring this special viewing.

The film’s success comes despite roadblocks from the entertainment industry. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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Kushner: Two-state solution was ‘a good attempt’

(Worthy News) – White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner, discussed the upcoming “deal of the century” and said that “if people focus on the old traditional talking points, we will never make progress.” In an interview at the 2019 TIME 100 Summit, Kushner mentioned the Arab peace initiative of 2002 and said: “I think [it was] a very good attempt. But if that would’ve worked, we would’ve made peace a long time ago on that basis,” and added that the current peace team decided to put out a different plan.

“Our focus is really on the bottom up, which is how do you make the lives of the Palestinian people better? What can you resolve to allow these areas to become more investable? We deal with all the core status issues because you have to do it, but we’ve also built a robust business plan for the whole region.”

He reaffirmed that the plan would be released only after the Ramadan. “We were getting ready at the end of last year, and then they called for Israeli elections. Prime Minister Netanyahu had a great victory, and he’s in the middle of forming his coalition. Once that’s done, we’ll probably be in the middle of Ramadan. So we’ll wait until after Ramadan and then we’ll put our plan out.”

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FBI: Cybercriminals set new record in 2018 by causing more than $2.7 billion in reported losses

(Worthy News) – Financial losses caused by cybercrimes reported to the FBI nearly doubled in 2018 over the year before, according to a government report released Monday.

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received 351,936 complaints in 2018 involving incidents that caused combined losses totaling $2.71 billion, the office said in its annual report.

By comparison, the IC3 received 301,580 complaints in 2017 totaling $1.42 billion in losses. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

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‘He’s Alive’: 94,000 in Colombia Hear Franklin Graham Preach the Gospel

(Worthy News) – A region of South America with a seemingly bleak future heard the hope-filled message of Christ last week.

More than 94,000 citizens of Colombia and Venezuela attended Franklin Graham’s Festival of Hope and an additional 22,000 an accompanying kid-friendly event Thursday through Saturday in Cucuta, Colombia, which is situated on the Colombia-Venezuela border. The city has absorbed a mass exodus of Venezuelans in recent years as that country has faced an economic crisis and a food shortage.

According to the Billy Graham Evangelical Association website, more than 7,550 people accepted Christ. [ Source: Christian Headlines (Read More…) ]

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Church Closed in Egypt after Muslim Mob Frightens Children in Sunday School

(Worthy News) – A Coptic church in Upper Egypt is closed after a throng of angry Muslims attacked it this month, beating a priest and another Copt as more than 200 fearful children who had gathered for Bible lessons looked on, according to advocacy groups.

One of the injured Copts, Asaad Bakheet Rezek, told a Coptic TV (CTV) that a Muslim about 17 years old beat one of the priests with a club as security forces led him from the Anba Karas Church building in Naga al-Ghafir, Sohag Governorate in southern Egypt.

The priest, identified as Father Basilious, sustained a minor head injury as security forces escorted him and another priest into an armored vehicle after the chanting mob tried to enter the building, Rezek said, adding that the children were terrified by the club- and knife-wielding crowds as they shouted, cursed and pelted the building with rocks.

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Kushner: Trump Peace Plan Entails ‘Tough Compromises’ for Both Israel and Palestinians

(Worthy News) – The Trump administration’s yet-to-be unveiled Israeli-Palestinian peace plan entails “tough compromises” for both sides, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Tuesday.

Speaking at the TIME 100 Summit in New York City, Kushner noted that the proposal — which has been molded over the past two years — would be published after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan ended in early June.

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law called resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “about as tough of a problem set as you can get.” [ Source: Algemeiner (Read More…) ]

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Israeli Christian Plans to Build Town for Aramaean Christians to Preserve Aramaic Language, Culture

(Worthy News) – An Israeli Christian intends to build a new town in Israel specifically for Christian Aramaeans to preserve their language and culture.

Shadi Khalloul, 42, who chairs the Israeli Christian Aramaic Association and is a fellow of the Philos Project, told The Daily Wire that Aramaean Christians are also native to Israel and descendants of the first believers in Jesus in the ancient land.

Although Aramaic is widely considered a “dead” language — as Khalloul was told while studying at the University of Nevada — he and his family continue to speak it. Even since hearing that during his university class he has been on a mission to preserve his culture with an aim of coexisting among the Jewish people. [ Source: Christian Post (Read More…) ]

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Putin to welcome North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to Russia for first time

(Worthy News) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet on Thursday in the Russian Pacific port of Vladivostok to discuss the international standoff over Pyongyang’s nuclear program, a Kremlin official said.

The visit is part of Kim’s effort to build foreign support after the breakdown of a second U.S.-North Korea summit in Vietnam in February meant no relief on sanctions for North Korea, analysts said.

The summit will be the first between Putin and the North Korean leader and the nuclear row, and how to resolve it, would be the main item on the agenda, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters. [ Source: Jerusalem Post (Read More…) ]

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