Sunday, 26 October 2014

20 years ago: Israel and Jordan sign peace treaty

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On October 26, 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordanian Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali signed a peace treaty in a desert...

Israeli archaeologists discover stone inscribed to Roman Emperor Hadrian, providing evidence of events leading to Bar Kokhba revolt in 2nd century

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Photograph of the inscription against the background of the Rockefeller Museum, seat of the Israel Antiquities Authority. Photographic cr...

Israel Antiquities Authority and Rockefeller Archaeological Museum collections are now available online

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As reported by Israel Antiquities Authority , September 2014 (link in original): In its continued efforts to share and make accessible to...
Sunday, 14 September 2014

Ian Paisley goes to be with the Lord

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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. Psalms 116:15 Rev. Ian Paisley, Northern Ireland's most prominent Prot...
Saturday, 6 September 2014

Beware of falling church gargoyles

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Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. Proverbs 27:1 Everyday life is fraught with danger, as r...
Thursday, 28 August 2014

50 years ago: Canadian religious leaders weigh in on topless bathing suits

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In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pea...

50 years ago: A Jewish scholar accuses the United Church of Canada of being out of date

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Just as the United Church of Canada was boasting about putting Christianity "squarely in the context of the twentieth century" wit...
Friday, 1 August 2014

50 years ago: United Church of Canada unveils Sunday School curriculum denying the truth of the Bible

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And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. Matthew 24:4 For I know this, that after my departing shall gr...
Friday, 25 July 2014

20 years ago: Israel and Jordan end their enmity by signing the Washington Declaration

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On July 25, 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan signed the Washington Declaration , formally ending the st...
Wednesday, 9 July 2014

30 years ago: God strikes York Minster Cathedral with lightning three days after the consecration of heretic David Jenkins as Bishop of Durham

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Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Galatians 6:7 But there were false prophets a...
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Thursday, 3 July 2014

25 years ago: U.S. Supreme Court upholds Missouri law restricting abortion

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On July 3, 1989, the United States Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold a Missouri law that restricted a woman’s right to have an abortion. Th...
Monday, 23 June 2014

St. Louis Roman Catholic Archbishop claims he didn't know that sexual abuse of minors was a crime

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As reported by Lilly Fowler of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch , June 10, 2014 : Archbishop Robert J. Carlson claimed to be uncertain that he ...

40 years ago: Chuck Colson is sentenced to prison

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In Washington D.C. on June 21, 1974, U.S. District Court Judge Gerhard Gesell sentenced former White House counsel Chuck Colson to 1-3 years...
Thursday, 19 June 2014

40 years ago: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares hope for lasting peace in the Middle East

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On June 12, 1974, U.S. President Richard Nixon, who was being threatened by impeachment over his involvement in the scandal surrounding the ...
Wednesday, 18 June 2014

13-year-old Indian boy with a tail is worshipped as a god

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For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens. Psalms 96:5 In the absence of worship of the true God, the nat...
Tuesday, 17 June 2014

60 years ago: U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower adds "under God" to Pledge of Allegiance

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On June 14, 1954, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower signed the order inserting the words "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance ...
Thursday, 1 May 2014

30 years ago: Carl McIntire critiques Evangelicals for Social Action's Chicago Declaration

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Carl McIntire (1906-2002) was a leading fundamentalist figure of the 20th century, serving as President of the International Council of Chri...
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