This Easter weekend, we remember the ultimate sacrifice and the ultimate gift. As first preached, the first Easter sermon by Paul Dwight Moddy in 1910 to Billy Graham's final public sermon on July 7, 2009, the message is clear. God loves you and He sacrificed His Son, so you may live. Accept
The iconic Eiffel Tower of Paris was evacuated Saturday evening in response to what appeared to be a bomb scare at around 7:00 p.m. local time. The 1,063-foot tower, a top worldwide tourist site, attracts millions of visitors to Paris each year. An estimated 1,400 to 1,500 tourists were visiting the famed site
The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for a blast that killed 10 people and injured 31 others near the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar on Friday. A suicide bomber rode a motorbike up to a security checkpoint, a third of a mile from the consulate, and detonated 22 pounds of explosives attached to his body, police
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniya traveled to Cairo on Saturday to discuss complaints of the terrorist movement regarding Israel's compliance with the truce brokered by Egypt following November’s Operation Pillar of Defense. Hamas spokesman Taher al-Nunu said Haniya would be discussing "Israeli violations of the truce," the AFP news agency reported. Last week,
Iraqi Influx Doubles Syrian Al Qaeda-Linked Rebel Faction Syria’s Al Nusra Front, allied with Al Qaeda, has more than doubled and is continuing to grow with the influx of jihadists from abroad. Chana Ya'ar Syria’s Al Nusra Front rebel faction, allied with Al Qaeda, has more than doubled and is continuing to
Syria’s Al Nusra Front rebel faction, allied with Al Qaeda, has more than doubled and is continuing to grow with the influx of Syrian jihadists returning from abroad. The group was the lead faction among those who recently invaded the buffer zone along the Syrian-Jordanian-Israeli border in the Golan Heights. Listed in the
North Korea declared a “state of war” with its neighboring North on Saturday, and warned both Washington and Seoul to not stir the conflict further as it will result into a nuclear war. The White House said it took the announcement “seriously” and labeled the threat as “nonconstructive”, while South Korea largely dismissed it
Egypt’s public prosecutor on Saturday ordered the arrest of popular satirist Bassem Youssef over alleged insults to Islam and to President Mohamed Mursi, state news agency MENA reported. Judicial sources told AFP that several complaints had been filed against Youssef, whose razor-sharp humor -- delivered on his weekly television program Albernameg (The Show) --
Egypt will receive payment facilities from American and European suppliers of wheat, an Egyptian newspaper on Saturday quoted minister of supplies Bassem Ouda as saying, as the world’s biggest wheat importer struggles to pay for imports. Two years of turmoil since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak has badly hit an economy starved of
Turkey exported almost $120million worth of gold to Iran in February, data showed, suggesting the two countries’ trade of gold for natural gas has resumed despite tighter U.S. sanctions, though at levels below last year’s peaks. U.S. officials have sought to prevent Turkish gold exports from providing a financial lifeline to Tehran, which has
