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CNEWA EN | ESSearch DONATE Home ONE Magazine Fall 1977 The Martyrs of Najran ONE Magazine God • World • Human Family • Church The Martyrs of Najran A group of Coptic Christians in the sixth century are remembered for their faith. Every year on the 24th of October the Roman Catholic Church commemorates “the Martyrs of Najran.” Unless he has stumbled across the entry in some such books as Butler’s Lives of the Saints, the average person is not likely to have heard of either the martyrs or of Najran. The valley of Najran is in southwestern Saudi Arabia,...

Congress has a plate more full than Thanksgiving dinner when they return to Washington, with deadlines on funding and other policies fast approaching and the Biden impeachment inquiry reaching a pivotal moment. Lawmakers jetted home to spend the holiday week in their districts after narrowly avoiding a shutdown with a stopgap spending bill that bought them until the new year to work out a long-term government funding plan - wrapping up a marathon 10 weeks of session in the House. But after the week's respite, here's what to look out for on Capitol Hill: Biden Impeachment Top Republicans leading the...

Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) from the House Intelligence Committee joined Sean Duffy on Sunday who was filling in for Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures. Rep. Gallagher revealed more information on the secret China biolab that was discovered operating in California. Gallagher says the biolab owner is an illegal alien from China and his biolab was funded by the Chinese Communist government.

White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein said on this week’s “Fox News Sunday” broadcast that the U.S. economy was “moving on the right track.” Partial transcript as follows: BERNSTEIN: Well, I want to try to paint a realistic picture that’s nuanced, that takes into account everything you just said. But also reflects not just what on people — what people are saying, which we have to listen to, they are the best arbiters of their economic conditions, but also what they’re doing. So we’re just coming out of a Black Friday, that is already setting records for online buying between...

VIDEOWho are you going to believe? The Weather Channel founder and professionally trained meteorologist John Coleman or shameless grifter John F. Kerrey who married and remarried into wealth?Oh, and are those carbon emissions particulates that have settled beneath Kerry's eyes or is that just a weird health issue?

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said city officials are investigating a "vile show of antisemitism" in which students at a high school in Queens reportedly rioted after learning a teacher attended a pro-Israel rally. The incident shut down Hillcrest High School in Jamaica Hills, Queens, for two hours on Monday and forced the teacher to hide inside a locked office while the students rampaged down the halls, the New York Post first reported. "The vile show of antisemitism at Hillcrest High School was motivated by ignorance-fueled hatred, plain and simple, and it will not be tolerated in any of...

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: Hebrews 12:28 (King James Version) When Reagan visited Moscow, he related a story of how one of his people would go for his morning walk across Red Square. Every morning at the break of dawn he would go for his walk and see a hundred men sweeping the square even though it was already clean. Reagan related it to Gorbachev and said you know you can get a machine to do that at a fraction of...

As we head into December, Ukraine is getting colder and the campaign friendly weather of mid-year is long gone. Despite that Russia has launched perhaps its largest offensive of 2023, targeting the salient around the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka - burning through armour and manpower in the face of a stubborn Ukrainian defence. At the same time, with it now clear Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia offensive will not reach its objectives this year, Ukraine has escalated its efforts on a different front, establishing several small bridgeheads across the Dnipro in Kherson Oblast. In this episode, I look at some of the key...

A drug dealer who had his prison sentence commuted by Donald Trump has returned to loan sharking as his family's ties to Jared Kushner might have helped get him free, according to a report. Staten Islander Jonathan Braun, 40, had served two-and-a-half years of his decade-long sentence for running an illegal marijuana cartel when the former president set him free along with 142 others. Braun is accused of returning to offering high-interest loans despite nationwide bans on the practice, according to the New York Times... Braun was in the inaugural class of the Kushner Yeshiva High School in Livingston, New...

I still am thinking of all the whining cowardly Jewish students at America’s elite private colleges, belly-aching “Mommy, the Arab and Muslim foreign students here and the non-Jewish “Jewish” woke progressive apostates on campus don’t like me. They are chanting Israel has no right to exist. They say Hamas rape is good rape, liberation rape. I am scared.” snip It was 1970. Every culture has its music, and so do American Jews and so do Israelis. The most popular Jewish and Israeli song that year was “Bashanah Haba’ah” (“Next Year”). Here is a version sung by the Christian choir of...

...the Nazis went to great lengths to hide their crimes from the world, because they knew they were crimes, Hamas has done the exact opposite, because they do not consider them to be so. In October 1943 Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, delivered a notorious speech to 50 of his senior lieutenants in Posen. "I want to speak frankly to you about an extremely grave matter," he said. "We can talk about it among ourselves, yet we will never speak of it in public. … I am referring to the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the...

The House of Representatives (212 Republicans and 22 Democrats) recently voted to censure radical Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., because she has "levied unbelievable falsehoods about our greatest ally, Israel, and the attack on October 7." One of those outrageous falsehoods was clinging to the false claim that Israel bombed the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza. But guess what? Our professional "fact-checkers" haven't located that lie... or any other nutty utterance, like her laughable claim that "from the river to the sea" isn't a Hamas slogan about the eradication of Israel, it's an "aspirational call for freedom" and "peaceful coexistence." With Democrats,...

There is no question that whiskey, maple syrup and coffee are all individually delicious. As I was exploring new iced coffee options, I was surprised at how well all three of them work together though. Now even after I knew the ingredients necessary for this drink, it took some time to get the proportions just right. I found it was a delicate balance to find the perfect sweetness with the syrup, bite with the whiskey and flavor of the coffee. Too much of any of them threw off the drink. After much experimentation, I found the proportions that I think...

The Red Cross on Sunday was transporting another group of Hamas’s captives, the third of four groups planned to be exchanged for Palestinian prisoners in as many days, to Israeli authorities. Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari said the Red Cross, acting as an intermediary, was carrying 14 Israelis and three others. He did not provide other identifying details. Sunday’s trade went more smoothly than Saturday’s, when the release of hostages was delayed by seven hours after allegations from Hamas that, among other things, Israel was not allowing humanitarian aid to reach parts of northern Gaza. Israeli military leaders said...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich) signed legislation legalizing partial birth abortion, removing all clinic licensing and inspections for cleanliness and safety, as well as the reporting of complications, and the patient's right to understand the procedure and its risks through informed consent. Whitmer observed that "the protections for women's health and the reduction of unwanted increases in the human population we have achieved for our state stand in stark contrast to what has happened in states where the freedom to restrict abortion enabled by the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision has resulted in an increase of 32,000 live births over the past...

The Democratic Party is united — for now. Fear and loathing of Donald Trump keeps the various Democratic factions in a precarious peace. But labor v. environment, Jewish vote v. Muslim vote, and center-left v. hardcore progressivism cannot remain at bay forever. The fiercest battle may well be the looming civil war between Vice President Kamala Harris and California Gov. Gavin Newsom for the party leadership once President Biden leaves the stage. And it won’t be pretty. When Biden named Harris his running mate, he conferred on her heir-apparent status. The pick made sense. VP nominees are mostly about pulling...

Ah, the infamous “Inflation Reduction Act!” Remember, it was an act sold as inflation reduction, although it was all about green energy spending. And now making Medicare insurance premiums go up by 42-57% in 2024! In the Inflation Reduction Act, lowering the maximum out-of-pocket spending cap for Medicare Part D prescription drugs from $7,050 in 2023 to $2,000 in 2025 will reduce co-pays for some, especially those with chronic conditions. However, financial liability will shift to insurers expected to cover 60-80 percent of costs once patients hit the new $2,000 cap. So, while the Inflation Reduction Act aims to lower...

...His family held prominent positions in Rome, particularly through his grandmother, Julia Maesa, and her sister, Julia Domna, who was the wife of Emperor Septimius Severus...Growing up in Emesa, Elagabalus was exposed to the worship of the sun god Elagabal...Following the assassination of Emperor Caracalla in 217 AD, the unpopular Macrinus took the throne. Julia Maesa, Elagabalus' grandmother... devised a plan, spreading rumors that Elagabalus was the illegitimate son of Caracalla... These rumors resonated with the Roman legions, who were discontent with Macrinus' rule.In 218 AD, at the age of 14, Elagabalus was declared emperor by the Roman legions stationed...

@RepThomasMassie Were it not for Edward Snowden, the elected lawmaking body of the United States would not know about vast unconstitutional programs that were being run by the unelected government of the U.S. I say this definitively as 1 of 535 elected lawmakers of the U.S. government.

Another day, Biden still on vacation while 9 to 40 Americans held hostage by Palestinian Islamic HAMAS in Gaza. All we hear from Biden, Harris, and their administration is "hope", "disappointed", and "watching". No actions. Americans were killed, raped, and taken hostage. Now held for 40 days and just hope and disappointment from Biden and Harris. Calls for Israel to ceasefire. No actions. So weak, it is beyond pathetic.