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“Life is hard,” Yahya, a leader in Iran’s Christian house church movement, told David Yeghnazar of Elam Ministries recently. Yahya (not his real name) was sending voice messages due to Iran’s wartime internet blackout, which makes it nearly impossible for Christian leaders like the Iranian-born Yeghnazar outside the country to reach their contacts in Iran. “But we are continuing. And the Lord is showing His glory…” Despite having no church buildings, Iran’s evangelical population is the fastest growing in the world—some have called it a full-scale underground Christian revival… The first Persian worshippers of Christ may have predated Pentecost—some scholars...

For the past two years, New York and New Jersey infectious disease experts have been laser focused on prep and training for the upcoming FIFA World Cup games — with 1.2 million visitors from around the world set to watch 48 teams battle it out on the pitch. Across the US, those numbers skyrocket to 6-7 million. And with that massive influx of foreign visitors comes the threat of infectious — and sometimes deadly — diseases, including viral hemorrhagic fevers, RSV, tuberculosis, measles, varicella, hepatitis A, typhoid, malaria, SARS, hantavirus and even “high consequence” diseases with high mortality rates, like...

1 May 2026 Friday of the 4th week of Eastertide St. James the Less Catholic Church, Columbus, OhioReadings at MassLiturgical Colour: White. Year: A(II).First readingActs 13:26-33God has fulfilled his promise by raising Jesus from the deadPaul stood up in the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia, held up a hand for silence and began to speak: ‘My brothers, sons of Abraham’s race, and all you who fear God, this message of salvation is meant for you. What the people of Jerusalem and their rulers did, though they did not realise it, was in fact to fulfil the prophecies read on...

Robert Prevost’s last act on social media before he became pope was a retweet. It was April of last year. Donald Trump had hosted Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office, where the two men laughed about the unlawful deportation of a U.S. resident to El Salvador’s CECOT prison. Cardinal Prevost saw the post — a Rocco Palmo dispatch citing the words of Washington Auxiliary Bishop Evelio Menjivar — and reposted it to his Twitter following. Image “Do you not see the suffering?” Menjivar had asked in the Catholic Standard. “Is your conscience not disturbed? How can you stay...

With the London local elections approaching, I am going to make a prediction. Reform UK, the party I lead, is going to surprise a few people in the capital next Thursday. Yes, the usual experts will admit, those Reform upstarts might do well next week up in the rest of England, or in Wales and Scotland. But, they reassure themselves, London will be different. Well, I beg to differ. Unlike the pundits and other party leaders, I have spent considerable time campaigning around London in recent months — talking to ordinary Londoners from Havering to Croydon. And guess what? It...

South Korea sent more troops to join the Vietnam War than any other country other than the United States, and since has joined other U.S.-led conflicts in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. South Korea has dispatched 57,000 troops to 30 countries at the request of the United States or the United Nations. A late 2019 poll—in the midst of a contentious standoff in burden-sharing negotiations—indicated that 92% of South Koreans supported the alliance with the United States. Together the allies maintain formidable capabilities. The ROK armed forces today total 599,000 active duty troops. In 2020, South Korea had the...

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) on Friday warned that the growing national debt is “a ticking time bomb” and he called on his fellow lawmakers to do “much more.” The U.S. national debt crossed 100 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of the first quarter, the first time the debt crossed that line since 1946. The debt surpassed $39 trillion in March, a mere five months after it reached $38 trillion. Roy told Fox Business’s Cheryl Casone that the debt is “a ticking time bomb and that some of us have been talking about for a long time.”...

Pancreatic cancer is on course to be the second-leading cause of cancer-related death in the US by 2030, in part because 85 percent of cases aren't diagnosed until the disease has spread. We're just not catching it early enough. Thanks to a newly developed AI model from researchers at the Mayo Clinic and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, that might be about to change. Their new system, called REDMOD (radiomics-based early detection model), was tested on CT scans from people later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. In nearly 3 out of 4 cases, REDMOD successfully spotted the most common...

Hundreds of beagles have started leaving Ridglan Farms in the United States, marking the beginning of a large rescue operation. The first vans carrying dogs left the facility in Wisconsin on Friday. Rescue groups say it will take at least 10 days to move all the animals to shelters and organisations across the country. Around 300 dogs were transported on the first day. In total, about 1,500 beagles are expected to be released as part of the agreement. Ridglan Farms has been operating for more than 60 years. It breeds beagles for use in scientific and medical research. In recent...

" Karl Marx Was On The British Payroll"- Imperial Expert EXPOSES The Communist History Britain Buried Run Time 14 m 54 s .Susan Kokinda explains how Lyndon LaRouche shaped her worldview, teaching her to look past media narratives and study the hidden financial systems, power structures, and historical forces behind world events. From British banking networks to drug money laundering and the origins of communism, she argues the real truth is always buried beneath the “official story".

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- A man who pleaded guilty to murder allegedly punched his attorney in the face after receiving a 50-year sentence, court documents reveal. Jaquarius Lewis, 27, is accused of causing bodily injury to an individual who is at least 65 years of age, according to records obtained by Eyewitness News. The alleged incident happened on Tuesday afternoon, the same day he was sentenced to confinement in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Institutional Division. The bail motion reads that Lewis punched his attorney, John Petruzzi, in the face after the sentence was read. Records indicate Lewis...

ANN ARBOR, MI — The last “Neighborhood Crime Watch” sign in Ann Arbor is now removed. City officials gathered on Princeton Avenue on Tuesday, April 21, for the ceremonial removal of the final sign after weeks of work to remove hundreds of similar signs. “It’s great to see the last of these relics of the past come down,” said City Council Member Jen Eyer, D-4th Ward. Eyer joined Mayor Christopher Taylor and Council Member Cynthia Harrison, D-1st Ward, in lifting it out of the ground to be hauled away and recycled. Despite neighborhood watch programs being defunct, more than 600...

Nigel Farage and Reform are campaigning around the country in the local elections and consistently polling higher than the other parties. Reform’s campaign started with a series of rallies for supporters and candidates, where they asked attenders who were not already members to join the party and put their names forward as candidates. Now Farage is on a busy schedule of walkabouts and meet-ups with prospective councillors and supporters around the country.

Thug Teen Collapses in Tears After Judge Slams No Bond for Cold-Blooded Murder This black 16-year-old killer screamed and fell apart like a weak coward in court when the judge denied bond and charged him as an adult. Sean Simpson, a gangster, gunned down innocent 16-year-old teen Zaquavious Dawkins in a drive-by while the boy ran a simple errand for his disabled mom. No more soft treatment for street thugs—real justice is here, and this black murderer is finally feeling the pain he caused. Lock him up for life.

A manufactured crisis plays out daily in the parking lots of LA’s Home Depot stores. Day laborer centers, seven city-contracted hubs often nestled on private commercial property, have become battlegrounds. And, no surprise, the NGOs now want more of your hard-earned dollars. Nonprofit organizations like CARECEN demand millions in local taxpayer dollars not to help workers find jobs, but to shield illegal aliens from lawful federal enforcement by ICE.

The most effective influence operation in 2026 is the one that does not look like an influence operation. Most Americans, when they think about Chinese influence at all, picture something cinematic. They picture a senator on a stage in the Capitol, flanked by two advisors to the State Council of the People's Republic of China, nodding along to a discussion of how the United States should slow down its own AI industry. That happened on April 29, 2026, when Bernie Sanders convened Xue Lan and Zeng Yi for an event titled "The Existential Threat of AI and the Need...

A White male says he has submitted over 300 job application, he can’t get a single call back So he tried an experiment, he updated his resume to have a common Indian last name ‘Singh’ He says he’s already gotten 3 callbacks This is discrimination based on race and it’s happening everywhere to White people

The war between the US and Iran is “likely” to restart, a senior Iranian official predicted on the heels of comments by President Trump that the US might be “better off” without an agreement. A “renewed conflict between Iran and the United States is likely,” said Mohammad Jafar Asadi, a high-level officer in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Iran’s leadership, which has been decimated by US strikes, wants to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the US blockade before reestablishing nuclear talks, according to details of its latest counterproposal, which was presented to intermediaries in Pakistan. Trump told reporters...

A group financed by a pro-Chinese Communist Party tech tycoon was one of the first on the scene for Friday's May Day demonstrations and socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s remarks. The People’s Forum and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which both receive direct or indirect funding from Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham, were key players in the organization of protestors in Union Square ahead of the May Day events. A self-identified speaker from PSL announced a People’s Forum spokesperson who was the second to speak into a microphone. The speaker rallied the crowd of demonstrators, asking them to repeat chants and...

James Comey, former FBI director, former deputy attorney general, former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, is a friend of presidents and kings, an admired figure who presents himself as a voice of reason and morality, and a pillar of the Washington establishment — or, as the Mafia would put it, a made guy. Surely he would never do something so lawless and undemocratic as threaten the president of the United States, would he? That’s what Comey contends in response to charges that he was issuing a veiled threat to the president when he posted on his...