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August 01, 2025

ISIL Massacres 43 Catholics in Congolese Church

Friday: Christian Persecution Forty-three Christians were massacred in a Congolese Catholic Church this week. ...

November 2015

November 21, 2015

King of Jordan Warns of Third World War Against Humanity

Jordan's King Abdullah II warned of a "third world war against humanity." He described ISIS...

November 18, 2015

ISIS Releases Photo of Bomb It Used to Down Russian Passenger Jet

ISIS has taken credit for the murder of the 224 people who were on board...

November 18, 2015

Boko Haram Suicide Bombing Kills 32, Wounds 80

Boko Haram used a suicide bombing to kill 32 people and wound 80 others in...

November 16, 2015

It’s Time to Discuss America’s Immigration Policy.

Not all Muslims are terrorists. In fact, very few Muslims are terrorists. ISIS, despite its...

October 2015

October 24, 2015

Persecution, not Divorced and Remarrieds, is the Most Serious Issue Facing Christianity Today

My colleague Kate O'Hare interviewed Chaldean Catholic Bishop Mar Bahai Soro about the holocaust of Christians...

September 2015

September 25, 2015

Pope Francis Visits 9/11 Memorial

This is what I wrote about Pope Francis' attendance at the prayer service at the...

September 14, 2015

Lone Vet Returns to Iraq to Fight ISIS

60 Minutes covered the plight of Iraqi Christians Among other stories, they found an American...

July 2015

July 09, 2015

Was St Maria Goretti’s Purity in Her Body? Let’s Ask St Augustine.

Purity is a virtue of the soul ... not even when the body is violated...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

YWAM Missionary Reports ISIS Fighter Converts to Christ After Seeing Jesus in a Dream

I have no comments about this. Just watch and decide for yourself. One thing is...

June 26, 2015

ISIS Offers “Beautiful Young Girls” as Sex Slaves to Winners of Koran Memorization Contest

Evidently, ISIS is sponsoring a Koran Memorization contest in honor of Ramadan in which "beautiful...

June 11, 2015

Islamic Brotherhood Tries to Shut Down ISIS in Gaza

According to Haarvetz, the Islamic Brotherhood has been trying to shut down ISIS' activities in...

June 09, 2015

Local Businesses are Choosing to Operate Under ISIS Rule

ISIS may have a few problems with the social niceties. Their tendencies to murder, rape,...

May 2015

May 21, 2015

ISIS Claims Full Control of Syrian City of Palmyra

ISIS has taken full control, of the Syrian City of Palmyra. This puts ISIS in...

May 19, 2015

Two Bad Presidents Made Iraq into the Petri Dish that Grew ISIS.

How did Iraq become the cesspool that birthed ISIS? Who made this mess? We did....

May 13, 2015

History of the Crusades: President Obama’s Prayer Breakfast Comments

I'm going to backtrack for today's video. This video is a discussion of President Obama's...

May 01, 2015

The Crusades, Christian Bashing and Our Two-Tier Educational System

NOTE: I noticed a couple of comments on other topics that reflect the popular ignorance...

April 2015

April 24, 2015

The Murderers Got Away With It.

Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians? Adolph Hitler The murderers...

April 21, 2015

Muslim Refugees Throw Christian Refugees Overboard into the Sea

Muslims, fleeing other Muslims by going to a Christian country for refuge, threw fellow migrants...

April 20, 2015

ISIS Releases Video of Themselves Murdering 30 Christians by Shooting and Beheading Them

You will not have safety even in your dreams until you accept Islam. Masked ISIS murderer...

March 2015

March 20, 2015

ISIS Bombs Shiite Mosque in Yemen. More than One Hundred Dead.

More than 100 people were murdered by the bombing of a Shiite Mosque in Yemen....

March 12, 2015

The R and the D: Destroying America to Win in ’16.

Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu gave a stirring speech to a joint session of Congress. Fifty...

March 07, 2015

Catholic Bloggers Unite Against the Death Penalty. This Catholic Blogger Says Wait a Minute.

I'm always the outlier. No matter what the question, as soon as the crowd starts...

March 06, 2015

Boko Haram Murders 47 Nigerian Villagers. ISIS Bulldozes Archeological Treasures.

The work of murdering innocents and destroying civilization continues apace in that part of the...

March 05, 2015

FBI Warns Law Enforcement that ISIS is Recruiting American Teens

From CNN: Washington (CNN)The FBI and Department of Homeland Security sent a joint warning...

March 03, 2015

Conversion on the Beach: One Man’s Conversion to Christ Before ISIS Execution

ISIS march 21 men onto a beach in Libya. Twenty of these men were Christians....

March 03, 2015

Netanyahu’s Speech to Congress: An Overload of Truth

The Obama Administration has engaged in unseemly behavior, trying to block Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech...

March 03, 2015

Vatican Acknowledges that ISIS’ Threats Against Pope Francis are Real

Commander Domenico Giani, head of the Vatican police force says that talks he's had with...

March 02, 2015

Pope Francis Condemns the ‘Intolerable Brutality’ of ISIS

March 02, 2015

History of the Crusades: Pope Urban II Father of the Crusades

Islamic wars of conquest against Christians had been going on for over 300 years when...