Religion
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Israel-Hamas war: South Africa threatens to arrest citizens fighting with Israel
South Africa’s foreign minister said her country’s citizens who fight in the Israeli armed forces or alongside them in Gaza will be arrested when they return home. Speaking to a crowd, Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said, “we are ready. When you come home, we are going to arrest you.” Source link
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The IDF has released footage showing Palestinian gunmen opening fire on Gaza civilians who were waiting for aid yesterday.
The IDF has released aerial footage purportedly showing Palestinian gunmen opening fire amidst a crowd of Gazan civilians waiting for aid at Kuwait Square in Gaza City last night. According to the IDF, the footage was captured an hour before the aid trucks reached a corridor in northern Gaza, where the convoy later passed through. Hamas health authorities have accused…
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Israel-Hamas war: IDF eliminates 15 terrorists in 24 hours, amid Hamas aid attack
The Israeli Defense Forces says it has eliminated 15 Hamas terrorists in a 24 hour operation. The IDF also releasing footage of Hamas opening fire on Palestinians awaiting aid in Gaza. Mark Chandler with Coastal Carolina University joins LiveNOW to break it all down. Source link
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Mapping Refugee Movement in Gaza as Israel’s Rafah Offensive Looms
The majority of Gaza’s displaced population is sheltering in Rafah after Israeli offensives gradually forced refugees to move south. And satellite images show there are few—if any—options in Gaza where the 1.5 million people can go if Israel proceeds with a ground operation. Source link
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Israel-Hamas war: Netanyahu rejects ‘absurd’ ceasefire, approves Rafah operation
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called a Hamas-proposed ceasefire and hostage release deal “ridiculous” and “absurd” as the Israeli War Cabinet discusses the proposal that could include the freeing of the remaining hostages in exchange for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. In the meantime, Netanyahu approved the IDF plan for a Rafah operation. Dr. Asaf Romirowsky, the executive director of Scholars…
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Israel-Hamas War LIVE: Israel to direct Palestinians out of Rafah ahead of offensive
Amid the unrelenting aggression by Israel the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are in desperate need for urgent aid. Washington it is working to coordinate a multinational effort that’s to set up a maritime aid corridor into Gaza and this is a part of US strategy of flooding The Zone with humanitarian assistance. Source link
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Shaun King converts to Islam
(RNS) — Shaun King, a onetime Christian pastor who has sparked controversy in the past with his strident liberal activism, converted to Islam with his wife, Rai, over the weekend. Video of King saying the shahada, the Muslim profession of faith, appeared on X Sunday evening, as did separate footage of him speaking about his embrace of Islam at the…
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It’s New York City’s moral responsibility to welcome the stranger
(RNS) — Members of my faith community, New York’s historic Middle Church, have been volunteering at the East Village Earthchxrch (pronounced “Earthchurch”), offering support to the hundreds of migrants from the United States’ southern border and elsewhere who show up every day. In the church, a glassy converted bank building, dozens of neighbors coordinate meal programs, a free store and…
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Alabama IVF decision is bad law with religious filigree
(RNS) — After the Alabama Supreme Court decided last week that an embryo is a person, GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley told CNN’s Jake Tapper, “I think that the court was doing it based on the law, and I think Alabama needs to go back and look at the law.” But the decision was not actually based on the law…
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Brazilian evangelical Christians disrupt pre-Lenten partying with ‘Gospel Carnival’
A dancer from the Tom Maior samba school performs during a Carnival parade in São Paulo, Brazil, early Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) SÃO PAULO (RNS) — The massive Saturnalia of the Brazilian Carnival, the five days of festivities, parades and public debauchery leading up to Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, has not historically been a…
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