ISSUES

September 21 – KCHF TV Interview – Albuquerque, NM

The TV interview was done at the KCHF TV station. Mrs. Mary Kay Gonzales conducted the interview with Randy Neal, Abel Taye and Pastor Barney Carbajal.

September 19 – Why Israel – Farmington, NM

On September 19th, we held a Why Israel event in Farmington, NM at Day 3 Church. The people of the church were very receptive of the Why Israel Message. Pledge cards were signed and Cherith connected with University of New Mexico students. An offering was collected to support the work of CUFI.

September 19 – Why Israel – Daly City, CA

The Why Israel event was hosted by Pastor Andy Antenor, who is a CUFI Pastor Alumni. Since he came back from the CUFI Pastors Israel trip, he has been encouraging his church members to support Israel. For the last 3 Sundays before I came, he has been preaching about the blessings that come when Christians pray for Israel.  He told me that he wants...

September 18 – Pastors’ Meeting – Daly City, CA

The event was organized by Pastor Alex Cabansagan with the Church of the Nazarene.

Most of the attendees heard of CUFI for the first time, and many felt conviction for their lack of support for Israel and the Jewish people, so they pledged to support CUFI to be more pro-active in strongly advocating for Israel and the Jewish people.

September 15 – Why Israel – Deerfield, NJ

After coming with CUFI on a Pastor’s Israel trip, Pastor Dr. Kenneth Larter returned to the states a Christian Zionist. He went to work with his board of elders to remove the Deerfield Presbyterian Church (founded almost 300 years ago!) out from the staunchly anti-Israel Presbyterian USA denomination and has continue to work with CUFI.

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September 12 – Why Israel – Norfolk, VA

The church is pastored by Pastor Abraham Biangco, an ethnically diverse congregation with a strong emphasis on missions.  The CUFI Why Israel presentation was received well by the church members.  After the presentation, many people asked me to help their congregation organize an Israel tour.

September 11 – Pastors Meeting – Norfolk, VA

The event was hosted by Pastor Abraham Biangco, who was part of our CUFI Pastors Israel tour last year.  Pastor Biangco oversees a network of churches in the region. The attendance was very diverse – African American, Hispanic, Middle Eastern and Asian.  A few pastors were interested in hosting a CUFI event at their churches and in going to Israel...

Why Iran’s threat to attack Israel’s Dimona matters

Iran has published and distributed a video of rockets and drones being used to attack Dimona in the Negev Desert. It says the attack took place during the recent 17th Great Prophet drill with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the IRGC Air Force.

Tehran says it “simulated a missile and drone attack on the Dimona nuclear center using 16...

Iran’s oil exports are focus of Vienna nuclear talks

Iran’s main focus in nuclear talks that resume in Austria on Monday will be the lifting of all US sanctions in a verifiable process that guarantees Tehran’s unhindered ability to export its oil, the foreign minister said.

Negotiations with world powers to salvage Iran's 2015 nuclear accord, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action...

Gaza terror groups launch military exercise amid growing West Bank tensions

The so-called “military” wings of several Palestinian factions on Sunday said they have launched a large-scale, joint maneuver in the Gaza Strip.

The announcement came amid growing tensions in the West Bank and calls by Hamas and other Gaza-based factions for stepping up attacks against Israel.

It also came in wake of unconfirmed reports...

Antisemitic slurs hurled at US Rep. Josh Gottheimer during NJ event

Democratic US Rep. Josh Gottheimer (New Jersey, 5th District) said hecklers shouted “Jew” and other antisemitic slurs at him as he and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo descended to Bergen County, New Jersey to promote the Biden administration’s “Build Back Better” infrastructure bill last September, Gottheimer said in a speech at Rutgers...

‘BBC’ ranks third, after Iran and Hamas, on Wiesenthal Center ‘top 10’ anti-Semitism list

The BBC placed No. 3 on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s “Global Anti-Semitism Top 10” list for 2021, after Iran and Hamas, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday.

“People might assume we would put neo-Nazi groups on our list, but the BBC is there because when a globally recognized organization allows anti-Semitism to creep into its reporting, it makes...

Qatar to invest $60 million in Gaza gas pipeline

Qatar will invest some $60 million in a pipeline to bring Israeli natural gas into the Gaza Strip, the Gulf kingdom’s envoy to Gaza, Mohammad al-Emadi, announced on Sunday.

A major Hamas backer, Qatar has pledged some $360 million for Gaza’s reconstruction following the Islamist terrorist group’s conflict with Israel in May.

The energy-rich...

West Bank terror is a reminder of Gaza’s ‘deceptive calm’

After arresting four terror suspects on suspicion of carrying out the deadly attack near Homesh, in which Israeli civilian Yehuda Dimentman, 25, was murdered, Israel Defense Forces spokesman Ran Kochav said on Sunday that the attack was likely orchestrated from the Gaza Strip.

It has since transpired that the terror cell belonged to Palestinian...

The PA’s ‘Equal Opportunities for Terrorist Murderers’ policy

Israeli security forces arrested the terrorists suspected of murdering 25-year-old Yehuda Dimentman and injuring others in a shooting attack last Thursday.

The arrest of the terrorist murderers automatically invokes the full weight of the Palestinian Authority’s 2004 Law of Prisoners and Released Prisoners and implementing regulations.
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PA television broadcasts girl calling to ‘trample the necks of the Zionists’

As Palestinian Media Watch has exposed and is clear by the way Palestinian children speak on PA TV, the PA educates its youth to admire terrorist murderers. In addition, they see violence and terror as valid and see the murder of Israelis/Jews as a right because Jews, they claim, don't have any history in the land and their presence “defiles” it....

Bennett, Sullivan meet in Jerusalem

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Wednesday at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.

The two discussed a variety of subjects, among them the ongoing negotiations in Vienna between Iran and the other signatories to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear agreement,...

UN proposing paying nearly $6m to Taliban for security

The United Nations is proposing to pay nearly $6 million for protection in Afghanistan to Taliban-run Interior Ministry personnel, whose chief is under UN and US sanctions and wanted by the FBI, according to a UN document and a source familiar with the matter.
The proposed funds would be paid next year mostly to subsidize the monthly wages of...

August 29 – Why Israel – Dover, DE

Pastor Dr. Mary Zaragoza and her husband Pastor Ennio hosted two Why Israel Sunday events at the church she and her husband oversee in Dover, DE. The first service was in English and Pastor Ennio set up the message with a powerful plea for his congregation to “take notes, be attentive, and put away every distraction” as he had been so moved by the...

August 22 – Why Israel – Middlesex, NJ

Hosted by CUFI alumni Pastor David Sera Josef, the church is associated with the Southern Baptist Association.  The gathering was attended by a lot of millennials. Pastor Josef felt that the Why Israel presentation would help the younger generation understand the dangers of anti-Semitism in the schools of America. He is concerned how his young...