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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.
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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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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....
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,...
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...
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...
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...
The two Sunday morning services at New Life Church in Fair Oaks, CA drew about 400 attendees in person and hundreds more online.
The Sunday messages included a special emphasis on CUFI’s Small Group study, The Israel Course, which launches at the church September 8, facilitated by CUFI District Directors Ted and Dee Burdine. Twenty six...
This event was hosted by Pastor Rolly Aquino and Pastor Elmer Arroza. It was attended by mostly Youth leaders and millennials. The daughter of Pastor Aquino came to me after the presentation to thank me for the work that CUFI is doing on campuses. She also told me that the presentation will help her fellow millennials understand why the Jewish...
A group of about three dozen pastors and elders from three San Diego CA churches came to learn about CUFI’s mission and our case why Christians should support Israel. Some key leaders in the group had visited the Holy Land with a Christian Palestinian Liberation group and said that Israel seemed heavy handed toward Arabs. By the event’s end they...
This event was a request by Pastor Rex Veloso for CUFI to do a Why Israel Presentation at his church. He felt strongly that his church needed to hear and understand the importance of God’s faithfulness to His people. The congregation received the presentation well, with some of them saying that it was the first time they heard this kind of message.
Pastor Anthony Miranda hosted a CUFI Sunday service for the 50+ live attendees and six international home churches of Agape Home Church network. The event was the church’s first and CUFI’s presentation of the Biblical mandate to support Israel was well received.
