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On Wednesday, September 23rd, our CUFI Field Coordinator, Rev. Peter De Jesus, conducted a “Why Israel” bilingual virtual event. This event was hosted by one of our CUFI Congressional Liaison’s and Latino Pastors Israel Tour Alumni, Pastor Alberto Gonzalez of Templo Betania Assembly of God church in Fremont, California. The event was attended by...
On Tuesday, September 22nd, our CUFI Field Coordinator, Rev. Peter De Jesus, hosted a “Never Again” Zoom Webinar with Holocaust Survivor Irving Roth. This virtual event was attended by 33 Hispanic Pastors and CUFI Leaders from 16 states in the nation and Puerto Rico, who went on our CUFI Latino Pastors Israel Tours over the past two years. During...
On Friday, September 18th, our CUFI Field Coordinator, Rev. Peter De Jesus, conducted a Spanish “Why Israel” hybrid in-person and virtual event. This unique event was hosted by our Eugene, Oregon Congressional Liaison, Pastor Luis Vergara of Iglesia Centro de Fe, who went on our January 2020 CUFI Latino Israel Tour. Our event was attended in...
On Thursday, September 10th, our CUFI Regional Coordinator, Rev. Peter De Jesus, conducted a “Why Israel” virtual event. This event was hosted by our San Diego, California Congressional Liaison, Pastor Dr. Fernando Garay of Fuego Ministries Church and Fernando Garay Ministries in San Diego. Our virtual event was viewed on Facebook by at least 385...
Holocaust Survivor Irving Roth engaged in a session of Q&A about his experiences of revisiting joyful, painful, and forgotten places and memories in the making of CUFI’s documentary Never Again. This was a special session for CUFI members in CA, NV, WA, OR, ID, and UT.
02/24/2021
Ten years have passed since the Iron Dome air-defense system, produced by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, made its first revolutionary interception of a Gazan rocket in Israeli skies in 2011. Since then the system has conducted more than 2,500 successful real-world interceptions, preventing large-scale carnage in Israeli cities.
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02/24/2021
CUFI Coffee Break
The Story of Purim
The evil darkness of anti-Semitism existed long before the present evil regime in Tehran has sponsored terror against Israel or Palestinian radical groups have shot rockets into Israel. Even prior to the evil and murderous regime under Hitler, evil individuals and empires sought to destroy...
02/25/2021
Oberlin College is facing fresh criticism for continuing to give a platform to a so-called "professor of peace," Mohammad Jafar Mahallati, who as Iranian ambassador to the United Nations urged the elimination of the Jewish state.
A Fox News Digital investigation can reveal for the first time that Mahallati, a professor of Islamic...
02/25/2021
US President Joseph Biden’s new administration said on Wednesday it would continue its international re-engagement by seeking election to the UN Human Rights Council where it will press to eliminate a “disproportionate focus” on ally Israel.
Under former President Donald Trump’s more isolationist approach, Washington quit the...
02/24/2021
Senator Tom Cotton and more than 40 other Republican lawmakers introduced a resolution Wednesday opposing any move to lift sanctions on Iran, underscoring the resistance the Biden administration will face in trying to get back into the 2015 nuclear accord.
The resolution “rejects and opposes the reapplication of sanctions relief...
02/25/2021
The IDF is preparing in case it needs to take action against Iran, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said at a graduate ceremony for new IDF officers on Wednesday.
“The IDF is currently working to build up our forces and is preparing itself for any scenario, including one in which we would need to take action to prevent Iran from...
02/24/2021
The number of countries Israel is planning to send surplus COVID-19 vaccinations in exchange for diplomatic support has risen to 19, according to Hebrew media sources on Wednesday.
Nearly 100,000 doses in total are expected to be shipped outside of Israel, which were obtained earlier in the year by American biotechnology company...
02/24/2021
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government will form a strategic working group with the US on a possible new nuclear deal between the Iran, according to an Axiosreport — the latest indication that Israel will attempt to engage the Biden Administration on the issue.
Israel will reconvene a working group that was...
02/24/2021
Iran has made its intentions to continue building nuclear weapons clear, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi warned on Wednesday.
“The Iranian policy is a declaration of intent to continue developing hidden nuclear capabilities,” Ashkenazi warned.
Ashkenazi’s remarks came a day after the International Atomic Energy Agency issued a...
02/24/2021
'The President affirmed US support for Iraq’s sovereignty and independence,' White House says
US President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi spoke about this week's rocket strikes on the US embassy in Baghdad, the White House said Tuesday, with both leaders saying those responsible should be "held fully to...
02/24/2021
Protesters occupied government offices on Tuesday in the Iranian city of Saravan – the capital of Saravan County in the Sistan and Baluchestan province – over the killing of fuel traders on the border of Pakistan and the Islamic Republic.
The shooting at the Pakistan-Iran border resulted in at least ten dead and six injured.
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02/24/2021
Inconsistencies in the Iran government's explanation of the shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane last year raise questions over whether it was intentional, an independent UN investigator said on Tuesday, but she had found no concrete evidence that it was.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they shot down the Ukraine...
On Monday, August 31st, our CUFI National Hispanic Outreach Coordinator, Rev. Peter De Jesus, conducted Part Two of our “Why Israel” virtual event on Zoom with a closed group of ministry leaders. It was hosted by our Rosemead, California Hispanic Outreach City Director, Rev. Elias Flores, Jr., for eleven of his ministry leaders in Rosemead,...
During the month of August, our CUFI Field Coordinator, Rev. Peter De Jesus, together with two of CUFI leaders in San Antonio, Texas, Pastor Daniel Gonzalez and Associate Pastor Daniel DeLeon of Cornerstone Iglesia, conducted four weekly Facebook and Radio programs with La Nuestra 1130AM radio station in San Antonio. These four 27-minute programs,...
02/23/2021
Israel will not rely on efforts to return to a nuclear deal with Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday.
“Israel isn’t pinning its hopes on an agreement with an extremist regime like ,” he said at a memorial service for the 1920 Battle of Tel Hai. “We already saw what these agreements are worth... with North Korea.”...