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Rev. Cornelius Martor is a referral by CUFI’s African Outreach Coordinator, Dr. Francis Tabla. Rev. Martor has not traveled to Israel, nor had he hosted an CUFI event until this one. However, he and his staff were able to gather 13 area pastors to attend. There is great enthusiasm for Israel and CUFI among the African Christians in Des Moines....
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Lesson 51
“Now there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian cohort, a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, and gave many alms to the Jewish people and prayed to God continually.” –Acts 10:1-2
The story of Cornelius is a wonderful testimony of a Gentile who...
01/27/2021
The Luxembourg government is set to sign a historic agreement on Wednesday to pay reparations to Holocaust survivors, return Jewish property to its rightful owners and preserve the history of the local Jews who were persecuted during the German occupation.
The agreement had been formulated over the last year during the expeditious...
01/28/2021
A team of researchers led by scientists at Tel Aviv University say they may have stumbled upon the “Achilles’ heel” of cancer cells, which could in the future lead to the development of an entirely new array of cancer drugs and treatments.
Dr. Uri Ben-David of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, who led the...
01/29/2021
Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with Commander of the United States Central Command, General Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr. on Friday in Tel Aviv.
This was the first meeting between the two since the announcement that US military overview of Israel would be moved to CENTCOM earlier this month.
Gantz told McKenzie that now, as part...
01/29/2021
An explosion occurred near the Israeli embassy in New Delhi, India, Israel's Foreign Ministry confirmed Friday.
"Initial impressions suggest a mischievous attempt to create a sensation," the statement said.
There were no casualties and no damage was caused to the embassy building, the ministry said. The explosion damaged the...
In preparation for the June CUFI DC Summit, Pastor Andy Stephens invited CUFI to once again bring a message on the importance of standing with Israel – with ACTION! It was a packed out house, with an amazing team that and had their DC Summit Sign-Up Table hosted by City Directors and Congressional Liaisons, Bruce and Beverly Cottle. It was...
01/28/2021
Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of an Islamist convicted of beheading US journalist Daniel Pearl, a decision that has left his family in “complete shock,” lawyers said.
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was the main suspect in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl, was released by...
01/26/2021
An Iranian-American facing spying charges in Iran has been arrested as he tried to leave the country, judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said on Tuesday.
The dual national is among a handful of Iranian-Americans reported to be held by Iran, which has been accused by rights activists of arresting dual nationals to try to win...
01/27/2021
Israel and Sudan will finalize a diplomatic deal to normalize relations at a signing ceremony in Washington in the next three months, Israeli Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen said on Wednesday.
There was no immediate comment from Sudanese officials or from the US embassy in Israel.
Sudan's civilian government has said the deal...
01/28/2021
Iranian army spokesperson Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi on Wednesday dismissed remarks made a day earlier by Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi as “psychological warfare” and warned that the “slightest mistake” by Israel would lead the Islamic Republic to “level Haifa and Tel Aviv.”
Kochavi on Tuesday said...
01/27/2021
Marian Turski, a 94-year-old survivor of the Auschwitz death camp, will mark the 76th anniversary of its liberation by Soviet troops on Wednesday only virtually, aware that he might never return as the coronavirus pandemic drags on.
Survivors and museum officials told Reuters they fear the pandemic could end the era where...
01/28/2021
Commander of CENTCOM, Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, was scheduled to arrive in Israel on Thursday for talks with IDF top brass about Iran and other regional challenges.
McKenzie’s arrival – he is scheduled to spend one day in Israel – is the first high-level visit by a top American official since Joe Biden was sworn in as president last...
On Sunday, March 1st, our CUFI National Hispanic Outreach Coordinator, Rev. Peter De Jesús, and his wife, Rev. Mildred De Jesús, conducted a bilingual Why Israel event in Houston, Texas. This event was hosted by Pastor Joaquin Alfaro, of El Tabernaculo Church, who went on our Latino Pastors Israel Tour last November. As a result of the great...
01/27/2021
Israel’s mission is to ensure the Jewish people will never be defenseless against those who seek to destroy it, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“We remember this darkest chapter in human history, when a European country decided to adopt a policy and a program to...
01/24/2021
Israeli and United Arab Emirates (UAE) ministers agreed Sunday to initiate a student exchange program, according to a press release from Israel's Education Ministry.
The student exchange program comes following a normalization agreement between the two countries, leading to cooperation in a wide variety of areas of mutual...
01/27/2021
Users will see a box labeled 'Learning About the Holocaust' when they search for related terms
Internet users who search for information about the Holocaust on Facebook will now be prompted to visit a website on the attempted annihilation curated by the World Jewish Congress and UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific...
01/26/2021
The Israeli Liaison Office in Morocco reopened on Tuesday when former ambassador to Egypt David Govrin arrived in Rabat. It had been closed for 20 years.
The Israeli Consulate in Dubai also opened, two days after the Israeli Embassy in the United Arab Emirates opened in Abu Dhabi, the capital.
“The arrival of the heads of...
01/27/2021
Al-Udeid Air Base, QATAR—The Pentagon sent a B-52 bomber across the Persian Gulf region on Tuesday, the sixth such sortie since last fall, in a show of deterrence to Iran.
The B-52H Stratofortress, a long range heavy bomber, flew from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana on Tuesday and was expected to make a continuous flight...
01/25/2021
The United States is expected to soon begin deploying Iron Dome missile interceptor batteries, one of the jewels of Israel's arms manufacturing industry, in its bases in the Gulf States, according to security officials.
This comes against the backdrop of the Abraham Accords between Israel and two Gulf States, the United Arab...