Cedar Rapids, IA – Mount Mercy will host the traveling exhibition “Jehovah’s Witnesses: Faith Under Fire,” April 5 – April 30 in Mount Mercy’s Busse Library. The exhibition, created by the Arnold-Liebster Foundation, will showcase the relatively unknown story of suffering and hardships endured by Jehovah’s Witnesses in Nazi Germany. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Mehdi Lebouachera (AFP)
TELL AL-MUQAYYAR, Iraq — The buried antiquities of Ur, Biblical birthplace of Abraham and one of the cradles of civilisation, could one day outshine those of ancient Egypt, archaeologists and workers on the site believe.
With Iraq ravaged by war and strife since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, Baghdad’s struggling government has had greater priorities than funding large-scale digs at Ur, where only small teams have been working since 2005.
“When the (large-scale) excavations restart, tons of antiquities will see the light of day, filling entire museum wings,” enthused Dhaif Moussin, who is in charge of protecting a site that has been prone to looting. Read the rest of this entry »
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Rebecca Solnit chooses to remember 9/11 by its acts of heroism, great and small. Excerpt from her essay:
A young man from Pakistan, Usman Farman, told of how he fell down and a Hasidic Jewish man stopped, looked at his pendant’s Arabic inscription and then, “with a deep Brooklyn accent he said ‘Brother if you don’t mind, there is a cloud of glass coming at us. Grab my hand, let’s get the hell out of here.’ He was the last person I would ever have thought to help me. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Thomas H. Maugh II
The 10 lines of Aramaic or Hebrew script on the artifact is ‘unprecedented,’ an archaeologist says. Researchers are not yet able to decipher it.
U.S. archaeologists have found an extremely rare 2,000-year-old limestone cup inscribed with 10 lines of Aramaic or Hebrew script near the Zion Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem. Read the rest of this entry »
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By Princewill Ireoba
IF the Bible is the inerrant and infallible word of God, as it claims in 2 Tim. 3:16 and 2 Peter 1:21 , we would expect there to be some evidence supporting these claims. After all, just because something claims to be the word of God does not make it true. We will examine the testimony of historical evidence to ask; does the evidence support or deny the internal claims of the Bible? Read the rest of this entry »
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Leopold Engleitner endured the Holocaust. His long life since has inspired others.
By Isabelle de Pommereau | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
Frankfurt – Leopold Engleitner’s blue eyes still burn bright. Last month, the 103-year-old traveled to Frankfurt, from his home in Austria to tell his story at the world’s largest publishing event. Read the rest of this entry »
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When a West Jordan congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses gathered for weekly scripture study last Sunday, members were awed by their new meetinghouse, a completed 5,000-square-foot building on what had been a vacant lot only days earlier. Read the rest of this entry »
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