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The United States offered Israel on Thursday an unprecedented $30-billion military aid package, bolstering its closest Mideast ally. http://www.worthynews.com/news/ynetnews-co...438378,00-html/

The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) -- www.persecution.org – has told ANS that it has just learned that an Egyptian Christian surgeon that had been held captive by the Saudi government is on his way home after ICC publicized his story. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/egypti...nment-released/

The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) -- www.persecution.org – has told ANS that it has just learned that an Egyptian Christian surgeon that had been held captive by the Saudi government is on his way home after ICC publicized his story.

Christians and Hindus in northern Pakistan have received dozens of letters threatening them with death if they refuse to become Muslims, church sources and a police official said yesterday. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/pakist...convert-or-die/

An international ministry organization reaching out to Christians in Iraq is confirming the pressure from Muslims on Christians to abandon their faith or their homes is rising, with videos of actual beheadings used to threaten believers. http://www.worthynews.com/news/worldnetdai...TICLE_ID-57186/

An American evangelical pastor and his wife who have been living in Israel for nearly two decades have been ordered to leave the country within two weeks, after their request for permanent residency was turned down, officials said on Thursday. http://www.worthynews.com/news/jpost-com-s...rticle-Printer/

Newly installed Israeli President Shimon Peres has quietly drafted a plan for the Jewish state to evacuate and transfer to the Palestinians nearly the entire West Bank and several Arab Israeli cities located within territory that is undisputedly Israel's according to the international community, WND has learned. http://www.worthynews.com/news/worldnetdai...TICLE_ID-57146/

Water levels in the three upper Great Lakes are wavering far below normal, and experts expect Lake Superior, the northernmost lake, to reach a record low in the next two months, according to data from the international bodies that monitor the Great Lakes, the world’s largest freshwater reservoir. http://www.worthynews.com/news/nytimes-com...tner-BREITBART/

China"s military recently turned down a request by the United States to see the new Chinese J-10 fighter but allowed visits to two operational fighter bases, the commander of Pacific Air Forces said yesterday. http://www.worthynews.com/news/washingtont...50-1002-NATION/

A unique gene that can stop cancerous cells from multiplying into tumours has been discovered by a team of scientists at the B.C. Cancer Agency in Vancouver. http://www.worthynews.com/news/theglobeand...ienceandHealth/

There was international concern Tuesday, August 14, about the fate of two detained Baptist leaders in the former Soviet republics of Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/concer...and-azerbaijan/

"I see many, many Arabic-speaking people turning to Christ, accepting Him as Lord and Savior,” said Nizar Shaheen, host of Light for the Nations, a Christian program seen throughout the Muslim world. "It's happening all over the Arab world. It's happening in North Africa. It's happening in the Middle East. It's happening in the Gulf countries. It's happening in Europe and Canada and the United States-in the Arabic-speaking world. Everywhere, people are accepting Jesus." http://www.worthynews.com/news/cbn-com-CBNnews-212177-aspx/

The militant Taliban movement on Monday, August 13, released two of the 21 remaining South Korean Christians held hostage in Afghanistan, BosNewsLife monitored. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/taliba...in-afghanistan/

Karl Rove, the political mastermind behind President Bush's races for the White House and an adviser with unparalleled influence over the past 6½ turbulent years, announced his resignation today, ending a partnership stretching back more than three decades. http://www.worthynews.com/news/nysun-com-p...6-v-6660707811/

In response to the Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, many abortion providers in Boston and around the country have adopted a defensive tactic. To avoid any chance of partially delivering a live fetus, they are injecting fetuses with lethal drugs before procedures. http://www.worthynews.com/news/boston-com-...etuses-mode-PF/

Despite persecution and bloodshed thousands of Bibles have been distributed in northern Iraq and "many Iraqis" are becoming Christians, missionaries told BosNewsLife in a statement monitored Sunday, August 12. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/iraqis...ssionaries-say/

Two Egyptian Christians remained detained late Thursday, August 9, after police detained them for their work on the Web site of a Christian Arab group based in Canada. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/egypt-...ent-in-website/

Baptist Pastor Zaur Balaev has been sentenced to two years in jail, after being convicted of using violence against a state representative. http://www.worthynews.com/christian/two-ye...ped-up-charges/

Russian bombers are reported to have buzzed an American military base for the first time since the Cold War when they flew over the Pacific island of Guam. Moscow said that US fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the two Tupolev-95 warplanes as they resumed the Cold War era practice of flying over Western offshore military installations in a mission on Wednesday. http://www.worthynews.com/news/telegraph-c...-site-5-page-0/

President Bush rejected Thursday the idea of raising the federal gasoline tax to repair the nation's bridges -- at least until Congress changes its ways on highway spending. http://www.worthynews.com/news/cbn-com-CBNnews-210124-aspx/

The Bush administration on Friday will announce plans to enlist state and local law enforcement in cracking down on illegal immigrants, which previously was largely a federal function, according to congressional sources. http://www.worthynews.com/news/politico-co...0807-5323-html/

President Bush will veto legislation to expand hate crimes protections to homosexuals and transgendered individuals, even if he has to reject a defense authorization bill, the White House says. http://www.worthynews.com/news/bpnews-net-...s-asp-ID-26209/

Despite a series of initiatives aimed at generating foreign tourism, the Saudi Arabian government continues to bar Jews and Christians from bringing items such as Bibles, crucifixes and Stars of David into the country and is threatening to confiscate them on sight, The Jerusalem Post has learned. http://www.worthynews.com/news/jpost-com-s...rticle-Printer/

The no. 2 Democrat in the Senate -- the assistant majority leader, Richard Durbin of Illinois -- is conceding that the surge of American troops has led to military progress in Iraq. http://www.worthynews.com/news/nysun-com-p...5-v-0804466811/

British forces have been defeated in Basra, an American official said yesterday. A senior American intelligence official told the Washington Post that British commanders had allowed militias loyal to three Shiite Muslim groups take control of the city's streets. "The British have basically been defeated in the South," he said. The report said a contingent of 500 British troops based at Basra Palace were "surrounded like cowboys and Indians." http://www.worthynews.com/news/nysun-com-p...5-v-9214466811/