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NUEVO LEON, MEXICO. January 2, 2012. A couple from Texas who moved to a violence-plagued area of northern Mexico to run a Baptist church were found murdered on Tuesday in their ransacked home, relatives said. John and Wanda Casias, originally from Amarillo, Texas, moved to an area outside of Monterrey, Mexico, in the late 1970s [...]
BLOOMINGTON, CA – January 13, 2012. Sister Connie Ballestero, wife of Rev. Carl J. Ballestero, passed away on January 13. Brief History of the Ballesteros Carl Ballestero first met his wife while he attended Andrew Baker’s church (which is were he was baptized in Jesus’ Name). Brother Baker was one of the early fathers of [...]
TALLMADGE, OH – January 18, 2012. Bro. Robert D. Trapani, age 72, went home to be with the Lord January 18, 2012. Robert was born May 4, 1939 in New York City, N.Y. to Domonic J. Trapani and Elsie Trapani Wilson. Robert is survived by his wife, Hilda Latta Trapani of 55 years; sons, Geoffrey [...]
BERLIN – January 22, 2012. The Merneptah Stele has long been touted as the earliest extrabiblical reference to Israel. The ancient Egyptian inscription dates to about 1205 B.C.E. and recounts the military conquests of the pharaoh Merneptah. Near the bottom of the hieroglyphic inscription, a people called “Israel” is said to have been wiped out [...]
More than 150 medieval Jewish manuscripts recently came to light in the mountains of northern Afghanistan, according to scholars who have been studying the texts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Although scholars have only just begun studying the decayed, fragmentary and often illegible texts, they appear to date to the 11th century and are [...]
Archaeologists surveying the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount in the area of Robinson’s Arch have found a button-sized, first-century C.E. seal inscribed in Aramaic with the phrase “pure for God.” Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists Eli Shukron and Ronny Reich believe the seal was impressed upon purified objects designated for ritual use in the Jerusalem [...]
Some Christians are troubled by the abbreviated spelling of Christmas or X-mas. But does the “X” really take Christ out of Christmas? Reporter Dan Reany takes a look at the historical aspects of X-mas, the meaning of “X” in the original Greek, and why the use of the term ‘X-mas’ is really putting Christ into [...]
Coins discovered beneath the foundations of Jerusalem’s Western Wall prove that Herod the Great did not even come close to completing construction on the Temple Mount compound. The coins, stamped around 17 C.E. with the name of the Roman proconsul Valerius Gratus, were found inside an earlier ritual bath (mikveh) that had been filled in [...]
WASHINGTON D.C. – December 9, 2011. The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to approve a defense authorization bill which included a provision that not only repealed the military ban on sodomy, but also repealed the ban on having sex with animals — or bestiality. CNS News reported: On Nov. 15, the Senate Armed Services Committee had [...]
MEXICO CITY – December 7, 2011. This was an update sent out for United Pentecostal Church of Mexico. On the 20th of November 2011 we had our Central Disitrict Convention in Mexico City with over 4,000 in attendance; 159 received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and 2 were baptized. It was such a tremendous [...]
Sis Connie Ballestero Passes Away at 89
DREAMS WITH FEET by Amber BausRev. Robert Trapani Passes Away at 72Archaeology Proves Biblical Date of Israel in Egypt is CorrectAncient Book of Jeremiah Found in Mountains of Afghanistan
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