Seventy-seven-year-old Congressman Leonard Boswell and his 22-year-old grandson fought off an armed man during a home invasion Saturday at the congressman’s Iowa farm. The physically fit Boswell was a repeatedly decorated helicopter assault pilot during the Vietnam War. He represents Iowa’s Third Congressional District in the U.S. House, a district that includes Polk County and…

    You probably heard that the Dalai Lama is holding a 11-day event promoting peace in Washington, D.C., and that he dropped by the White House Saturday for a chat with the President of the United States. But, what is the exiled Tibetan leader’s name? Nobody just refers to “the President of the United…

Atheists and skeptics now have as much access to our children as we have, says bestselling author Josh McDowell. “What has changed everything?” asked McDowell as he spoke at the Billy Graham Center in Asheville, N.C., Friday evening. “The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and…

A mob of nearly 200 Muslims torched eight Christian homes on Saturday morning in the Egyptian village of Awlad Khalaf, according to the Assyrian International News Agency. The attack was initiated by a rumor that a house being built by a Christian man, Wahib Halim Attia, would be turned into a church. Two Christians and one Muslim were…

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