The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says that it made a mistake when placing Israel on a terror watch list. John Morton, who serves as the director of the department’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division, says the selection was made based on “inaccurate information.” “The addition of Israel in the OIG’s list of ICE‘s ’Third-Agency…

Prayer has been a part of space flight since the very first, reports CNN blogger Thom Patterson. He cites a number of stories of prayers in space — but does not mention the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, a devout Russian Orthodox Christian, who friends have reported was humiliated by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s claim…

On Wednesday, Huffington Post blogger Frank Schaeffer, son of the late best-selling author and conservative Christian philosopher Francis Schaeffer, appeared on MSNBC to promote his new book Sex, Mom, and God: How the Bible’s Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics–and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway. The book opens with Schaeffer alluding to having…

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Bulgaria this week to sway votes against Palestine’s bid to become a state. Netanyahu, who appeared to gain Romania’s support to oppose Palestine’s quest for statehood after his visit to Bucharest Wednesday, praised the Bulgarians for protecting over thousands of Jews during the Holocaust with hopes of gaining the…

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