CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

• Steve Chalke: Literal readings of Genesis fuel erosion of confidence in Bible
• Gunmen attack Coptic Christian church near Cairo, killing at least nine
• Iraqi Archbishop: ‘Gang Rapes, Torture and Murder of Christians’ Are Ongoing

THE SANCTITY OF LIFE

• They’re throwing babies onto fires in Myanmar. We need to recognize genocide is occurring

THE KINGS OF THE EAST

• Xi Jinping in New Year’s Eve Speech: China Is ‘Keeper of International Order’
• China mulls law to punish those who ‘slander heroes and martyrs’

A NUCLEAR NORTH KOREA

• Olive branch or booby trap? North Korea’s new tone divides analysts
• Report: U.S. Military Training for Ground Invasion to Capture North Korean Nukes
• U.S. closer to ‘nuclear war with North Korea’ than ever before: Former Joint Chiefs head

PSALM 83:4

• Turkey’s Erdogan threatens to wipe out Jews
• Houston imam calls for Muslims to kill Jews

JERUSALEM A CUP OF TREMBLING

• ‘Arabs must acknowledge Jerusalem is holy to Jews’
• Saudi academic calls on Arabs to recognize Jewish connection to Jerusalem
• Two more nations to move embassies to Jerusalem

PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM

• Trump’s New National Security Doctrine: Israel Is Not the Cause of the Middle East’s Problems
• Netanyahu: Abbas Again Proves Palestinians Are the Ones Who Don’t Want Peace
• Abbas to ask EU to recognize ‘Palestine’
• ‘The Palestinians have lost the support of the Arab world’

ISLAMIC THREAT

• Islamic State Threatens U.S.: ‘We Will Burn You with the Flames of War’
• Study finds Canada ‘obsessed with Islamophobia’

Israel determined to stop Iran in Syria, PM tells Putin

SpaceDaily.com reports: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tuesday that Israel would keep acting against its arch foe Iran in Syria, after a Russian aircraft was accidentally downed there by Syria during an Israeli missile strike. […]

Erdogan Adopts Xi Jinping’s Language and Strategy in Turkey’s ‘New Era’

Breitbart.com reports: “Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced during his inaugural address Monday that Turkey is entering a ‘new era,’ where the nation will take center stage in geopolitics and citizens are expected to submit […]

Report: Israel attacks Iranian weapons depots in Syria

Israel National News reports: “Media outlets affiliated with the Syrian opposition reported on Tuesday that Israel had attacked warehouses of weapons used by Iranian militias near the Dara-Damascus road. The Syrian Center for Monitoring Human […]

‘An infiltration into Israel was prevented’

Israel National News reports: “Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Monday evening held a security consultation with the Defense and Internal Security ministers, the Chief of Staff, the head of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), […]