Only after leaving a N. Korean prison camp, after 28 years there, did woman learn why she was there

Only after leaving a N. Korean prison camp, after 28 years there, did woman learn why she was there

NEW YORK — Kim Hye-Sook, who survived 28 years . . . in a North Korean prison camp, offered a detailed account of the forced labor, starvation and torture she endured . . . at the U.N.’s “Victims Voices: A Conversation on North Korean Human Rights” event. . . . “I was taken to prison […]

Exorcist author writes about life after the death of his son

Exorcist author writes about life after the death of his son

“Exorcist” author William Peter Blatty has a new book out. Titled “Finding Peter,” it’s part comic memoir, part argument for life after death. Blatty, a lifelong Catholic, lays out a number of curious incidents — electric lights mysteriously flickering on and off, etc. — that have convinced him that his son Peter, who died of […]

Exorcist priest: ‘ISIL is Satan’

Exorcist priest: ‘ISIL is Satan’

In a recent Facebook post, well-known Roman exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth said the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL or ISIS) “is Satan,” and he also questioned the lack of response from Western nations. “ISIS is Satan. Things first happen in the spiritual realms, then they are made concrete on this earth,” he said […]

Woman who stabbed American teacher in UAE said she saw ‘ghost-like people’

Woman who stabbed American teacher in UAE said she saw ‘ghost-like people’

A woman accused of stabbing to death an American teacher in the United Arab Emirates said she has a mental illness and is “possessed by evil spirits.” On December 1 of last year, Alaa Bader al-Hashemi allegedly murdered 47-year-old American teacher Ibolya Ryan, a mother of two, in a shopping mall restroom in Abu Dhabi. […]

Easter apocalypse: Laughing gunmen singled out Christian students in Kenyan bloodbath

Easter apocalypse: Laughing gunmen singled out Christian students in Kenyan bloodbath

Survivors of the Kenya university massacre [of 148] described how laughing gunmen taunted their victims amid scenes of total carnage. Salias Omosa, an 20-year-old education student, said the victims were woken up at gunpoint in Thursday’s pre-dawn attack, and Muslims and non-Muslims picked out by “how they were dressed”. “‘We don’t fear death, this will […]

‘Death to America, death to Israel’: Last words of worshippers in mosque attack

‘Death to America, death to Israel’: Last words of worshippers in mosque attack

WorldTribune.com Special to WorldTribune.com An Islamic preacher was leading congregants in a chant against America, Israel and Jews last week when a terrorist with the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant blew himself up in their midst. Some 142 people were killed and 351 were wounded in the attack at a Shi’ite mosque in Sanaa, […]

Author: Christians in West just don’t care about slaughter of Christians elsewhere

Author: Christians in West just don’t care about slaughter of Christians elsewhere

[A new book contends that] Western Christians don’t care enough about the threat posed by the Islamic State [of Iraq and Levant], which is attempting to wipe out Christianity in the Middle East. “I am convinced that one of the reasons why Christians in the West haven’t been more supportive of Christians in the East […]

Graham: ‘The storm is coming’

Graham: ‘The storm is coming’

The Islamic State beheaded 21 Egyptian Christians over the weekend, propping the severed heads on the victims’ backs, a barbaric slaughter that led Reverend Franklin Graham to ask, “Can you imagine the outcry if 21 Muslims had been beheaded by Christians?” “Where is the universal condemnation by Muslim leaders around the world?” he asked. … […]

Worldwide vigils vow not to forget the Taliban’s massacre of schoolchildren in Peshawar

Worldwide vigils vow not to forget the Taliban’s massacre of schoolchildren in Peshawar

WASHINGTON — A vigil was held in the nation’s capital [and in cities with Pakistan communities around the world] in remembrance of those killed by a Taliban terrorist attack at a military-run Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday that killed 132 children and nine staff members. Asad Majeed Khan, deputy chief of Mission at […]