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- [George] This week onChristian World News,

the historic Peace Dealin the Middle East,

what does it mean for Jews living

in Israel's Biblical heartland,

and why Christians shouldbe praying more now,

more than ever.

- [Wendy] Plus divine intervention,

this Lebanese pastor sent hisentire staff home just minutes

before the blast that devastated Beirut

and damaged his church.

He says the Holy Spiritprompted him to do it.

- And radical Islam inAfrica, ISIS and Al Qaeda

are targeting Christians in Nigeria.

When will the worldrespond to this genocide?

Hello, everyone, welcometo this week's edition

of Christian WorldNews, I'm George Thomas.

- And I'm Wendy Griffith.

The world was amazed whenU.S. President Trump announced

the historic Peace Deal between Israel

and the United Arab Emirates.

It's hailed as a major stepforward in bringing peace

and prosperity to the middle East.

However, the deal does haveimplications for Jews living

in Biblical lands controlledby the Palestinians.

Under the agreement, Israel has agreed

to suspend bringing territories in Judea

and Samaria under Israeli control.

However, Israel Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu says

he would not take declaringsovereignty off his agenda

or give up Israel's right to the land.

U.S Ambassador to Israel,David Friedman emphasized

that point with CBN's, David Brody.

- And then we're going to doall of that bearing in mind

that we put out a peaceplan that contemplates

that the Jews who livein Judea and Samaria,

the Israeli citizens living in Judea

and Samaria will never beasked to leave their homes.

The flags that are flyingover Shiloh and Bethel

and Hebron and you know, Gush Etzion

that are flying over there today,

are they gonna be flying overthere tomorrow or the next day

and we think forever.

- So from a biblical Homeland standpoint,

we hear so much aboutit, evangelical Jews care

about Orthodox Jews, I mean--- Yeah.

- You're saying what tothem regarding this plan?

- I'm saying, take a deepbreath and let us let us work

through what we've just begun,

which I think has huge opportunity.

And we are not taking the notion

of sovereignty off the table.

But you know, whetheryou're an Orthodox Jew

or you're a devout Christian,

you know, we all follow the same Bible.

And you know, in Psalm 1:20, King David,

who is the greatest warrior of

the Jewish people have ever known,

what did King David,say in the last sentence

of Psalms 1:20, "I am forpeace, they are for war."

And we have to pursue peaceas the first initiative.

I think we just have to.

We owe it to our childrenand our grandchildren,

but believe me, the biblical territory

of Israel that was given tothe Jewish people by God,

that is not in any waybeing taken off the table.

- Middle East expert JoelRosenberg, says deal could signal

a new day in the region,prompting other nations

to make peace with Israel.

However, he warns thatIsrael sworn enemy Iran will

not sit quietly as thesechanges take place.

- It's gonna go ballisticover this deal and

what we have to pray asChristians are all over the world

is they don't literally go ballistic.

- Rosenberg says, Iran mightrespond with terror attacks

to try and disrupt the new agreement.

- Yeah, pretty hot in theMiddle East these days.

Turning now to Lebanon, anotherhot spot in the Middle East,

where one Beirut pastor,

while he is thanking Godfor a Holy spirit hunch

that he says saved thelives of his church members

from that massive explosion in Beirut.

Pastor Said Deeb said, he felt the need

to send everyone home early that day.

He was so concerned overthe risk of COVID-19,

but little did he knowthe reality was far worse.

34 church members and 240children gathered each day

at his Life Center Churchin Beirut, which is just

a two-minute drive fromthe site of the explosion.

He says the blast blewthe windows from one wall

to another and tookeverything out in between,

and no one would have survived.

- And Pastor Said, joins us now by Skype.

Pastor, thank you so muchfor being on the show.

- Thank you for hosting me, Wendy.

- Pastor, you say the dayof that horrific explosion

at the port and Beirutthat you heard the voice

of the Holy Spirit.

What did he say to you?

- Yeah, we we're meeting and praying

at about 1:00 PM.

We pray every morning because at night

we have discipleship groupsand we have kids that comes

because they have a center that hosts

all the refugee kids, Syrian refugees.

And we have lots of refugeescome for discipleship.

We have meetings

in every room.

We have so many classroomsand we are 34 staff there.

So I was feeling anxious.

I don't know what's happened to my heart.

And I was feeling not at ease.

And I don't know what to explain it.

I felt something is going to happen,

something bad is going to happen.

We started praying, praying,

but we didn't get the breakthrough.

So I don't know why I was so rude.

I went, everybody, go home, go home,

close everything, and gohome, just close the center.

They said, how come, we have acommitment, we have meetings,

we came long ways and longdistances and now saying go home.

I said, I don't knowwhy, but please go home

and come on Sunday.

It was a Tuesday afternoon.

- Wow, thank goodness.

What went through your mind when,

you felt the Lord telleveryone to go home,

what were you thinking?

- Well, I don't knowwhat's happened with me.

It's like anger, sadness.

I don't know what is thisbut something so intense.

Just like as if the Holyspirit say, go, go, go, go, go.

So I was saying, everybody,go, go, go home, go home,

go home, pushing them,turn off the computers,

forcing them to leave, I was forcing them.

And they said, we are cooking,

we need to distribute foodfor refugees and for the poor.

I said today, cancel everything,put it in the fridge.

So they were thinking I lost my mind,

but they didn't know and I didn't know

this is the Holy spirit prompting.

I didn't know why, that's why I said,

I don't know why just leave.

- You had said that

the explosion basically blewone wall to the other side

and that if anybody, ifthose kids had been in there

that they probably would have perished.

Tell us about

the damage that happenedlike in those classrooms.

- It's they started sendingme pictures from the church

and I was shocked becauseit took us 12 years to build

this auditorium and thischurch and nice facility

and now everything I've built

in 12 years, I saw itdestroyed on the floor,

all the ceilings on thefloor, all the labs,

all the paintings, all the doors,

doors without frames, windows,and you know, all is glass,

all of it in glass andaluminum, double-glazed,

and you see the glassremoved from its place,

and even the frame isremoved out of this place.

It's horrible.

- We know so far, at least 200people have lost their lives

in the explosion, thousandswere injured, many are homeless,

how is your church, a church of God,

Life Center, Beirut helpingthose in need right now?

- I see it's a big, big,big miracle that I imagined

the number would be10,000, lost their lives.

I read it, doubting the numbers.

When you see the damageall around the center

and around the place, youwon't believe your eyes.

It's only 150-200 deaths.

Now we have 300,000 displaced,they have no place to sleep.

We have around 100,000kids now without shelter.

Now that the army is trying to build tents

and stuff like that.

The second morning, early in the morning,

we start cleaning, but Ithought everybody is hungry now.

So I told myself, let'sfinish with the kitchen first,

before we continue.

So we fix the kitchenand we start cooking,

and we started making sandwiches

and hawk meals and giving you away.

So in one hand, we were cleaning

in the other hand, feedingthe poor around us,

and we didn't know what to do really

because they need all around us is huge.

So people were comingfrom all over Lebanon

to help cleaning this area where we are.

And we started sending food,sandwiches, giving away drinks,

and usually everyday wehave people coming for food,

we haven't stopped food,we haven't stopped that.

And today we gave away400 hot meals and boxes,

very nice rosto andpuree, and 500 sandwiches

in addition to a thousandsof bottles of waters.

We do this every day.

And I thank God for the body of Christ.

People keep calling me all over the world,

the five continents, America,

Europe, Singapore,Germany, Switzerland, UK,

sending us, you know,money through Western Union

and through the account of the church.

And we start by face cleaningand by faith cooking.

And every penny we get, wegive away, straight away.

- Well, thank God pastor that you heeded

the voice of the Holyspirit, many lives were saved

and now your church ishelping those in need

while you're rebuilding yourselves.

So we thank God for your testimony.

Thank God that you're alive,

that you live to tell about the story

and the goodness of God.

God bless you.

- God bless you, and thank you so much.

- Quite a remarkable story there.

The fallout, as you can imagine from

that devastating explosion isrocking in Beirut and Lebanon.

In the middle of the anguish and unrest,

one Christian broadcaster isworking to ease the suffering

with humanitarian aidand a message of hope.

Middle East Correspondent,Julie Stahl, has that story.

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- [Julie] When themushroom cloud blast ripped

through Beirut,

Arabic Christian broadcasterSAT-7 jumped into action.

- We started to broadcastprayers for people

for their safety, forthose who lost loved ones,

and a prayer for the responsible people

like in the government positionsso God may open their eyes,

so we can save people from this misery.

- [Julie] SAT-7, GeorgeMcKean, told CBN News

while broadcasting live worship,

they brainstormed on howthe church could help.

- Thursday by another broadcastwhere just people praying

and worshiping and speakingabout where we can find hope,

how we can find hope in such pain.

- [Julie] Several milesfrom the epicenter,

their Beirut studiosuffered very minor damage,

but the homes of nearly allstaff members were damaged,

still, they took action to help others.

- They were in the streetsdowntown trying to clean

and trying to distributefood, drinks to people

and just pray with them andtell them that we feel with you.

And hopefully in the coming few days,

we will have a campaign, Hope for Lebanon.

- [Julie] For two weeks,the campaign will use prayer

to mark the exact time of the explosions,

hoping to ease the memory.

On the ground in Beirut,Juliana Sfeir, reported

how the Lebanese had neveranything like this explosion

even in 15 years of civil war.

- They have lost hopein their politicians,

they have lost hope in the future.

Please pray, pray for protectionfrom another civil war.

Please pray for protectionfrom immigration as well.

A lot of our young peoplewill want to leave now.

Please pray for us here at SAT-7

to be the church that heals.

- [Julie] SAT-7 broadcastto some 30 million people

in the middle East and North Africa,

making the gospel availablein Arabic, Farsi and Turkish.

- I think the most touchingthing is the kind of prayers

and the sympathy and the support

that was coming from outside Lebanon,

from Egyptians, Jordanians,

Syrians, lots of people who say that

you are like, we feel withyou, you mean a lot to us.

- [Julie] And while many work to clean up

the overwhelming physical damage,

McKean says their focusgoes beyond the buildings.

- It's much more importantto build human capacity

and build people trust in the future

more than just building the buildings

and this is what they wish and pray that

we can contribute towards,by what we are doing

in our programs.

- [Julie] McKean says,the desire for Lebanon

is not only restoration,

but to become a light tothe rest of the Arab world.

Julie Stahl, CBN news, Jerusalem.

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- [George] Up next, pushedout of their strongholds

in the Middle East, ISIS andAl Qaeda are gaining strength

in Africa, committinggenocide against Christians.

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- An ongoing campaign ofterror has been carried out

against Christians acrossNorthern Africa in recent weeks,

mainly by Islamic radicals.

The attacks include the killing

of several hundred Christians

in at least three African countries

from South Sudan to Cameroon.

And George one nationwhere the church is facing

a serious threat is Nigeria.- Yeah, absolutely.

Militant Muslims are waging an insurgency

to try to overthrow the government

and rid the country of Christians.

Now human rights groups are asking

the White House to stop the carnage.

After losing ground in Syria and Iraq,

the top general of U.S. specialoperations command in Africa

is warning that Al Qaeda, ISIS

and other Islamic terrorgroups are now trying

to take all the parts of thecontinent most populous nation.

Major General Dagvin Anderson says,

Muslim terrorists have set their sights

on Nigeria, Southernand Northwestern regions

and the U.S. is now sharingspecific intelligence

with the country.

- So this intelligencesharing is absolutely vital

and we stay fully engagedwith the government of Nigeria

to provide them an understanding

of what these terrorists are doing.

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- [George] Their goal,eventually turn Nigeria

into a Muslim country and forceChristians who make up half

the country's populationto either leave or convert.

- Christians are in the eye of

the target and they're coming after them.

- [George] And the numbers are staggering.

August 6th, Muslim storm fourremote Christian villages

in Kaduna state killing 22 villagers.

July 24th, 21 dead, scores injured

and several Christian homesdestroyed by militants.

July 19th, 19 people killedwhen assailants armed with guns

and machetes attacked a wedding reception.

And the list goes on.

Leading human rights groups say

what's going on in Nigeria is a genocide.

- If you look at what's happened

on the last 20 years,George, is just massive,

massive number of attacksagainst Christians.

Look 50 to 70,000 have been murdered.

- [George] For years, the mainterror group was Boko Haram,

which seeks to overthrowthe government here

and create an Islamic state.

- They go after Christiansand moderate Muslims,

they push a hard line Muslim agenda.

It is their intention toestablish a caliphate and to

just rid all of Nigeria and West Africa

of any Western influence whatsoever.

- [George] Now there's anew actor on the scene.

In Nigeria, so-called Middle Belt Region,

where the Muslim Northmeets the Christian South,

a terror group made upof Muslim Fulani herders

are killing thousands of Christians.

More than 1400 Christianswere hacked to death

in just the first seven monthsof 2020 by Fulani herders.

- unfortunately the secularmedia are quite often biased

and trying to present

this as a tribal conflict,rather than religious.

- [George] Nigeria's President,a Muslim has so far done

very little to stop the bloodshed.

His police and army are alsomostly made up of Muslims.

- The attackers are never captured.

They are not prosecuted.

The security services respond very slowly.

A full day can go on withthe attacks happening

and no security shows up.

And frequently the governmentofficials will provide cover.

- [George] Helpless and vulnerableto almost daily attacks,

leading Catholic bishops arenow urging Nigerian Christians

to defend themselves.

Human rights groups areasking the White House

to appoint a special envoy

to help end the persecutionof Christians in Nigeria.

- Unless the world takesnote and puts pressure,

economic pressure, sanctions, visa bans

on the officials who areresponsible for this travesty

and for not reigning in the terror,

then Nigeria will continueto be a blood bath.

- [George] Meanwhile,King's Group is helping

more than 3000 Christians wholost their businesses, homes,

farms, or land to Boko Haramand Fulani militant attacks.

International Christian Concernhas created communal farms

to give victims the opportunityto rebuild their lives.

- When they get back towork, the family is fed,

they have a future, thekids can go back to school.

It's a restoration of hope, it really is.

And it's much more than just economics,

it's the whole community,it's all the parts of life,

the emotional, the physical, the mental.

It means a lot to them.

- ICC and so many othergroups trying to bring hope

in the midst of allthis devastation facing

the Christians of Nigeria.

- And they are doing it.

- They are, absolutely.- Great story, George.

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- Welcome to Jerusalem for thisInside Israel Report, where

we tell you what's happeningin Israel and the Middle East.

Israelis are fearing theycould be headed for yet

another election as politicalinstability threatens

to dissolve the government.

Just four months after itwas formed, deep divisions

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Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,

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A viral video captured the shocking moment

when Beirut's explosion rippedthrough a Lebanese church,

as people worshiped inside,

a priest has seen giving massbefore the lights go out,

the earth shakes and stain glasswindows falls to the floor.

A leader in the church is speaking out

and he says, it's amiracle everyone survived.

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- [Narrator] We felt the grace of God.

He was with us because whenyou look at the damage,

you can think that no onecan come out of this alive

because there were damageswith lots of glasses

and iron pieces that exploded.

- Just days after theblast, the church reopened

and parishioners poured in.

They said their faith inGod gives them the courage

to return to the devastation.

Open up the book of 1st Samuel,and you'll read about David,

fleeing to a city calledZiklag to escape King Saul.

Israeli archeologiststhink they found the city.

Researchers say geography and history,

all point to this sitebeing biblical Ziklag.

The Bible says David,fled here with 600 men

before it was destroyed.

Archeologists have uncovered dozens

of 3000-year-old vessels, alldating to the time of David.

- We are in this side off the side,

but it's magnificent becauseover here, this is the rooms

that we found, all the pottery vessels,

the complete vessels,the massive destruction.

This is the place that wecollected the carbon 14 seeds.

And this is the place that we dating

to the time of King David.

- Scholars believe more siteswill be uncovered to support

the history of King Davidand the Biblical narrative.

For more stories like this,

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Hundreds of peoplegathered in a Seattle park

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It's an event packedwith prayer and praise.

Men, women, and children gave their lives

to Jesus Christ at this event.

Violent protestors tried to shut it down,

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