CONTENDING FOR THE FAITH

• Roman Colosseum to Be Lit Blood Red for Persecuted Christians
• Chinese Pastors Ordered to Post Signs on Churches Forbidding Entry to Minors

JERUSALEM: A CUP OF TREMBLING

• Abbas Rips Into Trump: Palestinians Are Original Canaanites, Were in Jerusalem Before the Jews
• ‘Jerusalem will be the capital of the Islamic Caliphate’
• Jordan King Calls for Palestinian Capital in East Jerusalem
• Netanyahu at Davos: Jerusalem to remain capital under any peace agreement

NEWS FROM ISRAEL & THE MIDDLE EAST

• Hezbollah official warns terror group can destroy Israeli army
• Hezbollah threatens Israel
• Netanyahu: We will not allow Iran to destroy us
• ‘We’ll teach Iran a lesson it’ll never forget’
• Palestinian Journalist: Judaism Is A ‘Religion Of Hatred’ Worse Than Nazism

A NUCLEAR WORLD

• Kissinger: Nuclear North Korea ‘immediate challenge’ of our time
• Pence: U.S. ‘ready for any eventuality’ on North Korea
• Pentagon pushes nuclear weapons expansion, modernization

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’