Author: Bethania Wonagseged

By Bethania Wonagseged — Stripping Jesus of his divinity and remaking him into a Marxist hero, Columbia’s President Gustavo Petro commented that the Man of the Gospels actually made love to Mary Magdalene and never called himself Christ. “I believe Jesus made love, yes … perhaps with Mary Magdalene, because a man like that without love could not have existed,” the non-practicing Catholic said. Jesus was a “man of light, of truth and a revolutionary” but not “Christ” because that means he attributed to himself “power and kingship.” Liberation Theology downplays the supernatural in the Gospels and recasts Biblical events…

By Bethania Wonagseged — Taking cues from other Islamists in Africa, extremist Muslims in Ethiopia are now massacring Christians, with the latest attacks tallying 144 dead mostly from the Orthodox and Catholic communities in the Arsi Zone of the Oromia Region. Since September, militants have staged coordinated attacks. The so-called Oromo Liberation Army raided the Asebot Monastery in the West Hararghe Zone. Anbes Felate, was killed, and his son, Betre Anbes, was critically injured. Two others were abducted. In Oct. 24-28, extremists have hit multiple districts in Arsi. In one attack, 24 Orthodox Christians were killed, including a toddler and…

By Bethania Wonagseged – Ultimately, Cait Taylor chose the Stanley knife to defend herself against her stepfather, who was beating up Mom. “Could I hit him with the hammer?” she wondered and decided against it. But when the police arrived, she hid the knife in the grass, thinking they might mistake her for the aggressor. In fact, the police stopped Stepdad, for the umpteenth time. Eventually, Mom came to her senses and left him for good, ending a harrowing eight years. Cait Taylor, who as a little girl wished for a father only to fall into the nightmare of a…

By Bethania Wonagseged – In front of the camera, Jamie Zhu was wildly successful Australian social media influencer doing funny prank videos. Behind the camera, nothing was funny. In 2021, he saw 10 psychologists, psychotherapists and counselors for the evil and suicidal thoughts taking over his mind. “Something took over me,” he says. “Every morning where I start like calling my mom saying I’m going to kill myself. I had all these weird sort of intrusive thoughts.” Ultimately, he got resolution in the place he least expected, the place he would never go to, church. “As soon as I entered…