Author: Daniel Corado

By Daniel Corado — “Fancy Like” country singer Walker Hayes started drinking at age 13 and degenerated into an “alcoholic atheist.” But when he lost his record deal and got his family van repossessed, a friend/pastor gave him a replacement van — an act of generosity that conflicted with his childhood church hurt and set up his return to Christ. “I will believe there’s a God if I could stop drinking,” he confessed to Pastor Craig. Born in Mobile, Alabama, Walker Hayes challenged his wife to move to Nashville on the journey to being a country music star. “I was…

By Daniel Corado — Excavations at Israel’s Pool of Siloam are showing that Jerusalem water engineers were undertaking vast hydraulic projects early than previously thought, thanks to twigs found between the bricks that could Carbon-dated more accurately than is typical. Previously, archaeologists credited King Hezekiah with the building the pool as he fortified the water intake chunnel from the Gihon Spring when the Assyrians were coming to attack. The new findings reveal that the original builder was King Joash (or King Amaziah). “One thing is for sure, it predates Hezekiah,” says Danny “the digger” Herman, archaeologist and tour guide in…

By Daniel Corado — Publicly, Egyptian leaders sing for Palestine’s freedom and rally the public for war against Israel. Privately, they’re rooting for Israel, says an Egyptian analyst. This is the game they play. “We have seen when (the Palestinians) went to Lebanon, when they went everywhere, they are practicing violence. Egypt doesn’t want this. They don’t want to bring these troublemakers into the country,” explains Dalia Ziada, a Cairo peace activist who fled Egypt over her support of Israel. This explains why Egypt built a heavily fortified double wall on the border between the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza. And…

By Daniel Corado – Pretty much the only happy time in her childhood was hanging out with Muslims “sisters.” So Catholic-born Ellie from the U.K. converted (they call it “reversion”) to Islam as an adult. “I was in a really dark, bad place. I looked at my life and thought why can’t I just be happy. I didn’t really have anyone I could run to and ask for help,” Ellie says. “All I could think about were those days when I had that community, that kind of sisterhood I experienced, the way the Muslims were so together. I thought, Maybe…

By Daniel Corado — Beneil Dariush got beat up at age 3. Instead of comforting him, his dad was puzzled: Pick up a rock, pick up a stick, you don’t have to lose, he told the boy.”Because of that, I idolized strength,” Beneil remembers. “I played sports and that was fun, but at the end of the day, it was always who’s the strongest. I got into so many fights as a little kid.” The biggest fight of his life was the decision to submit his life to Christ. An Assyrian Christian born in Iran, Beneil Dariush immigrated with his…

By Daniel Corado — The scorching Dubai heat of the sun gave Padma an idea: “God if you can’t help me can you at least like burn me,” she prayed to the Hindu deities. “I can’t go on like this crying each day like it’s becoming harder and harder.” When Padma had married a Christian, it was only on the condition that she would NEVER convert from her beloved Hinduism. But when she found herself alone in Dubai, her husband working a job in Iran, her loneliness compounded with depression and she cried out to the Hindu gods. There was…

By Daniel Corado – Sharing the gospel can now get you life in prison in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India. “It’s designed to prohibit conversion,” says Stephen Schneck, head of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. “You can definitely be put in prison for preaching the Gospel. If you take the Gospel seriously, you know our job as Christians to convert the world.” The new law is part of a trend in India to reinforce Hinduism as part of the nation’s identity against Christianity and any other religion that might lay claim to souls (Islam, for example). The…