Author: Eli Garcia-Mendez

By Eli Garcia — After Israel blew up Hezbollah operatives by remotely exploding their pagers, Hezbollah’s cyber warfare unit was more than doubled in size and funding. The Cedar Unit in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon — staffed by an estimated 300 hackers paid directly by Iran — mine civil and military data from Israel to leak onto the Dark Web (or the regular web) to intimidate, destabilize and undermine trust. “Hezbollah shifted from rockets to routers,” says JNS’ Doron Spielman. In April 2020, Iran exploited a weakness in the Israeli Water Authority’s systems, causing dangerous levels of chlorine to poison drinking…

By Eli Garcia — Seattle, arguably America’s farthest left, must pay $30.5M in damages for negligence in the death of Antonio Mays Jr. in the Marxist “sovereign” eight square blocks during George Floyd protests in 2020. For three weeks, far-left protesters took over a few blocks in East Precinct of Seattle and “banned” the police and city services from entering, calling themselves a sovereign section called the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP). Previously, it was referred to as Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ). Mayor Jenny Durkan and Police Chief Carmen Best backed off and allowed CHOP to function autonomously –…

By Eli Garcia – Of all places to accept Jesus, former Chelsea starlet Gaël Kakuta came to faith in Iran. He got contracted for a Tehran-based team (before the ongoing revolution), and even though Iran almost totally bans Christianity, he found Jesus in the Islamic Republic. “Jesus took me away from everyone and everything,” Kakuta says. “I lost my youngest sister. My father passed away when I was 7. My sister passed away seven years before I lost my mother. I also had a divorce on the way. I had to tell my kids that I was not coming back…

By Eli Garcia — Why did Trump bully Venezuela? There are plenty of dictators and drug-exporters around the world to beat up. What makes Nicolas Maduro his first choice to put in line? Venezuela’s oil reserves, the largest in the world, is only one piece of the pie. In the long term, he’s driving down gas prices (and no doubt, he’s enriching his cronies). Another piece of the pie is China, which is oil-starved and has given $60B in loans to Venezuela to reserve 20 years of oil. China is poised to attack Taiwan, which it claims as its own,…

By Eli Mendez-Garcia Seventeen new churches open everyday in Brazil. “In the next seven years or so, we will be the majority in the country,” says Silas Malafaia of the Assembly of God Victory in Christ church of 100,000 members in Rio de Janeiro. “Today, we make up about 35% of the population, and God’s Kingdom has influence in every corner of Brazilian society.” Revival has by-passed America. The world is coming to Christ in exponential growth, and Brazil can brag of miraculous numbers. What was once the world’s largest Catholic nation will be overwhelmingly evangelical by 2030, according to…

By Eli Garcia-Mendez – When people complained that moderate Muslims don’t condemn terror attacks, Lubna Farhan decided they were right and she would be the “spark” to her community on her YouTube channel, Candid with Lubna. In response, extremist Muslims threatened her (her children also?). The single mother shut down her channel June/July 2025. Then she had to altogether flee Luton Town, where she was born to Pakistani immigrant parents. “My situation is very dire,” she says. “I’ve had to flee Luton very recently because of death threats coming from people from my own race and faith.” Oh, that’s why…

By Eli Mendez-Garcia — In Japan, this year is a momentous year. It is the year of the “2025 Problem,” when society officially becomes worryingly “top heavy.” It is the year that the last of its Baby Boom generation turns 75. “The worry is that Japan’s current and future working population is too small to bear the financial burden of the social, health and welfare system that Japan has come to expect,” says Leo Lewis of the Financial Times. “Japan’s total fertility rate — that’s the average number of children that a woman would have over her reproductive years –…

By Eli Mendez-Garcia – His father was a doctor and his mother taught in medical school, but still they lived on only $30 a month in Hangzhou, China under communism. Only by working extremely hard, Ming Wang managed to come to American and become a laser eye doctor. As his upbringing was Marxist, Ming Wang was an atheist. He found Christ when he marveled over the complexity of the eye — specifically how cells came together in the womb to coordinate with the brain perfectly to give sight in a 1-month old baby. “It quickly became clear to me with…

By Eli Garcia-Mendez – As neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael Egnor didn’t believe in God. But when his fourth son exhibited signs of autism up to his sixth month, Egnor dropped into the hospital chapel to plead with God. “If you do exist, could you take this away from me, please? This is something I can’t deal with. I can’t have my son be autistic and not know me.”  God responded: “But that’s what you’re doing to me.” Egnor collapsed. The answer had not come from his mind; it confronted his mind – with a reality he had never considered. He was…

By Eli Mendez-Garcia – Two U.S. Christian charities are suing former UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for defamation after she accused them of aiding war crimes by supporting Israeli settlements. Pro-Israel ministries and Christian groups “exist to build bridges of faith and to smear them as war criminals is not just false, it is a dangerous lie that puts good people at risk,” said Mark Goldfeder, CEO of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, which filed the suit. In dispute is a significant question for courts to decide: Does Albanese have “diplomatic immunity” making her beyond reach of civil suit because she…