Author: Jasu Diaz

By Jasu Diaz – Jaqueline Salah thought love transcended boundaries, but then her Yemeni husband kidnapped their three daughters and took them to Yemen. It was not until 15 years later that she saw them again – and Jackie had to travel into a war zone. “I felt I failed as a mother because they were taken by the person who’s supposed to love them, their dad,” Jaqueline says. “My heart just dropped. I knew that I was never getting them back.” What began on the dance floor in Cardiff, Wales, turned into a nightmare. Her daughters wound up in…

By Jasu Diaz — In his school in Ramallah, they told Elias that Jews were monkeys who gorged themselves on the blood of Palestinians, so when he took refuge in a halfway house for runaways, he was afraid to sleep for many nights as his roommate was Jewish. “I couldn’t sleep for one week,” Elias says. “A Jew is a monkey. They are blood-suckers. That’s what they teach us.” After two years in Haifa at the halfway house and in an Israeli school, Elias realized that the Jews looked just like him, so not monkeys. He also realized they don’t…

By Jasu Diaz — The majority of the 333 blasphemy cases registered in the past five years in Pakistan were bogus, a parliamentary committee found last week. “We have seen people weaponize blasphemy allegations to target others over personal disputes, and that is tragic,” said Sen. Samina Mumtaz Zehri. “The laws are not perfect, which is why we have sought recommendations from all stakeholders so that changes can be introduced where necessary. It is our collective responsibility to leave the next generation a safer and freer society.” Blasphemy carries the death penalty in the Qur’an and in Pakistani civil government,…

By Jasu Diaz — Before she married Billy Graham, Ruth Bell grew up on the mission field. Though her parents served in China, they sent her to the best Christian school for missionary kids, the Pyongyang Foreign School. It was located in what is now North Korea. One does not erase, one does not overwrite a spiritual heritage so rich as North Korea’s, as the Kim Jong-un regime is finding out. You can’t undo all the engendering of blessings of what was once called the Jerusalem of the East. In the 1930s, Pyongyang had experienced distinct revival. One in five…

By Jasu Diaz — Five North Korean church leaders in the Younggwang County were, hands tied behind their backs, forced to lie down as a steamroller chugged up right next to them. “Reject Jesus Christ and swear allegiance to Kim Il-sung and his son Kim Jong-il,” barked the commander of the military unit attached to a construction engineer command. “Or you will die!” Their names with 20 others had been discovered in a small notebook found in a wall after demolition for a widened highway to Nampo uncovered the secret church group. “The five leaders remained stoic, showing the irrefutable…

By Jasu Diaz — Kim Jong-il’s birth was announced by a swallow. He was miraculous born in a cabin on the slopes of Paektu Mountain. On the day of his birth, a double rainbow formed in the sky and a new star appeared in the heavens. In fact, the former leader of North Korea’s birthday is celebrated every year as the Day of the Shining Star. Miracles followed Kim Jong-il everywhere he went. Just three weeks after birth, he was walking; after eight weeks, he was talking. He chastised his teachers in Pyongyang for errors in history lessons and wrote…

A Chicago “peacekeeper” program — touted as a positive alternative to cops — has received $65M in taxpayer money in the last three years. Now, one of its community “peacekeepers” has been arrested and jailed for armed robbery. Michael Nash — whose rap sheet stretches back decades with felonies of robberies and aggravated assault — was given a badge under Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s 2021 Reimagine Public Safety Act as a community service member tasked with de-escalating violence. Last month, Nash allegedly, with a gun, stole $650 from a man and then used two of his three phone calls from the…

By Jasu Diaz — A conservative Colorado State University student was harassed by a visibly agitated and potentially violent protester when he was trying to chalk Bible verses on the plaza before Thanksgiving. Blake Jones, of the campus Turning Point USA chapter, wished to engage in dialogue anti-ICE protesters — including Students for Justice in Palestine and Young Democratic Socialists of America — when a still-unidentified protester exploded at him. “What the f— did you just say to me?” Jones recalled him screaming. “He immediately raised his hands, stiffened his body, his face contorted. This is when he charged at…

By Jasu Diaz — Already with the highest per gallon gas ($4.85) in the nation, California faces price increases to $8 by late 2026. The Golden States is now only plated Golden. J.D. Tuccille wrote that state policies make Californians “pay as if the place was the setting for a Mad Max movie.” Thanks to the senseless pushes for “clean energy” and regulatory madness, refineries are shuttering plants, driving up prices due to demand higher than production. The Phillips 66’s Los Angeles refinery was scheduled to close Oct. 2025 and Valero’s Benicia refinery in April 2026. The two plants accounts…

By Jasu Diaz — To be exact, ex-Muslims will bring their fervor and fearlessness when they convert to Christianity and save it from its indolent degeneration of luxury, indifference and compromise with sin. So says, Hedieh Mirahmadi Falco, 25-year devout Muslim activist who worked with then-Prince Charles, with then-President George W. Bush and with President Trump to counter terrorism by promoting moderate Islam through networks. “The Lord is calling us for such a time as this because there’s a certain amount of courage and discipline that comes from a former Muslim believer that I think the church needs right now.…