Author: Milo Haskour

By Milo Haskour — Abolfazl Yaghmouri, 17, liked hip hop, which is illegal in Iran. He recorded secretly in his closet. During the uprising, he went out to the streets to contribute his part to the overthrow of the hated Islamist Regime. For that, they killed him on Jan. 8, the night the regime began shooting unarmed protesters. “They shot him in the heart and he was on the ground bleeding for 40 minutes,” said his aunt Gita Yaghmouri. “They didn’t allow the crowd to come and help him.” After searching for hours of his body, the family went to…

By Milo Haskour — Instead of gaming during the 2020 lockdown, Daniel Chenjerai produced rap and spiked in popularity. Known on stage as DC3, the Northampton, U.K., local from Zimbabwean parents was recently nominated for two MOBO Awards — Best Newcomer and Best Gospel Act — in 2026. In an interview with the BBC, Chenjerai said “Jesus Christ was his hero,” after which the BBC interviewer Geeta Guru-Murthy appeared to some to “hiss” generating online controversy. But she says on X she was simply breathing in for her next question. Chenjerai, only 18, started rap music at 8 or 9…

By Milo Haskour — Jay Leno stays faithful to his dementia-stricken wife, Mavis, despite Hollywood colleagues asking if he’s going to get a girlfriend. “A guy said to me, ‘Uh, so are you going to get a girlfriend now?’” Leno said recently. “Well, no, I have a girlfriend. I’m married. I’ve been married 45 years. ‘Yeah, but you know what I mean.’ No … we’re kind of in this together, you know. You can’t, ‘Honey, honey, I’ll be with my girlfriend, I’ll be back later.’ That was like the most Hollywood thing.” Leno is 75 and Mavis is 79. The…

By Milo Haskour — Joy Villa, born into a Christian family, joined Scientology for 15 years, where she became a leader, was exploited, exploited others and gave almost $2M. Now she’s out. “I will never go back,” she vows. “Scientology is not a self-help system. It’s a control system. At the center of it is auditing, which is presented as spiritual counseling but functions far closer to an interrogation technique. You sit across from an auditor with an E-meter, answering deeply personal questions. Nothing shared in auditing is ever truly confidential. Files follow you forever.” Developed by science fiction author…

By Milo Haskour — Watch out, Disney. The animated film David, released in theaters on Dec. 19, 2025, is a child’s classic with screen-popping scenes, swelling music and an archetypal underdog vs. impossible storyline that threatens to steal audiences away from the studio that abandoned its mainstay of family themes with woke-after-woke productions promoting unfamily content. In time for Christmas, David engages with quality 3-D cartooning music from Phil Wickham, who voices for the adult psalmist. Brought to life by animation from Sunrise Studios in Cape Town, South Africa, and distributed by Angel Studios, David now joins the canon of…

By Milo Haskour — Jenny McCarthy says the death of Charlie Kirk pushed her close to Jesus. “Jesus is my homie. I’ve always been a follower of Christ, but when [Charlie] passed, I completely surrendered,” says the Masked Singer gameshow host. I am so devoted. I started Bible study immediately…We just have become devout since Charlie’s passing.” After the Turning Point USA ‘s founder’s death, McCarthy struggled. She posted a video of herself worshipping God. “I was so broken…when he was shot, I prayed and prayed and prayed, and then I was calling every doctor I possibly could, saying, ‘Tell…

By Milo Haskour — Churches once filled by denominational loyalty now sit half-quiet, their pews thinning year by year. Gobbling up the memberships is the phenomenon of the megachurch, which draws consumerist believers and titillates them with Grammy quality worship, stagecraft, choreography and motivational charismatic talk that passes off as a sermon. The church becomes a corporation and an empire. That is what Scott Latta’s 2024 book Gods of the Smoke Machine is about. It’s a longform nonfiction based on years of interviews with megachurch pastors and staff and reveals how pressure to grow relies on marketing strategies, how staff…

By Milo Haskour — Australian actor Guy Pearce apologized for antisemitism Thursday for sharing “misinformation and falsehoods” about Israel on social media while supporting Palestine online. “It has been brought to my attention that, in my support of Palestine, I have inadvertently re-posted articles, and/or statements, that have contained misinformation and falsehoods,” Pearce told Jewish News. “I am aware how sharing inaccurate content can cause confusion and distress; for this I am deeply sorry. I will certainly endeavour to be more diligent in future to verify anything I share online.” According to Jewish News, Oscar-nominated star blamed Israel for the…

By Milo Haskour — They said her 160 acres of land was worthless because it was unsuitable for farming, but 11-year-old Sarah Rector, the daughter a slaves, could “hear” oceans of oil underground in the movie out now Sarah’s Oil, based on a true story. “We need this story because there are many little black girls right now who aren’t feeling empowered that they can do anything because society is purposely shutting them out,” says star Haitian-American Naya Desir-Johnson, whose age is not publicized. “When black girls hear this story they’ll know that they can do anything. If the world…

By Milo Haskour – Among signs of growing revival, there are Bible sales and a boom of Christian movies. Last year, there were 400 Christmas movies produced, 80% of which talked about Christ as a major component (or the major component) of the movie, says Dr. Ted Baehr, CEO of Movieguide. Of Bibles sold, 2.4M units moved in September in the United States – a 35% increase over the same month in 2024, according to Circana BookScan which monitors book sales. Bible sales buck the current trend of downward sales of books in general, which are declining. These two separate…