Attack on Cairo's Coptic Orthodox cathedral kills 25; Two 'young girls' used as human bombs...more

Attack on Cairo's Coptic Orthodox cathedral kills 25  At least 25 persons were killed Sunday when a bomb exploded at a chapel attached to St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo, and dozens more were injured.

“Vicious terrorism is being waged against the country's Copts and Muslims. Egypt will emerge stronger and more united from this situation,” Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi stated Dec. 11, as he declared a three-day period of national mourning.

The explosion occurred around 10 am local time during a Liturgy at the seat of the Coptic Orthodox Church...

Nigeria Maiduguri: Two 'young girls' used as human bombs  Two girls said to be aged seven or eight have been used to bomb a market in north-east Nigeria, killing at least one other person and wounding 18.

Police in the town of Maiduguri, Borno state, say the attack happened when the market was crowded with shoppers.

The girls detonated their explosives minutes apart, witnesses said. Both were killed...

When campus microaggressions are real
Conservative and libertarian students have been long been 'othered' on college campuses...

“I Loved Heresy…But the Holy Spirit Found Me” — Thomas C. Oden (1931-2016) and the Recovery of Christian Orthodoxy   "I think the honest answer is that I loved the fantasies and I loved the revolutionary illusions. I truly loved them.... I was one of those who was way out on the far left edge of accommodating to modernity. And I don’t know how but the Holy Spirit found me."
Excellent interview by Albert Mohler