White House Sends Message to Oklahoma Beheading Suspect

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White House Sends Message to Oklahoma Beheading Suspect

A Department Of Homeland Security official read a greeting letter from the White House Saturday at the mosque where it is believed Alton Nolen worshiped before beheading a former co-worker last month.

David Myers, the director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Faith-based & Neighborhood Partnerships, visited the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City and, according to a DHR spokesman, read a letter imparting a generic presidential greeting for Eid al-Adha, a festival commemorating Ibrahim’s (Abraham) willingness to sacrifice his son to God.

The full greeting states “Michelle and I would like to extend our best wishes to Muslims in the United States and around the world who are celebrating Eid al-Adha, and to congratulate those performing the Hajj this year.

As our Muslim neighbors and friends gather for Eid celebrations, Muslim Americans are among the millions of pilgrims joining one of the world’s largest and most diverse gatherings. Hajj brings together Muslims from around the world — Sunni and Shiite — to share in reverent prayer, side by side. It serves as a reminder that no matter one’s tribe or sect, race or religion, gender or age, we are equals in humanity.

“On Eid, Muslims continue the tradition of donating to the poor and joining efforts with other faith communities in providing assistance to those suffering from hunger, sickness, oppression, and conflict. Their service is a powerful example of the shared roots of the world’s Abrahamic faiths and how our communities can come together in shared peace, with dignity and a sense of justice.

“On behalf of the American people, we extend our warmest greetings during this holiday. May the prayers of peace made by the Hajj pilgrims and those of all faiths around the world be heard and granted. Eid Mubarak.”

The presidential appointee’s gesture is a stark contrast to the threatening messages the mosque is receiving due to its connection to Nolen.

Nolen, believed to be a recent Muslim convert, allegedly beheaded Colleen Hufford, 54, and stabbed 43-year-old Traci Johnson at the Vaughan Foods Facility in Moore last month.

The Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City’s senior Imam, Imad Enchassi, told The Oklahoman that members remember seeing Nolen at the mosque’s prayer gatherings and recalled that he identified himself as a seeker who visited various places of faith, including churches and synagogues.

Nolen’s tattoos pay homage to that mixture of religions. Oklahoma Department of Corrections records show that Nolen has tattoos of the words “as-salaamu alaikum” meaning “peace be with you” in Arabic on his abdomen, “Jesus Christ” on his chest, “Judah” on his left arm and praying hands on his right arm.

Nolen, however, seemed to embrace Islam on Facebook where he reportedly referred to himself as “Jah’Keem Yisreal” and posted pictures of Osama Bin Laden and beheadings.

Though the style of Nolen’s attack mimics that of terrorist groups, law enforcement officials told CNN they believe the attack was motivated by workplace troubles.

Still threats of violence and denunciations of Islam have been pouring into the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City.

Enchassi and the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City denounced the attack in a note posted on the mosque’s website.

The note reads: “The Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City sends our heartfelt condolences and prayers to the victims and their families of (the Sept. 25) tragedy in Moore, Oklahoma. This unwarranted act does not represent Islam in any shape or form. We condemn and are 100 percent against the heartless and unnecessary act committed by the suspect. We stand for justice.”The mosque also hired security to watch over members during Myers’ visit.It is unclear whether Myers visited the mosque on at the president’s request or acted independently.

Source: Christian Post

Boko Haram behead Seven

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Boko Haram behead Seven

Boko Haram militants killed seven people on Monday in the remote northeast of Nigeria, residents and an official said, with reports indicating the victims were beheaded in a revenge attack.

The overnight raid targeted the town of Ngamdu in troubled Borno state, the area hardest hit in the Islamists’ five-year uprising.

When locals woke they discovered “seven people had been brutally killed”, said resident Musa Abor.

The gunmen “slit their (victims) throats just the way people slaughter goats”, he added.

Abor and a Borno state official, who asked that his name be withheld, said the bodies had been decapitated, in the latest act of gruesome violence blamed on the Islamists who have killed more than 10,000 people since 2009.

In recent months, Boko Haram insurgents have targeted reprisal attacks at locals who have fought alongside the military as vigilantes.

An army officer in Borno, who also requested anonymity, said 15 Boko Haram fighters were killed in clashes in Ngamdu two weeks ago and the group had vowed revenge against the community.

Those killed on Monday could not immediately be identified as vigilantes and the defence ministry was not available to comment on the attack or the alleged beheadings.

The violence came as Nigerian Muslims marked the Eid al-Adha festival, a public holiday in the religiously divided country. Most Islamic holidays in recent years have been marred by Boko Haram violence.

The militants are thought to be in control of more than two dozen towns and villages in the northeast, but the military has vowed to retake all lost ground as part of a continuing offensive launched in May of last year.

The military had imposed a travel ban across Borno and neighbouring Yobe state to last through the Eid holiday to guard against insurgent attacks.

But the measure is almost impossible to enforce in the remote region, where analysts say the army does not have enough troops on the ground to patrol a vast area with a terrible road network and poor mobile phone coverage.

Source:Glide Global Tv

ISIS captures three Syrian Districts

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ISIS captures three Syrian Districts

Islamic State has today continued its advance into Kobane, the Syrian town near the Turkish border, after capturing three eastern districts yesterday.

IS has been fighting for Kobane since mid-September, but yesterday two black IS banners were seen flying on the hills at the town’s eastern edge.

However, their progress has not gone unhindered. The Kurds, who took control of Kobane in 2012, have been among the most successful in staving off the advance of IS – both in Syria and northern Iraq.

But struggling to match the weapon capabilities of the Islamist militants, one Kurdish fighter resorted to desperate measures on Sunday when she blew herself up in order to kill IS fighters.

Deilar Kanj Khamis, whose military name was Arin Mirkan, killed at least 27 members of IS in her suicide mission.

The Kurdish forces, YPK, said in a statement that all their fighters would become suicide bombers if it meant they could stop IS. “If necessary, all our female and male fighters will become Arin. The attacks by [IS] against Kobane will not be allowed to achieve their goals,” the YPK statement said.

US-led air strikes have reportedly killed scores of IS fighters in the region in recent days. But today the Iranian government criticised the “passivity of the international community”.

As a border crossing with Turkey, Kobani is a strategic region, and this is not the first time that it has been fought over. IS and other Islamist militant groups in Syria have wanted to capture the town since August 2013.

For IS, it has particular attraction, as it is the last remaining area of resistance in north-eastern Syria (marked by the yellow area in the map above).

Yesterday, the Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told CNN: “We will do everything possible to help the people of Kobane because they are our brothers and sisters.”

But the Turks and Kurds are not the most natural allies. Not long ago they were fighting against each other. Now the Turks are being asked to offer asylum to many of the 160,000 Syrians who have fled the region.

Even so, Davutoglu said Turkey would be prepared to put boots on the ground in Syria, on the condition that “others do their own part”. The necessary conditions for this help include the support of the international community to defend the Turkish border after IS – meaning removing the threat posed by Assad.

In Iraq, Canon Andrew White, the vicar St George’s Baghdad, left for Jerusalem on October 5 and has decided not to return.

“I am not going back to Baghdad now so I will concentrate more of my effort on Gaza and Palestine that is what I feel G-d wants me to do,” he wrote on Facebook. “I love the Palestinians just as much as I do the Israelis and they so need our help.”

White added that he had been advised to leave by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby given his high profile and his support for Israel.

One Chaldean priest in Erbil summed up the position of Christians in the Middle East, saying in an interview with the National Post: “What we are living is the last chapter of an ancient story.”

Source:Christian Today

ISIS: How it makes its millions

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ISIS: How it makes its millions

On the southern edge of Turkey, rolling brown pastoral hills slope gently to the Syrian border, with small towns like this one dotting the horizon. The calm on this side of the border, however, belies the scene on the other side.

Just across the border in northern Syria, the Islamic extremist group known as ISIS is fighting a full-tilt battle in its effort to capture and control new territory, part of its push to create a sprawling Islamic caliphate, or separate Islamic state, modeled on the first caliphate that spread across the region in the centuries following the death of the Prophet Muhammad around 640 AD.

As ISIS fighters expand their control, it is in the border region, in villages like Besaslan, where the Islamic State group can make some of the money it needs to finance its wars. Oil-smuggling operations involving millions of barrels have recently been uncovered.

The oil comes from wells and refineries that ISIS has taken over inside northern Iraq and northern Syria, and until very recently it was easy to smuggle it into this quiet part of southern Turkey. One reason is that cheap, smuggled oil is a much-prized commodity in Turkey, where oil is so expensive that it almost doesn’t matter who is selling it, even if it’s your enemy.

In Hatay, Turkey, just a half hour’s drive away, gasoline costs roughly $7.50 per gallon.

Growing international alarm over ISIS expansion and the group’s increasingly visible atrocities — such as beheadings of Western journalists and aid workers, the videos of which are disseminated online — have brought renewed pressure on ISIS and its funding methods on the borders.

U.S.-led coalition forces just a week ago attacked and destroyed many ISIS oil facilities, precisely to cut off the group’s funding.

But the border smuggling is only one way that ISIS generates money.

The U.S. Treasury Department admits it does not have hard figures on the group’s wealth but believes ISIS reaps millions of dollars a month.

“And you have to remember their ‘burn’ rate — how much they spend — is huge, with salaries and weapons and everything,” a Treasury official said. “But on how much they have — there’s a very wide range of estimates out there. We think probably they make around $1 million per day.”

Matthew Levitt, director of the Stein Program on Counter terrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in Washington, D.C., calls ISIS “the best-financed group we’ve ever seen.”

Source: CNN News

Islamic State Destroys Church

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Islamic State Destroys Church

DAMSASCUS (Worthy News)– Jihadists from the Islamic State have destroyed a Syrian church that memorialized the Armenian Genocide in which more than a million Armenian and Assyrian Christians died at the hands of Turkish Muslims.

According to Barnabas Aid, after seizing the Syrian city of Deir al-Zour, jihadists used explosives to destroy Holy Martyrs Church. News of the church’s destruction came as Armenia was celebrating the 23rd anniversary of its independence.

Constructed in 1990, the church compound contained a memorial and a museum that housed records that documented the genocide. Holy Martyrs is also a pilgrimage where Armenian Christians from Syria and other countries gather every April 24 to remember those who were murdered.

Deir al-Zour is called the Auschwitz of the Armenian Genocide because thousands of Armenian and Assyrian Christians were forcibly taken from their homes by Turkish soldiers and marched to Deir to their deaths.
Source: Worthy News

Combating ISIS Terrorists may empower Iran

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Combating ISIS Terrorists may empower Iran

JERUSALEM, Israel — It seems the military might of the world is focused on the Islamic State and that is worrying some in the Middle East who believe an even greater danger is lurking in the region.

For the first time in years, much of the world and many Arab countries appear unified — this time against ISIS terrorists. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, continues to sound the alarm over the danger of a nuclear-armed Iran.

“Make no mistake, ISIS must be defeated. But to defeat ISIS and leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power is to win the battle and lose the war,” he said at the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

Netanyahu and other Israeli officials warn that Iran’s nuclear program is what keeps them up at night. One official said ISIS is a five-year problem, but Iran is a 50-year problem.

“I’m here to tell you that Israel is deeply concerned,” Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz said.

That concern, according to Israel’s intelligence minister, is about negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.

“The Iranians have shown no real flexibility on the two main issues: the issue of the centrifuge facilities — centrifuges for the enrichment of uranium — and the heavy water facility in Arak,” he explained.

Steinitz also said Israel worries negotiators will end up with a bad deal. He says no deal is better than a bad deal.

“No deal means that you stand by your principle, that you are not giving up, that you are not sacrificing the future of the world, that you are not sacrificing global security, that you are not ready to [and] that what happened with North Korea will repeat itself after one, two or three years with Iran,” he continued.

And Middle East analyst Jonathan Spyer comes back to the fight against ISIS and how it could ironically help Iran.

“So if it becomes the paramount or the sole goal of Western policy to destroy Sunni Islamism and Sunni jihadism in these areas, the effective result of this would be by default to strengthen the enemies of those forces, which are not democratic forces, their pro-Iranian forces,” said Spyer, a senior research fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs Center in Herzliya and a fellow at the Middle East Forum.

“They’re Shia Islamists allied with Iran. So it’s crucial to keep that bigger picture in mind if we are to avoid to effectively strengthening or absurdly acting in cooperation with our most dangerous enemies in the region,” he said.

Source: CBN News

Blood Moon: Biblical Prophecy or Lunar Event

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Blood Moon: Biblical Prophecy or Lunar Event

The first Blood Moon eclipse in a series of four happened on the night of April 14-15, 2014. The next one will be on the night of October 7-8, 2014. At that October Blood Moon, there will be a lunar eclipse. We in astronomy had not heard the term Blood Moon used in quite this way before this year, but now the term has become widespread in the media. The origin of the term is religious, at least according to Christian pastor John Hagee, who wrote a 2013 book about Blood Moons.

Meanwhile, both astronomers and some proponents of Christian prophesy are talking about the ongoing lunar tetrad – the series of four total lunar eclipses – which began with the last lunar eclipse on the night of April 14-15.

Pastor John Hagee — The Book of Genesis says God uses the sun, moon, and stars for signs and seasons. Examples can be found throughout the Bible.

Think of how a star led the wise men to Jesus or how the sun stood still as Joshua led Israel to victory over its enemies.

According to Pastor John Hagee, God is getting ready to speak this way once again.

“There’s a sense in the world that things are changing and God is trying to communicate with us in a supernatural way,” Hagee told CBN News.

“I believe that in these next two years, we’re going to see something dramatic happen in the Middle East involving Israel that will change the course of history in the Middle East and impact the whole world,” he predicted.

Four Blood Moons

In his latest book, Four Blood Moons: Something Is About to Change, Hagee lays out what he calls celestial signals. He describes how a series of blood moons in 2014 and 2015 will have great significance for Israel.

Although single blood moons happen fairly regularly, four appearing so closely together is extremely rare. There have only been a series of blood moons a handful of times over the past 500 years.

So what exactly is a blood moon and what is the biblical significance?

“A blood moon is when the Earth comes between the sun and the moon,” Hagee explained. “And the sun is shining through the atmosphere of the Earth and casts up on the moon a red shadow. And so the moon appears to be red.”

Such moons appear several times in scripture.

In the book of Joel, God says there will be “wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire…the sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.”

In Acts, the Apostle Peter repeats that verse from Joel. And the book of Revelation says that during the Great Tribulation, “the moon will become like blood.”

Blood moons are set to appear in April 2014, on Passover, and then again in October 2014 during the Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot.

The timing is the same for 2015 — a total of four blood moons, all appearing on Jewish feast days.

“The sun and the moon and the Earth are controlled by God almighty,” Hagee said. “He is the one that is getting them in a direct alignment on a certain day at a certain time — but each time, it’s a Passover or Sukkot.

Historic Significance

In the past, the rare appearance of four blood moons on these feast days has coincided with major events for Israel and the Jewish people.

In 1492, Spain expelled the Jews. Columbus also discovered America, which became a safe haven for the Jewish people.

“In each of these blood moons, you have something that begins in tragedy and ends in triumph,” Hagee explained.

For instance, in 1948, Israel was reborn as a nation.

“After 2,000 years, God supernaturally brought them from 66 nations and a nation was born in a day,” Hagee noted. “That again was a supernatural something that happened following the tragedy of the Holocaust.”

In 1967, Israel won the Six-Day War and recaptured Jerusalem.

“For the first time in 2,000 years, Jerusalem and the State of Israel were together again,” Hagee said.

Nuclear Threat

The blood moons of 2014 and 2015 are poised to appear as Iran works toward nuclear weapons and Israel’s neighbors, Egypt and Syria, are in chaos.

“The only reason that Iran will not acquire a nuclear bomb will be that Israel chooses a military solution to that crisis,” Hagee told CBN News.

“I believe that if that happens, it will start a series of events that will change the course of world history,” he said. “If Israel does not, then it will still change the course of world history.”

Hagee has been warning of the Iranian nuclear threat through his work with Christians United for Israel, which he founded in 2006. It is now the largest pro-Israel organization in America, with some 1.3 million members.

He holds nights to honor Israel across the country and at San Antonio’s Cornerstone Church, where he serves as senior pastor. The first event, in 1981, drew bomb threats and vandalism from anti-Semites.

Yet Hagee continues his mission.

“If there was ever a time for the Christians of America to stiffen their spine and stand up and speak up, it’s now,” Hagee admonished. “To see evil and not call it evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. We cannot be silent and receive God’s approval at a time like this.”

He said it’s still unclear what the coming blood moons will bring, but he is certain of one thing.

“When all is said and done, the flag of Israel will be flying over the walls of the city of Jerusalem when Messiah comes, and it’s going to be forever,” he said. “And every nation that rises up in judgment against Israel God will punish and punish severely.”

Source: Cbn News ,Earthsky

Christian Rapper,Lecrae Speaks on Christianity

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Christian Rapper,Lecrae Speaks on Christianity

Christian rapper Lecrae is one of the few to cross the great divide between ‘Christian’ and ‘secular’ music – and part of an even smaller group to do so without a guitar in sight.

In September his seventh album, Anomaly, was the first ever to appear at the top of the Billboard 200 chart and the gospel charts simultaneously.

And from this unique position, he has developed some strong views on where Christian culture has gone astray.

“We’ve limited Christianity to salvation and sanctification,” he said in an interview with the Atlantic. “Christianity is the truth about everything. If you say you have a Christian worldview, that means you see the world through that lens – not just how people get saved and what to stay away from.”

Lecrae is especially critical of the way that the Christian music industry has at times limited artists’ creativity as an expression of their faith, and instead become a routine reproduction of biblical messages.

“The exploitation of believers just to turn a profit – so you care less about making a quality product – so you care less about making a quality product, you just want to keep telling the same stories and repackaging them over and over just to exploit people – I have a problem with that,” he said.

He said his job was less a vocation to redeem the rap industry, known for its preoccupation with sex, drugs and violence, and more an opportunity to use his gifts.

“Everyone’s job, everyone’s vocation, is an extension of their faith and how they see the world. Every job is an act of service,” he said.

And it is because of this calling – to do our jobs well in order to serve God – that he believes there needs to be more emphasis on creating good music.

“In the same way that Jesus was a carpenter, I don’t know if he put his message into all the things he built with his hands – I think he wanted to make good quality craftsmanship,” he said.

Rather than just looking to biblical stories for source material, Lecrae feels Christians should be using their creative gifts to pose questions and challenge social norms.

“Many times, that’s how people see Christian art, or Christians making art: They see the art as having an agenda,” Lecrae said. “Christians have really used and almost in some senses prostituted art in order to give answers instead of telling great stories and raising great questions.”

Source: Christian Today

Politicians applaud Pastor Adeboye for dissociating self, Church from ‘offensive’ audio CD

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Politicians applaud Pastor Adeboye for dissociating self, Church from ‘offensive’ audio CD

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has commended the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Enoch Adeboye, for dissociating himself and the church from a certain “offensive and divisive” audio CD circulated by some political pastors.

In a statement issued in Lagos on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party said by his action, Mr. Adeboye had exhibited his characteristic exceptional leadership and shown what religion should be about – love, rather than hate and incendiary statements.

It particularly expressed satisfaction that the General Overseer specifically asked the RCCG Pastors to ignore the contents of the audio CD, especially all the references to political parties, including the APC.

”The GO’s statement, in his response to the APC which had written to protest the divisive and corrosive statements contained in the audio CD, which has been smuggled into some RCCG parishes, made it clear that the RCCG is neutral and apolitical, and that it prays for all irrespective of political persuasion or creed.

”We in the APC are delighted at the GO’s prompt action and statement that the RCCG did not endorse divisive comments in any form or shape, that it has sons and daughters in all political parties, and that the allegations contained in the audio CD are wickedly false, unsubstantiated, ill-conceived and mischievous.

”Equally satisfying is the GO’s directive asking everyone in possession of the audio CDs to return them, and the directive to the Church’s Pastors to communicate such to their respective congregations immediately,” the APC said.

On the “obviously-sponsored” audio CD, produced by one Bosun Emmanuel, a pastor, the party wondered why a man of God will engage in outright lies to propagate hatred, incite Christians against Muslims so brazenly, as if the adherents of both religions were not children of the same God, and then use the platform of the church to campaign for the PDP while seeking to destroy the APC.

”In a country where the citizenry, whether Christians or Muslims, have been shortchanged by greedy, selfish and clueless political leadership, a Pastor went on record as saying President Goodluck Jonathan has performed 100 per cent, while at the same time demonising and denigrating the APC as an ‘Islamic Party’ without a scintilla of proof. Much as he struggled to couch his inflammatory and discordant message in flowery lies, it is clear that he was sponsored to inseminate lies to shore up the dwindling fortunes of the ruling party

”Where in the world has an Islamic party been led by a Christian? Where in the world has the membership of an Islamic party been populated by Christians and Muslims? Why would a Pastor whose primary purpose is to preach the gospel (good news) now make himself available, for whatever reason, as a tool to disseminate lies and bad news?

”Had this pastor any sense of history, he would have realised how the propagation of hatred, as he is currently doing, led to the killing of over 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda in 1994. This pastor made it seem as if the terrorists called Boko Haram are fighting the cause of Nigerian Muslims, when he knows deep down that this evil group has not spared Muslims either.

”We have said it repeatedly: Boko Haram is a clear and present danger to Christians as it is to Muslims. Boko Haram is as dangerous to the rich as it is to the poor, it is as dangerous to the North as it is to the South. Simply put, Boko Haram is an enemy of Nigeria and all Nigerians, irrespective of their religion or ethnicity, must unite to defeat the terrorists,” it said.

The APC appealed to Nigerians of all creed and ethnicity to repudiate politicians or politicians in religious garb who may be seeking to divide them on primordial basis, especially as the general elections are fast approaching.

Source: Premium Times

Scientific Research verifies possibility of Life after Death

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Scientific Research verifies possibility of Life after Death

A new medical study has concluded that it is possible for an individual to have ‘awareness’, even after the brain has shut down, the Telegraph reports.

The latest evidence suggests that some kind of consciousness can continue for minutes after a person is clinically dead, which was previously thought impossible.

In the biggest ever scientific study into near-death and out-of-body experiences, researchers at the University of Southampton spent four years examining more than 2,000 patients who suffered cardiac arrest in hospital.

Almost 40 per cent of those who survived – 140 out of 330 cases – said they experienced some kind of ‘awareness’ before they were resuscitated – during a time when their hearts weren’t beating and they were clinically dead.

“The evidence thus far suggests that in the first few minutes after death, consciousness is not annihilated. Whether it fades away afterwards, we do not know, but right after death, consciousness is not lost,” said Dr Sam Parnia, who led the study.

One 57-year-old man who took part in the research described the noises made by medical equipment and the actions of hospital staff in detail, all of which took place during a three minute period in which he was technically dead.

He said he was able to watch his own resuscitation from the corner of the room, having ‘left’ his body, and his description of what took place matched up with the reality.

“We know the brain can’t function when the heart has stopped beating, but in this case, conscious awareness appears to have continued for up to three minutes into the period when the heart wasn’t beating, even though the brain typically shuts down within 20-30 seconds after the heart has stopped,” Dr Parnia told the Telegraph.

“The man described everything that had happened in the room, but importantly, he heard two bleeps from a machine that makes a noise at three minute intervals. So we could time how long the experienced lasted for.

“He seemed very credible and everything that he said had happened to him had actually happened.”

Not all of the experiences patients shared were positive, however. While 20 per cent described a peaceful sensation and others remembered seeing a bright light, some recalled a sense of fear, persecution, or feeling like they were being submerged in water.

According to Dr Parnia, it’s likely that many more people have “vivid” near-death experiences than are able to recall them after the event.

“Estimates have suggested that millions of people have had vivid experiences in relation to death but the scientific evidence has been ambiguous at best,” he explained.

“Many people have assumed that these were hallucinations or illusions but they do seem to corresponded to actual events. And a higher proportion of people may have vivid death experiences, but do not recall them due to the effects of brain injury or sedative drugs on memory circuits.”

Dr Parnia added: “Contrary to perception, death is not a specific moment but a potentially reversible process that occurs after any severe illness or accident causes the heart, lungs and brain to cease functioning.

“Clearly, the recalled experience surrounding death now merits further genuine investigation without prejudice.”

Source: Christian Today

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