In an historic event, evangelical Christians met with Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. It has been noted that his meeting could mark a significant step forward in evangelical relations with the Arab world’s largest country.

The meeting is also especially important in light of increased attacks on Egypt’s Christian minority.

According to CBN News, both sides seemed to feel that the meeting went extremely well.

“Rarely have I been in a meeting that was scheduled for an hour that went for three hours and the conversation was clear, so authentic,” stated Johnnie Moore, an author and leading Christian expert on the Middle East. “There was no hedging. It was like we were best friends for our entire life. It was historic yesterday.”

Author and Middle East expert Joel Rosenberg, who hosted the meeting, agreed, stating, “I believe it is setting into motion an historic relationship between an Arab Muslim leader and the evangelical Christian movement. I have to tell you, I’m a fiction writer and if President Abdel el-Sisi didn’t exist you’d have to make him up. I mean [he is] what are we looking for in an ally with the United States: people who want, people who are telling us I want a strong, strategic alliance with America. I’m fighting the same people you’re fighting.”

Both the evangelical leaders and el-Sisi affirmed their commitment to fighting ISIS and…

Some 15 religious leaders and activists were arrested this week for an unlawful demonstration inside a United States Senate office.

The group had demanded a “clean” passage of legislation that would protect thousands of undocumented “dreamers” from deportation, also known as the Dream Act.

The group was arrested after they gathered in a circle to sing in the office building.

The arrested included:Rev. Dr. Sharon Stanley-Rea, director of refugee and immigration ministries for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); Lori Tapia, national pastor for the Disciples of Christ’s Hispanic Ministries; Rev. Kate Shaner, the minister of mission at First Community Church in Columbus, Ohio; Taylor Burgoyne from the Evangelical Covenant Church in Tucson, Arizona; Reuben Eckels, a pastor affiliated with Church World Service; and Sierra Dawn Salgado Pirigyi from Urban Abbey United Methodist Church in Bacon, Nebraska.

“I am inspired by my faith that, when we dare to take risks for justice, we help create a path of fresh hope, step by step. I am committed to doing all that I can to support the passage of a clean Dream Act,” Stanley-Rea said in a statement.

“And, in honor of families facing separation far too often through detention and deportation, I submit to arrest today with the prayer that I can honor my own father, who died three decades ago on All Saints Day.”

The…

A group associated with Planned Parenthood posted a couple of tweets on Tuesday which created significant backlash.

According to TheBlaze.com, Planned Parenthood Black Community seemed to be encouraging black women to get abortions.

The organization tweeted:

If you’re a Black woman in America, it’s statistically safer to have an abortion than to carry a pregnancy to term or give birth #ScaryStats

— PP Black Community (@PPBlackComm) October 31, 2017

They also tweeted:

Us: Black moms are dying in child-birth. Also, abortions are medically safe.

Anti-abortion trolls: *screams genocide* *sets web on fire*

Us: pic.twitter.com/yhy9N5yTez

— PP Black Community (@PPBlackComm) October 31, 2017

They then attempted to follow up those controversial tweets with statistics:

“Between 1988-2015, 16.1 mil women accessed abortion care, 108 died. Btw 2011-’13, BW accounted for 43.5 deaths of every 100,000 live births.”

Pro-life advocates were quick to call Planned Parenthood out for its insensitive and misleading tweets.

Poverty doesn’t kill black Americans.

But Planned Parenthood does.

— ProLife Wife (@prolife_wife) October 31, 2017

Are you seriously encouraging racism through abortion?? And on Twitter?? Wow. Fulfilling your founder’s dream

— Abby Johnson (@AbbyJohnson)