CAIRO, Egypt, November 20, 2019 (Morning Star News) – A Coptic Christian is in critical condition after he, his mother and brother were stabbed in Egypt on Sunday night (Nov. 17), according to media reports.

The Muslim assailant in a village in Upper Egypt’s Minya Governorate told them that Christians must not sit outside before attacking them, leaving the adult son in critical condition at a hospital’s Intensive Care Unit with several wounds to the stomach, according to media reports. 

Area residents told Egyptian news media that a non-Christian with a criminal reputation assaulted the family members with a dagger at about 10:30 p.m. after arguing with them as they sat in front of their house in Nassiriya village, near Beni Mazar. Beni Mazar is 219 kilometers (136 miles) south of Cairo on the west bank of the Nile River.

The residents said the argument started when the assailant, identified only as Ali M., walked by the family members as they sat in front of their house and began shouting for them to go back in, saying no Christians were allowed outside. A Facebook post identified the assailant as a Muslim named Ali Eid Morsi; the post has since been removed.

When the adult son, identified as Shinoda Aziz, objected and stood up to the assailant, the suspect retrieved a dagger from his home, returned and attacked him, according to the area residents….

Kanye West, who recently released his gospel album, has announced that he will be launching a Biblical opera that will tell the story of King Nebuchadnezzar.

According to Faithwire, West announced the show on Twitter, saying the opera will debut at the Hollywood Bowl on Nov. 24 and feature music by the Sunday Service choir.

Tickets for the show go on sale Monday.

Nebuchadnezzar ruled Babylon for more than 40 years, from about 605 BC to 562 BC, Forbes explains. His story is found in the Book of Daniel. In the book of Daniel, Daniel reveals and interprets the king’s dream after others have failed to do so. 

Later in the book of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar tells the people to worship an image of gold. Daniel and other Israelites refuse, and Daniel and two of his friends are thrown into a furnace. The three men survive, and the king praises God.

Then in Daniel 4, Nebuchadnezzar has another dream of a giant tree that protects the land and animals, but a holy messenger tells him that the tree must be cut down, and he will be sent to live in the wild. Daniel tells him the dream is about the king and tells him to renounce his sins.

Later, Nebuchadnezzar is stripped of his royalty and driven away. At the end, he praises God.

In an interview in October, West spoke about the story of Nebuchadnezzar.

“[God] is saying, Let me take this Nebuchadnezzar-type…

Israel has struck back at Iranian forces in Syria after Iran launched four rockets at Israel’s Golen Heights.

According to CBN News, the Israel Defense Forces fired back at Iranian and Assad targets.

The Jerusalem Post reported that IDF didn’t hit the rocket launchers, but targeted Iranian forces bases, storehouses and other military facilities.

IDF said in a statement that it also destroyed Syrian aerial defense batteries after a missile was fired at its fighter planes, CNN reports.

“Israeli warplanes… targeted the vicinity of the city of Damascus with a number of missiles,” the Syrian state news agency, SANA, reported. “Our air defense confronted the heavy attack and intercepted the hostile missiles, and was able to destroy most of them before reaching their targets.”

Eleven people, including civilians, were killed in the strike, Syrian sources told reporters.

Following the strike, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “whoever harms us, we will harm them.”

“That is what we did tonight in Syria against Iranian Quds Force targets and Syrian military targets, after rockets were fired from its territory towards Israel,” he said. “We will continue to aggressively guard the security of Israel.”

The strike came after Iran launched four rockets at Israel early Tuesday. The Iron Dome…

Undercover journalist David Daleiden—whose videos showed evidence Planned Parenthood was trafficking in aborted baby parts—will appeal a $2.3 million judgment handed down Friday by a San Francisco jury after he and a colleague were convicted on numerous charges, including the federal RICO, Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations, law. Under RICO, compensatory damage charges are tripled.

Daleiden, and his Center for Medical Progress, made national headlines in 2015 when he released a series of videos in which Planned Parenthood executives discussed the sale of fetal parts, as well as their willingness to manipulate abortion procedures to preserve organs for sale. Daleiden and Sandra Merritt also secretly recorded conversations with officials from fetal tissue procurement businesses that worked with Planned Parenthood.

Shortly after releasing the videos, Daleiden explained his justification for the clandestine operation before a gathering at the Evangelicals for Life conference.

“I think that undercover work is fundamentally different from lying, because the purpose of undercover work is to serve the truth and to bring the truth to greater clarity and to communicate the truth more strongly,” he told them.

But, during the San Francisco civil trial, federal Judge William Orrick ruled journalism was not a defense for the…

A recent poll released by Americans United for Life revealed that a majority of Americans want safer health care for women who receive abortions.

Seventy percent of the population surveyed said that they either “strongly” or “somewhat” agree that abortion facilities “should be held to the same medical standards as any ordinary hospital.”

“This survey highlights that Americans, regardless of their personal views on abortion, stand with us in our fight to protect a woman’s right to health care and emergency medical attention,” AUL President Catherine Glenn Foster said. “Women deserve the same standard of care no matter who their doctor is. Continued efforts by elected officials and political institutions to limit protections and safeguards for women are out of step with core American values.”

Additionally, 78% of respondents agreed that physicians should transfer a woman to an emergency room should complications occur during the abortion. And, three out of four Americans believe that abortion doctors should be held to the same medical standards as ordinary physicians.

Over 40% of those surveyed identified as pro-choice.

The poll comes in the wake of the Supreme Court agreeing to listen to a Louisiana abortion case, June Medical Services, LLC v. Gee. At the center of the lawsuit is the Unsafe Abortion Protection Act,…