Three Palestinian men reportedly killed Monday were “armed terrorists” who were trying to plant a bomb near the Gaza border fence, according to Israel’s military.

“An IDF patrol foiled a bomb-laying attack by a cell of three armed terrorists near Rafah, close to the border,” the Israeli military said Monday. “This is a particularly violent protest point. The troops responded with fire at the terrorists. The terrorists were killed.”

Some 52 Palestinians in total, including the three men, were killed in skirmishes near the security fence. Some 1,200 were wounded in the conflicts.

“Rioters are hurling pipe bombs and firebombs at IDF troops, burning tires, throwing stones and burning objects, with the intention of setting fires in Israel and hurting IDF troops,” a member of the Israeli army was quoted by The Times of Israel as saying.

The increased conflict comes after President Donald Trump announced the Israeli embassy would move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Palestinians oppose the relocation because they want Jerusalem as a future capital, according to Fox News.

Meanwhile, Israel also responded to attacks in Jabaliya with an aircraft attack on a Hamas post in the area. Then, Israel’s Defense Forces used a fighter jet to hit five other Hamas military training facilities in Gaza.

The Palestinian media is calling the protests and riots…

Like many seminary students walking across the stage to accept their diplomas at commencement ceremonies this month, Sean Robinson already has a job lined up.

Beginning in June, he will be the new minister to students and their families at Open Door Church in Raleigh, N.C.

But Robinson’s diploma isn’t the traditional Master of Divinity, awarded to seminary students who have completed a three-year course of study.

It’s not hard to stay humble when you’re unclogging a toilet.

Or when you’re throwing gopher balls to Miracle League ballplayers swinging for the fences.

At least that’s how Detroit Tigers ace Michael Fulmer, who works part-time as a plumber in the offseason and serves as a mentor to adults with developmental disabilities, describes his approach to living out his Christian faith.

“It’s a way for me to stay levelheaded,” said the 25-year-old right-hander of his part-time gig with Cyrus Wright Plumbing in his home state of Oklahoma.

Fulmer has emerged as one of baseball’s top young pitchers, winning the American League Rookie of the Year award in 2016 and earning a spot on the AL All-Star team in 2017. He has a 3.46 ERA in 58 career starts, and his fastball regularly touches 97 mph.

If you’re not a baseball aficionado, simply consider this: Now in his third season, Fuller will earn $575,000 this year.

In a Religion News Service interview during the Tigers’ three-game series with the Texas Rangers earlier this week, Fulmer said his goal — win or lose — is “to preach the Lord’s name.”

As Fulmer stepped to the mound at Globe Life Park for his start Monday (May 7), he couldn’t help but notice a special group of fans in the right-field corner.

Wings, a Christian nonprofit, offers vocational, social and residential…

A controversial longtime Alabama pastor, the Rev. Michael R. Jordan, of New Era Baptist Church in Birmingham, slammed the Church of the Highlands, the state’s largest church, on Thursday as racist and “hypocritical” while alleging that their motives behind a planned church plant in the city to help fight crime are not “pure.”

“Whites left the inner city. Whites carried their churches with them, they moved to the suburbs. White folk have proved they don’t want to live next door to us, or be our neighbors, or worship with us,” Jordan told WVTM 13. “Now they want to plant a white church in a black neighborhood under the umbrella of supposedly to fight crime? The real reason Church of the Highlands wants to put a white church in a black neighborhood is they have too many black folks at their main campus and they want them to leave and come to a church in their inner city.”

On April 29, Chris Hodges, founder and leader of Church of the Highlands, which is one of the largest churches in America, announced a new innovative church plant to be launched this fall in one of Birmingham’s most violent neighborhoods.

Hodges, who explained that he had consulted with city officials about the church’s…