(Worthy Insights) – A case before the U.S. Supreme Court right now could redraw the line between faith and government. On Monday, the justices gave some clues about how their leaning on this significant issue.

As CBN News has been reporting, the Catholic Charities case has far-reaching implications for all faith-based groups.

At issue: Should religious organizations like Catholic Charities have to pay state unemployment taxes or get a religious exemption, like churches? And just how religious does an organization need to be to qualify for a tax exemption? [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – A three-year-old Israeli girl has found a scarab-shaped Canaanite amulet dating back some 3,800 years at the site of Tel Azeka near Bet Shemesh, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Tuesday.

Ziv Nitzan, from Moshav Ramot Meir, was hiking with her parents and two older sisters at the foot of the hill where the archaeological site stands when she picked up what appeared to be a small stone.

“We were walking along the path, and then Ziv bent down – and out of all the stones around her, she picked up this particular stone,” Omer Nitzan, Ziv’s sister, said in a statement sent out by the IAA. “When she rubbed it and removed the sand from it, we saw something was different about it. I called my parents to come see the beautiful stone, and we realized we had discovered an archaeological find! We immediately reported this to the Israel Antiquities Authority.” [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Revive Europe, an evangelistic initiative focused on sparking Christian revival among students across the continent, is training and releasing 100 emerging leaders ahead of the upcoming Awakening Project gathering in London this spring.

The three-day event, set for April 30 to May 2 in Hackney, London, will bring together student revival leaders and supportive adults for worship, prayer, teaching and fellowship. Organizers describe the Awakening Project as a unifying network aimed at mobilizing and equipping young leaders with a passion for spiritual renewal across Europe.

According to a press release from Revive Europe, the initiative is being organized in partnership with three London-based churches — Saint, KXC and Imprint — as well as leaders connected to the 2023 Asbury Outpouring, a widely reported revival that took place at Asbury University in Kentucky. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Elon Musk on Sunday shared that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has selected its new target: Lawmakers who are worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars despite a modest, by comparison, public salary.

Regular senators and House lawmakers currently earn $174,000 annually, while Senate leaders earn $193,400 per year, according to the upper chamber’s website. That salary would not explain how some lawmakers are now worth tens of millions, even after decades in the chamber. People like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are worth hundreds of millions.

Musk told a Wisconsin audience that he would look into the flood of wealth, after an attendee asked him if DOGE had uncovered evidence of money sent from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to Democrats in Congress. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – A showdown between Satanists, Christian counter-protesters, and police turned violent in Kansas on Friday when a Satanic leader tried to perform a Satanic ritual inside the Statehouse in violation of an order by the governor.

The leader of the Satanic Grotto group and three other people were arrested in the incident.

Michael Stewart, founder of that Satanic group, had vowed to hold a demonic ritual as a form of “therapeutic blasphemy” inside the Capitol, even though Gov. Laura Kelly had declared that the Black Mass would not be allowed indoors. She had temporarily banned all protests inside the rotunda. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take a case that could decide whether states can withhold Medicaid funds from abortion providers like Planned Parenthood.

The case, Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, comes as the nation’s largest abortion provider is in crisis with clinics closing along with allegations of malpractice. The outcome could open the door to allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood.

“Planned Parenthood portrays itself as a healthcare provider, but it is an organization dedicated to abortion, John Bursch, senior counsel and vice president of appellate advocacy with Alliance Defending Freedom (AD) said in a recent press conference. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – It’s not much of a stretch to say that Earth’s inner structure, especially the innermost spherical core, has stupefied scientists for generations. It sits over 3,000 miles below the surface, smaller than the Moon yet massive enough to play a big part in Earth’s magnetic field.

A recent study in Nature Geoscience points to changes that started around 2010, suggesting Earth’s inner core’s spin was slowing.

In effect, it was found to be to be reversing and backtracking relative to the planet’s surface. This discovery has sparked fresh conversations about how the planet’s interior behaves over time. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – For the first time, a team of Israeli archaeologists has uncovered ancient artifacts at northern Israel’s “Armageddon” site that might offer proof of an epic battle documented in the books of Kings II and Chronicles between a king of Judah and an Egyptian pharaoh.

Two academic papers published earlier this year explained how an unprecedented amount of 7th-century BCE Egyptian pottery was found in recent excavations at Megiddo, suggesting that Egyptian soldiers were indeed in the right biblical place at what could be the right biblical period.

“Megiddo is the only site in Israel and the neighboring countries mentioned in the Bible and in all great records of the Ancient Near East,” said Prof. Israel Finkelstein, head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa and long-time director of the Megiddo Expedition. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – The North Carolina Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a mother in the state now allowing her to sue her 14-year-old son’s public school system and a medical provider for reportedly forcing him to get the COVID-19 shot without his or her consent and without her knowledge.

Emily Happel attempted to sue Guilford County Board of Education and Old North State Medical Society in August 2022, alleging battery and infringement of state constitutional rights after her son, Tanner Smith, was forcibly injected with a dose of Pfizer’s COVID shot against his wishes and without parental approval.

However, lower courts dismissed the case after ruling that the 2005 federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act protected the school district and the medical provider from any liability.

(Worthy Insights) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps revealed one of its underground “missile cities” to Iranian media outlets Wednesday, as tensions with the West boiled over its nuclear program.

An Israeli flag could be seen placed on the ground in the footage at the unveiling — a practice common in the Islamic Republic that allows people to trample the flag as an offense against the Jewish state.

Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces, Mohammad Bagheri, and the commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, were present in the footage, touring around on vehicles and speaking to personnel at the undisclosed location. [ Source (Read More…) ]

(Worthy Insights) – Archaeologists excavating beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s Old City have uncovered evidence of an ancient garden.

The findings, revealed through a landmark excavation conducted as part of renovations in the church, showed evidence of the presence of olive trees and grapevines from around 2,000 years ago. This evidence aligns with the Gospel of John’s description of the site where Jesus was crucified and buried.

“Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.” (John 19:41) [ Source (Read More…) ]