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Checklist: Questions to Ask During a Bomb Threat Call

Arson and explosives are among the weaponized options in the arsenal of terrorists, criminals, anarchists, and the mentally unstable.

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ISIS and other terrorist entities continue to issue chilling calls for violence, urging radicalized supporters to use improvised explosive devices (IED), and/or set fire, to cause mayhem and damage churches and synagogues around the world.

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Regular propaganda communication to extremists includes bomb-making instructions and complex attack plans using multiple methods, such as fire, IEDs, firearms, and vehicle ramming.

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Fact: Jesus Rose from the Dead

Easter is the annual celebration of the facts that Jesus lived in history, was fully deity—the Son of God—and fully human, lived a sinless life, died by crucifixion providing atonement for sinners, was entombed for three days, came back to life through God resurrecting him from the dead, and appeared before hundreds of eye-witnesses over 40 days. These historical facts comprise the bedrock of every Christian’s faith.

“I am trying here to prevent anyone from saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.
 
You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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USCIRF 2026 Annual Report: Key Nations Continue Religious Persecution

China arrests underground church members, mob violence is on the rise in India and Pakistan leading to attacks on religious minorities and the destruction of their homes, Burma’s military bombs houses of worship, and Tajikistan denies parents the right to teach their children about faith, according to the US Commission on International Religious Freedom‘s (USCIRF) 2026 Annual Report.

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“As USCIRF’s Annual Report shows, far too many people in key nations are denied religious freedom through unjust laws, discrimination, harassment, violence, and even crimes against humanity,” says USCIRF Chair Vicky Hartzler.

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CIA: Studies in AI and Human Intelligence

Among the articles in the unclassified version of the CIA’s journal, Studies in Intelligence (Vol. 70, No. 1, March 2026) is one titled, “Espionage in Our AI Future: Why Human Intelligence Still Matters.”

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In it, the author, a former CIA case officer (CO) in Latin America, says, “While AI [artificial intelligence] will transform HUMINT [human intelligence] (along with most everything else), this, our oldest form of intelligence collection, will in fact grow in importance. For one thing, as AI makes high-quality technical collection cheaper and more accessible, it thereby boosts HUMINT’s value on the margin. AI will supercharge disinformation and fabrication—and that makes HUMINT’s ability to build and test source reliability over time, and corroborate technical collection, more important than ever. And as AI undermines the security of electronic communications, tradecraft techniques which COs have used for millennia—such as dead drops and brush passes—will find new relevance…”

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