The Faithful Watchman

A dedicated prayer room for Muslims has reportedly been opened inside the 500-year-old Vatican Apostolic Library in Rome after a plea for the separate, carpeted space was made by visiting Islamic scholars.

The Catholic Herald reports Fr Giacomo Cardinali, Vice Prefect, said in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that Muslim academics had requested an area in which to pray, and the library had agreed. “Some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet for praying and we have given it to them,” he said.

Read more at: breitbart.com

Hostility toward Christians in China is escalating, which experts say is a “coordinated wave of persecution” driven largely by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Last week, the CCP “arrested more than two dozen pastors across at least seven provinces who are part of the underground Zion Church network,” as reported by The Washington Stand. China Aid, a Christian international non-profit dedicated to supporting persecuted believers, condemned the arrests as “a direct assault on the fundamental human right of religious freedom and a stark reminder that the Chinese Communist Party remains determined to eradicate any form of independent civil faith community that does not submit to state control.”

Read more at: washingtonstand.com

As more people turn to AI chatbots for emotional support and even as their therapists, a new and urgent concern is emerging at the intersection of AI and mental health: “AI psychosis” or “ChatGPT psychosis.”

This phenomenon, which is not a clinical diagnosis, has been increasingly reported in the media and on online forums like Reddit, describing cases in which AI models have amplified, validated, or even co-created psychotic symptoms with individuals. Most recently, there have been concerns that AI psychosis may be affecting an OpenAI investor.

Read more at: psychologytoday.com

Government school officials in Orange County, Florida, were subjecting captive students to lessons teaching sorcery and witchcraft — literally. The move sparked outrage among critics, and legal demands that West Orange High School stop the program immediately or at least give students the ability to opt out and promote Christianity.

According to news reports and a Christian non-profit law firm that got involved in the case, every Wednesday, students at the school were shown witchcraft programming across the school’s TV system as part of the mid-week morning announcements. There was no option to avoid the program.

Read more at: harbingersdaily.com

It would be safe to say that all of us have come to accept this simple truth: evil exists, but God is good.  Of course, the world is yet to experience the pinnacle of evil.  That will come during the Tribulation Period through the evil agenda of the unholy trinity of Satan, Antichrist, and False Prophet.  In speaking of the day when the man of sin would be revealed, the Apostle Paul was inspired to write this in 2 Thessalonians 2:7-8: “For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way.  And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming.” 

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Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about a lengthy article highlighting a total rewrite of the origin of life and the conditions supposedly on earth at the time. Well, the same outlet recently published another, equally lengthy, article—this time highlighting big problems with the big bang model.

Read more at: harbingersdaily.com