There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
The attackers, chanting “Allahu Akbar,” attempted to storm St. Joseph’s Church, where 700 mostly Christian Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were sleeping. — Nigeria.
Persecution of Christians across Africa continues with brutal intensity, especially in regions plagued by Muslim militancy… In the Democratic Republic of Congo, where roughly 95% of the population is Christian, Muslim groups are responsible for horrific violence. The European Parliament has labeled ISCAP, an ISIS affiliate, “the deadliest armed group in the DRC.”
“The horrific killing of Kashif Masih is not just a tragedy—it is a damning indictment of the justice system in Pakistan. That a man could be tortured to death under false allegations, and that the police failed to act promptly or conduct a proper investigation, shows the systemic discrimination Christians face daily. The failure to collect crucial evidence and the reluctance to pursue justice….” — britishasianchristians.org, June 2, 2025.
When the Christian couple reported the rape to Saddar Police Station, officer Muhammad Sikander tried to bribe them with Rs. 150,000 (about $500 USD) to drop the case and leave the area. When they refused, Intekhab was beaten. — Pakistan.
“The case is a tragic but familiar reminder of the dangerous intersection of gender-based violence and religious persecution. Sexual violence against minority women is not rare – it’s a systemic human rights emergency that is often met with silence and inaction…. These [Christian and non-Muslim] women are isolated, marginalized and viewed as disposable.” — morningstarnws.org, June 24, 2024, Pakistan.
“There’s no law in Pakistan that criminalizes forced faith conversion.” While the constitution guarantees freedom of religion, that freedom “is routinely violated when minors are coerced into Islam through abduction and sham marriages… [E]very delay in justice sends the message that Christian girls are disposable.” — Albert Patras, rights advocate, morningstarnews.org, June 23, 2025.
Islamic law makes it very difficult for all victims of rape, not only Christian women, to prove rape because it demands proof by four reliable male witnesses. — Sonja Dahlmans, author of “Hidden Crimes, Public Deception: The Epidemic of the Disappearance of Coptic Girls and Women in Egypt.”
On June 18, the European Parliament approved a €4 billion financial aid package to Egypt — despite that country’s mounting persecution of Christians, including a recent court ruling to evict monks and seize one of Christianity’s holiest sites: the 1,500-year-old Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai.
Human Rights Watch released a damning report exposing the systematic misuse of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws to target religious minorities—especially Christians and Ahmadis—as well as the poor. Titled “A Conspiracy to Grab the Land,” it details how false blasphemy accusations are weaponized to incite mob violence, displace vulnerable communities, and seize their property with near-total impunity.
On June 6, International Christian Concern exposed the widespread, systemic persecution of Christians living under Islamic law (sharia) across countries like Brunei, Iran, Yemen, Pakistan, and the Maldives.
Trump’s diplomacy has brought PM’s Modi (India, left) and Sharif (Pakistan, right) together to a ceasefire.
The situation between warring neighbors (and nuclear powers) India and Pakistan seemed to be devolving into an open war, as the two countries targeted military bases and exchanged missile and drone attacks.
This military conflict arose after a deadly terrorist attack on tourists in the disputed Kashmir region, raising concerns of a full-blown military confrontation between the two nations that have Historically had a tumultuous relationship, marked by multiple conflicts since their partition in 1947.
But the efforts by the US Donald J. Trump administration have made a difference: after a full night of negotiations mediated by Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a ceasefire has been achieved.
Trump announced it first on Truth Social:
After that Secretary Rubio has posted on X:
After the US is got involved in de-escalation efforts, a seemingly-coordinated messaging started to appear from India and Pakistan, followed now by this sensational breakthrough.
“U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that India and Pakistan had agreed to a ‘full and immediate ceasefire’ after a fourth day of strikes and counter-strikes against each other’s military installations.
Pakistan’s foreign minister also said both countries had agreed to a ceasefire ‘with immediate effect’.”
PMs Sharif and Modi in happier times.
“The announcement came on a day when fears that the countries’ nuclear arsenals might come into play spiked as the Pakistan military said a top military and civil body overseeing its nuclear weapons would meet.
At the same time, officials from both sides showed a willingness for now to take a step back following the day’s exchanges, while the civilian death toll on both sides of the border mounted to 66.”
India and Pakistan both have nuclear weapons, and now they are on the verge of war. It is being reported that India is considering a military response to a horrifying terror attack that occurred in Kashmir earlier this week, and Pakistani forces are already being mobilized in case that happens. If a full-blown war erupts, it will be a really big deal. 247 million people live in Pakistan, and 1.4 billion people live in India. So we are talking about a substantial chunk of the global population, and if nuclear weapons are used the death toll in a war between India and Pakistan would be off the charts.
This latest crisis started on Tuesday when terrorists associated with “The Resistance Front” killed 26 tourists in Kashmir…
Suspected rebels killed at least 26 people on Tuesday in the picturesque tourist resort of Pahalgam in the deadliest such attack in a quarter-century in Indian-administered Kashmir. A statement issued in the name of The Resistance Front (TRF), which is believed to be an offshoot of the Pakistani-based Lashkar-e-Taiba armed group, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Armed police and soldiers searched homes and forests for militants in Indian Kashmir on Friday and India’s army chief reviewed security there after the killing of 26 men at a tourist site – the worst attack on civilians in nearly two decades.
The attack triggered outrage and grief in India, along with calls for action against neighbour Pakistan, whom New Delhi accuses of funding and encouraging terrorism in Kashmir, a region both nations claim and have fought two wars over.
We have seen tensions between these two great nations reach a boiling point before, but never anything quite like this.
On Wednesday, India suspended a water treaty governing the water flows of the Indus River and revoked the visas of Pakistani nationals within its borders. It also closed one of the only land border crossings between the two countries. Pakistan has responded by closing off its airspace to Indian planes and issuing a barrage of reciprocal visa revocations.
Millions of people in Pakistan are extremely dependent on water from the Indus River.
So it would create a major humanitarian crisis if India restricted or cut off the flow of water, but apparently that is what India has decided to do…
The government has decided to stop the flow of Indus River water to Pakistan following the termination of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, in response to the deadly terror attack in Pahalgam carried out by Pakistan-based terrorists, sources said.
Yesterday, the Pakistani government warned that messing with the flow of water would be an “act of war”…
Pakistan warned India on Thursday that it was committing an “act of war” by suspending a landmark water-sharing treaty in response to a deadly terror attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
The threat from Pakistan Prime Minister’s Office followed a number of diplomatic measures imposed by New Dehli on Islamabad as tensions flare between the neighboring nuclear powers.
We really need a third party to step in and mediate this crisis, because it could spiral out of control very quickly.
Indian officials have confirmed Friday that Indian and Pakistani soldiers briefly exchanged fire along their highly militarized frontier in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, according to The Associated Press.
Small arms were used by both sides in the gunfight, and no casualties have as of yet been reported, a briefing by an Indian official indicated, in the first such live-fire incident since 2021. It also violates a pledge from the same year for the two nations to observe a ceasefire along the disputed Line of Control between Indian and Pakistani controlled areas of Kashmir.
The shooting has stopped for now, but social media is full of videos that show military equipment being moved toward the border.
And it is also an ominous sign that India has moved an aircraft carrier into the Arabian Sea…
In addition, Pakistan “has issued a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen/Mariners) for the Arabian Sea and initiated a naval live fire exercise, while putting its military on full alert in anticipation of a possible military response by India in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack,” The Print, an Indian news outlet, reported.
India, meanwhile, has the aircraft carrier Vikrant in the Arabian Sea. While the vessel deployed before the Kashmir attack, it is now doing loops in the area as a possible contingency, posited Damien Symon, a geo-intelligence researcher for The Intel Lab intelligence consultancy.
We don’t know for certain whether India will conduct airstrikes or not.
“There are a variety of military options, short of a full-blown war, on the table,” the Times of India (TOI) reported, citing a senior military official. “It’s for the political leadership to take the final call. If there is a go-ahead, then the retaliatory strikes will be at a time and place of our choosing.”
India and Pakistan are not equally matched.
If India really starts pummeling Pakistan, would the Pakistanis feel a need to use their nukes?
Let’s hope that we never find out.
Meanwhile, President Trump continues to warn the world about what will happen if the Iranians do not give up their nuclear enrichment program…
During an interview with Time magazine, Trump was asked whether he was “worried” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would drag the U.S. into a war.
“No,” said the president, who continued his answer after the questioner attempted to change topics.
“[H]e may go into a war. But we’re not getting dragged in.”
Did that mean the U.S. will stay out if Israel goes into Iran?
“No, I didn’t say that,” Trump said. “You asked if he’d [Netanyahu] drag me in, like I’d go in unwillingly. No, I may go in very willingly if we can’t get a deal. If we don’t make a deal, I’ll be leading the pack.”
There will be yet another round of negotiations this weekend.
Let us hope that they go well.
Lastly, I wanted to mention the fact that a top Russian general was just assassinated not too far from Moscow…
Russian Major General Yaroslav Moskalik was killed in an IED bomb blast in the Moscow region on Friday.
This coincided with the planned peace talks between US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin.
According to Russia Today Moskalik was the Deputy Chief of Main Operations Directorate of General Staff of Russian Armed Forces.
Every time we take a step toward peace, something like this happens.
Ultimately, I don’t think that there is going to be peace in Ukraine.
The Russians and the Ukrainians are not even in the same universe when it comes to what a suitable peace agreement would look like, and neither side seems too keen on making significant compromises at this stage.
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