You're listening to Breakpoint this week,

where we're talking about the top stories of the week

from a Christian perspective.

Today we're going to hit some of the news highlights,

including the murder of a Jewish couple

in Washington, D.C., and some clarifying comments

from Pope Leo.

We're also going to talk about the 1700th anniversary

of the Council of Nicaa,

and what relevance that has for the church today.

We're so glad you're with us. Please stick around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week.

From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street,

president of the Colson Center. John, you and I are recording this this week on Thursday afternoon.

So I woke up to news this morning,

and I'm sure the story will continue developing. But two young people who worked for the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. were murdered last night outside of the Capitol Jewish Museum by a suspect that

we now know as he was being detained, yelled free, free Palestine, seems to have been an activist.

The latest story I'm seeing on CNN is that the authorities are looking into writings that he had done about the need to take up arms in opposition to Israel and the war against Hamas.

So this obviously is a developing story, but absolutely chilling news and a horrifying story.

Well, and it's part of a narrative that has strangely emerged after Hamas invaded and attacked

Israel, murdering innocent citizens, committing horrific sexual crimes on October

the 7th a couple years ago.

And we've seen the same kind of language take place on college campuses and things like that.

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