Tag Archives: New Testament

Was Islam’s Ka’ba Always in Mecca?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 June 2025

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Jews and the Russian Orthodox Church

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 October 2024

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Islamic State Introduces the Fifth “Caliph”

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 August 2023

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The Letter of Mara bar Serapion: Implications for the Historical Jesus and Christianity’s Triumph

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 April 2023

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Islamic State Bids Farewell to the Caliph

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 November 2019

The 207th edition of Al-Naba, the weekly newsletter of the Islamic State (IS), published on 7 November 2019, devotes its main editorial to Ibrahim al-Badri (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi), the first “Caliph” when the “Caliphate” was declared in June 2014, who was killed on 27 October 2019.

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