Crosstalk: December 21, 2015

Jim Schneider got listeners caught up on national and world news stories of interest to Christians everywhere. Some of the stories covered included: --Homeland Security Secretary Jay Johnson says terrorists may infiltrate America's Syrian refugee program. --ISIS may have the ability to produce legitimate looking Syrian passports. --Intelligence officials are secretly mapping ISIS media centers where their propaganda is being churned out. --Students being thrown out of classrooms to make room for refugees at the Anne Frank School in Nordhorn in Germany. --French authorities have conducted thousands of raids over the past few weeks and have arrested hundreds of people finding numerous documents connecting French Muslims to jihadi elements. --Federal prosecutors decide to bring criminal charges against the friend and former neighbor of one of the San Bernardino shooters. --Classes canceled at a Virginia county school amid security concerns after some parents object to a world geography class that included teaching on Islam. --Homeland Security Secretary Jay Johnson claims that anyone who doesn't understand that Muslims want peace doesn't understand Islam --Wheaton College professor who wanted show solidarity with Muslims by wearing the hijab is placed on leave. --Omnibus bill passes through the House and is on its way to the Senate. --Trans-Pacific Partnership fine print will undermine U.S. national security. --President Obama goes behind closed doors to meet with Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to discuss gun control. --President Obama will review final recommendation on how he can impose new restrictions on guns without Congress. --A new study shows that the only gun crimes on the rise over the last two decades have been mass shootings in gun free zones otherwise known as 'soft targets'. --Tuberculosis on the rise in our nation. --Tens of thousands of migrants pouring into Europe bringing infections that will soon be untreatable. --Kuwait hates Jews so much that its national airline has ditched a popular and lucrative New York to London flight rather than allow Israelis on its planes. --Paris synagogue attacked with a chemical substance. --ISIS is recruiting experts with chemistry, physics and computer science degrees to wage war against the West with weapons of mass destruction. --Viral video shows Yale University students freely signing a petition that calls for the repeal of the First Amendment. --3 people killed when an unidentified gunman opened fire outside a Christian radio station in Mali.