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07/05/19   “Some great news! A marvelous victory for free speech in Britain.”  Admin   Andrea Williams, Chief Executive of Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Centre comments on the judgment handed down this week in the case of Felix Ngole, the student who was expelled from Sheffield University for expressing Biblical views on sexual ethics.   I am delighted by this victory for free speech. The judges in the Court of Appeal have ruled in favour of Felix Ngole and against the university, saying that he should not have been expelled merely for expressing his Christian views. His expulsion [More]

07/03/19 Just when you think it can’t get any worse in the church, it does. With Gay pride flags covering the hall and rainbow candles on the church stage, Cincinnati’s Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church greeted its visitors this past Sunday with Drag Queen “Sparke Leigh”, complete in purple dress, makeup, high heels and a glitter beard. Following the song “God Welcomes All” by the church choir, Sparke Leigh walked up on stage and, rather than reading from the Bible, read the book Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag to the audience.   Read More: Presbyterians Descend [More]

05/26/19   Trans lobby group Mermaids were also invited in to provide training to staff and governors and the disturbing audio from the session has been revealed.   The story highlights a national escalation of cases, noticeably since the introduction of the Equality Act 2010, where statistics released by the NHS have revealed that the number of children referred for hormone treatment to the Tavistock Centre has gone up from 97 cases in 2009 to 2,519 in 2018 – a 2,500% increase in just nine years.   Rev. John Parker, 49, has also resigned as a vicar in the CofE [More]

05/20/19   The declarations could have been made by an imam in a mosque sermon. “Most Muslims’ faith is stronger than the average Christian.” “Islam at heart is a peaceful religion.” Jihad is a “personal struggle in devotion to Islam, especially involving spiritual discipline.” “To Muslims, Allah is the same God that is worshiped in Christianity and Judaism.” “Men are the managers of the affairs of women” and “Righteous women are therefore obedient.” The problem is that those statements were part of the instruction in a public school in Maryland, and one of the students in the classroom now is [More]

05/19/19   Just how big a threat is the Equality Act to religious freedom? According to the Alliance Defending Freedom’s Greg Baylor, it would pose the biggest threat to religious freedom in the history of the American republic, placing the full force of the federal government behind a terribly destructive gender ideology.   Baylor shares his concerns today on the BreakPoint Podcast with Colson Center President John Stonestreet.   Listen: BreakPoint: Podcast: “No” to the Equality Act, with Greg Baylor

05/08/19   “This is great news!”  Admin   Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row for blasphemy against Islam before she was freed last year, is now safely in Canada and reunited with her family, her lawyer has said.   “It is a big day,” Saiful Malook told the Guardian. “Asia Bibi has left Pakistan and reached Canada. She has reunited with her family. Justice has been dispensed.”   Read More: Persecuted Christian Asia Bibi Arrives in Canada After Leaving Pakistan

04/27/19   “Harvard, founded in 1636, was to be an institution to educate the clergy and perpetuate the Christian faith, now look at it, secular and overtly hostile to Christianity.” Admin   To celebrate a “Decade of Dialogue” in its annual diversity conference, Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences invited a straight white man to give the keynote lecture.   But not just any straight white man.   Tim Wise, an “anti-racism writer, educator and activist,” has denigrated Christians as “Jeezoids” and fascists and called Pope Francis evil. He has tweeted that “people who believe in a God of [More]

04/16/19   A pro-life student university group has launched a legal challenge against the University of Aberdeen after its attempts at affiliation were repeatedly rejected by the Students’ Union based on their policy barring pro-life societies on campus.   The case is part of a disturbing trend across over 100 UK universities where reportedly 43% of have implemented speech codes and policies which limit religious expression. Evidence also shows that no less than 108 universities in the UK have actively censored free speech; or have done so through over-regulation. On the abortion issue, there have also been specific cases of pro-life societies [More]

04/16/19   A Christian school worker is to challenge a Gloucestershire school academy’s decision to dismiss her for gross misconduct. She was dismissed after she shared two Facebook posts that raised concerns about Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) at another school in the same village – her own child’s Church of England Primary School. Kristie, mother of two who had been working at the Gloucestershire academy for six years as a pastoral assistant, was told following an investigation and a six hour hearing that she would be dismissed without notice.   Read More: Christian school worker fired for raising concerns about sex [More]

04/15/19   Countless churches throughout Western Europe are being vandalized, defecated on, and torched.   In France, two churches are desecrated every day on average. According to PI-News, a German news site, 1,063 attacks on Christian churches or symbols (crucifixes, icons, statues) were registered in France in 2018. This represents a 17% increase compared to the previous year (2017), when 878 attacks were registered — meaning that such attacks are only going from bad to worse.   Among some of the recent desecrations in France, the following took place in just February and March:   Read More: European Churches: Vandalized, [More]

04/04/19   In two unrelated cases, the United Kingdom denied asylum to persecuted Christians by bizarrely citing the Bible and Jesus. Both Christians, a man and a woman, are former Muslims who were separately seeking asylum from the Islamic Republic of Iran, the ninth-worst persecutor of Christians — particularly of those who were Muslims and converted to Christianity.   UK asylum worker Nathan Stevens recently shared their stories. In his rejection letter from the UK’s Home Office, which is in charge of immigration, the Iranian man was told that biblical passages were “inconsistent” with his claim to have converted to [More]

03/30/19   In 2011, the Human Rights Campaign launched a video series that, according to HRC’s president, would “help drive the national conversation about same-sex marriage.” And it did just that. The series featured professional athletes, movie stars, politicians and civil rights leaders. And look where we are today.   Looking back, it’s clear that while opponents of same-sex marriage made much better arguments, the advocates changed the cultural imagination.   Well on Monday, the HRC announced a new video campaign called “Americans for the Equality Act.” This time, Christians need to be prepared to respond.   According to Andrew [More]

03/29/19   “The Pope seems to be going to great lengths to imply that Christians and Muslims worship the same God nowadays. That’s nice if you are trying to promote some sort of one world religion but there are however major differences between the two religions regarding the nature of God and who Jesus is that make the God each worship completely different. Watch these two videos featuring Mark Gabriel, a former Muslim, who shares his personal testimony on becoming a Christian plus the differences between Bible and Koran.   Former Muslim Mark Gabriel: The Nature of Islam Differences between [More]

03/28/19 Conservatives have been battling with Facebook, Twitter and other social media for quite some time for the right to free speech.  From shadow banning to biased algorithms, to demonetizing of websites and outright bans on YouTube, conservatives have been forced to scramble as their audience is blocked and their methods of generating income are restricted. Such actions are not limited to the online world as Chick-fil-A discovered this week when it was banned from the San Antonio International Airport for it’s pro-family beliefs. So, what happens when financial services and credit card companies target people for their political views? [More]

03/22/19   “I remember as a public school 7th grade student in 1960 my home room teacher, who was also a minister, would read a passage of scripture after we recited the pledge of allegiance and this was considered perfectly acceptable then. Can you imagine the uproar if anyone attempted to do that today! Such a teacher would surely be fired and vilified in the media as a menace to the school children. Such is the sad state we find ourselves in now.”  Admin   David Horowitz has written a book documenting what is becoming increasingly obvious — a chief [More]

03/16/19   The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has again dealt a blow to a legal challenge by the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) as it ruled for the second time on Friday that tax-free housing allowances for pastors do not violate the U.S. Constitution.   “We conclude § 107(2) has a secular legislative purpose, its principal effect is neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion, and it does not cause excessive government entanglement,” wrote Judge Michael Brennan, nominated to the bench by President Trump, on behalf of the unanimous three-judge panel.   “Here, ‘[t]here is no genuine nexus [More]

03/12/19   Western forces are trying to use Christianity to influence China’s society and even ‘subvert’ the government, a senior official said, warning that Chinese Christians needed to follow a Chinese model of the religion.   China’s constitution guarantees religious freedom, but since President Xi Jinping took office six years ago, the government has tightened restrictions on religions seen as a challenge to the authority of the ruling Communist Party.   The government has cracked down on underground churches, both Protestant and Catholic, even as it seeks to improve relations with the Vatican.   Read More: China official says West [More]

03/06/19   Last year, Christians were persecuted more than ever before in the modern era — and this year is expected to be worse: “4,136 Christians were killed for faith-related reasons,” according to Open Doors USA in its recently published World Watch List 2019 (WWL) of the top 50 nations where Christians are persecuted. “On average, that’s 11 Christians killed every day for their faith.” Additionally, “2,625 Christians were detained without trial, arrested, sentenced and imprisoned” in 2018, and “1,266 churches or Christian buildings were attacked.”   Whereas 215 million Christians faced persecution in 2018, 245 million will suffer in [More]

02/28/19   “Well some good news to report regarding what’s hapenning at colleges around the country.”  Admin   Today, prayer will break out across thousands of America’s colleges. The annual “Collegiate Day of Prayer” (CDOP) takes place on the last Thursday of February and involves thousands of students coming together to worship the Lord Jesus. This year, it is expected that around 100,000 students will be involved in praying, with locations spanning some 3,000 college campuses.   What is it all about?   Read More: Annual ‘College Day of Prayer’ Sees Thousands of Students Cry Out for Spiritual Revival – [More]

02/27/19   The Alliance Defending Freedom is a household name for many who been have followed religious liberty cases in recent years.   A multiple-time winner at the U.S. Supreme Court, the organization takes on cases such as the blatant intolerance by Colorado for the Christian faith of Masterpiece baker Jack Phillips.   It also organizes campaigns each year to affirm the free speech rights of pastors.   And it has a special division, the ADF Church Alliance, which focuses on the threats facing churches in America.   There are seven significant current threats, according to John Harding of ADF, who warns that churches [More]

“Just reveals the totalitarian nature of both Germany and the EU. They want all kids to be indoctrinated with their socialist values, the Christian parents wishes are irrelevant.”  Admin   The European Court of Human Rights has issued a ruling supporting a decision by German authorities to demand parents relinquish their children to state socialization in public schools, accompanied by the right of government to remove those children – through methods including police battering-ram assaults on the family home – to make sure that happens.   The stunning verdict comes in the case involving the Wunderlich family, on whose trials [More]

01/13/19   It was one of the great entertainment industry love stories ever – Pat and Shirley Boone. They were married for 65 years until Friday morning when death took her.   But Pat says he will see her soon, seeing as how she just changed address.   In her final moments, Shirley was surrounded by her husband and the couple’s four daughters, Cherry, Lindy, Debby and Laury, all of whom were by her bedside singing hymns as she passed.   It was a peaceful death in their Beverly Hills home due to complications from vasculitis, which she had contracted [More]

01/06/19   We have reports that another 60 members (in addition to the 100+) of the underground Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, China, were arrested in the recent raid of the Protestant congregation and the intensifying and widespread crackdown on the church in China.   This time,  the arrests took place at a riverside park where congregation members met for worship when they were banned from their church building. Reportedly, they were arrested and taken away during the gathering. Several other Christians who met at a separate location in the field of a nearby university were also taken by [More]

01/06/19   Christianity in China (#39 on the World Watch List) has always lived in tension. Though the Communist Party of China has habitually restricted the freedom of Christians to worship over the last 70 years, the skyrocketing growth of the Chinese church is impossible to miss.   Even non-Christian observers have taken notice, with many outlets putting the true number of Christians in China at tens of millions more than the Chinese government officially recognizes. In China, churches include registered state churches that are regulated by the government; covert unregistered “underground” house churches; and unregistered or underground house churches [More]

12/21/18   The ruling Chinese Communist Party has stepped up a nationwide crackdown on Christians, raiding and detaining pastors and members of churches in several locations as urban authorities warn against public Christmas decorations and events. Authorities are undergoing “one of the largest crackdowns on underground Christian churches since draconian amendments to the Religious Affairs Regulations went into effect in February 2018,” according to the overseas-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) network. In Washington, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) said the targeting of Christians is part of President Xi Jinping’s bid to “sinicize” religious belief, by bringing it under [More]

12/11/18   A pre-emptive warning to Christians leading up to Christmas   Not even a week into December, the Islamic regime in Iran has already made a blatant statement to Christians preparing to celebrate Christmas.   In the last seven days, police have reportedly arrested 114 Christians— nearly 150 in the past month. The onslaught of arrests is part of the government’s attempt to “warn” Christians against sharing their faith over Christmas,  Mansour Borji, advocacy director of religious freedom organization Article 18, told World Watch Monitor.   Read More: 114 Christians Arrested in One Week in Iran – Open Doors USA

12/05/18   Sixty-eight percent of Democrats say employers should grant a request for prayer space by Muslims — but only 45 percent say employers should grant a similar request by Christian employees, says a survey by Grinnell College.   In contrast to the Democrats’ 23-point anti-Christian bias, the November poll showed only a ten point gap in response from conservatives.   Thirty percent of Republicans say employers should provide a prayer space for Muslim employees and 40 percent say employers should support a similar service for Christians, according to the Grinnell College poll of roughly 500 people.   The same poll showed a [More]