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In a study released this week, the Pew Research Center revealed that restrictions on religious belief and practice increased around the world for the second year in a row in 2016, the latest year for which comprehensive data were available.   As the United States gears up for an unprecedented global summit on religious liberty to be held in late July, Pew found that 28 percent of all countries have “high” or “very high” levels of government restrictions on religion, up from 25 percent the prior year and up from 20 percent in 2007, when the Washington-based think tank began [More]

06/08/18   Watchdog groups say the persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in China is at its most intense since the Cultural Revolution, as churches are shuttered, Bibles confiscated and believers arrested at rates not seen in decades.   Evidence of the crackdown was in plain view this week, when police raided Early Rain Covenant Church, an underground parish in the southwestern Sichuan province, to preempt a memorial service commemorating the 29th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of anti-government protesters.   According to ChinaAid, an advocacy group that documents human rights abuses in the communist nation, 17 people [More]

06/08/18 Most self-identified Christians in Western Europe do not practice their faith. This is one of the main conclusions of the newest Pew Research report on religion entitled “Being Christian in Wesern Europe”. According to the research conducted in 15 European countries, about 18% of the population are church-attending Christians. 46% describe themselves as Christians but do not believe in the God of the Bible. Read More: Belgium, Norway and Netherlands lead the decline of nominal Christianity in Europe

06/07/18   The Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest protestant denomination and a historically conservative wing of the Christian church in the United States, is on the verge of falling to organized “progressive” social-justice forces and anti-Trump activists, according to media reports and insiders involved in the battle. One leading opponent of the scheme has even blasted what he described as the “Evangelical Deep State” working to infect the church with unbiblical ideologies.   The goals of these forces, dubbed “neo-Marxist” by some critics, include softening and eventually quashing Christian opposition to homosexuality, normalizing gender confusion in the church, promoting left-wing [More]

In states across the country, schools have quietly implemented elementary and preschool programs designed to indoctrinate young children to homosexual and transgendered lifestyles. State education departments have implemented systematic LGBT acceptance curriculum programs at every level. These programs include books and activities, beginning with pre-school, meant to make switching genders or having same-sex parents seem both normal and commonplace. But unlike some other sex education programs that have required parents to opt-in to the instruction, these programs are increasingly becoming mandatory, with parents unable even to opt-out if they are opposed to such teaching.   Read More: More Parents Homeschooling [More]

Transgender people are being encouraged to join the clergy in new Church of England guidance on “honouring LGBT+ people”, aimed at fighting the church’s reputation as “homophobic”.   Claiming young people are put off by “the perception that the Church is homophobic and transphobic”, church leaders said it is vital to challenge this with celebration of the “great contribution” sexual minorities have made to church life, and for outreach “within the LGBT+ community more broadly”.   Guidance from bishops in Lichfield, a diocese covering almost 600 churches in an area populated by more than 2 million people, reminds parishioners and [More]

05/16/18   In an intensifying crackdown on Christianity and religious freedom, the Chinese regime is now banning sales of the Bible, leading online retailers across China to pull it and other Christian books from their stores.   It was reported on April 3 that Chinese Christians had noticed that all the online bookstores accessible from within mainland China had removed the Bible from sales. These include Chinese e-commerce sites like Alibaba’s Taobao, JD.com, and DangDang.com, along with Amazon’s local site in China.   A number of online sellers on these sites told the BBC that earlier in March they received “instruction” from the Cyberspace [More]

05/15/18   A plan for a new social-media network and a search engine to meet the needs of Christians fed up with censorship by Facebook, Google and Twitter is attracting members, according to the founder.   People are “signing up fast for USA.Life social network and 1776Free search engine,” said Steven Andrew, a Silicon Valley technology expert who founded USA.Life.   “Individuals and businesses want to speak freely about traditional values, family and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That is why people have a great feeling of hope when they hear about about www.USA.Life and www.1776Free.com,” he said.   Among [More]

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a case in which a Michigan township changed its zoning laws to prevent a Christian school from entering the community   “This is a deeply disappointing decision, not only because of what it means for our clients, but because it will embolden other cities and towns across the country to keep religious organizations from contributing to their community,” said Hiram Sasser, general counsel to First Liberty, which represents Livingston Christian Schoolin the case against Genoa Charter Township.   Read More: Christian school banned by city and Supremes let it happen

“We can expect more of this going forward as the world keeps heading deeper into spiritual darkness.”  Admin   The social media tech giant terminated Trunews’ account. YouTube slapped TruNews with “three strikes” based on newscasts recorded and posted online more than four years ago. One of the TruNews episodes that also offended YouTube’s censors was Rick Wiles’ 2017 movie review of “The Promise: The Truth About the Armenian Genocide.”   TruNews founder and anchorman Rick Wiles blasted YouTube’s censors as the “New Nazi Tech Tyrants.”   Pastor Wiles was incredulous that YouTube cited two newscasts from 2014 and one [More]

03/23/18 Paul, Apostle of Christ is coming only a week after the success of I Can Only Imagine, but the market may have room for two Christians movies this good. In its video review, Plugged In assures Christian moviegoers that they need not fear heresy or Noah-like reimaginings in this movie. In fact, the reviewer says, “Let me just tell aspiring faith-oriented moviemakers: This is how it’s done.” What makes Paul, Apostle of Christ so good? Watch the review to find out.   Watch Review: Good News: How ‘Paul, Apostle of Christ’ Gets the Bible Right

Girl Scouts USA is not the organization it used to be. (Getty Images ) 03/23/18 “Check out the American Heritage Girls and Trail Life USA for boys, two organizations which encourage Christian values as excellent alternatives to the increasingly left leaning Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.”  Admin Girl Scouts USA (GSUSA) has become a politically divisive, pro-abortion organization that has abandoned its mission years ago. GSUSA is the largest member organization of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), which aggressively promotes abortion and promiscuous sex on behalf of its 10 million members. WAGGGS states that “anyone who is a Girl Guide [More]

Youth in the United Kingdom are among the least religious in post-Christian Europe, with some 70 percent self-identifying as having “no religion,” according to a new report.   03/23/18   Religion in Europe is “moribund,” said Stephen Bullivant, the author of a report titled Europe’s Young Adults and Religion. “With some notable exceptions, young adults increasingly are not identifying with or practising religion,” said Bullivant, a professor of theology and the sociology of religion at St Mary’s University in London.   Read More: Seventy Percent of British Youth Profess ‘No Religion’

Usually, Africa only breaks through to the West when Western targets are attacked by terrorists. First, two US Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in Somalia in 1993. Then Al Qaeda attacked US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Then, only a few days ago, Islamic State published a video purporting to show an ambush in Niger in which four US soldiers were killed last October. The West was silent. The West does not seem to care about the ongoing Islamic terrorist genocide on Africa’s biggest Christian population in Nigeria.   A few days ago, the Coliseum in Rome [More]

A student at the Indiana University of Pennslyvania was kicked out of a class on Christianity after arguing that there are only two genders.   Student Lake Ingle was suspended from a class on Christianity after he argued that there are only two genders. After viewing a TED talk by transgender ex-pastor Paula Stone Williams, Ingle raised his hand and claimed that biologists believe that there are only two genders.   Ingle was immediately kicked out of class by the professor and asked not to return. Now, pending an administrative investigation, Ingle — a senior — may not graduate in May.   Read [More]

“Hundreds” of crosses at war monuments and memorials across the nation now are at risk because a panel from the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals condemned the Bladensburg World War I Veterans Memorial to destruction, and the full court refused to reconsider, says one of the judges. The warning came from Circuit Judge Paul Niemeyer, a part of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.   The majority there refused to have the entire court weigh in on the Bladensburg case, and that would leave it condemned to destruction because of its presence on public property.   But the legal [More]

02/16/18 The California government is being accused of continuing to “persecute” a baker who refused to make a same-sex wedding cake, despite a recent court victory granting her the First Amendment right to do so.   As Faithwire previously reported, a California judge ruled last month in favor of Cathy Miller, owner of Tastries Bakery, finding that the state cannot force her to act against her sincerely held beliefs.   The Christian baker has been under fire over her refusal last August to make a gay wedding cake.   Read More: California Continues to Persecute Christian Baker Despite Big Win [More]

“I feel sorry for the prisoners, they’ll now be exposed to endless Islamic propaganda which can only lead them into a worse bondage.”  Admin   A highly-respected Christian volunteer Chaplain at HMP Brixton has been removed from chaplaincy work, and an internationally-respected Christian course banned by a Muslim Senior Chaplain, in an attempt to wipe out “Christian domination” at Brixton prison. Pastor Paul Song moved to the UK from South Korea in 1992 and began working as a full-time minister at London Shepherd Church in 1996. In 1998, he started using his one day off each week to volunteer alongside [More]

BRISTOL, England, February 5, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A government-funded pre-apprenticeship academy in Bristol reported a Christian teacher as a “radicalisation threat” for answering students’ questions about her beliefs, Bristol Employment Tribunal has heard.   Svetlana Powell, a teacher of some 17 years’ experience, told the Tribunal that she was dismissed by the T2 Apprenticeship Academy in Bristol in July 2016 after being asked by students about her views on homosexuality.   In reply to a personal question, Mrs Powell said that her personal belief was that homosexuality was against God’s will, but that He loved every person, regardless of what [More]

Thursday, January 25, 2018  | Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com) Canada’s prime minister is getting a tongue-lashing from an unexpected source over what has been described as a “dictatorial” policy.   The Canadian government has a summer jobs program it supports via grants to various businesses, organizations, and churches to give young people some practical training and experience in the job market. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently established a rule that those applying must agree to support his pro-abortion policies – or, as he put it, they must respect “reproductive rights,” including abortion on demand.   Mary Ellen Douglas of Campaign [More]

Here is a headline in Newsweek from Jan. 12: “Trump Will Start the End of the World, Claim Evangelicals Who Support Him.”   Did any evangelicals actually say that in the article? No.   Is there any truth to the claim? No.   In fact, I think I can better speak for evangelicals than the headline writers and fake-news purveyors at Newsweek. I’ve been one for over 40 years. I founded and run the largest Christian website in the world. I write books on the subject – including many on prophecy.   Evangelical Christians do not overwhelmingly support President Donald [More]

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which was linked to domestic terror when one of its fans used its “hate list” to target a Christian group with mass murder, now is monitoring “#merrychristmas” and “jesus” as “hate.” The organization’s self-labeled “hatetracker” was uncovered by Liberty Counsel, which has fought SPLC’s attacks on Roy Moore when he was…

Aaron and Melissa Klein were fined $135,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. Three judges on the Oregon Court of Appeals on Thursday affirmed a penalty of $135,000 for a bakery whose owners refused to violate their Christian faith and promote lesbianism by providing a cake for two “brides.” The fine was…

British Christian publications have been wondering if we are witnessing the “extinction of Christianity in Egypt“, where the Christian faithful have suffered persecution and terror attacks at the hands of Islamic fundamentalists. Christian leaders also seem to be wondering if Christianity will be “extinct within a generation” in the UK, where religious people enjoy total freedom of worship and faith.   Last year, the Church of England began to formulate a religious revolution. Its canonical laws require that British churches hold their functions every Sunday. The dramatic crisis of Christianity in the UK, however, is pushing the Anglican church to [More]

‘”The show aired 11/30/17 but the article relates how this yearly classic almost never made it to TV in the first place.”  Admin ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ is beloved by so many, but it almost didn’t make it to the air when it was originally produced It first aired on television sets across America back in 1965 — and it’s been running ever since.   This week, ABC will air the show to millions of adoring fans, old and new alike. Indeed, it now seems inconceivable to think of the holiday season without the classic cartoon, but the story of [More]

Berea College is apparently afraid of alumni and parents being reminded of Psalm 139:13: “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.”   The Christian college near Lexington, Kentucky – known for its “no-tuition promise” to every student it enrolls – allegedly approved a student pro-life display during its Homecoming weekend and then proceeded to harass the students throughout the day.   Brenna Lewis, Appalachian regional coordinator at Students for Life of America, writes that a complaint apparently triggered the intervention of administrators:   Read More: Christian college allegedly harasses pro-life students after approving [More]

“Good article on who is heading up the Church of Sweden and how this explains the recent changes in the church handbook on the dropping of “He and Lord” when referring to God. Unfortunately the future of the church there looks rather grim. Lots of other good articles on gatestone as well, check them out too.”  Admin The Church of Sweden, although no longer a state church, remains an important force in Swedish society. In a time when Sweden’s political, media, and academic establishment are eager to jettison pretty much everything that makes Sweden Swedish, no institution plays a more [More]