“There are two articles on this situation with pastor Song, one following the other, I recommend reading both.” Admin 09/16/18 Islamic militants hijacked a prison chaplain’s Bible classes and physically assaulted and abused him because of his Christian faith. Pastor Paul Song today describes how he was left in a state of near- constant fear after Muslim gangs, acting with impunity, came to dominate Brixton Prison in South London. He tells The Mail on Sunday of one chilling incident when a small group stormed his gathering in the prison chapel and began loudly praising the jihadis who
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09/11/18 The Chinese government’s campaign to “Sinicize” organized religion – to make religion completely subordinate to the Communist Party – grew more aggressive this year and featured the destruction of Bibles, crosses, and entire churches. Religious freedom activists call it the worst crackdown on Christianity since religious freedom was nominally granted by the 1982 Chinese constitution. A Fox News report on Monday linked the crackdown with Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s ascension to dictatorial power and the fulfillment of worst-case fears expressed by underground Christian leaders when Beijing began using government-controlled churches to co-opt the religion:
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08/13/18 The British government appears recently to have decided that it would like to give the impression that it cares about persecuted Christians. Prime Minister Theresa May said in Parliament on July 18: “As a Government we stand with persecuted Christians all over the world and will continue to support them. It is hard to comprehend that today we still see people being attacked and murdered because of their Christianity, but we must reaffirm our determination to stand up for the freedom of people of all religions and beliefs and for them to be able to practise their
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07/24/18 Over 70 police officers, along with a team of construction workers, tore down Liangwang Catholic Church in China’s Shandong province on July 17. What makes this case even more alarming is Lianwang is a state-sanctioned church. Those congregations that have been stamped with a seal of government approval usually escape persecution from the staunchly atheist governing party. Three church caretakers, Gao Rongli, Zhang Siling and Li Xiangmei, who were inside the church when authorities arrived, were kicked out of the building and had their phones confiscated and destroyed. The church was razed to the ground in
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07/17/18 By Ethan Huff (Natural News) The British government has declared …read moreSource: Natural News
07/08/18 In what the Christian Association of Nigeria is calling a “pure genocide,” 238 more Christians were killed and churches desecrated by Muslims last week in the west African nation. This brings the death toll of Christians to more than 6,000 since the start of 2018. According to a joint statement by the Christian Association, an umbrella group of various Christian denominations, “There is no doubt that the sole purpose of these attacks is aimed at ethnic cleansing, land grabbing and forceful ejection of the Christian natives from their ancestral land and heritage.” The statement condemned the
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06/25/18 More and more faith-based adoption agencies are being forced to close for refusing to place children in houses with same-sex couples. Liberal jurisdictions in California, Massachusetts, Illinois, Philadelphia and the District of Columbia, have shut down religious agencies, according to GOP USA. Read More: ‘Targeted, Bullied, and Silenced’: Faith-Based Adoption Agencies Being Cut-Off for Biblical Beliefs | CBN News
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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“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
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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
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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
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