Iranian-American Pastor Saeed Abedini is brimming with gratitude for one U.S. presidential aspirant: Donald Trump. In a surprising revelation, Abedini said the Republican presidential nominee helped provide for the needs of his family in Boise, Idaho while he was locked up in an Iranian prison for his faith. The pastor said Trump gave his family $10,000 while he was imprisoned for three and a half years. “I am finally free in a free country. Last year on the same day I was sick and in chains for Christ, and now I can vote to choose my next
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The United States is at the “point of no return” on issues of faith and morality, and the common statement that an election is the most important of a lifetime finally is absolutely true in 2016, according to a statement from prominent evangelical Christian faith leader Dr. James Dobson. “Every four years, when Americans head to…
In a previous article, I reported on how the IRS teamed up with the anti-Christian organization the Freedom from Religion Foundation to monitor churches to make sure they don’t speak out on the subject of politics in a way that seems to be a “partisan” action. There is no such constitutional prohibition. Here’s what Donald Trump said July 21st, 2016 in a speech at the Republican National Convention about legislation proposed by then Senator Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954: “An amendment, pushed by Lyndon Johnson many years ago, threatens religious institutions with a loss of their tax-exempt status
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“Excellent article on how Jewish and Christian sites are now being labeled as Islamic sites.” Admin UNESCO last August planned to vote on the historical status of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and its associated Western Wall. Back then, this author stated that UNESCO’s plan was to deny any Jewish link to this most central of all Jewish holy sites, to trash a history going back thousands of years, and to claim the Mount and the Wall as Islamic sites. Islam believes that it is eternal and had therefore preceded the other two great monotheisms, Judaism and Christianity, even though
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Judge Declan Morgan and two other justices on the Court of Appeal in Belfast, Ireland, have struck down free speech for bakery owners there, ruling that they must put messages on their cakes even if the words violate their conscience and faith. The stunning ruling came in the long-running case involving Ashers Baker, which was penalized…
Christians who support Trump have had a rough go of it lately. It’s not like it’s ever been easy, because it hasn’t, but Trump’s 2005 open-mic comments about women and his treatment thereof, combined with all these almost-too-perfectly-timed allegations that those comments may have been more than mere words, have put a damper on Christian support…
Many of the people announcing an intention to vote for Donald Trump are adding a disclaimer to distance themselves from his unsavory comments or actions of the past. I’m not going to do that. In my view Donald Trump is today a far different and better man than the one who threw his hat in the…
Make no mistake about it. If you are a conservative Christian and Hillary Clinton becomes our next president, she will declare war on certain aspects of your faith. Your religious liberties will be targeted, and your biblical beliefs will be branded disturbing, if not downright dangerous. Do not be deceived. She has made herself perfectly clear…
A federal appeals court has upheld a California law requiring crisis pregnancy centers to post and verbally share information with patients on how to obtain an abortion, a ruling that abortion foes call an infringement on free speech and freedom of religion. On Friday, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld AB 775, also known…
NEW YORK – A movement is sweeping quietly across evangelical Christian America, sparked by a minister asking a simple question: “Would you have voted for Cyrus the Great?” The minister is Derek W.H. Thomas of the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, South Carolina. Derek W.H. Thomas His sermon – “I Am the Only God There Is!”…
WikiLeaks did it again with another e-mail release, 1,200 of them, and this time exposing the deliberate attempts by the Clinton campaign to disrupt, undermine and, yes, try to destroy the Catholic Church. Their intent was (is) to plant the “seeds of the revolution” within the institution. Among the e-mails are communications between Clinton operatives that…
OK, it’s time to take off the gloves. It’s too late for politeness, “political correctness,” consideration of anybody’s feelings – except for the deep feeling we all share, I hope: an intense desire to save our beloved nation from chaos, deeper division and eventual dissolution. This is not an appeal to support one candidate or the…
For a second time in just weeks, a state finds itself on defense in a legal action triggered by its attempt to dictate what ministers and others say inside their churches. In America. Home of the First Amendment’s protection for freedom of speech and freedom of religion. The newest case was filed against Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination commissioners Jamie R. Williamson, Sunila T. George and Charlotte G. Richie and Attorney General Maura Healey. It’s over a a new “gender identity” definition adopted in Massachusetts. The measure makes “gender identity” a special class, with more protections than ordinary citizens.
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, discussed fomenting “revolution” in the Catholic Church with a progressive activist in an email released by WikiLeaks. “There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the…
The United Nations and Western nations including Britain have been accused of abandoning Syria’s Christians in the face of widespread persecution by Islamic State and their Muslim countrymen – even within refugee camps. Last September Britain’s then Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to take 20,000 Syrians from refugee camps in the region to aid the humanitarian effort in response to the Syrian civil war. But figures obtained from the Home Office through a freedom of information request lodged by Christian Today has now revealed that 97.5 per cent of the Syrian refugees brought to the UK under the government’s resettlement
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“A human civilization’s best chance of survival is to anchor itself in the God of creation,” Christian evangelist and reality star Phil Robertson declared in Torchbearer, an epic documentary launching in select theaters on Oct. 7 as a clarion call for Christians and people of faith in America to engage their culture before it’s too late. “In the beginning, God…” are the first words out of Robertson’s mouth in the introduction of Torchbearer, saying that this God is the creator of heaven and earth, is as relevant today as in the beginning, and sounds a prophetic call that Christians
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“I think what King is really concerned about is that homeschooled kids aren’t being dumbed down and brainwashed like those in public schools are through common core.” Admin U.S. Secretary of Education John King says he is worried that homeschooled children aren’t “getting the range of options that are good for all kids,” a remark that is drawing strong reactions from homeschooling parents across the nation. The Heritage Foundation’s Lindsey Burke provided Politico Pro’s (subscription only) report on King’s recent remarks to reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. Burke writes at the Daily Signal:
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Syria’s Bashar al-Assad One of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s most important political allies told Russian media it is time to “admit a Third World War is taking place in Syria, one which is led by the U.S. and its allies – even if these allies are simultaneously victims as well.” And while the startling comments seem…
An open letter signed by more than 75 of America’s evangelical and Catholic leaders calls upon politically progressive groups that claim to be members of a traditional “faith” to refuse financial assistance from leftwing billionaire political activist George Soros and his political allies. The group of leaders – which calls itself the American Association of Evangelicals – writesin its letter: After years of earnest but less public attempts, it is now with heavy hearts, and a hope for justice and restoration, that we Christian leaders urge ‘progressive evangelicals’ and Catholics to repent of their work that often advances
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Christian artists in Arizona are taking their challenge of a Phoenix ordinance to an appeals court after a lower court upheld the city policy forbidding businesses to refuse service at a same-sex wedding and banning business owners from posting any expressions that protected groups might find offensive. Brush & Nib owners Breanna Koski and Joanna Duka…
They want us to believe it’s “peaceful coexistence.” Others call it an unjust declaration of war. The federal U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) just published a scandalous report that scorns authentic Christian faith and recommends severe restrictions of its full expression by American citizens – expression protected by the First Amendment. The report, “Peaceful Coexistence:…
Geologist Dr. Aryeh Shimron claims to have found the “lost tomb of Jesus” in Jerusalem, proclaimed the Drudge Report Sunday. This is known as the Talpiot Tomb, first discovered in 1980. The implications of this claim, if it were true, are enormous – world-changing. Writing for the Sun (U.K.), Hannah Farrett notes, “He apparently has proof…
The United States is facing crucial crossroads as a nation with the impending leadership change this November and with traditional Christian values being challenged. With so much changes confronting the U.S., American Christian leaders have decided to unite and gather together to pray for their nation next week in a solemn ecumenical assembly that will be called “The Gathering.” Thousands of Christians are expected to troop to the Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas on the night of Sept. 21 to pray in one voice and ask God for forgiveness and His wisdom to lead the U.S. towards spiritual transformation. Read
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The Obama administration long has been forcing Christians and others of faith to violate their beliefs to accommodate “nondiscrimination” laws that give special privileges to homosexuals and transgendered persons, and now a federal commission has proposed codifying the practice. WND has reported several times on the Obama effort to turn the Constitution’s protections for “freedom of…
The Harvard Professor who confidently proclaimed to the world she possessed evidence that suggested Jesus may have had a wife has now been outed as a second-rate academic who allowed herself to be duped by a con man. Dr. Karen L. King, professor at Harvard Divinity School, earned her 15 minutes of fame by staking her reputation as a historian of early Christianity on the authenticity of an ancient papyrus stating: “Jesus said to them, My wife… she is able to be my disciple.” Read more: Jesus’s Wife Claims Revealed as ‘Whopping Fraud’
PERSECUTION Russia law ensnares Baptist ministerFriday, September 2, 2016 | Bill Bumpas A U.S. citizen has been charged under Russia’s controversial new anti-missionary law, confirming the fears of religious freedom advocates. Donald Ossewaarde, a Baptist minister, was fined 40,000 Rubles in an August 14 court hearing after he was caught conducting a worship service in his home. Under the guise of trying to prevent terrorism, the law makes it illegal to share religious beliefs without proper authorization from the Russian government. “Certainly our biggest fears have been realized,” says Nate Lance of International Christian Concern. Read More: Russia law ensnares Baptist
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For a self-proclaimed atheist, billionaire statist George Soros (shown) sure spends a lot of money on “Christian” causes and groups. But it is not because he is interested in spreading the Gospel, or even in helping the poor. Instead, hacked e-mails from his vast empire of shady tax-exempt foundations show that the radical “philanthropist” wants to change the views of Christians and churches around the world using deceit, manipulation, and money. His goals in showering money on Christian groups and churches include, among other policy agendas, legalizing the slaughter of unborn children in pro-life nations, promoting what he calls “racial
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