As long as men and women go in to battle for their country, religion will go hand in hand with military service. But a Revolutionary War relic is highlighting the way the official recognition of faith is changing. When 40-year-old Francis Merrifield marched away from the Battle of Bunker Hill in June of 1775, he was certain the divine hand of God had pulled him safely through the fierce fighting. Dr. Scott Stephenson of the Museum of the American Revolution – set to open next year in Philadelphia – says Merrifield penned a pledge in the front of the holy
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Retired American Delta Force hero Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin is expressing alarm about the ability of American soldiers to win a war given the fact they were “weeping” over the prospect of him speaking at a coming prayer breakfast. “I sincerely doubt that America can expect to win wars if the people who are tasked to do so are frightened by an old retired general with biblical views and a testimony of faith,” Boykin told Fox commentator Todd Starnes, who wrote about the alarming situation in his column on Thursday. The “weeping” reference comes from Mikey Weinstein of the
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“Naturally this is being spearheaded in CA, no surprise there.” Admin The California State Legislature is working on an “Armageddon” for Christian colleges and universities that would force them to embrace “transgender rights” or losing funding for students.“ If these bills are successful, Christian colleges, for instance, would have to allow a male student who perceives his gender as being ‘female’ to live in the women’s dorm to avoid the risk of a lawsuit or the loss of financial aid options for students,” contended the non-profit Advocates for Faith and Freedom. The College Fix quotes critics saying the bills “purporting
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“If Hillary wins and the Dems take one or both houses of congress you can expect all sorts of laws like this enacted. Your vote is important, make it count.” Admin It’s an election year with a lot at stake, so don’t expect the Do No Harm Act, introduced recently by U.S. Reps. Joe Kennedy III (D-Mass.) and Bobby Scott (D-Va.) to gain much traction. But it should serve as a reminder of what is at stake in the November general election. If Democrats are able to regain control of Congress, you can expect it to move up to the
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Earlier this year, St. John’s Lutheran School in Baraboo, Wisconsin, sent home a letter to parents telling parents and students that they expect students to live within Christian values while at school. The letter required parents to sign a handbook pledge and provide a copy of their child’s birth certificate to prove gender. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, based in Madison, Wisconsin, learned of the letter earlier this month and lodged a formal complaint with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, which forwarded the complain to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The atheistic “freethinker” organization says the school is discriminating
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Persecution against Christians in China has increased sevenfold since 2008, according to the latest report by China Aid. The Texas-based charity paints a damning picture of religious freedom in China as it describes the state’s attempt to take control of the nation’s churches. China AidChina Aid said 90 per cent of church crosses in Zheijiang had been forcibly removed The Chinese government wants to replace “Christ as the head of the church with submission to the Communist Party”, the report read, alleging that more Christians are harassed, beaten and tortured than ever before. Read More: China sees sevenfold increase in
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Carl Gallups has a simple message for Christians worried about voting for Donald Trump in 2016 – it’s either Trump or Hillary. And it really is that simple. The well-known pastor and author of several books including “Be Thou Prepared: Equipping the Church for Persecution and Times of Trouble” recently appeared on Susan Knowles’ Stand for…
The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has voted to allow its ministers to enter same-sex marriages and continue serving. The vote by the Presbyterian denomination, better known as the Kirk, comes on the first day of a meeting of its governing body. The BBC reports that clergy will, however, not be allowed to conduct same-sex wedding ceremonies within the church, although the assembly has commissioned a report into whether they should be permitted. Read More: Church Of Scotland Votes To Allow Gay Marriage For Clergy
The Barack Obama Justice and Education departments have declared that all public schools be required to institute gender-neutral bathrooms where boys can freely enter girls’ bathrooms and vice versa. Failure to comply threatens federal funding. But putting boys in girls’ bathrooms is NOT where the proclamation stops. Writing for National Review, David French reports, “You may not have realized it yet, but the Obama administration just destroyed the traditional American public school. Without an act of Congress, without a ruling from the Supreme Court, and without even going through the motions of the regulatory rule-making process, the administration issued a
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The BBC has concluded Christianity features too prominently in its religious output in an internal review, insisting other faiths be given more airtime and resources. Both the Church of England and the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) – who are linked to the pro-international Caliphate group Muslim Brotherhood – appeared to welcome the findings, with the later calling for Friday prayers to be broadcast. According to the Times, Lord Hall, the director-general, is now considering what to do about the apparently problematic findings – that there is a disproportionate amount televised Christianity in a historically Christian country. Read More: BBC
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” The Ark Encounter is scheduled to open July 7, 2016, in Williamstown, Kentucky.” Admin The Creation Museum built in Kentucky by the Christian ministry Answers in Genesis has come under attack several times by atheists, including when they opposed a zoning plan in a local court and then staged a protest outside its doors on the day it opened in 2007. The organization’s next project, the Noah’s Ark Encounter, now…
Judges on an appeals court bench in Northern Ireland have been told that Christian bakers do, in fact, have a right to reject a pro-homosexual message requested on a cake, under the nation’s freedom of speech laws as well as the European Convention of Human Rights. A four-day hearing on the case against Ashers Baking Company…
A new study shows that potentially thousands of Christians have been attacked and harassed in German migrant homes by Muslim guards and fellow migrants. Multiple human rights organizations are warning the German government of the conditions that Christians in asylum homes are being subjected to. One organization in particular has chronicled 231 specific cases of the harassment of Christians by Muslim migrants and Muslim security guards in asylum homes. Open Doors is a humanitarian relief organization that specializes in helping Christians who are persecuted worldwide. Markus Rode, a member of the group, said that the study is only “the tip
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One of the supposed leaders of the “Religious Right” is the toast of the American left after sparking a bitter war of words with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, recently blasted Trump as “reality TV moral sewage” in an appearance on CBS’…
A lawsuit has been filed by the ACLU demanding that a religious-rights law in Mississippi, which protects the First Amendment constitutional rights regarding faith issues, be struck so that homosexuals cannot be refused any service for any reason. A victory would give the “gay” community the right to order a member of any faith that doesn’t…
A team of Israeli researchers has found evidence that literacy was widespread among ancient Israelites, thus challenging critics of the Bible who claim most people in Old Testament times were illiterate. Critics of the Bible have long alleged that Israelites prior to the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. were largely illiterate. Therefore, they argue, many of the Old Testament books were written after the destruction of Jerusalem, which is much later than the Bible suggests. Read More: Inscriptions Found in Ancient Fortress Support Biblical Timeline, Challenge Skeptics | Christian News Network
“Of course they want to “normalize” this behavior in the Methodist church which is just another sign of the apostasy that is making inroads in many mainline denominations.” Admin More than 100 United Methodist Church (UMC) clergy have come out as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and inter-sex ahead of the Church’s General Conference this week.The UMC currently does not allow “self-avowed practicing” gay people to be ordained, or same-sex marriages. A letter published on Monday by the 111 clergy accused the UMC of forcing clergy to hide their sexual identity. Read More: 111 United Methodist Church clergy come out
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Evangelical Christian leader Franklin Graham has denounced President Barack Obama’s decision to create a new national monument to recognise the gay rights movement. Graham said it would amount to a “monument to sin”. The new national monument is expected to honour the area of Greenwich Village which for decades has been the heart of gay life in New York and which is remembered for the 1969 protests after police raided the Stonewall Inn. Read More: Franklin Graham denounces Obama plan to create ‘monument to sin’
A professing atheist group that seeks to separate God from government has filed a lawsuit against the chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as the speaker of the House, after the co-president of the Godless group was prevented from delivering an atheist invocation before Congress. Dan Barker, the co-president of the Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), filed the suit on Thursday—the National Day of Prayer. It names Patrick Conroy, Speaker Paul Ryan and members of Conroy’s staff as defendants. Read More: Activist Group Sues House Chaplain, Speaker for Rejecting Atheist Invocation in U.S. Congress | Christian News
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Missouri State University has joined a growing number of government institutions that punish Christians for their biblical view of marriage and homosexual relationships, dismissing a student from a counseling program for expressing concern about counseling same-sex duos, according to a new lawsuit. WND has documented the legal punishment of photographers, florists, bakers and others for upholding…
When is a religious profanity no longer “profane”? Sixty years ago, religious profanities typically were forbidden in Hollywood movies, as the Protestant and Catholic film offices held sway on issues of acceptability in the “Golden Age” of film. Today, however, in one Western nation, such profanities fail to register even the slightest concern with the primary…
“A ridiculous hit job.” That’s how one analyst describes Newsweek and author Nina Burleigh’s cover story on the soon-to-be-opened Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC. Burleigh says the aim of the Museum of the Bible is “to prove the Bible factually accurate and historically true.” And that, she opines, is “perhaps more appropriate in an Oklahoma City Sunday school than it is in the capital of a heterogeneous country like the United States.” The museum – which is being built by Hobby Lobby president Steve Green just blocks from the U.S. Capitol and the National Mall – is set
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A 53-year-old Lutheran minister has broken a world record for strength by pulling three fire engines in Canada. Rev Kevin Fast, who has already set 24 Guinness World Records, has now added a 25th achievement. Alongside Andrew Younghusband, a Canadian TV personality, he will be crowned with the record for ‘heaviest vehicle pulled over 100 ft by a pair’. The three trucks together weighed 82 metric tonnes. Read More: ‘World’s strongest pastor’ breaks 25th world record | Christian News on Christian Today
Four members of the Colorado Supreme Court, including one justice who boasts on a state website of being a homosexual-rights advocate through the Denver mayor’s “GLBT Commission,” have refused to intervene in a case that is forcing a Colorado baker to violate his Christian faith. The ruling from the court on Monday drew a statement from…
“This is something to expect when taking a bold stand for the Gospel in these times … persecution. Even from supposed fellow Christians.” Admin A German pastor is reportedly being persecuted by fellow pastors for preaching boldly about Jesus Christ and “refusing to bend a knee to political correctness.” Pastor Olaf Latzel preaches at the historic St. Martini Church in Bremen, where the church’s former pastor, Joachim Neander, wrote the great hymn, “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty” in 1679, CBN New reports. Latzel’s sermons are known to be direct and bold and would cut no corners when attacking other
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“This is just another sign of ever increasing wickedness that the Bible says would come in the last days. The attacks on the Founding Fathers, our liberties, the Constitution and Biblical morality will only increase as time goes on.” Admin I have been tracking the left’s obsession with hate for some time and have written about it in my newest book, “Scarlet Letters.” But just when I think our liberal friends cannot get more promiscuous with their accusations of “hate,” they reach into their demonic bag of tricks and surprise us. Earlier this week I received…
The “Missing Man” display A band of religious groups has united to fight off what they see is a steadfast creeping of atheist voices into the nation’s military that has led to blanket removal of Bibles from several U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical clinics and at least one Air Force base. The Bibles are part…