A Christian group has been denied a permit to hold its annual music festival in a prominent downtown square by the City of Toronto, which declares that singing the name of Jesus in a public venue constitutes proselytizing in a public venue — allegedly in violation of city policy. For nearly a decade, Voices of the Nations (VON) has held its multi-denominational live Christian music and dance celebration every year on city property without incident — including the last five years at the Yonge-Dundas Square, LIfeSiteNews reports. The last event took place this summer on August 1, which drew 19
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“In the article is a video of the interview you can watch.” Admin Remove prayer from schools? Check.Forbid Christmas and Easter events in schools? Check.Gun registration and eventual confiscation? Pending.Free speech fades to where the media only tell the government’s side? Too close to “check” for comfort.Pastors fearful of addressing serious moral and political issues because of government intimidation? See answer immediately above. These were the circumstances that developed in Nazi Germany in the mid-to-late 1930s. According to pastor Carl Gallups, they also are looming like a storm cloud across America. “This is what Americans are beginning to see,” Gallups
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According to Jean-Clement Jeanbart, a Catholic archbishop in the city, Syrians are “feeling relaxed” about Moscow’s air strikes. He said people were “generally feeling positive” about the Russian pounding of ISIS targets, saying it gave them fresh hope of an end to the four-year civil war. He added: “Things have begun to change since the Russians are bombing ISIS.” The archbishop, who has warned about the threat of a Christian annihilation at the hands of jihadi factions, also called on the British government to intervene militarily. He said: “Please, I ask you, I beseech you to have another look at
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A dispute has erupted across Scotland over a proposal by activists to impose mandatory LGBT training on children as young as 5 years old. A homosexual-activist group called Time for Inclusive Education launched a petition demanding children in their earliest years of schooling “learn about homosexual, bisexual and transgender issues.” But Rev. David Robertson, moderator of the Free Church of Scotland, calls the proposal a “Trojan horse to impose an ideological perspective on all pupils.” His comments were reported by the Christian Institute, which has opposed such plans. The proposal already has the backing of the National Union of Teachers,
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A school district in Washington has placed a Christian football coach on paid leave for continuing to pray on the 50-yard line at the conclusion of the game, which he did last Friday when both teams and members of the community joined him in a show of support. The Bremerton School District released a four-page letter on Wednesday night explaining its reasons for placing Joe Kennedy, the assistant head coach for the varsity team at Bremerton High School and the head coach for the junior varsity team, on leave. “Kennedy’s conduct poses a genuine risk that the district will be
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A United Church of Christ congregation in Massachusetts recently hosted what it called a “Drag Gospel Festival” in support of the homosexual and transgender members in its assembly. The First Church of Somerville (FCS) hosted the event October 16-18 both during its Friday night drag show and Sunday morning worship service. “God is good all the time! That means God is a diva, and girl, Jesus is fierce!” wrote Serenity Jones, the congregation’s “drag queen in residence” on the FCS website. Read More: Massachusetts ‘United Church of Christ’ Hosts Blasphemous ‘Drag Gospel Festival’ | Christian News Network
Once again, ideology trumps constitutionality in deep blue California, where the state’s Democratic authoritarians are demanding 100 percent compliance over an issue near and dear to them: the deaths of as many unborn babies as they can possibly arrange. As reported by CNSNews.com, Gov. Jerry Brown has recently signed legislation that mandates all licensed pregnancy centers in the state to “disseminate to clients” (by they way, they aren’t “clients”; they are patients) a message that promotes public programs with “free or low-cost access” to abortion and contraceptive services. Apparently, California Democrats are so ideologically programmed to promote abortion on demand
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“Please remember these brethren in your prayers.” Admin The United Nations refugee camps that will be sending 85,000 “displaced persons” to the United States over the next year for permanent resettlement are infested with jihadists who target and kill Christian refugees, according to a U.N. aid worker who spoke to a British newspaper. The jihadists are sending teams of trained killers into U.N. camps disguised as refugees to kidnap and kill vulnerable Christians, the Sunday Express reported. But refugees are terrified to report many of the killings in case they are targeted next, according to an aid worker who spoke
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The Colorado Civil Rights Commission has determined that a bakery can refuse to design a cake celebrating a customer’s religious beliefs about sex and marriage if it is willing to create other cakes for the customer. Unless the baker is a Christian. That’s how a complaint filed with the Colorado Supreme Court by Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips describes the problem. Phillips, in a brief by the Alliance Defending Freedom, is asking the high court to overturn a lower-court decision that concluded he can be coerced by the government to support a message that violates his religious beliefs. Read More:
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The state of California is using Obamacare regulations to impose its own belief system on faith-based abortion opponents, charges a new lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Sacramento. The case was brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of Foothill Church of Glendora, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills and Shepherd of the Hills Church of Porter Ranch. Named as defendant is the state Department of Managed Health Care Director Michelle Rouillard, who, the plaintiffs contend, is “forcing churches to pay for elective abortions in their health insurance plans.” “Churches should not be forced to pay for the killing of
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A group of approximately 15 apostate United Methodist, Episcopal and Jewish clergy recently gathered outside an abortion facility in Ohio to “bless” its services and to “thank God for abortion providers.” “We gathered here today because far too many religious people forget that God’s love is steadfast,” Harry Knox, president of the Washington-based Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), told the approximately 40 people joining the group for the event. “I’m here today standing alongside my fellow clergymen and clergywomen to say, ‘Thank God for abortion providers.’” Read More: Apostate Clergy ‘Bless’ Ohio Abortion Facility: ‘Thank God for Abortion Providers’
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In the wake of America’s Boy Scouts opening the door to homosexuality, Canada’s Girl Scouts is welcoming “transgenders” into its fold, posting radical new guidelines for vulnerable youth to follow. Included in Canada’s Girl Guide — the organization’s guidelines for protocol for youth members — male-to-female transgender youth are directed to decide for themselves which restrooms they will use and which gender they will board with during overnight group excursions. REAL Women of Canada Executive Vice President Gwen Landolt, a former Girl Guide, says this directive and mindset is a prescription for disaster. Read More: ‘Transgenders’ get red carpet in
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A former NFL head coach is throwing his support behind a new football drama that opens on the big screen Friday, 10/16/15. Based on a true story, “Woodlawn” is about how spiritual revival was sparked at an Alabama sigh school during the time of racial integration in the early 1970’s. The movie focuses on one particular player, Tony Nathan, who later was a star running back at the University of Alabama and the NFL’s Miami Dolphins. Later, Nathan would become a coach and serve as an assistant under coaching legend Tony Dungy. Read More: Dungy throws support behind ‘Woodlawn’
Joe Kennedy, football coach for Bremerton High School in Washington, told a Fox & Friends Thursday morning audience he was going to go forward with his 50-yard line end-game public prayer, despite administrators’ orders to stop. “It’s something that I kind of made an agreement with, my personal faith in God, that this is something I was going to do – give Him the glory after every single game and do it on the 50 ,and I’m kind of a guy of my word,” he said, during the national broadcast. “I’m going to go through with what I’ve always done.”
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“There are stories like this in the news almost every day. I’ve never seen the atheist groups so militant as they are now. Another sign of the times we are living in.” Admin The mayor of a city in Kentucky is refusing to remove a cross from a water tower that belongs to the city but is on private property despite demands from an atheist organization to remove the crucifix. The Madison, Wisconsin-based Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF) recently emailed Wilmore Mayor Harold Rainwater to state that the presence of the cross is “unlawful.” Read More: Kentucky Mayor Refuses to
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Thousands of churches could be designated “festival churches” and closed down except for festivals such as Christmas and Easter under plans published today by the Church of England. The massive church shut-down follows plummeting congregations especially in the countryside where one in four parishes, about 2,000, have fewer than ten regular worshippers. The Church of England owns 12,500 Grade I listed churchesThe Church of England now has fewer than 800,000 worshippers in the pews on an average Sunday, according to latest figures. Numbers have dropped to under half that of the1960s. In the latest Government census, Christianity was still the
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We live in a new and frightening era when many religious believers are being told “doing their job” takes priority over their conscience. This has many believers wondering what happened to their First Amendment right to freedom of religion. One thing Rowan County, Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis has heard over and over during her refusal to issue gay marriage licenses is “just do your job.” Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Matt Bowman said that’s part of a strategy by progressives to redefine jobs in order to support their agenda. Forcing You to Help “The Left is not content that abortion or
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Now it’s becoming clear: A case that erupted in Kentucky because same-sex duos demanded marriage licenses from a Christian county clerk who refused to issue them wasn’t about marriage at all. It was about forcing a homosexual agenda on a Christian. That’s the assertion of Liberty Counsel, whose lawyers are working with Rowan County, Kentucky, Clerk Kim Davis. She defied a federal court order to issue licenses to same-sex marriage couples and was jailed for nearly a week. During that time her deputies were ordered to start issuing the licenses. But the same-sex duos who originally brought the case are
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“Just more proof that the US/NATO were never really targeting ISIS at all but were just saying so for propaganda purposes to fool the people back home.” Admin US air strikes in Syria are window-dressing, and have little real effect on the militias of the Islamic state (IS), who are left free to act on the ground. Instead the Russian attacks in recent days have been effective, forcing jihadists to fall back towards the Iraqi desert. This is according to Msgr. Jacques Behnan Hindo, referring to testimonies of people living in areas of conflict theater. “Moscow’s intervention has been positive
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Nearly half of atheists, agnostics, and those with no religious preference in the U.S. see evidence in the universe for a creator, according to just-released polling data from a major research organization. LifeWay Research is a Nashville-based polling group that frequently surveys Americans on matters of faith and culture. The group’s latest report, “American Views on Reasons to Believe in a Creator,” shows surprising insights on the number of people who believe in a creator. According to the study, 72% of all Americans think that because the universe has organization, there is a creator who designed it. Over half of
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Today marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Korean Workers’ Party in 1945. North Korea has been gearing up for huge celebrations. The party has ruled uninterrupted since then and has established an ideological stranglehold on the country. North Korea is a police state in which dissent is punishable by death. According to the International Coalition to Stop Crimes against Humanity in North Korea (ICNK), it’s not an anniversary which deserves to be marked. “Given the decades of horrific rights abuses committed in the name of Korean Workers’ Party, this 70th anniversary should be mourned, not celebrated,” said
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Parents in Tennessee have put their governor, legislature and state education department on notice that they want an investigation into pro-Islam bias in the textbooks and other materials used in public schools there. The curricula violate the state law and constitution, and the U.S. Constitution, the parents contend. Laurie Cardoza-Moore, president of Proclaiming Justice to The Nations, noted that concerned citizens have been trying to get the problem addressed for several years. But on Thursday, she asserted enough is enough. She issued a call for Gov. Bill Haslam, the Legislature and the Tennessee Department of Education to launch a “full
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This was how the Wichita State University chapel looked like before it was turned into a ‘faith neutral’ area that eventually resembled a Muslim praying area. Right in the American Heartland, in the state of Kansas, a minority group of Muslim students have succeeded in taking over what used to be the Christian chapel of their university to the dismay of the school’s majority Christian population. Ironically, the Muslims gained control of the Christian prayer area with the help of the administrators of Wichita State University (WSU) who, last May, decided to make the university’s chapel “faith neutral” to accommodate
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“I posted about this plan last month, I can only assume the government got some “heat” about it and decided to drop it.” Admin A U.K. government plan, uncovered by the London Telegraph, to ensure that religious teaching conforms to “British values” through a national registry of religious leaders has been dropped abruptly. As part of the government’s “anti-extremism” program, the leaders would have been subject to government-specified training and security checks. “British values” are defined as ideas and actions that are democratic and non-discriminatory. WND reported last month when Ciaran Kelly, a spokesman for the Christian Institute, warned, “If
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The Focus on the Family-sponsored “Bring Your Bible to School Day” kicked off Thursday, 10/08/15, with the level of expected participants figured at around 100,000. Last year, the event drew in 8,000, the Blaze reported. The initiative is billed to “encourage public school students from kindergarten to college to express their faith freely,” the nonprofit said, the Blaze reported. And so far, Twitter has exploded with pictures and testimonies of participants. Read More: 100,000 students bring Bibles to classrooms
A Colorado university is prohibiting a donor from putting Bible references on his nameplate despite his generous donation. Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, constructed a new campus athletic facility where sponsors could have a personalized nameplate placed on a locker in the football locker room. Former student and football player Michael Lucas wanted Colossians 3:23 and Micah 5:9 engraved on a nameplate for his $25,000 donation. The school denied his request to inscribe the Bible reference although prior to Lucas’ request no restrictions had been named other than length of the text. Read More: $25K donor told Bible
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“If you look at the picture above the answer to one of the basic beliefs statements is Muslims worship the same God as Jews and Christians, which of course is a blatant falsehood. They are just trying to brainwash the kids into thinking Muslims, Jews and Christians are just one big happy family all worshiping the same God.” Admin Public schools in Georgia have been teaching young children about the basic beliefs of Islam, and their parents are furious about it. Hundreds of parents plan to confront the Board of Education of the Walton County school district on Oct. 10
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