Two military chaplains are suing Eric Shinseki, secretary of the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, or VA, for allegedly being harassed and drummed out of a training and placement program because of their Christian faith. Chaplains Major Steven Firtko, U.S. Army (Retired) and Lieutenant Commander Dan Klender, U.S. Navy, claim they were mocked, scolded and threatened for their faith while enrolled in the San Diego VA-DOD Clinical Pastoral Education Center program, which trains and distributes chaplains to military and VA medical centers in the San Diego area. Read More VA sued for harassing Christian chaplains.
Dalmanutha, a Biblical town described in the Gospel of Mark as the place where Jesus sailed after miraculously multiplying a few loaves and fish to feed 4,000 people, may have just been discovered by archaeologists, reports LiveScience. Read More Dalmanutha, Biblical Town Mentioned In Gospel Of Mark, Possibly Discovered Archaeologists Claim.
For decades archaeologists have been searching for evidence to support the hypothesis that Shiloh served as a religious center in ancient times. Now, a stone altar dated to the Iron Age—the period of Israelite kings—was accidentally exposed during a dig conducted by an archaeological staff officer of the Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria. Read More Shiloh Altar: Biblical Archaeology Provides Evidence of Ancient Religious Center | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com.
The Air Force Academy has admitted they removed the phrase “so help me God” from three oaths in the 2012 edition of their official cadet handbook, Fox News has learned. The revelation came after more than two dozen members of Congress sent a letter to Academy Supt. Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson demanding that she explain why the phrase was removed Read More Air Force drops ‘So Help Me God’ from oaths | Fox News.
“Lets not lose heart in the midst of whatever trials and troubles we may have, one doesn’t have to look far to find those in much worse circumstances than ours but they persevere and so can we.” Admin Hanna (not her real name) is a Christian woman living in Damascus, Syria, with her husband. Hanna and her husband have two young daughters. Hanna works in a school. Over the last few months she has been describing what daily life is like in war-torn Damascus. The situation keeps getting worse and the war is coming closer and closer. It has been
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A new Hollywood epic on the life of Noah has stirred controversy among Christians, Jews and others who have pre-screened the film, as they state that the movie largely leaves out one important foundation: the Bible. Noah is the brainchild of producer Darren Aronofsky, who says that he has wanted to make a film about Noah and the ark since his childhood. With a $125 million budget, the film is said to be more of an edgy action epic that depicts a man who fights off his enemies as he prepares for a coming apocalypse, rather than a story of
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Have you heard of the 10/40 window? It is the section of the world where 90 percent of the unreached people groups live, yet only 1 out of 99 missionaries go there. Angi Pratt and I recently wrote a book about how to use social media to reach and influence the world for Christ. The day of the book launch, we put on a college student retreat focused on the need to go to the 10/40 window. The Lord used the combination of the book release and the world-focused retreat to get me thinking of more ways social media
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“So now it appears the military is beginning a campaign to demonize Christians and conservatives and for what purpose? Will they someday be used against Christians and conservatives in this country?” Admin Soldiers attending a pre-deployment briefing at Fort Hood say they were told that evangelical Christians and members of the Tea Party were a threat to the nation and that any soldier donating to those groups would be subjected to punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. A soldier who attended the Oct. 17th briefing told me the counter-intelligence agent in charge of the meeting spent nearly a
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On Miami’s Metrorail, 82-year-old Emma Anderson was forcibly removed at Brickwell Station by a security guard. According to a lawsuit, the guard accused her of “publicly singing spiritual hymns.” He insisted that public singing, dancing and playing music without a permit is against the Miami-Dade Transit rules. The case is just one of hundreds referenced in a newly updated report by legal experts with the Texas-based Liberty Institute. The non-profit legal advocacy group says the evidence shows the U.S. government is steadily advancing an agenda to replace the “Creator” in the Declaration of Independence with itself. Read More Gov’t in
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Several dozen U.S. Army active duty and reserve troops were told last week that the American Family Association, a well-respected Christian ministry, should be classified as a domestic hate group because the group advocates for traditional family values.The briefing was held at Camp Shelby in Mississippi and listed the AFA alongside domestic hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis, the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam. Read More US Army defines Christian ministry as ‘domestic hate group’ | Fox News.
As the deadline looms for American citizens to comply with the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, many Christians are scrambling to understand their enrollment options. But many may be unaware of the fact that Obamacare provides a heath insurance exemption for people of faith who enroll in a Biblically-based healthcare sharing program. On pages 107 and 128 of the Affordable Care Act, Christians who participate in healthcare sharing ministries are exempt from the “individual mandate” to obtain health insurance. Read More Healthcare Sharing Ministries Provide Christ-Honoring Alternative to Insurance Under Obamacare | Christian News Network.
“Another so called Christian pastor soft peddling Islam, this dude needs to take a good look around the world and see how many Christians are being persecuted and killed by “The religion of peace”. Just amazing to see how mainline church denominations are embracing apostasy in one form or another, it’s no wonder they are continually losing members.” Admin At an August 22 speaking engagement at Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church, which was attended by almost 150 people, Pastor Daniel said that the CIA estimates there are less than 20,000 terrorists in the entire world.That’s incorrect, but many Christians in the audience
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Josh McDowell, an apologist and evangelist, spoke at Southern Evangelical Seminary’s Christian Apologetics conference on three culture changes that create a “perfect storm” that challenges and poses a threat to the church. McDowell says the first is an epistemological shift that is occurring regarding Biblical truths due to modern perspectives on God’s word. “We’ve had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We’ve gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective and from being internal to external,” he said. Read More Christian Apologist Josh McDowell: 3 Cultural Changes That Create the
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n a speech at the Values Voter Summit, Ben Carson, former pediatric neurosurgury director at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center who shot to fame earlier this year when he gave a politically incorrect speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, compared President Obama’s healthcare reform law to the institution of slavery and called Americans to not be ashamed of their Judeo-Christian heritage. “‘Obamacare’ is really, I think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery,” proclaimed Carson on Friday afternoon. “In a way, it is slavery…because it is making all of us subservient to the government.” Read More
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If any of you are unhappy with the left turn the Girl Scouts have made over the last several years, there is an excellent Christian based alternative, The American Heritage Girls, you can check out their website here.
Last weekend, “Alone Yet Not Alone,” an independent film with Christian themes from Enthuse Entertainment, took Hollywood by storm during its limited release debut, topping all films nationwide in per-theater ticket sales. It was the No. 1 movie for theaters in Knoxville, Tenn.; Raleigh, N.C.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; and San Antonio, Texas. It was the No. 2 film in Dallas, Atlanta and Nashville area theater. Now Enthuse is announcing “Alone Yet Not Alone,” based on the true story of a frontier family caught in the throes of the French and Indian War in 1755, will extended its
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Evangelical Christian airmen at Lackland Air Force Base are facing severe threats and retribution for their religious beliefs and some personnel have been ordered to publicly express their position on gay marriage. “There is an atmosphere of intimidation at Lackland Air Force Base,” said Steve Branson, the pastor of Village Parkway Baptist Church in San Antonio. “Gay commanders and officers are pushing their agenda on the airmen. There is a culture of fear in the military and it’s gone to a new level with the issue of homosexuality.” Read More Airmen say Air Force is punishing evangelical Christians | Fox
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More than 180 cities across the country have now passed LGBT laws that suppress the views of Christians. Dubbed “nondiscrimination” by LGBT activists, the ordinances provide new protection for sexual minorities while also severely curtailing religious liberty. So far, the laws have gone largely unnoticed. But a measure passed in San Antonio Sept. 5 has drawn national attention, both for its scope and for passing in this large, Hispanic-majority city traditionally known for its family values. Read More New LGBT Protection Law Criminalizing Believers?.
“Praising the school district, nonsense, why were these dolts showing such a video in the first place. They don’t deserve praise, they should all be fired.” Admin A team of legal experts well versed in religious and civil rights is praising a school district in Ohio for shutting down a video that has been used in 7th grade classes – and proselytized students to join Islam – without waiting for a court battle. “I applaud the school district for resolving this issue without litigation,” said Richard Thompson, president of the Thomas More Law Center, which worked on the case involving
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A video has been uncovered of Massachusetts officials promising to weed out foster parents with conservative values who would only “tolerate” a youth’s gender confusion and not endorse it. The video was featured by political activist Amy Contrada, who researches family issues through the non-profit Massachusetts-based group Mass Resistance organization. In a new report, she wrote: “It’s now official policy in Massachusetts. Adults holding traditional values will no longer be allowed to adopt or be foster parents.” Read More State ‘weeding out’ conservatives seeking to adopt.
“Article includes surveillance video of incident” A man apparently was intent on holding up a McDonald’s and willing to shoot people. In fact, he pointed his gun at his intended victims and pulled the trigger, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. Click. He ran outside and pointed the gun in the air. It discharged. Back inside, he aimed again. Click. Returning outside, he pulled the trigger twice, aiming at a passing car. The gun fired. “I’ve never seen anything like that before,” said police Sgt. Joe Loughman. “It must not have been their time to go.” Read More Did divine intervention
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This week on the Glazov Gang, the Jimmy Kimmel of the counter-jihad, the scintillating Jamie Glazov, interviewed Jihad Watch contributor Raymond Ibrahim, author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians. In this fast-paced, hard-hitting, take-no-prisoners, pull-no-punches interview, Raymond sheds light on Islam’s new war on Christians, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Church-burning sprees, its rape gangs, Obama’s complicity in the persecution of Christians, and the Egyptian people’s anger at Obama. He also discussed the hypocrisy of Obama’s call for war against Assad, the Syrian rebels’ plans to annihilate Syria’s Christians, and the mainstream media’s cover-up of the whole Islamic war
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Christian healthcare sharing programs, which are exempt from the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as “Obamacare,” have seen a spike in growth in the last few years as the new healthcare law is being implemented. Medi-Share has grown by about 20 percent per year for the last several years, Andrea Miller, M.D., told The Christian Post in a Friday interview, and currently has over 62,000 members. Miller is medical director and vice president of sharing for Christian Care Ministry, which administers Medi-Share, one of the three largest healthcare sharing programs in the United States, along with Christian Healthcare Ministries and
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Terrorism expert and WND video columnist Erick Stakelbeck joins Sid Roth on the new episode of “It’s Supernatural!” to expose the Muslim Brotherhood’s secret plans for first “charming” the United States then destroying it. Get Stakelbeck’s stunning book, “The Brotherhood: America’s Next Great Enemy,” from the WND Superstore now! Stakelbeck explains the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood aren’t bound by turban and beard, hiding out in caves like other terrorists, but are Western educated, fluent in English and out in the open. See why Stakelbeck says, “That charming facade and veneer hides a sinister agenda, Sid, and at the end
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“The site to go to for this new scouting organization is: traillifeusa.com “. Admin In response to the historic vote last spring by the Boy Scouts of America’s National Council to allow openly homosexual youth in the program, a new organization centered on Christian faith is forming at a gathering this weekend in Nashville of more than 1,200 former Scouting officials, parents and youths. Led by John Stemberger, an Eagle Scout who founded a coalition that opposed the BSA policy change, OnMyHonor.net, the new youth organization will provide an outdoor-oriented, character-development, life-skills and leadership program based on the group’s biblical
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Starting on Sunday, a small-but-significant change will begin to affect hundreds of thousands of young British girls around the United Kingdom. All new members of the 450,000-strong Girlguiding organization in the U.K. will no longer promise to “love my God,” but rather “to be true to myself and develop my beliefs.” This controversial change in the membership pledge came after the Girlguiding organization, the U.K. equivalent to the American Girl Scouts, polled more than 40,000 members and found that 37 percent of the girls “do not believe in a god.” Nearly one in four of all 8-year-old girls in the
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A 19-year veteran of the Air Force said he was relieved of his duties after he disagreed with his openly gay commander when she wanted to severely punish an instructor who had expressed religious objections to homosexuality. FOLLOW TODD ON FACEBOOK FOR GREAT CONSERVATIVE NEWS! CLICK HERE! “I was relieved of my position because I don’t agree with my commander’s position on gay marriage,” Senior Master Sgt. Phillip Monk told Fox News. “We’ve been told that if you publicly say that homosexuality is wrong, you are in violation of Air Force policy.” Read More Airmen Punished for Objecting to Gay
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