January 2014
Reported
Christian 'martyr' deaths double in 2013: report:
"Reported cases of Christians killed for their faith around the world doubled
in 2013
from the year before, with Syria accounting for more than the whole global
total in 2012.... The Open Doors report placed North Korea at the top of its
list of 50 most dangerous countries for Christians, a position it has held since
the annual survey began 12 years ago. Somalia, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan were
the next four in line. ...radical Muslims were the main source of persecution in
36 countries on its list."
See
Preparing
for Persecution
“Then shall they
deliver you up to tribulation and shall kill you: and ye shall
be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.” Matthew 24:9
October 2013
US army defines Christian
ministry as domestic hate-group:
"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.
Video:
3 Christians Robbed Handcuffed Arrested by
Police -- Sad American Video
Rand Paul warns of war on Christianity:
"'...the war on Christianity is not making the headlines it should
because the 'narrative is not convenient to the establishment
media.... 'The president tries to gloss over who’s attacking and
killing Christians. The media describes the killings as ‘sectarian.’
But the truth, said the senator, is war is being waged on Christians
'by a fanatical element of Islam."
September 2013
The
BANNING OF CHRISTIANITY:
"Today, in the United States where American citizens are theoretically
protected by the Constitution, the persecution of anyone for their
religious beliefs is a violation of constitutional law. Very clearly,
the 1st Amendment of the Constitution says: 'Congress shall make no
law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof...' Further, the Constitution assures us that we can
worship as we choose without interference from the government.
"Yet that 'interference' happens 24-7 in every city,
in every State, in the nation. And the U.S. Justice Department...
has done nothing to protect those who are persecuted. Why? ... Sadly, Christians are no longer a protected class in America. Sadder
yet is the fact that America rose to become the greatest nation in the
history of mankind only because God blessed America for its witness
of Him."
See
Persecution
Rising Persecution in the
'Land of the Free':
"A 19-year Air Force veteran who was relieved of his duties because
he disagreed with his openly gay commander over gay marriage is now
facing a formal investigation.... Senior Master Sgt. Phillip Monk found
himself at odds with his Lackland Air Force Base commander after he
objected to her plans to severely punish an instructor who
had expressed religious objections to homosexuality. '...
"The accusations against Monk are a court-martial
offense in the Air Force – and it’s quite possible that the 19-year
veteran with a spotless record could be booted out of the military because
of his Christian beliefs.
"Steve Branson ...tells me that as many as a half
dozen of his church members are currently facing persecution on the
base for their religious beliefs."
See
Preparing for Persecution
Atheist
family wants Pledge of Allegiance banned in Mass. public schools:
"A family asked Massachusetts’ highest court Wednesday to ban the daily
practice of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools,
arguing that the words 'under God' in the pledge discriminate against
atheists."
August 2013
Egypt Christians Urge
Prayers As Clashes Kill 150, Churches Destroyed:
"Egyptian Christians appealed for prayers Wednesday, August 14,
as churches were attacked by furious Islamic mobs in response to
a deadly government crackdown on protests in the capital Cairo that
killed at least scores of people. In total at least some 150 people
died and hundreds were injured in clashes across the country...after
Egyptian security forces cleared out thousands of people at sit-ins
demanding the return of ousted president Mohammed Morsi."
"Christians, seen as supporting the ouster of Morsi, were
soon targets of furious Morsi supporters...as Egypt's presidency
declared a state of emergency. ...at least six church buildings
have been attacked so far."
See
Spiritual Warfare
Putin says leaders should
unite to end anti-Christian persecution:
"Vladimir Putin said last week that he observes 'with alarm' that
'in many of the world’s regions, especially in the Middle East and
in North Africa, inter-confessional tensions are mounting, and the
rights of religious minorities are infringed, including Christians
and Orthodox Christians.' ...
"[Putin]
urged the international community to take steps towards preserving
the rights of Christian people worldwide and preventing the
violence that they suffer routinely in dozens of nations around
the globe...
Note:
Communism still reigns in Russia, and Putin -- like other pragmatic
politicians -- might simply be using Christian sympathy for political
gain. Time will tell whether or not his words are genuine.
July 2013
Catholic Priest Beheaded
in Syria by Al-Qaeda-Linked Rebels as Men and Children Take Pictures
and Cheer:
[Video] "...dozens of men and boys are seen cheering on as
three men are seated on the ground awaiting their grisly fate.
The men are methodically beheaded one at a time by men holding
what appears to be a simple kitchen knife after which the heads
are placed on top of the bodies."
Nigeria:
Muslim group slaughters 30 in jihad attack on school, burning children
alive
:
"Islamic militants attacked a boarding school in northeast Nigeria... killing 29 students and a teacher.
Some of the pupils were burned alive.... Parents screamed in anguish
as they tried to identify the charred and gunshot victims....
"When I woke up, someone was pointing a gun at me,' said 15-year-old
Musa Hassan. 'They burned the children alive...'"
Egyptian Egg on
Obama’s Face [by
Michael Youssef]:
"When Morsi ran for the presidency, Obama continued to
support him, even when it was clear that the close election was
rigged by dubious tactics.... When the Egyptian masses finally
couldn’t take it anymore, 22 million people signed a petition to
recall Morsi’s election—more than twice the number ok to the
streets. The largest mass demonstration in human history.
"The Egyptian Army had tried on many occasions to mediate
between President Morsi and the opposition. But Morsi
autocratically and arrogantly refused to talk to anyone other
than his masters in the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters.
...while millions of Egyptians responded to Morsi’s ouster by
joyfully dancing in the streets, the Muslim Brotherhood advisors
in the White House helped Obama produce a non-descript
statement. ...
"...thank God for the persecuted Christians in Egypt who have
cried out to God while withstanding injustice during the reign
of the Muslim Brotherhood. As a committed Christian, I believe
God has heard their cries, even when President Obama covered his
ears.ey have set an example for every harassed believer in the
world, including in America, to pray and hope that God will hear
our prayers."
"Though the fig tree
may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines...
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord,
I will joy in the God of my salvation.
The Lord God is my strength...."
Habakkuk 3:17-18
June 2013
Punishment
of Chick-fil - A loving soldier seen as hypocritical:
"A retired Army chaplain sees hypocrisy in the fact that an 18-year
Army veteran's career is now at risk because he served Chick-fil-A sandwiches
in honor of the Defense of Marriage Act. The unidentified soldier
was promoted to the rank of master sergeant last summer, an action that
coincided with the controversy surrounding Chick-fil-A's support
of traditional marriage and the hateful reaction from the left.
So the sergeant threw a party to celebrate his promotion by serving
Chick-fil-A sandwiches in honor of the federal Defense of Marriage Act."
Syrian Rebels Massacre Christian
Village: "Numerous
press reports are providing details of a massacre perpetrated by the
Free Syrian Army that annihilated the entire population of a Christian
village. ... 'The armed rebels affiliated to the Free Syrian Army (FSA)
raided the Christian-populated al-Duvair village...and massacred
all its civilian residents, including women and children.
"'The Syrian army, however, intervened and killed tens of terrorists
during heavy clashes....'
"...in December.... Mr. Obama praised the opposition, known formally
as the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces.
...7,000 members of an al-Qaeda front are acknowledged to be part
of a US-backed coalition. ...McCain’s and Obama’s purported
'right people' are busy massacring Christians."
See
Who shapes our conscience?
Holocaust
of Christians in the Muslim World on the Horizon:
"Arrests and deportations of Christians in Sudan are becoming more
momentous in Bashir’s government.... As a church elder in Khartoum
was praising God in his church, government officials from the
Security Service (NISS) seized and interrogated him for information
on Christian missionaries in North Sudan....
NISS is an Islamic
gestapo, and they are doing the same sort of inquisition that the
Nazis did before the holocaust."
Islam.
Why
Do They Slaughter Their Victims?
"What is common to Daniel Perl, Nick Berg, a British soldier on London
street, the Jews of Hebron...? They all were butchered. They were not
simply stabbed to death, but were killed by an act designed to decapitate
them or to cause fatal bleeding.... Another common denominator: all
were slaughtered by Moslems. An endless list of Moslem girls and women
can be added to them, those who were similarly slaughtered by their
brothers, fathers or other relatives for 'violating the family honor'.
A question that arises automatically is where does this Moslem tendency
to this kind of slaughter come from?
"...slaughtering a Jew, a Christian or anyone seen as an enemy is not
considered unusual in traditional Islamic societies. This is what professional
jargon calls 'a cultural difference.'”
May 2013
Obama
Puts Christians in the Crosshairs:
"In foreign affairs, where Obama could exert diplomatic leverage against
foreign governments for failing to protect Christians from both property
damage and murder, Obama commits sins of omission by pretending not
to notice. Here in America, the persecution of Christians have decidedly
entered the early stage and the Obama minions at DHS and his other agencies
have begun demonize Christians....
"....the increase in violence against Nigerian
Christians is escalating at an alarming rate....In Egypt, the Muslim
Brotherhood who were installed with the help of the Obama administration,
who are also aligned with AL-Qaeda, are persecuting Coptic Christians..."
See
Persecuted - but not forsaken
Army
Email Labels Christian Ministries as “Domestic Hate Groups”:
"A U.S. Army officer sent an email to dozens of subordinates listing
the American Family Association and Family Research Council as 'domestic
hate groups' because they oppose homosexuality — and warned officers
to monitor soldiers who might be supporters of the groups....
"Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, [said]... 'It’s
very disturbing to see where the Obama Administration is taking the
military and using it as a laboratory for social experimentation — and
also as an instrument to fundamentally change the culture.'....
"The Army denied there is any attack on Christians or those who hold
religious beliefs. ...'Any belief that the Army is out to label religious
groups in a negative manner is without warrant.”
Not true! See
Rising Persecution in the "Land of the Free"?
Pentagon moves to punish
Christian evangelism in military:
"Mikey Weinstein has been on a crusade for more than a decade against Christians in the military who speak about their faith with others....
After a private meeting between Weinstein and Pentagon officials April
23, a Pentagon spokesman declared, 'Religious proselytization is not
permitted within the Department of Defense.' ...
"Weinstein...told officials at the meeting that U.S. troops who evangelize
are guilty of sedition and treason and should be punished, by the
hundreds if necessary. Weinstein recently declared: “We face incredibly
well-funded gangs of fundamentalist Christian monsters who terrorize
their fellow Americans by forcing their weaponized and twisted version
of Christianity upon their helpless subordinates..."
See
God's Peace in the midst
of turmoil
Pentagon Consults Extremist
Who Calls Christians Monsters and Enemies of the Constitution
to Develop Religious Tolerance Policy:
“Today, we face incredibly well-funded gangs of fundamentalist Christian
monsters who terrorize their fellow Americans by forcing their weaponized
and twisted version of Christianity upon their helpless subordinates
in our nation’s armed forces.” '
"Weinstein
will be a consultant to the Pentagon to develop new policies on religious
tolerance, including a policy for court-martialing military chaplains
who share the Christian Gospel during spiritual counseling of American
troops." See
Spiritual Warfare: Hating Truth
The Evil of Human Trafficking in Sinai: "The
Egyptian government knows that the clusters of concrete buildings dotting
the Sinai desert are being used as torture chambers by human traffickers.
... Even when ransom is paid it is not uncommon to find that victims
are subsequently sold on to other traffickers who repeat the process.
Failure to pay will result in death by torture, including through
the extraction of saleable organs....
"Recently five Eritreans escaped from their captors during a fierce
night storm. .... Mhretab (27) is frail and heavily scarred. 'We had
barely anything to eat or drink,' he explains. 'And we weren't allowed
to sleep. If we did, they burned us. They scorched the skin on our arms
or backs.... They hung us from our feet and hit us."
See
A Taste of Blood: Human
nature without a moral conscience!
April 2013
Christian
Girls Gang Raped in Egypt to Screams of ‘Allahu Akbar!
"The video opens with Muslim
men repeatedly shouting the word 'Nasara'—the Koran’s derogatory appellation
for 'Christians'—as they identify two Coptic women who proceed to scream
and run, only to be knocked to the ground by several Muslim men who
savagely attack them, strip their clothing, and try to gang rape them.
Throughout, the women scream in terror while the men shout 'Allahu
Akbar,' that is, 'Allah is Great,' as well as chant the shehada,
or Islamic profession of faith: 'There is no god but Allah and
Muhammad is the prophet of Allah.' None of the many passersby intervene..."
Army Email Labels Christian
Ministries as 'Domestic Hate Groups':
"A U.S. Army officer sent an email to dozens of subordinates listing
the American Family Association and Family Research Council as 'domestic
hate groups' because they oppose homosexuality -- and warned officers
to monitor soldiers who might be supporters of the groups....The 14-page
email documented groups the military considers to be anti-gay, anti-immigrant
and anti-Muslim. Among the other groups mentioned are Neo-Nazis, Racist
Skinheads, White Nationalists and the Ku Klux Klan."
See
Can't We All Share One Religion?
Egypt’s religious violence
continues into Sunday:
"Sunday's clashes
began after hundreds of Christians left St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral
to march following the funeral of Christians killed Saturday. Residents
of the area pelted them with rocks and firebombs and fired birdshot,
forcing them back inside the complex. Arriving police fired tear gas,
with some canisters landing inside the cathedral grounds and causing
panic while people outside the church cheered....
"Coptic Christians compose about 10 percent of Egypt's estimated
90 million people."
See
Persecuted - but not forsaken
About
100 million Christians persecuted around the world:
"...with conditions worsening for them most rapidly in Syria and Ethiopia....
Of the top 10 countries on the list - North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan,
Iraq, Somalia, Maldives, Mali, Iran, Yemen and Eritrea - eight are majority
Muslim states threatened by what Open Doors called 'Islamic extremism'.
North Korea has kept its number one ranking for the past 11 years because
it is illegal simply to be a Christian there."
"Don't burn this house.
It belongs to a Muslim":
"While most of the two hundred houses set on fire in Joseph
Colony have been rebuilt, the shattered confidence of the residents
will take more time to be picked up. ... 'It’s not easy being a Christian. All my life,
I have heard remarks like ‘woh dekho, eesai guzar rahi hai’ (look,
that’s a Christian passing by),' she says. 'But this incident has brought
the (level of) discrimination to a peak.'...
"The chants and loud proclamations they were subjected to while escaping
– we will get rid of Christians, we will teach them a lesson – still
ring in her ears. ...'I saw people burning our house before my very
own eyes,' said Patras. 'They wanted to burn us in the house but
some Muslim friends managed to get us out in time..."
See
Spiritual Warfare: Hating
Truth
March 2013
Horrific human toll of
'militant atheism' exposed:
"World history is littered with exhibits of the utter brutality of
mankind toward his fellow man.... The staggering death toll of
Christians alone, estimates the documentary, 'Martyred in the USSR,'
is 12 million.... 'The goal of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics...was the liquidation of religion and the means to achieve
this goal included the destruction of churches...
"Many houses of worship were converted into bath houses, granaries
and museums of atheism... while atheistic and anti-religious
carnivals were frequently held to promote the mockery of religion
and religious believers.... The League of Militant Atheists, founded
in 1929, aided the Soviet government in murdering clergy and devout
believers.... 'The Holocaust did it to the Jews...The Russians, they
did it to a population.'....
"Under the Soviet doctrine of separation of church and state,
churches were forbidden to give to the poor or carry on educational
activities.... Students were indoctrinated with atheism and
anti-religious teachings.... [T]he communist goal was to build
society without God.'”
See
What is the [Soviet]
Church?
Christians dubbed threat
to 'national security':
"The Libyan government has now arrested seven people for preaching the
gospel and tortured at least one, claiming the missionaries
are a threat to national security.... Muslim governments – most
notably Iran’s – constantly suppress any talk of Christianity, claiming
it threatens ‘our national security.’... Islamists have gained significant
political influence, and sentences against proselytizing, blasphemy
and apostasy are being enforced to an extent never seen under
former dictatorships.”
Many Christians found refuge
in Libya before Obama joined the radical forces that favored revolution.
A Wife’s Perspective: Nightmare
of a Husband and Father Imprisoned in Iran:
"It has been 5 months, since the frantic phone call that woke me up
in the middle of the night, telling me of the horrific way my husband
was taken—5 revolutionary guards, raiding the house and taking him,
not knowing where he was or what had happened to him....
"It has been 1 month, to the day, since Saeed was given his 8-year sentence
because of his Christian faith. ...unless we speak out and fight for
him, Saeed might not survive the 8 years in that horrific prison, especially
because he continues to face continued abuse and death threats."
Ex-Inmate of Evin Prison
Speaks of Torture Saeed Faces: "Marina Nemat spent two years
in Evin Prison in Iran for speaking out against the Islamic Republic.
She suffered intense torture by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. ... Listen
as she describes the torturous conditions she faced and that Pastor
Saeed faces today because of his Christian
February 2013
Missionary
Finally Released from Prison:
"Gospel for Asia-supported missionary Roshan Kuma was released from
prison August 10. He served 17 months after being falsely accused
of working with the Maoists, an anti-government terrorist group.....Although
Roshan was in prison, he did not let it stop him from his calling
to share the Gospel. He shared the love of Jesus with fellow prisoners,
many of whom chose to follow Christ. He also started a prayer meeting
in the jail. 'In spite of spending more than a year of suffering
in prison, Pastor Roshan’s vision for serving Jesus never dimmed.'"
As we thank God for
Roshan's release, let's continue to pray that Pastor Saeed [imprisoned
in Iran] will soon be free!
American
Christian pastor imprisoned in Iran fears supporters have abandoned
him: "The
American pastor sentenced to eight years in Iran’s Evin prison is
unaware of the groundswell of international support for him, and
instead fears he's been abandoned, according to relatives who met
with him this week....
"'It is no surprise that the Iranian prison guards are engaging
in this kind of psychological abuse. We know that Pastor
Saeed is undergoing physical beatings and torture.' ...the
guards are trying to take away his hope - by feeding him false information...
trying to convince him that no one cares.'... We continue to urge
President Obama to personally call on Iran to release Pastor Saeed." See
Persecuted - but not
forsaken
January 2013
Gao Zhisheng:
"Since 2005, Gao has been repeatedly arrested, imprisoned and severely
tortured by Chinese authorities.... In 2006, he and a group of prominent
human rights lawyers created the Association of Human Rights
Attorneys for Chinese Christians. That same year, Gao was
sentenced tbation for inciting .subversion of the state.three
years in prison, Gao was supposedly released on probation but he
disappeared for extended periods of time. In 2007, he was arrested
and spent over 50 days behind bars where he was tortured. 'I was
beaten so badly that my whole body began shaking uncontrollably
on the floor,' Gao wrote..."
Missions Women ‘caste’-aways
- India’s covert genocide:
"At 1.2 billion, India's population is poised to pass China's (1.3 billion),
but...one quarter of India's inhabitants are considered outcasts or
'untouchables' -- commonly known as Dalits -- who are considered subhuman.
The notorious caste system of India places the 400 million Indians (about
100 million more than the entire U.S. population) on the bottom at an
extreme disadvantage from birth....
"Marriage of girls age five to seven, although illegal, is still practiced
in some rural areas.' And what about those who never make it to the
altar? 'Approximately 10,000 women are murdered annually when
they cannot raise the required dowries for marriage,' the report continues.
...'An estimated one in four rapes in India takes place in Delhi, now
dubbed 'the rape capital of India."'
Egypt:15 years in prison
for mother and seven children, converts to Christianity:
"The case concerns Nadia Mohamed Ali, a mother of eight children, born
Christian, but converted to Islam to marry her husband. After his death,
she decides to return to her original religion with her children. The
authorities accuse her of having changed names on documents to skip
procedure." See
Suffering with Jesus
Egypt's Coptic Christians
fleeing country after Islamist takeover: "Tens of thousands of
Egyptian Christians are leaving the country in the wake of the Egyptian
revolution and subsequent Islamist takeover of politics, priests and
community leaders say. ...the victory of the Muslim Brotherhood in parliamentary
and presidential elections has changed the mood -- particularly as the
biggest opposition party is the even more hardline Salafist movement
which wants strict Sharia law implemented."
Court Case Begins Monday,
Jan. 7, against Scott Lively: "With full knowledge that these
are bald-faced lies, SMUG asserts that 1) I masterminded the 2009 Anti-Homosexuality
Bill in Uganda, which they call the '“Kill the Gays Bill,' 2) inflamed
passions against homosexuals in Uganda by characterizing all homosexuals
as irredeemable genocidal child molesters, and 3) introduced to Uganda
the heretofore unknown strategy of criminalizing public promotion of
homosexuality as a means of opposing the rise of a homosexual movement
in Uganda. The proof that these are lies is found in the very
same documents they misuse against me."
Read background information
below:
Repeated:
'Gay' case puts speech in
category with torture:
“'This lawsuit against Rev. Scott Lively is a gross attempt to use
a vague international law to silence, and eventually criminalize,
speech by U.S. citizens on homosexuality and moral issues,' said
Mathew Staver.... Liberty Counsel will represent Lively in the case
brought in federal court in Massachusetts by a foreign group called
Sexual Minorities of Uganda....The [pro-gay] Ugandans allege
that beginning in 2002, Lively preached in Ugandan churches and shared
his opinion on homosexuality and pornography....
'"I am an American citizen [being targeted for taking a stand against
homosexuality]... they define it as a crime against humanity – for speaking
the truth of the Bible in a foreign country,' Lively [said]."
See
Persecuted but not forsaken
About
100 million Christians persecuted around the world:
"...with conditions worsening for them most rapidly in Syria and Ethiopia....
Of the top 10 countries on the list - North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan,
Iraq, Somalia, Maldives, Mali, Iran, Yemen and Eritrea - eight are majority
Muslim states threatened by what Open Doors called 'Islamic extremism'.
North Korea has kept its number one ranking for the past 11 years because
it is illegal simply to be a Christian there."
Christians dubbed threat
to 'national security':
"The Libyan government has now arrested seven people for preaching the
gospel and tortured at least one, claiming the missionaries
are a threat to national security.... Muslim governments – most
notably Iran’s – constantly suppress any talk of Christianity, claiming
it threatens ‘our national security.’... Islamists have gained significant
political influence, and sentences against proselytizing, blasphemy
and apostasy are being enforced to an extent never seen under
former dictatorships.”
Many Christians found refuge
in Libya before Obama joined the radical forces that favored revolution.
Terrorists Slashing Throats
of Nigerian-Christians:
"Last week marked the third straight year that the terror group has
murdered Nigerian Christians in the church on a Christmas day.... In
the last three years, over 3000 have been sent to tragic deaths....
Our government in Washington DC, especially the White House and the
State Department are fully aware of what is going on. But both President
Barack Obama and outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have simply
tolerated this impunity by their inaction....
"On Christmas
day in northern Nigeria, Boko Haram was busy slashing the throats of
Christians right inside their churches or at their homes.... We are
asking today: is President Barack Obama and the State Department comfortable
to be a mere witness to this evil?"
See
They Gave Him Their Lives
December 2012
Syria rebels 'beheaded a
Christian and fed him to the dogs' as fears grow over Islamist atrocities:
"...taxi driver Andrei Arbashe, 38, was kidnapped after his brother
was heard complaining that fighters against the ruling regime behaved
like bandits. She said his headless corpse was found by the side
of the road, surrounded by hungry dogs. He had recently married and
was soon to be a father. ...'His only crime was his brother criticised
the rebels, accused them of acting like bandits, which is what they
are.'
"There have been a growing number of accounts of atrocities carried
out by rogue elements of the Syrian Free Army, which opposes dictator
Bashar al-Assad and is recognised by Britain and the West as the
legitimate leadership. Sister Agnes-Miriam, mother superior of the Monastery
of St James the Mutilated, has condemned Britain and the west for supporting
the rebels despite growing evidence of human rights abuses. Murder,
kidnapping, rape and robbery are becoming commonplace, she says. 'The
free and democratic world is supporting extremists.... They want
to impose Sharia Law and create an Islamic state in Syria.'"
See
Spiritual Warfare, Part
3: Hating Truth
Pastor
Saeed’s Wife Speaks Out:
"Christian Pastor Saeed Abedini, an American citizen, is languishing
in an Iranian prison because of his faith. He is separated from his
wife and two young children.....Listen to her tell her husband’s compelling
story of faith in the face of immense persecution."
See
Persecuted - but not forsaken
Testing the Genuineness of our Faith:
"Untested faith may
be true faith, but it is sure to be small faith, and it is likely to
remain little as long as it is without trials. Faith never prospers
so well as when all things are against her: Tempests are her trainers,
and bolts of lightning are her illuminators."
Quote from 1784.
"The
Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches
us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore
to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts."
(John
Jay, letter to Peter Augustus Jay)
U.S.
pastor arrested, held in Iranian jail:
"Saeed Abedini and his wife converted to Christianity from Islam and
immigrated to the United States. He has made frequent trips to his homeland
to visit with family who are also Christian converts. ... He is in a
prison cell. He's been beaten and tortured. His family in Iran is under
house arrest,' he describes. 'He was placed in a cell with individuals
who are saying they are al-Qaeda, and they're in jail in Iran
for being extremists there and they're beating him because they found
out he was a convert [and] a pastor.' The 32-year-old pastor is
charged with national security crimes. Abedini has made nine trips to
Iran since coming to the U.S. because he is setting up a non-sectarian
orphanage in Iran."
U.S.
pastor arrested, held in Iranian jail:
"Saeed Abedini and his wife converted to Christianity from Islam and
immigrated to the United States. He has made frequent trips to his homeland
to visit with family who are also Christian converts. ... He is in a
prison cell. He's been beaten and tortured. His family in Iran is under
house arrest,' he describes. 'He was placed in a cell with individuals
who are saying they are al-Qaeda, and they're in jail in Iran
for being extremists there and they're beating him because they found
out he was a convert [and] a pastor.' The 32-year-old pastor is
charged with national security crimes. Abedini has made nine trips to
Iran since coming to the U.S. because he is setting up a non-sectarian
orphanage in Iran."
The Syrian Revolution’s
Dire Threat to Christians: "...it is no surprise that
Islamists are massacring Christians. If an Islamic state becomes
the reality in Syria, and the developments reveal that that will
soon be the case, we can expect a full-out genocide against
Christians to be implemented by the Islamists in Syria. The fall of
Assad will mean a mass cleansing of anybody who believes in the
Bible, since the Assad regime protects the Christian population.....
"...one Syrian said that the rebels wanted to kill us because we
were Christians. They were calling us Kaffirs [infidels], even
little children saying these things. Those who were our neighbours
turned against us.”
See
Spiritual Warfare,
Part 3: Hating Truth
Syria rebels 'beheaded a
Christian and fed him to the dogs' as fears grow over Islamist atrocities:
"...taxi driver Andrei Arbashe, 38, was kidnapped after his brother
was heard complaining that fighters against the ruling regime behaved
like bandits. She said his headless corpse was found by the side
of the road, surrounded by hungry dogs. He had recently married and
was soon to be a father. ...'His only crime was his brother criticised
the rebels, accused them of acting like bandits, which is what they
are.'
"There have been a growing number of accounts of atrocities carried
out by rogue elements of the Syrian Free Army, which opposes dictator
Bashar al-Assad and is recognised by Britain and the West as the
legitimate leadership. Sister Agnes-Miriam, mother superior of the Monastery
of St James the Mutilated, has condemned Britain and the west for supporting
the rebels despite growing evidence of human rights abuses. Murder,
kidnapping, rape and robbery are becoming commonplace, she says. 'The
free and democratic world is supporting extremists.... They want
to impose Sharia Law and create an Islamic state in Syria.'"
See
Spiritual Warfare, Part
3: Hating Truth
Pastor
Saeed’s Wife Speaks Out:
"Christian Pastor Saeed Abedini, an American citizen, is languishing
in an Iranian prison because of his faith. He is separated from his
wife and two young children.....Listen to her tell her husband’s compelling
story of faith in the face of immense persecution."
See
Persecuted - but not forsaken
Testing the Genuineness of our Faith:
"Untested faith may
be true faith, but it is sure to be small faith, and it is likely to
remain little as long as it is without trials. Faith never prospers
so well as when all things are against her: Tempests are her trainers,
and bolts of lightning are her illuminators."
Quote from 1784.
"The
Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches
us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore
to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts."
(John
Jay, letter to Peter Augustus Jay)
U.S.
pastor arrested, held in Iranian jail:
"Saeed Abedini and his wife converted to Christianity from Islam and
immigrated to the United States. He has made frequent trips to his homeland
to visit with family who are also Christian converts. ... He is in a
prison cell. He's been beaten and tortured. His family in Iran is under
house arrest,' he describes. 'He was placed in a cell with individuals
who are saying they are al-Qaeda, and they're in jail in Iran
for being extremists there and they're beating him because they found
out he was a convert [and] a pastor.' The 32-year-old pastor is
charged with national security crimes. Abedini has made nine trips to
Iran since coming to the U.S. because he is setting up a non-sectarian
orphanage in Iran."
U.S.
pastor arrested, held in Iranian jail:
"Saeed Abedini and his wife converted to Christianity from Islam and
immigrated to the United States. He has made frequent trips to his homeland
to visit with family who are also Christian converts. ... He is in a
prison cell. He's been beaten and tortured. His family in Iran is under
house arrest,' he describes. 'He was placed in a cell with individuals
who are saying they are al-Qaeda, and they're in jail in Iran
for being extremists there and they're beating him because they found
out he was a convert [and] a pastor.' The 32-year-old pastor is
charged with national security crimes. Abedini has made nine trips to
Iran since coming to the U.S. because he is setting up a non-sectarian
orphanage in Iran."
The Syrian Revolution’s
Dire Threat to Christians: "...it is no surprise that
Islamists are massacring Christians. If an Islamic state becomes
the reality in Syria, and the developments reveal that that will
soon be the case, we can expect a full-out genocide against
Christians to be implemented by the Islamists in Syria. The fall of
Assad will mean a mass cleansing of anybody who believes in the
Bible, since the Assad regime protects the Christian population.....
"...one Syrian said that the rebels wanted to kill us because we
were Christians. They were calling us Kaffirs [infidels], even
little children saying these things. Those who were our neighbours
turned against us.”
See
Spiritual Warfare,
Part 3: Hating Truth
November 2012
Egypt’s Christians fear
‘a season of blood’:
"On a narrow dirt street, four police officers guard brick pillars
rising from the mud. This was going to be a Coptic Christian community
center — until ultra-Islamist Salafis seized it and declared
it a Muslim mosque....
"...attacks
— like crime in general — have risen in number and intensity since
last year’s ouster of dictator Hosni Mubarak. Christian churches,
homes and shops have been looted or torched; Christians have
been forced to flee.... The post-Mubarak rise of the Salafis,
who are akin to Saudi Arabia’s ultra-religious Wahhabis, frightens
Christians and less-fanatical Muslims. On Friday, thousands of Salafis
marched here to demand 'implementation of the Shariah...'
"Rushdy’s
brother Ala’a owned a restaurant that was torched and a small cafeteria
that was ransacked.... Twenty people were arrested: 12 Christians,
including Rushdy’s brother, and eight Muslims. 'They...accused him
of owning machine guns, but they didn’t find any,' Rushdy said....
At a trial nine months later, an Egyptian general called the charges
nonsensical.... Yet Ala’a and the other Christians were convicted
and given life sentences.... He dismisses the possibility
of any help from the Obama administration: 'They didn’t do anything
for their own ambassador, who was killed in Libya. What will they
do for us?'”
See
Spiritual Warfare,
Part 3: Hating Truth
Horror
in Syria: Executing Christians Video reveals targeted 'soldiers'
actually civilians:
"Reports from Syria indicate members of the Free Syrian Army have
started executing Christians while claiming they’re shooting
Syrian soldiers. A video of a Nov. 1 attack in which black-clad
Syrian rebels reportedly killed 28 men has been posted on
Youtube.com. An Agence France-Presse story on the attack
identified the victims as Syrian soldiers.....'Two of the men I
am sure were Christians and were first kidnapped from their
neighborhood, then taken out and shot.'...
"Act for America President... Brigitte Gabriel said ... 'The Syrians
without a doubt are executing Christians. They are notorious for
their tactical torture of their enemies.'... 'Those people
rising against Assad and being crushed are all Muslim Brotherhood
whom Bashir Assad’s father, Hafez Assad, crushed 30 years ago in
Hama.'...Gabriel added that the rebels feel empowered, which only
fuels their hatred of Christians. ...
“Now
they are feeling empowered....They despise the Christians living
in Syria and would love to either convert them or kill them,' Gabriel
said.
"Murray said the executions themselves prove that it’s the rebels
who are pulling the trigger. 'When the Syrian Army takes prisoners,
they photograph them and display the photos,' Murray said.....MEMRI
reports Syrian rebels claim that ousting Assad is only the first
step. The rebels want to impose Islamic law on Syria."'
See
A Taste of Blood:
Human nature without a moral conscience!
Report on Intolerance Against
Christians Submitted to UN Human Rights Commission:
"Parents in Germany seeking to educate their children with a Christian
worldview have been jailed and fined for trying to exempt their
children from state-mandated sex education program, according to a report
by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians
and submitted to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
(OHCHR). In at least three separate instances Christian parents were
punished on the grounds that the government wanted to 'prevent parallel
societies.'
"Homeschooling
also remains illegal in Germany....The report describes numerous instances
of German authorities using oppressive measures against Christians who
act according to their religious and moral beliefs.... A mood of hostility
in Germany toward Christianity comes across in the numerous instances
of vandalism, destruction of property, and defamatory displays listed
in the report."
Preschooler Banned from Lunch Prayer:
"..a 12-year-old girl was told she couldn’t reference the Bible in her history report. The ACLJ
informed the school district of the law and the Bible reference was
allowed back into her classroom."
Report on Intolerance Against Christians Submitted to UN Human Rights
Commission:
"Parents in Germany seeking to educate their children with a Christian worldview have been jailed and fined
for trying to exempt their children from state-mandated sex education program, according to a report by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians and submitted to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In at least three separate instances Christian parents were punished on the grounds that the
government wanted to 'prevent parallel societies.'
"Homeschooling also remains illegal in Germany....The
report describes numerous instances of German authorities using oppressive measures against Christians who
act according to their religious and moral beliefs.... A mood of hostility in Germany toward Christianity
comes across in the numerous instances of vandalism, destruction of property, and defamatory
displays listed in the report."
Egypt’s Christians fear
‘a season of blood’:
"On a narrow dirt street, four police officers guard brick pillars
rising from the mud. This was going to be a Coptic Christian community
center — until ultra-Islamist Salafis seized it and declared
it a Muslim mosque....
"...attacks
— like crime in general — have risen in number and intensity since
last year’s ouster of dictator Hosni Mubarak. Christian churches,
homes and shops have been looted or torched; Christians have
been forced to flee.... The post-Mubarak rise of the Salafis,
who are akin to Saudi Arabia’s ultra-religious Wahhabis, frightens
Christians and less-fanatical Muslims. On Friday, thousands of Salafis
marched here to demand 'implementation of the Shariah...'
"Rushdy’s
brother Ala’a owned a restaurant that was torched and a small cafeteria
that was ransacked.... Twenty people were arrested: 12 Christians,
including Rushdy’s brother, and eight Muslims. 'They...accused him
of owning machine guns, but they didn’t find any,' Rushdy said....
At a trial nine months later, an Egyptian general called the charges
nonsensical.... Yet Ala’a and the other Christians were convicted
and given life sentences.... He dismisses the possibility
of any help from the Obama administration: 'They didn’t do anything
for their own ambassador, who was killed in Libya. What will they
do for us?'”
See
Spiritual Warfare,
Part 3: Hating Truth
Horror
in Syria: Executing Christians Video reveals targeted 'soldiers'
actually civilians:
"Reports from Syria indicate members of the Free Syrian Army have
started executing Christians while claiming they’re shooting
Syrian soldiers. A video of a Nov. 1 attack in which black-clad
Syrian rebels reportedly killed 28 men has been posted on
Youtube.com. An Agence France-Presse story on the attack
identified the victims as Syrian soldiers.....'Two of the men I
am sure were Christians and were first kidnapped from their
neighborhood, then taken out and shot.'...
"Act for America President... Brigitte Gabriel said ... 'The Syrians
without a doubt are executing Christians. They are notorious for
their tactical torture of their enemies.'... 'Those people
rising against Assad and being crushed are all Muslim Brotherhood
whom Bashir Assad’s father, Hafez Assad, crushed 30 years ago in
Hama.'...Gabriel added that the rebels feel empowered, which only
fuels their hatred of Christians. ...
“Now
they are feeling empowered....They despise the Christians living
in Syria and would love to either convert them or kill them,' Gabriel
said.
"Murray said the executions themselves prove that it’s the rebels
who are pulling the trigger. 'When the Syrian Army takes prisoners,
they photograph them and display the photos,' Murray said.....MEMRI
reports Syrian rebels claim that ousting Assad is only the first
step. The rebels want to impose Islamic law on Syria."'
See
A Taste of Blood:
Human nature without a moral conscience!
Report on Intolerance Against
Christians Submitted to UN Human Rights Commission:
"Parents in Germany seeking to educate their children with a Christian
worldview have been jailed and fined for trying to exempt their
children from state-mandated sex education program, according to a report
by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians
and submitted to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
(OHCHR). In at least three separate instances Christian parents were
punished on the grounds that the government wanted to 'prevent parallel
societies.'
"Homeschooling
also remains illegal in Germany....The report describes numerous instances
of German authorities using oppressive measures against Christians who
act according to their religious and moral beliefs.... A mood of hostility
in Germany toward Christianity comes across in the numerous instances
of vandalism, destruction of property, and defamatory displays listed
in the report."
Preschooler Banned from Lunch Prayer:
"..a 12-year-old girl was told she couldn’t reference the Bible in her history report. The ACLJ
informed the school district of the law and the Bible reference was
allowed back into her classroom."
Report on Intolerance Against Christians Submitted to UN Human Rights
Commission:
"Parents in Germany seeking to educate their children with a Christian worldview have been jailed and fined
for trying to exempt their children from state-mandated sex education program, according to a report by the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians and submitted to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). In at least three separate instances Christian parents were punished on the grounds that the
government wanted to 'prevent parallel societies.'
"Homeschooling also remains illegal in Germany....The
report describes numerous instances of German authorities using oppressive measures against Christians who
act according to their religious and moral beliefs.... A mood of hostility in Germany toward Christianity
comes across in the numerous instances of vandalism, destruction of property, and defamatory
displays listed in the report."
October 2012
Christians facing arrests,
detentions and court trials in Iran:
"There has been an alarming upsurge in the harassment of Christians
in Iran, with reports indicating an increase in arrests during
recent weeks ....Please pray that those arrested and facing
trial will remember the blessing they will receive for persevering
(Hebrews 10:36). ... Pray that, whether imprisoned or free, they
and other believers in Iran will seek to live boldly for Christ
and share the Good News with others."
The Rape and Murder of Pakistan’s Christian
Children:
"...the West remains clueless concerning the graphic abuses—including
rape and murder—Christian children in Pakistan routinely suffer,
simply for being Christian. ...12-year-old Muqadas Kainat... was
ambushed in a field near her home in Sahawil by five Muslim men
who 'gang raped and murdered' her.... Police, as usual, did not
arrest anyone....
"...an 11-year-old Christian boy, Samuel Yaqoob, went to the markets
of Faisalabad to buy food for his family, never to return. ... 'After
extensive searching his body was found near a drain in the Christian
colony, bearing marks of horrific torture... His nose, lips and
belly had been sliced off, and his family could hardly recognize
him because the body was so badly burnt....
"Parts of Pakistani culture have a strong homosexual pederast culture,
and Christian and other minority boys are especially susceptible
to rape and abuse because of the powerlessness of their community
and their despised status. In one case fairly recently, a Christian
boy was kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed by a police officer,
his body similarly being dumped in a drain.”
See
Spiritual Warfare,
Part 3: Hating Truth and Primed for Deception!
Without Asking Congress,
Obama Puts U.S. Troops on Syria Border:
"Minority groups and especially Christians, who found one of
the region’s final refuges in Syria, have become among the
main targets of rebel forces....Tens of thousands have already
poured across the borders seeking shelter, going to Lebanon, Iraq,
and other nations. Western governments and oil-rich Sunni Arab regimes
[and Muslim Brotherhood]
are hoping to oust the Assad dictatorship using mostly proxies on
the ground. If all goes as planned, the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated
'Syrian National Council' — an umbrella organization with extensive
links to the
Bilderberg group and the world government-promoting
Council on Foreign Relations
— is expected to take over..."
See
Pray
for God's strength for persecuted Christian
Muslim Persecution of
Christians (August 2012
): Iraq: “Christians
in cities like Baghdad and Mosul are gripped by terrorism. They
are fleeing in droves. Today [August 16] it was reported that at
least 20 people died in blasts and shootings across the country.'...
"Ivory Coast: As part of the civil war, Muslim rebels
'massacred hundreds and displaced tens of thousands' of predominantly
Christian....
"Mali: As many as 200,000 Christians are fleeing to Algeria
and Mauritania, where they are seeking a safe haven from Islamic
terrorists linked to al-Qaeda, who have become increasingly active
in the northern regions of the nation.....
"Syria: Some 12,000 people were blockaded in the predominantly
Christian town of Rableh by anti-government forces....Christians
were also given an ultimatum to leave the nearby cities of Qusayr
and Homs, which has been almost entirely cleansed of its
50,000-60,000 Christian population.'
"Egypt: The nation’s jihad organizations dropped leaflets
calling on Muslims to kill Christians wherever they found them....a
14-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan, Rimsha Masih, was arrested,
accused of burning pages of a Quran. Rioting Muslims destroyed Christian
homes and churches, tore Bibles to pieces and broke crosses, while
calling for the death penalty against her."
Christians facing arrests,
detentions and court trials in Iran:
"There has been an alarming upsurge in the harassment of Christians
in Iran, with reports indicating an increase in arrests during
recent weeks ....Please pray that those arrested and facing
trial will remember the blessing they will receive for persevering
(Hebrews 10:36). ... Pray that, whether imprisoned or free, they
and other believers in Iran will seek to live boldly for Christ
and share the Good News with others."
The Rape and Murder of Pakistan’s Christian
Children:
"...the West remains clueless concerning the graphic abuses—including
rape and murder—Christian children in Pakistan routinely suffer,
simply for being Christian. ...12-year-old Muqadas Kainat... was
ambushed in a field near her home in Sahawil by five Muslim men
who 'gang raped and murdered' her.... Police, as usual, did not
arrest anyone....
"...an 11-year-old Christian boy, Samuel Yaqoob, went to the markets
of Faisalabad to buy food for his family, never to return. ... 'After
extensive searching his body was found near a drain in the Christian
colony, bearing marks of horrific torture... His nose, lips and
belly had been sliced off, and his family could hardly recognize
him because the body was so badly burnt....
"Parts of Pakistani culture have a strong homosexual pederast culture,
and Christian and other minority boys are especially susceptible
to rape and abuse because of the powerlessness of their community
and their despised status. In one case fairly recently, a Christian
boy was kidnapped, raped, tortured and killed by a police officer,
his body similarly being dumped in a drain.”
See
Spiritual Warfare,
Part 3: Hating Truth and Primed for Deception!
Without Asking Congress,
Obama Puts U.S. Troops on Syria Border:
"Minority groups and especially Christians, who found one of
the region’s final refuges in Syria, have become among the
main targets of rebel forces....Tens of thousands have already
poured across the borders seeking shelter, going to Lebanon, Iraq,
and other nations. Western governments and oil-rich Sunni Arab regimes
[and Muslim Brotherhood]
are hoping to oust the Assad dictatorship using mostly proxies on
the ground. If all goes as planned, the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated
'Syrian National Council' — an umbrella organization with extensive
links to the
Bilderberg group and the world government-promoting
Council on Foreign Relations
— is expected to take over..."
See
Pray
for God's strength for persecuted Christian
Muslim Persecution of
Christians (August 2012
): Iraq: “Christians
in cities like Baghdad and Mosul are gripped by terrorism. They
are fleeing in droves. Today [August 16] it was reported that at
least 20 people died in blasts and shootings across the country.'...
"Ivory Coast: As part of the civil war, Muslim rebels
'massacred hundreds and displaced tens of thousands' of predominantly
Christian....
"Mali: As many as 200,000 Christians are fleeing to Algeria
and Mauritania, where they are seeking a safe haven from Islamic
terrorists linked to al-Qaeda, who have become increasingly active
in the northern regions of the nation.....
"Syria: Some 12,000 people were blockaded in the predominantly
Christian town of Rableh by anti-government forces....Christians
were also given an ultimatum to leave the nearby cities of Qusayr
and Homs, which has been almost entirely cleansed of its
50,000-60,000 Christian population.'
"Egypt: The nation’s jihad organizations dropped leaflets
calling on Muslims to kill Christians wherever they found them....a
14-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan, Rimsha Masih, was arrested,
accused of burning pages of a Quran. Rioting Muslims destroyed Christian
homes and churches, tore Bibles to pieces and broke crosses, while
calling for the death penalty against her."
September 2012
Christians 'flee Egypt
town after death threats':
"Several Christian families have fled their homes in Egypt's Sinai
peninsula after receiving death threats from suspected Islamist
militants..."
See
Spiritual Warfare:
Hating God's Truth
U.N. Chief: Free Speech
Has Limits:
"United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters
in New York today that 'free speech' has limits,
especially
when religious beliefs are involved. .. This effort to provoke,
to humiliate others by using (religious) beliefs cannot be protected
in such a way.' While Ban was quick to criticize U.S. policy
on free speech, he pointedly refused to address other governments
that restrict freedom of expression.”
Turkey
PM Pushes International Blasphemy Laws:
(9-16-12) "Erdogan called for international legal regulations
against attacks on what people deem sacred [referring
to Islam, not Christianity].... Erdogan...refers to 'Islamophobia'...
[which] originated in the 1990s amongst Muslim Brotherhood satellite
groups as a tool to silence all criticism of Islam as a new totalitarian
thought crime."
See
Persecuting Christians
Christian murders, torture
by Egyptians ignored by Obama, media:
"Egypt’s so-called Arab Spring quickly turned into a Christian winter
following the political rise of Islamists and increased assaults
on Christians and churches. As a result, an estimated 100,000
Christians have fled or are preparing to flee the country....
Calls for Christians to be killed with some of them reportedly crucified
on trees are the new reality of the Egyptian government under a
Muslim Brotherhood president and a legislature run by not only the
Brotherhood but also the extreme Islamist Salafists....
"'Instead of taking action to stop the
killing and
brutalizing of Christians in Muslim nations, the Obama
administration points to Egypt as an example of a foreign
policy success...'"
See
Persecuted - but not
forsaken
Syria Christians Targeted
By Islamist Rebels Amid Massive Exodus:
"...it remained unclear whether everyone fleeing the violence would
be able to reach neighboring Turkey. 'Religious minority groups
have become a primary target' of rebels linked to terror group 'Al-Qaida
and other Islamists who are executing attacks in 'the name of Allah',
said International Christian Concern.... 'Recent threats and killings
of Syrias Christian minority include the murder of a Christian family
in the Damascus neighborhood of Bab Tuma.... 'The flight of thousands
of Christians from the city of Qusayr in June after an ultimatum
to leave the city was issued by a rebel commander.'"
See
Spiritual Warfare, Part 3: Hating Truth and
Primed for Deception!
Islamists
Demand Placing Coptic Church Funds Under Egyptian State Control:
But "...the church will not accept the monitoring of its
money or donations by any entity, and should not pay taxes to the
state because all its activities fall within the provision of the
needs of orphans and needy Copts. ...if the government does
not fund the church in any way, how can it demand monitoring its
resources?"
See
Persecuted - but not
forsaken
Christians 'flee Egypt
town after death threats':
"Several Christian families have fled their homes in Egypt's Sinai
peninsula after receiving death threats from suspected Islamist
militants..."
See
Spiritual Warfare:
Hating God's Truth
U.N. Chief: Free Speech
Has Limits:
"United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters
in New York today that 'free speech' has limits, especially
when religious beliefs are involved. .. This effort to provoke,
to humiliate others by using (religious) beliefs cannot be protected
in such a way.' While Ban was quick to criticize U.S. policy
on free speech, he pointedly refused to address other governments
that restrict freedom of expression.”
Turkey
PM Pushes International Blasphemy Laws:
(9-16-12) "Erdogan called for international legal regulations
against attacks on what people deem sacred [referring
to Islam, not Christianity].... Erdogan...refers to 'Islamophobia'...
[which] originated in the 1990s amongst Muslim Brotherhood satellite
groups as a tool to silence all criticism of Islam as a new totalitarian
thought crime."
See
Persecuting Christians
Christian murders, torture
by Egyptians ignored by Obama, media:
"Egypt’s so-called Arab Spring quickly turned into a Christian winter
following the political rise of Islamists and increased assaults
on Christians and churches. As a result, an estimated 100,000
Christians have fled or are preparing to flee the country....
Calls for Christians to be killed with some of them reportedly crucified
on trees are the new reality of the Egyptian government under a
Muslim Brotherhood president and a legislature run by not only the
Brotherhood but also the extreme Islamist Salafists....
"'Instead of taking action to stop the killing and
brutalizing of Christians in Muslim nations, the Obama
administration points to Egypt as an example of a foreign
policy success...'"
See
Persecuted - but not
forsaken
Syria Christians Targeted
By Islamist Rebels Amid Massive Exodus:
"...it remained unclear whether everyone fleeing the violence would
be able to reach neighboring Turkey. 'Religious minority groups
have become a primary target' of rebels linked to terror group 'Al-Qaida
and other Islamists who are executing attacks in 'the name of Allah',
said International Christian Concern.... 'Recent threats and killings
of Syrias Christian minority include the murder of a Christian family
in the Damascus neighborhood of Bab Tuma.... 'The flight of thousands
of Christians from the city of Qusayr in June after an ultimatum
to leave the city was issued by a rebel commander.'"
See
Spiritual Warfare, Part 3: Hating Truth and
Primed for Deception!
Islamists
Demand Placing Coptic Church Funds Under Egyptian State Control:
But "...the church will not accept the monitoring of its
money or donations by any entity, and should not pay taxes to the
state because all its activities fall within the provision of the
needs of orphans and needy Copts. ...if the government does
not fund the church in any way, how can it demand monitoring its
resources?"
See
Persecuted - but not
forsaken
August 2012
Christian boy tortured
and killed in Pakistan:
"The tortured body of an 11 year old Christian boy has been found
in a town in Punjab, Pakistan, days after a young Christian girl
was arrested on blasphemy charges. ...Detectives in Faisalabad,
around 60 miles from Lahore, said they were investigating whether
accusations of blasphemy had also been made against the boy. Human
rights campaigners condemned the killing of Samuel Yaqoob whose
burned and tortured body body was discovered on Eid, the celebration
which marks the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. / His
lips and nose had been sliced off, his stomach removed and there
was evidence that his legs had been mutilated too. The boy had been
missing since Monday when he left his home in the town's Christian
Colony to visit a local market."
Of
Obama, Christians and crucifixions:
"Closer investigation of what is taking place in Egypt...does not
comport with a plan gone awry, but rather a plan coming to fruition.
...at the epicenter of the plan is none other than Barack Hussein
Obama and a cadre of globalists [wielding untold power],
who are... reshaping the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East
and the entire world. ...Arab Spring is not what it purports to
be....
"Despite the orchestrated chaos, death and the foothold gained by
radical Islamic organizations including al Qaeda and the
Muslim Brotherhood,
Obama himself has identified Arab Spring as a success in his foreign
policy. ... Obama announced his intention to bypass congress and
provide $1.5 billion in American taxpayer funded aid to the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt.... The Clinton State Department has raised
little objection despite the ruthless persecution by Morsi and the
Muslim Brotherhood."
See
The emerging New World
Order
Christians victims of
rising 'hostility' from gov't and secular groups, report says:
"...there's been a rising pattern of hostility toward Christians
in America over the past decade. The 140-page 'Survey of
Religious Hostility in America,' prepared by the Liberty Institute
and the Family Research Council, highlighted more than 600 examples
illustrating what it characterized as religious animosity shown
by judges, government bureaucrats, schools and secular
groups."
See
Can't We All Share One Religion?
‘Evangelicals are like totalitarian Muslims’, says Govt advisor:
[U.K., 8-3-12] Evangelical Christians have been labeled extremist, and likened
to 'totalitarian Muslims' by a senior government advisor....
"...evangelical Christians were also often misrepresented by the media and portrayed
as horrendous bigots or murdering lunatics."
How the Media Whitewashes Muslim
Persecution of Christians:
"When it comes to Muslim persecution of Christians, the mainstream media
(MSM) has a long paper trail of obfuscating; while they eventually do state
the bare-bone facts—if they ever report on the story in the first place,
which is rare—they do so after creating and sustaining an aura of moral
relativism that minimizes the Muslim role....This hardly suffices to describe
reality: Muslim majorities persecuting largely passive Christian minorities."
See
Spiritual
Warfare, Part 3: Hating Truth and Primed for Deception!
The next three items illustrate
different forms of
persecution.
They also remind us that life's hard places usually lead to the most fervent faith
and fruitful ministries!
1.
Chinese House Church Leader
Gives His Testimony
2.
"Serving
God in Stalin's Cruel Prisons
"I continued with my prayers. On my knees beside the narrow prison bunk,
life seemed to have stopped. I needed the familiarity of my daily prayers
more than ever....The thing that I had feared, and expected, had finally
happened. I had been arrested and brought to this prison, and now awaited
trial. ...I had gone to Moscow with a Christian brother to see what had
become of our petition to the Central Committee. But as soon as we stepped
inside the Office of Religious Affairs, we were both arrested. They read
no charges. They did not tell us why we were arrested....
Again
I heard the noise, 'Psst. Hey!' I rose from my knees and looked around....
“What
were you doing when you were on your knees?”
“I was
praying....”
“Does
your God hear your prayers?”
“Yes.”...
Though I had not been charged yet, I explained that my arrest was probably
because of my work of preaching and teaching throughout Russia. They understood.
When I mentioned that people in the registered church were responsible for
my arrest, many [of the prisoners] nodded their heads...."
See also
Treason
in the Church: Trading Truth for a "Social Gospel"
3.
Executed for Distributing Bibles:
“...there are no [or relatively few] nominal, halfhearted, lukewarm
Christians in Russia or China. The price Christians pay is far too great.
The next point to remember is that persecution has always produced a better
Christian—a witnessing Christian, a soul-winning Christian. Communist persecution
has backfired and produced serious, dedicated Christians such as are rarely
seen in free lands.”
See
Persecuted - but not
forsaken
Christian boy tortured
and killed in Pakistan:
"The tortured body of an 11 year old Christian boy has been found
in a town in Punjab, Pakistan, days after a young Christian girl
was arrested on blasphemy charges. ...Detectives in Faisalabad,
around 60 miles from Lahore, said they were investigating whether
accusations of blasphemy had also been made against the boy. Human
rights campaigners condemned the killing of Samuel Yaqoob whose
burned and tortured body body was discovered on Eid, the celebration
which marks the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. / His
lips and nose had been sliced off, his stomach removed and there
was evidence that his legs had been mutilated too. The boy had been
missing since Monday when he left his home in the town's Christian
Colony to visit a local market."
Of
Obama, Christians and crucifixions:
"Closer investigation of what is taking place in Egypt...does not
comport with a plan gone awry, but rather a plan coming to fruition.
...at the epicenter of the plan is none other than Barack Hussein Obama and a cadre of globalists [wielding untold power],
who are... reshaping the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East
and the entire world. ...Arab Spring is not what it purports to
be....
"Despite the orchestrated chaos, death and the foothold gained by
radical Islamic organizations including al Qaeda and the
Muslim Brotherhood,
Obama himself has identified Arab Spring as a success in his foreign
policy. ... Obama announced his intention to bypass congress and provide $1.5 billion in American taxpayer funded aid to the Muslim
Brotherhood in Egypt.... The Clinton State Department has raised
little objection despite the ruthless persecution by Morsi and the
Muslim Brotherhood."
See
The emerging New World
Order
Christians victims of
rising 'hostility' from gov't and secular groups, report says:
"...there's been a rising pattern of hostility toward Christians
in America over the past decade. The 140-page 'Survey of
Religious Hostility in America,' prepared by the Liberty Institute
and the Family Research Council, highlighted more than 600 examples
illustrating what it characterized as religious animosity shown
by judges, government bureaucrats, schools and secular
groups."
See
Can't We All Share One Religion?
‘Evangelicals are like totalitarian Muslims’, says Govt advisor:
[U.K., 8-3-12] Evangelical Christians have been labeled extremist, and likened
to 'totalitarian Muslims' by a senior government advisor....
"...evangelical Christians were also often misrepresented by the media and portrayed
as horrendous bigots or murdering lunatics."
How the Media Whitewashes Muslim
Persecution of Christians:
"When it comes to Muslim persecution of Christians, the mainstream media
(MSM) has a long paper trail of obfuscating; while they eventually do state
the bare-bone facts—if they ever report on the story in the first place,
which is rare—they do so after creating and sustaining an aura of moral
relativism that minimizes the Muslim role....This hardly suffices to describe
reality: Muslim majorities persecuting largely passive Christian minorities."
See
Spiritual
Warfare, Part 3: Hating Truth and Primed for Deception!
The next three items illustrate
different forms of
persecution.
They also remind us that life's hard places usually lead to the most fervent faith
and fruitful ministries!
1.
Chinese House Church Leader
Gives His Testimony
2.
"Serving
God in Stalin's Cruel Prisons
"I continued with my prayers. On my knees beside the narrow prison bunk,
life seemed to have stopped. I needed the familiarity of my daily prayers
more than ever....The thing that I had feared, and expected, had finally
happened. I had been arrested and brought to this prison, and now awaited
trial. ...I had gone to Moscow with a Christian brother to see what had
become of our petition to the Central Committee. But as soon as we stepped
inside the Office of Religious Affairs, we were both arrested. They read
no charges. They did not tell us why we were arrested....
Again
I heard the noise, 'Psst. Hey!' I rose from my knees and looked around....
“What
were you doing when you were on your knees?”
“I was
praying....”
“Does
your God hear your prayers?”
“Yes.”...
Though I had not been charged yet, I explained that my arrest was probably
because of my work of preaching and teaching throughout Russia. They understood.
When I mentioned that people in the registered church were responsible for
my arrest, many [of the prisoners] nodded their heads...."
See also
Treason
in the Church: Trading Truth for a "Social Gospel"
3.
Executed for Distributing Bibles:
“...there are no [or relatively few] nominal, halfhearted, lukewarm
Christians in Russia or China. The price Christians pay is far too great.
The next point to remember is that persecution has always produced a better
Christian—a witnessing Christian, a soul-winning Christian. Communist persecution
has backfired and produced serious, dedicated Christians such as are rarely
seen in free lands.”
See
Persecuted - but not
forsaken
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