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Acts of the Apostles 27:18-22
The next day as we were being violently storm-tossed, they began to jettison the cargo; and on the third day they threw the ship's tackle overboard with their own hands. Since neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small storm was assailing us, from then on all hope of our being saved was gradually abandoned. . . . "Yet now I urge you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.
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Romans 12:20
"BUT IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM, AND IF HE IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM A DRINK; FOR IN SO DOING YOU WILL HEAP BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD."
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Matthew 24:9
"Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
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Ephesians 6:12
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
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| Shalom in Christ Jesus, |
When the mainstream media
takes notice you know it is really bad and such is the case in India. That and
the fact the Hinduism has not become as politically and media savvy as Islam,
the Homosexual agenda and other anti-Christ movements.
Scripture teaches that the
church is made up of living stones, a priesthood of believers that compose the
body of Christ on earth, the living temple. Rather than a triumphant church before Christ returns
that much of Christianity preaches of today I believe scripture teaches of
only a faithful remnant that itself is facing immense trials and tribulations
while the institution of the church is all but destroyed, hence; no stone left
unturned.
This alert continues our
coverage of the massive increase in Christian persecution worldwide, which is
another sure sign of the soon return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
BE/\LERT!
Scott Brisk
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| Hindu Threat to Christians: Convert or Flee |
NEW YORK TIMES [NYTimes Group/Sulzberger] - By Somini Sengupta - October 12, 2008
BOREPANGA, India - The family of Solomon Digal was summoned by neighbors to what serves as a public square in front of the village tea shop.
They were ordered to get on their knees and bow before the portrait of a Hindu preacher. They were told to turn over their Bibles, hymnals and the two brightly colored calendar images of Christ that hung on their wall. Then, Mr. Digal, 45, a Christian since childhood, was forced to watch his Hindu neighbors set the items on fire.
" 'Embrace Hinduism, and your house will not be demolished,' " Mr. Digal recalled being told on that Wednesday afternoon in September. " 'Otherwise, you will be killed, or you will be thrown out of the village.' "
India, the world's most populous democracy and officially a secular nation, is today haunted by a stark assault on one of its fundamental freedoms. Here in eastern Orissa State, riven by six weeks of religious clashes, Christian families like the Digals say they are being forced to abandon their faith in exchange for their safety. . . .
The clash of faiths has cut a wide swath of panic and destruction through these once quiet hamlets fed by paddy fields and jackfruit trees. Here in Kandhamal, the district that has seen the greatest violence, more than 30 people have been killed, 3,000 homes burned and over 130 churches destroyed, including the tin-roofed Baptist prayer hall where the Digals worshiped. Today it is a heap of rubble on an empty field, where cows blithely graze.
Across this ghastly terrain lie the singed remains of mud-and-thatch homes. Christian-owned businesses have been systematically attacked. Orange flags (orange is the sacred color of Hinduism) flutter triumphantly above the rooftops of houses and storefronts. - - - -
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| Holy war strikes India |
35 Christians killed and 50,000 forced from their homes by Hindu mobs enraged at Swami's murder
THE INDEPENDENT, UK [APN / INM / O'Reilly] - By Andrew Buncombe in Phulbani, Orissa - October 9, 2008
- - - The journey to the heart of the violence follows a bone-shaking road east from Bhubaneswar to the district capital, Phulbani. It was here in late August that thousands of Hindus armed with swords, sticks and primitive guns began taking matters into their own hands after the murder of an elderly religious leader, Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati.
The swami, a senior member of a right-wing Hindu organisation known as the Vishswa Hindu Parishad (VHP), had reportedly been working to prevent low-caste Hindus converting to Christianity. His followers claimed he had been murdered by local Christians, though police said there was no evidence of that. Either way, in the days that followed, groups of Hindus wrought a terrible revenge on Christian families whom they had lived alongside for decades. In addition to the deaths, 140 churches and prayer halls were attacked and up to 50,000 people forced to flee. In instances the violence appears staggering in its cruelty. Rabindranath Pradhan, now a refugee, had to watch helplessly while a 300-strong mob doused his disabled brother with petrol and set him alight. "He was shouting 'Help me, Help me.' I could not help - there were so many of them," he said. - - - -
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| India: Evidence Concocted Against Christians In Murder Of Hindu Leader |
Orissa police confirm Maoists killed Saraswati; thousands flee amid continued violence.
COMPASS DIRECT - October 10, 2008
NEW DELHI, October 10 (Compass Direct News) - After police in the eastern state of Orissa confirmed this week that Maoists killed Hindu nationalist leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, a Hindu extremist group circulated allegedly forged documents in an attempt to implicate a local church in the Aug. 23 murder.
The Hindu Jagaran Samukhya (Society for Revival of Hinduism or HJS) circulated documents saying the plan to kill Saraswati in Kandhamal district was made at a meeting at Bethikala Church on May 25 attended by 17 people following a briefing and command from religious leaders, the Press Trust of India news agency reported yesterday.
. . . Father Joseph Kalathil from the Catholic Archbishop House in Bhubaneswar and the Rev. Fr. Prafulla Ku Sabhapati, president of the Bethikala Parish Council of Kandhamal, said in a statement. "Not only our signatures were forged, the contents of the documents were also fabricated."
On Oct. 6 Orissa state police confirmed that Maoists killed Saraswati, a day after the chief of the Orissa unit of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist, Sabyasachi Panda, told NDTV 24X7 news that his organization was behind the murder. - - - -
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Dozens dead, thousands left homeless in attacks from radical Hindus
WORLDNETDAILY - September 6, 2008
. . . "Persecution has become a way of life; it is the norm in Orissa," K.P. Yohannan, chief of the Gospel for Asia Christian ministry, said. "But the Lord is not abandoning His people in this state or anywhere else. He will always show up on time - His time."
Reports indicate there are some 50,000 Christians hiding in the jungles of Orissa because they fear the systematic Hindu attacks in which members of Christianity are attacked, raped, burned and killed. There were reports that Maoist sympathizers issued a statement claiming credit for the murder of Saraswat, but Hindus continue to blame Christians, reports from the region said.
So far Hindu extremists have burned an estimated 300 villages where Christians were in the majority, and they have destroyed more than 4,000 homes. Additionally, about 100 churches have been demolished. . . .
Gospel For Asia said 27 of the churches served by its missionaries have been destroyed.
The group also said some 10,000 Christians left homeless in the rioting have taken refuge in government relief camps, and the newest demands by Hindus have been that Christians abandon their faith and "agree to be 'reconverted' to Hinduism."
"Those who agree to become Hindu are then asked to join in destroying the church buildings and the houses of Christians," said a GFA leader in Orissa.
According to the All India Christian Council, the violence even has begun spilling over to neighboring regions, including Madhya Pradesh.
A delegation of citizens from the region met this week with the Indian president to talk about ways to protect the innocent. The group cited a series of attacks last Christmas that left four Christians dead and 105 churches and 730 Christian homes destroyed. - - - -
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| Christians brave horrifying massacres |
Victims pledge to persevere as mobs rape, maim, burn faithful
WORLDNETDAILY - By Drew Zahn - September 8, 2008
Despite brutal and horrifying persecution that has left countless dead and an estimated 50,000 homeless, Christians in India's Orissa state are determined that God will have the victory in their violence-torn homeland.
Since the assassination of anti-Christian Hindu leader Swami Laxamanananda Saraswat on Aug. 22, mobs of Hindu fanatics that blame Christians for the leader's death have been roving the Orissa state on the eastern shore of India, torching churches and homes, brutalizing Christians and burning the bodies of those they kill.
Reports from missions organization Gospel for Asia (GFA), however, tell of courage and determination in the face of violence.
One story reported on Christian Newswire told of a missionary beaten multiple times by a Hindu mob demanding he leave a village where he had been working.
"Even if you kill me, I will not make a vow that I will never come back," the missionary is reported to have answered. "That depends not on me but on the Lord. If he wants to send me here, then I will come," he told his attackers.
Simon John, a GFA regional leader in India, said, "Christians will stand together in this nation, in love and to lift up the people, even if persecution or death comes. We will not stop doing good for the people."
Persecution and death, however, have come, and they have come by horrifying means.
United Kingdom newspaper The Times reports several cases of brutality over the last two weeks alone: a nun was gang-raped; a worker at a church-run orphanage was burned alive; and a woman seven months pregnant was cut to pieces along with her one-year-old son when she refused to denounce Christianity and convert to Hinduism.
Ravindra Nath Prahan, 45, told the Times he and 113 others, warned by a text message, fled to the jungle, living off rainwater and foraging food for a week. His paralyzed brother, however, couldn't take to flight.
"They doused him with petrol and taunted him; we could hear him screaming," Prahan told The Times. His brother was burned alive. . . .
Orissa made headlines last Christmas when 95 churches were razed and at least five people were murdered, The Times reports, but the current massacre reflects the country's worst persecution of Christians since gaining its independence in 1947. - - - -
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| Missionary, Wife and Students Beaten by Radicals |
ASSIST NEWS SERVICE - Gospel for Asia/For Immediate Release - October 15, 2008
UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA -- Gospel for Asia missionary Sursen and his wife, Nirmala-along with two Bible college students, Jolen and Kushal-were beaten by a mob of religious extremists on October 5 in Uttar Pradesh, India. The attacks came as the group was praying before their regular Sunday morning worship service.
A mob of about 300 people descended on the Christians in an orchestrated attack. The extremists beat them up and handed them over to the police for arrest under false accusations of terrorism.
GFA field leaders went to the police office and spoke with authorities on the missionaries' behalf. By God's grace, the missionaries and Bible college students were released from jail that evening and the situation calmed down.
GFA leaders request prayer for God's protection and strength for Sursen, his wife and the two Bible college students. They also request prayer for wisdom as they continue sharing the love of Christ in this area.
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Hindu orphan raped, murdered in Orissa
TIMES NEWS NETWORK, TNN [Times Group-Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd./Sahu Jain] - By Sandeep Mishra - October 4, 2008
BHUBANESWAR: The brutal rape and murder of a Hindu orphan by Hindu fanatics, who thought she was Christian because she was being sheltered by them, has added to the Orissa government's embarrassment. It is already under fire for failing to contain the saffron mob's rampage in the state.
A Christian priest claimed on Saturday that Rajani Majhi, who was burnt alive by a mob at Padampur in Bargarh district on August 25, had been gangraped before being killed. The revelation has been rubbished by police. But it came a day after the state government confirmed a medical report that said a nun had been raped in Kandhmal.
Twenty-year-old Rajani was a student of Padampur Women's College and worked at the orphanage in which she lived to pay for her tuition. "On August 25 at around 1.30 pm a mob entered the small orphanage and beat up Father Edward Sequiera. Thereafter they took the girl to a side room and gangraped her before burning her alive," said T V Peter, procurator, Sambalpur diocese. The local administration hurriedly cremated Rajani. . . .
"I certainly believe she was gangraped." He said witnesses were too terrified to go to the cops or even talk about it because of Hindu mobs were still on a rampage in the area. "But I am willing to testify before the police or the court of law," he said. - - - -
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THE CHRISTIAN INSTITUTE [Registered charity in England & Scotland] - September 5, 2008
Widespread anti-Christian bias in the media means that groups like The Christian Institute face an "uphill struggle" for fair coverage, says a Sky News journalist.
Journalists select the information they wish to report based on a largely anti-Christian ideology, says David Blevins, a former Washington correspondent for Sky News.
Mr Blevins made his comments on Christian blog, To Whom It May Concern. When asked if the media in America and the UK understands evangelical Christians, he said:
"Not at all. It's important to remember that what appears in the newspapers is not an objective summary of the significant things that happened yesterday but an ideological selection based on the prejudices, agendas and assumptions of a relatively small group of people.
"Their ideology could be loosely defined as 'progress will one day meet our needs.' So as with other forms of thought that deviate from that ideological view, evangelical Christianity is either dismissed out of hand or reported in a manner that serves to reinforce the ideology!
"'Religion' is viewed as obscure, life-denying and regressive. Organisations like Evangelical Alliance and the Christian Institute face an uphill struggle to change that perception."
Last month, John Smeaton of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child accused The Times newspaper of a "blatant bias on life issues".
In 2006 executives at the BBC admitted that they would consider broadcasting a scene where the Bible was thrown away but they would never do the same with the Koran.
Robin Aitken, a former BBC reporter, has written a book on the subject. He names Christians among the BBC's "in-house pariah groups".
"These people," he says, "will never get the soft interview or helpful publicity."
Former Chief Political Correspondent, Andrew Marr, has said that the BBC has a "liberal bias" and is staffed by an "abnormally large number" of gays.
Archbishop John Sentamu said in 2006 that Christians took "more knocks" in BBC programmes than other faiths.
He added: "They can do to us what they dare not do to the Muslims. We are fair game because they can get away with it."
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BBC boss says Islam should be treated more sensitively than Christianity
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Islam should be treated more sensitively by the media than Christianity, according to the director general of the BBC.LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH [Barclay] - By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent - October 16, 2008Mark Thompson claimed that because Muslims are a religious minority in Britain and also often from ethnic minorities, their faith should be given different coverage to that of more established groups. His comments come after the comedian Ben Elton accused the BBC of being scared of making jokes about Islam, while Hindus have claimed it favours Muslims over other religions. But Mr Thompson, speaking at the annual public theology lecture of the religion think-tank Theos, insisted the state broadcaster would show programmes that criticised Islam if they were of sufficient quality. The director general, whose corporation faced accusations of blasphemy from Christians after it allowed the transmission of the musical Jerry Springer -The Opera, also said his Christian beliefs guided his judgments and disclosed that he had never watched the Monty Python film Life of Brian which satirises the story of Jesus. In his speech last night, Mr Thompson claimed there are now more programmes about religion on BBC television and radio than there have been in recent decades, whereas coverage has declined on ITV. But asked whether it was correct that the BBC "let vicar gags pass but not imam gags", as Elton claimed, he admitted it did take a different approach to Islam, which has 1.6million followers in Britain, compared to its approach to the Church of England or the Roman Catholic Church. Mr Thompson said: "My view is that there is a difference between the position of Christianity, which I believe should be central to the BBC's religion coverage and widely respected and followed. "What Christian identity feels like it is about to the broad population is a little bit different to people for whom their religion is also associated with an ethnic identity which has not been fully integrated. "There's no reason why any religion should be immune from discussion, but I don't want to say that all religions are the same. To be a minority I think puts a slightly different outlook on it." . . . Earlier this year Mr Thompson had warned of a "growing nervousness about discussion about Islam" and said no debate about religion should be censored. Mr Thompson said the broadcast of Jerry Springer - The Opera, which features Jesus as a talk show guest who admits to being "a bit gay", had been the most controversial programme he had dealt with during his time at the corporation. "No political issue has so far come near Jerry Springer in terms of anger and emotion. It wasn't politics that put a security guard outside my house, it was a debate about how the BBC handles religion." - - - - Read Full Report
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U.N. Anti-Blasphemy Resolution Curtails Free Speech, Critics Say
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FOX NEWS [News Corporation/Murdoch] - By Jennifer Lawinski - October 6, 2008Religious groups and free-speech advocates are banding together to fight a United Nations resolution they say is being used to spread Sharia law to the Western world and to intimidate anyone who criticizes Islam. The non-binding resolution on "Combating the Defamation of Religion" is intended to curtail speech that offends religion -- particularly Islam. Pakistan and the Organization of the Islamic Conference introduced the measure to the U.N. Human Rights Council in 1999. It was amended to include religions other than Islam, and it has passed every year since. In 2005, Yemen successfully brought a similar resolution before the General Assembly. Now the 192-nation Assembly is set to vote on it again. The non-binding Resolution 62/145, which was adopted in 2007, says it "notes with deep concern the intensification of the campaign of defamation of religions and the ethnic and religious profiling of Muslim minorities in the aftermath of 11 September 2001." It "stresses the need to effectively combat defamation of all religions and incitement to religious hatred, against Islam and Muslims in particular." . . . The U.S. government mission in Geneva, in a statement, told the U.N. Human Rights Council in July that "defamation-related laws have been abused by governments and used to restrict human rights" around the world, and sometimes Westerners have been caught in the web. - - - - Read Full Report
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Sharia-following Islamic nations demanding anti-'defamation' law
WORLDNETDAILY - By Bob Unruh - July 10, 2008
Dozens of nations dominated by Islam are pressing the United Nations to adopt an anti-"defamation" plan that would make Christians criminals under international law, according to a United States organization that has launched a campaign to defend freedom of religion worldwide.
"Around the world, Christians are being increasingly targeted, and even persecuted, for their religious beliefs. Now, one of the largest organizations in the United Nations is pushing to make a bad situation even worse by promoting anti-Christian bigotry," the American Center for Law & Justice said yesterday in announcing its petition drive.
The discrimination is "wrapped in the guise of a U.N. resolution called 'Combating Defamation of Religions,'" the announcement said. "We must put an immediate end to this most recent, dangerous attack on faith that attempts to criminalize Christianity."
The "anti-defamation" plan has been submitted to the U.N. repeatedly since about 1999, starting out as a plan to ban "defamation" of Islam and later changed to refer to "religions," officials said. It is being pushed by the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference nations, which has adopted the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam, "which states that all rights are subject to sharia law, and makes sharia law the only source of reference for human rights."
The ACLJ petition, which is to be delivered to the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, already had collected more than 23,000 names in just a brief online existence.
The ACLJ's European division, the European Center for Law & Justice, also has launched its work on the issue. It submitted arguments last month to the U.N. in opposition to the proposal to institute sharia-based standards around the globe.
"The position of the ECLJ in regards to the issue of 'defamation of religion' resolutions, as they have been introduced at the U.N. Human Rights Council and General Assembly, is that they are in direct violation of international law concerning the rights to freedom of religion and expression," the organization's brief said.
"The 'defamation of religion' resolutions establish as the primary focus and concern the protection of ideas and religions generally, rather than protecting the rights of individuals to practice their religion, which is the chief purpose of international religious freedom law."
"Furthermore, 'defamation of religion' replaces the existing objective criterion of limitations on speech where there is an intent to incite hatred or violence against religious believers with a subjective criterion that considers whether the religion or its believers feel offended by the speech," the group continued.
Interestingly, in nations following Islam, the present practice is to use such laws to protect Islam and to attack religious minorities with penalties up to and including execution, the brief noted. - - - -
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| Muslims Continue Pushing Christians Out of Bethlehem |
ARUTZ SHEVA (Israeli National News) - By Gil Ronen - September 12, 2008
The Muslim Fatah-controlled authority in Judea and Samaria is encouraging a "sharp demographic shift" in Bethlehem, where the Christian population went from a 60 percent majority in 1990 to a 40 percent minority in 2000, to about 15 percent of the city's total population today.
It is estimated that, for the past seven years, more than one thousand Christians have been emigrating from the Bethlehem area annually and that only 10,000 to 13,000 Christians remain in the city. International human rights lawyer Justus Reid Weiner, who teaches at Hebrew University, told the Jerusalem Institute for Global Jewish Affairs that, under the PA-Fatah regime, Christian Arabs have been victims of frequent human rights abuses by Muslims.
"There are many examples of intimidation, beatings, land theft, firebombing of churches and other Christian institutions, denial of employment, economic boycotts, torture, kidnapping, forced marriage, sexual harassment, and extortion," he said. PA officials are directly responsible for many of the attacks, and some Muslims who have converted to Christianity have been murdered.
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As people with "dhimmi" status, Christians living in Palestinian-controlled territories are not treated as the equals of Muslims. He says: "They are subjected to debilitating legal, political, cultural, and religious restrictions. This has become a critical problem for the Palestinian Christians in the West Bank and Gaza. Muslim groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad have built a culture of hatred upon the age-old foundations of Islamic society. Moreover, the PA has adopted Islamic law into its draft constitution."
In 2006, Hassan El-Masalmeh, a member of the Bethlehem City Council and local Hamas leader, publicly advocated implementing a discriminatory tax on non-Muslim residents. In late 2007 an evangelical pastor was forced to leave Ramallah under threats from Fatah gunmen, and soon after, his congregation dispersed.
"Tens of thousands of Palestinian Christians have left their ancestral homes and emigrated to North America, Central America, South America, Europe, and Australia. They flee to almost any country that will issue them a visa," Weiner said. "Neither the Palestinian Christian leaders nor the PA want to reveal accurate statistics. That would mean the extent of the emigration would become publicly known. They would then have to face questions about the reasons for this decline."
"It is currently estimated that the number of Christians living in Gaza totals only 1,500-3,000 amid 1.2 million Muslims. Probably less than fifty thousand Christians remain in all of East Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza together," he estimated. "Taybeh, a village located deep in the West Bank, is the only all-Christian village left in the PA. As a result of the perpetual violence, many residents of Taybeh have gone abroad and only 1,300 remain. The situation of these Christians has become grim."
Kidnapping of Christian Women
"Incidents of Muslim men 'seducing' or kidnapping Christian girls have caused growing anxiety among the Christian population. In May 2004, a sixteen-year-old Christian girl from Bethlehem, who was a U.S. citizen, went missing for five days after being kidnapped by a 23 year-old Muslim. " The girl's family contacted the American Consulate in Jerusalem, and it was only thanks to their intervention that she was rescued and left with her family for the United States. The episode received virtually no international media coverage.
In another case, a Muslim family appeared uninvited on the doorstep of a wealthy Christian family in Judea and Samaria and demanded that the Christian family's daughter, known for her beauty, marry their son. Their son was already dressed up for his wedding, accompanied by the sheikh and fifteen Muslim men. To protect his family the Christian girl's father opened fire on the Muslim entourage, killing three and wounding ten. The girl's family immediately abandoned their home and fled abroad."
Converts targeted
The PA was involved in the torture of two Muslim brothers from Samaria who adopted the Christian faith.
The first brother was arrested by the PA secret police and accused of collaborating with Israeli and American intelligence. After the interrogation the police placed a cardboard sign on his back upon which was written, 'Najib the Christian.' Then he was told to 'curse Jesus.'" He eventually made contact with Israelis who arranged for him to hide in a bomb shelter in a Jewish community and was finally granted asylum in Norway.
His brother spent 21 months in a PA prison after being arrested on fabricated charges. He was held for seven months in underground solitary confinement. Weiner quotes his testimony before him thus: "I was beaten with sticks; they stripped me naked and made me sit on bottles, and on the legs of chairs that they turned upside down, and many, many other sadistic things that I am even ashamed to say. Many times they allowed lynch mobs like the Al-Aksa Brigades to come in and pull prisoners out of the cells. They were taken out and shot on the spot, their bodies then dragged through the streets for all to see."
Medieval torture
The young man was sentenced to be executed but was liberated from prison by the Israel Defense Forces. He lives in Israel but his wife and eight children remained behind and are under constant threat of harassment. He hopes to find asylum in Norway.
Another Christian convert, El-Achwal, was initially arrested on fabricated charges of stealing gold. He was kept in a tiny cell and regularly left without food or water for days on end. The torture he sustained during the interrogation required lengthy hospitalization. Weiner, who interviewed El-Achwal, said Ahmed "had suffered extensive and serious burns on his back, buttocks, and legs. The heated torture implement that was applied to his skin reminded me of similar medieval instruments." He was eventually freed but refused to renounce his Christian faith. One day he was beaten by a group of masked men affiliated with the PA security services, who also torched his car. His residence was firebombed and on January 21 2004, he was shot dead by masked gunmen who have never been arrested.
Despite all of this, Weiner says, American Episcopalians and Presbyterians frequently blame Israel for the Middle East conflict. Leaders of other North American churches including the Methodists, the United Church of Christ, and the Lutherans "have also gone to great lengths to offer up one-sided condemnations of Israeli policies."
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| Islamic takeover of U.S. already under way |
Expert warns 'mainstream media' providing 'talking points' of Arab countries
WORLDNETDAILY - October 3, 2008
An expert on terrorism is warning the United States should be fighting Islamization, which she believes already is under way. And author Brigitte Gabriel should know: She watched it happen in her native Lebanon.
"Lebanon used to be the only majority Christian country in the Middle East," Gabriel told radio talk show host Andrea Shea King in a recent hour-long interview "Most people today do not know that. We were the majority, the Muslims were the minority, but as the years went by, the Muslims became the majority because of their birth rate, but also because of our open-border policy.
"We welcomed everyone into our country," Gabriel said, and people didn't realize that the "minority," the Muslims in the society, "was not tolerant" and "did not believe all people were equal."
"They tried to impose their way of thinking on us, and they succeeded," she said.
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The result, Gabriel said, was that a radical terrorist organization tied to Islam, Hezbollah, now rules in Lebanon.
As WND reported, Gabriel is fearful that terrorists believe now is the time to strike at America, while it is distracted by financial tension and election turmoil. She expressed the concerns during an interview with KSFO's Barbara Simpson, when she also discussed her new book, "They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It
Gabriel's new interview with King is available on BlogTalkRadio.
She noted it's been seven years since the Sept. 11, 2001, act of war on U.S. soil by Islamists, but America is falling to Islam's attack, and the battle already is far advanced.
"They do not need to fire a single bullet to destroy us," she said. "They are taking over our country culturally, just like they have taken over Europe."
She said Islam is being taught across the U.S. as part of world history courses for seventh graders.
"A three-week course is teaching students to memorize and recite Islamic prayers and verses from the Quran," she said. "Students have to adopt Islamic names, fast for a day to experience Ramadan, the holiest of Islamic religious holidays, and write about their experience as a Muslim at the end of the program. The exercises during the class include encouraging students to incorporate Arabic phrases such as Allahu Akbar in their speeches, and for students to imagine they were meeting disciples on a pilgrimage to Mecca. This is a state-approved curriculum, using state-adopted textbooks that have been part of the instructional program in California for over a decade."
WND reported this week that a new study shows U.S. textbooks provide "information" such as that Jesus was a Palestinian and the nation of Israel imposes terrorism on others but is not a victim a terrorism. - - - -
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| Airline ban on Christian cross appealed |
Discrimination complaint cites accommodations for Muslims
WORLDNETDAILY - October 16, 2008
A Christian worker at British Airways is appealing a court's endorsement of a company policy that allowed Muslims and Hindus to wear religious clothing and jewelry but banned a tiny Christian cross on a necklace.
As WND reported, Heathrow check-in worker Nadia Eweida, who is a Coptic Christian and whose father is Egyptian and mother English, was sent home after refusing to remove the cross, which British Airways claimed violated its dress code.
The suit continued despite the airline loosening its cross prohibition last year.
Then early this year WND reported when a decision from the Reading Employment Tribunal said the airline could prohibit Eweida from wearing a cross pendant that is visible.
The ruling said the other religious symbols such as turbans and bangles cannot be concealed and therefore are acceptable.
But Eweida, 56, from Twickenham, said the precedent needs to be overturned, according to a new BBC report.
For one thing, she lost about $6,000 in wages while she was without pay during the time she was challenging the policy, which later was changed by the airline so that religious symbols that can be seen, such as necklaces, now can be worn.
She is arguing the airline had made allowances from one minority but not for another.
The case started in 2006 when Eweida was sent home from work after refusing to remove the cross, which British Airways claimed violated its dress code.
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Saudi Arabia: Muslim father burns Christian daughter alive
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Man slices out girl's tongue, ignites her after 'heated debate on religion'WORLDNETDAILY - August 13, 2008A Saudi Arabian Muslim father cut out his daughter's tongue and lit her on fire upon learning that she had become a Christian. The child became curious about Jesus Christ after she read Christian material online, the Gulf News reported. Her father read of her Internet conversation, detached her tongue and burned her to death "following a heated debate on religion," according to an International Christian Concern report. The father is employed by the muwateen, or Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. The muwateen are police tasked by the government with enforcing religious purity. The man has been taken into custody, and his identity has not been released. . . . Saudi Arabian oil money is used to export Wahabbism - a version of Islam said to be least tolerant toward non-Muslims - to other nations, including the U.S., ICC notes. - - - - Read Full ReportAlso:Iranians consider mandatory execution for apostasy
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| Iraq's Christians face "liquidation" |
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE - October 10, 2008
KIRKUK, Iraq - Iraq's Christians face "liquidation," the Chaldean archbishop of the northern city of Kirkuk told AFP in an interview, urging Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to guarantee the minority's safety.
Archbishop Louis Sako also called on the US military to do more to protect Christians and other minorities in the face of a rash of deadly attacks that has prompted growing numbers to flee the country.
"We are the target of a campaign of liquidation, a campaign of violence. The objective is political," Sako said.
He said that since the US-led invasion of 2003, more than 200 Christians had been killed and a string of churches attacked, and added that the violence had intensified in recent weeks, particularly in the north. . . .
There were around 800,000 Christians in Iraq at the time of the US-led invasion, a number that has now shrunk by a third as the faithful have fled the country, the archbishop said. . . .
The archbishop said that in the main northern city of Mosul [Ancient Nineveh] six Christians had been killed in less than a week. - - - -
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| As Tensions Rise for Egypt's Christians, Officials Call Clashes Secular |
But the Egyptian security apparatus is increasingly alone in its insistence.
NEW YORK TIMES [NYTimes Group/Sulzberger] - By Michael Slackman - August 2, 2008
CAIRO - A monastery was ransacked in January. In May, monks there were kidnapped, whipped and beaten and ordered to spit on the cross. Christian-owned jewelry stores were robbed over the summer. The rash of violence was so bad that one prominent Egyptian writer worried it had become "open season" on the nation's Christians.
Does Egypt face a sectarian problem?
Not according to its security officials, who insist that each dispute represents a "singular incident" tied to something other than faith. In the case of the monastery and the monks, officials said the conflict was essentially a land dispute between the church and local residents.
"Every incident has to be seen within its proper framework; you study an incident as an incident," said an Interior Ministry spokesman who grew furious at the suggestion that Egyptians were in conflict because of their differing faiths. It is customary for security officials not to have their names revealed publicly. . . .
But the Egyptian security apparatus is increasingly alone in its insistence.
As more and more conflicts pile up and as the tensions of daily life increase, many people in Egypt and around the region said the problem of sectarian clashes had become more urgent. They said that ordinary conflicts had become more bitterly sectarian as religious identity had become more prominent among Muslims and Christians alike. - - - -
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| New York State: From church to mosque |
THE OBSERVER-DISPATCH, Utica, NY [GateHouse Media, Inc.] - September 26, 2008
UTICA - The Bosnian Islamic Association of Utica has bought and converted the former United Methodist Church on Court Street into a mosque, their first prayer service was held there Friday, September 26.
Construction is under way to convert the former Central United Methodist Church on Court street into a mosque for the Bosnian Islamic Association of Utica.
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TV drama portrays Muslim being beheaded by ChristianNetwork defends decision to show decapitation: 'Carefully considered ... central to the story line'WORLDNETDAILY - July 12, 2008A new television drama, debuting earlier this week, is drawing complaints from viewers and critics over its portrayal of Christians as extremists who take their inspiration from the Crusades and behead a moderate Muslim in an unprovoked attack. Read Full ReportMuslims equate Christians with terroristsPolice raid homes, seize literature, arrest converts and deport missionariesWORLDNETDAILY - May 27, 2008Christian missionaries are "as dangerous as terrorist activities or the illegal drug trade," Islamic theologians in Uzbekistan declared. . . . The Uzbek theologian said missionary activities disrupt society because Uzbek families do not tolerate relatives who convert from Islam. - - - - Read Full ReportCanadian missionaries attacked in Kenya back homeCANWEST NEWS SERVICE [Asper-CanWest Global] - By Jason van Rassel and Linda Nguyen - July 28, 2008CALGARY - Two Canadian missionaries who were nearly killed in Kenya returned home Monday evening with words of forgiveness for their attackers. . . . The couple - Christian missionaries working in Kenya for a Kelowna, B.C.-based group called Hope for the Nations - was attacked on July 9 in the gated compound in the rural community of Kitale where they lived to grow food for local orphan children. - - - - Read Full ReportFear of War Increasing in Horn of AfricaASSOCIATED PRESS - By Anita Powell - December 26, 2007ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia ... "You cannot separate the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict from what is happening in Somalia, Sudan and even the Middle East," said Tadesse. "This is not just a small, low-key conflict. It's a large-scale military confrontation." It's one that has been brewing for several decades. Once part of largely Christian Ethiopia, Eritrea, which is predominantly Muslim, fought a 30-year guerrilla war that led to a referendum and independence in 1993. But the countries disagreed over currency and trade issues, and both laid claim to towns along the border, including Badme. - - - - Read Full Report
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Dems combine to banish 'anti-gay discrimination'WORLDNETDAILY - By Bob Unruh - October 8, 2008Tim Gill, the secretive Colorado software multi-millionaire and behind-the-scenes "gay" activist who has boasted of his strategy to buy up campaigns for pro-homosexual candidates, soon may be learning he cannot buy the First Amendment. Gill, whose strategic campaign donations in 2004 largely are credited with turning the GOP majority in the Colorado statehouse into a Democratic bastion and whose work in 2006 helped install Democrat Bill Ritter, a vigorously pro-abortion campaigner, in the governor's office, has been blamed by Christian organizations for the success of a new Colorado law that bans the Bible in the state. But the Christian Family Alliance of Colorado and Liberty Counsel are teaming up on a soon-to-be-filed lawsuit expected to highlight the apparent First Amendment violations of SB200, the state law that bans references to homosexuals that could be perceived as "discriminatory" and raises the issue of whether the law applies to the Bible's label of homosexuality as an "abomination." The protection for homosexuals is wrapped up in a "gender" discrimination ban that widely was publicized as the "bathroom bill," because it also allows adults who say they are a particular sex to use public restrooms designated for that sex, whether their physical characteristics match that sex or not. Such laws also have been adopted locally in Florida and Maryland, too. But within the bill are the much more drastic provisions addressing the Bible. "Section 8 of the bill makes it a crime to publish or distribute anything that is deemed a 'discrimination' against the homosexual and transsexual lifestyle," said a statement from the Christian Family Alliance. Mark Hotaling, executive director for the Alliance, said the work of Gill and his homosexual lobby has been evident since Democrats took the majority position in the state legislature in 2004. "But this is just so over the top," he said of the latest attack on biblical values. He said initially supporters and even some opponents of the bill explained that there was an exception for churches and church organizations. However, lawmakers then attached to the bill a state "safety clause" which is supposed to deal with laws that are fundamental to protecting the lives of residents. That, he said, simply stripped away any potential allowances for churches and church groups. "Anyone who claims that there's an exception for churches really doesn't know the ins and outs of the bill," Hotaling told WND. "So the religious exemption is purely window dressing and very deceptive," he said. "The Word of God literally now is banned, and that's a legitimate slam-dunk First Amendment issue there." Also a horror is the provision for adults to be provided access to restrooms of their choice, he said. The law "gives increased access for predators and cross-dressers to go into any bathroom they choose," he said. "The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says predators prey on children where they have their greatest access." - - - - Read Full Report* Emphasis AddedAlso:The 'how-to' plan to criminalize ChristianityDem cops cuff, stuff Christian girls
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| Brazil: Offend a homosexual ... Go to prison for 5 years |
Teachers, pastors facing 'criminalization of homophobia'WORLDNETDAILY - July 16, 2008Christians will face prison for speaking out against homosexuality if Brazil's Senate passes a bill approved unanimously by its House of Representatives. The measure is considered the country's newest attempt to promote homosexuality, disguised as an act to combat discrimination, the Catholic News Agency reports. If anyone prevents actions of "homosexual affection" in public or private locations open to the public, they could face up to five years in prison for doing so, the Association of the Defense of Life reports. The bill also seeks to penalize private and public school administrators with up to three years in prison if they refuse to hire openly "gay" teachers. According to the CNA, the measure will force prison time for any "moral, ethical, philosophical or psychological expression that questions homosexual practices." The ADL claims the bill could spell disaster for churches and teachers. "[A] priest, a pastor, a teacher or even an average citizen who says in a sermon, a classroom or public conversation that homosexual acts are sinful, disordered or an illness could be denounced and detained," the association said. Only weeks ago, WND reported the president of Brazil said "opposing" homosexuality makes you a sick person, and he believes such thoughts need to be criminalized. Brazilian chief Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who won a narrow re-election following a cash-for-votes scandals, held the First National Conference of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, Transvestites and Transsexuals to condemn the biblical belief that homosexuality is wrong. Lula, on June 5, not only officially opened the event to promote homosexuality across his nation but also issued a presidential sanction for the conference. Calling for "the criminalization of homophobia," he said opposition to homosexuality is "perhaps the most perverse disease impregnated in the human head." He said "prejudiced" people need to "open their minds and clean them." Other speakers encouraged homosexuals to claim to be part of a civil rights campaign that already has brought reforms for treatment of blacks, the elderly and the disabled. They also announced the nation's public hospitals soon would begin to perform sex changes on people. Original Report |
| Christian counselor fired for trying to help lesbian |
Referral to another adviser classified as 'homophobic'
WORLDNETDAILY - July 16, 2008
A Christian counselor has been fired on directions from government officials for trying to help a lesbian by referring her to another adviser who was supportive of homosexual "marriage," according to a lawsuit filed on her behalf.
The action has been brought by the Alliance Defense Fund on behalf of Marcia Walden, who was fired from her position with a contractor for the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta because her religious beliefs conflicted with the homosexual's goal of rebuilding a same-sex relationship and she reassigned the client to another counselor.
"A woman shouldn't lose her job for merely upholding the highest professional standards," said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Brian Raum. "It is unconstitutional to punish Walden for following her Christian faith, particularly when she made every effort to accommodate the needs of a potential client. Referring her to another competent counselor instead of attempting to offer her own counsel in such a situation was the ethical thing to do for the person seeking help. It's egregious to be fired for honoring professional and ethical obligations." . . .
In August 2007, a woman working at the CDC sought help from Walden, a counselor at CSC which operated a counseling service under the federal agency's employee assistance program, regarding a same-sex relationship.
"Walden explained that the client's needs would conflict with her religious beliefs and that, therefore, it would be unfair for her to serve as the woman's counselor. As a result, Walden referred the individual to a colleague," the law firm said. "After the meeting with the client, Walden's colleague told her that she had done 'the right thing' by referring the woman to him."
However, it apparently was not enough that her counseling needs were addressed, because the lesbian complained about Walden, alleging the Christian counselor was "homophobic." - - - -
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| Thai government tries to shut down 400 websites |
THE GUARDIAN [Guardian Media Group, UK - By Oliver Luft - September 3, 2008
Thailand's Information and Communications Technology Ministry sought court orders yesterday to shut down about 400 websites and advised internet service providers to block 1,200 sites it considers a danger to national security or disturbing social order.
ICT minister Mun Patanotai said the department had advised ISPs to immediately block these websites, which it claimed were detected between March and August this year, and had sought court actions against them under article 20 of Thailand's Computer Crime Act.
The Bangkok Post reported yesterday that the ministry claimed the sites "disturbed the peaceful social order and morality of the people, and/or which were considered detrimental to national security".
This move to shut down online dissent follows the Thai authorities' declaration of a state of emergency yesterday as thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to demand the government's resignation.
Thai prime minister, Samak Sundaravej, announced sweeping curbs to civil liberties to maintain calm, after which the ICT Ministry said it had detected more than 1,200 websites that violated the Computer Crime Act. - - - -
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| Top insurer forces employees to study Buddhist teachings |
Managers' retreat requires chanting 'om' in dark room
WORLDNETDAILY - By Bob Unruh - October 6, 2008
A former Prudential Insurance manager is preparing legal action against the company, claiming she was fired after blowing the whistle on mandatory Eastern religious exercises that included chanting the Hindu mantra "om" in darkened rooms.
Prudential Insurance Co.'s southern California real estate division also required managers to read a Buddhist book, charges the Christian ex-employee, whose name has been withheld pending formal action.
The former manager's lawyer, Richard Ackerman of Ackerman Cowles & Associates, has written a letter to Prudential demanding the company stop requiring participation in the religous practices and warning he has been retained to pursue claims of religious discrimination, "hostile environment" and harassment against his client that led to her termination.
Ackerman told Prudential California Realty, a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate, it must stop the "discriminatory practice of segregating Christians from other employees and forcing employees to adopt and practice Buddhist theology as an implied or express condition of their ... employment." - - - -
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| Christianity spreads by 'house churches' in China |
THE ECONOMIST [The Economist Newspaper Ltd] - Opinion - October 3, 2008
Zhao Xiao, a former Communist Party official and convert to Christianity, smiles over a cup of tea and says he thinks there are up to 130 million Christians in China. This is far larger than previous estimates.
The government says there are 21 million (16 million Protestants, 5 million Catholics). Unofficial figures, such as one given by the Center for the Study of Global Christianity in Massachusetts, put the number at about 70 million.
But Zhao is not alone in his reckoning. A study of China by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, an American think tank, says indirect survey evidence suggests many unaffiliated Christians are not in the official figures.
And according to China Aid Association, a Texas-based lobby group, the director of the government body that supervises all religions in China, said privately that the figure was indeed as much as 130 million in early 2008.
If so, it would mean China contains more Christians than Communists (party membership is 74 million) and there may be more active Christians in China than in any other country. - - - -
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| Protests get Jews for Jesus radio ad pulled in North |
THE JERUSALEM POST [Mirkaei Tikshoret/CanWest] - By Matthew Wagner - October 6, 2008
Ed Note: Israel is the only friend of Christians in the Middle East, however, many Israeli's disapprove of the gospel being preached to Jews themselves mainly due to the lies perpetrated by anti-Semitic Christians, hence a form of persecution that does exist.
A wave of irate protest silenced a Jews for Jesus radio campaign last week on a local radio station in the North.
It took just a few hours for Kol Rega, which broadcasts to the Galilee and northern valleys, to cave in to pressure from listeners who phoned in to demand that the Jews for Jesus campaign be taken off the air.
"Shortly after we broadcast it, we received dozens of angry phone calls from listeners telling us they were hurt by the crudeness of the ad," said Haim Hecht, manager of Kol Rega. "The truth is that even before it hurt my listeners the ad hurt me. It was simply too aggressive and blatantly missionary."
The slogan of the radio campaign is "Yeshu [a derogatory form of Jesus] equals Yeshua [accent on penultimate syllable] equals yeshua [accent on the last syllable]."
Yeshu as a reference to Jesus appears in the Talmud; it is an acronym for "May his name and memory be wiped out" (yemach shmo vezichro). Yeshua is Jesus in Hebrew. Yeshua, with an accent on the last syllable, means redemption.
In three different versions of the ad, ethnically identifiable Israeli Jewish voices - one Russian, one Moroccan and one haredi Ashkenazi - express surprise at being told that Jesus is equivalent to redemption.
At the end of the ad a voice-over says, "Confused? Call for more information," and provides a phone number.
Dan Sered, head of Jews for Jesus in Israel, said in response, "All we are trying to do is share our faith. We just want to provide Israelis with an opportunity to know that Jesus died for our sins and rose on the third day. Most Israelis have never gotten the chance to hear about Jesus. If they do not want to hear that is fine. But if they are interested, why shouldn't they be given the opportunity?" - - - -
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Israel condemns bible burning
JTA/GLOBAL JEWISH NEWS & ANALYSIS - May 30, 2008
Israel's government condemned the burning of Christian bibles in an Israeli town.
"The Foreign Ministry condemns the recent burning of the New Testament in Or Yehuda and views it as contrary to the values of the State of Israel as a democratic Jewish state that grants freedom of religion and freedom of worship to all its citizens," the ministry said Thursday in a one-sentence statement.
It was not clear why the Foreign Ministry issued a statement concerning a domestic matter.
Residents of the central Israeli town burned New Testaments last week after the mayor urged them to discard missionary literature distributed to residences.
The burnings have also been condemned by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, an umbrella body for Jewish advocacy groups in the United States, as well as the Conservative movement.
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| Virginia governor endorses ban on 'Jesus' prayer |
Dispute arose when chaplains ordered to accommodate everyone in audienceWORLDNETDAILY - October 3, 2008Gov. Timothy Kaine of Virginia has affirmed his support for a new statewide policy under which state troopers serving as chaplains will not be allowed to pray "in Jesus name," explaining that he can pray "without mentioning Jesus." "I would never do anything to inhibit anybody's religious worship. It doesn't diminish my ability to worship my God, to pray to the Father or the Lord without mentioning Jesus Christ," he said. As a result, a coalition of pastors from a wide range of Christian groups and church denominations across the state is planning a rally Nov. 1, just three days before the fall elections, to protest the move that resulted in the resignations of six of the state's 17 trooper chaplains. The "Stand Up For Jesus" rally is set for Nov. 1 at 10 a.m. at the Capitol Square Bell Tower in Richmond, "within earshot of the governor's mansion," according to former Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who fought a battle with the U.S. military over the issue and lost his career as a result. He later won a victory in Congress allowing other chaplains to pray as their conscience dictates. - - - - Read Full ReportAlso:Praying Using Jesus' Name UnconstitutionalSandra Day O'Connor justifies prayer limits |
| Bush: IRS should enforce pastor's speech ban |
Spokesman responds to question about preachers talking politics
WORLDNETDAILY - September 30, 2008
The Internal Revenue Service should be, and is, enforcing a law banning pastors from talking politics from their pulpits, according to a spokesman for the White House.
Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto today told Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, that he hasn't talked with the president about a campaign event last Sunday at which ministers of the Gospel addressed the moral issues at hand in the 2008 election.
Kinsolving asked: "The AP also reports that 33 pastors in 22 states made specific endorsements of political candidates in challenging the IRS-Lyndon Johnson ruling about no political endorsements in churches. And my question: Does the president believe that America's clergy should be denied the freedom of speech to endorse political candidates?"
Fratto responded: "Those rules are set forth in IRS regulations, directed by statute. And the IRS is enforcing the law, and the president believes that the IRS should enforce the law. But on the specific question of these clergymen, I haven't had that conversation with the president."
The campaign was launched by the Alliance Defense Fund to challenge the 1954 amendment to the Internal Revenue Code that barred non-profit groups such as churches from participating in or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of any political candidate. - - - -
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