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Biblical Message Now Criminalized--WND
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Biblical message now criminalized
Penalties created for those criticizing homosexuality outside church walls
Posted: June 12, 2008
By Bob Unruh
WorldNetDaily
A new Colorado law is helping homosexual activists achieve their goal of forcing Christians to teach biblical condemnation of homosexuality only behind the closed doors of their sanctuaries.
The as-yet untested state law promotes sexual identity "perception" to the level of skin color under state discrimination laws.
Some opponents are calling it a "bona fide censorship law," and top analysts for Focus on the Family, the Christian publishing and broadcast powerhouse, are expressing concern over the "mischief" they expect to follow the signing by Gov. Bill Ritter.
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Christians Thrown to Lions--21st Century Style
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CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW
But today it seems that being a believer is not so costly, and direct persecution does not appear to be happening. But there is plenty of indirect persecution taking place, in the form of discrimination laws, equal opportunity legislation, and those wretched hate crime laws. And one never quite knows where one stands in relation to these laws, especially the religious vilification laws.
These laws are notoriously vague and arbitrary, so that one can in good faith be doing one’s Christian thing, and the next moment be dragged off to some tribunal for offending someone or vilifying somebody. No one is safe under such draconian and malicious legislation.
Let me give you a pretend example. Let’s say you are concerned about the well-being of children, and are tired of so-called artists taking liberties with children (as happened in Sydney recently), and being allowed to live above the law in this regard. So you might preach a sermon one Sunday on such activities, and denounce the sin of child abuse and paedophilia.
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Anti-Christian "Cleansing" Campaign Picks up Pace in Gaza
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ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS
Anti-Christian 'Cleansing' Campaign Picks Up Pace in Gaza
by Gil Ronen
(IsraelNN.com) Attacks on Christian targets and those identified with Western culture have grown more frequent in Gaza in the past two years, and especially since the Hamas takeover in June 2007, experts say. The targets have included churches, Christian and United Nations schools, the American International School, libraries and Internet cafes.
The most recent incident occurred this past Saturday, May 31, when gunmen attacked the guards at the Al Manara school, stole a vehicle belonging to the Baptist Holy Book Society which operates the school and threatened the society's director. The Hamas leadership is not acting to stop the attacks and no one has been brought to justice.
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Kurds Provide Safe Haven for Christians
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Kurds Provide Safe Haven for Christians
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
Newsmax.com | 4/24/2008
The Kurdish regional government in Northern Iraq is providing a safe haven to several thousand Iraqi Christians who have fled persecution in other parts of the country, government officials and local pastors told Newsmax.
Unlike refugee camps set up for some 100,000 Shia Muslims fleeing attacks from Sunnis, which are closely monitored by Kurdish security forces, Christians have been encouraged to live anywhere.
“Christians in Iraq need special attention, because they’ve been suffering because they are Christians,” Deputy Prime Minister Omar Fattah told Newsmax in an exclusive interview in Erbil. “Maybe we give some instructions to others where they can go, but to Christians, never, because we are not afraid they will be terrorists.”
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In Britain, Christians are Criminals
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CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW
In Britain, the Christians Are Criminals: Second UK Couple Rejected as Foster Parents Due to Religious Beliefs
Stephen Green, national director of [British group] Christian Voice, said, “It seems that Christians are gradually being squeezed out of the adoption process. It’s exactly what we said would happen. In the name of equality, it’s discriminating against Christians.”
By Peter LaBarbera
The once-great nation of Britain is being reduced to a bastion of politically correct silliness. Is America next? So now British couples aren’t qualified to raise children unless they can recite pro-”gay” shibboleths?
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Christian Fundamentalists are Becoming Outcasts
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CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW: TIM WILDMON
I am Christian fundamentalist. Meaning, for one, that I believe in the above declaration by Jesus Christ. This claim by Christ I believe to be absolute truth. For sure, when compared to other religious belief systems, this is an exclusionary statement.
It divides people. Either you subscribe to it, or you don’t. There is no in between. This is not a gray area. There are other quotes like this from Jesus found in the scripture. For instance in John 3:3 he says this: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” In Luke 13:3 he said: “No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”
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Church Members Beaten
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House Church Members Beaten after Demanding Officials to account for the Burning of Bibles
Posted Jan 30 2008
Yunan- China Aid has learned that members of a House Church in Yunan Province were severely beaten by police officials on the morning of January 23. The incident occurred after two church members walked into the Xishan District’s Public Security Bureau office to request an account of the items, including Bibles, that were taken from the church and burned by police officials in early December of 2007. After ignoring the members’ request, officials proceeded to violently remove them from the office. One female church member 54-year-old Ms. Liang Guihua was thrown into a wall and rendered unconscious for more than 10 minutes. After leaving the police station the members went to a local hospital. One member returned to the station later that afternoon to request an account of the morning’s incident. The official on duty told the member that he would not testify to the incident even though he had witnessed the account first-hand.
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Maylasia Seizes Christian Books--Wash.Times
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Malaysian authorities confiscated Christian children's books, claiming the illustrations of prophets such as Moses and Abraham violate Islamic Shariah law.
The independent news agency Malaysakini reported the Internal Security Ministry confiscated the literature from bookstores in two cities and one small town in mid-December.
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Gaza's Christian Population Wanes--Wash.Times
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A small group of Palestinian Christians stands outside Gaza City's Baptist Church on a Sunday morning, waiting for the generator to power up. The church is cold and dark in the dead of winter, Israel having reduced fuel supplies to Gaza in an effort to pressure Hamas to halt rocket fire into Israel.
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Anti-Christian Persecution in India Hits New High
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At least four cases of Christian persecution in India were reported in the average week this year, according to statistics recently revealed by the president of the All India Catholic Union and others actively monitoring the situation.
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The Suffering of Secret Believers
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For many people around the world, religious freedom is an alien concept. No “First Amendment” protects them. No tradition of religious liberty permits them to worship according to their own consciences. If they go to a church that isn’t the “accepted” church, they risk ostracism, assault, torture, jail … even death.
The fact is, Christians are persecuted around the world on a daily basis -- it’s just that their stories are largely unknown.
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Killing Korean Christians
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FRONTPAGE MAG
But perhaps the Taliban’s beastly attacks upon unarmed Christians deserve more attention than any carelessness by the Korean sojourners. Christian missionaries across the centuries, dating to the age of the Apostles, have long been careless about their safety, often to the point of martyrdom. Most especially, church groups in the West might be expected to express more outrage over the abduction and murder of their fellow Christians, 18 of whom are women.
To date, groups such as the National Council of Churches in the U.S. have said nothing publicly about the outrages. Neither have most mainline denominations. The news service of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), without publishing any comments from its own denominational officials, felt obliged to report about the Korean Presbyterian Church’s own prayerful appeal about the hostages
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Baghdad Believers Being Terrorized
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Is Islam incompatible with democracy, decency?
BAGHDAD, Iraq — An al-Qaida-affiliated insurgent group is giving Christians in Baghdad a stark set of options: Convert to Islam, marry your daughters to our fighters, pay an Islamic tax or leave with only the clothes on your back.
A U.S. military official said American forces became aware of the threats only last month and now have erected barriers around the largest Christian enclave in Baghdad's Dora neighborhood in an effort to protect its residents.
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Religious Persecution's Global Reach
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AMERICAN SPECTATOR
Religious Persecution's Global Reach
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia -- The Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights gathered on Saturday to review the sad state of religious liberty around the globe. Led by Keith Roderick of Christian Solidarity International, the group painted a depressing portrait of religious persecution worldwide.
The news was uniformly bad: the mistreatment of Coptic Christians in Egypt, virtual destruction of the Christian community in Iraq, afflictions visited upon Christians in Lebanon, and deteriorating conditions facing Buddhists and Hindus as well as Christians in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
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Looking for Hate in All the Wrong Places--May 9
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"Hate crimes have no place in America," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi boldly declared last week, "no place in a nation where we pledge every morning 'with liberty and justice for all.'" Pelosi was urging her colleagues to approve a bill aimed at violence motivated by hostility toward members of certain designated groups.
According to Pelosi, then, the "justice for all" mentioned in the Pledge of Allegiance means equal opportunity to be a crime victim. It certainly does not mean equality before the law, which the hate crime bill sacrifices by treating perpetrators of the same crime differently because they hold different beliefs.
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Navy Chaplain Court Martialed for Praying in Jesus Name
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WASHINGTON, Mar. 2 /Christian Newswire/ -- A federal appeals court in Washington cleared the way for the U.S. Navy to dismiss Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt, who earned the ire of his commanders with his prayers "in Jesus' name". His 16-year career officially ended at midnight on March 1st.
“It's now official and final. Yesterday I was booted from the Navy. As of midnight last night, I became a civilian. Yesterday, I received orders to separate by 1 Mar 07, so I signed the DD 214 ending my 16 year military career,”
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Liberal Contempt for Christians
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"Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition." -- Ann Coulter
Most liberals in this country tend to treat Christians one of two ways: either with open, sniggering contempt or if they think they need their votes, they tend to switch over to hamhanded and grotesque pandering. That's not to say that there aren't liberal Christians, there are plenty of them, but they've just become accustomed to being treated by their fellow liberals like the sort of refuse you scrape off your shoes after a long walk through a cow pasture.
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Beware of the Christian Jihad--Spencer
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Beware the Christian Jihad?
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com
A new book that is climbing the New York Times Bestseller List warns Americans of a dedicated minority of religious fanatics who are hijacking a great religion and actively working to destroy the United States Constitution and set up a theocracy in America, in which nonbelievers will be discriminated against or even summarily killed. Nor is their nefarious vision confined to the United States alone: this small but influential and wealthy band of religious zealots is also trying to turn events in the Middle East to their own advantage, so as to advance their religious agenda there also. View Full Article
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A Warning About "Christian Fascists"
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Chris Hedges, a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, has found his fear and it seems to be controlling his every waking thought much like that of one engulfed in racist hate. He has become that frightened little boy under the covers, fearing that demon in the closet and imagining it following him everywhere. But Hedges' demon isn't one of horns and hell-fire for his demon appears in the form of Christianity.
Jesus is Hedges' boogyman.
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Driving the Christians Out---Jan. 25
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A few decades ago Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, was a thriving town, a tourist magnet and a majority Christian town.
Today barely 15 percent of the population is Christian, and according to one of them, "every day we hear of another Christian family that has immigrated to the US, Canada or Latin America."
"I believe," said another, "that 15 years from now there will be no Christians left in Bethlehem. Then you will need a torch to find a Christian here."
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The World's Top Ten Persecutors of Christians
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) has just released its annual Hall of Shame Awards. This list details the world's top ten persecutors of Christians.
This report calls attention to a growing trend that shows the source of Christian persecution shifting from nations with Communist governments to Islamic nations.
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Russia Begins Clampdown on Churches
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By Sher Zieve – A new Russian law demands that churches in that country submit the names of worshippers and the content of weekly sermons to Russian authorities. The Russian Orthodox Church advised that the NGO law, which was originally passed to include non-governmental organizations, has been extended by the Russian government to include churches.
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Jackson, MS Attempts to Criminalize Christianity
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"Eleven gentle Christians will be returning to Jackson, Mississippi this Tuesday, December 19, 2006, to stand trial for exposing the horror of abortion on the streets of Jackson. There is one remaining abortion mill in the entire state of Mississippi, and it is located in Jackson. Jackson was the focal point of America's war over abortion this past summer as hundreds of Christians came to the streets.
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War on Christianity Begins Anew--Limbaugh
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War on Christianity begins anew
By David Limbaugh
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In this self-congratulatory age of multiculturalism and hyper-tolerance, what religion other than Christianity is treated as inherently offensive? In fact, haven't our cultural high priests instructed that we dare not find other religions offensive, but must even enthusiastically embrace them for contributing to our diversity of ideas and values?
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How Britain is Turning Christianity Into a Crime
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How long will it be before Christianity becomes illegal in Britain? This is no longer the utterly absurd and offensive question that on first blush it would appear to be.
An evangelical Christian campaigner, Stephen Green was arrested and charged last weekend with using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.
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Over 35,000 Christians Have Fled Iraq
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More than 35,000 Iraqi Christians have fled to Syria to escape the violence in their country, the leader of an Iraqi Christian group said Thursday.
Christians, who make up three percent of Iraq's 26 million people, are leaving because of individual threats from Muslim extremists and the general deterioration of security in Iraq, said Emmanuel Khoshaba, the Syrian head of the Assyrian and Democratic Movement.
His figure indicates an increase of 75% from the 20,000 Iraqi Christians who were said to have moved to Syria in 2004, the year after US-led forces invaded Iraq and began the conflict.
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Plea for Help for Indonesia Christians
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AgapePress) - The director of a Christian human rights group says persecution of Christians is on the rise throughout Indonesia. Ann Buwalda, director of the Virginia-based Jubilee Campaign, says recent developments in that country have heightened concerns for her and her staff.
Jubilee Campaign, which monitors countries known for persecuting Christians, reports that rapid growth of Christianity across Indonesia has caused Muslims to claim that Christianity must be resisted with force. In recent years the government of Indonesia has closed more than 150 churches in the capital city of Jakarta and throughout the island of Java, the country's most populous island.
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Being a Christian in an Islamic World--Colson
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The Dangers of Being Christian in the Islamic World
Chuck Colson
BreakPoint
This past Good Friday, a man entered Mar Girgis Church in Alexandria, Egypt, and stabbed one worshipper to death and wounded two others. He then went to another church and stabbed three other Christians. The events in Alexandria were a reminder of the, at best, tenuous status of Christians in the Islamic world. The Egyptian government immediately dismissed the possibility that animus toward Christians played a role in the attacks. Egypt's Interior Ministry said that the attacker suffered from "psychological disturbances." How convenient.
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India: Christians Attacked, Charged With Conversion
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India: Christians Attacked, Charged with Illegal Conversion
Vishal Arora
Compass Direct
In Madhya Pradesh state, Hindu extremists brutally beat Christians; police take no action.
NEW DELHI, April 13 (Compass Direct) – Extremists attacked two Christian schools and a private Christian gathering last week in Madhya Pradesh state and accused several Christians of carrying out “illegal conversions.”
Christians responded with a protest march in Jabalpur city on Monday (April 10), demanding justice.
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Rahman Was One of Thousands Waiting Death Sentence
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Rahman One of Thousands Awaiting Death Sentence
Jody Brown & Allie Martin
AgapePress
U.N. Expects Approval of Asylum Request from Afghan Convert
(AgapePress) - News reports indicate that Abdul Rahman, the Afghan man who faced a possible death penalty for his acceptance of Christ as his personal Savior, has been released from a Kabul prison. No one, however, seems to know where he is since being released late yesterday. He had indicated that because of death threats from radical Muslim clerics, he wished to seek asylum in another country.
The United Nations says it will work with Afghanistan to accommodate Rahman's request for asylum. Rahman, who claims he converted from the Muslim faith 16 years ago, recently faced the death penalty for that decision until a Kabul court dismissed the charges and reportedly released him from a high-security prison near Kabul on Monday night.
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130 Christians Murdered Over Cartoons
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Muslim rioters, incensed over the cartoons of Muhammad published in Denmark, were responsible for killing at least 130 Christians on the streets of Maiduguri and Onitsha in Nigeria, according to reports filtering out of the country from Voice of the Martyrs.
At least 51 Christians are confirmed dead in the Maiduguri attacks that took place Saturday. In the rampage, more than 150 homes and 32 churches were burned, and 85 shops were destroyed. Authorities were finally able to control the volatile scene after arresting 114 and having militia enforce a curfew.
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Palestinian Christians Face Continuing Persecution
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Palestinian Christians Face Increased Persecution
Ginny McCabe
Contributing Writer--Crosswalk.com
Persecution is having such a devastating effect on Palestinian Christians that thousands are abandoning their Christian faith and leaving their homelands. In 15 to 20 years, experts anticipate that conditions will only intensify.
"My specific interest in the plight of Christians living in Palestinian society began eight years ago when I met a Christian lay pastor who, knowing that I was a human rights lawyer, urged me to investigate the human rights abuses directed at Muslims who converted to Christianity," said Israeli attorney and author Justus Reid Weiner, referencing the background for his new book, Human Rights of Christians in Palestinian Society. View Full Article
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Christians Under Siege Globally
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Christians under siege globally, Land, others say
Baptist Press
WASHINGTON (BP)--American Christians may live with concerns about whether “Merry Christmas” greetings are welcome at their local retailers or in the public square, but followers of Christ in numerous countries live with the knowledge that expressing their faith may result in torture, imprisonment or death.
The persecution of Christians overseas continues and, in some countries, is increasing, specialists on international religious liberty said at a Dec. 14 briefing at the U.S. Capitol.
Charles Chaput, the Roman Catholic archbishop of Denver, said three things distinguish persecution of and discrimination against Christians globally.
“First of all, it’s ugly,” said Chaput, a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). “Secondly, it’s growing. And third, the mass media ... seem to generally ignore or downplay its gravity.”
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Families Forgive Indonesians Who Beheaded Girls
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Families of Beheaded Indonesian Girls Forgive Killers
CBN News Asia Correspondent
CBN.com – POSO, Indonesia - The three families who suffered the loss of their young daughters when they were brutally murdered, are still in shock and grief, not only because they were too young to die -- Alfita was 19, Teressia was 18, and Yarni was 15 -- but because of the horrible way they were murdered.
Their bodies were found headless in a coconut field, while their heads were found in different parts of Poso, wrapped in black plastic bags.
This is the route that Alfita, Teressia, Yarni, and Ida took everyday on their way to school at 6:30 in the morning. But on that fateful day, October 29, a group of unidentified men wearing masks brutally murdered the girls. As the families are grieving, there is again a growing concern, if indeed, there is a resurgence of the old religious conflict between the Muslims and the Christians here in Poso.
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Anti-Christian Rampage
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They came in buses to the small village of Sangla Hill in the Nankana district of Punjab in Pakistan.
Some 2,000 organized Muslims first vandalized three churches, a nuns' convent, two Catholic schools, the houses of a Protestant pastor and a Catholic priest, a girls' hostel and some Christian homes, according to Asia News.
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Hindu Mobs Attack Christians
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Hindu Mob Again Attacks Mission Compound In Bihar, India
Compass Direct News Service
Hindu extremists returned to the Gospel Echoing Missionary Society (GEMS) compound in Rohtas district, Bihar state on Sunday, September 25. As in a previous attack on August 31, they severely injured several Christians. This time, one man received a spinal injury that left him partially paralyzed.
"About 16 people came from the nearby villages of Shankarpur and Bhedibigha at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday and broke open the gate of the compound," a representative of GEMS told Compass. "They pulled out some of the GEMS staff [from the compound] ... and brutally beat them. They also robbed them of their belongings before throwing them into the fields."
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Where is Eritrea and Why Are Christians Killed There?
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Where is Eritrea and Why Are Christians Killed There?
Crosswalk.com Correspondent
You should see the hot new place where some Eritrean newlyweds are spending their honeymoon these days.
Their warm and fuzzy little bungalow is a steel-shipping container, complete with 100-degree heat, rotting air and little water. As for privacy, forget it. It's packed with other Christians who are paying the price for their faith.
Welcome to Eritrea, a small African country on the Red Sea, where saying, "I do" can land a couple behind bars or, worse, inside a sweltering metal box.
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Churches Burn, U.N. Watches
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Jihadists continue their campaign of burning churches and persecuting Christians in Kosovo, the land "liberated" by U.S. and NATO forces in the 1990s, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
While German and French peacekeepers watch the religious atrocities, Italian and U.S. soldiers have put their lives on the line to defend the Christian minority.
That story is breaking now at the premium, online, intelligence newsletter published by the founder of WND.
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Watchdog Group Attacks School Bible Study--USA Today
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Watchdog group attacks school Bible study
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A religious watchdog group complained Monday that a Bible study course taught in hundreds of public schools in Texas and across the country promotes a fundamentalist Christian view and violates religious freedom.
The Texas Freedom Network, which includes clergy of several faiths, also said the course offered by the Greensboro, N.C.-based National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools is full of errors and dubious research.
The producers of the Bible class dismissed the Texas Freedom Network as a "far left" organization trying to suppress study of a historical text.
The National Council on Bible Curriculum Web site says its elective course is offered in high schools and junior highs by more than 300 school districts in 37 states.
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Muslims Mobs Burn Christian Homes
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Sources in Pakistan report a radical Muslim mob has attacked Christian homes in three areas near Peshawar, Pakistan.
According to Voice of the Martyrs, which aids persecuted Christians around the world, the Tuesday attacks came after a Christian man was accused earlier that day of burning pages with Quranic verses written on them.
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Saudis Shred Bibles
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CNSNews.com) - Bibles found in the possession of visitors to Saudi Arabia are routinely confiscated by customs officials, and in some cases copies allegedly have been put through a paper shredder, according to religious rights campaigners.
Reports from the Islamic world of the abuse of Bibles and other items important to Christians emerge from time to time, but generally have little impact - in contrast to the wave of Muslim anger sparked by a Newsweek report, since retracted, of Koran desecration by the U.S. military.
"The Muslims respect the Koran far more than Christians respect the Bible," says Danny Nalliah, a Sri Lankan-born evangelical pastor now based in Australia.
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Vietnamese Christians Flee for their Lives--WND
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The government of Vietnam is stepping up persecution of minority Christians, according to a Washington human rights monitor.
Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom says it recently received detailed accounts of attacks against Hmong Christians, including death threats prompting more than 100 to leave the country in the last two months.
In the past, Hmong Christians, who have suffered persecution for more than two decades, have reported beatings, torture, arrests and other forms of brutality, including attacks against women and children.
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Hating the Religious Right--Weekly Standard
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Hating the 'Religious Right'
Hugh Hewitt
The Weekly Standard
THE TERRI SCHIAVO TRAGEDY has been seized on by long-time critics of the "religious right" to launch attack after attack on the legitimacy of political action on the basis of religious belief. This attack has ignored the inconvenient participation in the debate--on the side of resuming water and nutrition for Terri Schiavo--of the spectacularly not-the-religious-rightness of Tom Harkin, Nat Hentoff, Jesse Jackson, and a coalition of disability advocacy groups.
The attack has also been hysterical. After Congress acted--ineffectively, it turned out--Maureen Dowd proclaimed that "theocracy" had arrived in the land. Paul Krugman warned that assassination of liberals by extremists was not far off. And the Internet frenzy on the left was even more extreme.
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Life of Fear for Arab Christians
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"Christians, natives of Arab countries, are escaping their countries of origin," says Iraqi columnist Majid Azaza. "The reason is the harassment to which they are subjected by government agencies on the one hand, and extremist groups on the other hand, in countries they have inhabited for thousands of years."
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Maher: Christians Have "Neurological Disorder"
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TESTING THE FAITH
Bill Maher: Christians have neurological disorder
Says parents 'drill' religion into kids' heads using biblical 'fairy tales'
Television personality Bill Maher, host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," says Christians and others who are religious suffer from a neurological disorder that "stops people from thinking."
Appearing as a guest on MSNBC's "Scarborough Country" this week, Maher told host Joe Scarborough:
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"Hate Crime Laws" and Christians--WND
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TESTING THE FAITH
Hate-crimes law infringes on 1st Amendment?
Group decries 'ethnic intimidation' charge against Philly Christians
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A pro-family group in Pennsylvania is taking to task legislators who promised that adding "sexual orientation" to the state's hate-crimes law would not infringe upon the First Amendment rights of Christians.
The American Family Association of Pennsylvania points to the arrest and charging of five Christian who evangelized at a Philadelphia homosexual event. One of the charges the protesters face is "ethnic intimidation," possible only because "sexual orientation" was added to the hate-crimes law in 2002.
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Homosexuals Planned Christian's Arrests
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Homosexuals planned Christian harassment
'OutFest' organizers announced efforts
to block protesters now facing prison
Homosexual "OutFest" organizers in Philadelphia announced plans in advance of their October 2004 street festival to block Christians from access to the publicly sponsored event where 11 members of Repent America were arrested, five being charged with a series of misdemeanors and felonies that could put them in jail for 47 years.
As WorldNetDaily reported, the group was "preaching God's Word" to a crowd of people attending the Oct. 10, 2004, event and displaying banners with biblical messages.
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Tyranny of the Minority--Hal Lindsey
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Tyranny of the minority
To secularists and scoffers, a Christian is somebody who believes in fairytales. A Christian who regularly goes to church has the added burden of having to be able to check his brains at the door. The disdain with which the secularists view Christians is nowhere more apparent than in the rantings of the liberal left about the "red states" and their simple-minded philosophy of being for God and guns, but against gays (the "God, guns and gays" formula as articulated by Howard Dean before he lost the nomination).
After the election, some brilliant satirist drew up a map that joined the blue states to Canada and labeled the red states as "JesusLand." It is unclear whether it was intended as an insult or a compliment, so I chose to take it as the latter.
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Christians in the Crossfire--Malkin/WND
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Christians in the crossfire
Yes, it's maddening when politically correct bureaucrats ban nativity scenes and Christmas carols in the name of "diversity" and "tolerance." We are under attack by Secularist Grinches Gone Wild. But the war on Christmas in America is a mere skirmish.
Around the world, a bloody, repressive war on Christians rages on.
In Iraq, Islamist rebel troops have declared open season on Christian churches, priests and missionaries. In February, four American pastors were traveling in a taxi near the capital when terrorists ambushed them. Rev. John Kelley – pastor of Curtis Corner Baptist Church in rural Rhode Island and a former Marine – was killed in the attack. The missionaries were starting up a new church south of Baghdad.
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Christians in U.K. to Go Underground?--WND
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Christianity in Great Britain is imploding, fragmenting and will soon be driven underground, says a senior adviser to Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.
Jayne Ozanne told Williams and Archbishop of York David Hope that a time of great persecution for the church is coming, reports the Times of London.
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Christian Persecution: When Will the World Notice?
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Persecution of Christians: When Will the World Notice?
By Robert Spencer
The latest outrage in Egypt has been, like all the others, almost universally ignored by the international media and human rights groups. Wafaa Constantine Messiha, wife of a Coptic priest in Egypt, was abducted by jihadist Muslims and forced to convert to Islam. The Mubarak regime has done nothing. This is no isolated incident: Wilfred Wong of the Jubilee Campaign, a Christian human rights group, notes that “the attempts to force Christians to convert to Islam in Egypt are on the increase and the methods are getting increasingly varied and well organized. Some of these forced conversions are carried out by Muslim individuals, with the help of their friends, while others are being conducted by well funded groups.”
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The ACLU War On The Cross
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The War on the Cross
By William J. Becker Jr.
FrontPageMagazine.com
If the American Civil Liberties Union committed itself to advancing the rights of Christians and Jews as tirelessly as it does to rooting out Christian and Jewish images in the public square, perhaps its civil liberties credo would not seem so duplicitous.
Sadly, the evolution of "civil liberties" has yielded a corresponding erosion of respect for those pesky "traditional values"—and the religions with which they are associated—that threaten the new pioneers of social engineering.
If religious tradition is to be recognized, say the pioneers, it is only the religious tradition of a distant culture that deserves our respect. Thus fealty toward heathenism, the religion of a conquered people, and to the conquered people themselves, is fitting, as is abjuring the Judeo-Christian heritage that formed, dominates and buttresses American society. Evidence of this truism is no more apparent than in Los Angeles, where three recent lawsuits highlight a preference for ancient religions and hostility toward the largest faith practiced in America.
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Churches To Lose Tax Exempt Status For Opposing Same-Sex Marriage?
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Christians face threat pushing Bible beliefs
Churches to lose tax-exempt status for denouncing same-sex marriage?
(c) 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
While an American pastor is the subject of federal investigations for delivering a pro-George Bush sermon on July 4, Christian churches in Canada are now facing the loss of their tax-exempt status should they become involved in partisan politics.
The Canada Customs and Revenue Agency has met with legal representatives of both the Catholic Church and the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada to warn them of the action in connection with this year's campaign
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It's Open Season On Christians
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Open Season on Christians
by Rabbi Daniel Lapin
One-time girlfriend of quirky California Gov. Jerry Brown in the '70s, singer Linda Ronstadt has been busy lately. She dedicated her song "Desperado" to Michael Moore and his bogus-mentary, "Fahrenheit 911," she got herself tossed out of the Aladdin casino in Las Vegas, and she gave an interview to a newspaper. Although I doubt this was her intention, she has actually taught us three lessons: One, she and many of her fellow entertainers do have a religion, I'd call it "secular fundamentalism." Two, it's open season on Christians, the last unprotected minority in America. Her third lesson, well, I'll tell you that in a minute.
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100 Church Leaders Arrested
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FAITH UNDER FIRE
100 church leaders arrested
Communist government breaks up Christian conference
Chinese police arrested more than 100 house-church leaders who were meeting for a retreat in the western Xinjiang Autonomous Region, according to a U.S.-based advocacy group.
The Christians were surrounded by more than 200 military police, Public Security Bureau officers and others who arrived at the scene July 12 in 46 police and military vehicles, reported the Voice of the Martyrs. No arrest warrants or official identification papers were shown by officers as they carried out the raid, VOM said.
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Iran Terrorizes Christians--Christianity Today
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Bearing the Cross: Out-of-Control Clerics
Official scourgings and vigilante "enforcers" in Iran terrorize Christians.
An Iranian christian fled his country last September after authorities in Tehran lashed him for leaving Islam and evangelizing Muslims. Identified only as Hooman, upon his release he escaped to Turkey with his Muslim wife.
"He had been whipped, and the authorities were going to deal with him in an even more severe manner," says Abe Ghaffari, executive director of Iranian Christians International (ICI). "He was persecuted by vigilantes as well. A motorcycle rider stabbed him and tried to kill him."
Apparently the vigilante was a member of the terrorist group Hezbollah, Ghaffari says, "but in Iran they are like local enforcers."
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Penn State: "Too Many Christian Groups Here"
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BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
Penn State: 'Too many' Christian groups here
Evangelical student club sues university for constitutional violations
A Christian student club is suing Penn State University for rejecting it as a student organization after being told the school already has "too many" Christian clubs.
The university recognizes more than 600 different clubs, ranging from the American Helicopter Society to the Young Americans for Freedom, says the Christian Legal Society's Center for Law & Religious Freedom, which filed the lawsuit.
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Mocking Christians In Hollywood--Falwell
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Mocking Christians in Hollywood
A new film is coming under criticism from a Christian film and television organization because it mocks Christianity and depicts those who follow Christ as foolish and irrational.
According to Ted Baehr, founder of the Christian Film & Television Commission ministry, the film "Saved!" which will be released on May 28, purposely ridicules Christians. I watched the movie trailer for this film today and was saddened to see that the Christian characters are portrayed as virtual nitwits.
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How Fundamentalist Christians Are Viewed
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To understand what is happening in the Middle East, you must first understand what is happening in Texas. To understand what is happening there, you should read the resolutions passed at the state's Republican party conventions last month. Take a look, for example, at the decisions made in Harris County, which covers much of Houston.
The delegates began by nodding through a few uncontroversial matters: homosexuality is contrary to the truths ordained by God; "any mechanism to process, license, record, register or monitor the ownership of guns" should be repealed; income tax, inheritance tax, capital gains tax and corporation tax should be abolished; and immigrants should be deterred by electric fences. Thus fortified, they turned to the real issue: the affairs of a small state 7,000 miles away. It was then, according to a participant, that the "screaming and near fist fights" began.
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Bible Is "Hate Speech" Close In Canada--WND
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LAW OF THE LAND
'Bible as hate speech' bill nears final OK
Passes Canadian Senate, lacks only formality of 'Royal Assent'
Canada's upper house passed a controversial bill yesterday opposed by religious believers and free-speech advocates who say it will criminalize public expression against homosexual behavior.
The bill, passed 59-11 by the Senate, adds sexual orientation as a protected category in Canada's genocide and hate-crimes legislation, which carries a penalty of up to five years in prison.
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Muslims Burn Christian Homes
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FAITH UNDER FIRE
Muslim mobs burnChristian homes
Attack began at 3 a.m., continued until all were destroyed
(c) 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Muslim militants in eastern Indonesia burned down several hundred homes in an overnight attack on a mainly Christian area where 26 people were killed in three days of fighting.
The attacks on Christians in Maluku province, once known as the Spice Islands, continues with no end in sight, according to the Washington, D.C.-based human rights group International Christian Concern.
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Christianity Under Fire--Falwell/WND
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Biblical Christianity under fire
Recent circumstances have led me to believe that Christians in America are increasingly at risk of becoming not just perpetual objects of ridicule, but potentially of being openly persecuted and punished for their beliefs by those pressing the absurd "tolerance" agenda.
One needs to look no further than the recent verbal assaults on President Bush, who is outspoken about his Christianity, to see how secularists are seeking to condemn him because of his sincerely held beliefs.
In author Bob Woodward's new book, "Plan of Attack," President Bush is quoted as saying he prayed "for the strength to do the Lord's will" before committing the nation to war in Iraq.
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1,500 Christians Kllled In Nigeria--Christianity Today
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Weblog: Report Says 1,500 Christians Killed in Last Month's Nigeria Attacks
Was massacre much larger than earlier reported?
Compass Direct, a news service focusing on religious persecution issues, issued a stunning report this week by Obed Minchakpu in Jos, Nigeria. While reports last month noted the destruction of four churches torched by Muslim youths, Minchakpu reports that the violence continued. The final death toll, he reports is 1,500 Christians, including eight pastors. He also reports that 173 churches, not four, were destroyed in the violence, which spread into multiple states. Tens of thousands of others have been displaced by the violence.
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Pastor Beaten For Leading Inmates To Christ--WND
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FAITH UNDER FIRE
Pastor beaten for leading inmates to Christ
Chinese guards cripple house-church leader for spreading 'evil cult'
(c) 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
The leader of a Chinese house church imprisoned by the Communist government has been crippled by a severe beating as punishment for leading 50 fellow inmates to the Christian faith.
According to the China Aid Association, Chen Jingmao, a 72-year-old leader of a South China church was punished for his proselytizing on Feb. 6. Both of Chen's legs were broken in the beating and he now must be carried by other inmates to use the toilet and to eat.
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Believers Tortured To Abandon Christianity--WND
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FAITH UNDER FIRE
Believers tortured to abandon Christianity
Communist regime using painful drug injections, says report
(c) 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Vietnam's communist government is torturing Christians of the ethnic Hmong minority into abandoning their faith, according to documentation by a Washington, D.C.-based human-rights group.
A letter written by Zong Xiong Hang, a Hmong Christian, describes the use of painful drug injections administered by Vietnamese military personnel to force Hmong in Na Ling village in northwestern Lai Chau province "to not believe in Jesus," according to the Center for Religious Freedom at Freedom House.
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The Suffering Sudan--WND
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Sudan cries rape
(c) 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
As he began speaking, Majok lowered his small coca-colored eyes and stared intensely at the ground. It was the summer of 2002, and I had just flown thousands of miles deep into the war zone of Sudan, the largest country in Africa, to interview former slaves.
Majok, then 12, tightly hugged his long, bony legs, as we sat on the parched termite-infested ground. His ragged black shorts and ripped oversized tee-shirt hung loosely on his spindly, dust covered body. He spoke of the way he was repeatedly raped and sodomized by gangs of government soldiers, as I watched a continuous flow of tears pour down his precious adolescent face.
"They raped me," Majok cried. "And when I tried to refuse, they beat me."
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Christian Teen Forced To Become A Muslim
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FAITH UNDER FIRE
Christian teen forced to become Muslim
Boy abducted, taken to strict Islamic school where beaten, prepared for jihad
(c) 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
A 15-year-old Pakistani Christian boy was kidnapped and taken to a strict Islamic religious school where he was beaten to submission and forced to declare he is a Muslim, according to an international aid group.
Zeeshan Gill from Sind province was captured in daylight while on his way home from school Nov. 7, reported the Assist News Service, or ANS, citing the British-based Barnabas Fund.
Gill ended up in a madrasa where his captors forced him to say the Islamic creed and declared he is a Muslim. They warned if he tried to flee or return to Christianity, they would kill him.
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Anti-Religion "Grinches"--Falwell
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Anti-religion 'Grinches'
Jerry Falwell
The anti-religion Grinches are out in full force this Christmas season. In fact, Christmas has become a dirty word in many areas of society as groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State continue to instill their vision of a Godless public square on our nation.
Mathew Staver, president and general counsel for the Orlando, Fla.-based Liberty Council, is on the front lines of the religious freedom battlefield. He has reported on just a few religious freedom outrages going on right now.
In Wisconsin, for example, public school officials have mandated that students must amend "religious" words in Christmas carols they will sing during a concert. The students have been prohibited from using words that refer to "Jesus" or "God" and instead must substitute "secular" words and phrases.
In Michigan, public school officials recently separated all "religious" books on the holidays (Hanukkah and Christmas) and placed them in a separate room. These books are now out of sight and out of reach of the students, Mr. Staver said.
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The Offensiveness Of Christianity--Limbaugh
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The 'Offensiveness' of Christianity
David Limbaugh
It amazes me that people can still, with a straight face, deny that Christians are the subjects of systematic discrimination in this country. Every time I turn around there's more evidence.
Since my book "Persecution" was released I've seen enough additional examples to give me a good start on a sequel, not that I've decided to write one at this point. But I continue to encounter liberals who pooh pooh the idea that it is even possible to discriminate against a majority group.
No matter how much proof you show them, they wave their hands dismissively and say, "Those are just loony examples of kooks out there that certainly aren't representative of any widespread discrimination." Well, if that's the case, why do we keep seeing these cases in the news?
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Jewish, Muslim Symbols OK, Not Christian
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Mom Sues School to Allow Nativity Scene--Fox News
NEW YORK - If a Christmas tree can stand in a school's halls during the holidays, then a model of baby Jesus and his manger should also be welcomed, contends a Queens, N.Y., mother who is going to court to prove her point.
Andrea Skoros (search) sued the New York City public school system after being told her kids' Nativity scene could not be a part of the holiday display although a Hanukkah menorah (search) and the star and crescent representing Islam could be exhibited.
A federal judge in Brooklyn Thursday held a procedural conference on the suit and Skoros hopes the ban will soon be overturned.
School officials say that all displays must be secular in nature and chose a Christmas tree to symbolize the holiday but Skoros said this a double standard.
"I felt that it is only fair if they are going to display the menorah, which is a religious symbol, that they also display the Nativity scene instead of just snowmen and stockings and Christmas trees."
While school officials wouldn't discuss the lawsuit, legal briefs field said it has "drawn an appropriate line between secular holiday decorations those that are purely religious."
The New York Civil Liberties Union (search) agreed: "The Constitution prohibits government from promoting religion, any religion, and that means that public schools can be in the business of promoting religion," Donna Lieberman of the NYCLU said
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The War On Christianity--Hal Lindsey
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War on religion ... or just Christianity?
(c) 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
The Supreme Court is about to hear a challenge from a former divinity student who was denied a state scholarship because he wanted to study for ministry. The Court appears deeply divided over the case of Joshua Davey, who lost a state merit scholarship when he declared theology as his major.
The Supreme Court is split. At least four justices seem to agree that the state of Washington was within its rights to deny the money to Davey. The other four seemed, according to legal experts, to side with Davey. The swing vote is Sandra Day O'Connor, as is often the case.
The Davey case is critical, since the high court ruled last year that it is constitutional to allow parents to use public money to send their children to private religious schools. So, in this case, the question isn't whether the government can use public money to underwrite religious education. The Court has already decided it can.
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Persecution Is A Holy Word
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Persecution Is a Holy Word
Exaggerating our problems demeans the sacrifice of overseas believers.
A Christianity Today editorial
IN APRIL, Jack Moody Jr. tried to mail a Bible study, a book on God's promises, and religious comic books to his son, Pfc. Daniel Moody, stationed in Iraq. The post office in Lenoir, North Carolina, refused to send them. Officials cited a postal regulation prohibiting the mailing of "any matter containing religious materials contrary to Islamic faith or depicting nude or seminude persons, pornographic or sexual items, or non-authorized political materials."
Frustrating. But by way of contrast,just two months earlier in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, a Muslim extremist fired 28 bullets into the body of an Iraqi Christian taxi driver, killing him. Zewar Mohammed Ismael, 38, had converted from Islam four years earlier and gave Bibles to his passengers. The killer claimed Muhammad, Islam's prophet, had told him in a dream to kill Ismael.
It's understandable that David Limbaugh's instant bestseller is full of incidents like the first example and not the second. But it's regrettable that the publisher has set such incidents in a melodramatic context by using the title Persecution: How Liberals are Waging War Against Christianity.
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Media And Hollywood War Against Christianity
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The Media and Hollywood War Against Christianity
Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com
In his new, best-selling book, "Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity," David Limbaugh exposes the outrageous bias and discrimination against Christians. Read Part I in this series, Intolerant 'Liberals' Wage War on Christianity, and Part II, Leftists Treat Christianity as 'Cancer'.
The two most powerful molders of opinion in the nation, the media and Hollywood, are at the head of the line in the war on Christianity, frequently ridiculing and disparaging Christians in ways they would never dream of employing against any other group of Americans.
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Liberals Treat Christianity As Cancer--Limbaugh
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Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com
In his new, best-selling book, "Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity," David Limbaugh exposes the outrageous bias and discrimination against Christians. Read Part I in this series, Intolerant 'Liberals' Wage War on Christianity.
The extremity of the war against Christianity was manifested in Madison, Wis., where transit authorities sought to honor the late Mother Teresa by putting her image on the metro pass in April 2003, a distinction later planned for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi.
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Fashionably Blasting The Gospel -- Falwell
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Fashionably blasting the gospel
(c) 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
There is a growing effort in America to malign the gospel of Christ and assail those who embrace that gospel.
At the forefront of this blatant endeavor is the attack against actor/director Mel Gibson, whose film "The Passion", an unambiguous recounting of the final hours in the life of Christ, is being reproved by leftist Jewish organizations that accuse the film of being anti-Semitic.
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Wiccan Priestess Favored Over Jesus Christ
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LAW OF THE LAND
'Jesus Christ' banned at town hall
Wiccan high priestess won federal court ruling on council's prayers
(c) 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Council members in a South Carolina town can no longer mention the name of Jesus Christ or another specific deity in their prayers during meetings.
The federal court ruling referred to a case brought by a Wiccan high priestess in Great Falls, the local Chester County Herald reported.
Darla Kaye Wynne, a Great Falls resident, claimed in her suit the town violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by using the name of Jesus Christ in prayers offered before or after meetings, the paper said.
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Could Bible Be Banned In America?--Hal Lindsey
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Will the Bible be banned in America?
(c) 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
Certain parts of the Bible are already being banned from public display in America. An Alabama Judge has been ordered to remove a two-ton stone display with the Ten Commandments on it from the courthouse.
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Faith Under Fire
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Sudan jihad forces Islam on Christians. Women refusing to convert gang-raped, mutilated, says relief worker.
By Art Moore
(c) 2002 WorldNetDaily.com
Sudan's militant Muslim regime is slaughtering Christians who refuse to convert to Islam, according to the head of an aid group who recently returned from the African nation.
The forced conversions are just one aspect of the Khartoum government's self-declared jihad on the mostly Christian and animist south, Dennis Bennett, executive director of Seattle-based Servant's Heart told WorldNetDaily.
Villagers in several areas of the northeast Upper Nile region say that when women are captured by government forces they are asked: "Are you Christian or Muslim?"
Women who answer "Muslim" are set free, but typically soldiers gang-rape those who answer "Christian" then cut off their breasts and leave them to die as an example for others.
Bennett says these stories are corroborated by witnesses from several tribes in the region. Upon returning to the U.S., he wrote a letter to influential members of Congress and activists.
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Why Are Christians Still Persecuted?
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By David Kupelian
"Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." -- Matthew 5: 10 KJV
"To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice." -- John 18: 37 KJV
In far-off lands, Islamic militants, fuel-injected from birth with the twin poisons of blind hatred and fanatical religion, revel in cruelty, torture and forced conversion of Christians. An even greater hatred is reserved for Jews.
In other parts of the world, atheistic communist tyrants, with neither heart nor soul, having given up both long ago for the sake of raw power, murder, intimidate and imprison Christians and others who profess allegiance to a higher power than the state.
Indeed, WorldNetDaily editors recently named Christian persecution worldwide as the most underreported story of the past year.
As the March edition of Whistleblower magazine reveals, persecution of Christians, not just prejudice and abuse, but encompassing severe intimidation, torture, imprisonment and execution, is prevalent and even increasing in many parts of the world.
Why?
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