Obama and Henry VIII

Terence P. Jeffrey wrote: Eduardo Verastegui, who plays the Catholic martyr Anacleto Gonzalez Flores in the soon to be released film For Greater Glory, says that Mexican President Plutarco Calles, whose government was responsible for Flores’s martyrdom in 1927, and President Barack Obama, who is moving forward in 2012 with a health-insurance regulation that will [...]

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Youcef Nadarkhani Still Alive

Anna Sekulow wrote: The ACLJ has received confirmation that Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is alive in Iran as of today, March 26, 2012. New false reports about Pastor Youcef’s execution continue to surface – whether these reports originate from a misinformation campaign initiated by the Iranian regime or just uninformed sources is unknown. Many of these [...]

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Top Saudi Cleric’s Call to Destroy Churches

Patrick Goodenough wrote: Ten days after Saudi Arabia’s foremost religious leader called for a demolition of all churches in the Arabian Peninsula – in line with a purported injunction by Mohammed – the U.S. government and other allies of the kingdom have yet to react. Major media outlets also have largely ignored the incident; a [...]

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Colonising the Adult Church

Pete Ward wrote: The turn to entertainment meant that we were shaping youth ministry around the priorities of young people themselves, or at least around what Christian leaders thought they wanted. The result was that in their efforts to reach young people in their cultural worlds, youth ministry became more adolescent. Instead of youth ministers [...]

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U.S. Catholic Bishops Stand Their Ground

From a statement of the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: Second, we wish to clarify what this debate is—and is not—about. This is not about access to contraception, which is ubiquitous and inexpensive, even when it is not provided by the Church’s hand and with the Church’s funds. This is [...]

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Evangelicals’ Collapsing Cultural Influence

Here are two good article by David French. This one… 1. We are more focused on meeting the material needs of the poor than their spiritual needs. Spend much time in the evangelical community, and you’ll soon learn that the old-fashioned Gospel-focused mission trip is largely a thing of the past. Now, you go build [...]

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Christians, Jihadists, and the Fate of Syria

Raymond Ibrahim wrote: Christian minorities, who, at 10% of the Syrian population, have the most to gain from a secular government and the most to suffer from a Sharia-state, have no choice but to prefer Assad. They are already seeing aspects of the alternative. A recent Barnabas Fund report titled “Christians in Syria Targeted in [...]

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Christians Have No Right to Wear Cross

Patrick Goodenough wrote: Conservative-led government plans to argue in a European Court of Human Rights case that employers are entitled to ban the visible wearing of crosses at work because displaying the symbol is not a recognized “requirement” of the Christian faith. . . . News of the government’s intervention in the case comes amid [...]

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Mocking Jesus (But Not Mohammed)

From The Christian Institute: The head of the BBC, Mark Thompson, has admitted that the broadcaster would never mock Mohammed like it mocks Jesus. He justified the astonishing admission of religious bias by suggesting that mocking Mohammed might have the “emotional force” of “grotesque child pornography”. But Jesus is fair game because, he said, Christianity [...]

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Gingrich: You Don’t Apologize to the Enemy

Newt Gingrich said: When you have enemies who are determined to kill you, you owe it to the American people to tell the truth about the people who are opposing us. We have been systematically and methodically mislead by our leader. This is much deeper than Obama. We had the same problem with our State [...]

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Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani Sentenced to Death

From FoxNews.com: A trial court in Iran has issued its final verdict, ordering a Christian pastor to be put to death for leaving Islam and converting to Christianity, according to sources close to the pastor and his legal team. Supporters fear Youcef Nadarkhani, a 34-year-old father of two who was arrested over two years ago [...]

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Rick Santorum, Satan and the Bible

As you’ve probably heard by now, Rick Santorum said something like “Satan has set his sights on the United States” a few years ago. Given that a large segment of the U.S. population has a Hollywood-crafted conception of Satan, I think the most illuminating thing I can say about this is to post a couple [...]

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Franklin Graham: ‘I Would Break the Law’

Franklin Graham: ‘I Would Break the Law’ But Graham, the president and chairman of the Samaritan’s Purse global relief ministry that helps millions in impoverished, war-torn hotspots around the globe, indicated that he would risk going to jail rather than comply with any such mandate from the federal government. “Even though we’re privately funded, I [...]

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ACLJ Petition for the Release of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani

Patrick Goodenough wrote: On Friday, Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) introduced in the House of Representatives a resolution condemning the Iranian government “for its state-sponsored persecution of religious minorities” in violation of international covenants and calling on Iran “to exonerate and immediately release Youcef Nadarkhani and all other individuals held or charged on account of their [...]

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Franklin Graham: Obama Helps Islamists, Ignores Christian Persecution

This is probably all over the news, but just in case its not, Franklin Graham made a serious faux pas by telling the truth on MSNBC. That doesn’t happen a lot, so I’m sure it was a shock for everyone involved. From Newsmax.com: Reverend Franklin Graham says President Obama has “given Islam a pass,” including [...]

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It’s All About Jesus

I fixed the audio/video links at the bottom of the article “It’s All About Jesus.” The direct links seem unreliable in a browser (it could be the plug-ins I’m using for audio and video), so I’ve linked the series page, and you’ll have to scroll down to get to part 7. As I wrote in [...]

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Muslim Stone Christians on Temple Mount

Ryan Jones wrote: A mob of some 50 Palestinian Muslims stoned a group of Christian tourists atop Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on Sunday morning. Three of the Israeli police officers who acted to protect the Christian group were wounded by the stone-throwers. Police arrested 11 Palestinians, several of them minors, for their role in the attack. [...]

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The Obamacare Trifecta

Charles Krauthammer wrote: On what authority? Where does it say that the president can unilaterally order a private company to provide an allegedly free-standing service at no cost to certain select beneficiaries? This is government by presidential fiat. In Venezuela, that’s done all the time. Perhaps we should call Obama’s “accommodation” Presidential Decree No. 1. [...]

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Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist and Jewish Leaders Swear Disobedience to HHS Contraception Mandate

From CNSNews.com: Would you go to jail–or even close down your hospitals and schools–rather than violate your religious faith, a Republican lawmaker asked religious leaders at a House hearing on Thursday. The answer, given under oath, was unanimous: They will disobey. “We’re not going to violate our consciences,” William E. Lori, the Roman Catholic Bishop [...]

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Federal Court Says 60 Churches Can Keep Meeting in NYC Public Schools

More on this story; Pete Winn wrote: A federal judge in Manhattan issued a temporary restraining order Thursday allowing the Bronx Household of Faith and 59 other New York City churches to continue meeting for weekend worship services in New York City public schools. The city had evicted the churches on Feb. 12. “This court [...]

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