Wednesday, July 31, 2013

31 July 2013



Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1] Heaven or Hell: Fate of the World Hinges on Unity of Purpose of Jesus’ Followers

[2] United Church of Christ Activists Fast to Call for Closure of Guantanamo Prison

[3] Roman Catholic Pope Calls Mary “Refuge Of Sinners”

[4] Roman Catholic Pope Francis Says Atheists Can Do Good and Go to Heaven Too

[5] Liberty Activists Being Targeted by Spoofed Email Messages with Child Pornography Attached

[6] PRTS President Joel Beeke Conducts “True Living” Conference at the Evangelical Reformed Church in Hackney, London, England


[7] 77th General Synod of the Bible Presbyterian Church Begins 1 August 2013 in Grand Island, New York

[8]
News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

[9]
Headlines from Christian Concern

[10]
Headlines from The Christian Institute

[11]
Articles from LifesiteNews.com

[12] 
Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

[13] 
The Religion of Peace

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[1] Heaven or Hell: Fate of the World Hinges on Unity of Purpose of Jesus’ Followers

By Jerry L. Van Marter, Presbyterian News Service

PURDUE, Ind.

Jesus’ words to his followers in John 14:1-7 ― “Don’t be afraid” ― “may be the most important words we hear,” said the Rev. Stan Wood of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Wednesday’s (17 July) at the 2013 Presbyterian Youth Triennium (PYT) here.

“While many are optimistic about the future, there are many who have little hope in the present,” said Wood, who has served as dean, professor, administrator and academic journal editor at Memphis Theological Seminary since 1998.

“There’s an unease in our land, a lack of assurance about the future, and a belief that the quality of life has been deteriorating,” Wood said. “As the pie grows smaller while the number laying claim to it grows larger, our people are wondering what we are made of.”

Wood offered three prescriptions to the crowd of more than 5,200 gathered here 16-20 July under the PYT theme “I AM.”

First, he said, “There exists a need for followers of Jesus to discern the real issued controlling society and gain insight into new possibilities.” Christians should take nothing for granted, Wood said, and perceptive, faithful people must take “an active role” in God’s redeeming work.

“Where do you see evidence of God at work, liberating people and executing justice, breaking down walls of division and reconciling men and women to one another and to God?” To many the work of God in the world is “by no means apparent and even when it is discernible we miss the mark because we look with too much distrust,” Wood said.

“We who are motivated out of the Judeo-Christian tradition must look with one eye on the Bible and one eye on a good daily newspaper,” he said. “We must keep our eyes on the road and our ear to the ground.”

Second, Wood continued, “If we would make a difference, we must become a pioneering community, responding to God first and demonstrating in our corporate life the new relationships God is bringing into the world.”

Christians cannot wait for someone else to take the lead in transforming the world, Wood insisted. “Join movements that bring human rights to the front burner, that bring justice to all of God’s children,” he said.

“We have been too individualistic ― God’s vision is shalom: universal well-being for all,” Wood said. “If we are students of the Bible, shalom is the way things are supposed to be.”

Third, Wood said, “We are called to follow Jesus in destroying footholds of prejudice, violence and injustice. We are called to interdependence.”

Because all are part of one humanity, the challenge is clear, Wood said. “We exist in this world together, which can be either heaven or hell, Together we can make it a better place, divided we will see it destroyed before our eyes.”

Wood concluded by praising the young people who packed the Purdue auditorium that is serving as PYT’s worship space.

We have been deaf, dumb and blind,” Wood admitted. “Maybe the world’s a mess but it’s going to get better because you are here and committed.” Quoting a gospel song, Wood concluded, “Keep on building, don’t get worried, God’s people must be strong.”


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[2] United Church of Christ Activists Fast to Call for Closure of Guantanamo Prison

A twenty-four hour fast by Sandy Sorensen, director of the
United Church of Christ (UCC)'s office in Washington DC and the Rev. Michael Neuroth, UCC policy advocate for international issues and several others in the faith community was held 23-24 July 2013 to call for the closing of the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detention center and to bring attention to the inhumane treatment of its prisoners.

In May 2013, UCC General Minister and President the Rev. Geoffrey A. Black was among thirty-eight religious leaders to sign a letter calling on the White House to make good on its promise to close the facility.


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[3] Roman Catholic Pope Calls Mary “Refuge Of Sinners”

In his visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa on 8 July 2013, Pope Francis called Mary the star of the sea, Mother of God, Protector of migrants, Mother of mercy, and Refuge of sinners (“Pope’s Marian Prayer at Lampedusa,” Zenit, 8 July 2013). He began the prayer with these words: “Mary, star of the sea, once again we recourse to thee, to find refuge and serenity, to implore your protection and help.”

He asked Mary to “obtain the conversion of heart” for sinners and to “bless all men and women of good will.” Only eighty miles from the coast of Tunisia, Lampedusa has been the target for tens of thousands of Africans who are attempting to reach Italy and Europe. The island’s native population of 6,000 is overwhelmed by the thousands of illegal migrants living in impoverished camps awaiting relocation to the European mainland. It is believed that 20,000 have died since 1988 in the attempt to cross the passage of water in rickety boats.


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[4] Roman Catholic Pope Francis Says Atheists Can Do Good and Go to Heaven Too

A 30 May 2013 Catholic Online article titled “Pope Francis Says Atheists Can Do Good and Go to Heaven Too!” reports that on 29 May 2013, Roman Catholic Pope Francis declared to atheists that Jesus died and was raised for them as well, that Jesus’ redemptive embrace was for all, not just a chosen few, and that the choice to accept its reach is our own.

Pope Francis added that people must still do good, and that in doing good that they are led to Jesus, the source of all that is good. He continued:

"The Lord created us in His image and likeness, and we are the image of the Lord, and He does good and all of us have this commandment at heart, do good and do not do evil. All of us. 'But, Father, this is not Catholic! He cannot do good.' Yes, he can... "The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ, all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!" We must meet one another doing good. 'But I don't believe, Father, I am an atheist!' But do good: we will meet one another there."

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[5] Liberty Activists Being Targeted by Spoofed Email Messages with Child Pornography Attached

A 26 July 2013
The Liberty Crier article titled “Child Porn Attacks on Liberty Activists Continue, Oathkeepers and PANDA Targeted” reports that several liberty activists have recently been targeted by spoofed emails with child pornography images as attachments, in a failed attempt to get the email recipients to unknowingly open the disguised attachments and thus download images of child pornography to their computers. If the attempts had been successful and child pornography was downloaded to the computers, the recipients would have faced damage to their reputations and possible felony charges of possession of child pornography.

The liberty activists targeted for the attempted smears include Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers; Dan Johnson, founder of People Against the N.D.A.A (National Defense Authorization Act) (P.A.N.D.A.); and Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange.org.


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[6] PRTS President Joel Beeke Conducts “True Living” Conference at the Evangelical Reformed Church in Hackney, London, England

Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary (PRTS) President the Rev. Dr. Joel Beeke on 27-28 July 2013 conducted a conference titled “True Living” at the Evangelical Reformed Church (ERC) in Hackney, London, England.

Four messages on “True Living”—personally (in the believer’s relationship with God), domestically (in marriage and child rearing), perseveringly (enduring to the end in a life of conversion), and eternally (in heaven, as a world of love), were presented to the 200 people attending the conference.

ERC is a predominantly black church with most of the congregation being from the Caribbean. Dr. Beeke said that this was the fifth time that he has visited ERC, which he describes as a “warm, spiritually thriving church”:

“I love ministering to these dear people. The church is teeming with new, young converts—especially young men, several of whom are now wrestling with a call to the ministry. At least one dear brother who would love to study at PRTS hopes to visit our seminary soon. Reformed, experiential Christianity is alive and well in this blessed church.


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[7] 77th General Synod of the Bible Presbyterian Church Begins 1 August 2013 in Grand Island, New York

The 77th General Synod of the Bible Presbyterian Church will begin, Lord willing, on 1 August 2013 at the Bible Presbyterian Church of Grand Island,
New York. Retiring moderator the Rev. Kevin Backus, PhD, is also the host pastor for this year’s synod meetings. The theme is “Confident of Better Things,” and is designed to mark the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Bible Presbyterian Church. Dr. Backus will speak on this theme as the opening message, followed by Communion hosted by the Great Lakes Presbytery. The theme will be developed with special emphasis on missions and the chaplaincy.


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[8]
News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

-- Former U.S. Presidential Candidate Howard Dean Admits Obamacare Includes Death Panels, Wants Them Repealed

-- U.S. Federal Court Forces Mennonite Company to Comply With HHS Abortion Mandate

-- Funeral Service Held for Baby Brutalized in Violent Fourteen-Week Abortion

-- Senate Bill Would Fund Abortions for Peace Corps Volunteers at Taxpayer Expense

-- Liberal Activists Still Exploiting Raped Girl Who Rejected Abortion

-- Eugenics is Shifting from Killing the Disabled to Genetically Enhancing Kids

-- Body of Newborn Baby Found in Trash in Kansas City, Arm Dangling from over the Side


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[9]
Headlines from Christian Concern

Headlines of the past week from
Christian Concern:

-- Oxford English Dictionary to Change Definition of Marriage to Include Same-Sex Couples

-- Archbishop of Canterbury Causes a Stir by Opining on Payday Loans While Remaining Mostly Silent on Same-Sex Marriage

-- Letter to the Commissioner of the Police for the Metropolis of London, England: Tell Officers Not to Arrest Preachers Who Say Homosexual Acts Are Sinful


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[10]
Headlines from The Christian Institute

Headlines of the past week from
The Christian Institute:

-- Cameron Vows to Export Gay Marriage Worldwide

-- Sikhs Told to Halt Weddings over Gay Marriage Law Risk

-- Abortions of Disabled Unborn Babies See Sharp Increase




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[11]
Articles from LifesiteNews.com

Articles from the past week from
LifesiteNews.com:

-- California Supreme Court Denies Petition to Stop Distribution of Gay ‘Marriage’ Licenses

-- Obama Administration Forces School District to Let Teenage Girl Use Boys Restroom, Showers, Sleeping Quarters

-- Pennsylvania Governor Rebukes County Official Issuing Illegal Gay ‘Marriage’ Licenses

-- Bomb Blows Man’s Legs Off after He Reported Illegal Abortion Clinic in Peru: Report

-- Toronto School Board Refuses to Say Why It Reinstated Teacher Who Posted Graphic Gay Sex Brochures


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[12] 
Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

Articles from the past week regarding kings and rulers setting themselves against the LORD and against his anointed:

-- Obama Saying Ho Chi Minh Inspired by U.S. Constitution and Thomas Jefferson Echoes KGB 'Disinformation'

-- Concord, New Hampshire Police Department Requests Costly Military-Style Equipment to Deal With “Sovereign Citizens, Free Staters” and Others

-- Archbishop Desmond Tutu Says He’d Rather Go to Hell Than to a Homophobic Heaven

-- University of California at San Diego Economics Professor Pegs National Debt at Nearly US$90 Trillion Dollars

-- Talk Show Host Bill Maher Says God is a “Psychotic Mass Murderer” and Homophobe

-- U.S. Military: Women to Take Combat Roles by 2016

-- Chicago Firearms Confiscation Begins

-- Park Forest, Illinois Police Kill Ninety-Five-Year-Old Nursing Home Resident with Taser, Bean Bag Shot – Refused to Take Medication

-- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania SWAT Officers Dragged Ten-Year-Old from Bathtub, Made Him Stand Naked Next to Four-Year-Old Sister, Terrorized Family

-- San Antonio, Texas Preparing to Persecute Christians Who Speak Out on the Bible

-- U.S. Army Conducts Nighttime Exercises in Downtown Chicago

-- Proposed San Antonio, Texas Legislation to penalize Bible Believers

-- Obama Administration Requires Magician to Submit a Thirty-Two Page “Disaster Plan” for His Rabbit

-- Pedophiles Arguing Their Sexual Orientation Is No Different than Homosexuals

-- Obama Judicial Nominee Calls Abstinence Education 'Unconstitutional'

-- U.S. National Institutes of Health Spending US$544,188 to Promote HPV Vaccine

-- Five Women Beaten in Public India Marketplace for Sharing Love of Jesus

-- Bill Passes in India Jailing Converts, Clergy for Failure to Give Prior Notice of Conversion

-- Bank Repossesses Wrong House, Sells Off Homeowner’s Stuff, Police Says Case Is Closed

-- Austin, Texas: Ten Men Rape Girl As They Cheer Each Other On and Tape the Assault

-- Vietnam: Christian Couple Pressured to Abandon Their Faith with Threats and Beatings

-- Air Force Censors Chaplain over 'No Atheists in Foxholes' Essay

-- Illegal Alien Knocked Ninety-Three-Year-Old Woman’s Teeth Out while Raping Her

-- Finally Legal: Queen Gives Gay Marriage the Royal Assent

-- Henrico County, Virginia Police Go to Family’s Home to Notify Them of Son’s Homicide – Instead They Shoot Pet Dog

-- U.S. Justice Department Investigates “Redneck Day” at Arizona High School

-- United Nations Declares another Worldwide War on Biblical Ethics

-- The Shameful Ordeal of Cecile Kyenge, Italy’s First Black Minister

-- FBI Announces Takedown of 150 Pimps Trafficking Children for Sex

-- Scam of the Year: Steroid Enhanced Ferrets Sold as Poodles


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[13] 
The Religion of Peace

Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:

-- Obama Salutes Muslims and Celebrates Islamic Holy Month at White House

-- Obama Moves Forward with Plan to Arm Syrian Jihadists

-- Obama Releases Five High Profile Gitmo Detainees to Appease the Taliban

-- REPORT: Injured Benghazi Hero with Shredded Leg Waited Twenty Hours for Help

-- Arizona Muslim Charged with Detonating a Bomb outside a Federal Building, Faces Additional Charge of Murder

-- Outrage over US$300K Salary Paid to Fort Hood Jihad Mass Murderer Spurs Legislation

-- Ramadan Observance in Iraq: Shi'ite Muslims Bomb Sunni Mosques, Murdering Nine

-- Afghanistan: Jihad-Martyrdom Suicide Bomber on Donkey Murders Three American Troops

-- Syrian Rebels Ransack Christian Village

-- Al-Qaeda-Linked Rebels Hold 200 Kurdish Civilians as 'Live Shield' in Syria

-- Christian Suffering under Jihadi Extremism

-- Pastor’s Daughter in Nigeria Allegedly Kidnapped, Forced to Convert to Islam

-- American Pastor Saeed Abedini: 300 Days in an Iranian Prison

-- Iran: Christians Imprisoned for Their Faith

-- Coming Soon: America's Own Islamic 'No-Go' Zones

-- Sharia Law in Lebanon: Muslim Who Honor-Beat His Wife to Death Released

-- Dutch Court Blocks Extradition to U.S. of Dutch-Pakistani Jihad Terror Suspect

-- Ramadan Kill-a-Thon: Devout Muslim Group Opens Fire in Iraq, Killing Nine Policemen, Blows Up Ambulance Rushing to Scene

-- Ramadan Kill-a-Thon: Child Sees Parents Murdered by Muslims in Thailand

-- Ramadan Bombathon: Jihad in Egypt, One Killed, Seventeen Wounded in Bomb Attack on Police Station

-- Ramadan Bombathon: Jihad in Thailand, Two Teachers Killed, One Wounded in Bomb Attack

-- Obama Halts Delivery of F-16 Jets to Egypt after Muslim Brotherhood Removed from Power

-- Female Genital Mutilation: 30 Million Girls "At Risk"

-- Iranian Christians Continue to Face Arrest, Imprisonment

-- Islamist Traffickers Terrorize People by Snatching Christian Girls

-- Rockets Hit United Arab Emirates’ Mission to Libya

-- More Islam, More Misogyny: Turkey: Pregnant Women in Public 'Immoral and Unpleasant'

-- New York Muslim Steals US$5 Million -- Blames "Islamophobia"

-- Canada: Feds Threatening To Revoke Charity Status of Islamic Society of North America over Concerns That It Sent Money to Jihad Terrorists

-- Tunisian Politician Mohamed Brahmi, Who Opposed Islamic Government, Assassinated

-- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Refers to Country of Palestine

-- Muslimas from Britain Joining Jihad in Syria

-- Pakistan: Islamic Jihad Group Sends Ramadan Gift to Rival Islamic Seminary: A Bomb

-- Muslim from Canada Identified As Suspect in Bulgarian Jihad Attack against Israeli Tourists

-- FBI Ignored Warnings about Boston Bombers’ Radical Mosque

-- Christian Jailed for Text Messages in Gojra, Pakistan

-- Peace Talks with Taliban While They Murder Foreign Tourists

-- Muslim Honor Killing in Canada: "So Many Stab Wounds That from Her Waist Up, There Was No Body”

-- Sharia in Action: Thirty-Nine Eritrean Christian Students Imprisoned for Their Faith

-- Ramadan Bombathon: Homicide Bombers Kill Thirty-Nine near Shi'ite Mosques in Pakistan

-- Ramadan Beatathon: Danish Shop Employees Beaten for Selling Pork

-- Ramadan Observance in Pakistan: At Least Forty-One Murdered in Explosions at Busy Marketplace

-- Ramadan Observance in the Philippines: Six Dead, Forty-Eight Wounded as Muslims Bomb Restaurant

-- Malaysia: Women Who Disputed Ban on Muslim Women Participating in Beauty Contests Could Be Charged in Sharia Court for Insulting Islam

-- Six Dead in Jihad Attack on Turkish Embassy in Somalia

-- India: Muslim Mob Kills Two Hindus, Injures Many More for Playing Music in Hindu Temple during Ramadan

-- Ramadan Observance in Nigeria: Islamic Jihadists Murder over Twenty Fishermen and Traders

-- -- Sharia in Action in Saudi Arabia: Rights Activist Gets Seven Years Jail, 600 Lashes for Insulting Islam

-- Colorado: Self-Proclaimed "Islamist Jihadist" Threatens to Murder Mormons and Catholics

-- Muslims in London Throw Toxic Acid on Mother and Her Young Twin Boys


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Wednesday, July 24, 2013

24 July 2013



Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1] ARP Minister the Rev. Dr. Sinclair Ferguson to Become Part of Preaching Team at St. Peter’s Free Church in Dundee, Scotland

[2] Scottish Highlands’ First Lap Dancing Club Earns the Ire of the Free Church of Scotland

[3] 2013 Reformed Congregational Fellowship Presentations, Papers, and Audio Files Available

[4] Plaque Commemorating 19th Century Cross Dressing Act Unveiled at United Reformed Church in London

[5]
News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

[6]
Headlines from Christian Concern

[7]
Headlines from The Christian Institute

[8
Articles from LifesiteNews.com

[9] 
Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

[10] 
The Religion of Peace

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[1] ARP Minister the Rev. Dr. Sinclair Ferguson to Become Part of Preaching Team at St. Peter’s Free Church in Dundee, Scotland

Senior minister of First Presbyterian Church (
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church) in Columbia, South Carolina, the Rev. Dr. Sinclair Ferguson will soon be retiring from his stateside ministry, and in September 2013 will begin preaching three Sunday evenings a month at St. Peter’s Free Church (of Scotland) in Dundee, Scotland.

Dr. Ferguson will be introduced to the St. Peter’s congregation on Sunday 25 August 2013 and will preach at that morning service.

While in the U.S., Dr. Ferguson has taught systematic theology at Redeemer Seminary in Dallas, Texas and Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Ferguson was previously minister at St. George’s Tron Church, Glasgow, Scotland, and was associate editor for the Banner of Truth Trust.


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[2] Scottish Highlands’ First Lap Dancing Club Earns the Ire of the Free Church of Scotland

A 24 July 2013 The Scotsman article by Alistair Munro titled “Highlands’ First Lap Dancing Club Sparks Outrage” reports that the first lap dancing club in the Scottish Highlands opens today, 24 July 2013, in Inverness, Scotland, and has earned the ire of the
Free Church of Scotland (FCS).
An FCS spokesman is quoted as saying:

“We are hugely disappointed and saddened that the first lap dancing club in the Highlands will be opening.

“Over recent weeks a number of our members have been dismayed at the news – and local ministers have heard particularly from young families who are already deeply concerned about the accessibility of sexually suggestive material to children and young people.

“Bringing a lap dancing club to one of the busiest streets in Inverness will make this worse not better.

“Lap dancing sends out a very clear message that women are to be stared at like animals in a zoo.

“We cannot believe in modern 21st century Scotland that there is not universal opposition to such a demeaning and exploitative form of ‘entertainment’.”


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[3] 2013 Reformed Congregational Fellowship Presentations, Papers, and Audio Files Available

The
Reformed Congregational Fellowship (RCF) has made available on the RCF website the presentations, papers, and audio files from the RCF April 2013 Pastors’ Conference on the theme ‘Of the Law of God ~ Savoy Declaration chapter 19’.

To access these resources, go to the following website and click on “Conferences”:

http://www.reformedcongregational.org/


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[4] Plaque Commemorating 19th Century Cross Dressing Act Unveiled at United Reformed Church in London

A 25 July 2013 article in the Camden New Journal by Alice Hutton titled “Blue Plaque Recognition for ‘Illegal’ Cross-Dressing Double Act ‘Stella and Fanny’” reports that on 17 July 2013, a plaque honoring Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park, “…better known by their stage names Stella and Fanny….a Victorian cross-dressing double act who suffered national persecution 150 years ago” was unveiled on the outside wall of the Bloomsbury United Reformed Church, the building then in which Stella and Fanny lived.

The pair was put on trial in 1870 for committing “felonious crimes” and “outraging decency”, but was later acquitted.

Joining the celebration was the mayor of Camden Jonathan Simpson, other supporters including those from Gay’s the Word, London's oldest LGBT bookshop, and Neil McKenna, author of a biography of the two performers.

Pastor of the church the Rev. Roberta Rominger said: “They were flouting the law, because in those days who could imagine that the law would ever change and be how it is today?

"It is really out of that that this plaque needs to be here and we need to know.”


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+ United Reformed Church, Church House, 86 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9RT, England, 020-7916-2020, Fax: 020-7916-2021, urc@urc.org.uk


[5]
News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

-- Double Euthanasia: Belgian Couple Kill Themselves after Seventy Years Together

--
U.K. National Health Service Hospitals Kill Thousands of Patients Who Could Have Lived with Proper Care

--
State of Washington Assisted Suicide Deaths Jump Seventeen Percent in One Year


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[6]
Headlines from Christian Concern

Headlines of the past week from
Christian Concern:

--
Attack on Free Speech as London Driver Threatened with Violence, Truck Vandelised for Pro-Children Billboard

--
Challenge Issued to Archbishop of Canterbury over House of Lords Vote on Same Sex Marriage

--
U.K. Parliamentary Commission Reveals Shock Figures for Disability Abortions


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[7]
Headlines from The Christian Institute

Headlines of the past week from
The Christian Institute:

--
Wrecking Marriage Will ‘Come Back to Bite’ U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron

--
Sir Ian Botham: Our Society Has Made Divorce Too Easy

--
U.K. MPs Say Disability Abortion Law Needs Urgent Rethink


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[8]
Articles from LifesiteNews.com

Articles from the past week from
LifesiteNews.com:

--
Queen Elizabeth II Signs Gay ‘Marriage’ Law

--
Crossdressing Camp for Boys as Young as Six Draws Criticism from Christian Leaders

--
Senate Democrats Confirm Tom Perez as Labor Secretary: Boasted of Prosecuting Pro-Life Activists


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[9] 
Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining

Articles from the past week regarding kings and rulers setting themselves against the LORD and against his anointed:

--
Seven Ways the Obama Administration Has Accelerated Police Militarization

-- The Militarization of American Cities

--
Why Does The Military Continue to Practice Assaulting U.S. Cities?

--
Sarasota, Florida Nurse Terrorized by U.S. Marshals in Warrantless Raid

--
University of Pennsylvania Professor Anthea Butler on Zimmerman Verdict: God Is a 'White Racist'

--
New Black Panthers Offer US$10,000 Bounty for Killing George Zimmerman

--
Trayvon Martin Protestors Violently Attack a Grandmother Trying to Take Seven-Year-Old to Hospital

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Ten Ways That the Iron Grip of the Big Brother Prison Grid Is Tightening on All of Our Lives

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‘Porn in the Dorm’: Universities ‘Promoting’ Pornography, Says Family Research Council

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Disciples of Christ Denomination Affirms Sexual Liberalism, Transgenderism

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IRS Employees Ordered to Send Tea Party Cases to IRS's Only Obama Political Appointee

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Valet Parked Cars at Airports Searched under TSA Regulations

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U.S. Army Vet Denied Right to Own Gun Due to Forty-Two-Year-Old Misdemeanor Drug Charge

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Kern County, California Sheriff Sued for Deadly Attack on Sleeping Man

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Threats Stall Event for Ex-Gays

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Massachusetts Legislature Considering Ban on Gay Therapy for Minors

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Tweeting the Pope Might Help Catholics Get to Heaven Faster Week of Catholic World Youth Day in Brazil

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The Episcopal Church's Hit List against Orthodox Clergy Tops 700 and Counting

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Uzbekistan: Pensioners Owning Koran and Bibles Fined Over Two Years Pension

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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron on Same-Sex Marriage: I Am Proud We Have Had the Courage to Change

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Family Premiums Up US$1,975 since Obamacare Passed, but Obama Touts US$100 Rebates

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US$990,000 Federal Grant to Teach High School Students in Los Angeles How to Promote Obamacare

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'Gay' Laws Set Stage for Pedophilia 'Rights'

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Los Angeles, California Satanist Teen Kills and Skins Mother as a Human Sacrifice for “Unholy Day”

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San Marcos, Texas Police Officer Charged for Assaulting Random Female Pedestrian, Knocking Her Teeth Out

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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg Strikes Again: Bans Food Donations to the Homeless

-- Study Shows Teen Girls Sexually Exploited Regularly on Mainstream Television

-- Ball State University Criticized for Hiring Professor Who Believes God Created the Universe

-- Bill Passes in India Jailing Converts, Clergy for Failure to Give Prior Notice of Conversion


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[10] 
The Religion of Peace

Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:

-- U.S. Congress Capitulates to Obama, Lifts Hurdles on Arming Syrian Jihadists

-- Speaker of the House John Boehner Blocking Benghazi Investigation

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Foreign Jihadis Pouring In, Madrassas Emptying as Jihadis Prepare for Final Assault against Americans in Afghanistan

-- U.S. Justice Department Forcing Islamic Supremacist Mosque on Henrico County, Virginia


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Pennsylvania: American Muslim Incited Violent Jihad Online

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Bangladesh: Four Dead, Dozens Wounded as Muslims Riot over Ninety-Year Sentence of Islamic Leader for Crimes against Humanity

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Pakistan: Woman Stoned to Death for Having a Cell Phone

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Jerusalem Police Close Temple Mount to Non-Muslims

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TV Networks in Muslim Countries Air Ramadan Miniseries Dramatizing Muhammad's Massacre of the Jews

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Interfaith Dialogue in Egypt: Over 100 Christian Families Flee Sinai after Receiving Death Threats from Muslim Groups

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Modern, Moderate Malaysia: Muslim Mob Assaults Man, Strips Him Naked for Allegedly Ridiculing Ramadan

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Pakistan: Man Beaten for Eating during Ramadan

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Iranian Nuclear Crisis Nearing a Critical Tipping Point

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Muslims in Germany Celebrate Ramadan with Four Nights of Rioting

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United Nations Estimates 5,000 Killed in Syria Every Month

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Rape Jihad: Seattle Muslim Charged with Kidnapping Girls and Operating Child-Sex Prostitution Ring

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U.S. President’s Brother Malik Obama Maintained Close Relationship with Libyan Dictator Muammar Gadhafi for Decades

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Palestinian Authority Holds Military Funeral for Convicted Terrorist

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Obama’s Ambassador: Release All Jailed Muslim Brotherhood Members in Egypt

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Indonesia: Churches Closed under Islamic Law

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Christian Girls Being Snatched by Islamist Traffickers

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Egypt’s Coptic Christians Pay Price of Political Chaos

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Dozens of Christians Killed in Plateau State, Nigeria

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Eight Christians in Iran Sent to Prison for Threatening "National Security"

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Another Christian Convert Tried in Iran

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Ramadan Bomb-a-Thon: Jihadists Plant Two Bombs in Thailand's Deep South

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Florida Teen Indicted for Conspiring to Jihad Terrorist Plot

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Moderate Malaysia: Two Non-Muslims Charged with "Sedition" after Posting Photo of Them Eating Pork and Greeting Muslims on Facebook

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FBI Director Admits That the Bureau Has Gone Soft on Islamic Jihad Terror

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Georgia, U.S.A.: Muslima Accused of Murder Tells Judge That Allah Is Her Lawyer and Would Seek Vengeance If Judge Didn't Release Her

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Taliban Urge Schoolgirl They Shot to Return to Pakistan, "Study and Learn the Book of Allah"

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Egyptian Politician Accuses Anne Patterson, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, of Belonging to Muslim Brotherhood ‘Sleeper Cell’

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Sharia Enforcement in Seattle: FBI Counterterror Ads Censored

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Ramadan Observance in Iraq: Shi'ite Muslims Bomb Sunni Mosque, Murdering at Least Seventeen People

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Ramadan Interfaith Outreach in Nigeria: Muslims Murder Dozens of Christians and Destroy Church Buildings

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Alleged Islamic Jihad Terrorist Charged with Attempted Murder of Dozens of Israeli Defence Force Soldiers

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Obama's Peace Partners Bribe Starving Children as Young as Eight Years Old to Be Homicide Bombers

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Sharia in Action in Afghanistan: Fatwa Bars Women from Leaving Home Without a Male Relative, While Shutting Cosmetic Shops

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Pakistan: Islamic Clerics Ban Women from Shopping Alone in Northwest Area

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Hundreds of Muslims Riot in Paris, Hurling Projectiles, Attacking Police over France’s Ban on Islamic Face Veils

-- Nigeria: Senator Lambastes Critics, Urges Child Marriage as a Solution to Nation's Problems, "I Can Give Out My Daughter at the Age of Six for Marriage"

-- “I’d Rather Kill Myself”: Eleven-Year-Old Yemeni Girl Escapes Forced Marriage, Tells How Other Girls Aren’t So Lucky

-- Muslim in India Kidnaps Estranged Wife, Tortures Her with Razor Blade for Refusing to Convert to Islam

-- India: Muslim Politician Involved in Conversion of Poor Sikh Children to Islam

-- Pakistan: Situation Deteriorating for Hindus, Shias, Christians

-- India: Muslim Member of the Legislative Assembly Threatens to Behead Opponent

-- ‘A Blood-Soaked, Totalitarian Death Cult’: National Security Expert Explains Why You Should Fear the Muslim Brotherhood

-- Muslim Ambulance Driver in Iraq Refused to Deliver Body to Assyrian Church

-- Sharia in Action: 30 Million Girls 'At Risk' of Female Genital Mutilation


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