Presbyterians Week Headlines
[1] Reactions within the Church of Scotland to Approving Congregational Choice of Whether or Not to Allow Homosexual Ministers
[2] Twenty U.S. Congressmen Petition Secretary of State John Kerry to Urge Romanian Government to Return Church Properties Seized during Communist Rule after 1945
[3] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell
[4] Headlines from Christian Concern
[5] Headlines from The Christian Institute
[6] Articles from LifesiteNews.com
[7] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
[8] The Religion of Peace
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[1] Reactions within the Church of Scotland to Approving Congregational Choice of Whether or Not to Allow Homosexual Ministers
In the aftermath of the May 2013 Church of Scotland (CoS) General Assembly (GA)’s decision to allow individual congregations to decide whether or not to allow homosexual clergy, there have been several reactions within the Kirk.
A 12 June 2013 The Scotsman article by Alistair Munro titled “Church of Scotland ‘Not in Crisis’ over Gay Clergy” reports that though the CoS is insisting that it is “not in crisis” over the issue of homosexual ministers, several CoS churches and ministers have left or are considering leaving the Kirk.
The presbyteries of Lewis CoS in the Western Isles, Logie, and St. John’s in Dundee, Scotland have expressed discontent with the May 2013 CoS GA decision. Benbecula CoS pastor the Rev. Andrew Downie has resigned from the ministry, and his former church along with Kinloch CoS and Stornoway High CoS on the Isle of Lewis are expected to vote on whether or not to leave the Kirk.
In an article 19 June 2013 article titled “Church of Scotland Presbytery of Lewis Statement”, the Stornoway Gazette reported that the Lewis Church of Scotland Presbytery issued an 11 June 2013 statement to its member churches as follows:
“The Church of Scotland Presbytery of Lewis states its total opposition to the selection, training and ordination for the Ministry of Word and Sacrament and the Diaconate of those in same sex Civil Partnerships.
“As a Presbytery, we strongly support the Church’s affirmation of historic and current doctrine and practice in relation to human sexuality.
“The Presbytery of Lewis continues to affirm that the Word of God is the supreme rule of faith and life and believes that any proposal which leads to the selection, training and ordination of those in same sex relationships is contrary to the revealed will of God in Scripture.
“Presbytery is deeply saddened by the fact that this matter has caused division within the Church of Scotland and within congregations.
“Presbytery respects the right of individual congregations to review their relationship with the Church of Scotland but urges its people to maintain the unity of their fellowship.”
A 12 June 2013 The Sun article titled “Kirk Set to Split over Gay Ministers” reports that Holyrood Abbey Parish Church (HAPC) in Edinburgh, Scotland is splitting from the Kirk, with HAPC pastor the Rev. Phil Hair saying that the elders had unanimously decided to leave the CoS “with great sadness”.
A 16 June 2013 The Herald article titled “Kirk Could Lose £1m a Year over Gay Ordination” reports that the CoS stands to lose UK£1 million per year as congregations opposed to homosexual ministers leave the Kirk.
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[2] Twenty U.S. Congressmen Petition Secretary of State John Kerry to Urge Romanian Government to Return Church Properties Seized during Communist Rule after 1945
A 14 June 2013 article by ‘MTI’ on Politics.hu titled “US Congressmen Press for Return of Church Property from Romanian Gov’t” reports that twenty U.S. Congress members have set a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry urging the Romanian Government to return Hungarian church property confiscated under the communist government in power after 1945.
The letter includes:
“The communist government of Romania confiscated 2,140 schools, hospitals, orphanages and other charitable and civic institutions from the Roman Catholic, Hungarian Reformed, Evangelical Lutheran, and Unitarian churches, as well as 1,980 Jewish communal properties, as well as all properties, including church buildings themselves, from the Greek Catholic Church that it summarily banned….”
The letter additionally requests the U.S. government to monitor the case of the Szekely Miko Reformed High School in Sepsiszentgyorgy (Sfantu Gheorghe), Romania, which was returned to the ethnically-Hungarian Romanian Reformed Church (RRC) by the Romanian Property Restitution Committee, then appealed to the Buzau Court of Appeal.
On 28 June 2012, the appeals court reversed the original decision of restitution to the RRC, fined the RRC retroactively, and sentenced three members of the Romanian Property Restitution Committee to three years imprisonment for performing their duty.
The supreme court of Romania will rule in the case of the three accused on 27 June 2013.
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[3] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell
-- China: 400 Million Forced Abortions, Sterilizations under One-Child Policy
-- U.S. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi Calls Late-Term Abortions “Sacred Ground”
-- Abortion Doctor Compares Killing Twenty-Seven-Week-Old Baby to Flu Shot
-- Mother and Caregiver Kill Autistic Teen to “End His Suffering”
-- Pennsylvania Mother Threatens to Kill Pregnant Daughter Who Refuses Abortion
-- Bill Would Force All Quebec Hospitals, Nursing Homes to Offer Euthanasia
-- Bodies of Babies Gosnell Brutalized in Abortions Will be Cremated, Buried
-- Abortionist Dr. Leroy Carhart Says Aborting Late-Term Baby ‘Like Putting Meat in a Crock-Pot’
-- Abortionist Says Lethal Injection to Abort Babies Is 'Like a Flu Shot'
-- Obama: Banning Late-Term Abortion Shows ‘Contempt’ for ‘The Constitution,’ Assaults Women’s Rights
-- Rapper Kanye West Praises Abortion on CD Likening Himself to Jesus
-- Huizhou China Forces All Women of Child-Bearing Age to Be Fitted with IUDs or Be Sterilized
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[4] Headlines from Christian Concern
Headlines of the past week from Christian Concern:
-- Buckingham Palace Consulted over Same-Sex ‘Marriages’ in U.K. Parliamentary Chapel
-- North Yorkshire, England Woman Who Aborted Full Term Baby Has Sentence Reduced
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[5] Headlines from The Christian Institute
Headlines of the past week from The Christian Institute:
-- Three-Year-Old Taught about Gay Marriage in Nursery
-- Gospel Proclaimed in the Scottish Parliament
-- Compulsory Sex Education Amendment Defeated by U.K. MPs
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[6] Articles from LifesiteNews.com
Articles from the past week from LifesiteNews.com:
-- Obama Slated to Name Five Openly Homosexual Foreign Ambassadors
-- French Mayor Refuses to ‘Marry’ Homosexual Couple: Risks Years in Jail
-- Boston, Massachusetts Cops Must Defer to Transgender Crooks
-- Men Having Sex with Men At Far Greater Risk For Cancer, STDs, Infections: Systematic Review
-- Bitter Irony: Children Once Again to Be Euthanized in Belgium/Netherlands Seventy Years after Nazis
-- Toronto District School Board Opens Its First Co-Ed Washroom
-- U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Focuses on the Important Things…Like Genderless Bathrooms
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[7] Raging Heathen and Vain Imagining
Articles from the past week regarding kings and rulers setting themselves against the LORD and against his anointed:
-- Millions of Americans That Pose “National Security Threat” Put on a List Called “Maincore”
-- U.S. Secret Service Tells Outspoken Obama Critic: We'll Come for Your Guns
-- Obama Confirms Christians in Military are Targets
-- Obama ‘Strongly Objects’ to Religious Liberty Amendment
-- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to Force States to Surrender Mental Health Data to FBI
-- Despite Protest, Los Angeles Public High School Allows Boy to Use Girls Locker Room
-- Johns Hopkins University Students Strip, Promote Sex Shop at Family-Friendly Festival
-- U.S. Air Force Personnel Ordered Not to Read about Obama Scandals
-- U.S. Republican Representative Jeff Duncan (South Carolina) Notices IRS Agents Training with AR-15s during Department of Homeland Security Tour
-- IRS Gives Secret Christian Donor Data to Homosexual Group
-- Transportation Security Administration Agent Pulls Woman’s Breast Prosthesis out of Her Bra
-- IRS Seized 60 Million Medical Records
-- DHS Wants Equipment for “Riot Control Situations”
-- California Child Protective Services Faces Audit after Stealing Baby from Parents
-- North Ridgeville, Ohio Cop Shot Litter of Kittens in Front of Screaming Children, Police Department Says Cop Did Nothing Wrong
-- Joshua Independent School District, Texas Principal Mick Cochran Threatens Valedictorian's Navy Career after Student Referenced God and the U.S Constitution in His Graduation Speech
-- Las Vegas, Nevada Court Officer 'Fondles' Woman, Has Her Arrested
-- Obama Sends Warm Greetings to Tel Aviv’s “Gay Pride Festival”
-- Religious Persecution in the U.S. Army
-- Hartford, Connecticut Health Officials Bully Barber Giving Free Haircuts to the Homeless
-- Washington DC Gay Pride Parade Includes Contingent from Washington National Cathedral
-- Polyamorists Hope to Gain Same Legal Recognition as Other Canadian Couples
-- Third-Graders Introduce Obama at LGBT Pride Event
-- Manhattan Students Write Suicide Notes as English Assignment
-- Letter Smuggled from Chinese Labor Camp Reveals Suffering Christians
-- Fourteen Year Old West Virginia Student May Face Year in Jail for Refusing to Remove National Rifle Association Shirt in School
-- Utah Boy Scout Leaders Won’t Apologize for Marching in Utah Gay-Pride Parade
-- U.S. Education Bill to Give Special Protection to Homosexual Students
-- New Jersey Cop Allegedly Shot Man to Death as Wife and Three Kids Looked On
-- U.S. Supreme Court: Your Right to Remain Silent Can Be Used against You
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[8] The Religion of Peace
Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:
-- PAPUA (Indonesia): from Mission Field to Killing Field
-- Rocky Mountain High School Multicultural Student Group Recites Pledge in Arabic Saying ‘One Nation under Allah’
-- Importing Jihad: Obama Considers Resettling Thousands of Syrian Refugees in America
-- Obama Promises More Aid to Al Qaeda-Linked Jihadists in Syria, Claims ‘Red Line’ Crossed on Chemical Weapons Use, Despite United Nations Human Rights Counter Claims
-- Boston Marathon Police Exercise Featuring Right-Wing Terrorists with Backpack Bombs Disrupted by Real Muslim Terrorists with Backpack Bombs
-- Documents Reveal FBI Training Curricula Purged of Material Deemed "Offensive" to Muslims
-- Muslim Slashes Friends after They Voiced Support for London Beheading Victim Lee Rigby
-- Christian Teacher in Egypt Sentenced for 'Defaming' Islam
-- Jihadists Strike Cities across Iraq, Seventy Dead
-- San Francisco Funds Muslim Religious Place of Worship
-- President Obama’s Brother Works with and for Islamic Terrorists
-- Hot Mic Catches Egyptian Politician Discussing ‘War’ with ‘Enemies’ Israel and America
-- Afghan Parliament Upholds Right to Marry Children, Ban Would "Violate Islamic Principles"
-- Jihad in Kenya: Explosion in Attack on Church in Kenya Injures Fifteen
-- U.K. Muslim Pedophile Rings Are an Epidemic
-- London-Based Muslim TV Channel Rebroadcasts Show on Wife-Beating
-- Gender-Based Violence ‘Wielded Mercilessly’ in Muslim Countries
-- U.S. Is Said to Plan to Send Weapons to Syrian Rebels
-- Muslims Assault Man for Eating Ham in Front of Them
-- Explosion in Attack on Church in Kenya Injures Fifteen
-- The Torture Camps of Sinai: The Untold Story of Christian Persecution
-- Washington State: Man Gets Twelve Years Prison for Making Bomb and Trying to Help Jihad Terrorists
-- Syria Death Toll At Least 93,000, Says United Nations
-- Islamizing the U.S. Public Schools
-- U.S. Arms to Syria 'Will Make Bloodbath Worse'
-- Sharia in Action in Afghanistan: Doctor Stoned by Muslim Mob for Seeing Female Patient
-- Syria: Obama-Backed Jihadists Massacre Christian Village Population
-- U.K. Teen Brutally Beaten by Fifteen Muslims
-- Pakistan: Islamic Jihadists Bomb Women on Bus, Then Seize Hospital Where Survivors Were Taken, Murdering Twelve
-- Scots Police Smash Two Large Muslim Pedophile Rape Gangs
-- Upsurge in Attacks Signals Growing Islamist Threat in Niger
-- Six Iranian Christian Converts Convicted while Attention Was on Presidential Election
-- "Allah Will Punish You All!" Muslim Attacks Other Muslims with Machete in U.K. Mosque for Not Praying Properly
-- Jordanian Newspaper Quotes Qur'an to Argue "Let's Kill the Jews Everywhere"
-- Obama-Backed Syrian Jihadists Behead Christian & Feed His Body To Dogs
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