28 August 2013

Presbyterians Week Headlines

[1] Russian President Vladimir Putin Orders Massive Strike Against Saudi Arabia If West Attacks Syria

[2] Erskine College and Theological Seminary 15-16 August 2013 Board Meeting Highlights

[3] United Church of Christ Minister’s Campaign for LGBT Rights Returns to North Carolina

[4] Christian Reformed World Missions Staff in Egypt Request Urgent Prayer

[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] Russian President Vladimir Putin Orders Massive Strike Against Saudi Arabia If West Attacks Syria

A 27 August 2013 European Union Times article titled “Putin Orders Massive Strike Against Saudi Arabia If West Attacks Syria” reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin on 27 August 2013 issued an “urgent action memorandum” to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation ordering a “massive military strike” against Saudi Arabia in the event that the West attacks Syria.

The article stated that Kremlin sources say “Putin became “enraged” after his early August meeting with Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan who warned that if Russia did not accept the defeat of Syria, Saudi Arabia would unleash Chechen terrorists under their control to cause mass death and chaos during the Winter Olympics scheduled to be held 7-23 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia.”


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[2] Erskine College and Theological Seminary 15-16 August 2013 Board Meeting Highlights

Some of the highlights of the 15-16 August 2013 meeting of the Board of Erskine College and Theological Seminary include:

-- Responded to an affirmation from General Synod with a similar statement:

“In grateful acknowledgement of the 175-year relationship between the General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church and Erskine College and Seminary, the Erskine College Board of Trustees hereby reaffirms Erskine as a valuable agency of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and covenants to maintain a close working relationship with the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in order to continue preparing Christian leaders for service to the church and community.”

-- Charged the presidential search committee with it duties:

“In its search for a new president for Erskine College, the Board of Trustees charges the search committee to search for, identify and recommend an individual whose qualifications include a personal profession of faith fully and enthusiastically in line with the Synod’s Definition of an Evangelical, the ability to communicate a Biblical World and Life View and the application of it in undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education, and affirmation and articulation of the doctrine of inerrancy as embraced by the Board of Trustees and as stated by the General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, agreement with the philosophy of Christian Higher Education with a clear vision of implementing it into the life of Erskine College and Theological Seminary, subscription to the Standards of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and the educational qualifications, leadership experience, personal skills, and significant fundraising background that demonstrate the competencies necessary to accomplish the stated mission of the institution.”

-- Affirmed the presidential search committee:

“The board affirms the appointment of the Presidential Search Committee and the process by which the committee members were appointed under the bylaws and that it expresses its full confidence that the Presidential Search Committee will act in accordance with the directives of the Board of Trustees and of Synod.”


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[3] United Church of Christ Minister’s Campaign for LGBT Rights Returns to North Carolina

Anthony Moujaes reported 21August 2013that United Church of Christ minister the Rev. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara has taken the Campaign for Southern Equality into her home state of North Carolina as the latest step in the quest for marriage equality in the South. The WE DO Campaign, an initiative of the Campaign for Southern Equality, visited Madison County, North Carolina on 21 August to stand with same-sex couples as they asked their local register of deeds to issue a marriage license as an act of conscience.


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[4] Christian Reformed World Missions Staff in Egypt Request Urgent Prayer

Christian Reformed World Missions (CRWM) and Back to God Ministries (BTGMI) report that their staff and the staff of their partners in Egypt are not in immediate danger. But escalating conflicts and attacks on religious institutions in Egypt are continuing and prompt a call to urgent prayer.

“We are taking precautions; staying alert,” one staff member wrote to CRWM director Gary Bekker.

“As I’m sure you’ve seen on the news, yesterday and today, Egypt is once again in the midst of turmoil and violence. In fact, what’s been happening over these past forty-eight hours is the worst violence that Egypt has seen in decades.”

BTGMI director Kurt Selles also received an update from the agency’s Arabic leader. “Security concerns have kept MERF's ministry center in Egypt closed for several days. “ [MERF is the BTGMI and Words of Hope Arabic media ministry partner in the Middle East.]

“So far, no staff or ministry partners have been physically hurt. Several Egyptian staff are able to work from home.”

Both World Missions and Back to God Ministries are asking Christians in North America and elsewhere to “Join us in urgent prayer for the safety of staff in Egypt. Please pray also for peace and justice in that that country and that God’s people there would live and speak wisely for our Lord at this point in their nation’s history.”


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[5] News from the Deepest Recesses of Hell

-- New York City Mayoral Candidate Christine Quinn Wants Morning After Pill for Eleven-Year-Olds

-- Botched RU 486 Abortions Injure Forty-Two Women in Ohio as Planned Parenthood Defies U.S. Food and Drug Administration

-- Ireland Newspaper Falsely Claims First Abortion Done Under New Irish Law

-- Bill Would Let Non-Physicians Perform Abortions in California

-- Belgium: Ninety-Five Percent of Euthanasia Requests Get Rubber Stamp Okay by Doctors

-- Philadelphia Medical Examiner's Office May Take 10 Years to Release Babies Murdered by Abortionist Kermit Gosnell


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[6] Headlines from Christian Concern

Headlines of the past week from Christian Concern:

-- Christian Girl Guide and Brownie Leaders in North Yorkshire Face Expulsion for Refusing to Drop God from Promise

-- Egypt Seeing Worst Persecution of Christians since 1321

-- Germany to Become First Country in Europe to Introduce Indeterminate Gender on Birth Certificates

-- Pair Arrested over Plans to Take Pensioner to Swiss Suicide Clinic


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[7] Headlines from The Christian Institute

Headlines of the past week from The Christian Institute:

-- Bring on Multi-Partner Marriage, Says Writer

-- Canada: Atheist Wins Case against Gideons in Schools


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[8] Articles from LifesiteNews.com

Articles from the past week from LifesiteNews.com:

-- New Mexico Supreme Court: Christian Photographers Must Shoot Gay ‘Commitment Ceremony’

-- Parents Should Let Kids Have Sex Sleepovers, Abortion Advocate Says in USA Today

-- U.S. Air Force Hosts Drag Queen Performance for ‘Diversity Day’

-- U.S. Federal Judge Allows Lawsuit against Pastor for Opposing Homosexuality in Uganda


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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:

-- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Undermines Parental Rights and Truth by Signing Bill Banning Reparative Therapy for Minors, Claiming Homosexuality is Innate and Not a Sin

-- Former Senior High Teacher in Montana Gets 30 Days for Statutory Rape of Fourteen-Year-Old Student Who Later Committed Suicide

-- 'Gay' Lawmaker to Christians: 'We'll Take Your Children'

-- U.S. Department of Defense Training Materials Calls Conservatives and Founding Fathers “Extremists”

-- U.S. National Security Agency Paid Facebook and Google Millions to Spy on You

-- U.S. Government Building a Detective Squad to Target Consumers and Companies That Don't Follow Obamacare's Rules

-- "Only Phony Christians Oppose Obamacare" Says MSNBC Host Ed Schultz

-- Penn State University to Fine Employees Who Refuse to Answer Personal Health Questions

-- California Sends ARMED Agents Door to Door Looking for ‘Illegal’ Guns

-- California Government School Students Forced to Kneel before Principal

-- Missouri Protesters Arrested by Highway Patrol for Displaying “Impeach Obama” Signs on Overpass

-- Illegal Aliens Demand Free Organ Transplants

-- Obamacare Website Misleads on Abortion-Inducing-Drug Mandate

-- Police: Australian Ball Player Killed in Duncan Oklahoma by 'Bored' Teens

-- Rose City, Michigan in Turmoil after Teachers Support Convicted Child Molester

-- Elgin Illinois Escalates Assault on Mobile Pregnancy Services

-- Humanity Is Drowning in Washington’s Criminality

-- Phoenix, Arizona Police Arrive to “Help” Man on Roof, End Up Tasering Him to Death

-- U.S. National Security Agency Uses Copyright Claims to Crush Free Speech

-- Obama Wants Police To Search Smartphones without Warrants

-- Department of Homeland Security Employee Is Preparing for a Coming Race War

-- Due to Obamacare Cost Increases, United Parcel Service Won't Insure Spouses of Many Employees

-- Are Innocent Citizens at Risk of Police Seizure of Their Cash, Cars and Homes?

-- Pedophilia, Incest, and Graphic Sex: Excerpts from a Common Core Reading List Book for 11th-Graders That Will Make You Blush

-- Off Duty Oklahoma City Police Officers Who Allegedly Beat Man Nearly to Death Will Face No Charges

-- Oregon Supreme Court Rules Ban on Loaded Guns in Public Places is Constitutional

-- Scottish Court Fines Twitter User Equivalent of US$60,000 for Disparaging Homosexuality

-- California Considers Punishing Youth Groups Who Do Not Embrace Homosexuality

-- Nineteen Crazy Things That School Children Are Being Arrested For in America

-- Raleigh, North Carolina Police Threaten to Arrest Volunteers Feeding Homeless without Permit

-- New Jersey Attorney General’s Report: State Troopers Don’t Follow Own Rules


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[10] The Religion of Peace

Articles from the past week about the religion of peace:

-- New Fatwa for The Free Syrian Army: No Killing of Believer Lice in Muslim Beards – Beheading Christians is Still OK

-- Obama Administration Paid Bribes to America’s Enemy

-- U.S. Marine Who Warned of Insider Attack Threat Facing Career's End

-- Iranian Court Nixes Appeal from Jailed American Pastor

-- Evidence: Syria Gas Attack Work of U.S. Allies

-- United Nations Diplomat: Jihadists May Have Used Gas -- Not Assad

-- Report: War Looms: Hundreds of American Troops and CIA Operatives Have Entered Syria

-- U.S. Cruise Missiles Preparing to Strike Syria

-- Report: Iran's New Defense Minister Behind Islamic Homicide Bombing of U.S. Marine Base that killed 241 Marines

-- A Practicing Muslim Soldier Cannot Swear Allegiance to the U.S. Constitution

-- Federal Judge Establishes Islam as Official and Protected Religion of America

-- Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood vs. the "Axis of Reason"

-- Outgoing FBI Chief Warns Of U.S.-Based Jihadis Bringing Jihad Home from Syria

-- Muslim Brotherhood Supporters Kill Cab Driver after Seeing Christian Cross on His Dashboard

-- Fort Hood Jihad Mass Murderer Requests and Is Granted Change in Court's Definition of Jihad

-- Obama’s Brother: Muslim Brotherhood Leader?

-- Egyptian Military Warns Obama: ‘Supporting Terrorism’ in Egypt is ‘Red Line’

-- Iran: Convert from Islam to Christianity Gets Ten Years Prison

-- Muslims in Egypt: Christians Must Be Wiped Out

-- Guantanamo Authorities Block Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’

-- Mass Casualty Chemical Attack Reported in Syria

-- Bible Society Bookstores in Egypt Attacked and Destroyed

-- Egypt: Muslims Shoot Christian to Death Then Hack His Body into Parts

-- Pro-Muslim Terrorist Textbooks Make Comeback in Some Texas Public Schools

-- Fifteen Year Old Maldives Rape Victim to Be Spared Flogging Sentence

-- Islamic Honor: Imam in Pakistan Cuts His Wife into Pieces for Refusing to Cover Her Face and to “Punish His Wife for Rebelling against Allah’s Orders”

-- Iraq: Jihad-Martyrdom Suicide Bomber Murders Fourteen at Military Headquarters

-- Hispanic Americans Leaving Catholicism for Islam

-- Jordanian Professor Linked to Muslim American Groups Attacks Egypt’s Coptic Christians on Facebook

-- Muslim Rape in Scandinavia

-- Impunity Said to Abet Persecution of Christians in Nigeria:
National Christian Leader Calls Islamic Extremist Assaults ‘Genocide’

-- U.S. Trained Fighters Now Crossing from Jordan into Syria

-- Man Arrested for Passing Out Bibles in Iran

-- Pakistani Woman Sentenced to Death for a Sip of Water

-- Muslim Mob Attacks Church Leaders, Choir Members with Knives in Nigeria

-- Jihad in Nigeria: Death Toll for Victims of Devout Muslim Group Crosses 12,000 Mark

-- Egypt: Islamic Supremacists Forcing Christians to Pay Jizya, Qur'an's Tax on Non-Muslims

-- Pakistani Christian Girl Raped, Beaten and Sold into Slavery

-- Muslim Mob Injures Church Leaders, Choir Members in Nigeria

-- Lebanon: Shi'ite Muslims Murder Forty-Two with Car Bombs at Sunni Mosques

-- India: Muslim Mob Attacks Hindu Children with Sticks and Sharp Weapons for Singing Indian National Song

-- Syrian State TV Says Soldiers Find Poison Gas in Tunnels Used by Rebels

-- Nigeria: Muslim Group Murders Forty-Four Villagers by Slitting Their Throats

-- Seventy-Seven Percent of Terror Plots Are Motivated by Islamic Jihad Doctrine


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