The survival of cultures is an interesting phenomenon.When Jerusalem and its Temple were destroyed in AD70 (though at the time nobody knew it was AD70 since this style of numbering had not been invented yet) and the population dispersed you might have thought that nearly 2000 years later Judaism would be an interesting footnote and the Roman Empire might even still be a force in the world. Maybe
:: FÖRFÖLJELSE drabbar kristna i många nationer. Tortyr och martyrskap för tron på Jesus Kristus. FAKTA: En (1) kristen drabbas var tredje (3) minut av tortyr och martyrskap, dvs. 450/dag, 160.000/år. Under tiden du ser 4-minuters-filmen Faces of Persecution - Video (04:24) - har en (1) medkristen drabbats. REFLEKTION: Vad får du för tankar? Något du vill dela? KÄLLA: Persecution Blog Technorati tags: kristen förföljelse Voice of the Martyrs -- Andra bloggare om: kristen förföljelse, Voice of the Martyrs ::
When you thought the French couldn’t be more weak kneed, they have now deemed themselves perpetual willing and abiding hostages to the Islamic world. When Europe is not balking on troop commitments, and apologizing over cartoons and teddy bears, they are now putting washed up super models in the slammer on charges of using “hateful [...]
Outrage growing throughout California and beyond::_Homeschool_Ruling_Strikes_at_Heart,_Soul_of_Families.htmCalifornia Governor blasts ruling: as I documented here:-indoctrination-in.html"Christians [and others of good will who oppose homosexuality] who object to their children being indoctrinated in perversity, will not be allowed to opt out."Radical homosexual activists continue to bash Christians:
Nobody likes to be called a bully—and how an individual or a group of people get into a position of power in which they can fill the shoes of “the bully” is a cultural barometer used time and again to evaluate the actions of the great bullies of history—yet we have seen recently the rise [...]
Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Yang Zhengbi, 54, lived in Dongxing District, Neijiang City, Sichuan Province. She started practising and experiencing Falun Dafa in August, 1996.
On July 20th, 1999, when Jiang Zemin’s [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] and his regime began persecuting Falun Gong, Ms. Yang went to Chengdu City, the provincial [...]
The Czech News Agency reported on the 19th of November, that the European Celestial Marching Band, consisting of over eighty European Falun Gong practitioners, performed at the Old Town Square in Prague on the 17th of November. After the performance, they started a parade in protest against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution against Falun [...]
"Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you. Matthew 5:11-12 NKJVDo I invite persecution, perhaps I do. I won't go into too much detail, but because of the nature of my previous posts (the ones that I have now deleted) I have brought persecution upon myself. Am I upset by this? No, I'm not. I count it all blessing that I am being persecuted, because that then means that I must be doing something to further His kingdom, and something that the deceiver does not want me to do. For the record, I did not delete the posts because of the persecution, but rather for the sake of those souls that may come to my blog seeking Truth. I do not want the content they find here, to in any way cause them to stumble in their search of Him. I had actually discussed this matter with my husband last night, prior to
Honduran television journalists Renato Alvarez and Roxana GuevaraPhoto: La PrensaDespite the fact that the latest Hondutel scandal has been reported in at least three countries and by all the Honduran newspapers, Marcelo Chimirri, gerente of the government-owned telephone company, has instigated criminal charges against two television and two radio journalists and the editors of Honduran newspapers La Prensa and El Heraldo (in Spanish) for merely reporting on the denuncias (official complaints) which were reported by El Universal of Mexico and later by CNN en Español.Provisions in Honduras Penal Code on defamation-related offenses known as “crimes against honor,” such as injuria (offensive or insulting words or actions), treat such matters as criminal, rather than civil, cases.Uh oh!La Prensa called it a wave of intimidation. Roxana Guevera, one of the television journalists, said, "This is persecution on the part of the government; I feel persecuted because all of the media of th
:: Kommentarer görs med fördel också på svenska :: IS THERE ANY PERSECUTION in China? CCP and its officials answer: No, not at all. The Church is free. The Christians worship their God all over the country, they say. And the Chinese state church (TSPM) confirms that Chinese freedom of religion. WHAT IS THE TRUTH? This is the answer recently given by a Christian in China: WE WANT THE WORLD to know what is happening in China. This is the worse I have seen. For the first time, they are not targeting mostly leaders, foreigners and Bible schools. They are targeting local churches, threatening to put common Christians in prison if they do not stop having house church meetings, says the source from China. Please read the full report: "Is there persecution in China?" Photo: Chinese Bible reading REFLECTION Supporting those who are persecuted is vitally important for the church in China. We must all take the opportunity to pray, to give, to encourage and to battle for the
Remember the words I spoke to you: 'No servant is greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also (John 15:20). Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you (Matthew 5:10-12).I read a report today and it sounded like the stories that we often hear in this country about the uneven scales of justice. In this country it's often been black vs. white. However, in the Middle East today it was reported that a mob of 150 Hindu extremists attacked a pastor and set his church on fire with 500 of the congregation inside.Then I read about an 18 year old Christian who was finally released for a crime he didn't commit; while his Muslim "accomplice" had been declared in
‘Beijing Olympics and crimes against humanity cannot co-exist’
By Gary Feuerberg
Epoch Times Washington, D.C. Staff Aug 04, 2007
Michael Horowitz, director of Hudson Institute’s Project for Civil Justice Reform and Project for International Religious Liberty, spoke in Washington, D.C. on August 3 at a news conference about the Global Human Rights Torch Relay. (Lisa Fan/The Epoch [...]
There is no religious freedom in China. The free Christians that the world hears about, the churches that President Bush visited when he was there, are under the strict control of the government; just as the churches under communist's rule in old time Russia. The true Christians running underground house churches, witnessing, and printing Bibles are constantly being arrested, beaten, tortured, and locked in jail without fair hearings, let alone fair trials. Sadly the world turns a blind eye to the reports documented by religious freedom organizations and lawyers; this is wrong. China should not enjoy the priviledges of being on good terms with democracies when it is all the while hiding its abuse of basic human rights. As trading partners, Canada and America should protest the persecution of Chinese Christians; and those of us Christians who enjoy true freedom should pray for and help in any way our brethren who are suffering.Chinese Persecution
:: WE NEED TO STAND for righteousness and pray for our persecuted family in Jesus Christ, says Stacy L. Harp Persecution blog that blogs for Voice of Martyrs [VOM] Stacy says: - This video is eloquent in conveying why to stand for the persecuted church YouTube (03:11)REFLECTION: Don´t stand in Silence on the persecuted brothers and sisters in China, Colombia, Eritrea, Sri Lanka or anywhere else. A part of our call and our challenge is to stand together with our global family. The prayer will change the stand. We are to become seriously noisy... Technorati Tags: Persecuted Christians The Voice of the Martyrs Religious freedom China
"Behold, I am sending you like sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. But beware of people, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their synagogues, and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a witness before them and the pagans. When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment what you are to say.For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.Brother will hand over brother to death, and the father his child; children will rise up against parents and have them put to death. You will be hated by all because of my name, but whoever endures to the end will be saved. When they persecute you in one town, flee to another. Amen, I say to you, you will not finish the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes. No disciple is above his teacher, no slave above his master. It is enough for the disciple that he be
The persecution intensifies:http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=9008http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=8995I have said it so many times before and will say it again: the New Order, the New Church being created in the image and likeness of man, will not tolerate any dissent regarding the acceptance of homosexual acts. Those of us who take a stand against homosexual acts will eventually be imprisoned, forced to undergo "re-education" and "sensitivity training," or simply eliminated.The New Order will not tolerate opposition to homosexual acts from orthodox Christians, Jews, Muslims and others of good will who accept God's plan for humanity and His Commandments.
They may not get thrown to the lions any more, but today's Christians endure subtler forms of martyrdom, argues this strident manifesto. Limbaugh (Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department) recites a litany of abuses and insults perpetrated, he claims, by separation-of-church-and-state absolutists and the forces of secular humanism. Most of them are familiar
P.S. This is not meant to spur you on to some violent justice-seeking rampage. This is just to show you the reality of persecution many in the world face. It’s to show Christians in our comfortable church pews in the USA what Jesus, Paul and others are talking about when they talk about the idea of persecution and love.
(ht. Blind Beggar)
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Do religious people truly believe that there are that many children and adults out there making the "choice" to be homosexual? Do they really believe they are in some way helping the world by hating and persecuting the LGBT community? Here is one of the many negative aspects of all that hate (there are only negative aspects by the way). Gay children turned out on the streets by gay-hating parents and/or communities and forced to live any way they can, simply because they were born different.We have already discussed some states attempts and failed attempts to bar homosexuals from adopting children, but fortunately they have thus far been unable to block them from being foster parents. Now some advocacy groups are trying to take advantage of this in an effort to help these children get off the street and have a shot at a normal life (or at least as close to it as you can get in this country).You can read a full story about this here.The saddest thing about this is that we have a big
I always love to listen to Christians moan and groan about being persecuted and how they are being prevented from spreading their religion to every tiny corner of the world. And while there are certainly legitimate cases of attacks and other unacceptable behaviors toward these folks and their "mission," Each one came as the result of prosthelytizing. While that doesn't mean that they deserved what they got or that they had it coming, but at the same time, when you wag you bible in someone's face you are asking for them to react.The thing we talk about on this site is True Persecution. Persecution that does not come as a result of a particular belief or activity. True persecution is persecution that happens for no apparent reason and can come as a result of such innocuous activities as shopping or walking or going to the movies. It is the systematic oppression at the hands of the government, the people and other interest groups (like the church for example).That's what it is li
I don't usually find myself in agreement with George Will, although I certainly respect his intellect. However, I thought this brief article on religion in America was worth sharing.I am encouraged by the numbers he cites which indicate a doubling of the number of nonbelievers between 1990 and 2001. Similarly, it is nice to see some recognition that politicians may be starting to think twice about atheist-bashing. It will be interesting to see how the mid-term elections affect this. Finally, I appreciate Will's observation about the unrealistic nature of the Christian persecution complex. This is a topic about which I have previously posted and which I continue to find fascinating. This is particularly true this time of year when complaints about a "war on Christmas" are common.As long as Christians continue to equate disagreement and criticism with persecution, they will continue to feel persecuted. Of course feeling persecuted is quite different from being persecuted, but this poin
This is extremely disturbing. Vatican II teaches us that, in raising children, the responsibility of parents is primary: "Since parents have given life to their children, they have a very grave duty to educate them, and so are to be recognized as their primary and principal educators" (GE, No. 3). And Pope John Paul II, explaining the conciliar teaching more fully in Familiaris consortio No. 36, says that: "The right and duty of parents to give education is essential, since it is connected with the transmission of human life; it is original and primary with regard to the educational role of others, on account of the uniqueness of the loving relationship between parents and children; and it is irreplaceable and inalienable, and therefore incapable of being entirely delegated to others or usurped by others." Canon Law is also very clear on this matter. Canon 793, 1., states that: "Parents as well as those who take their place are obliged and enjoy the right to educate their offspring;
