The Chinese Communist Part tries to deceive American Christians into believing there is a religious freedom in the China. The party is trying to achieving its goal through an exhibition being displayed in the US. Read it all
Religion
How Moral Was Hitler?
The obvious answer seems, “Not very.”
Surely the terms moral and Hitler have to be mutually antagonistic.
And yet…
Author Richard Weikart offers the proposition that Hitler was a moral man.
See what you make of this: Read it all
Where Is the Church in Afghanistan?
Short answer: Where it’s always been.
More informative answer: Wherever God’s people gather.
And that’s true even after the government razes the last public meeting house.
In Afghanistan’s case, Christians might be forgiven for wondering Read it all
Banning Bible Studies?
I marked this for comment the morning of September 20.
Then I got busy.
Then I lost interest.
But here is just one excerpt from the story:
Capistrano Couple in Legal Battle for Hosting Bible Study in Home
“We don’t like lawsuits, but we have to stand up for what’s right. It’s not just a personal issue,” Stephanie Fromm said. “Can you imagine anybody in any neighborhood, that one person can call and make it a living hell for someone else? That’s wrong … and it’s just sad.”
They’ve been experiencing a living hell? 😯
Wow. 🙄
Some Christians and May 21?
What do you think of this headline?
Is it distorted? Somehow?
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
How accurate is Some in this context?
Or might it reflect an anti-Christian bias?
Muslim Democracy and Christianity?
More Christians have been fleeing Iraq in recent months than ever before.
Carl Moeller with Open Doors USA says extremists are calling for the complete extermination of believers in the country.
“We’ve been calling this a ‘religicide’–which is the systematic destruction and elimination of a religious group simply for being that religious group. And we see this now unfolding in a very shocking way,” says Moeller.
The number of Christians in Iraq has dropped dramatically in the last few decades, dropping from 850,000 believers in 1991, to 550,000 believers in 2003, to 345,000 believers in early 2010. Now perhaps less than 250,000 Christians call Iraq home, a number which includes those who have been permanently displaced from their homes.
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At the current rate of the exodus, Iraq will not have any Christians left in three years, according to an Open Doors’ field worker. Read it all
Homosexual Rights Trump Religious Rights
I know this is from the United Kingdom, but still….
In a landmark judgment, which will have a serious impact on the future of fostering and adoption in the UK, the High Court has suggested that Christians with traditional views on sexual ethics are unsuitable as foster carers, and that homosexual ‘rights’ trump freedom of conscience in the UK. The Judges stated that Christian beliefs on sexual ethics may be ‘inimical’ to children, and they implicitly upheld an Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) submission that children risk being ‘infected’ by Christian moral beliefs.
Today’s ruling relates to the dispute between married couple Eunice and Owen Johns and Derby City Council. The Johns applied to the Council in 2007 to foster a child but the Council blocked their application because they objected that the Johns were not willing to promote the practise of homosexuality to a young child. In November 2010 both parties jointly asked the Court to rule on whether the Johns were able to foster children, or whether they could be excluded from doing so under equality law because of their Christian beliefs.
Today (28th February) that judgment has been released. The judges declined to make the statement that the Johns, wanting to re-establish their fostering application, had sought. Instead, the judgment strongly affirms homosexual rights over freedom of conscience and leaves the Johns currently unable to foster a child as desired, despite their proven track record as foster parents. There now appears to be nothing to stop the increasing bar on Christians who wish to adopt or foster children but who are not willing to compromise their beliefs by promoting the practise of homosexuality to small children.
And here’s a March 4 update: Johns Fostering Case: Effects of the Ruling and Further Analysis