When Washington state Senator, Mary Margaret Haugen, announced her support for legislation that would clear the way for gay marriage, I was impressed by her courage — not just by her political support on a contentious social issue but by opening the interview with an unqualified statement that she did so as a Christian. Politics [...]
Like dozens of nations around the world, Turkey’s population of minority Christians suffers from injustice and persecution. And as in many countries that have been affected by the recent Arab Spring, Turkey’s trend of persecution is a result of the growing Muslim influence in its society. Turkish Christians — especially converted Muslims — are [...]
Alaska Lt. Governor Treadwell Inspires Pro-Life Advocates by Joel Davidson | Juneau, AK | LifeNews.com | 1/27/12 7:48 PM Print Email<!–Email–> Alaska Lt. Governor Mead Treadwell challenged Alaskans to “build a culture of life,” by supporting adoptions, caring for women who find themselves in crisis pregnancy situations and by working to enact pro-life legislation. He [...]
From the West Coast’s March for Life: 1/23/12 11:48 AM On Saturday, tens of thousands of pro-life activists lined the streets in front of San Francisco’s City Hall and then filled the city’s main thoroughfare, walking about two miles down Market Street to the Embarcadero. Banging drums, playing guitars and chanting “We are pro-life,” the [...]
By Carol Tobias, NRLC President NRLC President Carol Tobias The pro-life community knows that President Barack Obama has an abysmal record on life. NRLC Federal Legislative Director Douglas Johnson lays out “the damage to date” on this page, and NRLC has compiled an up-to-date “Presidential Record on Life” that you can read at www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2012/01/the-presidential-record-on-life. We [...]
A Pro-Life Youth Rally the evening of the Jan. 22 at Watkins Mill High School, Gaithersburg, Md., drew about 500 young people the night before the March for Life in Washington – Jeffrey Bruno Victor Bermudez, the president of Franciscan University of Steubenville’s pro-life group, accompanied 400 students from Steubenville, Ohio, to the nation’s capital [...]
The Answers Book For Teens is specially designed for 13-17 year olds with eye catching graphics and topics pertinent to today’s teenagers taken from Genesis 1 2. “I’ve worked with teens for years…and there is a big misconception about them (and hopefully you will agree)… they are much smarter than we often think! The young people I’ve [...]
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (CBSDC/AP) — Moving swiftly to stem potential damage to same-sex marriage legislation in Maryland, first lady Katie O’Malley said Friday she regretted her choice of words at a national conference when she said gay marriage legislation in the state failed last year because “there were some cowards that prevented it from passing.” Her [...]
Perhaps with a single indicate in every day life, we will wish a benefit of a law attorney. There have been a lot of methods we can take a benefit of an attorney. Perhaps we will need a single for a subdivision as good as divorce or presumably a control unfolding for your kids. There’ll [...]
MTV UKUniversity Offers Beyoncé Politics ClassMTV UKA university in America is offering students the chance to take a class on Beyoncé and her cultural and political impact, it has been reported. The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the well-regarded Rutgers University in New Jersey is …Oprah Winfrey is not Godmother to Beyonce’s daughter, [...]
As I said in a recent post, Jews today stand at the pinnacle of world power. This is not an “anti-Semitic” statement; it is merely an observation of fact. Jews control Hollywood—while some even brag about it; Jews light Chanukah menorahs in Trafalgar Square in London and at the White House; a yeshiva Jew who [...]
Newt Gingrich, in the latest debate: …one of the reasons I am running is there has been an increasingly aggressive war against religion and in particular against Christianity in this country, largely by a secular elite and the academic news media and judicial areas. And I frankly believe it’s important to have some leadership that [...]
The above is a great seven-page letter from Liberty Counsel to a Wisconsin School District, full of cited case law, re the school recently villifying a 15-year-old Christian sophomore when a homo adult in the community was “offended” by what the Christian boy wrote in the school’s newspaper. The homo claimed the content would cause [...]
The past few weeks have been a Tebow-free zone. In the absence of wondering if divine intervention plays a role in NFL games, Americans have been able to go back to making gods of ordinary heroes like Tom Brady and Eli Manning. It seems there’s no middle ground on how people feel about Denver Broncos [...]
by Rob Schwarzwalder at FRC Blog:January 26, 2012 Persecution of self-identified Christians has become a pandemic in the developing world. For Catholics, Evangelical Protestants, Copts and others, making the simple assertion that they follow Jesus Christ can lead to abuse, eviction, disfigurement, and – far too often – death. Today at FRC, we heard a [...]
Just recently, Pope Benedict XVI said that, “It is imperative that the entire Catholic community in the United States come to realize the grave threats to the Church’s public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres.” One of those grave threats is discussed here. Cardinal [...]
3/4s of British Christians say anti-Christian discrimination is on the rise: poll January 28th, 2012 Posted in Intolerance, Religious Liberty | Comments Off by Hilary White, LifeSite News Seventy-four percent of Christian Britons believe that discrimination against Christianity and Christian freedom of expression is on the rise in their country, according to a recent poll. [...]
A couple of things regarding persecution came across the wire in the past week or so. First, the Internet Monk explores the question, “Are American Christians ‘Persecuted?’” He looks at persecution in Biblical times and persecution today in third-world countries, and contrasts that with what American Christians tend to call “persecution.” I would suggest that the culture [...]
01/23/2012 United States (The Algemeiner) – On January 24, during his State of the Union Address, the president of the United States has a chance to expose the plight of religious minorities living in Muslim majority nations. Doing so would not only shed light on one of the most ignored humanitarian crises of the 21st [...]
AmericaRevealed.org “Tell me a tale”, I said to my master. “Tell me of a time when man was deceived by promises of a better tomorrow that never came: A fiction of men who lie to make me feel secure within my life’s insecurities. Tell me a story of false hope, Master: The one where I [...]
New here? You can subscribe to our blog via RSS feed and email. Thanks for visiting! We began our ministry in India in 1997 with the Child Sponsorship Program. In 2003, we started the Child Survival Program, and the Leadership Development Program followed in 2004. Country Director Paul Asveen joined our ministry as Country Director [...]
Ever notice how all the wrong people are put in charge of all the wrong things? Indiana’s Senate Education Committee, to use as a completely random example off the top of my head, illustrates the point: From the Indianapolis Business Journal: The Times of Munster reported that the Republican-controlled Senate Education Committee voted 8-2 Wednesday [...]
Like dozens of nations around the world, Turkey’s population of minority Christians suffers from injustice and persecution. And as in many countries that have been affected by the recent Arab Spring, Turkey’s trend of persecution is a result of the growing Muslim influence in its society. Turkish Christians — especially converted Muslims — are [...]
Open House at Knightdale Christian Childcare Center!!! Come and join the fun!! Knightdale Christian Childcare Center is sponsoring an Open House on Saturday, January 28, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM for the community, neighbors, and future families to attend. KCCC offers exceptional care for pre- school children ages 6 weeks to 4 years [...]
View full size Brent Wojahn/The OregonianAnti-abortion activists marched to the Willamette River on Sunday following the Rally for Life in PortlandâÂÂs Pioneer Courthouse Square. Here, the march heads South on SW Broadway.Nearly four decades after the U.S. Supreme Court reached its controversial landmark decision Roe v. Wade, people on both sides of the abortion debate [...]
Jan 16, 2012 by Rousas John Rushdoony This article is from Law and Liberty, Chapter 11, by Rousas John Rushdoony, a Reformed scholar and brilliant writer of the last century. Dr. Rushdoony was the founder of Chalcedon Foundation, an educational organization devoted to research, publishing, and to cogent communication of a distinctively Christian scholarship to [...]
The two leading candidates in Florida’s Republican primary, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, are staying focused on voters with events around the state this weekend. On Saturday, Romney has events planned in Pensacola and Panama City. Gingrich will be in Stuart, Port St. Lucie, Brooksville, Orlando, Winter Park and West Palm Beach. Far away from [...]
ORLANDO, Fla. – Republican insiders are rising up to cut Newt Gingrich down to size, testament to the GOP establishment’s fear that the mercurial candidate could lead the party to disaster this fall. The gathering criticisms are bitingly sharp, as if edged by a touch of panic, a remarkable development considering the target once was [...]
STUART, Fla. – Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich says critics of his call to ramp up U.S. space exploration don’t understand the power of science, technology and entrepreneurship to change the future. Campaign rival Mitt Romney was referring to Gingrich earlier this week when he said that if any business executive recommended spending huge sums [...]
WASHINGTON – Just how rich is Mitt Romney? Add up the wealth of the last eight presidents, from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. Then double that number. Now you’re in Romney territory. He would be among the richest presidents in American history if elected — probably in the top four. He couldn’t top George Washington [...]
WASHINGTON – The pitch from the Republican presidential contenders to voters sounds a lot like the children’s game of follow the leader. When Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich aren’t puffing up their own leadership credentials, they’re running down the leadership skills of one another and of President Barack Obama. If anyone missed Monday’s conference call [...]
SARASOTA, Fla. – Newt Gingrich has staked his presidential bid on the idea that he’s best positioned to defeat President Barack Obama. Yet even some supporters seem to be struggling to buy that claim, an indication that efforts by chief rival Mitt Romney to undercut him may be working. “Beating Obama is more important than [...]
CAMBRIDGE, Md. – President Barack Obama rallied House Democrats for an election-year fight, urging them to work with Republicans if they show some willingness to put politics aside but telling the rank and file to call them out if they stand in the way. Addressing Democrats on the final day of their three-day annual retreat, [...]
COMMENTARY | Nancy Pelosi made big news this week when the former House Speaker suggested in a CNN interview that she knows something about Newt Gingrich that could disqualify his candidacy. Her cryptic comment came only days before the critical Florida primary. Pelosi has since backed off from the suggestion, though she is still adamant [...]
PHOENIX – Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has picked dates in April and June for the special elections to choose a replacement for Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Brewer on Friday set the primary election for Tuesday, April 17. The general election will be held on Tuesday, June 12. Several Democrats are considering running for the seat [...]
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Written By : William Teach The Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel and Alexander Burns are surely going to earn an expletive laden call from the White House for publishing this story (Politico) Democrats have seized on Republicans as the party of unlimited secret money. The only problem: so are Democrats. In recent days, Obama released an [...]
(NPR) For the first time, the Justice Department has made public a series of sensitive messages that passed to the highest levels of the agency within hours of an ambush that killed a U.S. border patrol agent along the Southwest border in December 2010, igniting a national scandal over a gun trafficking investigation gone wrong. [...]
(CNSNews.com) – Media Research Center President L. Brent Bozell III laid down the gauntlet to the news media on Thursday over their coverage of the 2012 presidential race: Tell the truth about the candidates, or be exposed. “It’s 2012, and already we’ve documented endless examples of the so-called ‘news media’ covering up the failures of [...]
First Lady Michelle Obama speaks at a Latin grocery store in Tampa, Fla., on Jan. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara) (CNSNews.com) – During a daylong fundraising sweep in Florida, First Lady Michelle Obama told a crowd at a Palm Beach mansion that her husband “knows what it means when women are not treated well in [...]
Vice President Joe Biden viewed an electric car that used Ener1 batteries as he toured the Ener1 battery factory in Greenfield, Ind., on Jan. 26, 2011. (White House photo/David Lienemann) (CNSNews.com) – Ener1–a company that manufactures batteries for electric cars, and that received $118.5 million in federal stimulus money, and that Vice President Joe Biden [...]
Friday, January 27, 2012 Recently, a federal district court in Washington, D.C. issued a ruling upholding an Obama administration policy that requires federally licensed firearms retailers in states bordering Mexico to report multiple sales of semi-automatic rifles. The case was brought by two NRA-backed firearm retailers and by the National Shooting Sports Foundation acting on behalf [...]
In the past year hurricane Irene has crawled and doused the east coast of the United States. Wildfires ravaged Texas. Earthquakes and tornadoes caused profound damage, and record snows have shut down cities. Now the Mayan and Incan calendars are telling us to prepare for the end of times. The aftermath of a natural disaster kind of [...]
The great British poet Rudyard Kipling, understanding today’s situation in Afghanistan better than our State Department wrote, “I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside. And the lives ye led were mine.” There are two points the President and the Secretaries [...]
Steven Schwinn Guest Posted Wed, January 25th, 2012 3:50 pm If Court-watchers are looking for some clue on the constitutional issues around the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA), they’ll have to wait. The Court’s ruling this week on SORNA marks the third time in as many years that the Act has reached [...]
The Marriage Equality and Religious Exemption Act advanced this week in Trenton, when the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee voted 8-4 in favor of it. Though it was an encouraging sign for supporters of the bill, Gov. Christie has vowed to veto any marriage equality bill that reaches his desk. Instead this week he [...]
The swirl of criticism around the creation of the Office of Religious Freedom distracts from the more important issue of the role of religion in world affairs. The ORF will be a branch of the Foreign Affairs Department. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has said the office will promote religious freedom; he has not said [...]
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This week has marked the second annual National School Choice Week. Parents, students and advocates across the country are celebrating effective education options for all children. Last year’s town halls, legislative briefings, rallies and festivities brought school choice to the forefront of the educational reform debate, spurring lawmakers to pass meaningful legislation in seven states [...]
Eighty percent of Jews living in Israel believe in God, according to the findings of an extensive study conducted by the Guttman Center at the Israel Democracy Institute and published Thursday. The study is a continuation of two previous surveys conducted in 1991 and 1999. A comparison shows that while the 1990s recorded a [...]