Full Article: Persecution The White House raises with Chinese officials the issue of a visa refusal for a U.S. religious freedom envoy. 02/16/2012 China (ChinaAid) – U.S.-based Christian groups have voiced concern over the recent refusal of a visa to a U.S. religious freedom envoy who had been scheduled to visit China from Feb. 8, [...]
There have been a lot of hits to the blog lately for this post, about a sixteen year old Rhode Island high school student named Jessica Alquist, who successfully filed suit against her school to have some Christian propoganda removed from public view. This is the law, no government agency may publicly favor one religion over [...]
Campaign 2012 By STEVE PEOPLES, Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ White House candidate Rick Santorum on Saturday questioned President Barack Obama’s Christian values and attacked GOP rival Mitt Romney’s Olympics leadership as he courted tea party activists and evangelical voters in Ohio, “ground zero” in the 2012 nomination fight. Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator [...]
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Share Tweet Share Tweet No Christians Allowed? There has been a constant wave of news recently that has led some to opine that America is seeing a “war on religion” – that the current administration and liberal politicians and educators are seeking to limit the influence and power of religion in American culture. More to [...]
Fewer Christians Live in Aleppo than is Commonly Thought By Ehsani for Syria Comment February 18, 2012 – No more than 100,000 Christians live in Aleppo – 3.3% of the city’s population, not the 12% commonly stated. The exact number of religious minorities in Syria is difficult to ascertain. It is often reported that Christians [...]
The typical American church today is organized around the ideas and realities of blue model America. Denominational structures (weakened by years of cutbacks in many cases) are bureaucratic staff organizations. Most local congregations own a large building and land; most of their budgets are eaten up by professional salaries and building maintenance. The mainline Protestant [...]
Because my days do not already start with enough bile, black coffee and dread, I subscribe to the “Hatch Dispatch” (catchy!) to get my blood pressure pumped up. Senator Orrin Hatch’s e-newsletter’s most recent edition was entitled “Hatch Dispatch: Religious Freedom Under Attack.” What has Orrin stirred up? Unfortunately the White House sharpened it’s attacks [...]
Welcome to My Local Page February 15th, 2012 I am not using this page to parrot the local news or present breaking news necessarily. There will be times I simply state something that is happening or a stance of the local government and things like that. But more often I hope to have an explanation [...]
“To me there’s nothing different in principle with a Catholic adoption agency, or indeed Methodist adoption agency, saying the rules in our community are different and therefore the law shouldn’t apply to us. Why not then say sharia can be applied to different parts of the country? It doesn’t work.”
Jul 117 3rd Annual Lafayette Christian Child Care Center Yard Sale Bash and Family Fun Day The Yard Sale Bash was a blast! We had bouncers and a cake walk, lots of fabulous auction baskets (courtesy of Day Care parents), not to mention the endless yard sale items! Thanks to everyone involved and all the [...]
SALT LAKE CITY — Mitt Romney took a brief respite from regular campaign events to commemorate the 2002 Olympic games here, paying tribute to a part of his biography that is central to his presidential bid. “The games were a showcase for the great qualities of the human spirit: we saw in the athletes the [...]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – John Glenn joined the proud, surviving veterans of NASA’s Project Mercury on Saturday in celebrating the 50th anniversary of his historic orbital flight. The first American to orbit the Earth, later a U.S. senator from Ohio, thanked the approximately 125 retired Mercury workers, now in their 70s and 80s, who gathered [...]
Written By : Warner Todd Huston The conservative bloggers at CPAC were happy to receive a visit from Representative Allen West (Florida, 22nd District) this year. The second he walked into the room he was mobbed by the bloggers and their ubiquitous handi-cams. West talked vice presidential possibilities, South America, his status as the most [...]
Written By : William Teach Late yesterday, excitable John Cole decided to name Tyler Cowen his “worst person in the world” (that’s not particularly civil discourse, but, then Powerline highlights that civil discourse is so 2011) for a tweet that wasn’t necessarily for Virginia’s abortion bill, but simply highlighted Liberal hypocrisy By informing consumers, he [...]
Written By : Chris Wysocki I saw this doozy earlier in the week and forgot to blog about it until a friend emailed last night, “can you believe it?” Sadly yes, I can believe just about anything when it comes to progressive do-gooders looking to save the world. Some New Jersey politicians want to buy [...]
A coffin holding the remains of singer Whitney Houston is carried into the New Hope Baptist Church before her funeral services in Newark, N.J. on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow) NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Clapping hands and swaying to gospel hymns in the church where Whitney Houston’s powerful voice once wowed her congregation, [...]
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and President Barack Obama at the White House on Feb. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (CNSNews.com) – There would be no consideration of cost effectiveness. That was the explicit condition that the Department of Health and Human Services imposed on the panel of health-care experts it commissioned to develop the “preventive [...]
(CNSNews.com) – On the third anniversary of President Barack Obama’s $787-billion stimulus spending program, the unemployment rate set a new record, staying above 8 percent for the longest period since the end of World War II – 36 months. President Barack Obama signed an economic stimulus law, now determined by the CBO to cost $821 [...]
On his HBO show Friday, “Real Time” host Bill Maher offered his audience a theory about why President Obama is treated with less respect than others who have held his office, and said that his life would be threatened if he “had sex with a White House intern on Easter.” According to Maher, a protocol [...]
“The O’Reilly Factor” host Bill O’Reilly got a taste of Kenan Thompson character DeAndre Cole on this week’s “Saturday Night Live” on NBC. The segment, “What’s Up With That?,” spoofed BET. O’Reilly appeared on the so-called President’s Day episode and spoke about his book, “Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever,” but the perplexed [...]
Michelle Obama’s pet project as first lady has been to campaign for healthier diets to fight obesity, and the cast on Saturday’s “SNL” on NBC had a little fun at her expense. During a skit mocking her campaign, former SNL regular Maya Rudolph as Michelle Obama and Fred Armisen as Barack Obama pretended to be [...]
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Have you ever heard of The Alliance for the Separation of School and State, where you sign a proclamation that says, “I proclaim publicly that I favor ending government involvement in education?” The Alliance, along with the Cato Institute and a panoply of think tanks with cooked data, have brought us the proposed school voucher [...]
Are Gov. Bobby Jindal’s ideas on education a school reform plan or a school choice plan? School reform, of course, can mean a lot of things, but in Jindal’s plan it is focused mainly on a tough new assessment of teacher quality, including up to 50 percent of a teacher’s performance based on student test [...]
I’m parked outside the fieldstone and adobe mansion at 29005 North 82nd Street at sunrise, eating my low-fat yogurt from the free breakfast bar at the Quality Inn, and listening to the one-note whistle of the Phainopepla birds high in the Palo Verde trees. The first yellow blossoms of the year are bursting from the [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 12–> In 2010, the tea party philosophy of restrained government enjoyed the cachet of being an alternative to a status quo where the country wallowed in widespread economic recession. Now, the new thing is the Occupy movement. But at a Tea Party South Dakota cracker barrel session for area legislators Saturday, Allen [...]
Click to enlarge This past Thursday, I watched with great interest the hearing held by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which was titled, “Lines Crossed: Separation of Church and State. Has the Obama Administration Trampled on Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Conscience?” The purpose of the hearing was to hear testimony [...]
What is revival? It is God “stepping down from heaven” and baring His holy arm. He comes and acts and speaks. There is a holy presence and a word on fire. God is in the midst of His people. The Lord is shaking the world. That is revival! It is a time of visitation. If [...]
<!– pat dup image remove attempt End of remove dup image attempt –> By Dave Andrusko Pro-abortionists don’t take kindly to “pro-life” legislation, we understand that. What is more difficult to understand (on first blush) is why they go to DepCon 4 over bills that the public supports by large margins because they are “common [...]
D’Attilio after beating by police. Peter D’Attilio was handing out pro-life bookmarks at a Catholic town fair on August 11, 2011 when police stopped him, arrested him, and beat him up so badly that he had a large black eye. He was then charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Peter strongly denies that he [...]
<!– pat dup image remove attempt End of remove dup image attempt –> By Karen Cross, NRLC Political Director NRL Political Director Karen Cross After months and months of Republican presidential debates, the American electorate is fully aware that in a little over eight months, a pro-life GOP candidate will square off against pro-abortion President [...]
Dear Friends For Life, There are over 600,000 embryos in frozen storage; a number increasing each year. There are also embryos in storage simply waiting for their owners to decide what they should do with them. Each year that passes without a decision increases the risk to your clinic of owners simply abandoning their embryos. At one clinic on [...]
Recommend this article to your friends. Print Email In recent months an acquaintance has been asking me a good many questions about homeschooling and just exactly how to go about it. Since I don’t believe there’s any single “right” way, I’m finding it difficult to provide this woman with the information she desires. You see, [...]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie has followed through on his promise to reject a bill allowing same-sex marriage in New Jersey by quickly vetoing the measure Friday and renewing his call for a ballot question to decide the issue. The veto came a day after the state Assembly passed the bill. The state [...]
Family members Law Attorney Getting Your Existence Together Again http://familylawyerlondon.co.uk/images/parents_rights_Children.jpg If you’re in the center of a sour separation and divorce, your best and dependable advocate will in all probability finish off as being a qualified family legislation lawyer. Regardless if you are combating above kid custody of the children, busting assets, your sons or [...]
Toronto StarNew media, old nasty politicsStarPhoenixThen again, cyberspace seems to have been infected with the nastiness of “old politics” that seeks out such unregulated space as a canvas for its dirty work – as this week’s tale of “@ vikileaks30″ demonstrates. The anonymous Twitter account was …’VikiLeaks’ account linked to House of Commons IP addressYahoo! [...]
I’m kinda mixed on this…kinda. urban Canada. Interesting. This is an unproveable claim. How many times do the police access that registry? How many times does it aid the investigation or crimes for the police? Policing organizations around Canada all oppose getting rid of it. It does NOT makes sense that the Canadian government is [...]
Second grader Dexter Thielhelm wanted to hand out homemade Valentines earlier this week, but the evil administrators at his school confiscated them before he had a chance to hand them out! … at least, that’s the story that’s making the rounds. A couple things to point out: 1) This is part of the valentine he [...]
QUESTION: My wife and I are torn between sending our 8th son to a Christian high school, or letting him attend the public high school a couple of blocks away. Could you give us some input for us to consider? ANSWER: The goal of a Christian education should always be to help parents equip their [...]
Airline forced to scrap controversial ‘sexist’ ads The U.K’s budget airline Ryanair has been forced to scrap a controversial advertising campaign featuring scantily-clad models for being “sexist”. Sky New reports that the promotion, which ran last November in British newspapers with the slogan “Red Hot Fares Crew”, was yanked by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)–U.K.’s [...]
Christian Persecution – Google News Google News ©2012 Google Last feed update: February 18 2012 15:41:59. Lawmaker’s resolution condemns Iran for Christian pastor’s death sentence – Fox News Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:52:47 GMT Fox NewsLawmaker’s resolution condemns Iran for Christian pastor’s death sentenceFox News“Iran has become more isolated because of their drive for nuclear [...]
Choosing my Faith February 18, 2012 – Posted by tractorgirl Last week I was sitting in church and at the end of the prayer of intercessions I had to say, “Amen, except the bit I can’t say it to”. The bit I had to exempt myself from agreeing to related to praying for our Christian [...]
Share Tweet Share Tweet No Christians Allowed? There has been a constant wave of news recently that has led some to opine that America is seeing a “war on religion” – that the current administration and liberal politicians and educators are seeking to limit the influence and power of religion in American culture. More to [...]
02/15/2012 United States (The Christian Post) – A group of some 100-odd Christian Indonesian refugees who fled their country due to religious persecution 10 years ago and have been living in New Jersey and New Hampshire – among other places – illegally, have appealed to President Barack Obama for help in an open letter earlier [...]
ICC Note: Persecution in Egypt is on the rise, CBN reports. By Erick Stakelbeck 2/16/2012 Egypt (CBN) – The recent arrest of 19 American aid workers has raised fears that the Egyptian revolution has gone horribly wrong. The arrests follow sweeping victories by the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups in the country’s parliamentary elections. [...]
ILLINOIS—Matheu Poust, a sophomore at Kaneland High School, was recently selected as “delegate at large” to complete the five-member Illinois delegation to attend the National 4-H Conference in Washington, D.C. this spring. While in Washington, D.C., the delegates will work in roundtable discussion groups focusing on national issues of importance to teens. Following discussions, roundtable [...]
Unless it’s Justin Bieber, I don’t get star-struck but I have to admit, it was pretty cool to meet President Barack Obama yesterday. During President Obama’s visit to Seattle on Friday, February 16, I had the opportunity and privilege to attend one of the events he was speaking at. Specifically, it was an event at [...]
Thanks for opening this email and starting to take time to read this message about ending abortion. With every TWO clicks of the clock, ONE baby is aborted in America. That’s right; every two seconds a baby is murdered here in the United States! That is harsh and painful to hear. It is worse to [...]
Egyptian Christians Kidnapped, Attacked; Panic, Fear Abounds By CFI Field Staff on February 17, 2012 Fear is spreading throughout many regions in Egypt as Christians become the recent victims of numerous kidnappings and attacks by fundamental Muslims. CFI’s co-worker in the region recently reported that three Christian doctors have been kidnapped in El Minya, and [...]