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Over the Labor Day weekend the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, a bakery in Oregon, decided to close the shop as a result of all the threats, vicious emails and phone calls they have received after refusing to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. Aaron and Melissa Klein said their business has suffered after the media firestorm earlier this year when they declined to provide a cake for a lesbian ceremony because it would have violated their Christian beliefs. Emails and phone calls were received by the Kleins saying Aaron should be shot, that he should be...

SNIPPET: "U.S.-based Church World Service and Norwegian Church Aid will not be allowed to operate while the allegations, aired Sunday on Afghan television, are investigated, said Mohammad Hashim Mayar, the deputy director of the Afghan government office that oversees nongovernment organizations (NGOs). An investigation commission including officers from the National Security and Interior Ministries had been appointed, he said. Both organizations denied the allegation, and Mayar said officials did not have any evidence of proselytizing beyond the television report."

The Dept. of Homeland Security [DHS] is trying to deport the son of a top Hamas leader who became a Christian and saved many lives by working undercover for Israeli inteligence. U.S. Trying To Deport "Son of Hamas"-WND.With that in mind, from the Examiner:"The investigation offers revelations about CAIR's infiltration of key US law enforcement agencies including local police departments, the FBI, the CIA and the State Department, as well as, their influence on operations against members of homeland security committees on Capitol Hill and their insertion of Islamic spies in congressional offices." Read it all.This really needs to be investigated to the bottom. The...

A Christian who prayed in a public park with six other people is serving a nine-day jail sentence for disorderly conduct even though his case is under appeal and charges against the others were dismissed or overturned. Julian Raven of Elmira, N.Y., said he was "surprised by police at his office," handcuffed and taken into custody this week, according to the Alliance Defense Fund, which is defending Raven. "According to his wife, police escorted him out of a court hearing … in handcuffs in front of his crying children to begin serving his nine-day jail sentence," the organization said in...

A BRITISH schoolgirl has been barred from wearing a crucifix necklace in class, the Daily Mail reported today. Samantha Devine, a 13-year-old Roman Catholic, was told by teachers in Gillingham, south-east England, that it breached health and safety rules, the paper added. Her family reportedly said it will fight the decision and has accused the school of discriminating against Christians because Sikh and Muslim pupils can wear religious symbols.