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(International Christian Concern) – Persecution of Christians in Indonesia continues to occur, despite the statutory system in this country that clearly provides protection for the freedom of every citizen to embrace and worship according to their respective religions. In practice, it is another story. With the emergence of radical Islamic groups and their bold and open persecution of Christians in Indonesia, the Indonesian government itself does not seem to have the courage to take firm action against the brutality of these radicals. The government allegedly allowed these incidents to happen. In fact, in some cases, the government was involved with...

The “Donald Trump/Mike Pence Prayer Vigil” and “Pray for our American Heroes" Prayer Thread have Combined to Form the AMERICA PRAYER VIGIL Prayer Thread! Join with Fellow FREEPERS to Pray for our PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. 'And this is the Confidence that we have in Him, that, if we Ask Anything According to His Will, He Heareth us.' 1 John 5:14 Religion Forum Threads Labeled [Prayer] are Closed to Debate of Any Kind. Psalm 62:7 My Protection and Success come from God Alone. He is my Refuge,...

Today there are absolutely no shortages of godless women in our post-Judeo/Christian American culture as we have seen with the Washington D.C." women's" marches. These women occupy all of society’s genres from politics to Hollywood, from the music industry to the fashion world, from the faculty lounge to the masses. They are very outspoken, defiant and preach a very subtle and poisonous delusion of toxic liberation and freedom by the application and adherence of lawlessness, immorality, tolerance and political correctness; none of which can bring TRUE fulfillment, only social tyranny (Rom. 1:18-32, Gal. 6:7-8). Since the sixties, the women of...

YAOUNDE, CAMEROON - Cameroon says it has again closed more than 60 schools on its northern border with Nigeria to protect children and teaching staff from increasing Boko Haram attacks. Many people have fled the region and are now displaced. The Islamist group has stepped up its use of suicide bombers, even as the country’s military has drastically reduced the jihadists’ firepower. The central African country has deployed its military to assure the safety of the remaining civilian population in the affected regions. Ousmanou Garga, Cameroon’s basic education official on the northern border with Nigeria, says recent Boko Haram attacks...

Pope’s Education Pact Hits Wrong Targets Francis sidesteps onslaught of LGBT indoctrination in Catholic schools VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Educationists, teachers, policymakers and parents are lamenting Pope Francis' Global Compact on Education (GEC) for its failure to address the most critical issues facing children — from the Copernican revolution of "child-centered pedagogy" to LGBT indoctrination in Catholic schools. Launching the GEC Thursday at Rome's Pontifical Lateran University, the pope explained that the pact would "ensure that everyone has access to a quality education consonant with the dignity of the human person and our common vocation to fraternity."Muslim parents protest LGBT indoctrination...

One, on Oct. 6, 2020, Pres. Trump tweeted that he has authorized the total declassification (no redactions) of any and all documents related to the Russian Collusion investigation and the Clinton e-mail scandal. It is now clear from handwritten notes of some Obama Administration officials that they knew that the DNC and Hillary Clinton financed this hoax. It is my opinion that the U.S. government should sue Hillary and the DNC to recover the cost of their deliberate scam. Two, concerning lawlessness, on Oct. 9, 2020, U.S. Sec. of State Pompeo said his department has Hillary Clinton’s deleted e-mails, and...

Fourteen soldiers killed in jihadist attack (Nigeria) ISIS fighters launched an assault on a military base in the northeast of the country on Saturday. Several soldiers are also missing. Jihadists linked to the Islamic State (IS) organization killed 14 Nigerian soldiers in an attack on a military base in the northeast of the country, military sources said on Saturday. Several soldiers are missing. Two sources, who requested anonymity, told AFP that fighters from the Islamic State in West Africa (Iswap) group attacked the Jakana military base on Friday with machine guns and grenade launchers, a offensive followed by intense fighting....

The center of the country has been caught in a whirlwind of violence since the emergence in this region in 2015 of a jihadist group led by the Fulani preacher Amadou Koufa, who recruited widely from his community. Twelve civilians, including two women and a child, and at least as many Malian soldiers, were killed in a double attack Tuesday, October 13 in central Mali, the deadliest in the country since the putsch of August 18. This new attack comes a few days after the release of four hostages - an opposition leader, Soumaïla Cissé, the French Sophie Pétronin and...

On July 1, the state of Virginia enacted the “Virginia Values Act,” which bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. A companion law requires employers to include coverage for sex reassignment and “gender affirming” surgeries in their health plans. According to the Alliance Defending Freedom, who has filed a pre-enforcement challenge, the Virginia Values Act requires “churches, religious schools, and Christian ministries to hire employees who do not share their stated beliefs on marriage, sexuality, and gender identity.”Though the Act provides an exemption for religious schools “owned, supported, controlled, or managed” by denominations or churches, that...

A teacher was beheaded in the middle of the street in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines) this late Friday afternoon, around 5 p.m. The attacker was neutralized by bullets by the police a few hundred meters away, in Éragny (Val-d'Oise), a neighboring town. He is dead. The National Counterterrorism Prosecutor's Office has taken up the investigation. 00:49. Four people including a minor were taken into police custody as part of the investigation led by the national anti-terrorism prosecution according to BFMTV. The suspects are members of the assailant's family. 22:55. The terrorist shouted "Allah Akbar" before being neutralized by law enforcement officials according...

A minister who was leading a funeral service said she was left "flabbergasted" after being accused of breaking Covid-19 restrictions by encouraging mourners to recite the Lord's Prayer. Alison Davies said that after concluding the prayer at Bridgend's Coychurch Crematorium, she was approached by an official who told her, in front of mourners, that she had broken the Welsh Government Covid rules on chanting. "To be honest, I was quite flabbergasted," Davies said. "There was no way we were chanting or shouting, the congregation were mumbling the Lord's Prayer really. So I was quite upset to find that I'd done...

Denver Newsroom, Oct 13, 2020 / 03:54 pm MT (CNA).- A group of activists near San Francisco on Monday defaced a statue of St. Junipero Serra on private property with red spray paint before tearing it from its foundation. Serra, an 18th-century Franciscan priest and missionary, is viewed by some activists as a symbol of colonialism and of the abuses that many Native Americans suffered after contact with Europeans. However, historians say the missionary protested abuses and sought to fight colonial oppression. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone on Tuesday decried the “mob rule” that led to the statue of the...

Christian leaders and conservative commentators denounced Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's support for allowing children as young as 8 years old to self-identify as transgender. At an ABC News town hall Thursday night, the former vice president was asked a question by a mother who claimed one of her children identified as transgender and wanted to know Biden's views on the subject. "The idea that an 8-year-old child or a 10-year-old child decides to, 'You know, I decided that I want to be transgender, that's what I think I'd like to be, it would make my life a lot easier.'...

Farmers working in their fields have had the misfortune to meet Boko Haram Islamists in the northeast of the country. On Monday, 14 of them were simply slaughtered in their fields by jihadists in the village of Ngwom, 14km from the regional capital Maiduguri. The leader of a pro-government militia, who reported the facts on Tuesday said that only one farmer survived the attack, wounded by a deep gash, they left him for dead. The victim finds himself between life and death. Attacks attributed to Boko Haram and the rival dissident faction Islamic State in West Africa (Iswap) increasingly target...

Around 2 and a half billion people across the globe are part of the Christian community. From a gathering of just a handful of people 2,000 ago to becoming the world's largest institution, there have been numerous key points on the way.Here we highlight seven of the most important dates and incidents in Church history which have made us what we are today, and which possibly point the way to the future...1. 50 AD: The Council at JerusalemThough we mark Pentecost as the birth of the Church, the Council at Jerusalem is where it began to take shape. The account...

A post-lockdown surge in sacrilegeROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Earlier this year, Church Militant reported on a wave of anti-Christian vandalism sweeping across Italy, "in a binge of violence unparalleled in recent memory." Months later, a post-lockdown upsurge in these episodes — widely underreported by the media — quickly spread across the country. Despite the alarming increase in such offenses, the majority of cases were reported solely in the local press, as denounced by Catholic website Fatti Sentire: "Christianophobia isn't only about Christian persecution in the Middle East; it's more than enough to read our local headlines, usually written in small print...

Introduction If it weren’t for the length of the title, this article could have been called An Interpretive Scenario of the Most Rapid-Fire, Hectic, and Event-Filled Period in the History of the World! Essentially, everything you are about to read will be climaxing at approximately the midway point of the Tribulation. It truly will be the most rapid-fire, event-filled point in history and, obviously, not for the good. The reader will notice that I reference multiple articles I have written. Trust me; this is not an effort at self-promotion. That thought leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I never...

In an interview with LifeSiteNews published today, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò said, in a message to Judge Barrett, and all true Catholics who would serve in public office, that they should “bear witness to the One who shed His Blood for them,” for with that, he said, will come “the necessary graces to carry out their duties in public affairs” and also they will “be an example to their brothers and will merit an eternal reward, which is the only thing that really matters.”

With Israel on lockdown because of Covid-19 and Pres. Trump in the hospital for testing positive for Covid-19, it seems like most of the media has ignored the Middle East this week. Nevertheless, here are a few items that seem to be related to prophecies in the Bible. One, during former Vice Pres. Joe Biden’s debate with Pres Trump on Sept. 29, 2020, Biden said, “I am the Democratic Party right now.” That is very questionable, but if it is true, Biden is responsible for no mention of God at the Democrat Party Convention and in the Democrat Party Platform....

Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas offered high praise for President Donald J. Trump this week on The Bishop Strickland Show, which is being streamed live every Tuesday night on LifeSite’s YouTube channel here at 9:00 pm EST. Strickland is one of the most outspoken bishops on pro-life issues in the entire country. During his conversation with co-host Terry Barber, His Excellency said that we should “put politics aside” and simply recognize that the sitting President of the United States is speaking about unborn children in a way that makes him sound like he’s a Catholic bishop. “He’s basically quoting...