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  • Pastors slam Todd Starnes for urging Christians to leave churches if they didn’t preach on Trump attack

    07/16/2024 1:43:20 PM PDT · by Morgana · 31 replies
    Christian Post ^ | July 15, 2024 | Leonardo Blair
    Conservative media personality Todd Starnes has come under fire from a number of pastors after he urged Christians to leave their church if their pastor did not address the assassination attempt on the life of former President Donald Trump from their pulpits on Sunday. “If your pastor did not address the assassination attempt in today's service, you need to find another church. There is tremendous spiritual warfare being waged in this country. This is no time for limp-wristed wokevangelicals,” Starnes wrote on X Sunday evening. Starnes’ comment came less than 24 hours after Trump, who is expected to accept the...
  • Most Protestant churches aren’t supporting pro-life pregnancy centers, Lifeway survey suggests

    06/24/2024 7:02:58 PM PDT · by Morgana · 37 replies
    Christian Post ^ | June 24, 2024 | Anugrah Kumar
    There’s a significant gap in the involvement of Protestant churches with local pregnancy resource centers, despite heightened attention on such centers following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade two years ago. A survey by Lifeway Research reveals that only 31% of Protestant churchgoers have observed any congregational support for these centers since the ruling. On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization allowed states to enact laws regulating abortion, spotlighting the role of local pregnancy centers in providing support for women with unintended pregnancies. Despite this, the majority of...
  • Attack in Russia: Terrorists opened fire in synagogues and churches, 9 killed including priest

    06/23/2024 1:40:55 PM PDT · by Freeleesy · 42 replies
    Ynet ^ | 06.23.24
    Combined attack against non-Muslim houses of worship in the Dagestan region of the North Caucasus; No known Jewish or Israeli casualties; Attack comes in the wake of a host of reports from Russia in recent months about thwarting ISIS attacks against Jewish institutions
  • Churches that avoid abortion talk are holding men, women back from healing, expert warns

    06/08/2024 10:11:04 AM PDT · by Morgana · 14 replies
    Christian Post ^ | June 7, 2024 | Nicole VanDyke
    Churches need to take a more active role in the pro-life movement, especially in conveying the arguments against abortion, according to an activist and author. Scott Klusendorf, president of The Life Training Institute and author of the book The Case For Life, spoke with Focus on the Family President Jim Daly in an interview posted to YouTube on Thursday. Klusendorf said he believes "a lot of our churches think that if they're silent on abortion, they'll spare post-abortion men and women guilt." "In reality, they're sparing them healing because unconfessed sin has them out of full fellowship with Christ. So,...
  • MyChurchFinder is an online directory to Christian nationalist congregations

    05/24/2024 12:25:07 PM PDT · by Morgana · 26 replies
    Religion News Service ^ | May 24, 2024 | Tess Owen
    (RNS) — Since taking the pulpit at Legacy Baptist Church in Coolidge, Arizona, Pastor Rob Hudelson has not shied away from hot-button political issues, including disputing the results of the 2020 election. His taste for politicking has expressed itself in his two campaigns for state representative. Recently on X, formerly Twitter, Hudelson responded to a post from the conspiracy minded journalist Lara Logan about recent arrests of Jan. 6 rioters with a post that read: “Marxism will not be something that is debated… only taken by force. It cannot win in the battlefield of ideas.” That kind of rhetoric has...
  • The Discovery Of ‘Mass Graves’ Of Indigenous Canadian Children Was Actually A Massive Hoax

    05/10/2024 9:32:03 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 61 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 05/10/2024 | John Daniel Davidson
    Three years after reports of indigenous mass graves triggered the torching or vandalism of 85-plus churches, no graves have been found.Three years ago, a major story broke in Canada that seemed to confirm every left-wing prejudice against Christians imaginable: A mass grave containing the remains of indigenous children was supposedly discovered on the grounds of what had once been a government boarding school run by the Catholic Church.It turns out the whole thing was a hoax, a modern-day blood libel against Christians that ended with at least 85 Catholic churches across Canada destroyed by arson, vandalized, or desecrated. Canadian political...
  • Arizona Catholic church 'totally destroyed' in fire

    05/04/2024 9:04:27 AM PDT · by george76 · 13 replies
    NCR ^ | May 2, 2024
    St. William Catholic Church in Cashion, Arizona, was destroyed in an overnight fire May 1. The fire broke out just before 1 a.m. Local station Fox 10 Phoenix reported that firefighters arrived and found flames coming from the attic of the church. The roof of the church ultimately collapsed as firefighters fought the flames. "This is a devastating loss to this community," Avondale Fire Battalion Chief Steve Mayhew said. "This church is a pillar of this community, so definitely a lot of heartbreak this morning." "I also run the pantry here at St. Williams — that's gone," Gonzalo Ortiz, a...
  • Left-Wing Terrorists Burn Canadian Churches To The Ground

    03/11/2024 10:49:40 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 17 replies
    AMAC Newsline ^ | 11 Mar, 2024 | Alan Jamison
    While it has gone virtually unreported on by the American corporate press, left-wing activists in Canada are waging an all-out war on Christians that has seen hundreds of churches burned to the ground. Meanwhile, American Christians are facing their own wave of persecution that shows no sign of letting up. The rash of church burnings began back in 2021 following claims from leaders of the British Columbia First Nation Band Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc that ground-penetrating radar had discovered a “mass grave” of more than 200 indigenous children. The grave allegedly dated back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries,...
  • Criminal Attacks On American Churches Up 800 Percent In Last Six Years

    03/05/2024 10:51:13 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 3 replies
    The Federalist ^ | 03/05/2024 | Tristan Justice
    While the Biden administration cracks down on Christians, attacks on American churches are up 800 percent since 2018. While the Biden administration cracks down on the Christians Democrats and the press smear as extremists, church attacks are up 800 percent in the last six years, according to a new report from the Family Research Council (FRC).In February, the conservative group published the report, “Hostility Against Churches Is on the Rise in the United States.” It identified 915 acts of hostility against churches between January 2018 and November 2023. “Although the motivations for many of these acts of hostility remain...
  • NYC Cathedral offers official Mass of Reparation to reconsecrate St Patrick's after outcry over trans activist funeral

    02/17/2024 7:21:25 PM PST · by george76 · 31 replies
    Post Millennial ^ | Feb 17, 2024 | Thomas Stevenson
    St. Patrick's Cathedral "only knew that family and friends were requesting a funeral Mass for a Catholic, and had no idea our welcome and prayer would be degraded in such a sacrilegious and deceptive way." The Archdiocese of New York which operates the St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City said that it shares the "outrage over the scandalous behavior at a funeral" earlier in the week for a trans activist and offered "an appropriate Mass of Reparation" to reconsecrate the cathedral. The funeral proceedings celebrated blasphemy, whoredom, and had prayers for access to sex changes. According to the statement,...
  • Senate Democrats Propose Bill That Would Criminalize Armed Church Security

    02/17/2024 10:10:38 AM PST · by Morgana · 60 replies
    Protestia ^ | February 17, 2024 | Paul Brown
    A recent Lifeway survey of Protestant pastors shows that armed congregants protect more than 50% of protestant churches. While these security arrangements vary in their level of sophistication on a church-by-church basis, nearly the same number of pastors who report the use of armed congregants report that there is an intentional plan in place to prepare for threats posed by an active shooter. Though various state and local laws currently regulate and limit the use of concealed carry weapons by church security teams in various locale, a proposed federal law would criminalize the preparations made by many armed church security...
  • Exclusive from Gen. Flynn: This Is My Letter to America

    08/06/2020 6:02:20 AM PDT · by Mount Athos · 14 replies
    western journal ^ | August 5, 2020 | Michael Flynn
    We are witnessing a vicious assault by enemies of all that is good, and our president is having to act in ways unprecedented in decades, maybe centuries. The biblical nature of good versus evil cannot be discounted as we examine what is happening on the streets of America. It’s Marxism in the form of antifa and the Black Lives Matter movement versus our very capable and very underappreciated law enforcement professionals, the vast majority of whom are fighting to provide us safe and secure homes, streets and communities. When the destiny of the United States is at stake, and it...
  • At least 33 Canadian churches have burned to the ground since May 2021. So far, 24 are confirmed arsons

    01/15/2024 8:55:20 AM PST · by yesthatjallen · 17 replies
    CBC ^ | 01 10 2024 | Terry Reith
    WARNING: This story contains distressing details. (CBC Warning) In a barren field of sagebrush alongside a road through the Osoyoos Indian Band, Chief Clarence Louie stands atop a concrete pad and surveys the rubble in front of him. This used to be the front entrance to St. Gregory's, the simple wooden church that hosted countless community celebrations, dinners and religious services, on the reserve just north of the Canada-U.S. border in central B.C. The church had stood for more than one hundred years as a symbol of the Catholic faith, but on June 21, 2021, someone burned it to the...
  • Beneath Sheep's Clothing

    12/23/2023 8:25:25 AM PST · by Lake Living · 6 replies
    ISTINA PRESS, LLC ^ | 1/1/2024 | Juli Behling
    Over a century ago, the communist playbook began to be utilized on American soil. It appears to be close to reaching a pinnacle, after which there will be nothing to be done. America will fall to totalitarian rule.
  • CANADA CHURCH BURNINGS: Two Alberta churches torched by suspected arsonists

    12/10/2023 6:09:52 AM PST · by Sam77 · 7 replies
    The Post Millennial ^ | 9 December 2023 | Sara Higdon
    On Thursday night, firefighters in Barrhead, Alberta, were called to suspected arson fires at two separate churches about an hour apart from each other. Police told Global News that damage to both structures was extreme despite fire teams being able to extinguish the flames quickly. Officials said that Glenreagh church, also known as St. Aiden's Church, was heavily damaged, and two brass candleholders and the offering plate were stolen. United Church on Range Road 54, also known as Pioneer Church was destroyed. Regional Fire Chief with the Town of Barrhead, Gary Hove told the outlet, "Definitely, these are suspicious fires."...
  • Bombshell Report Reveals Stunning Extent Of FBI’s Anti-Catholic Operations

    12/09/2023 4:06:06 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 32 replies
    AMAC Newsline ^ | 8 Dec, 2023 | Aaron Flanigan
    A new report just released by the House Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has offered shocking new insights into the full extent of the FBI’s efforts to use government power and resources to target, intimidate, and harass Catholics, pro-life activists, and other members of the religious community. The December 4 report found, among other disturbing revelations, that the FBI “abused its counterterrorism tools to target Catholic Americans as potential domestic terrorists” when agency operatives in Richmond, Virginia, circulated a memo designating so-called “radical-traditionalist Catholic[s]” as potential “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists.” “The Committee and Select Subcommittee...
  • Christian churches are facing a choice: the cross of Christ or the rainbow flag?

    11/20/2023 1:45:49 PM PST · by Jan_Sobieski · 36 replies
    Life Site News ^ | 11/20/2023 | Jonathon Van Maren
    In the coming decade, Carl Trueman wrote recently, every single church still calling itself Christian will face a choice: Do we follow Scriptural revelation, or the Sexual Revolution? Catechism, or culture? In the world, or of the world? The cross, or the rainbow flag? Mainline Protestantism has, for the most part, cast its lot in with the LGBT movement, with their clergy serving primarily as a convenient way for LGBT activists to accuse pastors who still hold to Christian orthodoxy of bigotry. (If those Christians can cave and still call themselves Christian, why can’t you?) These days, you can identify...
  • AMERICA Prayer Vigil - November 8, 2023 ~PRAYER~

    11/07/2023 11:12:20 PM PST · by Norski · 22 replies
    FreeRepublic ^ | November 8, 2023 | freerepublic intercessors
    Join with fellow FREEPERS across the world to pray for AMERICA: For those in Authority in Government, Family, Military, Business, Agri-Business, Healthcare, Education, Churches, Technology, Religious Freedom and the Media. "I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone: for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness." - (1 Timothy 2:1-2) Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind.
  • A Plea to the Silent Churches in America

    10/21/2023 1:22:50 AM PDT · by Morgana · 12 replies
    Human Defense ^ | August 13, 2020 | Rebekah Dyer
    Between now and the time the preacher stands at the pulpit this Sunday and delivers his message, around 17,000 babies in the United States alone will have been murdered in the womb. That’s nearly 2,400 every day. Ninety-eight babies every hour. About one baby every twelve seconds. Innocent human beings are dismembered, poisoned, crushed, harvested for organs, put in trash cans, and disposed of in the name of “women’s rights” and “the right to choose.” This happens day after day, week after week, and the church largely remains silent. The most forgotten, marginalized human beings today are the preborn. Their...
  • Prosperity gospel on the rise among US churchgoers, survey finds

    08/29/2023 8:27:54 AM PDT · by Morgana · 25 replies
    Christian Post ^ | August 29, 2023 | Anugrah Kumar
    An increasing share of American Protestant churchgoers believe that financial prosperity is part of God's plan for them and that giving more money to their church and charities will result in blessings from God, according to a recent study by Lifeway Research. The study, conducted from Sept. 19-29, 2022, and released this week, found that 52% of churchgoers say their church teaches that God will bless them if they donate more, up from 38% in 2017. Additionally, 76% believe God wants them to prosper financially, an increase from 69% in 2017. The belief that they must do something for God...