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Michigan pastor Lorenzo Sewell delivered a blistering address at a Dearborn City Council meeting this week, accusing local leaders of allowing the city to fall under Sharia law. VIDEOS AT LINK............. Sewell stepped to the microphone and seemed intent on refusing to bend the knee in his messaging. It's impossible to overstate the amount of courage it takes to make this kind of stand. "America, we have lost this city,” he declared, his tone rising with urgency. “This is a city that is no longer under American laws; we are under Sharia law. We will not have it anymore.” "Enough...

Faith Facts The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into an Oklahoma city council’s decision to deny a rezoning request for a proposed mosque development. The federal investigation raises questions about local governance authority and religious freedom protections in zoning decisions. The case highlights ongoing tensions between federal oversight and community-level planning decisions regarding houses of worship. The U.S. Department of Justice has initiated an investigation into an Oklahoma city council’s rejection of a rezoning request that would have permitted the construction of a mosque in the community. The federal probe comes after local officials voted against approving...

Another church is preparing to disappear from the American landscape. Not because it was burned by an angry mob. Not because Christians were driven out by soldiers. Not because the government outlawed the Gospel. The former Richfield Christian Reformed Church in Clifton, New Jersey, was purchased by the Islamic Center of Passaic County. Now plans call for the existing building to be demolished and replaced with a mosque measuring approximately 40,000 square feet--more than six times the size of the current structure. The cross has already given way to the crescent. Soon the former church itself may be gone. It...

This is a message with Pastor Hibbs about current events and the whole situation in the Middle East involving Iran and China and their new system that allowed the successful attacks on the US interests in the Middle East. The part about China and their new system starts at the 39 minute mark. Video is 1:12 minutes long

Sima* is 18, but has already given birth four times. Her youngest is a newborn, the eldest is four. Sitting with her children in their mud-brick room in Badghis province, Sima says: “After the Taliban entered the country, I had just finished the sixth grade and was supposed to start the seventh. But two months later, my father pressured me immensely to marry my cousin. After being beaten by my father several times, I was forced to accept.” At 13, Sima became a bride inside the compound where she still lives, and where she has given birth to her children....

Since Islam’s arrival upon the world stage 1,400 years ago, when an illiterate Arab by the name of Mohammad, born in Mecca, claimed to be a messenger sent by God (whom he called “Allah”) to spread Allah’s word, approximately 270 million human beings have been slaughtered in Islam’s and Allah’s name, according to the Center for the Study of Political Islam. (Approximately 120 million Africans, 80 million Hindus, 60 million Christians, and 10 million Buddhists.) Until fairly recently, Westerners were unfamiliar with Islam or its practitioners. However, since Congress enacted America’s Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, our doors have...

A video has been going viral on social media wherein a man in yellow attire can be seen vandalising a worship place. The video is reportedly from the Tarumi Ward in Japan’s Kobe City where the accused identified as Mamadou Balde had vandalised the Mizuoka Hachiman shrine in the area. Balde is a Muslim native of the Republic of Gambia in West Africa, who migrated to Japan and now lives in Tarumi Ward, where the incident took place. The accused, who was later arrested by the Japanese police, reportedly broke an offering box kept in the shrine. He also, reportedly,...

37 year old Japanese farmer Ishii Ryōtarō has been arrested for burning down a illegally constructed mosque by Pakistanis in Ebetsu, Hokkaido. The mosque was there for over 5 years & the local government did nothing to demolish it. Vigilantism was Inevitably going to happen.

When Saul marched forth with his army, he cautioned: “Allah will test you with a river. So whoever drinks ˹his fill˺ from it is not with me, and whoever does not taste it—except a sip from the hollow of his hands—is definitely with me.” They all drank ˹their fill˺ except for a few! When he and the ˹remaining˺ faithful with him crossed the river, they said, “Now we are no match for Goliath and his warriors.” But those ˹believers˺ who were certain they would meet Allah reasoned, “How many times has a small force vanquished a mighty army by the...

At the dawn of the new millennium in northern Nigeria, while a Christian man was petitioning God with his midnight prayers, his 19-year-old Muslim neighbor was calling upon Allah through prayer. Little did the Muslim youth know at the time is that his Christian neighbor, Moses Onuorah, would help him convert to Christianity on March 14, 2000. Before choosing to become a Christian, Muhammed had told Onuorah that he was tired of praying as a Muslim. But when Onuorah asked him to try church, his immediate answer was, “No. No. No. Church is an abomination, my family will kill me,...

The latest episode of Faith Without Frontiers podcast features Harun Ibrahim, founder of Al Hayat Ministries, an international Christian media ministry dedicated to sharing the message of Jesus with Muslim audiences around the world... Ibrahim reflects on his journey from a secular Muslim upbringing in Jerusalem to becoming a pioneer in Christian media outreach to Muslims... Al Hayat – the Arabic word for “life” – takes its name from Jesus’ declaration in John 14:6: “I am the way, the truth and the life.” Today, the ministry reaches audiences in 12 languages through satellite television, websites, social media, music, Bible teaching...

WHEN Malcolm X visited Mecca in 1964, he was enchanted. He found the city “as ancient as time itself,” and wrote that the partly constructed extension to the Sacred Mosque “will surpass the architectural beauty of India’s Taj Mahal.” Fifty years on, no one could possibly describe Mecca as ancient, or associate beauty with Islam’s holiest city. The dominant architectural site is the obnoxious Makkah Royal Clock Tower hotel. The skyline is no longer dominated by the rugged outline of encircling peaks. Ancient mountains have been flattened. The city is now surrounded by the brutalism of rectangular steel and concrete...

˹They were condemned˺ for breaking their covenant, rejecting Allah’s signs, killing the prophets unjustly, and for saying, “Our hearts are unreceptive!”1—it is Allah Who has sealed their hearts for their disbelief, so they do not believe except for a few and for boasting, “We killed the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, the messenger of Allah.” But they neither killed nor crucified him—it was only made to appear so.1 Even those who argue for this ˹crucifixion˺ are in doubt. They have no knowledge whatsoever—only making assumptions. They certainly did not kill him.

Masses of pilgrims in Saudi Arabia threw pebbles at a large pillar in a symbolic ritual on Wednesday, one of the final days of the Hajj as Muslims around the world started celebrating the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha. Pilgrims in Mina, Saudi Arabia, at the annual Islamic pilgrimage chanted “Allahu akbar,” or God is great, while throwing pebbles in a ritual seen as a symbolic stoning of the devil. The act also is seen as a symbol of rejecting evil and a commemoration of the Prophet Ibrahim’s rejection of temptation when the devil tried to dissuade him from submitting...

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - A planned celebration of an important Muslim holiday at a Grand Prairie water park has been canceled after backlash over religious discrimination. What we know: DFW Epic Eid was planned to be held on June 1st to celebrate Eid al-Adha, an important day of celebration in the Islamic calendar, at Epic Waters in Grand Prairie. Now, the private event will no longer take place. The City of Grand Prairie released the following statement to FOX 4 on Wednesday: "After further review and in the best interest of the City of Grand Prairie, the June 1 Eid...

Thousands of Christians have been killed, leaving over 400 widows struggling for survival after being displaced by Fulani Islamic extremists. Photo by Antonio Graceffo. Driving from Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja toward Jos, one enters the kill zone where thousands of Christians have been slaughtered or abducted already this year. Along the way, we stopped in Miango Community, which is now supporting hundreds of widows and orphans whose families were killed when their villages were attacked by Fulani Muslim extremists. Gastron, a community leader, explained that over the past nine years, the Fulani have been attacking the Christian community on...

A 37-year-old Coptic Christian researcher and YouTuber has filed an appeal to overturn his conviction for posting online videos about Christianity. He was sentenced in January to five years’ imprisonment with hard labor.Augustinos Samaan filed the appeal last week, according to ADF International, the international religious freedom legal advocacy organization representing him.He was arrested in the early hours of Oct. 1, 2025, by masked special forces officers who seized his laptop, phone, books and personal papers, reports Coptic Solidarity, a U.S.-based advocacy group for Egyptian Copts and persecuted minorities.Samaan runs a YouTube channel with more than 800,000 subscribers. His videos...

A school in Minnesota is planning to construct a prayer room and foot-washing stations in order to accomodate its Muslim students. Osseo Area Schools confirmed to Alpha News reporter Liz Collin its ongoing upgrade plans will include a dedicated prayer space at Park Center Senior High School, along with foot washing facilities at Osseo Senior High School. The features are part of revised designs within the district’s “Building a Better Future” capital program, a roughly $375 million package approved by voters in 2022 and 2023. However, a spokesperson for Park Center Senior High School told Mail Online it was not...

Under Pope Leo XIV, for the first time, the Vatican set up a dedicated Muslim prayer room at heart of Pope’s 500-year-old library. Suicidal madness. The Vatican should have set up a room, a shrine, to the hundreds of millions of Christians slaughtered by Muslims since its creation 1,400 years ago. ROME HAS FALLEN For the first time ever, the Vatican has built a Muslim prayer room inside its Apostolic Library. While Christians are banned from Mecca, while no church stands in Saudi Arabia, and while Europe’s cathedrals are being turned into mosques, Pope Leo XIV rolls… https://t.co/qnz7jjBhSI pic.twitter.com/qNhu1vjrgb —...

Pope Leo XIV's recent visit to the Mosque of Algiers--where he removed his shoes, stood in silent reflection before the mihrab, and expressed gratitude for being in "a place that represents the space proper to God"--is not a harmless gesture of goodwill. It is a deeply consequential moment that raises serious questions about how the highest office in the Catholic Church is choosing to represent Christian truth in the public square. Because this is not simply about respect. No one is arguing against basic courtesy toward Muslims or any other religious group. Christians are called to love their neighbors and...