Amid Iraqi Terror Crisis, Light of Christ Is Dawning

8/22/2014  Mark Andrews and Kyle Patterson

Before sending the first wave of military “advisers,” U.S. officials expressed reservations about putting combat “boots on the ground” in Iraq again to deal with a fierce Islamist terrorist threat in the country’s unstable northern regions.

But a Tennessee-based Christian relief organization has had its own “boots on the ground” in this dangerous territory for the past nine months and is showing no signs of backing down in the face of the ruthless militants’ convert-or-be-slaughtered ultimatum.

“Despite the atrocities being committed by ISIS [short for the Islamist State of Iraq and Syria], Iraq represents an opportunity to bring the hope and love of the Gospel,” says Crisis Response International (CRI) Director Sean Malone.

Teams of CRI responders–a combination of staff and trained volunteers–are committed to bringing a witness of God’s love in tangible ways providing food, shelter and medical needs to hundreds in Iraq daily, he said. But most importantly, CRI is praying and bringing the peace and salvation of Jesus into the hearts of hundreds of Iraq residents who are desperate for answers.

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‘They would not convert and it cost them their life’. Family of eight Iraqi Christians shot in the face

05 August 2014  |   Ruth Gledhill – Christian Today

Canon Andrew White, the Vicar of Baghdad, who has witnessed extreme sufferings of Christians being killed and persecuted in recent weeks, has accused the British Government of doing nothing to help fleeing Christians. Bishops and other church leaders have added their voices his concerns.

Catholic bishops in Engand and Wales have called on Christians to join with people across Iraq “in praying for an end to the violent persecution that threatens to extinguish the ancient Iraqi Christian community.”

Church leaders in Iraq have selected Sunday, August 9 for the Day of Prayer.

Bishop of Clifton Declan Lang, who heads international affairs for the Catholic bishops, said: “Events in Iraq over the past few weeks have been disastrous. Christians have been systematically driven out of Mosul.

“A community of 60,000 before 2003 has dwindled over the years and is now down to almost nothing. For the first time in 1,600 years, no Masses are being celebrated in Mosul. Many Christians have fled to the surrounding Nineveh Plains and into Kurdistan as militants from the Islamic State, formerly the Islamic State of the Levant (ISIS), threaten those who do not subscribe to their fundamentalist ideology.

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How to Stay 50 Miles Away From a Moral Failure

– Lee Grady – 8th October 2014

Last week, late-night comics joked about the fact that yet another Christian broadcaster had gone down in flames because of a moral failure. This time it was Rory Alec, the British founder of GOD TV, who announced on Oct. 2 that he was stepping down from the network he co-founded in 1995 and putting his wife, Wendy, in charge.

Despite the giddy reaction from secular pundits, this is no laughing matter. When the world looks at us they think we are just a bunch of greedy hypocrites who can’t keep our pants zipped. The embarrassment that started in the 1980s with Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart continues today. We are now experiencing an epidemic of sexual failure in the church that threatens to discredit us.

Wendy Alec has promised to explain the details of her husband’s resignation in a statement this week, and the least we can do for our fallen brother is pray for his restoration. But beyond that, I’m also eager to help Christians who might be tempted to think that the failure of yet another high-profile minister means it’s impossible to stay sexually pure in a world full of temptation.

The truth is: Jesus can keep you from falling if you trust Him and use biblical common sense. Here’s the most honest advice I could give any sincere believer, male or female, who wants to avoid becoming a statistic in this struggle.

1. Maintain an intimate relationship with God. I can offer a 100 percent guarantee that no man or woman who prays regularly, worships God intimately, reads the Bible consistently and knows God’s grace personally will fall into sexual sin. When we are full of God’s Spirit, His fire will keep us far away from the edge of moral failure. It’s only when a person loses his first love for Jesus that he drifts toward sinful desires.

2. Never get in a sexually compromising situation with a person who is not your spouse. It’s never wise to play next to the edge of a cliff. Yet Christians today seem to think it’s spiritual to flirt, literally, with danger. The Bible says: “Flee from youthful lusts” (2 Tim. 2:22). “Flee” does not mean linger, loiter or dawdle, nor does it mean wink to see if you get a wink back. It means run for your life!

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March for the Babies in Melbourne 1pm this Saturday 11th October

Dear friends & family in Christ, The annual March for the Babies is this Saturday 11 October in Melbourne. This march for life is held on this date to mark the…

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Syrian Christian asks, “Why aren’t the moderate Muslims doing more to stop the extremists in their midst?”

Robert Spencer Aug 19, 2014 – Jihad Watch

“Why aren’t the moderate Muslims doing more to stop the extremists in their midst? Do they agree with their ideology and extremism? We saw hundreds of thousands of protesters on the streets against the abuses of the regime, so why are we not now seeing those thousands of protesters against what IS is doing?”

Fair questions. But no answers will be forthcoming from Muslim leaders in Syria or anywhere else. In the U.S., Hamas-linked CAIR can point to its condemnation of the Islamic State as if that settled the matter — yet neither CAIR nor any other Muslim group is doing anything to teach Muslims to reject the Islamic State’s understanding of Islam.

“Aleppo’s forgotten Christians,” by Edward Dark, Al-Monitor, August 11, 2014 (thanks to Paul):

ALEPPO, Syria — Walking through the largely Christian neighborhoods of Aleppo city — Azizieh, Siryan, Sulaimaniyah and Midan — you can still see the posters of the two bishops kidnapped by Islamist militants last year hanging on shop windows, walls and even cars. The people here haven’t forgotten them; the event is still as painful and fresh as if it had happened just yesterday. The bishops’ kidnapping was a symbolic event, indicative of the larger collapse of interfaith communal relations in a country under the strain of a sectarian civil war, and marked the end of a long era of relative peace and safety for the Christians of Syria.

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Tent Churches Emerge in Iraqi Refugee Camps

9/25/2014- Charisma News

Fatima, an Iraqi woman who had fled atrocities committed by the Islamic State (ISIS), was drawn to the sound of singing in a tent in a refugee camp in Dohuk, a city in the Kurdish region of Iraq. She approached cautiously.

Though embarrassed when the Christians worshipping inside saw her, she came closer and asked if she could enter and listen to what they were saying. By the time the meeting finished at 4 a.m., she was on her way to embracing Christ as her Savior and asked if she could bring friends and family to the next meeting.

Fatima, her husband and three daughters put their trust in Jesus for their salvation, and within a few weeks her involvement led to another 60 families making the same commitment, according to an area ministry leader supported by Christian Aid Mission.

“Tent churches are going on everywhere,” said the ministry leader. “Last week we had 68 families openly surrender their lives to the Lord. With all their large needs and difficult situations that they are going through, they thank God for the indwelling of Christ in their hearts. Twelve of those families were Muslim.”

In addition, 200 children who received Bibles and coloring materials prayed to accept Jesus into their hearts.

Broken Hearts

Near Amerli, which Islamic State fighters besieged for more than two months before Kurdish and Iraqi forces aided by U.S. warplanes drove them out on Sept. 1, the ministry leader’s team encountered people in need of water, food and medicine. In a visit with a group of families able to escape before the ISIS siege, the team found opportunities to meet both spiritual and physical needs.

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Black Christians and the Myth of Prosperity Preaching

SOURCE: American Thinker – Patricia L. Dickson – July 20, 2014

With the in-your-face display of greed and arrogance of the so-called pastors on the reality show Preachers of L.A., I began to wonder: when will black Christians wake up and say enough is enough?  Although there are some white pastors of mega-churches who have a net worth of almost triple their congregants as well, I want to focus on the plight of the black saints who sit under the ministry of black pastors (and some white pastors) Sunday after Sunday and continue to live paycheck to paycheck.

After some years of attending mega-churches pastored by both black and white men and their wives, I began to notice a trend.  These pastors would always tell their congregation – mostly non-college-educated and barely surviving members – that the way to prosperity is through tithing.  Tithing was the only means to prosperity taught by these pastors.  In fact, the reason for all that ailed the saints (hard times, sickness, and lack) was non-tithing (i.e., theft of God’s money).  Not having a college education during the majority of those years, I felt guilty if I found myself in a situation where I could not tithe on certain Sundays.  I would hear the pastors say, use your rent or utility bill money and pay your tithe; God will make sure your bills are paid.  I would blame God when my bills went unpaid instead of blaming the pastors (or myself for listening to the them).

After I completed a couple of degrees and began associating with a group of financially intelligent individuals, I started to learn and apply sound financial principles.  I then realized that my financial situation had improved for two reasons: more education (resulted in a better job with higher pay and/or promotion on current job) and knowledge of how to manage and invest my income.  I also realized that my pastors never mentioned education or investments (other than investing in the kingdom of God) as a means to acquire wealth.

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Live webcast with Pr Daniel this Sunday morning 5th Oct / Rise Up Australia Prayer in Melbourne this Friday 3rd Oct /’The Gift’ playing at CTFM Hallam this Sunday evening 5th Oct

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Very successful RUAP Campaign Meetings in Frankston, Victoria & Melbourne Western Suburbs with lots of media

Dear friends, The campaign meetings held in Frankston, Victoria last Saturday the 20th September and in the Melbourne Western Suburbs on Sunday 21st September were a great success. Around 80…

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The Plight of the Muslim: the Great Cost of Following Christ

 7/11/2014 Rob Hoskins

It’s amazing to me how the Internet is heightening our awareness of what is going on in the world to a whole new level. Things all around the globe that have been cloaked in obscurity for hundreds of years are now coming to light, many of them taking center stage in mainstream media. Take for instance the case of Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese woman who had been sentenced to death for her Christian faith widely covered in media, like the May 16 CNN news report below. The struggle between Islam and Christianity has been going on for a very long time. Both faiths are “exclusive and expansionary”, often causing them to clash.

Little do we, as Westerners, know that to be Muslim and choose Christianity in some nations and contexts means giving up everything. There is a vast difference of interpretation between how I read this verse and the meaning it holds for a born Muslim who has chosen to follow Christ and is counting the cost of that decision: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me” (Matthew 16:24).

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Obama Administration Foreign Policy: We’d Laugh if Lives Weren’t at Stake

By David French, CP Guest Contributor – June 26, 2014|

As Iraq burns, and the hard-won gains of American arms are thrown away in a bloodbath of severed heads and mass executions, more than 1,500 miles away from Baghdad a smaller, but also heartbreaking drama is playing out before the eyes of a watching world.

And just as in Iraq, the United States is humiliated, with lives hanging in the balance.

On Monday, there was a rare burst of good news from the jihadist reaches of the Muslim world, as a Sudanese court overturned the death sentence imposed on Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese Christian convicted of “apostasy” – of converting from Islam to Christianity. Married to an American, Meriam was imprisoned with her two young American children, sentenced to be flogged and then hung. She was free to leave Sudan, and it appeared our State Department was even working diligently to bring Meriam and her American family home, to free soil.

Yesterday, everything changed. According to multiple reports, just as Meriam and her family were poised to board their flight to freedom, Sudanese secret police emerged and re-arrested Meriam, detaining her and her American husband and American children after an “angry” airport confrontation. Our sources on Capitol Hill (and Sudanese media) indicate that they were snatched away with American officials literally present at the airport.

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3AW News Talk Radio gives a fair go for RUAP National President Daniel Nalliah / Lord Monckton, Daniel Nalliah & Geoff Shaw to speak in Frankston, Victoria this Saturday 20th September

Dear friends,

1) If you believe in miracles, yesterday was one of those days.

3AW News Talk Radio gave RUA Party National President Daniel Nalliah a fair go when he was interviewed by Tom Elliott.

For once 3AW did not cut him off.  They actually invited him into the studio and let him speak. Halfway through the live interview, Tom showed Mr Nalliah that the switchboard was jammed with callers, which he said was unusual.

You must listen to this very interesting interview from (59:14 – 1:11:41).

http://www.3aw.f2.com.au/Podcast/Feeds/02.xml

Today at 4.30pm Lord Christopher Monckton will be interviewed by Tom Elliott on 3AW.

For those of you in the Melbourne area, please try your best to listen in and call 9690 0693 after the interview to add your voice to the discussion.

For those of you outside the Melbourne area, you may listen to the interview at http://www.3aw.com.au/3AWDrivewithTomElliott and call 131332 afterward to add your voice to the discussion.

2) Lord Monckton – Adviser to former PM of UK Margaret Thatcher (and now advisor to Mr. Nalliah) & RUAP National President Daniel Nalliah & Geoff Shaw will speak in Frankston, Victoria this Saturday the 20th of September 2014 at 11am. 

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Daniel Nalliah on 3AW (693 News Talk Radio) at 4.30pm today / RUAP Victorian Campaign in full force in Bendigo, Sale, Hallam, Clayton, Geelong, Frankston & Melbourne Western Suburbs

Dear friends & family in Christ,

1) Ps Daniel will be interviewed by Tom Elliott on 3AW (693 News Talk Radio) at 4.30pm today Thursday 18th September.

 You may also listen to the podcast at http://www.3aw.com.au/3AWDrivewithTomElliott

2) The RUAP Victorian campaign is in full force with meetings recently held in several locations and very good media coverage. In the past week RUAP National President and Lord Christopher Monckton (Adviser to Former PM Margret Thatcher of the UK) addressed meetings in Bendigo, Sale, Hallam, Clayton, St Kilda & Geelong.

They will be also speaking at meetings in Frankston and Western Suburbs of Melbourne this weekend.

People at these meetings were greatly challenged to Rise Up and take a stand for Australia. There were people from all walks of life, but all agreed that it is time to Keep Australia Australian.

http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/2556052/moncktons-views-arrive-in-bendigo/

http://www.gippslandtimes.com.au/story/2568200/controversial-climate-change-denier-not-retreating/?cs=1450

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RUAP Media Release: Lord Monckton & Daniel Nalliah to speak in Frankston, Victoria this Saturday 20th September

Media Release - For Immediate Release - 18th September 2014 Lord Monckton - Adviser to former PM of UK Margret Thatcher (and now adviser to Mr. Nalliah) & RUAP National President…

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Very successful RUAP campaign launch in Victoria / Media coverage / Lord Monckton & Daniel Nalliah’s remaining speaking itinerary in Victoria through Sunday 21st September

Dear friends,

A big thank you to all who travelled from wide and far yesterday to join us at the St Kilda Town Hall in Melbourne for the Rise Up Australia Party launch in preparation for the Victorian State Election on the 29thof November 2014.

The Aussie flag waving cheerful crowd sang the Australia National Anthem and the RUA Party song with great excitement and passion.

Around 100 faithful supporters, many wearing their RUA Party T-Shirts, clapped and cheered as the speakers Daniel Nalliah and Christopher Monckton delivered their speeches.

This event was covered by several media outlets with the links to their articles below.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/24996109/rise-up-pastor-calls-islam-a-death-cult/

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/rise-up-australia-campaign-launch-attacks-islamic-law-20140915-10h3dn.html

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/latest-news/vic-party-calls-for-corporal-punishment/story-fn3dxiwe-1227059191456

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2014/09/15/14/56/rise-up-australia-leader-calls-islam-a-death-cult

Click the following link to watch a short video clip of the launch. Short Video Clip of RUAP Victorian Launch

Rise Up Australia Party’s clear mandate is for future generations of Victorians [& Australians] to be given “A FAIR GO”!

Rise Up for a secure Victoria.

Rise Up Australia Party and Keep Australia Australian!

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