Dear friends & family in Christ You may click the following links for more excellent media coverage of last week's 'Public Assurance of Cooperation' co-signing agreement between Australian Christians (AC),…
Charisma News – 6/11/2014 David French
If there’s one political silver lining for the Obama administration in the ongoing firestorm over handing the Taliban a substantial victory to retrieve a probable American deserter, it’s that the pundit class has been all but ignoring the supreme foolishness of administration policy in Palestine. Is the State Department actually justifying its embrace of the new Palestinian “unity government” (that includes Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization) by claiming that the PA is really run by “technocrats?”
Why, yes it is.
Hamas certainly has a long history of complying with the rule of law, supporting an independent civil service, and overall policy wonkery, doesn’t it? What’s next, a Palestinian technocrat blog on Vox? Complete with charts?
Never fear, even if these technocrats have Hamas bosses, the State Department assures us that its eyes are wide open, and it will judge the new government by its “actions.”
JP Update – 29th July 2014
In a small gathering only several blocks from where a massive rally in support of Israel was set to shortly take place outside the United Nations, several dozen protesters, most of them young adults who were dressed in mournful black outfits, stood in front of the midtown Manhattan office building that contains the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, chanting the mourners’ Kaddish and reading aloud the names of the hundreds of Palestinians, along with the Israeli soldiers, who have been killed since the beginning of Israel’s defensive war against Hamas in Gaza.
The demonstration was organized by “If Not Now, When?,” a hastily pulled-together group of “anti-occupation” Jewish protesters.
Their demonstration was overwhelmed by the “New York Stands With Israel” community-wide rally held next to the UN two hours later. The large gathering, which was officially co-sponsored by UJA-Federation of New York, the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Conference of Presidents, in conjunction with the Reform, Conservative and mainstream Orthodox movements, drew a passionate crowd of 10,000 people, said Shira Dicker, who has a public relations firm but was speaking as a rally participant. Participating in the rally is “exhilarating,” Dicker said.
Dear friends & family in Christ, You may click the following links for media coverage on yesterday's 'Public Assurance of Cooperation' co-signing agreement (attached) between Australian Christians (AC), Democratic Labor…
Press Release - 11:30am Monday, 18th August, 2014 Today, the Australian Christians, the Democratic Labor Party and the Rise Up Australia Party co-signed a “Public Assurance of Cooperation”, undertaking to…
John Bingham – The Telegraph –
David Cameron has insisted that being a Christian helps make him a better politician.
His comments came as he became the first prime minister since Margaret Thatcher to attend Britain’s national parliamentary“prayer breakfast”.
It follows a debate over Mr Cameron’s remarks earlier this year that Britain is still a “Christian country” and that followers of the faith should be unashamedly “evangelical” about their beliefs.
Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, who is an atheist, also attended alongside 80 MPs, 20 peers and almost 600 churchgoers, campaigners and lobbyists for the early morning gathering in the medieval Westminster Hall.
Dear family & friends in Christ, Last Sunday afternoon 10th August at 12 midday, hundreds of Jewish people and pro-Israel supporters gathered outside the Victorian Parliament steps to call for…
Smith was right, except for his statement that this was in the Qur’an. Child marriage is obliquely referred to in the Qur’an’s dictum that the three-month waiting period for divorce applies even to women who have not yet menstruated (65:4), but Muhammad’s marriage to six-year-old Aisha is not in the Qur’an. Nevertheless, few things are more abundantly attested in Islamic law than the permissibility of child marriage. Islamic tradition records that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage:
“The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)” (Bukhari 7.62.88).
Another tradition has Aisha herself recount the scene:
The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became Allright, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, “Best wishes and Allah”s Blessing and a good luck.” Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage). Unexpectedly Allah”s Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age. (Bukhari 5.58.234).
Dear friends & family in Christ, 1) We strongly encourage all Bible-believing Christians in the Melbourne area to make their best effort after church morning services this Sunday 10th August,…
Dear friends & family in Christ, 1) Click the following link for a must watch 5 minute video of Andrew Bolt exposing the Pro-Islam Anti-Israel bias around the world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8GkE1EY_QA&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop…
Chinese Christians vowed to “guard their church to the end” while facing the growing anti-church campaign in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province.
Local pastors and church members from various churches published a public letter the Wenzhou City government which included a list of eight ways the government had been illegally demolishing their church buildings and crosses. The government ignored their pleas, and within a week local authorities had forcibly removed the cross from the roof of Yahui Church in Pingyang County, Wenzhou City, and threatened church members harm if they talked to the media or petitioned Beijing. The Chinese government has since blocked the content of the public letter on websites within mainland China.
It is reported that over 360 churches in Zhejiang Province have been completely or partially demolished under the guise of “removing or modifying illegal constructions.” The government of Zhejiang Province says it is removing or modifying illegal buildings for urban development. However, in a news release, International Christian Concern (ICC) reported, and later the New York Times corroborated, that the target has been religious buildings at the exclusion of all others.
Dear friends & family in Christ, 1) Click the following link to watch a powerful 2 minute video clip on Fox News with an American Military Colonel on Gaza. Hamas…
Dear friends, We’re pleased to bring to your attention that the official launch of Rise Up Australia Party – Victorian Division will be held from 11am – 12:30pm on Monday…
Dear friends, 1) You may click the following link to read an excellent newspaper article from the Gippsland Times in Sale, Victoria, about Rise Up Australia Party contesting the Victorian…
Dear friends & family in Christ, You may click the following link to read an excellent article about RUAP that recently appeared in the Loddon Times in Country Victoria. http://riseupaustraliaparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/RUAP-in-Loddon-Times-Newspaper.pdf…