Sharia courts ‘as consensual as rape’, House of Lords told

The Daily Telegraph ^ | 10/20/12 | John Bingham

MUSLIM women in Britain are being forced to “live in fear” because of the spread of unofficial and unregulated sharia courts enforcing Islamic rules, the House of Lords was told.

Rulings by informal religious “councils” and tribunals are sometimes no more “consensual” than rape, peers were told.

The warnings came in the first ever full Parliamentary debate on the subject in the UK.

Baroness Cox, the independent peer and Third World campaigner, last year tabled a private member’s bill in the Lords setting out plans to rein in a network of unofficial self-styled “courts” which apply Islamic principles.

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Pr Daniel of CTFM & RUAP ministering on the Gold Coast on Sat 10th & Sun 11th Nov / CTFM Melbourne weekend schedule

Dear family & friends in Christ across Australia in this Great South Land of the Holy Spirit, 1) Please pray also for Pr Daniel who will be ministering God’s prophetic…

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Pakistan Supreme Court tells media to stop glorifying jihad terrorists

21st Oct 2012

It’s noteworthy that the Pakistani media would be glorifying jihadists in the first place — but not all that surprising. After all, most of the “journalists” probably hold essentially the same beliefs as the jihadis do, and even if they don’t, there is a worldwide reluctance on the part of the media to stand up to Islamic supremacists and jihadists.

Look at how many Sharia-compliant “journalists” we have in the U.S. — essentially propagandists who would never dare write a critical word about the global jihad or Islamic supremacism, and eagerly demonize those who are trying to defend the freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and equality of rights for all people: Christiane Amanpour, Niraj Warikoo, Bob Smietana, Kari Huus…the list goes on and on.

“Media should desist from glorifying terrorists: SC,” by Azam Khan for the Express Tribune, October 13:

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Saturday restrained media outlets from covering terrorism related incidents in such a manner which would glorify the terrorists.

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JUST 5 YEARS TILL ‘END TIMES’ COMMENCE?

Exclusive: Joseph Farah of World Net Daily explains so far dead-on prophecies of 13th-century rabbi

Several years ago, Ludwig Schneider, a German-language scholar, discovered an amazing prophecy dating back to 1217 by a scholarly and highly respected rabbi by the name of Judah Ben Samuel.

He was quite famous in his time as the initiator of the Chassidic Ashkenaz, a movement of Jewish mysticism in Germany. He founded a yeshiva in Regensburg and secured many pupils. Legend has it that, as a young man, he was an excellent bowman but knew little or nothing about daily prayers. But once he got serious about his faith, legend has it that he performed many miracles. It is also reported that he was given a prophecy about the exact year of Israel’s rebirth as a nation and its redemption.

So renowned was his work, the Bishop of Salzburg asked him to serve as his personal seer.

Because most of his writings were published so long ago – before the invention of the printing press – and in German, few copies have survived. But Schneider has a copy of Judah Ben Samuel’s prophecy about the nation of Israel and the messianic era and has translated the highlights of it into English and other languages for the magazine Israel Today.

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African American Christian Leader Message to Black Christians in USA

Dear friends and family in Christ, Please watch the following very important video message (3 min) from an African American Christian Leader to all Black Christians in today’s US Presidential…

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Defending Sudan’s Christians from Islamist Terror

October 23, 2012 By Mark D. Tooley 

The Church of England’s Archbishop of York continues to distinguish himself as a frequent fly in the ointment of political correctness by defending British culture and Christianity. Himself a Ugandan refugee from the horrors of Idi Amin, John Sentamu is thankful for the civilization that has protected and elevated him.  It’s perhaps no great surprise that a Church of England commission assigned to nominate the next Archbishop of Canterbury, who would be their church’s and the global Anglican Communion’s senior prelate, declined to nominate Sentamu.  Amid allegations of adamant resistance by some to the Archbishop of York, who is a strong and sometimes polarizing figure, the commission instead has so far failed in its duty and nominated nobody.   The Church of England is left dangling.  Almost certainly the Archbishop of York would provide greater leadership and clarity than the often left-leaning, poet intellectual who is currently the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Further evidence of Sentamu’s leadership emerged in an October 17 speech he delivered to the House of Lords in defense of the besieged and mostly Christian people of South Sudan.  The South Sudanese won their independence from the brutal Islamist regime in Khartoum last year after decades of vicious war in which millions perished.  Yet Sudan’s tyrants still threaten the south just as they continue to wage war against various Muslim minority groups in northern Sudan that don’t subscribe to Khartoum’s nasty brand of radical Islam.

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Why Do the Members of the Secular Media Hate Bible-Believing Christians?

10/26/2011 – Dr Michael Youssef

The clearest answer comes from a statement reputedly made by President Harry Truman during his 1948 presidential election campaign.

One of his supporters yelled out to him, Give em hell, Harry! Truman responded, I don’t give them hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it’s hell.

That is precisely the reason why there is a war on Christians waged by members of the secular media.

Christians speak the truth about God s best for humanity as it applies to morality, laws and governing principles, but the secular media views these truths as hell.  Truth always feels like hell to those who reject, deny or hate the truth.

When Bible-believing Christians share that there is only one true God who is lovingly inviting people to believe in Him and receive His redemption or face His coming judgment, that is hell to those who view themselves as their own gods masters of their own fates. Many of these self-made gods control our media.

As gods, they want no competition. They reject the truth that God is God alone and that He will hold them accountable for mocking Him and His followers. Thus, the truth is hell to them, even before they get there. They express their hatred for God s truth by heaping venom on anyone who declares God s truth.

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Can the Islamic Faith Tolerate Criticism?

By Ken Connor , Christian Post Guest Columnist September 25, 2012

The violent response to an anti-Muslim movie has cast the subject of religious tolerance into the limelight. Is Islam a religion that can tolerate criticism? Can Muslims bear up gracefully when their religion is insulted? As I wrote last week, when it comes to Islam as practiced and understood in much of the Middle East, the short answer to these questions appears to be “no.”

As Pastor Brian Lee points out in his article “Freedom of Religion Requires Freedom to Offend,” to be a person of faith in America means being a person who is prepared to have his or her most cherished beliefs and convictions criticized, challenged, or ridiculed. Turn on your television or your radio, log on to your favorite social media website and odds are there will be content calculated to outrage and offend you. As Americans, we tolerate such indignities because we believe that free speech is a liberty that is fundamental to a free society. As the saying goes, “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” To many in the Muslim world, however, this appears to be an utterly foreign concept. Having never lived in America, they assume that the American government regulates political speech and artistic expression like their own governments do. In their societies, there is no separation of church and state. The state is viewed as an instrument of their faith. Thus, they cannot understand why the American government would “allow” such offensive material to be produced, and they demand that the American government punish the offenders.

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Very important live webcast at CTFM this Sun 4th Nov @ 6:45pm / Pr Daniel of CTFM & RUAP ministering on the Gold Coast on Sat 10th & Sun 11th Nov / RUA Prayer Melbourne on Fri 2nd Nov

Dear friends and family in Christ,

1) Please pray and watch (if possible) a very important live webcast this Sunday evening 4th Nov, as Pr Daniel ministers the prophetic Word of the Lord titled ‘Prophetic Destination of Australia in God’s Plan for the Nations before His Return!’

Pr Daniel will be ministering God’s Word in the power of the Holy Spirit and praying for people on Sunday morning at the 9:30am & 6:30pm services at Catch the Fire Apostolic Centre, 23 Melverton Drive Hallam (Melbourne).

Please note that only the 6:30pm evening service will be broadcast live at www.reformationharvestfire.com beginning at 6:45pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time -AEST).

If you’re watching from outside of Australia, please note that the live stream time is AEST (UTC/GMT +10). Click the following link to find out the time difference from Melbourne, Australia to your part of the world.

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/australia/victoria/melbourne/

We would also greatly appreciate if you can promote this broadcast amongst family and friends.

2) Please pray also for Pr Daniel who will be ministering God’s prophetic Word and sharing about RUAP at Holy Spirit Revival Meetings on the Gold Coast, QLD on Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th November.

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Rise Up Australia & Catch the Fire in Culcairn & Holbrook, NSW / RUA Prayer Melbourne

Dear family & friends in Christ,

1) We thank and praise the Lord Jesus for a mighty outpouring of His Holy Spirit in Culcairn & Holbrook, NSW over this last weekend, where Pr Daniel, along with a team from Catch The Fire Ministries, ministered the Word of God to many who gathered!

In Culcairn the population is only around 1200, but praise God more than 100 people attended the Sunday night meeting held at the Footy Club. There were so many people from different denominational churches present at the meeting. It was so exciting to see many children & youth come up for prayer as many responded to the altar call, and some gave their lives to Jesus!

We thank God for the many young men who were there from the Footy Club and were greatly excited to hear Pr Daniel speak about Rise Up Australia Party.

The place erupted with great excitement as they heard the RUA Party slogan to “Keep Australia Australian”!

Many also signed up for RUA Party membership and  around 1000 RUAP brochures were taken by the people to distribute amongst their friends and family.

Last Monday, Pr Daniel also travelled to Sydney to speak at a RUA Party meeting in Kellyville.

Visit http://riseupaustraliaparty.com/ for more info on Rise Up Australia Party.

2) Please pray and watch (if possible) the live webcast this Sun 4th Nov as Pr Daniel ministers God’s prophetic Word at CTFM in Hallam (Melbourne) at both the 9.30am & 6.30pm services.

Please note that both services will be broadcast live right here beginning at 10.45am & 7.45pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time -AEST).

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Christianity and the Dark Side — What About Halloween?

Monday, October 29, 2012

Over a hundred years ago, the great Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck predicted that the 20th century would “witness a gigantic conflict of spirits.” His prediction turned out to be an understatement, and this great conflict continues into the 21st century.

The issue of Halloween presses itself annually upon the Christian conscience. Acutely aware of dangers new and old, many Christian parents choose to withdraw their children from the holiday altogether. Others choose to follow a strategic battle plan for engagement with the holiday. Still others have gone further, seeking to convert Halloween into an evangelistic opportunity. Is Halloween really that significant?

Well, Halloween is a big deal in the marketplace. Halloween is surpassed only by Christmas in terms of economic activity. Reporting in 2007, David J. Skal estimated: “Precise figures are difficult to determine, but the annual economic impact of Halloween is now somewhere between 4 billion and 6 billion dollars depending on the number and kinds of industries one includes in the calculations.” As of 2012, that total exceeded $8 billion.

Furthermore, historian Nicholas Rogers claims that “Halloween is currently the second most important party night in North America. In terms of its retail potential, it is second only to Christmas. This commercialism fortifies its significance as a time of public license, a custom-designed opportunity to have a blast. Regardless of its spiritual complications, Halloween is big business.”

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Is There Such a Thing as Child-Friendly Horror Movies?

Charisma News – 9/30/2012 

They’re coming. Over the next few months, parents are going to see an onslaught of horror based movies that are aimed directly at their children. Paranorman, Frankenweenie and Hotel Transylvania may look like harmless humor horror for the harvest season, but they represent more than just the Halloween creep. These movies desensitize our children to even more satanic evil and violence that they will see on the big screen later in life.

Over the past few years, Ted Baehr and the Christian Film & Television Commission have been making inroads. The transformation of Hollywood toward a more God-respecting attitude has been seen in movies like The Blind Side, The Avengers, Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides and Soul Surfer. For a brief moment we were able to see the positive trickle-down effect, but with any victory we must always expect the enemy to launch a counterattack.

Are these so called “kid-friendly” horror films really that bad for children? Movieguide, of course, can give you the best source of guidance so you are aware of the theme and content of a movie before you give your children the OK to see it. Even so, telling your child, “No, you can’t see that movie,” is never easy. For the culture-wise family, this new string of movies about to flood our theaters can sound like the drums of war.

Let’s face it. Monsters are cool. People love them. Who will ever forget the Star Wars cantina scene or the orcs from Lord of the Rings? Pixar’s Monsters Inc. is a fine example of a wholesome, kid-friendly monster movie, not because of the fear factor, but because of the “fear not” message.

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Romney Rising, Europe Panicking

Posted by Frank Crimi Bio ? on Oct 5th, 2012 

The European hope for an Obama second term is now flagging after Barack Obama’s disastrous debate performance Wednesday night against Mitt Romney.

As in the United States, Obama’s debate performance is being ruthlessly panned by European leaders, diplomats and media, many of whom were not only hopeful, but confident that Obama would easily win re-election.

Instead, that certainty has now been replaced by heightened angst, best expressed by the French paper, Le Monde, which wrote on its front page, “Where did the favorite go?: Obama fails his first televised debate against an incisive Romney.”

That Obama failure, according to European media accounts, is rooted in the President’s shocking lack of style, substance and commanding presence, a critique shared across both sides of the European media’s political spectrum.

In Britain, for example, the conservative Daily Telegraph wrote that Romney was “stunningly on top of his argument with a faultless command of detail and a confident fluency that made Barack Obama seem hesitant, defensive and occasionally evasive.”

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Can An Evangelical Christian Vote for a Mormon?

Dear friends and family in Christ, 1) Further to the email we sent last week about Christian Evangelical Leader Billy Graham endorsing Romney's (a Mormon) 'strong moral convictions' over Obama's…

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Black America — What If Obama Were White?

Jewish World Review Oct. 4, 2012/ 18 Tishrei, 5773  – by Larry Elder

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said last year, “If (former President) Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House.”

Last month, Cleaver said: “As the chair of the Black Caucus, I’ve got to tell you, we are always hesitant to criticize the President. With 14 percent (black) unemployment, if we had a white president we’d be marching around the White House. … The President knows we are going to act in deference to him in a way we wouldn’t to someone white.”The problem to which Cleaver refers is black unemployment. At the beginning of the Obama administration, 12.7 percent of black adults seeking work were unemployed. Black unemployment is now 14.1 percent. Black teenage unemployment at the beginning of the Obama administration was 35.2 percent. Black teenage unemployment is now 37.9 percent.

A reporter asked Cleaver what would he say had Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, instead of Obama, been elected president. Cleaver admitted: “As much as I love Sen. Clinton, I would have been all over her on 14 percent unemployment for African-Americans. I would have said, ‘My sister, I love you, but this has got to go.'”

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