Does the Crucifix ‘Provoke’ Muslims?

Posted by Raymond Ibrahim Bio ? on Nov 4th, 2011

For a religion that is perpetually “misunderstood,” the consistency of Islam is remarkable. Consider how ostensibly diverse issues—complaints of “human rights” abuses at an American university and murder in an Egyptian classroom—are interconnected.t

First, the American story.  According to Fox News:

The Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights confirmed that it is investigating allegations that Catholic University of America [CUA] violated the human rights of Muslim students by not allowing them to form a Muslim student group and by not providing them rooms without Christian symbols for their daily prayers.  The investigation alleges that Muslim students “must perform their prayers surrounded by symbols of Catholicism – e.g., a wooden crucifix, paintings of Jesus, pictures of priests and theologians which many Muslim students find inappropriate.”

Behind the complaint is John F. Banzhaf III, a George Washington University professor whose website boasts that his “enemies” call him a “Legal-Terrorist” and “the Osama bin Laden of Torts.”  He asserts that Muslim students are “particularly offended” because they have to “meditate” at the school’s chapels and cathedral, where they pray while “having to stare up and be looked down upon by a cross of Jesus.”

Of course, as a private Christian institution, even Banzhaf admits “that it is technically not illegal for Catholic University to refuse to provide rooms devoid of religious icons.”  Still, according to this so-called “Legal-Terrorist,” that CUA refuses to compromise its Catholic image “suggests they are acting improperly and probably with malice.”

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Woman Healed of Cancer / Bro Yun / 11-11-11 / Another Baby Saved

Dear family & friends in Christ,

1) We thank and praise God for His ever increasing presence manifest among His children!

The weekend gone by will not be forgotten by those who attended the Sunday worship services at Catch The Fire Apostolic Centre in Hallam (Melbourne), as many people came to receive the word of the Lord preached by a mighty man of God from South Africa, who moved very powerfully in the Apostolic and Prophetic Anointing of the Holy Spirit!

On Sunday at CTFM the worship was just absolutely awesome, as the service turned into a real Holy Ghost party, with people jumping, dancing and praising God all over the building!  Pr Daniel anointed all who came to the altar, laid hands and prayed for them. Many were healed, delivered and set free! One woman who had deliverance was also instantly healed of severe problems in her legs!

Another lady who received prayer for healing from cancer 12 months ago at CTFM, came back to church on Sunday with her daughter who shared the following testimony. She said, “My mum came up for prayer 12 months ago, as she had breast cancer. She had to undergo an operation, but we all trusted God for a miracle. Pr Daniel and many others in church prayed with us and trusted God for a miracle. Mum went for a full check up and the doctors have told her that she has no cancer at all anymore. Thank you Jesus my Mum is healed!”

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Gingrich Says ‘Arab Spring’ is Really ‘Anti-Christian’ Spring

By Stephanie Samuel | Christian Post Reporter – Politics  Mon, Oct. 31 2011

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said the Arab Spring and the Muslim campaign against Catholic University are symptoms of a growing anti-Christian climate, and pledged to defend religious freedom around the globe.

Speaking at a South Carolina fundraiser Saturday, Gingrich criticized the Obama administration’s involvement in the Arab Spring – the Middle East grassroots uprising that has overthrown longstanding authoritarian leaders such as Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi and Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak – arguing that such involvement is creating an atmosphere of hatred towards Christians.

“People say, ‘Oh isn’t this great, we’re having an Arab Spring,’” he said. “I think we may in fact be having an anti-Christian spring. I think people should take this [assertion] pretty soberly.”

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s 2011 report states that while “the Egyptian government engage in and tolerated religious freedom violations” before Mubarak stepped down in February, sectarian violence targeting Coptic Christians have grown unchecked following the Arab Spring. The transitional government, the report noted, “has failed to protect religious minorities … during the transitional period when minority communities are increasing vulnerable.”

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A Call To A Solemn Assembly on 11.11.11

In connection with the upcoming Global Day of Worship, the Lord is calling Pastors, Leaders, Intercessors and all People from all Denominations, Networks, Prayer Ministries to a Solemn Assembly on Friday 11/11/11 10.30am till 11pm at Church of Christ, 680 Doncaster Rd, Doncaster.

Joel 2:15-17 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast; call a solemn assembly.

Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children…

Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, ‘Spare Your people, O LORD, and give not Your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?’

Click the following link to download the brochure and spread the word about 11.11.11.

https://reformationharvestfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Call-to-Solemn-Assembly1.pdf

Seek the Lord and Live!

Amos 5:5, 21-26

We will share a time of silence at 11am for Remembrance Day with others across Australia, followed by prayer, intercession, Holy Spirit led worship and listening to God.

  • Will you cry out in repentance on behalf of the Church and seek a radical awakening?
  • Will you cry out for the sins of our nation and seek salvation for our people?
  •  Will you come to adore our loving Father and seek His leading?

Please pass on this invitation to others from your church, network, ministry etc.

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Testimony of our daughter delivered from seizures

Our daughter healed!Dear family & friends in Christ Jesus,

We received this very encouraging and exciting testimony from the father of the girl who was set free from seizures recently at a Catch The Fire meeting. I am sure it will greatly encourage you.

“We thank and praise our Lord and King Jesus Christ for the victory at Calvary because without that victory and His sacrifice on that old rugged cross we would not have a testimony today.

My name is Kiran Rowland, my wife Michelle and Our daughter Shalom. Our beloved daughter Shalom had suffered from seizures for the past 4 years. I clearly remember the day our lives changed I had just returned from work and my daughter who was 2 ½ months old was sleeping, my wife was resting on the lounge when I walked in, I would usually rest in the lounge until my daughter woke up but that day I felt the urge to go into the room where my daughter slept and I saw her having her first seizure. I knew at once that it was the Lord who sent me into the room at the right time.

It was heartbreaking to watch her suffer such a lot at such a tender age. Every medical test (3 MRI’s, EEG’s, blood tests and a Lumbar Puncture) proved she is perfectly created. The doctors had no idea and reason for her continuing seizures. She was put on anti-epileptic medication which did not seem to work in fact with a certain medication her seizures just got worse and even slowed her development in speech and mobility.  At one instance a doctor at the hospital told us that our little girl would not talk or walk in her life and would be bound to a wheelchair all her life, but we refused to believe his report and kept rebuking the evil in the name of Jesus Christ. (The word of God states that the enemy only comes to kill, steal and destroy but Jesus came to give us life in abundance).

One day as my wife was praying the Lord prompted her to check the packaging of the medication our daughter was given and found that it contained lactose which my daughter was allergic to. The doctor stopped the medication at once. To make a bad situation worse we found out our daughter had an aortic valve stenosis which is a narrowing of one valve in her heart and was also allergic to Gluten, Wheat, Dairy, Lactose, Egg, Preservatives and food colouring .

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Rise Up Australia Party (Keep Australia Australian) – Already Winning Souls to the Lord!

Dear family & friends in Christ,

The Rise Up Australia prayer movement started in the year 2000 (under the covering of Catch The Fire Ministries) and will continue until the Lord Jesus comes back!

This prayer movement is now operating in around 75-100 bases, with prayer groups meeting every month in churches, community centres, schools, homes, parks, etc., across our nation with thousands of intercessory prayer warriors uniting together as the body of Christ to pray for Australia’s transformation.

Glory to God that this prayer movement, along with many other prayer movements, has further developed an increasingly 24/7 prayer culture in the Body of Christ in Australia.

We thank the Lord, that after a 10 year prayer foundation, He birthed in our hearts to start the Rise Up Australia Political Party in 2010, which is a vehicle through which we could see our nation Australia come back to Jesus, through a national reformation across our Great Southern Land of the Holy Spirit!

Of course the RUA prayer movement will continue to undergird the RUA political party with the wisdom, power and guidance of the Holy Spirit!

When CTFM Board members started prayerfully seeking the Lord’s direction in regard to the political party, one of my Board members who is a practicing medical doctor and a member of the Presbyterian church, received the following prophetic word from the Lord.

Please receive this word with love.

“My Church is in such an apostate state that I cannot reach the nation of Australia through My church right now, so I will cause Rise Up Australia Party to be a vehicle to challenge My Church and the nation of Australia. This will awaken and encourage My Church to rise up, take the nation, and prepare as My Bride for My return.”

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Amazing miracle – Girl healed from seizures

The family rejoicing with Pr DanielDear family & friends in Christ,

1) 3 weeks ago Pastor Daniel received a call from a lady who was very desperate and crying on the phone. She told him that her 4 year old daughter had been having terrible seizures for the past 4 years and that it was getting worse. This lady was very desperate and helpless.

She told Pastor Daniel that they had tried everything for her to get better, but nothing was working. Her little girl was not sleeping properly at night and had to be constantly watched. Even the medication prescribed by the doctor was not helping her.  However, this lady had faith that Jesus could heal her daughter.

A few days later the mother, father and the 4 year old girl came to Catch the Fire Apostolic Centre in Hallam. After the night service the family introduced themselves to Pr Daniel. He took them into the prayer room and started praying for the family.

As he was praying the Lord showed him that the mother of the 4 year old girl was cursed by someone, while the baby was in the womb, and that the curse had affected the baby. So he encouraged both the mother and father to repent and ask God forgiveness for any anger, bitterness, hate, offence or unforgiveness they might still have in their hearts.  They very willingly did so from their hearts.

Then the Lord prompted Pr Daniel to prophetically cut the umbilical code in the Spirit, which connected the baby to the mother’s womb. As he did that immediately the heaviness lifted off the family and there was an instant breakthrough. Then Pr Daniel carried the little girl in his arms and prayed for healing.

Last Saturday, two weeks later, Pr Daniel with his wife visited this family.
Glory to God, for the first time in 4 years, the little girl has had no seizures and has slept very well all through the night for the last two weeks. Additionally, the parents had no need to give any medication to their daughter.

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Amazing and intimate time of foot washing at Wednesday Prayer Meeting

Dear family & friends in Christ, What an amazing time we had today at our Wednesday Prayer Meeting!  We had been praying for the Lord to bring to birth what…

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Chinese Underground Church Leader Br Yun in Melbourne only for 1 day

Dear family and friends in Christ, Br Yun, the Chinese Underground Church Leader is coming to Melbourne for only one day on 13th November and will be ministering at CTFM 9.30am…

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What Kind of People We Ought to Be?

Franklin GrahamFriday, 15 July 2011 – Franklin Graham News – Featured News

There has been a lot of speculation about the end times lately, especially in light of recent storms. I saw first hand the devastation and carnage that accompanied the fierce, deadly tornadoes that swept across the South and the Midwest this spring.

I’ve seen lots of disasters in my lifetime, but the scenes that I witnessed in Alabama and Missouri were among the most horrific I’ve encountered anywhere.

Many are asking if the seemingly growing numbers of such catastrophes could be an indication that the return of Christ is drawing nearer. Jesus said that such tragedies—in addition to wars and persecution—are indeed the “beginning of birth pains” (Matthew 24:8), and these certainly appear to be increasing in frequency and intensity.

Just a few months ago, the owner of a Christian radio network forecast that May 21 would be “Judgment Day” for the world. I was amazed at the extensive national coverage given to this prediction, even though the Bible says that only the Father in Heaven knows the exact date of the Savior’s return. It was hard to view a news program or read a newspaper without a prominent reference to this event.

While I’m grateful that there has been some renewed discussion given to the return of the King, I’m afraid that such a superficial focus can divert our attention from the primary thrust of Scripture regarding His coming—are we living holy, godly lives on earth, diligently waiting and working until He comes? (more…)

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Don’t Settle for a Fake Anointing

Fire in My Bones

Wednesday, 27 July 2011 – J. Lee Grady Newsletters – Fire In My Bones

Many Christians today can’t distinguish between the sweat of the flesh and the dew of heaven.

Gideon is one of my favorite Bible characters because I relate to his struggle with inferiority. God pulled this runt of a guy out of a hole in the ground and called him to deliver Israel. Gideon’s classic “Who, me?” response reminds me of conversations I’ve had with the Lord. None of us feels qualified to do God’s work, but we know from Gideon’s example that reluctant wimps can be transformed into valiant warriors.

I’ve heard people criticize Gideon because he laid out a fleece of wool on the ground and asked the Lord—not once but twice—to confirm His promise (see Judges 6:36-40). But the Bible doesn’t say God was mad at Gideon for wanting assurance. In fact, God answered Gideon both times with moisture from heaven. The dew was a sign of God’s favor and blessing.

“I love it when the Holy Spirit does miracles. But when people fake the supernatural in order to get an audience response (or a big offering), I run for the door.” (more…)

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Dozens of ‘incubators’ for jihad found in U.S. ‘More than 80% of mosques advocate or promote violence’

June 08, 2011 – By Bob Unruh © 2011 WND

Dozens of mosques around the United States have been identified in a new study as incubators for jihad against America, with more than 80 percent of those surveyed advocating violence.

“Of the 100 mosques surveyed, 51 percent had texts on-site rated as severely advocating violence; 30 percent had texts rated as moderately advocating violence; and 19 percent had no violent texts at all,” said the survey compiled by Mordechai Kedar and David Yerushalmi and published by the Middle East Quarterly.
“How’s this for a wake-up call?” asked Frank Gaffney, chief of the Center for Security Policy in a commentary today in the Washington Times.

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“America’s most cherished civil liberties and the Constitution that enshrines them are enabling Muslim Brotherhood operatives and other Islamists who have the declared mission of destroying our freedoms and government ‘from within … by [our] hands.’ Specifically, our enemies are using our tolerance of religion to create an infrastructure of mosques here that incubate the Islamic holy war called jihad.”

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You Can’t Stop the Holy Spirit—Iran’s Persecution of Christians Causing Huge Growth of Underground Church

by Aimee Herd : Jun 6, 2011 : Trevor Persaud – Christianity Today

“…in places like Tehran and more educated communities, if you say, ‘I have become a Christian,’ they will respect you because of your courage and your independent thinking.” -Issa Dibaj

(Iran)—Just as we have witnessed in China, where oppression against Christians there has only caused faith, and the underground Church to grow exponentially over the years; the same is reportedly happening now in Iran.

According to a recent article in Christianity Today, it was noted that Iran’s Government previously had discounted Believers denying that any “Iranians become Christians.” But that now the House Church movement has become too big for them to ignore, and they’ve subsequently labeled the grass roots movement as “enemies of Iran.”

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Let’s thank those who dragged Geert Wilders into court

The German site Politically Incorrect has an excellent commentary on the acquittal of Geert Wilders on Sharia-inspired “hate speech” charges: “A Historic Victory for Freedom!,” by Frank Furter, translated by Anders Denken:

Dear PI Community,

We finally made it! The movement for Islam criticism is celebrating a great, and even historic, victory. Let’s thank those who dragged Geert Wilders into court. Those who were recruited primarily by various Muslim organizations were holding a gun to the heart of the Dutch judiciary. And the judges had to decide which values, which rights and which law was to apply in the Netherlands. Is it that law that is written down in the constitution of their land? Or that law that is gaining entry into the West with the influx of Muslims? They decided for Western law. Anything else would have been scandalous and would have forced the question of whether our Western ideas concerning law and order were only a collection of empty phrases.

The trial against Geert Wilders clearly brought to light just how greatly Western and Islamic values differ from each other. The supporters of multicultural society believe that all cultures lend themselves to combining into a flourishing society of diversity. On the surface, this seems to function where culture overflows in tradition and folklore. However, at the roots of a culture is more than just the question of what one should wear, eat and celebrate, and when, where and how. At their roots, cultures open up to the elementary questions of what one may do and not do, what is permitted and what is forbidden, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

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Pakistani Believers Defy Islamic Rule for Christ

Monday, 11 July 2011 - Mission Network News News – Featured News

ChristianChristianity and Islam in Pakistan s working in remote Pakistani communities are facing extreme pressure, according to a Voice of the Martyrs Canada report.

A believer was handing out gospel literature when a group of Muslims threatened him to try to get him to stop. In another city, Christians who work in an evangelist’s office are now under investigation, and authorities are watching their mail.

The notorious blasphemy law also comes into play, imposing the death penalty on anyone who defames Mohammed, and life in prison for anyone who defiles the Quran. Many Pakistani Christians have been falsely accused under this law.

Against this backdrop, Mawii Pudaite with Bibles For The World says, “In recent months, we have been getting telephone calls and emails with urgent requests for gospels, New Testaments and Bibles in Urdu language for the people in the country of Pakistan.” (more…)

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