Dear friends and family in Christ, For your ongoing prayerful interest in changing the terrible abortion laws in Victoria and across Australia, we’re forwarding the following email from Salt Shakers…
Published by Christian Concern – September 17th, 2012
A District Judge, sitting at Brighton Magistrates’ Court announced today that all charges were being dismissed against Christian pro-life campaigner Andy Stephenson. The case against his fellow campaigner, Kathryn Sloane, was dismissed on Thursday of last week (13 Sep) during the same trial.
All charges against both campaigners have therefore now been dismissed. District Judge Nicholson’s reasoning in the case is expected at 2pm tomorrow (18 Sep).
Andy and Kathryn were supported by the Christian Legal Centre and were represented in Court by human rights barrister Paul Diamond and Mr Michael Phillips.
Andy and Kathryn, members of the campaign group Abort67, were arrested in June 2011, whilst demonstrating silently in the vicinity of Wistons Clinic, operated by leading abortion provider BPAS, in Brighton. As part of its public education project, the group, which has held peaceful protests outside the establishment for 5 years, displays images of aborted babies but does so silently and without harassment.
By Stoyan Zaimov , Christian Post Reporter – May 28, 2012
A new study showing that 38,269 teenagers in Britain had an abortion in 2010 has revealed the alarming statistic that at least three had undergone the procedure at least seven times each, while another four teenagers have terminated pregnancies six times each.
The National Health Service (NHS) figures, which will be released under the Freedom of Information Act this week, are showing that young women were being “let down in an appalling way,” pro-life campaigners in the U.K. have stated.
“There is something seriously wrong with a country where teenagers are having even one abortion, let alone repeat abortions to this extent,” said Rebecca Mallinson, of the Pro Life Alliance, as quoted by The Daily Telegraph.
“We are failing these young people in an appalling way, and storing up serious sexual health problems for the future, whether the direct issue of sexually transmitted diseases, but also the effects that multiple abortions can have on future fertility. (more…)
by Ste
ven Ertelt – Washington, DC – LifeNews.com
A new Gallup survey out today finds the percentage of Americans who identify them selves as supporting legalized abortion has dropped to a record low.
“The 41% of Americans who now identify themselves as “pro-choice” is down from 47% last July and is one percentage point below the previous record low in Gallup trends, recorded in May 2009,” the polling firm noted. On the other hand, 51 percent of Americans call themselves pro-life, one percentage point away from the record high.
The percentage of Americans identifying themselves as pro-life has trended higher since 1995, when the partial-birth abortion debate began in earnest and ultrasound technology made it so pictures of unborn children were the first baby pictures most parents saw. Gallup has found the pro-life position significantly ahead on two occasions, once in May 2009 and again today and the number of pro-abortion Americans has steadily dropped.
Gallup says the decline in Americans’ self-identification as “pro-choice” is seen across the three U.S. political groups — with Republicans increasingly becoming pro-life.
Dear family & friends in Christ,
1) What a mighty God we serve!
We at Catch The Fire look forward with great excitement of what the Spirit of God will do every Sunday when we come to church!
I am sure it is the same with you too. Isn’t it awesome to be where the presence of God is present?
People just absolutely soak in the presence of God every Sunday and we hear great testimonies of how people are spending time in the presence of God every day and how their lives are being transformed!
On Sunday at CTFM, three people were baptised. It is always such a joy to see people going through baptism. One of them who was baptised was the lady who gave her life to Jesus a few weeks ago, after receiving a Rise Up Australia Party brochure in her letter box. This lady has grown so much in the Lord just in the past few weeks.
Additionally amazing was that her husband came to church and witnessed his wife getting baptised. He also heard the Word of God being preached by Pr Daniel. He was so touched that at the end of the service he gave his life to Jesus! His wife who had just got baptised was absolutely shocked and excited! What a mighty God we serve!
We’re posting the following two emails for your prayerful interest. 1) Why the battle for marriage is so significant. What is it that we are up against? A recap and…
by Peter Baklinski Mon Apr 23, 2012 14:22
AHMEDABAD, India, April 23, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – After the horrific experience of being forced to abort five daughters, a mother in India has risen from the ashes to become a champion for Indian wives and mothers who suffer abuse, rejection, and even torture from a husband or in-laws who, in a male-obsessed culture, demand a male heir, reports the Times of India.
Amisha Bhatt, 36, was coerced to undergo illegal ultrasounds to determine the sex of her babies between August 2001 and January 2009. When each test revealed that Amisha was pregnant with a girl, her husband and in-laws relentlessly forced her to abort. Her first daughter was aborted immediately after her first ultrasound visit in August 2001.
“My husband and his parents are obsessed with having a boy in the family,” Amisha told the Ahmedabad Mirror in 2009. “They don’t consider me a human being. They think I am a [baby making] machine,” she said.
“In the past nine years, they have coerced me into aborting five female fetuses.”
Click ‘like’ if you want to END ABORTION!One of Amisha’s daughters was remarkably spared the terrible fate of her sisters. “When I was pregnant the third time, I had gone for a wedding where I fell ill and was packed off to my parents’ place. This is how I gave birth to a girl child Kamya,” said Amisha to the Times of India in 2009.
by Kathleen Gilbert – Tue Apr 03, 2012 1
LINYI CITY, Shandong Province, China, April 3, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A chilling photograph circulating in China shows the body of a 9-months-gestation baby submerged in a bucket of water, apparently a victim of the country’s one-child policy.
Digital Journal reports that the photograph, in which the head and arm of a child can be seen underwater in a large red bucket on the floor, was posted to the Chinese web services company Baidu before it was circulated on Weibo, the country’s version of Twitter, last week.
The abortion appears to have taken place on March 26 after Chinese family planning police in the town of Moshan hunted down the family because the couple already had one child.
Click “like” if you want to end abortion!
According to English reports regarding the original post, the pregnant mother was forcibly held down as she was given an injection to induce labor, after which the baby “even gave a cry when it came out,” but was left in a bucket to drown.
by Jason Rushton, Australia correspond
MELBOURNE, March 14, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A peaceful protest has begun at the entrance to the car-park of the parliament where three years ago Australia’s most radical abortion laws were introduced.
On each of the 70 sitting days of Victoria’s parliament this year, pro-life protesters will display a green six-foot-high banner marked with one white cross for every baby aborted since the first of January, 2012.
The unmissable banner, which due to local council regulations must be carried by volunteers at all times, will stretch along the green hedge/fence at the back of parliament house beside the car-park entrance.
“The politicians are going to have to drive past this every time they come to work for all of this year,” said David Forster, the protest organiser. “They’re going to see that banner get longer and longer and longer. Every month when they come in, there will be another 2,000 white crosses added on to it.” (more…)
Andrew Bolt of Herald Sun 
– March 05, 2012
I HAVE written about cases so shocking that whatever you think of abortion – for, against or agonised like me – I thought you’d agreed.
Yes, here a boundary was crossed. This, at least, is too much like murder.
There was the 2000 case of the “abortion” of Jessica, a healthy 32-week-old foetus, after her deeply distressed mother threatened suicide if made to give birth.
The mother thought Jessica could be a dwarf, which meant bad luck. But on “delivery” of the girl, killed in the womb, a nurse at Melbourne’s Royal Women’s recorded: “The baby doesn’t look small.”
I thought this would at least prompt restrictions on the abortion of healthy babies so close to birth.
I was wrong. (more…)
Aimee Herd : Nov 8, 2011 : Shawn Carney – LifeNews.com ...for today, let's look at some of the ways lives have been changed during 40 Days for Life—and thank…
Dear family & friends in Christ,
1) All glory to God! We were so excited to know that last night 2702 computers were tuned into the live webcast from Catch The Fire Apostolic Centre in Hallam, Melbourne. According to the responses we have received so far, in many places there was more than one person watching the broadcast. This could mean that thousands had the opportunity to hear the word of God.
We are so thankful to the Lord, as many people are reporting that so many of their loved ones at home, and also some friends who never go to church, were greatly touched by the presence of the Holy Spirit through the anointed worship and the preaching of the Word of God.
Pr Daniel stated, “ I am so happy that we can bring this live streaming right into people’s homes now, as most people watching this broadcast are people who don’t go to church. I hope and pray that people will be challenged and motivated to get back in to church and become actively involved in winning the lost into the Kingdom of God.”
Posted: October 07, 2011 © 2011 WND
And the reactions have been flooding in.copy fortheir home. The new movie “180,” with its “power of truth” is turning out to be an abortionist’s worst nightmare.The intensely stunning new production from author, evangelist and street preacher Ray Comfort has drawn more than 600,000 views in just a few days, and hundreds more are purchasing a
“I watched this today – three times,” wrote Sonya Shirk. “Each time I was overwhelmed with the power of truth. I have shared this everywhere I can think of. I can’t begin to tell you how this video has changed my perspective.”
Added another poignantly, and to the point: “Your film just led a 17-year-old girl away from abortion.”
“I am very thankful for the Internet,” Comfort told WND. “It is so often used for evil, but in this case it is being used for good. In just 10 days 180Movie.com has had over 600,000 views.
Dear family & friends in Christ,
Â
1)We thank and praise God for another wonderful weekend in His awesome presence with many precious lives touched by the Holy Spirit. As the worshippers knelt at the altar and worshipped the Lord, with many waving their flags in thanksgiving to God, the place was filled with His mighty anointing.
Â
In the congregation was a man who was born deaf, who was brought by another lady who had been healed miraculously back in 2008 from deafness. This lady did not have her right ear drum for 28 years, and as Pr Daniel prayed for her, a new ear drum grew inside her ear, and now she can hear perfectly.Â
Â
The young man born deaf was ministered to by some of the CTFM team, and then as he was worshipping, suddenly his ears opened up and he started to hear. We praise and thank God for this wonderful miracle. All glory to His name!
(more…)
Dear family & friends in Christ across our Nation of Australia, Click the following link to read a media release that Pr Daniel received from Human Rights for Unborn Children. https://reformationharvestfire.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/media-release-for-no-pro-life-advert-in-south-australia.pdf Warning,…