Dear friends & family in Christ, You may click the following link to read an interesting article regarding the angry response of many Buddhists toward religious conversions, such as Christianity.…
Dear friends & family in Christ, Please pray for Pr Daniel who will be ministering at Holy Spirit revival meetings on the Gold Coast on Saturday 8th February at 7pm…
 Salt Shakers: E-News
With Victoria and Tasmania now allowing abortion up to birth, and forcing doctors to refer a patient to a doctor who they know will perform and abortion, it is vital that we know the truth about abortion. It is also important that women are provided with all the information – when the Victorian law was passed, amendments aimed at providing that information to women were defeated. Here’s some news from the past month or so…This email has three parts: First is a moving interview with Anne Lastman, who lives in Melbourne and runs a ministry called ‘Victims of Abortion’. Anne counsels women who are suffering pain and hurt following an abortion, and has written a book titled Redeeming Grief. The interview was published in National Review Online.The other two parts relate to new evidence about the link between abortion and breast cancer. The latest research comes from China and India.Of particular note is a new book, written by Dr Angela Lanfranchi – she has compiled much of the information about the consequences of abortion to a new book titled Complications: Abortion’s impact on women . . .1. Abortion HurtsThe interview with Anne Lastman about the hurt of abortion… Abortion Hurts – that’s the title of the interview with Anne Lastman… (more…) |
Dear family & friends in Christ,
The Australia Day weekend gone by was an exciting one to remember, including the grand opening and dedication of our new Catch the Fire Ministries Centre in Hallam.
On Saturday morning, around 350 people from 50+ nationalities, many denominations, churches and generations united as the Body of Christ to storm heaven in prayer and worship for our nation Australia.
Prayers was led by a Catholic Priest, Anglican Minister, Presbyterian Minister, Salvation Army Minister, Baptist Pastor, Marketplace Minister, Messianic Jewish Minister, Indigenous Minister and several Pentecostal Ministers. They prayed for Government, Marketplace, Schools, Universities, Armed Forces, Families, Protection from Terrorism and Bush fires, Revival, Israel, for Pastors & their Families, Churches, etc.
The prophetic wors
hip was absolutely amazing with many thanks to a special Indonesian dance and worship team from Sydney. 
As the crowd sang ‘This is our Nation – The Great South Land of the Holy Spirit,’ the anointing fell mightily in the place. People waved their Aussie flags and sang with passion.
Many were in tears as the presence of God was so mighty.
You may click the following link to watch an 8 min video clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3ajxDHkF40&feature=youtu.be
People from across the country from every state were present at the meeting which went on for more than 3 hours.
Pr Daniel Pandji f
rom Indonesia greatly challenged the people to Rise Up in Prayer and push forward to take Australia For Jesus.
His powerful message and testimonies greatly impacted the people.
The National Australia Day Prayer in Melbourne was also followed by very special series of meetings with Pr Daniel Pandji from Indonesia, where many lives were radically impacted.
Christian Today -Published 29 November 2013
In national elections due in the next few months, observers warn that if a Hindu Nationalist government comes to power attacks on Christians in India will increase.
There has been a spate of attacks on Christians and Muslims in India in the last year. Mapping of the attacks on Christians and Muslims show that the worst affected areas are Gujarat and Orissa, where the upper-caste Brahmins hold significant economic power.
They use this power to enforce their ideology which is to reduce the “Dalits” – or lowest caste – and Christians and Muslims to be second class citizens.
In Kandhamal, Odisha, in 2008 attacks were carried out on “tribal” Christians and the agencies that helped them, with 38 Christians killed, 18,000 injured and 50,000 displaced.
World Vision, a Christian relief agency, was forced out of the area.
Friday, January 17, 2014 | Israel Today Staff Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop this week continued to demonstrate what is, on the international diplomatic stage, rare support not only for…
By CLG on D
ecember 30, 2013
A Georgetown University researcher’s pilot study found positive improvements for India’s Dalit women after converting to Christianity.
A researcher at Georgetown University in Washington has found that impoverished women in India are more likely to improve their economic circumstances after converting to Christianity.
“Conversion actually helps launch women on a virtuous circle. A woman feels better; she’s part of an active faith community; she works more; she earns more money: The extra money she earns and saves encourages her to earn more and save more and plan and invest in the future,” said Rebecca Samuel Shah, research fellow at Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs.
Shah presented her initial findings of a pilot study looking at “patterns and directions where conversion had an impact” on Dalit women in Bangalore, India, at a conference on “Christianity and Freedom,” held in Rome Dec. 13-14.
Shah and her team studied 300 women who lived in a Dalit slum community over the course of three years. When they began their research, they did not know that 23% of the women being interviewed were actually converts to Christianity.
Dear family & friends in Christ, Attached is an advertisement and an excellent editorial from today Monday 20th January edition of the Dandenong Journal in regard to Australia Day weekend…
For immediate release
Aussies unite to pray in Melbourne on Australia Day weekend / Grand Opening of Catch the Fire Ministries in City of Casey
On Saturday January 25 from 10am – 1pm on Australia Day weekend, hundreds of patriotic Aussie’s from different churches, denominations, ethnicities, and states will gather in Melbourne to pray for Australia and to also celebrate the Grand Opening of Catch the Fire Ministries in the City of Casey.
“This National Prayer Day for Australia is a major opportunity for reconciliation and unity as different ethnicities, churches, and denominations, including Anglicans, Catholics, Presbyterians, Protestants, Pentecostals, Charismatics, Evangelicals, Salvation Army and others, come together to corporately pray for our nation’s Government, Armed Forces, Emergency Services, and protection over our country from bush fire & terrorism.
With special guest speaker Pastor Daniel Pandji from Indonesia (the largest Islamic country in the world with 250 million people). He will share with Aussie Christians on ‘How to take a stand as a Christian.’
Pastor Daniel Nalliah said today in Melbourne, “It is a day when everyone who calls Australia home, no matter which land they came from, can be proud to be a part of this great nation. I encourage all patriotic Australians to fly an Australian flag from their rooftops, windows, on their cars or in their front gardens, as a symbol of appreciation of all that Australia means to us.”
“The Australian flag, with its Union Jack, the Commonwealth Star and the five stars of the Southern Cross, is the flag under which our brave forefathers fought and died to keep this nation the free, independent, democracy that we all enjoy today.”
By Mark Ellis- December 20, 2013
He escaped from North Korea 15 years ago and became a Christian in South Korea. On a recent mission trip to North Korea’s Hamgyong province, he found young leaders well-trained in Christian theology, eager to build God’s underground church in one of the most repressive and isolated governments on earth.
“I taught three North Korean Christians,” says Jihoon *. “All of them were from my hometown. It was really good to meet them. They had already studied theology and were trained very well.”
The men discussed the peculiar ideology that rules North Korea – “Juche” – which became a cult of personality centered around its founding proponent, Kim Il-sung, now considered the ‘eternal president’ of North Korea following his death in 1994. The Juche idea states that “man is the master of everything and decides everything.”
“I told them that Kim Il Sung’s parents were Christians and he also knew about the Bible so that Kim Il Sung made the Juche ideology based on the Bible,” Jihoon recounts. “Kim Il Sung twisted the truth of the Bible to establish his own idea.”
THE INDEPENDANT – Adam Withnall – 18 December 2013
Victims and family members of those being ‘attacked’ told the Prince about their experiences in the region.
Christians in the Middle East are being “deliberately attacked” in a campaign of persecution led by Islamist militants, Prince Charles said.
Many minority religious organisations have fled the region in the turmoil following the Arab Spring, and in Egypt particularly violence against Coptic Christians saw a marked increase after Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi was overthrown.
Yesterday the Prince of Wales visited a number of British branches of churches based in the region, and heard from members whose families had suffered from religiously-motivated violence and murder.
Accompanied by Prince Ghazi of Jordan, he spoke to people at the Egyptian Coptic Church centre in Stevenage and the Syriac Orthodox cathedral in west London, before a reception at Clarence House with the Archbishops of Canterbury and Westminster and the Chief Rabbi.
“We cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are, increasingly, being deliberately attacked by fundamentalist Islamist militants,” Prince Charles told the audience.
“For 20 years, I have tried to build bridges between Islam and Christianity and to dispel ignorance and misunderstanding.
11/19/2013 Larry Tomczak
Mr. President, I thank you for this opportunity to share the following with you.
After graduating from Cleveland State University, where I was privileged to serve as the president of our student body, I was selected for a post at the AFL-CIO headquarters across the street from the White House, your home. One day I bumped into President Nixon as he exited his limo, and I asked him this question: “Mr. President, do you read the Bible?”
The smile he tried to swallow surfaced on his face as he replied with a wink and a nod, “I not only read it, I even quote from it sometimes!”
Although Richard Nixon knew Bible verses, when I reflect on that interchange I still wonder if he was really a born-again Christian. The fruit and witness of his life are a tragedy and make it suspect, so I leave the eternal destiny of this departed leader in the hands of God.
President Obama, would you allow me to share with you that I and scores of others have similar doubts about your conversion and the authenticity of your Christianity? I say up front that while I’m in disagreement with many of your policies and beliefs, I do love you and pray for you every single day. I affirm your God-given leadership gifting and your exemplary role as a husband and a father to your two lovely daughters. Yet I must be honest with you: I’m not sure you’re really a Christian.
Dear family & friends in Christ,
While we in Australia and in the West enjoy the freedom to worship, Christians around the world are persecuted and attacked for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Christians in at least 3 churches badly damaged in Sri Lanka have been attacked while worshipping on Sunday the 12th January 2014.
Assembly of God on the Baddegama Road in Hikkaduwa and the Calvary Free Church were both attacked by the mobs yesterday.
Check the following links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUHCQyxK3ps&feature=youtu.be (Ada Derana News on Hikkaduwa Church attacks – Pastor Daniel has spoken personally to the Pastor in this broadcast who is a personal friend)
http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/27450
http://colombogazette.com/2014/01/12/police-report-to-court-on-church-attack/
http://www.ft.lk/2014/01/13/two-churches-attacked-in-hikkaduwa/
http://www.ceylontoday.lk/16-52769-news-detail-churches-attacked-in-hikkaduwa.html
Please note that although the national news broadcast is in the Sri Lankan language, the footage very clearly shows the Buddhist Monks and mob attacking the church.
Once on the main news site, click on ‘Sunday 12th, Jan 2014.’
http://www.swarnavahini.lk/news/ (need to select news on noon news 12.01.2014 – clip 1 )
Before more churches and Christians are attacked please take some time to act ASAP by emailing or calling the following Sri Lankan High Commission in your respective country.
Following are the contact details for the Embassies (High Commissions) of Sri Lanka in America, England, Australia.
11/27/2013 Taun Cortado – Charisma
The body of a 7-year-old boy in India retrieved from a pond last week revealed horrific details of torture before he was brutally murdered because of his Christian beliefs.
The son of a believer, Anmol went missing after attending Sunday school at a Believers Church on Nov. 17 in northern India. His body was found the following day. Previous threats and persecution of his family indicate he was targeted because of his family’s faith.
“The unprecedented torture and death of this innocent child sadden our hearts incredibly,” says K.P. Yohannan, Gospel for Asia founder and international director. “Persecution of Christians is a weekly occurrence, but this intensity of brutality against a child is unthinkable. In this horrible tragedy, we find strength and hope in Jesus.”
According to Yohannan, persecution of Christians has increased by more than 400 percent in the past few years.
FamilyVoice Australia Media Release 27 November 2013
“Australia should take seriously the warning by Professor Kevin Fenton, UK Director of Health and Wellbeing, that the world faces a new global HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men,” FamilyVoice Australia research officer Ros Phillips said today.
In an address to a UK HIV conference earlier this month, Professor Fenton said that new HIV infections are at a 20 year high, mainly among homosexual and bisexual men. Even sub-Saharan Africa, with a huge incidence of HIV overall, the HIV rate in homosexual men is far higher than in heterosexual men and women.
Despite the development of new drugs, widespread condom promotion and availability along with other tools to combat the disease, there is a potentially catastrophic HIV epidemic in homosexual men in every part of the world.
The professor said the reason for the surge in infections is the two main characteristics of homosexual sex: anal intercourse and promiscuity.