Pentagon Backpedals on Court-Martial for Christian Soldiers Who Share Jesus

Charisma News – 5/2/2013 Nicole Lange

The Department of Defense spokesperson who made comments Tuesday indicating that members of the military could be subject to court martial for ‘religious proselytization’ backtracked in a new statement Thursday. (Trinity Evangelical Christian University Crisis Intervention Chaplain / Creative Commons)

Alliance Defending Freedom filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request Wednesday for records related to a Pentagon statement issued Tuesday that indicated members of the military could be subject to court martial for “religious proselytization.”

The Department of Defense spokesperson who made the comments backtracked in a new statement Thursday that explains, “Service members can share their faith (evangelize), but must not force unwanted, intrusive attempts to convert others of any faith or no faith to one’s beliefs (proselytization).”

“Members of our military should not be denied the very freedoms they fight to defend. Freedom of religion and speech are paramount among those freedoms,” says legal counsel Joseph La Rue. “We appreciate the Pentagon’s clarification, but little or no evidence exists of coercive proselytization in the military, so we are still troubled over what motivated the original comments.”

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Pr Daniel & Rise Up Australia Party Campaign in Townsville & Ingham Qld from 15-17 June 2013

Dear friends & family in Christ, *RUAP National President Daniel Nalliah will be speaking at a Rise Up Australia Party Campaign Meeting in Townsville, QLD at 7pm Friday 14th June…

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A Must Read from Pr Daniel – My Channel 7 Today Tonight interview held in Auburn (Sydney) held right in front of Muslim midday prayer time

Dear family & friends in Christ,

I thank and praise God for the Holy Spirit leading me to do what He has asked me to do. If not for Jesus, what happened on Friday last week would have never happened.

Last Thursday I had a call from a journalist from the Sydney Daily Telegraph. She was very upset as one of their journalists was asked to leave Auburn, because it was a ‘NO GO ZONE’ or call it an ‘Islamic Sharia Zone’. This journalist who certainly seemed very upset did an interview with me and published it in the Friday newspaper.

For those who have not read it already, you may click the following link.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/attacking-sydneys-enclaves-of-islam/story-fni0cx4q-1226654082467

On Friday morning as I was driving to the airport, Channel 7 Today Tonight called me and said that they wanted to interview me in Sydney.  When I arrived in Sydney I was picked up by the Channel 7 vehicle and three media crew members.

While driving, they told me that we were going to Auburn, a suburb in Sydney which is more than 70% Muslim, and one of the places where the Sunni and Shia Muslims have been fighting each other regarding the war in Syria.  This is the same suburb where Channel 7 Today Tonight showed a Sunni Muslim punch a Shia Muslim in the face a few weeks ago.

The reporter then told me that they have organised two body guards for me, just to make sure that nothing happened. We arrived at a car park where we were met by a 2nd TV camera crew from Channel  7 and then I was introduced to the two body guards, named Ahmed and Mohamed. They were two real big Muslim guys.

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NSW RUAP campaign meetings bring great excitement & some commit their lives to Jesus!

Dear family & friends in Christ,

The NSW RUAP campaign meetings in Blacktown (Sydney), Raymond Terrace (Newcastle), Blaxland (Sydney) & Wollongong brought great excitement to those who attended the meetings.

30-40 % of the people at some of the meetings came in after hearing or reading about RUA Party meeting in the media.

The meetings in Blacktown were covered by many media outlets, including Reuters News, The Daily Telegraph, BBC, Channel 7 & 10.

Unfortunately, the RSL did not permit Channel 7 & 10 to use their television cameras inside the hall. This was very disappointing.

Those who attended the meetings were very excited and challenged through RUAP National President Daniel Nalliah’s speech.

One young man, who was formerly a soldier in the Australia army, and had spent time in Afghanistan, shared with Pr Daniel that seven of his soldier mates had died. Some were killed in combat and others committed suicide.

He then told him that he too was having terrible nightmares at least twice a week. When Pr Daniel finished his political speech, this young man approached him and told him that he felt shivers running through his body while he was speaking, which had never happened to him before.

Well, all glory to God, this young fellow was mightily touched by the presence of God and then Pr Daniel led him to the Lord. With tears in his eyes, he gave his heart to Jesus.

Then, also in Wollongong at the RUAP meeting, four people prayed the sinners prayer to ask Jesus to come in their hearts, after hearing Pr Daniel’s testimony.  Our NSW lead Senate Candidate Mike Bloomfield led them in prayer.

Wow!! Isn’t this amazing! Souls coming to Jesus at a political party meeting! Well RUA Party’s mandate from God is to see Australia turn back to Jesus, not by force, but by love led by the Holy Spirit!

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Channel 7 Today Tonight / Pr Daniel & RUAP Campaign in Kyabram & Geelong, Vic on Fri 7 & Sat 8 June / Pr Daniel at CTFM Sun 9 June

Dear friends & family in Christ, 1) We apologise that the Channel Seven Today Tonight program with Pr Daniel, in regard to the serious problem with Islamic enclaves in Sydney…

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Islam’s Collective Punishment of Christians

by Raymond Ibrahim, Investigative Project on Terrorism, April 18, 2013

As many of Israel’s critics portray it as collectively punishing the Palestinians, overlooked and unsaid is the greater frequency with which Muslims collectively punish the religious minorities living under their authority, often in atrocious ways.

Consider Egypt alone. The most recent attacks on Egypt’s Copts, culminating in the unprecedented besiegement of the St. Mark Cathedral, the holiest site of Coptic Orthodoxy, is the latest large-scale “collective punishment” of the nation’s indigenous Christian minority. Indeed, almost all of the major attacks on Copts are carried out in the context of collective punishment, based on the idea that, if just one Christian upsets Muslims, all Christians—and their churches and their women and their children—become fair game.

Collectively punishing “upstart” religious minorities who refuse to know their place in the Islamic order actually has doctrinal backing. According to Mark Durie, author of The Third Choice: “Even a breach by a single individual dhimmi [non-Muslim living under Muslim authority] could result in jihad being enacted against the whole community. Muslim jurists have made this principle explicit, for example, the Yemeni jurist al-Murtada wrote that ‘The agreement will be canceled if all or some of them break it…’ and the Moroccan al-Maghili taught ‘The fact that one individual (or one group) among them has broken the statute is enough to invalidate it for all of them.'”

The latest collective punishment visited upon the Copts began in Khosous, near Cairo, on April 5, when a longstanding feud between a Christian family and a Muslim family—based on male Muslims sexually harassing Christian girls—culminated in the violent deaths of six Christians, including one set on fire, and one Muslim. In retribution, Muslims went on yet another “Friday-rampage”—Friday being the day Muslims meet and pray and hate and call for jihads on Christians—resulting in the injury of at least 20 other Copts, an attack on a Coptic church, and an Evangelical church set on fire.

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Channel 7 Today Tonight 6:30pm, Sydney Daily Telegraph & BBC Media Coverage of Daniel Nalliah RUAP National President Campaign in Sydney, Newcastle & Wollongong, NSW from Friday 31 May – Sunday 2 June

Dear friends & family in Christ, 1) RUAP National President Daniel Nalliah will be interviewed from Sydney on Channel Seven’s Today Tonight Broadcast at 6:30pm today Friday 31st May in…

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Iran moves American Christian to solitary confinement over prayer protest

FoxNews.com, April 29, 2013 – By Lisa Daftari

The American pastor jailed in Iran for his faith has been placed in solitary confinement and may now be suffering organ failure, according to family members in Iran who are increasingly alarmed at his deteriorating health.

Saeed Abedini, the 32-year-old Christian and American citizen who is serving an eight-year prison term in Iran, was put in solitary confinement following a “peaceful, silent protest” in an outside courtyard at Iran’s notoriously brutal Evin prison, according to family members. Conditions at the prison prompted Abedini and other prisoners to sign a petition decrying the lack of medical care and the threats and harsh treatment facing family members who come to visit.

The protest angered prison officials who retaliated by placing Abedini and nine others in solitary confinement.

“Saeed had previously told his family that when he was in solitary confinement in the past, that was the hardest time in his life. That every hour was like one year and that he was losing his memory and his health was deteriorating quickly,” said his wife, Naghmeh Abedini, who is at the family’s home in Idaho with their two young children.

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How to think about Islam

May 24, 2013 - Bill Muehlenberg of CultureWatch Dear friends, One. OK, so I wrote four articles on the London terror attack in 24 hours . It is because all…

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Media Release: RUA Party President Daniel Nalliah at RSL Blacktown Club in Sydney 31/05 to speak on Ethnic Enclaves – No Go Zones in Australia / Channel 7 Today Tonight / Is Islam the failure of Multiculturalism?

General Immediate Media Release 29th May 2013

Rise Up Australia Party National President Daniel Nalliah will address a gathering of Party supporters at the Blacktown RSL Club on Second Ave in Blacktown, Sydney this Friday night 31st  May at 7pm.

He will be addressing the issue of Ethnic Enclaves and No Go Zones in Australia.

This morning from his office in Melbourne, Daniel Nalliah responded to yesterday’s Channel 7 Today Tonight broadcast on the above topic.  

http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/lifestyle/article/-/17360450/suburban-enclaves/

He stated, “Muslims are the greatest violators of Multiculturalism.”

In his speech in Blacktown, he will call on gutless politicians to stop pussy-footing around the issue and to deal with it head on. He stated, “Do not surrender to the fear and intimidation by some Muslims who hate our way of life and want to spread the horror & terror of Islam.

If we continue to side step the real issue, and that is that ‘Islam is a violent religion’ and moreover a few Muslims have not highjacked Islam, but Islam has highjacked millions of Muslim people. We will not win this battle, if we don’t confront it right now. Otherwise, it will be too late, resulting in our children and grandchildren having to pay the price.”

Mr Nalliah, in his speech at the Blacktown RSL Club, will address the issue of how we should deal with the problem of Muslims taking over whole suburbs and turning them into NO GO ZONES for others.

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Pr Daniel on ABC Radio tomorrow Tues 28 May / Former PLO Terrorist shares the Message of Hope, Love & Reconciliation at CTFM

Dear family and friends in Christ,

1) Pr Daniel will be live on ABC Radio (Gippsland, Vic) tomorrow Tuesday morning 28th May around 9.10am on 97.1FM, 100.7FM or 828 AM. You may also listen online at http://www.abc.net.au/radio/listen-online/

Please call in (1300 295 222) and have your say.

2) What an action packed weekend in God’s Kingdom we had at CTFM with Tass Sada, the former PLO terrorist and personal driver of Yasser Arafat, in addition to Christine Sakakibars, a true Jerusalemite having lived in Israel for 37 years.

Tass shared his powerful testimony of how God miraculously transformed a life of hatred into hope, love and reconciliation when he met Jesus.

Once known as ‘The Butcher’ and one of the top snipers in the Islamic Fatah movement, today Tass works amongst Jews, Muslims and Christian to bring reconciliation.

He stated, “Jesus appeared in a glow of light and called me unto Him. Nothing would have made me change, but thank God that Jesus did completely change my life. At that very moment I gave my life to Jesus, I have never been the same again. My whole family has accepted Jesus.

I now love all people. My heart goes out to my Muslim people. I want to see them all come to Jesus. Jesus is the only answer to all the problems in the world. If He could have changed my life, He can change anyone.”

You can order his testimony on CD by emailing angelene@reformationharvestfire.com or calling the CTFM office on (03) 9794 8211.

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More Media Coverage for RUAP / Pr Daniel & Rise Up Australia Party Campaign in Sydney, Newcastle & Wollongong, NSW on 31 May – 2 June

Dear friends & family in Christ, 1) You may click the photos on the left and right to read a newspaper article from Serenidib News (Sri Lanka Newspaper in Australia)…

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India Missionary Released After 8 Years of False Imprisonment

Charisma News – 3/28/2013 – Abby Carr

After eight years of false imprisonment in India, Gospel for Asia-supported missionary ‘Samuel’ (center) is surrounded by prayers of thanksgiving upon his recent release from prison (Gospel for Asia)

After eight years of imprisonment under false accusations, and numerous delays in justice proceedings, a Gospel for Asia-sponsored missionary in India has been released.

Brother Samuel was arrested in 2004 in Jharkhand, India, on charges of participating in insurgency riots that left 19 dead. Despite avowing his innocence from the beginning and having no connection with the incident, he was immediately jailed. Within prison, he continued his ministry, sharing with others the good news of God’s love.

“I was thrilled to receive the phone call informing us that our Pastor Samuel was released from prison,” said K. P. Yohannan, Gospel for Asia (GFA) founder and president. “Jesus told us we should not be surprised of such persecution when we follow him. Yet I am so relieved to know our prayers have been answered. Our brother has remained faithful to his calling and now is free again.”

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Yasser Arafat’s ex-driver Tass Saada Seminar, Outreach Rally & Ministry at CTFM this Sat 25 – Sun 25 May

We’re pleased to announce that Yasser Arafat’s ex-driver Tass Saada will be ministering at a Seminar from 2-5pm, also an Outreach Rally at 7pm on Saturday 25th May, and at…

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10 ‘Jewish Facts’ About the New Testament

Ron Cantor/Messiah’s Mandate

As a new believer in Yeshua (Jesus), I assumed I was no longer Jewish—that believing in this Jewish man had nothing in common with Jewishness. However after reading the New Testament, I was shocked to find out that it was a Jewish book, telling a Jewish story in Israel about Jewish people. Check out these 10 facts:

1. Jesus’ actual name is Yeshua. Yeshua comes from the Hebrew noun Yeshu-á, which means salvation. When Joseph was visited by the Angel, he was told that he must give the child the name Yeshua, because He would be Yeshu-á for His people! (Matt. 1:21) You miss this powerful prophetic wordplay in Greek and English.

2. His mother’s name was not Mary or even Maria. She was not Catholic! Miriam is the same name as the sister of Moses. It is a Jewish name, and that was her name. She was an Israelite who lived long before the Vatican even existed.

3. John was not a Baptist. No disrespect to my Baptist friends, but John was the last and greatest of the Hebrew prophets like Jeremiah, Isaiah and Ezekiel. He prophesied the coming of the Jewish Messiah. He too was an Israelite calling the Jewish people to get ready for the appearance of the Lamb of God.

4. Baptism is not unique to the New Testament. Jews, believe it or not, used water immersion for centuries before John began to baptize his Jewish followers. One of the reasons they did not resist was because it was familiar to their culture. Next to the Temple, archaeologists have discovered nearly 50 immersion tanks (Mikvot) that were for those coming to be ritually cleansed before making their sacrifice at the Temple.

5. Peter was not the first Pope! Peter, a Jew, was only the leader of the first Jewish believers for a few years. He turned over the reigns to Jacob (we will talk about him in a minute) the brother of Yeshua and began to travel, sharing the message of Salvation through Yeshua. There is zero evidence that Peter was the Bishop of Rome or that he passed down such a mantle to anyone else.  He was a Jewish fisherman who became one of the greatest communicators of Yeshua’s message of Salvation. He never stopped living as a Jew, and certainly never referred to himself as Catholic. Oh, and the Bible states very clearly that Peter had a mother-n-law, which would lead me to believe he had a wife, and for some strange reason, Catholic priests (including the Pope) are forbidden to wed.

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