Three American Teachers Slaughtered for Christian Faith in Muslim World

Ronald Thomas SmithDec 18, 2013 – Raymond Ibrahim – www.jihadwatch.org

Why was Ronald Thomas Smith II, an American teaching at Benghazi’s International School, shot to death last Thursday in Libya, even as he “was looking forward to his first Christmas in the United States with his wife and toddler son”?

Most Western media and analysts dismiss the killing as a random act of violence incited by a recent al-Qaeda video.

However, by connecting the dots and looking at precedence, it appears that Smith’s Christianity, specifically his talking about it among Muslims, was the motive behind the slaying.

First consider two facts gleaned from the AP report, “American killed in Benghazi remembered as ‘much loved teacher’”: 1) Smith once had plans to attend seminary, a place devoted to preparing Christians to share the Gospel—a crime according to Islamic law (recall the Coptic Christians tortured and killed on the accusation that they were proselytizing in Libya); 2) according to his home church in Texas, “Ronnie’s [Smith’s] greatest desire was for peace and prosperity in Libya and for the people of Libya to have the joy of knowing God through Christ” (emphasis added).

Then there is the fact that Smith was a “much loved teacher”—a phrase that immediately, if not eerily, brings to mind another very similar story of another “much beloved” American teacher who was killed in the Islamic world for talking about Christianity.

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National Australia Day United Prayer & Holy Spirit Revival Meetings with National Indonesian Prayer Leader in Melbourne in January 2014

Praying on Australia Day 2013Dear family & friends in Christ across this Great South Land of the Holy Spirit,Pastor Daniel Pandji

You may click the following links to listen to the 30 second audio promo and to download the leaflet for the National Australia Day United Prayer Gathering in Melbourne from 10am – 1pm on Saturday 25th January 2014.

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This interdenominational Christian prayer gathering which brings together hundreds of prayer warriors from many churches, denominations and ethnicities across Australia, with special guest speaker Ps Daniel Pandji from Indonesia, will be preceded and followed by a series of Holy Spirit miracle healing revival meetings at the new CTFM Apostolic Centre at 30 Star Crescent in Hallam where he will also be ministering Saturday 25th at 7pm, Sunday 26th January at 10am & 7pm.

Daniel H. Pandji is the General Facilitator of the Indonesia National Prayer Network, facilitating City Prayer Networks among women, children, youth, and marketplace ministers in more than 300 cities throughout Indonesia.

He is also the National Coordinator of Indonesia Joseph Storehouse to provide disaster relief and combat systemic poverty and was Secretary General to the 2012 World Prayer Assembly, convening 100,000 intercessors to transformation prayer.

If you live interstate, please make every effort to book your flights now and come for the National Australia Day Prayer Gathering and stay on for the Holy Spirit miracle healing revival meetings. We assure you that you will be tremendously blessed.

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Shark attack victim Zac Young prayed with mates before dying (Australia)

The Australian ^ | DECEMBER 02, 2013 | ROSIE LEWIS AND RICK MORTON

AS 19-year-old bodyboarder Zac Young was being pulled to shore, bleeding heavily from a shark attack, he turned to his good mate Kurt Gillan and prayed.

“He passed away peacefully, no pain, with his last words to me being: ‘I love you brother’,” Mr Gillan, 18, wrote on Facebook yesterday.

“He began to pray ‘please God, my lord and Saviour, help protect my friends and help me through this time of need’. He then went unconscious.”

Mr Young died on Saturday afternoon at Reicks Point, north of Coffs Harbour, 540km north of Sydney. The Port Macquarie local had just passed his driving test and was on a surfing road-trip with Mr Gillan and two other mates.

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200,000 march for marriage in Taiwan protesting proposed same-sex ‘marriage’ law

200,000 march for marriage in Taiwan protesting proposed same-sex ‘marriage’ law

LifeSiteNews.com Life, Family and Culture News by Peter Baklinski – Dec 03, 2013 

TAIPEI, Taiwan, December 2, 2013 ( LifeSiteNews.com) – About  200,000 people marched in front of Taiwan’s Presidential Office on Saturday, according to organizers or the march. The crowd was protesting a proposed law that would allow same-sex couples to ‘marry’ and adopt

“God created human beings as male and female. Only the union of a man and a woman can create the next generation, and the ability to create offspring is an important function of a family,” said 40-year-old Ann Huang, who joined the rally with her friends,  reported  Focus Taiwan.

The protesters, consisting mainly of families with their children, held signs that read “Made by Daddy and Mommy”, “Defend Marriage”, and “Oppose Amendment to Civil Code Article 972”, the current law which holds that marriage is between a man and woman.

The event was organized by The Coalition for the Happiness of Our Next Generation.

“We worry that this alternative family formation idea will confuse children’s concepts on education and sexual identity,”  said Yu Yen-hung, one of the founders of the organization, to  The China Post. “Therefore, we decided to stand up and fight against this bill that will affect the next generation.”

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The Bravest Woman I’ve Ever Met

Fire in My Bones – 11/6/2013 J. Lee Grady

Pentecostals get a bad rap these days from all sides. Secularists don’t like us because we are morally conservative. Some mainline Christians classify us as holy rollers. And fundamentalists like John MacArthur question our very faith, claiming that all our experiences with the Holy Spirit are fake.

But there is nothing fake about Althea Meyer. And there is no way this woman could get her impressive boldness from any other source than the Holy Spirit.

A dedicated missionary to the African country of Malawi, Althea has given her life to save as many starving children as possible. (Malawi has the highest death rate for children under 6 in the entire world.) After seeing her efforts on the field this week, I consider her one of the bravest Christians I’ve ever met anywhere.

I arrived in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, earlier this week to speak at a couple of conferences for women and pastors. I had already met Althea during one of her U.S. visits, but watching her fearlessness in this challenging environment has given me renewed respect for all other career missionaries who work tirelessly month after month on foreign fields.

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Wishing you a blessed CHRISTMAS and a victorious New Year in 2014!

Dear family & friends in Christ in Australia & around the World, May I take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy and blessed Christmas, in addition to…

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Revival in Indonesia – More than 1000 people commit their hearts to Jesus in 4 days

Dear family & friends in Christ,

All glory and praise to Jesus for His mighty hand at work in Indonesia, the biggest Muslim country in the world. Now it is estimated that up to 25 % of the 250 million population is Christian. This means it is more than all of the population in Australia.

Pr Daniel stated, “When you have to wait in a traffic block for 20-30 min to get into church and when 2 out of the 3 lanes of traffic on the main road are blocked because people are trying to get into church, you cannot help but thank the Lord for what He is doing in this Muslim country.

I believe Indonesia will not export Islam to the world, but will export the name of Jesus to Australia and the world. I am challenging the some 200+ Indonesian churches in Australia to rise up and take Australia for Jesus.”

On Sunday the church where Pr Daniel preached has 6 services (7am, 9am, 11am 3pm, 5pm & 7pm) with each service having around 1500+ people. God moved most powerfully through Pr Daniel and the team that went with him from CTFM at the Christmas Crusade.

You may click the following links to watch some exciting footage.

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More than 1000 people dedicated their hearts to Jesus and hundreds were healed, delivered and set free.  More than 300 people were baptised in the Holy Spirit and prayed in tongues for the very first time. Many people with demons started screaming and rolling all over the floor as Pr Daniel commanded them to leave in Jesus name.

One particular very powerful testimony is of a young Muslim couple who brought their little boy born blind to the altar for prayer. They came out with hundreds of people for a healing touch. Glory to God this little boy’s eyes opened. The parents told the Pastor of the church, “Now, we will come to church and not go to the mosque anymore.”

“Thank you Jesus for the supernatural hand of God at work!”

Pr Daniel stated, “When you see Leaders and helpers in the churches of Indonesia come at 6.30am, leave church around 10pm at night on Sunday, and then ask them how they do it, they simply say, ‘It is the Lord’s day’.

In Australia and the West, most Christians come to church once on Sunday, but say we want revival to see Australia and the Nations transformed.

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CTFM Back Online in our New Home / Some interesting newspaper articles about Christmas in Casey & Dandenong

Dear friends & family in Christ, 1) Praise God that we at CTFM have now moved into our new home at 30 Star Crescent, Hallam and are now back online.…

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Today in History: West Saved from Islam at Battle of Tours

There, on October 10 or 11, in the year 732, one of history’s most decisive battles took place, demarcating the extent of Islam’s western conquests and ensuring the survival of the West.October 11, 2013 By Raymond Ibrahim

Precisely 100 years after the death of Islam’s prophet Muhammad in 632, his Arab followers, after having conquered thousands of miles of lands from Arabia to Spain, found themselves in Gaul, modern day France, facing a hitherto little known people, the Christian Franks.

There, on October 10 or 11, in the year 732, one of history’s most decisive battles took place, demarcating the extent of Islam’s western conquests and ensuring the survival of the West.

Prior to this, the Islamic conquerors had for one century been subjugating all peoples and territories standing in their western march—including Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. In 711, the Muslims made their fateful crossing of the straits of Gibraltar, landing on European soil. Upon disembarkation, the leader of the Muslims, Tariq bin Zayid, ordered the Islamic fleet burned, explaining that “We have not come here to return. Either we conquer and establish ourselves here, or we perish.”

This famous Tariq anecdote—often reminisced by modern day jihadis—highlights the jihadi nature of the Umayyad caliphate (661-750), the superpower of its day. Indeed, as most historians have acknowledged, the Umayyad caliphate was the “Jihadi-State” par excellence. Its very existence was coterminous with its conquests.  Its legitimacy as “viceroy” of Allah was based on subjugating lands in the name of Allah.

Once on European ground, the depredations continued unabated. Writes one Arab chronicler regarding the Muslim northern advance past the Pyrenees: “Full of wrath and pride” the Muslims “went through all places like a desolating storm. Prosperity made those warriors insatiable… everything gave way to their scimitars, the robbers of lives.” Even far off English anchorite, the contemporary, the venerable, Bede, wrote, “A plague of Saracens wrought wretched devastation and slaughter upon Gaul.”

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Massive International Effort Rescues Nearly 400 Children, Busts Horrific Child Exploitation Ring

Teresa Neumann (Nov 15, 2013) Of those arrested, 76 were said to be Americans. Disturbingly, many of the criminals arrested held positions of influence, including school teachers, doctors, nurses, pastors…

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Mothers, Love Your Children

Mothers, Love Your ChildrenSpiritled Women – 9/27/2013 – Devi Titus

I’ve often wondered why the apostle Paul, writing to Pastor Titus, told him the things that should be taught to women and men. In this list for women, recorded in Titus, chapter 2, he says (paraphrased), “This is sound doctrine. … I am writing these things so the Word of God will not be dishonored.”

Paul tells older women how to live and that their responsibility is to train younger women.  In the list—we could call it the curriculum—one of the odd things to me is that he tells older women to teach younger women to love their children (v. 4).

It seems abnormal to think of a mother not loving her children. Yet in these times, we are witnessing mothers killing their children, abandoning their children, neglecting their children and abusing their children. Evidently this was happening at that time as well. Now mothers even rid themselves of their unborn babies.

Mothers are going their own way, selfishly seeking their own fulfillment to the ruin of their children. Observing the behaviors of many mothers, it seems they think children have no feelings, memories or understanding, while all the while they are scarring the emotions of their children’s souls.

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Will Graham Outreach Draws 12,000 People in “Non-Christian” Thailand

Teresa Neumann (Nov 15, 2013) "On of the key things I've tried not to do is bash other religions," he said. "I will make distinctions, at times, but I never…

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Persecuted and Forgotten 2013 Report – Situation of Christians in in many countries has deteriorated

The cover image of the report shows the destruction of the Virgin Mary Church in Imbaba, Cairo, Egypt, May 2011ACN News ^ | 10/18/2013

In many countries the situation of Christians has sharply deteriorated. This is the finding of the report Persecuted and Forgotten? which was launched at a meeting in the UK Houses of Parliament on 17th October by the UK office of the international Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). The report examines the situation of Christians in 30 different countries, including Afghanistan, China, Laos, Pakistan, Vietnam and Zimbabwe. In particular it analyses the situation in a number of majority Islamic countries and in those states whose political systems have a pronounced authoritarian character. The reporting period covers the past two-and-a-half years.

The principal finding of the report is that in two-thirds of the countries where persecution of Christians is most severe, the problems have become arguably even worse. In fact the Church’s very survival in some parts – notably the Middle East – is now at stake.

For Christians the so-called “Arab spring” has in many cases become what the report calls a “Christian winter”. Although the political upheavals have brought suffering to people of all faith communities, nonetheless it is above all the Christian confessions that have experienced the most open hostility and violence. They have become victims of every kind of political, economic, social and religious conflict – for example the conflicts between Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims. As a result, a great many Christians have been forced to flee. The report describes the exodus as reaching “almost biblical proportions”.

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