Federal Inquiry into ‘Multiculturalism’/ Charged with Blasphemy in Pakistan

Dear family and friends in Christ,

1) Following is an email from Salt Shakers regarding Federal Inquiry into Multiculturalism in Australia for your prayerful action.

2) Click the following link to read an article written by Babette Francis of Endeavour Forum about Asia Bibi, the Christian woman recently charged with blasphemy in Pakistan.

https://reformationharvestfire.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/pakistannw05-feb-2011.pdf

E-News – Inquiry into Multiculturalism in Australia
 
The Federal Parliament’s Migration Committee (Joint Committee of both Houses) has launched an inquiry into multiculturalism in Australia. 
 
The Chair of the Committee, Maria Vamvakinou MP, has called for people to make submissions but has only given until April 8 for you to do so.

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Heaven Is For Real—a Little Boy Shares His Experience “in Heaven”

Colton went to Heaven and came back to earthby Aimee Herd : Mar 16, 2011 : KWGN.com

“His experience in Heaven hasn’t changed [my] son, but because Colton was so young when it happened it has defined his life.” -Todd Burpo

Todd and Sonja Burpo of Imperial, Nebraska were visiting Colorado with their 3-year-old son Colton, when he began complaining of a stomach ache. Despite suggestions of possible appendicitis, he was dismissed, but returned to a hospital two days later, and was eventually rushed into surgery.

It was discovered that his appendix had burst some five days before he was finally diagnosed.

Now his life hung by a thread and his parents hit their knees in prayer. Miraculously, little Colton survived. And, after a couple of surgeries and a difficult recovery, their boy bounced back.

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The Koran Riots in Afghanistan: An Indictment of All Islam

NewsReal ^ | April 1, 2011 | Rob Taylor

Posted on Saturday, April 02, 2011 by TheHawksNest

7 United Nations workers were murdered by a crowd of angry Muslims in Afghanistan during protests organized by religious leaders. The clerics drove through the city of Mazar-i-Sharif with loud speakers, demanding that Muslims “protest” the burning of a Koran by a Florida pastor.  Two of the UN workers were beheaded.

The leftist media here is placing the blame squarely on Koran burner Terry Jones while desperately clinging to the myth of the peaceful Muslim protest that “just got out of control”–no doubt hijacked by a that tiny minority of extremists the media thinks is responsible for over 1,000 years of Islamic Imperialism. But when the Left here makes excuses for Muslim barbarity they ignore reality and the internal drives of unreformed Islam that make Muslims predisposed to mayhem and violence.

There is no other religious group on Earth that murders and rapes more people whenever they feel attacked and insulted nor is there one that attacks and insults other religions as regularly. While the Muslims in Afghanistan murdered innocent people because one man in Florida burned a Koran, Saudi authorities tortured and arrested two Indian Christians for praying. During the arrest Saudi religious police trampled the victims’ Bibles and tore the holy books. (more…)

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Young Footy players coming to Jesus / CTFM Credentialing Service

Young Footy players and others surrender to Jesus in Culcairn, NSWPr Daniel ministering in Culcairn, NSWDear family & friends in Christ,

1) We thank and praise our Heavenly Father for another wonderful weekend of advancing the Kingdom of God, not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts!

I’m sure you too would have had a great weekend in your church glorifying our Lord Jesus Christ, died, risen, ascended, soon coming King of Kings and LORD of lords!

At CTFM in Hallam, VIC we had 2 visiting ministers with Pastor Jacob from India in the morning service and Pastor Bernard from Malaysia at the evening service. The Spirit of God moved very powerfully at both services as many were mightily touched and blessed through the anointed word of the Lord and some amazing testimonies from these two humble servants of God.  One of the Christian ministers shared how he was a Hindu before God supernaturally touched him and he surrendered his life to Jesus.
                                                                                                                                                          
Last Thursday night, Evangelist Jason from CTFM ministered in a Holy Spirit revival outpouring at an AOG church in Cranbourne, VIC where people were born-again into the Kingdom of God, miraculously healed, delivered, set free from demonic spirits of depression and others, receiving the mighty baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire to Rise Up Australia and the Nations for the 2nd coming of Jesus!

Over the weekend, Pr Daniel and a team from CTFM ministered in Culcairn & Holbrook, NSW where people from 6 different churches attended the Holy Spirit meetings, including some from the Catholic and Lutheran churches. All glory to God for bringing the body of Christ together!

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Algeria: Where Revival Refuses to Cease

Church remains after Muslim attackby Aidan Clay : Feb 28, 2011 : ASSIST News

“During that year we went to villages where there were no Christians, we prayed for the village, and after a few months we would hear that there were Believers there. People had dreams, visions; some of them discovered Christian radio programs. We didn’t share the Gospel directly with many people, but God in His way, preached the Gospel. It was like an explosion in all the Kabylie area and it’s continuing now.” -Pastor Raba.

(Tizi Ouzou, Algeria)—As reported in Assist News, last year, an angry mob damaged the Tafat Church in Tizi Ouzou. International Christian Concern (ICC), a Washington DC-based human rights organization, visited Algeria, including Tizi Ouzou, just months after the attack on Tafat Church. The purpose for the visit was to encourage Algeria’s Christians and assist their unmet needs, but as happens more often than not when meeting with persecuted brethren, it was ICC who came away more encouraged.

Meeting with house church pastors in remote villages in the beautiful Kabylie Mountains, they shared stories of God’s work amongst their people and reminisced about Algeria’s great—and enduring—20 year revival.

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A Brave Servant of Christ Pays the Ultimate Price for His Courage

Pakistanti Minister Martyred for defending Christianityby Aimee Herd : Mar 3, 2011 : Michelle A. Vu – Christian Post

“I am mindful that in the struggle to protect the religious freedom, the rights of minorities…I can be assassinated. I can be killed. But I will continue to follow the principles that I believe. I will continue to raise the voice of the voiceless. And I will not feel fear because of these threats because I follow Jesus Christ who has given His own life for us….” –Shahbaz Bhatti

The Pakistani Minister for Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti—who worked tirelessly on behalf of Christians and minorities in Pakistan, to give them a voice and try to gain their protection—was gunned down reportedly by the Taliban, on Wednesday, March 2nd. (Photo: Reuters/Faisal Mahmood)

Perhaps he somehow knew something might happen that day since he told his security guards—who usually travel with him—to stay home.

Bhatti had indeed been receiving death threats, according to a Christian Post interview, after speaking out against Pakistan’s blasphemy laws which had been used as the basis for the arrest of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother of five.

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2 powerful video links against Same-Sex Marriage / Rev Nile Thanks God and Supporters for Election Victory

The Hon Rev Fred Nile MLCDear friends and family in Christ,
 
1) Click the following two links to watch powerful testimonies of former homosexuals lobbying the US Government against legalising Same-Sex Marriage.
 
We must always remember that our Lord Jesus hates the sin, but loves the sinner, and so should we as followers of Christ!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=h94DIBPcy6A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=II8BPZ-3aIE
 
2) We’re forwarding the email below from Rev Fred Nile and Christian Democratic Party in regard to the recent election victory in NSW.
 
3) Pastor Daniel and his wife Maryse wanted to convey their sincere appreciation for all the wonderful emails, text messages, and phone calls that they received over the last week, which were a great encouragement and blessing to them for their 24th wedding anniversary!
 

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Lord Monckton Interview / Carbon tax and ‘effect’ on global temperature

Dear family & friends in Christ,   Following is the link to a very important interview with ‘Lord Monckton’ in addition to the latest E-News from Salt Shakers regarding the proposed…

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Sunni v Shia

Sunni vs Shia in the Middle EastZaki Chehab – Published 12 February 2007

The clash between Sunni and Shia Muslims is the greatest cause of strife across the Arab world. Here – as part of our special issue on Islam – Zaki Chehab explains the deep-lying roots of the turmoil
 
Iraqis have already given it a name: the “Bloody Evening”. At about 5pm on Saturday 3 February, a Mercedes lorry carrying more than a tonne of explosives was detonated in the Sadriyah neighbourhood of Baghdad, killing 150 people and wounding 300 more. The suicide bomber had driven into a food market in a largely Shia area; the result was the greatest loss of life from a single bomb since the US invasion of 2003.

From weary experience, Iraqis know that it is only a matter of time before Shia militants seek revenge. While hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have sought refuge in neighbouring countries, the majority who cannot leave or cannot afford to leave are trapped in a cycle of sectarian killings that the religious and political leaderships of Shias and Sunnis alike have failed to arrest. Abbas, a Shia friend who left Baghdad recently, told me from his new base in Jordan that he had been forced to go – he had been unable to send his three children to school for fear they would fall victim to the Iraqi sectarian killings that are claiming the lives of a hundred people a day. He described the grisly scene with municipal trucks going out each morning to collect the bodies of those killed the previous night. Corpses found in plastic bags were evidence that the victims had been kidnapped and disposed of when no ransom was paid.

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GLOBAL JIHAD – Former CIA chief warns: U.S. ‘at war’ with Shariah

Robert James WoolseyPosted: February 13, 2011 – By Les Kinsolving © 2011 WorldNetDaily 

Robert James Woolsey tells CPAC it’s not ‘Islamophobic’ to resist spread of Muslim law.

Robert James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told a break-out session of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., that America needs to stop being so politically correct and realize it is “at war” with those who would spread Islamic, or Shariah, law.

“We have to understand that we are in a war here – certainly with the terrorists; certainly with Al Qaida; certainly with Hamas and Hezbollah,” Woolsey said. “We’re also at war, with no choice of our own, with those who want to, over the long run, impose Shariah [Islamic law] upon us.

“And it is one of the toughest fights we have ever had or will have,” he continued, “because Americans are used to religious liberty and not criticizing one another’s religions.” (more…)

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Pr Daniel & Wife Maryse celebrate their 24th wedding anniversary today

Pastor Daniel & wife MaryseDear family & friends in Christ,

Please join together with us to wish  Pr Daniel & his wife Maryse a very happy anniversary and God’s richest blessings, as they celebrate their 24th wedding anniversary today the 28th of march.

Yesterday at church we had the opportunity to Pray for and Honour this Man & Woman of God, who have endured much for the Kingdom of God  and come through many challenges in life. They have been such a role model to all of us and we thank God for sending them to Australia, to see our nation come back to Jesus.

It is very rare to see a family so committed to the Lord and Pr Daniel’s willingness to keep standing for the truth of the Word of God at a time when there is so much compromise for political correctness.

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How the Church is Sending Help to Japan

Earthquakes in Japanby Michael Ireland : Mar 16, 2011 : ASSIST News Service

“It is a good chance to tell people of the peace God provides in such situations.” Ron Stoller

An ANS article notes some of the Christian and missionary organizations that are mobilizing to help Japan. Along with those mentioned in the article who are sending help are: Mercy Corps, Medical Teams International (formerly NW Medical Teams), Samaritan’s Purse and Operation Blessing.

Russ Jones, a twenty-year award winning journalist and correspondent, who freelances for a number of media outlets and who was one of the first Christian reporters to reach the affected areas, says: “Another concern looms as two nuclear reactors exploded in Fukushima Daiichi and Daini after cooling pumps were destroyed, sending clouds of white smoke into the air.”

In his report posted at www.crosswalk.com, Jones says Christian organizations based in Japan are using social networking sites to coordinate relief efforts. (Photo: www.onlinenews4u.com)

One Christian group led by Jonathan Wilson has activated a team of volunteers using Facebook. Christian Relief, Assistance Support and Hope (CRASH Japan) is working closely with JEMA (the Japanese Evangelical Missionary Association), to coordinate a large network of experienced volunteers who live in Japan and are familiar with the nation’s culture and language. Leaders are currently setting up a command center in Tokyo with bases in affected areas. (more…)

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A Perspective on the Japan Earthquake

Cindy JacobsCindy Jacobs Newsletters – Prophetic Insight – Tuesday, 22 March 2011

 As one looks across the face of the earth today, it doesn’t take a large amount of spiritual discernment to see that things are shaking as has been prophesied over the past few years. Many voices, including mine, have spoken over what is known as the Rim of Fire nations, or the Pacific Rim. These are approximately 40 nations that ring the Pacific with some sort of volcanic activity. 

The tragedy in Japan brings this prophetic shaking starkly to the forefront of the news. Many are asking the question, “What is taking place?”

First of all, I know that we must stand in the gap and pray for Japan. The enormity of the loss and the intensity of what has transpired will continue to unfold, and it is hard to grasp with the natural mind. 
What do we know? God had warned us that shaking was coming. This doesn’t mean it was His desire for it to happen but that it was more of the biblical fulfillment that He doesn’t do anything without first warning through His servants the prophets (see Amos 3:7) In fact, I along with others prophesied volcanic eruptions would occur in the Pacific Rim. 

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