U.S. Court Rules that National Day of Prayer is Unconstitutional

John Jalsevac (Apr. 16, 2010)

A little history: June 30, 1812: It being a duty peculiarly incumbent in a time of public calamity and war, humbly and devoutly to acknowledge our dependence on Almighty God, and to implore His aid and protection:

Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that a joint committee of both Houses wait on the President of the United States, and request that he recommend a day of public humiliation and prayer to be observed by the people of the United States, with religious solemnity, and the offering of fervent supplications to the Almighty God for the safety and welfare of these States, His blessing on their arms, and the speedy restoration of peace. (Resolution requesting the President of the United States to recommend a day of public humiliation and prayer)

In a decision released Thursday, U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb declared the National Day of Prayer unconstitutional. The decision comes in the case filed by The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), a Wisconsin-based organization, which challenged the constitutionality of a 1988 federal law giving the president the authority to designate the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer. (“The First Prayer in Congress” by T.H. Matteson 1848)

The day of prayer “goes beyond mere ‘acknowledgment’ of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage all citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context,” Crabb wrote. “In this instance, the government has taken sides on a matter that must be left to individual conscience.” (more…)

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European Union Moves to Defend Persecuted Christians

Friday, February 26, 2010 – By Michael Ireland Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service 

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WASHINGTON, D.C, (ANS) — The European Union (EU) has established a working group to protect persecuted Christians and prepare a manual for embassies of member states regarding the treatment of persecuted Christian minorities.

According to International Christian Concern (ICC) www.persecution.org, Italy’s Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, in an interview yesterday with the Italian daily newspaper Avvenire said, “We could promote a group of like-minded countries who take to heart the right of Christians to profess their faith anywhere in the world. …You see, Christians have never had a political group offering them strong support through their governments.”

ICC reported that the Foreign Minister also stated that his country will hold an international conference on religious freedom this year and will soon introduce a resolution at the United Nations General Assembly regarding the rights of Christians. (more…)

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Revival in Canberra this weekend with preacher from Kenya / Pr Daniel in Coffs Harbor, NSW / CTFM Schedule in Melbourne

Hungry for Holy SpiritDear family & friends in Christ,

1) We have great news for those of you in the Canberra area.  Once again the Holy Spirit revival meetings are continuing this weekend on Saturday 24th at 6.30pm & Sunday 25th at 10am & 6.30pm. The venue is Canberra High School, Bindubi Street, Macquarie.

Pastor Kinyua from Kenya is a mighty prophetic intercessor who has tremendously blessed the people at CTFM in Melbourne over the past few weeks and will now be ministering in Canberra in the Holy Spirit Revival. This man of God ministers with an apostolic anointing of intercessory prayer and revelatory teaching to take others deeper into the river of God’s holy presence.

Do not miss this great opportunity for you, your family, friends, and others to receive a miraculous life transforming encounter with Jesus Christ, the reigning King of kings and LORD of lords! 

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Canberra Revival for Jesus – Amazing Testimonies of Healings, Supernatural Dreams, Visions & Encounters with Angels

Woman healed of spine problemMan healed from hip problems and gives life to JesusDear family & friends in Christ in Australia and around the World,
 
Over the past several weeks the increasing outpouring of God’s Holy Spirit in Canberra, Australia has been experienced by many hundreds of people from all walks of life! On some nights at the revival crowds of up to 300 people packed the hall at Canberra High School.
 
Once again Monday night was glorious with spiritually thirsty people drinking from the river of God’s Presence while praising and worshipping Him for several hours at the altar!
 
Pas Daniel said, “It was like an army that had just won a battle, celebrating its victory, and on its way to Praying at the altarclaim a nation! I was so blessed to see so many young people absolutely drunk with the new wine of the Spirit of God, worshipping the Lord so freely with tears streaming down their cheeks.”
 
Many at the revival meetings in Canberra received prophetic words from the Lord. On Monday night there was a real anointing for spiritual battle and the people stepped right into intercessory warfare for Australia. There was also an amazing sense of God’s Agape Love pouring out into everyone present as people hugged each other as one big family.

Many testified of having supernatural dreams and visions over the past few nights, including Angels being empowered in the heavens to triumph over Satan’s demonic powers of darkness, bringing great revival and transformation to Australia! They saw that the corporate worship and praise given from the united body of Christ to the Lord Jesus Christ was a key for the Angelic hosts of heaven to be further equipped and empowered to reclaim Australia for Jesus! (more…)

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Victoria – Review of ‘hate crime’ laws

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‘Hate crimes’ are under review in Victoria. If what is being proposed in one of the review documents is introduced into legislation, it will mean even MORE RESTRICTIONS on the freedom of speech.

In fact, if you OFFEND or INSULT a homosexual you could be hauled before the Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission – and with their NEW POWERS, the EOHRC could launch their own investigation into behaviour they think ‘offends’ someone! Churches and Christians will be under even more threat if this is put into legislation!

Last year Victoria’s Attorney-General Rob Hulls initiated changes to the Sentencing Act regarding the sentencing of hate crimes. The amendment requires a sentencing court to have regard to whether an offence was motivated (wholly or partially) by hatred of, or prejudice against, a group of people with common characteristics with which the victim was associated or with which the offender believed the victim was associated.

But that isn’t enough for Mr Hulls.

Mr Hulls has asked Hon Geoffrey Eames, a retired Supreme Court judge, to conduct a review of ‘Identity Motivated Hate Crime’ in Victoria to “determine whether current hate crime laws are adequate”. They are considering whether ‘hate crimes’ should be a specific part of the criminal law. (more…)

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Canberra Revival extended another night as crowd nears 300 people – Healing of deafness, severe spinal problems and more, Mormons get saved, and 51 people receive baptism of Holy Spirit!!!

Hungry for Holy SpiritDear family & friends in Christ in Australia and around the World,
 
The Canberra revival meetings have been once again extended for another night, tonight Monday the 19th of April at 6.30pm at Canberra High School, Bindubi Street, Macquarie. 

Do not miss this great opportunity you, your family, friends, and others to receive a miraculous life transforming encounter with Jesus Christ, the reigning King of kings and LORD of lords! 
 
We thank and praise God for His wonderful hand at work mightily in our nation’s capital city Canberra. Many who are attended the revival meetings commented that they had never ever seen anything like this in their lifetime in Canberra. Well, we believe this is God’s kairos time for our nation of Australia to rise up and step into His prophetic destiny, possessing this land that He has promised to give us as an inheritance, this Great South Land of the Holy Spirit!
 
Over the weekend people packed the hall once again and every service went on for more than 4-5 hours as people from 29-30 churches, of all ages, from many ethnicities, cities, and walks of life, absolutely soaked in the mighty life transforming presence of God!  Many people received Miraculous Healing, Deliverance, Salvation, Restoration, Reconciliation, and the list goes on and on as many glorified the Lord by giving testimonies of His amazing miracles, signs, and wonders in their lives!

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Australia Bans Christian Schools from Teaching Creationism

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski ADELAIDE, South Australia, March 4, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/mar/10030403.html

The South Australian Non-Government Schools Registration Board has published a new education policy that states it requires the ”teaching of science as an empirical discipline, focusing on inquiry, hypothesis, investigation, experimentation, observation and evidential analysis.” It then goes on to state that it “does not accept as satisfactory a science curriculum in a non-government school which is based on, espouses or reflects the literal interpretation of a religious text in its treatment of either creationism or intelligent design.”

The policy effectively bans the teaching of creationism in South Australian Christian schools.

A spokesman for the South Australian Non-Government Schools Registration Board is quoted by the Sydney Morning Herald saying there is no ban on teaching creationism. “It can be taught in religious studies,” said the spokesman.

However, Stephen O’Doherty, the chief executive of Christian Schools Australia, said that he believes the intention of the South Australian policy was to ban the teaching of the biblical perspective on the nature of the universe altogether. It was the only such subject singled out, he said. (more…)

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Geert Wilders on course to be next Dutch prime minister

Geert Wilders looks like next Dutch Prime MinisterBy Bruno Waterfield – The Telegraph – 05 March 2010

Municipal results announced on Thursday put his party in first place in Almere, a region near Amsterdam and second in The Hague, one the country’s largest cities and the seat of the Dutch government.
 
If repeated in national elections on June 9, the Freedom Party could win 27 out of 150 seats, becoming the largest single party and putting him in line to become prime minister and form a new government.

Mr Wilders has called Islam a backward religion, wants a ban on headscarves in public life and has compared the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf.

“We are going to conquer the entire country we are going to be the biggest party in the country,” he said after the vote. (more…)

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Muslim leader wants elements of sharia in Australia

Sydney Morning Herald – Paul Bibby – March 8, 2010
 
ELEMENTS of Islamic law – the sharia – should be legally recognised in Australia so that Muslims can live according their faith, a prominent Muslim leader says.

Addressing an open day at Lakemba Mosque on Saturday, the president of the Australian Islamic Mission, Zachariah Matthews, said parts of sharia could be recognised as a secondary legal system so that Muslims were not forced to act contrary to their beliefs. ”Sharia law could function as a parallel system in the same way that some traditional Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander law was recognised in the Northern Territory,” Dr Matthews told the Herald after the session.

”I don’t think we are so unsophisticated that we cannot consider a multilayered legal system as long as it doesn’t conflict with the existing civil system.”

The comments shocked some attending the open day. They felt Dr Matthews was advocating the introduction of the penal system under which women have been stoned to death for adultery, and corporal punishment is meted out for some offences. (more…)

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Revival meetings in Canberra extended this weekend – Youth / Kids weep at altar – Healing, Deliverance & Salvation of Souls!

Worshipping the Lord at the altarDear family & friends in Christ in Australia and around the World,

1) All glory and honour to the reigning King of kings and the Lord of lords as He continues to increasingly pour out His Holy Spirit on all flesh!

Revival meetings will be continuing this weekend in Australia’s capital city of Canberra on Saturday 17th at 6.30pm & Sunday 18th April at 10am & 6.30pm.  The venue is the Canberra High School, Bindubi Street, Macquarie.

Pr Daniel has cancelled hisPastors and spouses at altar weekend schedule in Melbourne to get back to Canberra to continue ministering in the ongoing Revival of the Holy Spirit and Fire! We at CTFM and many others across the wider Body of Christ are in awe of what the amazing Holy Spirit of God is doing in our nation’s capital of  Canberra!

Pr Daniel stated, “In the past 13 years I have ministered in Canberra on several occasions, but I have never ever experienced such an open heaven in our capital city to see the supernatural manifestation of the Holy Ghost and power of God. On the contrary,  I have told my ministry team that Canberra is the hardest place to breakthrough in all of Australia as there has previously been such a spiritual darkness over this city. But glory to God we are beginning to see the light of the glory of God breaking through as the demonic powers of darkness are losing their hold over the Capital of our nation of Australia. What the Spirit of the Lord is doing right now in Canberra is very significant for the Body of Christ and all of Australia. As our capital city Canberra increasingly catches the fire of the Holy Ghost revival, I believe that the Body of Christ and rest of our nation will experience a great breakthrough for the advancement of the Kingdom of God. I pray that manmade structures of religion, tradition, and political correctness will not get in the way of God’s divine glory and presence coming down from heaven to transform the earth.” (more…)

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Residents stunned as hundreds of fish fall out of the sky over remote Australian desert town

Lajamanu in Northern Territory of AustraliaFish falling from the skyBy Richard Shears – 2nd March 2010

Residents of a small outback Australian town have been left speechless after fish began falling from the sky.
Hundreds of spangled perch bombarded the 650 residents of Lajamanu, shocking local Christine Balmer, who was walking home when the strange ‘weather’ started.

She said: ‘These fish fell in their hundreds and hundreds all over the place. The locals were running around everywhere picking them up.
 
Lajamanu resident Christine Balmer took this picture of some of the spangled perch she collected in a bucket after they fell out of the sky
 
Remote: Lajamanu is 400 miles south of Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory

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The Priority of Praise

Woman praising GodCharisma Magazine – 23 February 2010 – David Morris 

God views praise and worship as high spiritual priorities. Praise, meaning “value” or “price,” is the proclamation of God’s importance or worth.

Many of the praise and worship expressions in the Scriptures were exhibited around David’s tabernacle and are still culturally functional for today. As defined in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, some of these Hebrew and Greek words are “ingredients” for the posture of worship and service to God.

Towdah is an extension of the hand. It implies a choir of worshipers lifting their hands (see Ps. 100:4).

Shabach is to lift the voice in a way that addresses someone of importance (see Ps. 63:3).

Yadah implies holding out one’s hands toward an intimate embrace. In this sense it is not an admission of surrender but of deliberate desire for closeness with God in worship (see Ps. 142:7).

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Revival Ongoing in Canberra, Australia – Notorious Gang Leader / Drug Dealer Surrenders to Jesus

Catch The Fire MinistriesDear family & friends in Christ in Australia and around the World,
 
All glory and honour to Jesus the King of kings and Lord of lords for the ongoing Revival in Canberra, the capital city of Australia, in this Great South Land of the Holy Spirit!

Pr Daniel is still ministering in an ongoing Revival of salvations, deliverances, healings, miracles, signs and wonders in Canberra!

Tonight Tuesday the 13th of April the meeting will be held at the Canberra High School, Bindubi Street, Macquarie, at 6.30pm. Contact Pr Glen on 0414705847 for more details.

Yesterday, the consuming fire of the Holy Spirit swept through the place as many people soaked in the manifest presence of almighty God during the  worship service that went on for more than 4 hours. Although it was a Monday night, the place was packed out with people desperate for a life changing encounter with a miracle working God. Many people were asking Pr Daniel to stay in Canberra throughout the week to continue the ongoing Revival meetings, but unfortunately due to other commitments he will not be able to do so.
 
There was deep intercession and travailing in prayer as the holy presence of God gave people a real deep love for their nation of Australia. Many people reported that they could not sleep at night, as they were crying to the Lord of the harvest for souls to be saved.

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Mighty outpouring of Holy Ghost in Canberra, Australia – Revival meetings extended for Mon & Tues nights

Pastor Daniel preachingDear family & friends in Christ,
 
1) Are we in Australia currently living in the end time outpouring of the Holy Spirit before the 2nd Coming of Jesus, which Smith Wigglesworth prophesied nearly 100 years ago?

Yes, we at CTFM and many others in the Body of Christ believe it is so, as our nation of Australia is beginning to experience an ever increasing and unprecedented move of God’s Holy Spirit!

Pr Daniel ministered in several revival meetings in Canberra over the weekend where the Spirit of the Lord did exceedingly abundantly above all he could ask or imagine! Many Christians from many different churches in Canberra stated, “We have never seen anything like this in our city!”
 
Each service went on for more than 4 hours as people were born-again into the Kingdom of God, and many others were healed, delivered, and set free from demonic spirits!  As many demonic spirits left the people, they screamed and shouted, and some people had to be held down by 4-5 people. Most people who had never seen anything like this were amazed at the power of God demonstrated in the meetings.
 
People just burst into intercession and warfare prayer at every meeting. The worship team from the Samoan church led the people into high praise and worship to the King of kings and the Lord of lords as people at the meeting were absolutely consumed by the mighty presence of the Holy Ghost!
 
Pr Daniel stated, “I am so excited to see God move so powerfully in our Capital City of Canberra. This is certainly God’s kairos time for revival and reformation in Australia. We cannot afford to miss this opportunity. I was so excited to hear the testimonies of lesbians and witches who were born-again and set free from their bondages. Jesus loves everyone. People are desperate to encounter the living God. I have never seen such a hunger for God in Canberra in the past 13 years I have come to this city. This is the first time I felt such an open heaven over the place. I believe with all my heart that our spiritual warfare prayer mission on Mount Ainslie from last October 2009 played a big role in seeing this breakthrough.”
 
Pr Daniel has postponed his return flights to Melbourne and has re-arranged his busy schedule in Melbourne to stay back for 2 more nights of revival meetings in Canberra as he feels that this is God’s kairos time for Canberra. Tonight Monday the 12th of April the meeting will be held at 6.30pm at the Pavilion Hotel at 242 Northbourne Ave. We will inform you of the venue for tomorrow night or call Pr Glen on 0414705847 for more details.

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