Son of Hamas’ tells Jerusalem Post conference: Islam is the problem

Jerusalem Post ^ | May 22, 2016 | ARIEL BEN SOLOMON

Mosab Hassan Yousef – the “Green Prince” – who worked as an Israeli spy, said “the Jewish nation is dear to me and when I see nations fighting against the Jewish people it hurts me.”

Speaking at The Jerusalem Post’s annual conference in New York on Sunday, Yousef noted that at one point he was working for and being paid by Israel, the US, the PA and Hamas, all at the same time.

Yousef, the son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef, helped the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) thwart attacks from 1997 to 2007. He later went on to write an autobiography published in 2010 titled Son of Hamas.

He converted to Christianity and fled to the US where he was granted political asylum.

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Pastor Brian Houston Responds to Criticism Over Hillsong NYC Youth Pastor Dressing as ‘Naked Cowboy’ During Church Conference

The Christian Post – Anugrah Kumar – June 04, 2016

Hillsong Senior Pastor Brian C. Houston had responded to reports that his megachurch’s youth pastor went on stage dressed up as the “Naked Cowboy” during last month’s Colour Conference in New York City. He wasn’t naked but still it “won’t happen again,” he said.

“Bobbie – my wife – who was convener of the conference was clearly unaware that this was going to happen and was taken back by it,” Houston wrote on his blog Friday, referring to the conference held May 6 and 7, where a Hillsong youth pastor imitated Times Square’s street performer “Naked Cowboy,” or Robert John Burck, who wears only cowboy boots, a hat and briefs, with a guitar placed strategically to give the illusion of nudity.

ChurchWatch Central, a website that says it monitors “various sects and movements that claim to be Christian,” posted a video of the NYC event and criticized Houston and his church, which has locations in Sydney and other cities in Australia and also in London, Cape Town, Kiev, Germany, Paris, Moscow, Stockholm, New York City and Copenhagen.

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Christians In India Beaten, Forced to Flee by Hindu Extremists for Refusing to Convert

June 08, 2016 – Express – Katie Mansfield

EXTREMISTS forced dozens of Christians to flee after torturing them and destroying their homes.

29 Christians were beaten after refusing to reconvert to Hinduism in the village of Katholi in India.

Hindu extremists went on the rampage at a public meeting and vandalised their homes.

The extremists started a vendetta against the families, including eight children, and performed rituals ahead of the public meeting and repeatedly ordered the families to convert.

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Churches See Ramadan as a Time to Pray for Muslims

June 06, 2016 – CBN News

Churches across the country are participating in an annual 30 days of prayer for the Muslim world.

It begins today, coinciding with Ramadan, an important month of fasting and religious observance for Muslims.

The 30 days of prayer for the Muslim world is an international movement that began in 1993. Christians worldwide are called to make an intentional and respectful effort during that period to learn about, pray for and reach out to Muslim neighbors.

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A must watch speech from Donald Trump at the Republican Convention

Dear friends & family in Christ,

Daniel Nalliah stated today, “I watched Donald Trump’s speech twice and I must state that it’s one of the best speeches I have heard in my lifetime.

I fully agree with almost everything he said and hope he is elected as President of USA and not Hilary Clinton.

Yes, it is true that some very good candidates contested the republican party race for nomination to run for presidency.

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Franklin Graham Calls Out Pakistan for Considering a New Law Allowing Husbands to Beat Their Wives

Leah Marieann Klett : Jun 2, 2016 : Gospel Herald

“Islam wants to put you behind a veil of horror. With true Christianity, women are treated with dignity and respect. Jesus Christ elevated women, and if you put your faith and trust in Him, He will never let you down.”

Franklin Graham has warned “women of the world” that Islam wants to put them behind a “veil of horror” after the leader of a Pakistani Islamic council proposed a bill that allows husbands to “lightly beat” their wives as a form of discipline. 

Last week, Mohammad Khan Sheerani released a 75-page proposal suggesting that a light beating with a stick is acceptable should the need arise to punish a woman.

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Joyce Meyer Sees ‘a Ton of Compromise In the Church Today’; Says Christians Can’t Be Like the World and Be an Example to the World

May 24, 2016  – The Christian Post – Stoyan Zaimov

Christian author and speaker Joyce Meyer says she’s seen a good deal of compromise and giving into the ways of the world going on at church, and warns believers that society often blurs the lines between right and wrong.

“There is a ton of compromise in the church today. We can’t just be like the world, and be an example to the world,” Meyer said in a sermon to her congregation in St. Louis online on Monday.

“The lines are getting really blurred out there about what is even right, and what’s wrong,” she added.

Meyer explained that God calls people to be happy and holy, which she said are not mutually exclusive conditions, but warned Christians that they need to be careful about the situations and people they engage with.

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Bangladesh: Muslims murder wife of anti-terror cop and Christian grocer

June 5, 2016 – By Robert Spencer

“Babul Aktar is an efficient police officer and played a key role in apprehending Islamists. They might have killed his wife because they failed to get him.” Will the Islamophobia never end?

DHAKA — The wife of a senior Bangladeshi police official known for battling Islamist militants was stabbed and shot to death on Sunday, and machete-wielding assailants killed a Christian grocer in a separate incident.

Both attacks appeared to be the work of Islamist militants who have killed at least 30 people, including religious minorities, liberal bloggers and academics, since February last year, police said.

Three assailants riding a motorcycle stabbed and then shot Mahmuda Aktar, 33, while she was on her way to put her son onto a school bus near her home in the southeastern port city of Chittagong, police said.

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Evangelist Will Graham Returns to Australian Outback, Reaps a Great Harvest from Others’ Dedicated Sowing

Erik Ogren : Jun 3, 2016 : BillyGraham.org

“In Alice Springs we harvested fruit that we did not sow. Particularly among the indigenous people, Dr. Bell and other missionaries planted the seeds of faith in Jesus Christ decades ago, and we were able to see the result last weekend.”

Evangelist Will Graham returned to Australia last week – a continent on which he’s preached biannually since 2010 – to share the hope of Jesus in the arid Outback. The three-day event, titled Reality, was held May 20-22 at Blatherskite Park in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. (Photo via Billy Graham Evangelistic Association)

Alice Springs is located in the approximate center of the continent, nearly equidistant between Darwin on the northern coast of Australia and Adelaide on the southern coast.

In this remote town of 28,605, nearly 6,000 people attended the weekend event.

“Some of you have a broken life and God doesn’t use band aids. God wants to completely change you,” said Graham from the podium. “Salvation is a Person and His name is Jesus. Jesus can change everything in life. He can change your life tonight!”

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Germany: “Fear and panic” among Christian refugees as Muslims persecute them

June 4, 2016 – By Robert Spencer 

“I really didn’t know that after coming to Germany I would be harassed because of my faith in the very same way as back in Iran.” Welcome to the brave new multicultural Germany.

“Growing concern for German churches: Muslim refugees harassing Christians,” by Tom Heneghan, Deseret News, June 3, 2016:

Germany’s refugee crisis is challenging the country’s main religious groups as they try to balance a welcoming attitude to the mostly Muslim migrants and concern for the welfare of the minority Christians among them.

Increasingly, accounts of Muslim migrants ganging up on Christians and other minorities in refugee shelters have raised concerns.

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Why Is Christianity Thriving in Nepal?

By Jo Anne Lyon , Op-Ed Contributor – March 3, 2016

Christians in Nepal.

Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me — put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. – Philippians 4:9

In Nepal, Hinduism reigns as the primary religion — out of Nepal’s population of 28 million, Christians make up less than 1.5 percent. Recently, the former Hindu kingdom adopted a new constitution that declared the country a secular state.

Under the new constitution, the freedom of religion is technically upheld but attempting to change or convert someone from one religion to another is punishable by law. In addition, Christianity remains socially unacceptable, often inciting violence and oppression. While you can legally choose your religion in Nepal, Nepali Christians continue to suffer inequality and persecution as they have for decades.

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