A Growing Force to be Reckoned With: Iraqi Army Gains More Female Fighters Who Have Escaped ISIS’ Slavery

Leah Marieann Klett : Feb 10, 2016 : The Gospel Herald

“Now we are defending ourselves from the evil; we are defending all the minorities in the region. We will do whatever is asked of us.” –Capt. Khatoon Khider

(Iraq)—Hundreds of Iraqi women who were tortured and kept as sex slaves by the Islamic State have escaped and joined the Kurdish forces to exact revenge on the terrorist group.

According to a report from Fox News, a number of the 2,000 Yazidi women who escaped ISIS after their mountain stronghold was attacked in August 2014 recently signed up to fight against the jihadist group. So far, 123 women—dubbed the “Force of Sun Ladies”—are officially fighting alongside Kurdish Peshmerga forces, while another 500, ranging in age from 17 to 37, are waiting to be trained.

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Stephen Curry, Manny Pacquiao, Tiger Woods and Nike

2/22/2016- Michael Brown

Although Manny Pacquiao quickly apologized for his remarks about homosexuals, Nike dropped him like a hot potato. In contrast, Nike never dropped Tiger Woods despite the revelations of his serial adulteries, even though those led to the destruction of his marriage and worldwide public shame. Why the double standard?

Does Nike believe that it is far worse to make a passing, extremely derogatory comment about homosexuals—one for which Manny quickly apologized and asked forgiveness—than to betray one’s children and cheat on one’s wife, sleeping with a bevy of different women over a period of years (including several porn stars)?

Or could it be that, because Tiger is still worth more money, his transgressions are more forgivable?

While appearing on a local Philippines TV station, Manny said, “It’s common sense. Do you see animals mating with the same sex? Animals are better because they can distinguish male from female. If men mate with men and women mate with women they are worse than animals.”

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World’s Deadliest Terrorists Not In The Middle East

02-27-2016 – Christian Broadcasting Network

The world’s deadliest terrorist group is not in the Middle East. It’s in Nigeria, where Islamic regime Boko Haram and other violent groups killed more than 4,000 Christians in 2015.

According to a new report released by Open Doors, the death toll in the Northern part of the country has increased by 62 percent since 2014.

A decade of violence has nearly destroyed the church, killed thousands of believers, and driven away more than 1 million.

But for the first time, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) is doing something about it by endorsing a commitment to revive the church nationwide.

CAN which is comprised of Protestant, indigenous evangelical, Pentecostal and Catholic churches who believe that there is still a large Christian presence in northern Nigeria that has the potential to “unite and stand strong.”

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Franklin Graham Calls Charlotte, North Carolina, Transgender Bathroom Bill ‘Wicked, Filthy’

February 25, 2016 – The Christian Post

Franklin Graham, head of international relief organization Samaritan’s Purse, visits one of the organization’s cholera treatment centers in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, January 8, 2011.

The Rev. Franklin Graham criticized Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts and city council members who voted to pass a controversial ordinance that would allow transgender residents to use either a men’s or women’s bathroom, depending on the gender with which they identify.

“Shame on Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts and the city council members” for passing the ordinance, Graham wrote Tuesday, after the vote on the measure, which also says businesses can’t discriminate against gay, lesbian or transgender customers and applies to places of public accommodation, such as bars, restaurants, stores as well as taxis.

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Luter, on race relations, sees church as unifier

by Marilyn Stewart –  Thursday, February 18, 2016

NEW ORLEANS (BP) — Race relations issues have not improved since the election of the first African American U.S. president, but the church can lead in modeling reconciliation, said Fred Luter Jr., immediate past president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the first African American to hold the position.

Fred Luter, former SBC president speaking on a Black History Month video, underscored a unity rooted in Jesus Christ. “Regardless of your race, regardless of what side of the track you were born on, regardless of all the things the media and society have tried to do to divide us, we can be one.”

Luter, speaking on a Black History Month video, “Answering the Call” produced by New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, said, “I really thought this nation was ready to move forward” with the historic election of Barack Obama that garnered votes from Anglos as well as diverse ethnic groups.

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‘Migrant’ flood will sink western values

By Alec Rooney – February 08, 2016

A terrible paradox is at work as Muslims from the Middle East keep flooding into Europe, Britain and the United States, often with material help of western countries’ respective leaders.

Why are they coming?

Simple. They are coming because the west offers things that they do not have:

  • wealth
  • peace
  • jobs
  • progress
  • law and order
  • business opportunities
  • medicine
  • safe streets
  • charitable assistance
  • pretty surroundings
  • clean water
  • parks
  • roads and railways that work
  • systems of government that don’t let the police come to your house and beat up your dad or brother
  • New consumer products
  • safe food in clean restaurants
  • garbage collection

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Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart

Melbourne Archbishop Denis HartMELBOURNE, Australia, February 12, 2016 (LifeSiteNews)

MELBOURNE, Australia, February 12, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – A Catholic member of Australia’s Parliament won`t be giving the keynote address to Catholic social workers as scheduled because of her public support of same-sex “marriage.”

MP Cathy McGowan was going to speak to Catholic Social Services workers from all over Australia at a conference later this month until Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart asked that she be disinvited because of her open backing of same-sex “marriage” legislation opposed by the Church. The conference organizers complied.

Archbishop Hart’s spokesman Shane Healy told reporters, “There was no malice,” on Hart’s part, nor did he want to “in any way embarrass Cathy, but he would see with a conference such as this that the keynote speaker should be in line with Catholic teaching on that very important topic.”

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Syrian Website Thanks Israelis: “May You Always be Safe and Blessed”

Viva Sarah Press : Feb 22, 2016 : Israel21c.org

“Turned away from Arab countries, increasingly unwelcome in Europe, Syrian refugees have found support, aid and assistance from the last place they could have expected: Israeli and Jewish organizations and individuals.” -Aboud Dandachi

Israel)—[Israel21c] Aboud Dandachi, a Sunni Muslim from the city of Homs now living in Istanbul, has created a website dedicated to the Israeli and Jewish organizations and people helping Syrian refugees. (Screengrab via Facebook)

The website, Thank You Am Israel, highlights the humanitarian aid being given to displaced Syrians and also refutes any reasons why Israelis and Syrians should be enemies.

“As a Syrian, I am morally obligated to ensure that the goodwill that Israelis and Jews have displayed towards my people will not be overlooked nor forgotten. The day will come when the conflict in Syria will come to an end, as all things come to an end. On that day, it is imperative that Syrians reciprocate the enormous goodwill shown towards us by Israelis and the Jewish people. Whatever supposed reasons we may have had to be adversaries is dwarfed by the compassion shown to us during our darkest days, a time when we have nothing to give back except our gratitude,” writes Dandachi in a January opinion article on his site.

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Christians Who Escape Violence in the Middle East Face Persecution from Muslim Neighbors in Europe

February 21, 2016 – Marco Giannangeli

Churches have shown dedication to help the Christian refugees

Charity Open Doors says there has been a spate of incidents in northern France involving Iranian Christian converts being persecuted by Iraqi Muslims.

One Iranian convert has been murdered.

“Many Christians amongst the refugees are fleeing persecution and discrimination,” said Michel Varton, director of Open Doors France.

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What Really Happens in the 4 Most Common Abortion Procedures?

Brian Gottstein /Live Action : Feb 24, 2016 : Charisma News

“This unique window into the womb dispels the myth that abortions remove ‘clumps of cells,’ and instead shows that they kill real children with beating hearts and forming brains at just 3 1/2 weeks gestation.”

EDITOR’S NOTE: You’ve heard the faulty saying, “Ignorance is bliss.” There is NO bliss related to abortions. It’s so important to actually KNOW what happens with each kind of abortion procedure, and to not be ignorant; because I believe any abortion-minded person who actually takes the time to see the facts with their own eyes, will change their mind. These videos are NOT graphic, not actual ultrasound images, but animated demonstrations of what happens in each procedure–including RU486. Click here to view these videos. -Aimee Herd, BCN.

With the right to life as a major issue in 2016, pro-life investigative video producer Live Action released videos today aimed at changing the abortion debate in America. For the first time ever, a former abortionist will use medical animations to clearly depict what actually happens to a baby and her mother during an abortion.

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Indian doctor fights gendercide by delivering baby girls for free

PUNE, India, February 16, 2016 (LifeSiteNews)

As a child, Dr. Ganesh Rakh wanted to be a wrestler. Now he wrestles with one of India’s most destructive prejudices. The hospital he started in 2007 to serve the poor in the city of Pune, 60 miles southeast of Mumbai, delivers girl babies for free as part of his effort to reverse India’s murderous – and growing – preference for male children.

“As a medical professional I have seen the torture that a mother undergoes when she comes to know that she has delivered a girl,” Dr. Bakh told reporters, “because regressive social norms are not only anti-women but are even anti-girl child.”

Often wrongly termed infanticide, the Indian preference for males has led to an estimated 12,700,000 sex-selective abortions of girls from 2000 to 2014, according to the pro-life Population Research Institute. The Virginia-based PRI’s executive director, Stephen Mosher, says Indian gendercide is especially acute among the country’s middle class, which allow 800 girls to be born to every 1,000 males (the overall ratio is 927:1,000).

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U.S. Students Given Head Scarves to Wear on “World Hijab Day”: Can You Guess Their Parents’ Reaction?

Meira Svirsky : Feb 16, 2016 : United With Israel

“What lesson will they wear a Yarmulke in? Or the Christian cross? Or the Hindu turban? Funny how it always seems to be the Muslims they learn about, even in Common Core.” -Dan Lane

(Rochester, NY)—[United With Israel] School officials in Rochester, New York are getting flak from angry parents and teachers for holding an event in solidarity with World Hijab Day. The event, held at the school and during school hours, encouraged the high school girls to wear the Islamic headscarf for the day. Boys were given carnations to wear in solidarity.

Unsuspecting students put on the 150 headscarves that were brought by teachers before the first bell rang. They were encouraged to participate in the “cultural event” by the school’s principal Sheela Webster, who insisted the headscarf had nothing to do with religion, but rather all about the “experiential” and “was actually around learning about the cloth.”

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Owner of Ohio deli attacked by jihadi screaming “Allahu akbar”: “I am going to get a bigger Israeli flag”

February 15, 2016 – by Robert Spencer

This is what we need: defiance and courage in the face of evil. Instead, the whole West is surrendering, and calling it “respect.”

“EXCLUSIVE: Owner of Ohio Deli Targeted by Machete Terrorist: ‘We Are Israeli, We Fight Back,’” by Shiri Moshe, The Tower, February 14, 2016 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):

Hany Baransi has been serving authentic hummus and falafel in his central Ohio eatery for 27 years, proudly giving diners a taste of his Israeli Christian Arab heritage between bites of rich Mediterranean fare.

A sign bearing an Arabic greeting—“Ahlan Wa Sahalan”— hangs prominently near the glass doors of his Nazareth Restaurant & Deli in Columbus, through which passersby can also spot an Israeli flag. Baransi says he has always been outspoken about his Israeli identity, and so when his restaurant was attacked on Thursday evening by a machete-wielding man, he believed it was no coincidence.

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Aussie family group stands up to LGBT program for 11-year-olds

Feb 17, 2016

AUSTRALIA, February 17, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – An Australian Christian organization is warning school principals to keep out of a federally funded Safe Schools program that is pitched as anti-bullying but is actually promoting premature sexual activity and transgenderism.

The Australian Christian Lobby says many of the 500 principals who have permitted the Safe Schools program into their schools “are probably not aware of what Safe Schools is really promoting and may be unwittingly acting as agents for rainbow activists.”

“We are in a battle for the innocence of our children,” ACL spokesperson Wendy Francis told LifeSiteNews. The program, which was produced by an alliance of homosexual activist groups, is funded to the tune of $8 million by the federal government. All state governments have made it optional for each school, except for Victoria, which will require all schools to teach it by 2017. The state of Victoria provided initial funding for the Safe Schools Coalition.

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Che Ahn: “It’s Time for Bob Jones’ Prophesied Billion-Soul Harvest”

Lou Engle with Che Ahn via Facebook, Charisma News)Che Ahn : Feb 16, 2016 : Charisma News

Bob Jones was a crusty, eccentric prophet.

Well before he passed away on Valentine’s Day 2014, Bob gave a prophetic word sharing three signs that would take place before the arrival of a Billion-Soul Harvest.

Back in 1983 in Kansas City, he prophesied:

  • that in America a “morning-after pill” would be invented,
  • that America would legalize same-sex marriage (which was unthinkable at the time), and
  • that a watch would be invented that the laborers working in the rice paddies in China could wear and listen to worship music.

Right now we are in a prophetically unprecedented season, as the second and third signs in Bob’s prophecy took place just last year—most notably with the advent of the Apple Watch.

In this historic season, it’s perfectly clear to me that we are in a time of global harvest.

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