07A-06 Christian Top Wires

Father Imprisoned in Egypt for Sharing Christian Faith on Facebook Declares Hunger Strike – CBN.com

Father Imprisoned in Egypt for Sharing Christian Faith on Facebook Declares Hunger Strike – CBN.com

pgnewser August 22, 2024

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Abdulbaqi Saeed Abdo is behind bars for something many do every day: he posted on Facebook.

Abdo, a Yemini asylum seeker, has been in prison for two-and-a-half years because — after converting from Islam to Christianity — he began discussing theological matters in a private Facebook group with other recent converts to Christianity.

The Alliance Defending Freedom International, the religious liberty advocacy group representing Abdo, recently announced the persecuted believer has declared a hunger strike in a recent letter sent to his wife and family.

Kentucky high school student Micah Price denied diploma after praising Jesus in his ‘off-script’ graduation speech – MSN

Kentucky high school student Micah Price denied diploma after praising Jesus in his ‘off-script’ graduation speech – MSN

pgnewser August 22, 2024

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A Kentucky high school allegedly held a graduate’s diploma when the student went off script during his graduation speech to preach his belief in Jesus.

Micah Price received the green light to praise Jesus Christ in his commencement speech at Campbell County High School in Alexandria, KY on May 24, but followed his address with “urging other Christians to stand up.”

Christian mission has standing to pursue constitutional claims against Washington state, Ninth Circuit says – Courthouse News Service

Christian mission has standing to pursue constitutional claims against Washington state, Ninth Circuit says – Courthouse News Service

pgnewser August 14, 2024

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A Ninth Circuit panel found Monday that a Christian ministry in Washington state had standing on its claims that the state’s anti-discrimination law may potentially unconstitutionally restrict its decisions on hiring employees.

The three-judge panel determined a federal judge in 2023 improperly dismissed a Christian ministry’s lawsuit against Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson and other state representatives and reverses that ruling. The panel held that the Union Gospel Mission of Yakima, a Christian organization in central Washington, had standing for its claims under Article III, in a case questioning the constitutionality of the Washington Law Against Discrimination.

The Washington Law Against Discrimination prohibits religious organizations from exclusively hiring employees of a certain faith unless the position is ministerial.

British Politicians Want to Legalize Killing People in Assisted Suicides– www.lifenews.com

British Politicians Want to Legalize Killing People in Assisted Suicides– www.lifenews.com

pgnewser August 14, 2024

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With the world focused on the Olympics, the American elections, the war in Gaza, and the shifting balance of war in Ukraine, the topic of assisted dying is flying under the radar.

But in the United Kingdom, it is high up on the political agenda. Lord Falconer, a former Lord Chancellor who has been lobbying for legalisation of assisted dying for years, says that with Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister, Britons have a once-in-a-lifetime chance to change the law.

“This is such an opportunity,” he told The Observer. “The last time this was voted upon, there was a clear vote against it in the Commons. But of the 650 MPs who were present in 2015, 477 of them have gone. It’s a completely new House of Commons with a wholly new atmosphere, with a prime minister who is saying: ‘You must decide as a free vote – and if you decide in favour, the government will make sure that procedural stratagems don’t doom the bill.’”

As columnist Polly Toynbee, an ever-reliable voice for progressive policies, put it: “It will join the roll call of great liberal reforms that only happen under Labour.” (These include abortion and divorce reform, gay rights, ending the death penalty, decriminalising suicide, and reform of obscenity laws.)

 

Gold Medalist Turns Olympic News Conference Into Worship Concert, Sings Powerful Praise to Jesus– www.westernjournal.com

Gold Medalist Turns Olympic News Conference Into Worship Concert, Sings Powerful Praise to Jesus– www.westernjournal.com

pgnewser August 14, 2024

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At its core, professing the Christian faith means believing with all our heart that God brings light out of darkness.

Thus, it should not surprise us when we see it happen, but it still has the power to amaze.

At a press conference on Friday at the woke and blasphemous Olympics in Paris, gold medalist Yemisi Ogunleye of Germany responded to a moderator’s question by breaking into a gospel song in praise of Jesus.

To his credit, the moderator prompted Ogunleye with a question seemingly designed to call forth a worshipful hymn.

“Yemi, is it true you sing in the gospel choir?” he asked.

U.S. Justice Department Secures Expansion of Religious Rights for North Carolina Inmates – Hoodline

U.S. Justice Department Secures Expansion of Religious Rights for North Carolina Inmates – Hoodline

pgnewser August 14, 2024

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The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Justice Department have struck a deal with the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (NCDAC) to expand religious freedoms for those within the state’s prison system. This arrangement will allow increased access to group worship and kosher-for-Passover meals, ensuring observance opportunities for religious holidays like Passover, according to a statement by the Justice Department.

Federation of Indian-American Christian organizations demands U.S. sanctions for India’s ‘religious freedom violations’ – Muslim Mirror– news.google.com

Federation of Indian-American Christian organizations demands U.S. sanctions for India’s ‘religious freedom violations’ – Muslim Mirror– news.google.com

pgnewser August 14, 2024

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More than 300 Christian leaders in the United States, including denominational heads, are calling on the U.S. State Department to designate India as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) due to escalating violations of religious freedoms, particularly against Christians. The leaders, representing a wide range of denominations and Christian organizations, have expressed concern over the increasing violence and “systemic persecution under the Hindu nationalist government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi”.

In a letter sent earlier this month, the leaders, including 18 bishops, three archbishops, and numerous clergy, highlighted the worsening situation for religious minorities in India since Modi’s government came to power in 2014. The letter, organized by the Federation of Indian-American Christian Organizations in North America, is the first concerted effort by U.S. Christian leaders to address religious persecution in India.

The letter attributes the surge in violence to a “Hindu ethno-nationalist or Hindutva supremacist political ideology,” which it claims has distorted both the Hindu religion and India’s constitutional secular democracy. This has led to state-sanctioned violence against Christians, Dalits, and other religious minorities, both in public and within state institutions.

12,000 Viable Babies are Killed in Late-Term Abortions in America Every Year– www.lifenews.com

12,000 Viable Babies are Killed in Late-Term Abortions in America Every Year– www.lifenews.com

pgnewser August 12, 2024

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… Only a handful of abortionists in the United States perform late abortions. One of them, Warren Hern of Colorado, was profiled in The Atlantic.

He specializes in abortions late in pregnancy—the rarest, and most controversial, form of abortion. This means that Hern ends the pregnancies of women who are 22, 25, even 30 weeks along.

In The Atlantic interview, it is noted that, “Hern is reluctant to acknowledge any limit, any red line. He takes the woman’s-choice argument to its logical conclusion…”

Rovner trots out her trump card, Katrina Kimport, a medical sociologist and professor at the University of California at San Francisco, who has interviewed “more than 50 women who terminated pregnancies after 24 weeks.”

There is nothing new in Prof. Kimport’s report, certainly nothing that challenges the number of late-term abortions which Rovner dismisses as “vanishingly small.”

John McCormack of National Review, put this “vanishingly small” number in context:

NBC’s Dasha Burns pointed to the fact that 1.3 percent of abortions happen at 21 weeks or later, but 1.3 percent of 930,000 total abortions still equals 12,000 unique human beings killed each year at 21 weeks or later, when babies are capable of feeling pain and sometimes capable of surviving outside of the womb. There are fewer than 12,000 total gun homicides in the United States each year. Burns, in an attempt to minimize the horror of late-term abortion, actually ended up agreeing that late-term abortions do in fact happen in the United States.

Maryland Amendment Allows Abortions Up to Birth, Destroys Parental Rights– www.lifenews.com

Maryland Amendment Allows Abortions Up to Birth, Destroys Parental Rights– www.lifenews.com

pgnewser August 12, 2024

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In an interview regarding Maryland’s “Reproductive Freedom” amendment, parental rights advocate Deborah Brocato told CatholicVote how the proposal, which is supposedly focused on expanding abortion, will have a significant impact on parental rights.

Brocato, who has four children, is a retired intensive care unit nurse who has advocated for parental and family rights for 30 years. She chairs HealthNotHarmMD, a ballot initiative committee in Maryland that fights “to preserve parental rights, preserve constitutional rights, and maintain healthcare integrity by defeating the deceptive ‘Reproductive Freedom’ amendment.​”

Brocato discussed the “Reproductive Freedom Amendment” on the Maryland state ballot in November, which reads,

That every person, as a central component of an individual’s right to liberty and equality, has the fundamental right to reproductive freedom, including but not limited to the ability to make and effectuate decisions to prevent, continue, or end one’s own pregnancy. The State may not, directly or indirectly, deny, burden, or abridge the right unless justified by a compelling state interest achieved by the least restrictive means.