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Underground Christian TV beaming Jesus into Iran!

Christians are the most persecuted religious minority group in Iran. Iranian believers, especially those who convert from Islam to Christianity, are routinely imprisoned and labeled as threats to national security.

Since 2006, a secret television station known as Mohabat TV has been beaming the Good News into Iran from multiple secret locations and gaining souls for Christ.

Mohabat TV

Iranian authorities don’t like it one bit, but as we’ve seen in the past, “the blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church” (Tertullian, 2d century Christian).

A Mohabat spokesman says the harsh treatment of Christians is reportedly fueling church growth as new Christians in Iran risk arrest, torture and death to spread the Good News to others.

See the video news report embedded @ “Tired of Islam, Iranians Ask ‘Who Is This Jesus?'” By George Thomas – July 28, 2014
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2014/July/Tired-of-Islam-Iranians-Ask–Who-Is-This-Jesus/

The Mohabat TV website
http://www.mohabat.tv/default.aspx?l=1

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A heart in tune with God can’t help but sing His praise.

“Time flies when you’re having fun.” This cliché has no basis in fact, but experience makes it seem true.

When life is pleasant, time passes all too quickly. Give me a task that I enjoy, or a person whose company I love, and time seems irrelevant.

My experience of this “reality” has given me a new understanding of the scene described in Revelation 4. In the past, when I considered the four living creatures seated around God’s throne who keep repeating the same few words, I thought, “What a boring existence!”

God's throne room - Revelation

I don’t think that anymore. I think about the scenes they have witnessed with their many eyes (v.8).

They do not rest day or night, saying: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!” —Revelation 4:8

I consider the view they have from their position around God’s throne (v.6). I think of how amazed they are at God’s wise and loving involvement with wayward earthlings. Then I think, What better response could there be? What else is there to say but, “Holy, holy, holy”?

Is it boring to say the same words over and over? Not when you’re in the presence of the one you love. Not when you’re doing exactly what you were designed to do.

Like the four creatures, we were designed to glorify God. Our lives will never be boring if we’re focusing our attention on Him and fulfilling that purpose.

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An Our Daily Bread meditation by Julie Ackerman Link

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ISIS: Beheading Christian children in Iraq

CNN BREAKING CHRISTIAN HOLOCAUST ISIS BEHEADING KIDS! [2:41]

“Christianity in Mosul is dead, and a Christian holocaust is in our midst,” said Mark Arabo, a Californian businessman and Chaldean-American leader. In an interview with CNN’s Jonathan Mann, he called what’s happening in Iraq a “Christian genocide” and said “children are being beheaded, mothers are being raped and killed, and fathers are being hung.”

“Right now, three thousand Christians are in Iraq fleeing to neighboring cities,” he told Mann. Arabo is calling on the international community to follow France’s lead and offer the Christians of Iraq asylum.

Muslim anti-Christian

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Innovative way to save babies

Church of the Resurrection

The Roman Catholic Church of the Resurrection in Lansing, Michigan, leased the building housing Womancare abortion clinic … and handed the abortionist an eviction notice.  The church plans to use part of the building for parish office space; a pro-life group will use the rest.

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Church Leases Building Housing Abortion Clinic and Kicks Them Out

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Selective Outrage

The world does not seem to care when Muslims kill Muslims or Christians. But when Jews try to defend themselves, there is outrage.

MEDIA Gaza vs Syria

There’s a similar dynamic with racial violence in the U.S.  Black on black or black on white … crickets.  White on black crime?  Red-faced, spittle-spewing outrage.

Sources:
H/t GP
http://www.facebook.com/AskDrBrown/photos/a.190367064322237.55437.109430102415934/958800887478847/?type=1

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Killing and dying as a form of worship

Son of Hamas

July 24, 2014: CNN interview with the son of the founder of Hamas

“Hamas is not seeking coexistence and compromise. Hamas is seeking conquest.”

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Chinese Christians Fight Govt to Keep Crosses

2014_07 Chinese govt removing crosses

Chinese Christians Clash With Police Over Church Cross – July 21, 2014

Chinese Christians see Bible for the first time

Source:
Chinese Christians Fight Government To Keep Their Crosses On Their Churches By Didi Tang- July 25, 2014
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/25/china-church-cross_n_5620653.html

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“To offer oneself to God, in witness to the Gospel of Life.”

Little Sisters - Down

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Women With Down Syndrome Respond to God’s Call

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Singing la la la

2014_07 Obama did nothing for Meriam Ibrahim

The whole ordeal allegedly began when Meriam Ibrahim’s half brother and half sister cooked up the idea that, if they turned her in to the Sudanese Muslim court, they could take possession of her assets.

Although Meriam was raised in her mother’s Ethiopian Orthodox faith and is married to her American Christian husband, the barbaric Sudanese court found her guilty of apostasy and adultery. She was sentenced to 100 lashes to be followed by hanging.

While awaiting the birth of her second child, Meriam and her toddler son were locked up in the the filthy women’s prison at Omdurman where Meriam was forced to give birth with her legs shackled to the floor.

Meriam is Sudanese; her husband and children are AMERICAN CITIZENS.

  • The British Embassy coordinated meetings between Meriam and her lawyers.
  • The Canadian Embassy donated an air-conditioning unit and other items to assist during and after the difficult birth.
  • When international pressure finally forced the Sudanese government to release Meriam and the children, the Italian government sent a plane and a government official to fly the family to Rome, where Pope Francis met with them privately.

Throughout this entire ordeal, Barack Obama said and did exactly NOTHING.

  • If you’re gay, he will declare on your special day that you should never have to face violence or discrimination.
  • If you’re crossing the Rio Grande illegally, INS will ignore the fact that you’re a felon who has been thrown out of the country repeatedly.

But if you’re the Christian wife of an American who has been shackled in a prison by a barbaric Muslim government with your tiny American son and daughter, the Obama administration will put their collective fingers in their ears and sing la la la.

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Update: ISIS in Iraq

2014_07 26 ISIS blows up Jonah's tomb

The Mosque of the Prophet Younis (Jonah) was built on an archaeological site dating back to the eighth century BC and is said to be the burial place of the prophet, who in stories from both the Bible and Qur’an is swallowed by a whale.

It was renovated in the 1990s under Iraq’s late dictator Saddam Hussein and, until the recent blitz by Isis that engulfed Mosul, remained a popular destination for religious pilgrims from around the world.

Islamic State (ISIS) militants BLEW IT UP, because they decided it had become a place for apostasy, not prayer. They also blew up another place of worship nearby on Thursday, the Imam Aoun Bin al-Hassan mosque.

The ISIS militants have seized a huge chunk of territory straddling the Iraq-Syria border, and have declared a self-styled caliphate in the territory they control. They’ve been destroying Christian places of worship and targeting Christians and their homes and businesses. They are also cutting off water to Christians and Kurds in regions they do not control.

This is the first I’ve heard of them going after Muslims who aren’t Muslim enough to suit them. During a fundraiser this week, President Obama described the situation in Iraq as “the failure in Iraq for Sunni and Shia and Kurd to compromise.”

Words fail me.

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