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It seems as though the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is completely blind to the fact that God, who created the universe and redeems his people, cannot be stamped out through brute force. The CCP under Xi Jinping regards Christianity as a dangerous foreign import, with party documents warning against the "infiltration of Western hostile forces" in the form of religion. Retreat raided The Guiyang Renai Reformed Church is a small house church with fewer than 100 members. CCP agents banned the chur...

Mixed messages from the religious LNP Independent Australia 01 May 2021, 16:52 GMT+10 Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Liberal Government havent tried to hide their religious beliefs, yet have also displayed great hypocrisy, writes Bilal Cleland. UNDER THE HEADING A major party to protect our religious freedom, then backbench Senator Amanda Stoker, at the time of the 2019 Election, proclaimed: She went on to claim that the Labor, Greens and "left-leaning" independents threated such values:...

Faith leaders: More outside investigations of misconduct needed ‘There are people who are walking away from the faith altogether because of their experiences’ istock.com Former church members and employees of Vibrant Church in Columbus say church officials turned a blind eye to sexual harassment by lead pastor Jason Delgado, prompting one of the employees to file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. “The big conce...

Photo  -  Morning sunrise is like a fresh start, like conversion to Jesus Christ  Any number of my readers have rejoiced in the Lord to have been directly or indirectly involved in witnessing quite a number of young people acknowledge Jesus as their Lord and Saviour, in other words they have become Christians, followers of Jesus. They have made these very personal decisions from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences and speak of how the Lord guided them individually through this or th...

In China The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has long had a campaign to repress Chinese Christians. Most recently this has consisted of blatant destruction of churches, crosses and religious symbols. While these measures are devastating and very demoralising, they obviously have not been enough to wipe out faith. So a new law is to come into play in May 2021 to further subjugate Christians. Administrative Measures for Religious Clergy will come into force on 1 May 2021. To operate legally, religi...

Daily Monitor Monday March 08 2021 A photo montage of President Museveni (left) and his son Maj Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba (right), commander of SFC. Summary President Museveni highlights efforts that government has taken to ensure a peaceful country “Therefore, traitors, local parasites and their foreign backers, be informed that the forces that liberated Uganda and have defended it ever since, are there and will always do their duty. When it came to two days before the voting day, about 24,000...

Shasha Marley drops single ‘Enemies Are Not Jah’ LISTEN Enemies Are Not Jah. The veteran reggae singer and songwriter has been singing since his school days and is known for hit songs such as I Am Not Ashamed Of The Gospel, Promised Land, Queen Of Queens, Twin City Mafia, So Nyame Mu, among others. He has written and sung songs that inspires, educates and entertains his fans while still maintaining his originality. His latest single, Enemies Are Not Jah, with good rhythm and drum beat...

Recently, we got a phone call on the morning show and I have not been able to stop thinking about it. One of our listening friends called in, didn’t share her name, but immediately started sharing about worry. When she called us, she was going through a tremendous amount of fear, so much so that you could hear it in her voice. I thought she was going to start crying at any second because she was looking at the events of the past month and the circumstances in her life, our country, the world,...

Taking care of God’s vineyard Maseru-Father Lekhooa Lekhooa, 38, sees no theological contradiction in the Catholic Church’s decision to invest in business to secure and advance what he sees as “the Lord’s interests” on earth. It is that ideological clarity that was the driving force behind the decision by Father Lekhooa’s predecessors to invest in Sekhametsi Investment Consortium some 20 years ago. Father Lekhooa says he finds a stunning parallel in what the Church is doing to Jesus...

Letter: Biden leadership Following Democrats’ castigation of the senior California senator for her failure to more forcefully oppose the SCOTUS nomination of Justice Coney-Barrett, due to her conservative Catholic views, Democratic voters experienced a miraculous Christian conversion in electing Joe Biden, who reportedly attends mass daily, and quoted the Bible on the night of his election. After openly mocking the evangelical Christian views of Vice President Pence over the past four years, ...