U.S. Muslim Planned to Massacre Christians in Church
Khalil Abu-Rayyan is a 21-year-old Dearborn Heights, Michigan, man who gets excited by thoughts of beheading Americans, burning people alive and throwing homosexuals off of tall buildings. Beyond these fantasies, he’d actually made plans to shoot up a church full of Christians in Detroit, according to court records documenting his Internet conversations with an undercover FBI agent. According to affidavits filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit, he told the FBI he had already picked out a church for his bloody rampage. It was located less than a half-mile from his place of employment. He chose this church because it was large – up to 6,000 members – and he knew it would be an easy target.
“A lot of people go there. Plus people are not allowed to carry guns in church,” the FBI affidavit quotes him as saying. “Plus it would make the news. Everybody would’ve heard. Honestly I regret not doing it. (If I) can’t go do jihad at the Middle East, I would do my jihad over here.”
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Coach Defies Orders, Prays at Football Game
BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — A Washington coach who was told by district officials to stop leading prayers after games went ahead with a prayer at the 50-yard line after a weekend game.
The Kitsap Sun reports Bremerton High assistant coach Joe Kennedy knelt as his players left the field and prayed on Friday. Players from the other team and others joined him.
It’s unclear what the district will do. Messages left the district’s attorney as well as district officials were not immediately returned Sunday.
Superintendent Aaron Leavell has said Kennedy’s long-standing practice runs counter to the constitutional mandate for separation of church and state. He said in a statement before the game that staff must refrain from religious expression while on duty.
Kennedy’s law firm, Texas-based firm Liberty Institute, says the district has no right to ban the coach from personally praying. They say he didn’t encourage or discourage students from participating.
Information from: Kitsap Sun, http://www.kitsapsun.com/
Officials Defend School Prayer in Oklahoma and Alabama
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has taken a high profile stand for religious freedom.
Pruitt officially told the state board that governs sporting activities that it can no longer ban student prayer at school sports events.
He argues that a current policy blocking public prayer at playoff events is too broad.
“You just can’t uniformely, arbitrarily say, ‘We are going to allow all speech except religious speech,’ and that is why it is overbroad,” Pruitt said.
For more on this story see: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2015/October/Officials-Defend-School-Prayer-in-Oklahoma-Alabama/
A shooting took place Thursday at Umpqua Community College in Oregon where witnesses said the gunman specifically targeted Christians.
Fox News reports that the shooter, Christopher Harper Mercer, killed at least nine people and wounded at least seven, although some sources believe the death toll could be as high as 13.
The shooting took place in the small town of Roseburg, Oregon where witnesses said Mercer shot victims in a number of classrooms.
One student, Kortney Moore, said her Writing 115 teacher was shot in the head. The New York Post reports that another witness said the shooter began asking people about their faith.
“‘Are you a Christian?’ he would ask them, and if you’re a Christian, stand up. And they would stand up and he said, ‘Good, because you’re a Christian, you are going to see God in just about one second.’ And then he shot and killed them,” said Stacy Boylan, whose daughter was wounded in the shooting.
For more on this story see http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/02/witnesses-say-oregon-gunman-targeted-christians-in-community-college-shooting/?intcmp=hpbt1
Luis Palau Festival Draws 60,000 to Central Park
NEW YORK CITY — Evangelist Luis Palau is covering America’s largest city with the gospel. This weekend, his ministry is taking over New York’s Central Park with a festival that’s taken three years to plan. It takes days of work and hundreds of people to turn the famous park into center stage for City Fest, Palau’s latest Christian crusade — an outdoor service for 60,000 people. CBN News Efrem Graham toured the area with the evangelist as he sized up final preparations.
“It’s the largest one I have ever seen that we have used – except maybe Buenos Aires and Argentina, which was sort of large,” he said. “This one is so massive. And the city skyline, that is what really gets you.”
The vibrant 80 year old has personally preached to more than 30 million people in 75 countries.
It’s taken a long time and a lot of work to bring the good news to the Big Apple. Palau’s team partnered with city government and more than 1,700 churches three years ago to create NY City Serve. They then rolled up their sleeves to lift up the city’s poorest residents.
For more on this story see: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2015/July/Luis-Palau-Festival-Draws-60000-to-Central-Park/
Bibles Flood Into Cuba to Meet Growing Demand
Christians in Cuba received more than 83,000 Bibles earlier this month from the International Missions Board. The Bibles come at a time of growth in the evangelical church in Cuba. The Baptist Convention in Cuba is distributing the Bibles to believers in more than 1,000 churches all over the island.
Bibles have not been sold in Cuban bookstores for more than 50 years. The only place people can get one is at a church.
For more on this story see: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2015/June/Bibles-Poured-into-Cuba-to-Meet-Christianity-Boom-/
Scientists Introduce Worlds’ Smallest Bible
Scientists in Israel have created the world’s smallest Bible, a text so small that it could fit on the tip of a pen.
CNN reports the Nano Bible includes 1.2 million letters of the Old Testament etched onto a miniscule disc. To read the scripture, it would have to be magnified about 10,000 times.
To create the Bible, scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology used silicon that was 100 atoms thick and plate it with gold. The characters were engraved with a focused ion beam.
The Nano Bible is now being displayed at the Israel Museum’s 50th anniversary exhibit.
Duck Dynasty’s Si Robertson Says There’s No Such Thing as an Atheist
‘Duck Dynasty’ star Si Robertson, who’s known for being an outspoken Christian, told CP Voice earlier this week that as a Vietnam veteran he knows there’s no such thing as an atheist because when people find themselves in a life-threatening situation they cry out to God, saying, “please help me.” Discussing his new film “Faith of Our Fathers,” which tells the story of two Vietnam veterans — one a devout Christian and the other a skeptic — Robertson explained that the bonds soldiers develop in wartime are “thicker than blood, because they’ve faced death together.”
In an interview with CP Voice on Wednesday, Robertson, along with the film’s lead actor Kevin Downes, commented on how the Gospel is presented in the letters between the two men. “One is a skeptic. And there’s a lot of skeptics,” said Robertson. “I dont believe there’s a such thing as an atheist. Because there’s too much documentation. Our calenders are based on Jesus Christ.”
“Whether you believe in Him or not, every time you write down the day’s date you’re saying He’s here,” continued Robertson, who reiterated his point that when it comes to circumstances of life and death, there aren’t any atheists. “Because if you get in a serious bind, the first thing you’ll do is say [God,] please help me.”
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ISIS Trainer Turns to the Bible, ‘Sick of the Killing’
As Islamic State fighters continue to slaughter and behead Christians and others, some of its members 
are reportedly having encounters with Christ.
A Middle East missionary named “Julian” says a sheik who served as a jihadist teacher for ISIS has turned to the Bible because he became “sick of the killing.”
The Operation Mobilization missionary shared the story with Todd Nettleton on the Voice of the Martyrs radio show. Julian said the sheik was traveling home from Lebanon when he asked a taxi driver for a Bible.
“The taxi driver knew a Christian in Beirut who was very happy to give the guy with the beard a Bible and then, ‘Sir, would you like to tell us why you’re looking for a Bible?’ And his response was ‘I’m from Saudi. I’m a sheikh,’ which means a teacher of Islam,” Julian recounted the story. “‘I’ve been in Syria teaching the ISIS fighters jihad 101,’ the theology and the practice of jihad. ‘I’m sick of the killing. There must be something better than this.'”
VOM’s Nettleton explained, “He had come to see that the violence of ISIS was not the path to peace. He was tired of it; he wanted something else, and so he was interested in having a Bible. “
For more on this story see: ISIS Trainer Turns to the Bible ‘Sick of the Killing’
Get Ready to Be Shocked: The Church Divorce Rate
This is a game-changer. Talk about “an old wives’ tale.” You’ve heard it said that 1) 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce; 2) most marriages that do happen to make it are, nonetheless, unhappy, and 3) Christians are just as likely to divorce as non-believers. These claims, long understood to be research-based facts, never quite sat right with me. Still, admittedly, while these assertions do swim upstream against the flow of both our common sense and our common experience, we have, nevertheless, accepted them (present company included) as valid because – well, you know, because “social science …”
Here is the truth….
♥ The actual divorce rate has never gotten close to 50 percent.
♥ Those who attend church regularly have a significantly lower divorce rate than those who don’t.
♥ Most marriages are happy.
♥ Simple changes make a big difference in most marriage problems.
♥ Most remarriages succeed.
“‘But the divorce rate has been dropping,’ Feldhahn said. ‘We’ve never hit those numbers [the 50 percent figure]. We’ve never gotten close.’”
“And it’s even lower among churchgoers, where a couple’s chance of divorcing is more likely in the single digits or teens,” added CBN.
Additionally, the study determined that four-out-of-five marriages are happy. “That number flies in the face of the popular belief that only about 30 percent of marriages are happy.”
For more information on this story see: http://www.westernjournalism.com/flash-christians-actually-far-less-likely-divorce/
Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Church’s Right to Post Road Signs
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of a church’s right to post roadside signs where other signs are allowed.
The town of Gilbert, Arizona’s restrictions on Good News Community Church’s signs advertising church events violated freedom of speech because they were “content-based regulations of speech,” Justice Clarence Thomas wrote on behalf of all nine justices.
Senior Counsel David Cortman says, “The Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling is a victory for everyone’s freedom of speech. Speech discrimination is wrong regardless of whether the government intended to violate the First Amendment or not, and it doesn’t matter if the government thinks its discrimination was well-intended,” he said. “It’s still government playing favorites, and that’s unconstitutional.”
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/supreme-court-unanimously-upholds-churchs-right-to-post-road-signs-140584/#oFd7JpZdYdc0LGwt.99
Abortions Drop 12% in the United States
A new national report from the Associated Press indicates that abortions have dropped 12 percent nationwide and are down in almost every state in the country as more babies are being saved from abortions than ever before.
The survey found abortions are dropping the most in states that have passed the most pro-life laws, but abortions are down even in pro-abortion states that haven’t passed as many pro-life laws. Those figures make it clear that national pro-life educational efforts, pregnancy support services and pro-life prayer and educational campaigns at abortion clinics nationwide are making a difference in providing women with abortion alternatives.
For more on this see: http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/08/abortions-drop-12-in-the-united-states-as-more-babies-saved-from-abortion/
Khalil Abu-Rayyan is a 21-year-old Dearborn Heights, Michigan, man who gets excited by thoughts of beheading Americans, burning people alive and throwing homosexuals off of tall buildings. Beyond these fantasies, he’d actually made plans to shoot up a church full of Christians in Detroit, according to court records documenting his Internet conversations with an undercover FBI agent. According to affidavits filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit, he told the FBI he had already picked out a church for his bloody rampage. It was located less than a half-mile from his place of employment. He chose this church because it was large – up to 6,000 members – and he knew it would be an easy target.
