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Friday, July 8, 2016

Speaking Up for Persecuted Middle East Christians - CBN News Chris Mitchell


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Speaking Up for Persecuted Middle East Christians
07-08-2016
CBN News Chris Mitchel
JERUSALEM, Israel – After more than two years, the U.S. State Department finally admitted what already seemed clear to most of the world: ISIS is on a genocidal rampage against Middle East Christians.
With that diplomatic declaration, religious leaders are wondering when the Church in the West will step up and speak out about this historic persecution.
From world leaders to authors on the front lines to Christian humanitarians, the alarm is going out over the plight of Christians in countries besieged by ISIS.
"Daesh is responsible for genocide against groups in areas under its control, including Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims," Secretary of State John Kerry said.  
Tom Doyle, author of "Killing Christians," said "We're hearing of more and more crucifixions. We're hearing (about) young boys being killed."
"We're witnessing a once in a 2,000-year crisis and it's not an exaggeration to say that we can see the elimination of Christianity in the place of its birth," Christian humanitarian Johnnie Moore said.
Even though the Church in the Middle East is suffering genocide, some say the Church in the West could do more to stand with their fellow believers.
Moore has been working with big names such as Mark Burnett and Roma Downey to bring attention to this tragedy.

"We're blind again just like we were blind at the Holocaust, just like we were blind at the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian genocide, the Armenian genocide, we're not learning," Moore told CBN News. "But what's even more shameful and despicable about this is we are the strongest community in the world as Christians and the Church isn't even speaking up as it could."

Some believe the lack of action in the American Church lies in the pulpit, not in the pews.
"The pulpits in America have largely been silent on this issue of their fellow brethren around the world," historian David Barton told CBN News.
Barton collaborated with pollster George Barna on a nationwide survey of Christian conservatives.

They asked pastors and parishioners about 22 specific issues. Results showed parishioners put religious persecution as their number two area of special interest, with 86 percent wanting more information on the issue.
The same subject, however, didn't even register with their pastors as a topic to address with their congregations.
"So you have 86 percent of American Christians saying we need to hear about this.  We gotta be informed on it and pastors saying, 'ummm don't think I want to talk about that,'" Barton said.
"So there's this real dichotomy right now on persecution in American churches at least addressing the subject and certainly when you start addressing the subject then you're more likely you'll do something about it and that's really what Christians in the Middle East need. They need outside help. They can't save themselves. It's going to take outside help."

One Christian woman spoke with CBN News about the need for that help. As ISIS plowed across Iraq, she and her family fled their Christian village of Quraqhosh.
"Until now we can't even imagine this happening to us. It's like a dream. Everything was so normal. Our life was so comfortable and suddenly everything changed," she said.
Changed by terrorists with a deadly goal.
"They don't want any Christians to live in Iraq," she explained. "They want to kill them all or have them leave or become a Muslim."
Doyle, who has worked with the persecuted Church for years, says Christians need
to open their hearts and eyes.

"We need the pastors to speak up. This is your family," he said. "And I know what it's like to be a pastor because I did that for 20 years and so many times you're so consumed within your four walls, but we're connected around the world. We are completely connected. This is family. They may worship a little different from us.  They may look different. They may speak a different language, but they love Jesus with their whole heart."

Ironically, the Jewish community is filling the void.
"It's sort of nonsensical, but history repeats itself. One of the great allies for the displaced and persecuted Christians of the Middle East presently is the Jewish community," Moore said.
"The Jewish community sees a repetition of history, and it was the Simon Wiesenthal Center, the center that specializes in the study of genocide, that first said it was genocide against Christians in the Middle East."

Barton said rabbis recognize that Christians need to wake up.
"I'm hearing this from Jewish rabbis who are saying we appreciate the support. We appreciate you siding with Israel, guys, you got to save Christians, you got to stop this genocide," he said.
"So it's amazing that Jews who have been through this and get reminded of it – things like Yad Vashem and it's all around the country. They're saying Americans, Christians, wake up! You've got to save the Christians that are having the same Holocaust that we went through. And I find that powerful when it's being delivered by Jews who have been through it themselves. And they're now saying, Christians, wake up! It's your turn." 

"We're got to help these people, the way we hope someone would help us," Moore said. "We have to pray for them the way we hope someone would pray for us. We have to give to them the way we hope someone would give to us. And we have to speak up for them the way we hope someone would speak up for us."

Monday, December 14, 2015

Fierce Female Christian Warriors Take on ISIS - BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

A female battalion of Kurdish soldiers. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

A female battalion of Kurdish soldiers. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)


Fierce Female Christian Warriors Take on ISIS

“Be strong, and let us fight bravely for our people and the cities of our God. The Lord will do what is good in his sight.” (2 Samuel 10:12)
Fifty Syriac Christian women in Syria’s Hasakeh region have left their homes, families, and jobs behind in order to join an all-female battalion formed to fight the growing menace of the Islamic State.
The battalion, known as the “Female Protection Forces of the Land Between the Two Rivers” – those two rivers being the Tigris and Euphrates – graduated its first recruits in August. So far, about fifty women have graduated from its training camp in the town of Al-Qahtaniyeh.
Syriac Christians, who pray in the ancient Aramaic language, follow the eastern Christian tradition. Both Orthodox and Catholic branches exist within the community, which makes up about 15 percent of Syria’s Christian population.
The Christian community in Syria constituted about five percent of the country’s total population before the conflict with ISIS began. Since then, the militant Islamic state has systematically driven thousands of Syrian Christians from their homeland and killed and enslaved thousands more.
The women in the new all-female battalion are eager to join the resistance against ISIS. Some credit their religious values with the desire to enter the fight. According to the Times of Israel, one fighter, Babylonia, 36, told AFP, “I’m a practicing Christian and thinking about my children makes me stronger and more determined in my fight against Daesh (ISIS).”
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She said that her husband, also a fighter, encouraged her to join the battalion, leaving behind their two children. “I miss Limar and Gabriella and worry that they must be hungry, thirsty and cold. But I try to tell them I’m fighting to protect their future,” she told AFP.
Indeed, the future is dark for women and children under the control of ISIS, which has notoriously built a network of sex slavery, trading and selling kidnapped and enslaved women throughout their territory.
The battalion has already seen action, fighting alongside the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is made up of a coalition of Kurdish, Arab and Christian fighters, to capture the strategically located town of Al-Hol. The victory was significant for the SDF, as the town lies on a key route between ISIS-controlled territory in Syria and Iraq.
The Syriac Female Protection Forces are not the first all-female fighting unit to face ISIS. Last summer, a unit made up of Yazidi women, who are among the most persecuted under ISIS, formed to take on the sprawling jihadist state, which has kidnapped and killed thousands of Yazidis.

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Is France Bombing Syria the Start of World War 3? - JESSILYN JUSTICE CHARISMA NEWS

A French fighter jet prepares to take off to bomb Raqqa, Syria.

A French fighter jet prepares to take off to bomb Raqqa, Syria. (Reuters)



Is France Bombing Syria the Start of 

World War 3?


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Rumors of the beginning of World War III have swirled for weeks, but with France retaliating against the Islamic State, could this be it? 
French President Francois Hollande called the attacks on Paris an "act of war," before responding with bombs of their own against the Islamic State, which has claimed responsibility for the violence, according to multiple reports.
"It is an act of war that was committed by a terrorist army, a jihadist army, Daesh, against France," Hollande said, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. "It is an act of war that was prepared, organized and planned from abroad, with complicity from the inside, which the investigation will help establish." 
Some, like Pope Francis, are calling the attacks and rebuttal "piecemeal World War III," according to Catholic News Agency. 
The violence is indeed the worst the French capital has seen since World War II, with 129 dead and hundreds of others injured.  
And while there have been calls for prayer, people like Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Joann Sfar asks people to not #PrayForParis. 
"Friends from the whole world, thank you for #prayforparis, but we don't need more religion," Sfar, said. "Our faith goes to music! Kisses! Life! Champagne and Joy! #Parissaboutlife."  
The disinterest in faith, combined with the violence and natural disasters the world's experienced in recent weeks, are all part of Jesus' "beginning of sorrows" prophecies in Matthew 24:6-8:
"You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled. For all these things must happen, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines, epidemics, and earthquakes in various places. All these things are the beginning of sorrows," Jesus said.  
He continued: "Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. And you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake. Then many will fall away, and betray one another, and hate one another. And many false prophets will rise and will deceive many. Because iniquity will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come" (Matt. 24:9-14).

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Thursday, October 22, 2015

New Report Finds Mideast Christians May Disappear in Less than a Generation - JNS/Breaking Israel News

The cover of the Aid to the Church in Need report, “Persecuted and Forgotten? A report on Christians oppressed for their Faith 2013-2015." (Photo: Aid to the Church in Need)

The cover of the Aid to the Church in Need report, “Persecuted and Forgotten? A report on Christians oppressed for their Faith 2013-2015.” (Photo: Aid to the Church in Need)


New Report Finds Mideast Christians May Disappear in Less than a Generation


“For I am the LORD your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.” (Isaiah 41:13)
A report from the United Kingdom-based Catholic charity group Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has found that Middle East Christians, especially in Iraq and Syria, are “on course for extinction” within a generation or sooner.
The report—titled “Persecuted and Forgotten? A report on Christians oppressed for their Faith 2013-2015”— finds that the time period from October 2013 to July 2015 has been “catastrophic for many Christians in the regions where persecution is worst,” such as in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
The report blames “religio-ethnic cleansing” that is being powered by the “well-publicized threat of genocide” as the main factor behind the persecution of Christians.
“Be it in Syria, Iraq, Nigeria or parts of east Africa, the growing threat of militant Muslim groups—notably Daesh (Islamic State)—has prompted hundreds of thousands to flee” and that is “the primary cause of the contraction of Christians—changing from being a global faith to a regional one, with the faithful increasingly absent from ever-widening areas,” said the report.
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Christianity is on course for extinction in many of its biblical heartlands within a generation, if not before,” the report concluded.
Joop Koopman, communications manager for ACN, told JNS.org that the despite the report’s grim findings, “there has yet to be a popular outcry among Christians in the U.S or in Western Europe.”
“Part of the reason seems to be is that Christian beliefs—when it comes to marriage, gay marriage and such—are seen as oppressive in the West, which neutralizes the outrage that should be evident at the treatment of Christians in the Middle East,” Koopman said.
Koopman went on to urge “top Christian leadership in the U.S. to marshal their grassroots constituencies and force genuine political action—in the form of more military action on behalf of Christians in Iraq and Syria, as well as a recognition that Christians are victims of persecution at home and therefore eligible for asylum in the U.S.”

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/51838/mideast-christians-may-disappear-one-generation-middle-east/#tOaMt588EibJmkcL.99

Friday, June 12, 2015

New Bible Codes Point to the Destruction of ISIS by 2016

New Bible Codes Point to the Destruction of ISIS by 2016

“A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing. There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him” (Proverbs 6:12-16)
In a startling discovery released on June 2, Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson, prolific author and one of the world’s leading experts on Bible Codes (also known as Torah Codes), published a video on YouTube suggesting that ISIS will be destroyed between now and 2016 by the messiah, son of Joseph, known in Hebrew as Mashiach Ben Yosef.
Glazerson cautioned Breaking Israel News that these codes should not be understood as a prediction. “I found Ben Yosef appearing there next to [the code that ISIS will be destroyed]. This fits with the idea that Mashiach Ben Yosef will lead the wars against the enemies of Israel… As this is a known idea, such a table is not a real prediction.”
In Jewish tradition, Mashiach Ben Yosef is the predecessor of the messiah, son of David (Mashiach Ben David), the ultimate redeemer of the Jewish people. Glazerson explained that Mashiach Ben Yosef “will fight the evil forces against Israel”.
Rabbi Matityahu Glazerson describing his Bible Code discovery that ISIS will be destroyed by 2016.
The theory behind Bible Codes is that the 304,805 Hebrew letters in the Torah were written with Divine intelligence and contain hidden patterns and letter sequences that reflect important events in Jewish history. One technique used in locating Bible Codes is called equidistant letter sequences. This means that Hebrew words are spelled out by starting at a letter and repeatedly skipping an equal number of letters until a meaningful word is spelled. These words are referred to as Bible Codes. Computer programs such as the one Glazerson uses, help researchers locate significant codes embedded in the Hebrew Biblical text.
Glazerson credits Haim Sade, a fellow Bible Codes expert, who sent him the table in which these codes were found. In the 4-minute video released on June 2, Glazerson points out multiple encoded Hebrew words, all found within the same block of Hebrew letters taken from the Book of Numbers.
The most significant hidden codes are three Hebrew words that imply that ISIS will be destroyed by Mashiach Ben Yosef.  By pointing out related Bible Codes, Glazerson hints that the dates of the destruction will be during the Hebrew years 5775 and 5776, which correspond to the secular years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016.
Of course, the word ISIS does not appear in the Hebrew text. Instead, ISIS is referred to DAESH, an acronym that stands for Dar al Islam al Sham. DAESH is the name by which Hebrew speakers refer to ISIS.
In the same block of text is the Hebrew word keitz, which refers to the End of Days. Also nearby, in equidistant letter sequences, is the word Mashiach. Within the span of letters that spell out Mashiach is the word that means “rise up”. The implication is that, just as the Bible predicts, Mashiach will rise up.
In another part of this same block of Biblical text, also in equidistant letter sequence, are the words Ben Yishai, the son of Jesse. This is an unmistakable reference to King David and to Mashiach Ben David, since the ultimate Jewish redeemer must descend from King David.
The table from which all of these Bible Codes were derived comes from the Book of Numbers which, according to Glazerson, is significant because the Book of Numbers is where we look for “the events which are going to happen before the coming of the Mashiach.”
The discovery of Bible Codes supports the traditional Jewish belief that the words of the first five books of the Bible were dictated to Moses by God, letter-by-letter.
Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/42382/new-bible-codes-point-to-the-destruction-of-isis-by-2016-jewish-world/#tD9CSAWI8WYXDvMV.99