Christianity 'Close To Extinction' In Middle East

[Gary Oak]

Putin has just lost a lot of lustre in my eyes. IS he trying to bring back the old Stalinist USSR ? What are his motives ? I watching a video last night of Obama mocking the bible. He simply would never mock the koran in such a manner. He is lying whenever he said that he was a Christian.


End Time Persecution Is Here: Russia Just Banned Evangelism
News Image By Michael Snyder - End of The America Dream Blog July 14, 2016
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We always knew that this was coming. For years, the horrifying persecution of Christians in the Middle East has made headlines all over the globe, but now we are seeing very disturbing examples of government-sanctioned persecution literally all over the planet.



As you will read about below, Russia just banned virtually all types of evangelism outside of a church or religious site. And China has been tearing down thousands of crosses and has been demolishing dozens of churches in a renewed crackdown on the growth of Christianity in that nation.

Overall, there are 53 countries that now have laws that restrict the Christian faith according to one recent report. When are we going to wake up and realize what is happening?

When I heard about the new law that was just passed in Russia, I was absolutely stunned. I was in Moscow just a few years after the Berlin Wall fell, and the people were very eager to hear about the Christian faith which had been brutally repressed under the Soviet regime for decades.

Sadly, Russia has now decided to revert back to the old Soviet ways. This new law, which Vladimir Putin wanted, represents almost a complete and total ban on sharing the gospel...

The law, which will come into force on July 20, will prohibit evangelism anywhere outside a church or religious site - including private homes and online - and those in breach of it will be fined.

Only named members of religious organisations will be able to share their faith, and even informal witnessing between individuals is forbidden.

According to the New York Times, this ban also includes "preaching and praying" that is done outside the boundaries of "officially recognized" religious institutions.

In recent years, I have defended Russia in many of my articles. But there is no defending this.

This new law is the single worst thing that Russia has done since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and they should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

Meanwhile, government officials in China have launched a renewed crackdown on Christians as the underground church continues to grow like wildfire.

According to some reports, the government has torn down more than 2,000 crosses in Zhejiang Province alone in recent months...

More than two thousand crosses have now been forcefully removed from churches as part of a government campaign to regulate "excessive religious sites".

The nation's leadership launched the crusade to eradicate Christianity in the coastal province of Zhejiang almost two years ago.

Several members of the public have since been arrested for attempting to halt the government's crude attempt to suppress the Christian faith.

But sometimes government officials don't stop there and decide to tear down an entire church. In fact, since the beginning of this year at least 49 churches have been destroyed in Zhejiang Province. Just recently, one group of believers defied the government and returned to their destroyed church to hold a worship service...

Christian worshipers gather to worship among the ruins of their demolished church, defying the Communist Chinese government anti-Christian drive. These congregants in China' Wenzhou, Zhejiang province conducted a prayer service despite their church building demolished by the government officials.

Zhuyang Church, which was a government-sanctioned church, was routed as a part of an unprecedented church demolition drive. On May 20, the church was demolished by about 100 government officers took down the church building authorized despite the fact that it had the government authorization to operate.


The church member said that the only reason the official could provide for church' demolition was that the church was "transforming the villages in the city."

But even the churches that have been left standing in Zhejiang Province are also feeling the pain of the crackdown. According to China Aid, there is a new law that is forcing many churches "to turn over all of their tithes and donations to state authorities"...

The communist government of China's Zhejiang Province is enforcing a new law that demands numerous churches to turn over all of their tithes and donations to state authorities.

According to a nonprofit Christian organization dedicated to serving the persecuted Church in China, the officials of Pingyang County in Wenzhou are compelling members to give all of their churches' income to state authorities.

"The government officials will interfere with church affairs, managing our donations and some large-scale projects," a source told China Aid.

For so long, most Americans have considered the Chinese government to be our friend. But that is not true at all. The communist Chinese are a corrupt, wicked regime that has always been deeply anti-Christian. Anyone that believes otherwise has simply been deluded.

Meanwhile, the persecution of Christians continues to intensify in many parts of Africa. Just recently, a mother of seven children was "hacked to death" by Islamic radicals in Nigeria for openly preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ...

A Christian mother of seven was hacked to death by suspected Muslim radicals in Nigeria and her mutilated body was discovered in a pool of blood along with a Bible and megaphone she used to preach every morning.

According to local reports, 41-year-old Eunice Olawale, a pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of Nigeria and an evangelist, was murdered in the early morning hours on Saturday while she was out evangelizing near Nigeria's capital of Abuja.

Olawale's husband, Olawale Elisha, told local media that his wife had left their home around 5 a.m. Saturday morning to preach in the neighborhood but she never returned home.

Ever since the first century, Christians have been martyred for publicly preaching the gospel, and we were warned that this kind of terrible persecution was coming in the last days.

Of course Christians in the Middle East don't exactly need to hear about "the coming persecution" because they have been living it for many years. Christians are being tortured, beheaded and crucified by radical terror groups such as ISIS, and in other areas of the Middle East the persecution is being imposed on a national level by the government. For instance, just check out what is happening right now in Pakistan...

"The government of Pakistan has announced plans to force Islam on young people by making Quranic study compulsory for all school and college students, which is contrary to the country's constitution and the Islamic precept that there should be no compulsion in religion.

This is the latest escalation of the country's bias against Christians, other minority faiths and non-believers," said Peter Tatchell, Director of the human rights organisation, the Peter Tatchell Foundation.

"Pakistani Christians, including children, are at risk of kidnapping, forced marriage and forced religious conversion to Islam. Some are also victims of blasphemy charges, which carry the death penalty. There are regular violent assaults on Christian families, homes, shops and churches.

The persecution of the end times is here.

All over the planet, the Christian faith is under assault. In the western world we may not have to face much violent persecution just yet, but our faith is relentlessly mocked, ridiculed and demonized on television, in the movies and on the Internet.

Laws that are anti-Christian in tone and substance are regularly being passed, and many of our top politicians are not even pretending to be fair to us any longer.

Just like in much of the rest of the world, we are starting to discover that there is a great price to be paid for following Jesus Christ.

In Matthew 16, Jesus told us that if anyone would choose to follow Him, that individual should "deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."

Are you ready to take up your cross?

The persecution of Christians is only going to get worse in the years ahead, and in order to make it through what is coming we need to be ready to give up everything for Him.

http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/articl ... ews_id=492

[Blue Frost]

Not again, that's really sad to here. Christianity broke out big time after the fall of the USSR, there wasn't any more hiding.
This is Stalinist, but that's who he is, not a good guy like some portray him. He has some great ideas, and wont back down, but pushing the state/himself isn't good.

[Gary Oak]

this is how I feel too

[Blue Frost]

[Gary Oak]

It appears that there are plenty of seriously persecuted Christians in the muslim wolrd to fill Obama ,Trudeau and the libtards quota and none of them will go jihad yet 99% of their refugees are those who support Shariah law which condones sex slavery of non muslim girls and boys, killing non muslims etc...

[Blue Frost]

Those people are who our immigration system is set up for, but they let scum in instead a lot of times like these Muslims Obama wants.

[Gary Oak]

This is what the politically correct call multiculturalisms cultural enrichment. The question is France a better country before or after this muslim horde of psycho beggars flooded in.

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The Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a French church Tuesday in which an elderly priest was killed and four hostages seized. The two attackers, whom the terror group described as "soldiers," according to the Associated Press, were later shot and killed by police.

Another person inside the church, near the Normandy city of Rouen, was seriously injured and is hovering between life and death, Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said. The priest's throat was slit, officials said.

The Islamic State’s Amaq news agency made the claim of the militants' involvement, according to SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S.-based organization that monitors extremist online activity. However, it was not clear whether the assailants had direct contact with the terror group.

"The two executors of the attack on a church in Normandy, France, were soldiers of the Islamic State," the news agency quoted the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, as saying. "They executed the operation in response to calls to target countries belonging to the crusader coalition."

At a news conference in the town, French President Francois Hollande said the attackers "claimed to be from Daesh," using another name for the terror group.

© AP Emergency services transport a person into a waiting ambulance in Normandy, France, Tuesday Calling it a “vile terrorist attack,” Hollande said the incident was yet another sign that France is at war with the Islamic State, which has claimed a string of attacks on France. “We must lead this war with all our means,” he said.

Hollande and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve rushed to the town, which lies in north-central France about 75 miles northwest of Paris.

Later, a local Muslim leader told the AP that one of the attackers was on French police radar and had traveled to Turkey.

Mohammed Karabila, president of the Regional Council of the Muslim Faith for Haute-Normandier, told the AP that “the person that did this odious act is known, and he has been followed by the police for at least a year and a half.”

He said the attacker “went to Turkey and security services were alerted after this.” He had no information about the second attacker, according to the AP.

Five people – the priest, two nuns and two worshippers – were inside the church in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, near Rouen, when it came under attack, the AP reported.

Three people were rescued unharmed, Brandet said. The hostage-taking occurred during morning Mass, he told reporters.

Britain’s Guardian newspaper quoted Brandet as saying that the church was surrounded by the BRI, France’s “anti-gang brigade,” which specializes in kidnappings, and that “the two assailants came out and were killed by police.”

Brandet, speaking on BFM TV, said personnel were searching the church and the surrounding area for possible explosives.

Archbishop Dominique Lebrun of Rouen identified the slain priest as 84-year-old Father Jacques Hamel.

A local woman who worshipped at the church told the Guardian that Hamel was “a man who did his job to the end. He was elderly but was always available for whoever. He was a good priest.”

In a statement from Krakow, Poland, where Pope Francis was visiting, Lebrun said, “I cry out to God, with all men of good will. And I invite all non-believers to unite with this cry … The Catholic Church has no other arms besides prayer and fraternity between men.”

The Vatican also issued a statement about the “terrible news.”

“We are particularly moved,” it said, “because this horrific violence took place in a church, a sacred place where the love of God is declared, with the barbaric killing of a priest and the involvement of the faithful.”

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/isi ... ailsignout

[Blue Frost]

France is on the verge of a civil war, and Germany is getting tired also with all this stuff.
I would hope the Army, and UN would keep out of it.

[Gary Oak]

Obama's muslims have easier access to Christians now

How An Entire Church Ended Up On An ISIS Kill List

Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/articl ... L3DvdmW.99

[Blue Frost]

One church had you must pay painted on it just two days ago I believe, it was by Obama's invaders he let in.

[Blue Frost]

[Blue Frost]

[Blue Frost]

[Blue Frost]

Sick Muslims, yes muslims as a whole, they support this, and other atrocities, and follow a pedo.
Whats not sick, it's the truth of the matter, i just said what their hate filled books does.

[Gary Oak]

How is islam compatible with the American constitution ? Muslims demand freedom for themselves and all others are for their use and exploitation.

[Blue Frost]

It's not compatible with anything but Islam, I think they all should be banned from staying here, and funding stopped from other countries like the Saudis do in so many places.

[Gary Oak]

I am not sure that they are even compatible with each other. They are so negative. It's no wonder that even in muslim majrity countries the shiites and sunnis are kiling one another,

[Blue Frost]

All over who should have ran it after their Pedo died.

[Gary Oak]

Islamic countries are disfunctional because muslims are disfunctional. 7,000 Christians have been killed by muslims in the last year ! And Obama or Trudeau have yet to consider this worth mentioning.

Media Silent As Persecution Of Christians Escalates

Reports from mission organizations around the world tell us that millions of Christians are being persecuted for their faith, with more than 7,000 having been murdered just within the last year. However, few in the West are hearing about it as the media ignores the growing threat that Christians face.

A recent survey mapped out the most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian. This year's list, recorded using a points system, reveals persecution of Christians is actually on the rise.

Highlights were as follows:

- North Korea has been named the most dangerous place in the world to be a Christian for the 14th year running.

- Iraq has replaced Somalia as the second most dangerous place to be a Christian.

- Eritrea, now nicknamed the 'North Korea of Africa' due to high levels of dictatorial paranoia, follows at number three.

- Afghanistan, Syria and Pakistan, in that order, comprise the next three most difficult places for Christians.

- Somalia, Sudan, Iran, and Libya make up the final four of the top ten countries in that order.

- From the rest of the countries, the lowest ranking country in 2013, Niger, had 35 points. This year's lowest ranking country, Oman, had 53 points, still an increase of more than 50 percent.

- India, the second most populous country in the world, has seen persecution levels rise dramatically for the third straight year, rising to number 17 from a ranking of 31 in 2013.

Lisa Pearce, CEO of Open Doors UK & Ireland, said: "This is a cause of great concern. Many countries have dropped down the list, not because persecution there is decreasing, but simply because others are getting worse faster."

Pearce added with a mixture of concern and hope: "The persecution of Christians is getting worse, in every region in which we work - and it's getting worse fast. In many parts of the world, despite the pressure and the often terrible cost, the church continues to grow. There is always hope, and yet we are in unmarked territory - the pace and scale of persecution of Christians is unprecedented and growing fast."

Indications are that, by geographical spread, most of these deaths and persecutions are carried out by Muslims. Christian charity Open Doors, (separately described a humanitarian relief organization that specializes in helping Christians who are persecuted worldwide), compiled the list.

The organization said extreme Islamic fundamentalism is rising most sharply in sub-Saharan Africa, where more people are killed for their Christian faith than anywhere else in the world.
From an individual country perspective, North Korea is by far the biggest culprit and antagonist against the Gospel of Jesus Christ and Christians. Mansfield noted that in North Korea it is estimated 70,000 Christians are currently in prison or labor camps because of their faith- which is illegal under Kim Jong-un's regime. Christians are forced to worship in secret and risk torture and death to do so.

Iraq has been named the second most dangerous place in the world to be a Christian where the church is on the brink of being wiped out. Christians have been increasingly persecuted by Islamic extremists.

The Christian population or Iraq has been decimated from two million in 2003 to less than 200,000 today. Thousands were forced from their homes when Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists captured large swathes of territory. Christians in Iraq face abduction, sexual abuse and death threats at the hands of the extremists.

In Syria, Christians have been targeted by crazed jihadis as well as being caught up in the ongoing civil war. With an estimated 772,000 Christians, it is forbidden to be a Christian in ISIS- controlled areas. In areas outside of ISIS control, it is illegal for people to convert from Islam. Christian villages have been attacked by ISIS terrorists and it is estimated 3,000 Christians were forced to leave their homes in February 2015 alone and hostages were executed.

In recognition of the scale and ferocity of these persecutions, a petition with more than 400,000 signatures has been submitted to the UN calling for the Security Council to formally declare the persecution of Christians in Iraq and Syria as genocide.

In a separate report by Hollie McKay published in FoxNews.com, only a handful of mostly sick or elderly Christians remain in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa, and Syrian Christians fear the forces that have brought that city's population of Gospel followers to the brink of extinction could do the same for the entire nation.

An estimated dozen Christian families are still in the northern city, forced under threat of execution to convert, pay an "infidel" tax or go into hiding. Forbidden from leaving, they are also in danger of dying from attacks directed at ISIS by Damascus, Russia, and the U.S.-led Western coalition.

"We are trying to help them escape or stay safe, in hiding," said Ayman Abdel Nour, executive director of Syrian Christians for Peace. "Their life is horrible. The people of Raqqa are being forced to live like it was 1,400 years ago."

The Rev. Ibrahim Nseir, pastor of the National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon and the Presbyterian Church in Aleppo, told FoxNews.com from the conflict-torn city: "We are facing terrorist action in the whole geography of Syria...They are destroying our churches, killing and kidnapping Christians, stealing our homes and our businesses."

In Eritrea, believers have been imprisoned in metal shipping containers in scorching temperatures and forced to work long hours of manual labor.

In Afghanistan, it is believed there are just a few thousand Christians, as those converting from Islam risk arrest. Buildings used as underground churches have been attacked and ex-pat Christians have been killed.

Based on these reports, it would seem that Christians within the West are much safer. Not quite - as a recent reminder by Chris Tomlinson for breitbart.com would indicate. Tomlinson's report makes reference to a new study showing that potentially thousands of Christians have been attacked and harassed in German migrant homes by Muslim guards and fellow migrants.

Markus Rode, a member of Open Doors said that the study is only "the tip of the iceberg" and called for more action to address the problem, Frankfurter Allgemeine reported. Volker Baumann of Action for Persecuted Christians (AVC) claimed that up to 40,000 Christians are being persecuted for their faith in Germany according to the group's research.

Baumann joined Rode and several others who represent Christian charities at a press conference where they recommended that the German government house Christians in separate homes, increase the number of non-Muslim security guards, and reach out to Christian migrants who may not report incidents of abuse for fear of reprisal from Muslims in their asylum homes.

It's not just in Germany either. According to Breitbart London reports, Christian refugees now in European asylum homes are finding more and more that they are in as much danger from radical Muslims in Europe as they were in their home countries. Most attacks include verbal insults, physical assaults and death threats against themselves and family members.

The perpetrators of most of the attacks were fellow migrants who look down on converts and believe them to be apostates. More interesting was the prevalence of Muslim security guards who participated in the attacks.

Almost half of those surveyed said they had received abuse from security guards and in the German capital of Berlin the figure rose to two-thirds. Many of the security guards hired to keep order and protect migrants regularly come from migrant backgrounds themselves and even more often have no qualifications.

In Berlin, Christian refugees were threatened after they refused to take part in Islamic prayers with Muslims from Iran and Afghanistan. About 80% of refugees surveyed say there's a need for separate accommodation for Christians and Muslims. Others say seminars should be held for all refugees on German law, rights and the freedom of religion.

Such arguments, of course, are purely academic where the invaders do not recognize the rule of law, refuse to assimilate into the culture, and there is no enforcement of the law by the host country.

Perhaps there has never been a greater time or need for support of Christians under persecution throughout the world. The prayers, giving and encouragement from Christian organizations and individuals towards alleviating the sufferings of their fellow brothers and sisters in Christ remains critical.

The forces of Satan and darkness are hard at work to steal, kill and destroy in these last days with the prime target being true believers in Jesus Christ.

However, the words of Jesus still ring true today, more than ever before regarding His church: "...the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it". (Matthew 16:18b).

Read more at http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/articl ... p6VRqjE.99

[Blue Frost]

ISIS had made it a point to kill any Christians, or any other religious people, the media knows this.
What gets me is the US involvement, it makes me angry, and sick thinking about it. Damn Obama, and those supporters.