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‘LET’S BURN A CHURCH!’: LGBT Activists Threaten Church, UK Police Warn Pastor Not to ‘Offend’ Them

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A Christian pastor in the United Kingdom was told by the local police that if he offends the LGBT community with a social media comment he could be breaking the law, even though a pro-LGBT mob threatened to burn down his church.

Christian Concern, a UK persecution watchdog, reports Pastor Josh Williamson of Newquay Baptist Church, was warned by police to keep his views in a “safe environment” after being targeted by a wave of anti-Christian abuse, including threats of violence and calls for his church to be burnt down.

Last month, Williamson, 34, replied to a post on a local news outlet’s Facebook page that reported this year’s Cornwall pride event would be canceled. Williamson simply wrote, “Wonderful news!” under the post.

When he was questioned about his comment by another user, he replied, “because I don’t think sin should be celebrated.”

Answering more questions from other users, Williamson quoted what the New Testament says regarding homosexuality from the books of John, James, and 1 Corinthians 6:9-11.

Then on his personal Facebook page, he shared the news article and wrote, “Hallelujah!! We prayed at our prayer meeting on Tuesday night that this event would be canceled. We also prayed that the Lord would save the organizers. One prayer answered, now we wait for the second prayer to be answered.”

Cornwall Pride organizers saw Williamson’s personal page, took a screenshot of the post, and then tagged Newquay Baptist Church and posted it along with negative comments made by other users about gay pride. They then blocked out the names on each comment, making it appear that all of the comments were posted by the pastor.

The pastor’s wife also received online threats and his head was superimposed onto an image of homosexual pornography, which was then shared online.

The LGBT group then called on their supporters to report the pastor to the police for a hate speech/crime. Activists also made several threats, including protesting at the Newquay church’s Sunday services, having the church’s charity status revoked by the government, as well as threatening to have Williamson deported back to his native Australia.

Following the threats, Williamson was invited to a meeting with two members of the Cornwall pride group, which he accepted to share his beliefs. During the meeting, he shared his Christian beliefs and welcomed members of the LGBT community to attend his church. Before leaving the meeting, he asked permission to leave a leaflet with the pair on what the Bible says about homosexuality.

Images of the leaflet were later shared widely throughout the local LGBT community, creating the illusion the pastor was distributing the leaflet. This resulted in further calls for police to investigate the pastor for a “hate crime.”

A post for one LGBT group called for Newquay Baptist Church, which often houses families, to be burnt down. Another user agreed, responding: “LETS BURN A CHURCH! LETS BURN A CHURCH.”

Another user also threatened to perform a mass sexual orgy at the church, calling on the group to assault anyone who handed them the leaflet.

Williamson reported the threats to the Devon and Cornwall Police, who have been sponsors of the gay organization in the past. He was told that the situation was “complex” and that they did not believe anyone with the group would act on their threats.

The police said that they were working with both sides to pacify the situation, but also told Williamson that he should make sure not to offend anyone in the LGBT community in the future to avoid breaking the law, according to Christian Concern.

The pastor said he and the members of his congregation will not remain silent.

“My family and I, and our church community, have been very concerned by the level of anti-Christian abuse and threats of violence that we have been targeted with over the past few weeks,” Williamson said in a statement. “The police have not formally spoken to me about any hate crime or sought a witness statement to look at the various online comments which have included threats to burn down our church.”

“As Christians, we seek to speak the truth in love and would readily welcome all people to our services. The Bible, however, proclaims a message of repentance which calls on all people to turn from their sin and to trust in Christ. It would be unloving for us to remain silent about what God’s Word says in relation to human sin, including all forms of sexual sin. We, therefore, must proclaim the truth that homosexuality is a sin, but that God loves sinners and Jesus can forgive all our sins.”

“Newquay Baptist Church is made up of sinners who have been forgiven by a wonderful Saviour; since this is the case, we would invite all people, including the LGBT community, to come to our services. Our desire is that all would come to know and love Jesus,” the statement concluded.

Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre which is representing Pastor Williamson, said such threats against Christians who speak out against the LGBT community are becoming all to common in the UK.

“It’s becoming worryingly common in the UK to see threats and calls for violence against Christians for voicing their simple opposition to LGBT Pride. Police forces should show Christians they take this seriously by protecting their free speech against mob threats rather than by seeking to keep Christians quiet,” Williams said.

“Christians are called to repay evil with good – I have no doubt that Pastor Williamson will continue to share the reality of sin and the good news of Jesus Christ with the people of Newquay,” she added.
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‘Something Demonic in That’: The Real-Life Evil Driving Slaughter, Horror of Global Persecution

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By all accounts, Christian persecution is worsening across the globe. Joel Veldkamp, head of international communications at Christian Solidarity International, is among those who know the full extent of the issue, often observing its evils firsthand.

And these diabolical infractions — from killings to land seizure to discrimination — have a rooting, Veldkamp believes, in the overarching spiritual battle between good and evil.

“I think the way the Bible speaks about how the powers and the principalities operate is very important, because, what drives the powers and the principalities of the air — you might say, the evil spiritual powers of the world — is a desire to unseat God and to be the most powerful, the most important thing in the universe,” he said. “And we see a lot of the temporal powers, so states, governments, terrorist groups, are driven by a similar desire — a desire for supremacy, a desire to remake the world the way they want to see it be remade.”

These individuals and groups will essentially “give themselves over to evil” to achieve their stated goals and aspirations. The result of these tragic quests can often be seen in the deadly persecution observed in various nations across the globe.

Among other examples, Veldkamp cited Nagorno-Karabakh, a small, landlocked region between Armenia and Azerbaijan that had long been steeped in Christian history and was populated by mostly Armenian Christians.

“This is a place where there’s 1,700 years of uninterrupted Christian history,” he said. “This is a place where some of the first translations of the Bible were made into languages outside of Greek. This is a place where just generations and generations of people have carried on the faith, and last year it was destroyed.”

Veldkamp decried “an ethnic cleansing campaign by the dictatorship of Azerbaijan,” which included a siege and military attack that eventually drove out the entire population.

“Again, I think there’s something demonic in that we had a nine-month lead time on this,” Veldkamp said. “Everyone could see it happening. We could see it coming down the pike. We knew how this was going to end. And no one in the world seemed to be able to muster the political will to do anything about it.”

The end result is the exile of these Armenian Christians and a loss of Christian history, with many lives upended in the process. Veldkamp said coping with so much suffering can be difficult.

“Sometimes [I] get messages from people who have family members who are being held hostage in Azerbaijan right now,” he said. “And I feel really helpless, and at a loss of what to say — to comfort them. It can be difficult.”

Yet Veldkamp finds solace in the Bible, where he sees people hundreds — and even thousands — of years ago facing the same pressures believers face today.

Veldkamp described Scripture as often telling the “story of the people of God under pressure.” And those pressures are still unfolding today in countries like North Korea, China, and Nigeria, among many others. And, tragically he said the problem is worsening.

“It’s getting worse for a few specific reasons,” he said. “But mostly having to do with the increased competition and even wars that we’re seeing between the superpowers now — between the U.S., Russia, and China, that are always competing for influence in different parts of the world.”

Veldkamp said the “illusion of an international order” that once persisted in the 1990s and beyond is “starting to come apart.”

“Dictators and terrorists feel fewer compunctions about carrying out their programs,” he said. “So, in places like South Asia and Southeast Asia, we’re seeing a lot of governments take steps to really restrict free practice of religion in ways they wouldn’t have before. In Africa, we see that jihad is spreading from country to country, really piggybacking off of the conflict between Russia, and the U.S., and China for influence in Africa.”

Unfortunately, the safeguards that once “restrained human evil” are no longer holding back the chaos, leading to a situation that gives little more than a “grim outlook,” according to Veldkamp.

Whether it’s addressing Azerbaijan’s horrors or deadly persecution in Nigeria, Veldkamp encouraged Christians and Americans more broadly to stand up and speak out.

“Often, U.S. policy towards these countries will just get set, and it’s very difficult to change the policy once it’s set,” he said. “But we’re in a moment now where we can have some influence because we have a new president … there will be new policies, new policies are being formulated, and now is the time to raise our voice.”

Veldkamp continued, “I would really encourage Christians, especially Christians who voted for President Trump to make their voices heard … tell [his team], ‘I care about Nigeria. I care about Armenia. I care about Christians in Syria. I care about this issue.’”
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സീനിയർ പാസ്റ്റേഴ്സിനെ ആദരിച്ചു

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ചിക്കാഗോ: കഴിഞ്ഞ അര നൂറ്റാണ്ടോളം ചിക്കാഗോയിൽ സഭാ പ്രവർത്തനരംഗത്ത് പ്രശംസനീയമായ നേതൃത്വം കൊടുത്ത നാല് സീനിയർ പാസ്റ്റർമാരെ ചിക്കാഗോ ഗോസ്പൽ മീഡിയ അസോസിയേഷന്റെ ആഭിമുഖ്യത്തിൽ നടത്തപ്പെട്ട സമ്മേളനത്തിൽ ആദരിച്ചു.

സീനിയർ പാസ്റ്റർമാരായ റവ പി വി കുരുവിള, റവ ജോസഫ് കെ ജോസഫ്, റവ പി സി മാമ്മൻ റവ ജോർജ് കെ സ്റ്റീഫൻസൻ എന്നിവരെയാണ് വിശ്വാസ സമൂഹം ആദരിച്ചത്. സിജിഎംഎ ജനറൽ സെക്രട്ടറി കുര്യൻ ഫിലിപ്പ് യോഗനടപടികൾക്ക് നേതൃത്വം നൽകി. രക്ഷാധികാരി കെ എം ഈപ്പൻ,പ്രസിഡന്റ് ഡോ അലക്സ് ടി കോശി, വൈസ് പ്രസിഡന്റ് ഡോ ടൈറ്റസ് ഈപ്പൻ, ജോയിൻ സെക്രട്ടറി ഡോ ബിജു ചെറിയാൻ, ട്രഷറർ ജോൺസൺ ഉമ്മൻ എന്നിവർ സംഘടനയുടെ പുരസ്കാരം പാസ്റ്റർമാർക്ക് നൽകി.

എഫ്പിസിസിയുടെ ഉപഹാരം കൺവീനർ ഡോ വില്ലി എബ്രഹാം സമ്മാനിച്ചു. ജെയിംസ് ജോസഫ്, ബ്യൂല ബെൻ എന്നിവർ എംസി മാരായിരുന്നു റെവ ജോർജ് മാത്യു പുതുപ്പള്ളി മുഖ്യാതിഥിയായിരുന്നു.
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അമേരിക്കയെ വീണ്ടും മഹത്തരമാക്കാൻ ദൈവം എന്നെ സംരക്ഷിച്ചു: ഡൊണാൾഡ് ട്രംപ്

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“അമേരിക്കയെ വീണ്ടും മഹത്തരമാക്കാൻ ദൈവം എന്നെ സംരക്ഷിച്ചു” എന്നു പറഞ്ഞുകൊണ്ട് തനിക്കു നേരിട്ട രണ്ടു കൊലപാതകശ്രമങ്ങളെ അതിജീവിച്ചതിന് ഡൊണാൾഡ് ട്രംപ് ദൈവത്തിനു നന്ദി പറഞ്ഞു. ജനുവരി 20 ന് അമേരിക്കയുടെ നാല്പത്തിയേഴാമത്‌ പ്രസിഡന്റായി അധികാരമേറ്റ ട്രംപ് തന്റെ ഉദ്ഘാടന പ്രസംഗത്തിലാണ് ഇപ്രകാരം അനുസ്മരിച്ചത്.

പ്രസിഡന്റ് ജോ ബൈഡന്റെ കഴിഞ്ഞ നാല് വർഷത്തെ അമേരിക്കൻ ‘വിമോചന ദിനം’ എന്ന് തന്റെ പ്രസംഗത്തിൽ വിശേഷിപ്പിച്ച ട്രംപ് ഇപ്പോൾ മുതൽ അമേരിക്കയുടെ സുവർണ്ണകാലം ആരംഭിക്കുന്നുവെന്നും ഇതിനുവേണ്ടിയാണ് എന്റെ ജീവൻ സംരക്ഷിക്കപ്പെട്ടതെന്നും പങ്കുവച്ചു. “ഇന്ന് മുതൽ, നമ്മുടെ രാജ്യം അഭിവൃദ്ധി പ്രാപിക്കുകയും ബഹുമാനിക്കപ്പെടുകയും ചെയ്യും. നമ്മെ മുതലെടുക്കാൻ ആരെയും അനുവദിക്കില്ല. എന്റെ ഭരണനാളുകളിൽ അമേരിക്കയെ ഞാൻ ഒന്നാമതെത്തിക്കും” അദ്ദേഹം ഉറപ്പുനൽകി.

നമ്മുടെ രാജ്യത്തെയും ഭരണഘടനയെയും ദൈവത്തെയും മറക്കുകയില്ല എന്നും അദ്ദേഹം തന്റെ ഉദ്‌ഘാടനപ്രസംഗത്തിൽ ഉറപ്പുനൽകി.
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