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Catholic journalist arrested for reporting Christian persecution

A Nigerian journalist faces prolonged detention allegedly for his reporting about attacks against predominantly Christian communities in Nigeria and the government’s response.
Luka Binniyat, a Nigerian Roman Catholic journalist and father who writes for the anti-communist Epoch Times, was arrested last week. On Tuesday, Binniyat was arraigned at the Barnawa Magistrate’s Court in Kaduna state. He was charged with cyberstalking, a charge that critics say is often used in the African country to silence the media.
On Nov. 4, Binniyat informed Epoch Times Africa Desk Editor Doug Burton that he was arrested and urged the editor to “contact all relevant persons.”
Burton elaborated on the circumstances leading up to Binniyat’s arrest and the dangers he faces in an interview with The Christian Post.
Burton attributed Binniyat’s arrest to an Oct. 29 article he wrote titled “In Nigeria, Police Decry Massacres as ‘Wicked’ But Make No Arrests.” The article is part of The Epoch Times’ coverage of the deadly persecution of Christian farming communities in the African country that human rights advocates say have escalated to near “genocidal levels” in recent years as thousands have been killed.
In the article, Binniyat pushed back on Kaduna’s Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs Samuel Aruwan’s characterization of an attack on Christian farmers in the state as a “clash.”
The Nigerian government has long refuted claims by human rights activists that a religious genocide is taking place in Nigeria’s Middle Belt states, where radicals from the Fulani herding community have been accused of invading countless Christian farming communities. The government has long attributed attacks and reprisals as being part of decades-old farmer-herder clashes.
In his article, Binniyat included a quote from a Nigerian senator, who accused the Kaduna government of “using Samuel Aruwan, a Christian, to cause confusion to cover up the genocide going on in Christian Southern Kaduna by describing the measure as a ‘clash’” as opposed to a targeted act of violence against Christians.
“What he [Binniyat] did there is he showed that the commissioner was projecting a false narrative,” Burton explained. “For this reason, I think the authorities, though they knew they would get pushback for prosecuting a dissident journalist, they decided they had to do it because … they want to shut his voice down.”
Burton told CP that the journalist was accused of cyberstalking Aruwan. Cyberstalking is a federal offense.
“The magistrate ruled that he does not have authority to try the charge of cyberstalking because it’s a federal charge, it’s a federal statute. So the case will have to be transferred to a federal court. And so, therefore, in the meantime, he can’t get bail because the magistrate doesn’t have authority to give him bail since he doesn’t have authority over this crime.”
Sources Burton spoke to believe that the prosecution is using a “legal technicality to keep Luka in jail.”
“By having his charges presented first in a lower court, a district court where he was charged, they expected him to be charged with defamation and injurious falsehood,” Burton said. “These are statutes … in the criminal code in Nigeria and can be tried at the lower court level.”
“But the charge of … cyberstalking is a federal charge that … has to be issued by a higher court,” he continued. “And so by doing that deliberately, the prosecution knew that bail couldn’t be given, and that is the whole idea.”
On Monday morning, Binniyat “texted that he felt like his life was in danger,” Burton said.
Additionally, Binniyat said he had been held for five days in a very “cramped” and “dingy” cell that he described as “uncomfortable.” Binniyat further alleged that he hadn’t gotten much sleep.
“He texted to another person, another journalist I know named John Shiklam. And Shiklam said he feared for his life,” Burton detailed.
Based on conversations with other people who have faced detention for cyberstalking in Nigeria, Burton estimates that Binniyat could spend about five months in prison.
Burton specifically cited the case of Stephen Kefas, who “wrote something on Facebook that embarrassed” a government official. The government official claimed he was being cyberstalked and feared he could be attacked because of what Kefas wrote.
Burton indicated that prolonged detention could have an impact on Binniyat’s physical health.
“The folks who have to spend time in custody, they have to endure pretty harsh conditions and they get sick,” he warned.
Kefas contracted Hepatitis C while in prison, and members of the Adara tribe who spent time in prison caught malaria, typhoid and/or dysentery, Burton stressed.
“Based on what I have learned with my many conversations with Steven Kefas, the conditions in prison are not only uncomfortable, but they’re dangerous and toxic,” he stated. “The Adara elders were in a common cell with other criminals. They had no toilet. They have a sewer trench that goes through the middle of the cell, which serves as their toilet. Apparently, the prisoners don’t have proper protection from mosquitoes because many of them come out with malaria.”
Based on a conversation Burton had International Committee on Nigeria Executive Director Kyle Abts, who has delivered rations to prisoners in the past, “the prisons … and jails don’t provide food and water for the prisoners.”
“All their food and water has to be brought to them by their relatives,” he said.
Those without relatives or anyone to bring them food and water can “beg for charitable donations” from other prisoners.
Because Binniyat is “not wealthy,” Burton predicted “he will need assistance” in his legal proceedings.
“His legal bills will have to be paid by his friends. That would be the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SKPU, and also he will be getting some financial aid probably from the International Committee on Nigeria,” Burton detailed. “His friends and allies are … planning some kind of a legal defense fund, but it’s not clear who will take the lead.”
Binniyat’s arrest for cyberstalking is not the first time the journalist has faced legal headwinds for his reporting.
Burton recalled that Binniyat was previously imprisoned in 2017 for “breach of the peace.”
Binniyat had previously served as the bureau chief of Vanguard Newspapers until 2017.
“Then after he was imprisoned, I don’t think he got hired by any newspaper group because, the way it was explained to me, he’s considered a controversial reporter,” he said.
“So I started working with him in March this year, maybe May of this year. And I encouraged him to … compile reports for The Epoch Times. I worked with him as his editor. And so he’s published some very timely and factual reports about kidnappings and mass murders this year.”
Burton maintained that the central claim made by Aruwan highlighted in Binniyat’s Oct. 29 story, that the attacks on Christian farming communities in Nigeria are simply “clashes” between farmers and herders, is widely held and promoted by Nigerian government officials.
“That is a distorted representation of what’s really happening. In fact, there is a farmer-herder aspect to the violence,” the editor added. “But that discounts the fact that the preponderance of the attacks are sectarian in … nature.”
Sources:Christian Post
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അക്രമവും അശ്ലീലതയും എന്ന്- ബൈബിൾ നിരോധിച്ചു യൂട്ടായിലെ പ്രൈമറി സ്കൂളുകൾ

യൂട്ടാ: “അക്രമവും’അശ്ലീലതയും “ബൈബിളിൽ അടങ്ങിയിരിക്കുന്നുവെന്ന ആരോപണം ഉന്നയിക്കപ്പെട്ടതിനെത്തുടർന്നു യുഎസിലെ യൂട്ടാ സംസ്ഥാനത്തിലെ സ്കൂൾ ഡിസ്ട്രിക്റ്റ് പ്രാഥമിക, മിഡിൽ സ്കൂളുകളിൽ നിന്ന് ബൈബിൾ നീക്കം ചെയ്തു.
കിംഗ് ജെയിംസ് ബൈബിളിൽ കുട്ടികൾക്ക് അനുയോജ്യമല്ലാത്ത വസ്തുക്കളുണ്ടെന്ന രക്ഷിതാവിന്റെ പരാതിയെ തുടർന്നാണ് നടപടി.
യൂട്ടായിലെ റിപ്പബ്ലിക്കൻ ഗവൺമെന്റ് 2022-ൽ സ്കൂളുകളിൽ നിന്ന് “അശ്ലീലമോ അശ്ലീലമോ ആയ” പുസ്തകങ്ങൾ നിരോധിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് ഒരു നിയമം പാസാക്കിയിരുന്നു
“പരമ്പരാഗതമായി, അമേരിക്കയിൽ, ബൈബിൾ ഏറ്റവും നന്നായി പഠിപ്പിക്കപ്പെടുന്നു, നന്നായി മനസ്സിലാക്കുന്നു, ഒരു കുടുംബമെന്ന നിലയിൽ വീട്ടിലും ബൈബിളിന് മുഖ്യ സ്ഥാനമാണ് നൽകിയിട്ടുള്ളത്.
ബൈബിളിന്റെ ഉള്ളടക്കം 2022-ലെ നിയമം ലംഘിക്കുന്നില്ലെന്നും എന്നാൽ “ചെറുപ്പക്കാർക്ക് അനുയോജ്യമല്ലാത്ത അശ്ലീലതയോ അക്രമമോ” ഉൾപ്പെടുന്നുവെന്ന് ജില്ലാ വിധി നിർണ്ണയിച്ചു. പ്രാദേശിക ഹൈസ്കൂളുകളിൽ പുസ്തകം നിലനിൽക്കും.
ബൈബിൾ നീക്കം ചെയ്യുന്നതിനെ താൻ എതിർക്കുന്നു ഡേവിസ് സ്കൂൾ ഡിസ്ട്രിക്റ്റിലെ ഒരു പ്രൈമറി സ്കൂൾ വിദ്യാർത്ഥിയുടെ പിതാവ് ബോബ് ജോൺസൺ സിബിഎസ് ന്യൂസിനോട് പറഞ്ഞു,
ലൈബ്രറിയിൽ നിന്നും ബൈബിൾ നീക്കം ചെയ്യുന്ന യുഎസിലെ ആദ്യവിദ്യാഭ്യാസ ജില്ലയല്ലയിതു
ചില പുസ്തകങ്ങൾ നിരോധിക്കണമെന്ന പൊതുജനങ്ങളുടെ പരാതിയെത്തുടർന്ന് ടെക്സാസിലെ ഒരു സ്കൂൾ ഡിസ്ട്രിക്റ്റ് കഴിഞ്ഞ വർഷം ലൈബ്രറി അലമാരയിൽ നിന്ന് ബൈബിൾ പിൻവലിച്ചിരുന്നു .
കഴിഞ്ഞ മാസം, കൻസസിലെ വിദ്യാർത്ഥികൾ തങ്ങളുടെ സ്കൂൾ ലൈബ്രറിയിൽ നിന്ന് ബൈബിൾ നീക്കം ചെയ്യണമെന്ന് അഭ്യർത്ഥിച്ചിരുന്നു
Sources:nerkazhcha
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അമേരിക്കൻ ചരിത്രത്തിലെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ സ്നാന ശുശ്രൂഷ: 4,166 പേർ യേശുവിനെ സ്വീകരിച്ചു

കാലിഫോർണിയ: ചരിത്രമെഴുതി അമേരിക്കയിലെ ജീസസ് മൂവ്മെന്റിന്റെ നേതൃത്വത്തിൽ സംഘടിപ്പിച്ച സ്നാനശിശ്രൂഷ. അമേരിക്കൻ ചരിത്രത്തിലെ ഏറ്റവും വലിയ സ്നാന ശുശ്രൂഷയിൽ ജീസസ് മൂവ്മെന്റിൽ നിന്നുള്ള 4,166 പേരാണ് പൈറേറ്റ്സ് കോവിൽ നടന്ന ചടങ്ങിൽ യേശുവിനെ രക്ഷിതാവും കർത്താവുമായി സ്വീകരിച്ചത്. ജീസസ് മൂവ്മെന്റ് എന്ന സംഘടനയുടെ 50-ാം
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സ്മരണയ്ക്കായിട്ടാണ് സ്നാന ശുശ്രൂഷ സംഘടിപ്പിച്ചത്. 4,000-ത്തിലധികം ആളുകൾ കലിഫോർണിയയിലെ ജലസ്നാനം സ്വീകരിച്ചു ക്രിസ്തുവിനെ പിന്തുടർന്നതായി വെസ്റ്റ് കോസ്റ്റ് ലൈഫ് ചർച്ചിലെ പാസ്റ്റർ റേ ജീൻ വിൽസൺ പറഞ്ഞു. ജീവിതത്തിൽ മറക്കാനാവാത്ത നിമിഷമാണിതെന്ന് പാസ്റ്റർ റേ ഇൻസ്റ്റാഗ്രാമിൽ അഭിപ്രായപ്പെട്ടു.
ചർച്ച് ബാസ്സാ കാലാണ് പരിപാടി സംഘടിപ്പിച്ചത്. 280-ലധികം പള്ളികളിൽ നിന്നായി 8,000- ത്തിലധികം പേർ ചടങ്ങിന് സാക്ഷികളായി പ്രാർത്ഥനാ നിർഭരമായ അന്തരീക്ഷത്തിൽ സ്നാനം സ്വീകരിക്കാൻ കഴിഞ്ഞത് വലിയ ആത്മീയ ഉണർവിന് കാരണമായെന്ന് സ്നാനം സ്വീകരിച്ചവർ അഭിപ്രായപ്പെട്ടു.
Sources:gospelmirror
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‘The Biggest Water Baptism in History’: 4,166 Baptized at Historic Beach from Jesus Movement

Another big sign of spiritual revival in America just took place at an historic location in California. More than 4,000 people were baptized in Pirate’s Cove on Pentecost Sunday to celebrate not only the gift of eternal life but to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Jesus Movement.
Oceans Church organized Baptize SoCal—an event advertised as “the biggest water baptism in history”. The huge event coincided with a major anniversary of the Christian awakening that saw hundreds of thousands of young people come to Christ in the 60s and 70s.
More than 280 churches and 8,000 attendees watched as 4,166 people fled to the shore of Pirates Cove to declare their new life in Christ.
Attendees report the atmosphere was electric as people praised God and celebrated their “Kingdom family.”
“What an amazing and historic day,” said musician and pastor at West Coast Life Church, Ray Gene Wilson. “Thousands baptized at Pirates Cove, God is moving in California!”
“A moment I’ll never forget,” one attendee commented on Instagram.
“This is absolutely amazing praying for all in their new walk with Jesus… Welcome to the Kingdom family,” another Instagram user commented.
Worship leader Lindy Cofer said, “The Church is alive! What a beautiful sight in Southern California yesterday!!! On the 50th anniversary of the Jesus people movement.”
“It was such a blessing to witness so many people getting baptized for one, but to be able to see [it] happen [in] the same place that the hippies did it 50 years ago for The Jesus People Movement was just surreal,” wrote videographer Eddy Ferguson.
The Jesus People movement and the baptisms in Pirates Cove are featured in the movie “Jesus Revolution”.
The movie became a box office hit after its release in theaters in February. The film also climbed to the top spot in DVD and Blu-ray sales this month.
While the film’s success may have stunned Hollywood, it didn’t surprise Southern California Pastor Greg Laurie, who told CBN News he sees God at work through the film.
“People are hungry for this,” Laurie said. “I’ve never heard of a movie in the theater that had people breaking into spontaneous prayer and worship or like I heard one story it was shown in the theater and afterward some kids wanted to be baptized and they baptized them in the fountain in front of the theater. I’ve never heard of such things, so I think these are all like little indications that God is at work.”
You can watch the full interview with Greg and Cathe Laurie on our special program “Revival in America” on CBN’s Family app tonight at 8 pm.
Sources:BREAKING CHRISTIAN NEWS
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