Tennessee Pastor Greg Locke of Global Vision Bible Church in Mount Juliet is praising God for protecting his family after a “madman” allegedly unloaded a barrage of bullets into his home with one of his children inside.

Wilson County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Scott Moore told The Tennessean that the shooting, which is being investigated, resulted in no injuries and they haven’t arrested anyone in connection with the incident. Moore said deputies responded to Locke’s home at around 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday and found 30 to 40 shell casings around the house, the garage and a vehicle.

Locke called the security footage of the shooting at his home “truly horrific” in a statement shared on Instagram with photographs of the scene.

“It’s 2:00am and for the last 3 hours our home has been a full blown crime scene. According to the security cam footage, we pulled into our driveway exactly ONE MINUTE after a madman unloaded an entire magazine of bullets from an automatic weapon into our house, garage, and my truck,” Locke said.

“The sound on the video is truly horrific. Detectives will still be here for a good while tonight. Only one of our kids was home and thank God not in the same area of the house. As you can see in the last pics, one of the bullets cut through the headboard of our youngest daughter’s bed and lodged in her pillow.”

He said he and his family had to be escorted to a hotel by security after the shooting and cited Psalm 91 in referencing God’s protection.

“We are all being security escorted to a hotel tonight. We have no further details. The only detail that matters is that Psalm 91 is true, and GOD PROTECTED US IN UNIMAGINABLE AND SUPERNATURAL WAYS,” he noted. “Please pray for the Locke family tonight.”

Locke, who began sharing content on his Facebook page in 2015, became an overnight conservative star after he posted a video on Facebook on April 22, 2016, criticizing Target for its then-new policy of allowing men to enter women’s bathrooms and dressing rooms. He is also well-known for his outspoken opposition to abortion and Planned Parenthood.

In the summer of 2023, months after revealing that he got too involved with politics to the point where it was overshadowing his ministry, Locke, announced that he scrubbed thousands of videos with billions of views from his Facebook page to minimize some of the “collateral damage” they caused.

“We took [down] thousands … of videos, took about three or four days, deleted every one of them,” Locke told his congregation in a Sunday message posted on Facebook. “All of them, all the rants. Not because what I said was wrong, but because when I became a man I put away childish things. And I’ve learned to say things better.”

He then promised that his focus would be on Jesus, and he would stay away from politics.

“I promise you, my word will be for Jesus, not for any candidate. It just won’t. So some of you are going to [have to] get past, or at least if you’re going to stick around, you’re going to have to get past the notion that, because we’re coming into an important year, that I’m about to amp things up,” he said.

“I am, but I’m not amping it up on politics. I’m not. I’ll still spit in the face of Planned Parenthood and call out baby butchers. I’m not going to compromise to the alphabet community,” he added. “I’m [not] going to lay down the sword. I’m just going to be more meticulous and specialize at who we swing it at.”
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കാന്‍ബെറ: വിദേശ വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥികളുടെ പ്രവേശനത്തില്‍ നിയന്ത്രണമേര്‍പ്പെടുത്താന്‍ തീരുമാനിച്ച് ഓസ്‌ട്രേലിയ. അടുത്ത വര്‍ഷം മുതല്‍ ഓസ്‌ട്രേലിയയിലേക്ക് വരുന്ന വിദേശ വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥികളുടെ എണ്ണം 2.7 ലക്ഷമായി പരിമിതപ്പെടുത്താനാണ് തീരുമാനം. വീട്ട വാടകയുടെ കുതിച്ചുയരാന്‍ കാരണമായ റെക്കോര്‍ഡ് കുടിയേറ്റത്തിന് പിന്നാലെയാണ് വിദേശ വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥികളുടെ എണ്ണം പരിമിതപ്പെടുത്താനുള്ള തീരുമാനത്തിലേക്ക് ഓസ്‌ട്രേലിയയെത്തിയത്.

ഈ പരിധിയില്‍ ഉന്നത വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ കോഴ്‌സുകളും വൊക്കേഷണല്‍ കോഴ്‌സുകളും പരിശീലന കോഴ്‌സുകളും ഉള്‍പ്പെടുന്നുവെന്ന് വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ മന്ത്രി ജേസണ്‍ ക്ലേര്‍ പറഞ്ഞു. നേരത്തെയും ഓസ്‌ട്രേലിയയിലേക്ക് വരുന്ന വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥികളുടെ എണ്ണം കുറച്ചിരുന്നു. 2022ല്‍ ഓസ്‌ട്രേലിയയില്‍ പ്രവേശനം നേടുന്ന വിദേശ വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥികളുടെ എണ്ണം 5.10 ലക്ഷമാക്കി പരിമിതപ്പെടുത്തിയിരുന്നു. കഴിഞ്ഞ വര്‍ഷം ഇത് 3.75 ലക്ഷമാക്കി കുറച്ചു. വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥികളുടെ എണ്ണം പരിമിതപ്പെടുത്തുന്നതിനൊപ്പം നോണ്‍ റീഫണ്ടബിള്‍ വിസ(non refundable visa)യുടെ ഫീസും വര്‍ധിപ്പിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. എയുഡി 710ല്‍ നിന്നും എയുഡി 1600ലേക്ക് വിസ ഫീസ് വര്‍ധിപ്പിച്ചു.

ഫെബ്രുവരിയില്‍ പ്രവേശനത്തിന് വേണ്ടി തയ്യാറെടുക്കുന്ന വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥികളെ ബാധിക്കുന്ന അറിയിപ്പാണിതെന്ന് ഓസ്‌ട്രേലിയയിലെ കുടിയേറ്റ ഏജന്റ് രജിസ്‌ട്രേഷന്‍ അതോറിറ്റി അംഗം സുനില്‍ ജഗ്ഗി പറഞ്ഞു. ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതല്‍ ബാധിക്കുന്നത് പഞ്ചാബില്‍ നിന്നുള്ള വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥികളേയാണെന്നും അദ്ദേഹം പറഞ്ഞു.

കഴിഞ്ഞ വര്‍ഷം ഓസ്‌ട്രേലിയന്‍ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ മന്ത്രി ഇന്ത്യ സന്ദര്‍ശിച്ചപ്പോള്‍ ഇന്ത്യന്‍ വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥികള്‍ക്ക് ഓസ്‌ട്രേലിയന്‍ വിദ്യാഭ്യാസ സ്ഥാപനങ്ങളിലേക്കുള്ള പ്രവേശനം വിപുലീകരിക്കുന്നതിനുള്ള കരാറില്‍ ഒപ്പുവെച്ചിരുന്നു. ഇന്ത്യയിലെ വിദേശകാര്യ മന്ത്രാലയത്തിന്റെ റിപ്പോര്‍ട്ട് പ്രകാരം ഏകദേശം 1.22 ലക്ഷം വിദ്യാര്‍ത്ഥികളാണ് ഓസ്‌ട്രേലിയയില്‍ പഠിക്കുന്നത്.

കാനഡ, അമേരിക്ക, ലണ്ടന്‍ എന്നീ രാജ്യങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് ശേഷം ഇന്ത്യയില്‍ നിന്നും ഏറ്റവും കൂടുതല്‍ പേര്‍ പഠിക്കാന്‍ വേണ്ടി തിരഞ്ഞെടുക്കുന്ന സ്ഥലമാണ് ഓസ്‌ട്രേലിയ. സമാനമായി വിദേശത്ത് നിന്ന് വരുന്ന താല്‍ക്കാലിക തൊഴിലാളികളുടെ പ്രവേശനത്തില്‍ കാനഡയും പരിധി വെച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. സെപ്റ്റംബര്‍ 26 മുതല്‍ തൊഴിലിടത്തില്‍ ബിസിനസ് സ്ഥാപനങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് 10 ശതമാനം മാത്രമേ വിദേശ തൊഴിലാളികളെ അനുവദിച്ചിട്ടുള്ളു. നേരത്തെയിത് 20 ശതമാനമായിരുന്നു.
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A Christian nurse who claims she was recently terminated from her job at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) in Houston for exposing alleged Medicaid fraud related to transgender procedures for minors says she sees her situation as part of a spiritual conflict.

“I am a Christian, and my faith is the foundation of everything,” Vanessa Sivadge told The Christian Post. “That’s the reason why I’ve spoken out as I have.”

Sivadge claimed TCH fired her on Aug. 16 for exposing alleged Medicaid fraud at the country’s largest children’s hospital, which she said was using federal funds to cover cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for minors in violation of Texas law, according to an exclusive statement provided to journalist Christopher Rufo.

Sivadge came forward to Rufo last year to claim TCH was pushing “gender-affirming care” on young patients while ignoring their underlying psychological problems.

Sivadge approached Rufo following his May 2023 story about Dr. Eithan Haim, who leaked medical records suggesting that TCH continued to prescribe puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria despite claiming otherwise.

The U.S. Department of Justice slapped Haim with four felony counts in June for obtaining “personal information including patient names, treatment codes and the attending physician from Texas Children’s Hospital’s (TCH) electronic system without authorization,” according to a DOJ press release.

Haim and Rufo claim the patient names were redacted from the documents he leaked.

In her most recent statement, Sivadge told Rufo that she requested a religious accommodation at the hospital on May 31 that would have transferred her out of the endocrinology clinic, where she alleges she was forced into “indirect participation in the care of children on cross-sex hormones.”

She asked to be transferred back to her core competency at the cardiology unit, where such ideology was not prevalent.

“This past Friday on August 16, TCH fired me effective immediately,” Sivadge wrote. “This is unlawful for two reasons: it is retaliation for my coming forward with information on TCH’s egregious pattern of deception and Medicaid fraud, and this action also illegally disregarded my request to transfer due to my belief that these procedures bring irreversible harm and lifelong regret to children confused about their sex.”

Sivadge said she doesn’t know Haim and that her situation differs from his because she hasn’t yet faced federal charges, though she noted that federal law enforcement have shown up at her home.

Two weeks after Rufo published Sivadge’s anonymous whistleblowing last year, two FBI agents appeared at her door, according to footage Rufo posted to X in June.

The video shows special agents Paul Nixon and David McBride showing up at Sivadge’s home while sporting blue jeans and telling her they wanted to speak about “some of the things that have been going on at [her] work lately.” They quipped they hoped they were not “interrupting dinner.”

Sivadge told CP she never could have imagined that the federal government would ever go after her, and she believes federal law enforcement has been politically weaponized.

“I never thought that [my identity] would come to light, and that I would be ultimately visited by the federal government, wanting to intimidate me into silence,” she said.

“And so I think that instead of investigating medical institutions and organizations — in my case, a hospital — for wrongdoing and for illegal activity, the federal government was weaponized to come after people exposing crime and whistleblowers like me,” she said.

“And so that’s egregious. It’s something I never imagined in a million years would happen to me,” she added.

Sivadge said she also fears that the political weaponization of federal agencies against people of faith will continue under a potential Kamala Harris administration.

“I believe that the Department of Justice has been weaponized against people of faith and people who expose wrongdoing and illegal activity — not just in my case, but in many others,” she said. “And so I am deeply concerned that if she gets elected, nothing will change in that regard.”

Sivadge presented her case to CP in the context of spiritual warfare, and she suggested she fulfilled her duty as a Christian by exposing wrongdoing.

“Ephesians 5 says to have nothing to do with the worthless deeds of evil and darkness but instead expose them, and that everything exposed by the light becomes visible,” Sivadge told CP.

“So that was really the foundation and the motivation for me to do what I’ve done, to speak out like I have.”

“Because we have, I believe, a responsibility as Christians to bring to light what’s been done in the darkness,” she added.

Even so, Sivadge said that she has “absolutely” sensed God’s presence in her situation.
“Not just that, but I’ve felt tremendous support from the people of God,” she said, adding that “people in the community who have reached out, have sent so many messages, have donated to my GiveSendGo, have ultimately made me feel like I’m doing the right thing, no matter what comes down the pike.”

“And that’s ultimately the greatest encouragement that I receive, is from people who have donated and who have prayed for me,” she added.

Sivadge’s GiveSendGo has raised nearly $50,000 of its $500,000 goal as of early Monday morning.
Sources:Christian Post

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