Taken from my sister Mkayla’s place. I am constantly amazed at how she and others are able to say what I can not. Thank you, Mkayla. This is a word fitly spoken for such a time.
3 (If anyone teaches otherwise and) does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which accords with godliness,
4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,
5 useless wranglings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of fain. From such withdraw yourself.
2 Timothy 3:12-13
12 Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Just thought I’d throw that out there to anyone struggling with what to do with those who do not listen to warnings of false doctrine. I know that many of us suffer personally, we are called names, de-friended and un-churched and snubbed. We are told we are without love, are vengeful, angry and are in need of inner healing (this was the first rock thrown at me – I was wounded and in need of healing when I questioned Todd Bentley’s ways to those in leadership over me). We are Pharisees, judgmental and probably not even saved. We stand in the way of God’s anointed, anointing and wrongly touch those who are. We misunderstand and speak against things we know nothing about, are in need of fresh revelation, a touch, a word, a supernatural experience. And if we are not careful may be in the greatest danger of all – blasphemy of the Holy Spirit. We who are women are reminded of our sister Eve and the sin of the apple-biting, thereby rendering all those after her, useless. So, brothers and sisters, to those of you who have been greeted by these italicized words, take heart and be encouraged that those who have gone before us, who suffered the same were first called Christians at Antioch. Acts 12:26
You will not see the following on CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN or even FOX network. Instead they all — icluding the whore network, FOX, have our attentions on what THEY want us to be focusing on.
While the apostate church in america with it’s pimps and whores are fleecing the sheep, while the sheeple go after God for greed and gain, THIS is what is going on in other parts of the world.
It is soooo good to know Islam is such a religion of peace. (Said sarcastically for those who have trouble knowing the truth from a lie.)
Excuse me while I blow off some steam here: But wake the hell up those of you who are in the liberal mindset AND those of you in the harlot that calls herself the Church!
The case of four Christians arrested at a recent Arab festival in Dearborn, Mich., is heating up with the mayor publicly blasting the group in a letter, claiming the city “has been under attack for several years” by the missionaries.
The Christians were arraigned today on misdemeanor charges of disturbing the peace. All four pleaded not guilty.
In the following video, the Christian missionaries reported police told them they would have to be five blocks away from the festival to give away copies of the Gospel of John:
Robert Muise, senior trial counsel with the Thomas More Law Center, told Detroit’s WDIV-TV 4, “If people are offended by the fact that they were preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Muslims and trying to convert Muslims, well, guess what: We have a First Amendment.”
A reporter asked Mayel, the female defendant, is she is concerned about going to trial.
“Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. They were stoned; they were sawed in two; they were put to death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated. The world was not worthy of them.” Hebrews 11:36-38
I am not worthy to tie the shoes of those in this video who are being beaten for their faith in Jesus! Neither is Tod Bentley who is not fit to be called an evangelist, a revivalist or/and an annointed man of God!
Tod Bentley, a liar and a deceiver.
On persecution: “I’m surprised we haven’t had more.”
First you have to be actually preaching the gospel in order to get any of the REAL persecution. Which the church in America has yet to know because she is too busy following the likes of Tod Bentley and other fakes!
“Pretty exciting. I feel the glory.”
Really? Ask those who have been beaten half to death if they “feel the glory” such as you proclaim, Tod Bentley!
“I feel the annointing.”
The only annointing TB has is from his father, the devil. Compared to those lying in the streets getting their life kicked out of them, TB has NOTHING to offer anyone.
“Wow, that’s pretty exciting. We’re creating some history.”
Such a high regard of himself. He is being used to help bring in anti-christ. The real history makers are those who do not see the gospel as some game — a means to an end.
“We got the best security in the world, don’t worry.”
“Sow your best seed.”
Yes, by all means give it to Tod and Jessa. Help him pay his child support. When you support a wolf you deserve to have it stolen from you!
Bride of Christ, can you still not see the difference between the tares and the wheat — the sheep and the wolves?
Here’s a hint: The sheep are the ones who lay bleeding in the streets for the real Jesus, while the false preacher stands and entertains his sheeple with great and abomnible lies in the name of a false jesus he has created!
A youtube brother; godsplumbline — whom some of you may be familiar with, sent me a message asking me to pray for him. I have his permission to post what happened to him as he was preaching in the UK:
Please keep street preachers like me in your prayers as this could be a rough year for us.
With the passing of this new bill in the UK their is more likely arrests possibily upto 7 years imprisonment…..
Pray that God will give street evangelists like me strength during that difficult time that is set to come upon us.
The day after this was published I was arrested on the monday here is my story.
Monday 17th august
At 9:30 pm, I was preaching in Madestone Kent Town Center on repentance from sin and on the blood of Christ and the hatred and love of God, in God’s mercy He holds out His hands and wants to love you, He wants to save you from His wrath and call you a son or a daughter and He can only do this if you repent and turn from your sins, or perish in hell, to with I opened my bible and started reading the NKJV: Gen 1, Gen 2, Gen 6:11 to 13, Lev 26:14-30, Palm 2:4-9, Palm 5:4-6, Psalm 7:11-13, Psalm 10:3-4 New Testament John 3:36, Romans 1, Romans 8:1-8, 1 Cor 6:9-10, — estimate time (11:30/12:00).
I was approached by between 3 and 4 officers who had stated that they received a complaint from a homosexual who was black, accused me of homophobia and inciting racial comments about black people in particular. I denied the allegation and refused to accept a warning and told them that they would have to arrest me and charge me. They decided to arrest me, and read me my rights, “you have the right to remain silent etc”.
I was taken to the station to be booked in, during the time I spoke to one of the officers off the record and was able to share with him my faith. He told me the reason for my arrest was for my own protection and inciting homophobic and racial comments. The officer asked me if I could have read the bible quietly. I responded even if I did read the Bible quietly someone would still find offense, and even if I did, how am I supposed to be heard?
The officer responded “do you think it is right to force your beliefs on others” I told him, well to force ones belief is to be like a Jihadist, that if a person did not covert I would threaten to put them to death, this is not my way. I warn them because men need to know why they are sinners, not because they want to hear it, it is because they need to hear it.
I did ask him if he was an atheist. He asked me what is an atheist. I told him some one who denies the existence of God. He said well, he does not believe in a God. I stated this is what an atheist is.
The arresting officer came back and asked me to give him my Bible and I said I would not do that and if I did you would have to stipulate in writing that you had confiscated my Bible. He then stated that this would be up to the duty officer to do that.
I was searched decently; they searched my bag, my wallet, and found a digital Dictaphone. They asked me what it was used for and if it had been used today. I stated no that “I forgot on this occasion to record myself”. They then placed my belongings in a bag, tagged it, and asked me to sign and I told them in return that I would do that when I am released.
They asked me about the recording device, if I had recorded the police officers today and why I carry one about. I told them that the reason is that It was to record my self so I know exactly what has been preached, and was instructed by my legal representative to record the activities of the police to ensure they comment to lawful conduct.
At this point, I was spoken to through the procedure, as this has been the first time that I had been arrested, they said I had a right to keep my Bible and they did not take it from me. They asked me if I had legal representation and I stated I did and appropriately gave them the details. They asked me if I would allow them to take my finger prints and I told them that I have issues around Bio-metrics as it could have a impact on my civil liberties and that I would like to seek advice with the solicitor, they agreed.
They then shown hospitality asked if I had dietary needs, they offered cups of tea also, the cell was clean and comfortable, and they told me to take my shoes off before I entered the police cell, they were courteous about this.
This is when the Christian Legal Centre was contacted during the time and a solicitor turned up and explained the procedure about being recorded. I had given a statement to the solicitor and he advised me to co-operate with the police in confirming my identity. This I did and a young policewoman talked me through the procedure and began the recording and I told her what I preached during the morning, and she allowed me to recite the verses I had read.
She then stated that she would show video footage of a particular young girl running away from me, as she was terrified. The solicitor confirmed that this was not the case but that the girl was running to her mother because she was behind her and was trying to keep up, as any child would.
This is the only area that the officer said I would be charged – under section 5 of the public order act for causing alarm and distress. I denied the charges, and they took my fingerprints, which are now on the biometric national database. They did not take a DNA swab sample. The case of the police seems to be inconsistent with the story they told me.
I was not arrested for reading the Bible, or preaching, but now it would appear that I have been arrested on this technicality.
I asked her for the tape and if this was the only film footage and are if there are any other angles from any other CCTV cameras or if this the only one. She said it was just this one CCTV camera.
I told her that in this case (with the one camera angle) it could be interpreted in many different ways. With the same photo different people can tell you different stories that may not even be consistent, besides if the little girl was distressed in any way I could only apologize my intention was not to cause alarm or distress to any persons. However, if preaching the gospel makes me a criminal then I am a criminal. I asked her if she had spoke to the mother and daughter in question, and they clearly did not.
(Note: I could have mentioned that the girl in question did not have remain if she was the mother could have easily taken her away, 2nd point would this also apply in the same way that mother would drag her screaming, terrified daughter to see Santa against her own will.)
The interview was terminated, the police woman asked me if I would have my finger print scanned and I then said yes, I was informed that this will go on a national database, (Note: please keep a close eye on this)
Ten minuets later I was released on bail to return on Saturday 22nd of August at 12:00 PM. I was released on 17/08/2009 17:18 HRS.
In Christ,
Miguel Hayworth
RedeemedHippie:[We must think of those who are being persecuted for the Gospel sake. We must pray. Sooner or later, all those who stand for the truth will experience what this brother went through. Jesus promised us that we would be hated. That time has come as the world is getting darker and darker with humanism and the Luciferian doctrine in every area of the secular world -- and even within the church! Stand, Saints! Stand!]
I’m sure this will make some people angry. But, they both can not be right now, can they? I don’t think so. Decide for yourselves which Gospel is the truth for all nations, especially among the poorest and the persecuted. I think the answer is simple.
If the world loves the people you esteem in the church, be careful. Because Jesus said we would be hated for his Name’s sake. Does the world love your teachers or do they despise them?
Still have trouble knowing which gospel is true? Then watch the following.
This is not the real Corrie Ten Boom. Still, what a beautiful testimny of God’s greatness and goodness. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives. May it comfort and encourage your hearts.
Not a very encouraging title, I know. Never-the-less, those are not my words, but the words of Jesus. And because He said them, they must mean something important enough for us to take heart.
A lot of us are familiar with the signs of the end times Jesus had given his disciples.
LUKE 21: 7-19;
So they asked Him, saying, “Teacher, but when will these things be? And what sign will there be when these things are about to take place?”
And He said: “Take heed that you not be deceived. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and, ‘The time has drawn near.’
The first thing He gives us is a warning of not being deceived. So we must be vigilant in keeping our guards up if we are to heed his warning. We do this by testing all things around us. We need Him because we can not do it on our own. He warns us against any and all who even remotely say they are the annointed one (s).
Saints, that is everybody and anyone. It is all the teachers that have been heaped up in the last days that have ever or still preaches/teaches false doctrine. And may I say, most of it has become feel-good, self-help, New Age mumbo jumbo? May I say it? Will I become your enemy because I speak that truth to you?
It is any who have called themselves annointed or want you to perceive they are some great one. It is all of these. It may even be you or I at some point. Has not God said He would share his glory with no one? Then who is man that I follow him? Man will not pull me though in the days to come. Man has done proven to me he fails me everytime. Only the Spirit of God sustains me.
“Therefore do not go after them.”
Jesus tells us, warns us, commands us–do NOT go after them. Oh, but we have, Church. Many of us have gone here and there searching for the “one” with the glory, or the power, or the annointing. Ohhh we all have done it so many times. But Saints, may I say we are coming into a time where God just might be saying, “ENOUGH!” And any and all who we put our trust in other than God Himself, will surely fall like the idol Dagon? (That alone could be a teaching. Anyone wants to do one, I will put it up.)
“But when you hear of wars and commotions, do not be terrified; for these things must come to pass first, but the end will not come immediately.”
Saints,we know these things are coming. So if Jesus commanded us to not fear, He would not have told us this if He could not bring us through it, right? So let us not fear what man can do. Let us encourage one another with the words of our King.
Then He said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences; and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.”
He is letting us know horrible scary things are coming. BUT BEFORE ALL THESE THINGS…
“But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons. You will be brought before kings and rulers for My name’s sake. But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony.”
Our flesh would fear during this time, would it not? If it were not for God we will faint. But, He has equipped us all for that day should it come to us. We have his Spirit in us. Let us remember that this world is not our home. We truly are but pilgrims passing through, strangers in a strange land. And may I say, Saints, that the closer we get to these things, I feel more and more of a stranger? A good thing, yes?
It will be a time of testimony for Jesus. Finally those of us who have been silenced in some way or another, either through man or through our own fears, will be able to speak the wonderful truths of God. May I suggest we start practicing now? Even though there are those right now this very minute that will not hear you, practice with each other. In your personal lives with other believers. Thus, helping one another to build each other up in our most holy faith.
“Therefore settle it in your hearts not to meditate beforehand on what you will answer; for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to contradict or resist.”
May I be so transparent to tell you that I have been fretting over how to answer government or anyone coming to my home threatening me should this government decide some take-over in the near future? Would you think me weak, foolish or just plain crazy? It really does not matter. What matters is the words of Jesus. He said, “I will give you a mouth and wisdom…” It will be Jesus who will make us bold and without fear. Though some of us may tremble, there will still be inside of us something far greater than those who stand before us.
“You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death.”
Jesus is telling us that we will be betrayed by those closest to us. Even those who are called ”friend.” Do not think this means every lost person in your life. But those, whom you perhaps have known for years. Jesus says they will betray us. So many ways we will be betrayed. Turned on. I suspect many will give themselves over to the enemy at this point.
“And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake.”
Pretty plain there. He did not say we would be loved, but hated. Why? Because the light comes into the darkness and the darkness does not comprehend the light. Because they have no love for the truth of God. Who will hate us? ALL will hate us. That would mean anyone who does not want to come to the light in their own life. Those who walk in sin in the blackness of their hearts. Those who love a lie over the truth of God. Those who call evil, good and good evil. Simply put; any and all who hate God, His conviction of sin, His truth. Those who purposely deceive others for their own social/political/spiritual/financial/selfish gain, will hate us. I suspect one reason will be because the light within us exposes their evil deeds.
Remember, we fight not against flesh and blood. But against the devil himself. He is a liar and a deciever and he uses people as his agents to deceive and manipulate. But…
“But not a hair of your head shall be lost. By your patience possess your souls.”
John 15: 17-19
“These things I command you, that you love one another.
If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”
Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
Pray for this young woman! Pray Saints of God! Not only pray, but write the govenor, which I did with the following:
Please do not let Rifqa Bary die at the hands of her parents. You know they will kill her. What will it take for America to open their eyes? Please please please have mercy. You know in your heart what is right. Please.
What if it she were your grandchild demanding not to go back to a parent that wanted to kill her for any reason? You know what you would do. Do not let the blood of this innocent be on your hand. Have mercy.
Judge decides fate of honor student, cheerleader who fled Muslim parents
A young Christian runaway in foster care awaits her hearing tomorrow when Florida authorities will decide whether she will be forced to return to her Muslim parents – whom she says will kill her for converting to Christianity.
Fathima Rifqa Bary, 17, an honor student and cheerleader, was raised in a Muslim family in Columbus, Ohio. She became a Christian four years ago as a result of her interactions with children at school.
Atlas Shrugs’ Pamela Geller has followed Bary’s case closely, reporting that the girl’s friends accompanied her to the school counselor after they noticed bruises covering her arms and legs that allegedly resulted from beatings by her father and brother.
“The middle school, in a serious dereliction of duty, did not report these beatings to child welfare services,” Geller reported.
RedeemedHippie:[You can bet if the school officials thought it was a christian parent doing anything, they would have been reported!]
“Beatings were random, violent, unprovoked. Take, for example, when Rifqa and her father Mohamed were driving in the car. He would force her to wear the hijab (head covering), which she hated. In her discomfort she would slouch down, embarrassed, and her father would haul off and sock her in the face so that she never forgot to sit up straight in her costume. The beatings were regular and so much a part of the landscape of Rifqa’s life, she became inured to them …”
Bary, a native of Sri Lanka, hitchhiked to a bus station and ran away from home on July 19 because she says her family will murder her in what is known as an honor killing. In Islamic tradition, an honor killing is the customary slaughter of a person who is believed to have brought dishonor upon his or her family.
The Christian teen turned to pastors Blake and Beverly Lorenz of Global Revolution Church in Orlando, Fla., whom she met through Facebook. She has been placed in foster care by the Florida Department of Children and Families, or DCF, awaiting a decision tomorrow on whether her case will be heard in Florida or in Ohio. Her jurisdiction hearing is now scheduled for 3:15 p.m. EST in Orlando’s juvenile court.
Fox News reported that legal experts have said she will almost certainly be forced to return to her parents’ home in Ohio where she will be required to live with her parents since Ohio does not have an emancipation statute. According to the report, Florida has such a statute, but it requires parental consent.
The teen’s attorney, John Stemberger, filed a petition for adjudication of dependency on Aug 18.
“I’m a Christian, and my parents are Muslim. They are extremely devout,” she said. “They threatened to kill me. … You guys wouldn’t understand. Islam is very different than you guys think. They have to kill me. My blood is now halal, which means that because I am now a Christian, I’m from a Muslim background, it’s an honor. If they love God more than me, they have to do this. I’m fighting for my life. …”
Asked what her father, Mohamed Bary, told her, she replied, “He said he would kill me. Or he’d have me sent back to Sri Lanka where they’d put me in the asylum.”
She said she left a note for her parents before she ran away: “I said, ‘I refuse to deny Jesus. He is my Lord and Savior. I pray you find his forgiveness and mercy, and I love you both dearly.’ I wrote that, but they never showed it to the police officers.”
Bary warned that if she is forced to return to her family in Ohio, she will die “within a week.”
Asked why she ran away, she said, “I was threatened by my dad. When my dad found out – I had a Facebook, that’s how he found out – and phone calls from the Muslim community started coming in with e-mails that confronted me. And I had a laptop and he took that laptop and waved it in the air, and he was about to beat me with it, and he said, ‘If you have this Jesus in your heart, you’re dead to me. You’re not my daughter.’ And I refused to speak but he said, ‘I will kill you. Tell me the truth.’ In these words, bad words, cuss words. So I knew that I had to get away.”
Atlas Shrugs reported that those members of the Muslim community, from Noor Islamic Cultural Center, warned Bary’s father that his daughter was an apostate, so the teenager sought to escape with her life.
Bary said she would sneak out to Christian prayer meetings and hide her Bible from her parents. After her father confronted her, he forced her to attend several classes, hoping she would return to Islam. However, several weeks later, her mother discovered a Christian book that belonged to her.
“I knew right then that it was over for me,” she said. “I had to leave.”
Fox News reported that the father discovered she had been baptized earlier this year.
The teenager said that in the 150 generations of her family, no one has ever known Jesus.
“I am the first one,” she said. “Imagine the honor in killing me.”
Bary said she wants to remain in Florida so she can be free to worship Jesus, go to church and read her Bible.
“You talk about religious freedom?” she asked. “No! I don’t have that. I want to be here. I want to worship Jesus freely. I don’t want to die.”
Bary’s father, a jeweler, called the church a “cult” and claimed it has brainwashed Fatima.
“This is a cult group who kidnapped my daughter and took her away,” Mohamed Bary told WESH 2 News.
He also denied the charges she is making and claims he does not intend to hurt her. He and his lawyer are in Florida, fighting to take his daughter back to Ohio.
Fathima Rifqa Bary has been the subject of various media attacks in recent weeks. Pakistan Daily reported, “The family maintains that the girls was into drugs, promiscuous behavior and raunchy messages on Facebook. She was discussing sex with multiple older married men. When the parents tried to control her behavior she refused to do so. On her return to the home she conjured up a story of conversion to Christianity. There are serious accusations against the church on holding a minor girl in custody against the will of her guardians and parents. How many more girls will the church kidnap?”
Geller points out that the media appear to be focusing primarily on “the lies and deception of Rifqa Bary’s devout Muslim family and their lawyers” and smearing the pastors for caring for Bary rather than immediately turning her over to her parents. She also said the Bary family mosque, Noor Islamic Center, is a hotbed of extremist activity, noting that Patrick Poole of Ohio Against Terror has reported extensively on extremist positions of its leaders.
Bary’s Aug. 18 petition to the court states:
The child’s parents are devout followers of Islam and members of the extreme Noor Islamic Cultural Center in Columbus, Ohio. This is where the internationally known Hama cleric, Salah Sultan, was the resident scholar before being banned from the United States. Salah Sultan is known as a global terrorist who publicly advocates the killing of Americans and Jews. The largest cell of Al Qaeda[sic] operatives was operating from the largest mosque in the Columbus area. Columbus is one of the cities under current investigation concerning the U.S. operations of Al-Qaeda [sic]. The child is a target for the radical Muslim community of Columbus, Ohio.
Dr. Phyllis Chesler, author of “Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence?” told Fox News Bary’s life will be in danger if she is forced to return to her parents.
“Anyone who converts from Islam is considered an apostate, and apostasy is a capital crime,” she said. “If she is returned to her family, if she is lucky, they will isolate her, beat her, threaten her, and if she is not ‘presuaded’ to return to Islam, they will kill her. They have no choice.”
Chesler continued, “She escaped from her family’s brutal tyranny and shamed her family further through public exposure. Muslim girls and women are killed for far less.”
In a statement, ICC said it is concerned about Rifqa because the Columbus police officer who investigated the case told the press that Rifqa’s father “comes across to me as a loving, caring, worried father about the whereabouts and the health of his daughter.”
However, ICC reveals that a source who spoke with the same investigating officer said the officer indicated earlier that he has spoken with 20 different people who warned him that the girl’s life was in danger.
“We are extremely concerned about Rifqa,” ICC President Jeff King wrote. “… Based on our extensive international experience with fundamentalist Islam, we strongly believe that Rifqa’s life will be in danger if DCF decides to send her back to Ohio. We call upon authorities in Florida to retain custody of Rifqa.”
Fathima Rifqa Bary now has more than 2,000 Facebook fans expressing their support for the young girl. However, one Facebook group titled, “Rifqa Bary’s father 100% correct” was created by a man in Sri Lanka named Hashan Dilshan. The group has only 14 members – each with Islamic names.
One member named Mohammed Rizwan writes, “Rifqa, it’s not your fault. Rifqa, please be cool and think about what you are going to and what you will get from this religion. Rifqa, nothing to worry. Allah with you always if you not close to him, but Allah always close to you [sic].”
In yet another message likely intended for the girl’s father, Rizwan wrote, “Bary, you are correct. No one can do without Allah order! [sic] Go ahead … We are all together …”
The article below should put to shame the star-studded church here in America who is too busy building their kingdom on earth, fleecing the sheep, deceiving and parading around like they are little gods!
We need to be praying for brothers and sisters who actually are suffering for their faith, whoever they are, where ever they are. Lord come quickly!
Militant linked to al-Qaida tells families of penalties for apostasy
Four Christians working in Somalia to provide services to orphans have been executed by beheading by al-Qaida-linked interests who told their families that is the penalty for apostasy.
The report on the outrage comes from International Christian Concern which said the executions happened sometime after the kidnapping of the Christians on July 27, but it only discovered the tragedy recently.
The organization identified the Christian orphanage workers as Fatima Sultan, Ali Ma’ow, Sheik Mohammed Abdi and Maaddey Diil. They had been kidnapped in the coastal Somalian town of Merca, about 50 miles from Mogadishu.
According to ICC, al-Shabaab, an Islamic extremist organization, claimed responsibility, and confirmed the Christians were killed when they refused to renounce their faith in Jesus.
The ICC report said it was on Aug. 4 when a junior al-Shabaab militant notified the families of the victims the four were beheaded for apostasy. ICC said the militant described the Christians as promoters of “fitna,” a Muslim term for religious discord.
The militant continued that the families would not even be given the bodies, “as Somalia does not have cemeteries for infidels.”
The ICC quoted one eyewitness, who said, “All the four apostates were given an opportunity to return to Islam to be released but they all declined the generous offer.”
The ICC report confirmed the four Christians had been working for a local non-governmental organization that helps orphans in southern Somalia.
A Somali church leader who monitors the persecution against the Somali church described the latest beheadings as a desperate attempt to “purify” Somalia by eliminating all Christians from what the al-Qaida-linked terror group considers an Islamic Republic.
But the church leader, whose identity was withheld, said such murders will only serve to launch more house-churches.
ICC described al-Shabaab as “a radical Islamic organization fighting to establish an Islamic state in Somalia and enforce Wahhabi/Salafi Islam, an ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam practiced by the Taliban and al-Qaida.”
The extremists already control large parts of Somalia and are trying to overthrow the internationally recognized transitional federal government of Somalia.
The Islamists last year killed half a dozen Somali Christians and just last month beheaded seven people in the town of Baidoa after accusing them of converting to Christianity, the ICC said.
“Al-Shabaab has once against demonstrated its utter disregard for the dignity of human life,” said Jonathan Racho, ICC’s regional manager for Africa and the Middle East.
“The majority of Muslims in Somalia, who are also the victims of al-Shabaab’s cruelty, do not support their ideology or practices. It is high time for the international community to take robust measures to end the heinous crimes that al-Shabaab and other extremist groups are committing against the people of Somalia,” he said.
“I watched my three boys dragged away helplessly as my youngest boy was crying,” said the mother, Batula Ali Arbow. “I knew they were going to be slaughtered.”
A short time later, 7-year-old Abdulahi Musa Yusuf came running back to his mother, wailing and crying. Dead were his brothers 12-year-old Hussein Musa Yusuf and 11-year-old Abdi Rahaman Musa Yusuf, according to the report.
The killers were seeking the father, Musa Mohammed Yusuf, who was gone at the time, the report said. He was the leader of an underground church in Yonday village in Somalia before April, when the family fled to a Kenyan camp.
Please pray for these: our sisters who are being persecuted for their belief and stand in our Lord and Savior. We are not worthy to tie their shoes!
Maybe we can get Patricia King to blow a trumpet on their behalf, or Ribbons the clown could pray down some gold dust on them or Tod Bently could send them Emma to protect them or Joel Osteen could just tell them they can have their best life now. Or maybe Heidi Baker can just slither out of a chair laughing and laughing and somehow the two women will be blessed by her theatrics! Or maybe they just need a good dose of “soaking prayer.”
Do you find me ridiculous? No! If you follow any of these people you should see yourselves as ridiculous compared to the the true faith these two precious ones are going through for the one true faith!
God have mercy on these women and make them strong for your sake. Help them not to fear but to have real faith…not the faith that is taught here in America. But truth faith only the three of you can know right now. They are but two alone. You make three. A three fold cord is not easily broken. Bind them together with your love, oh Lord and may they be a comfort to one another and know your presence during such a time. Put the your joy of eternity before them and set their faces like flint. Be exalted in their midst, oh Lord. Where there is pain, I ask you remove it. Where there is suffering, I ask you make it bearable or eitehr remove it. May they be a light to their captors and may your words fill their mouths.
In a display of raw courage, two Iranian women in court accused of being Christian have told a government prosecutor that not only are they Christian, it is up to God, not a bureaucrat, to whom He talks.
Maryam Rustampoor, 27, and Marzieh Amirizadeh, 30, appeared in court in Iran yesterday to be interrogated by a prosecutor.
They’ve been held in prison since March 5 when they were taken into custody because of their faith.
The Sunday hearing, at which they were supposed to hear their sentences on allegations of apostasy, instead devolved into another interrogation, this one run by the deputy prosecutor identified only by his surname, Haddad.
They explained that God had convicted them through the Holy Spirit.
“It is impossible for God to speak with humans,” Hadded stated.
“Are you questioning whether God is Almighty?” Amirizadeh asked him.
To which Haddad then replied. “You are not worthy for God to speak to you.”
“It is God, and not you, who determines if I am worthy,” she said.
Eventually Haddad instructed the women to go back to their prison cells and think about their options, and to return to court when they are ready to comply.
“We have already done our thinking,” the woman said, according to Elam, a ministry founded in 1988 by senior Iranian church leaders with a vision to serve the growing Iranian Christian community.
The fact that no verdict was given in the case indicates the court is focusing solely on the women’s Christian faith and no other “offense.”
Haddad earlier had asked if the women were Christian.
“We love Jesus,” they repoled.
“You were Muslims and now you have become Christians,” Haddad stated.
“We were born in Muslim families, but we were not Muslims,” the women said.
The deputy prosecutor asked about their regrets, and they said, “We have no regrets.”
“You should renounce your faith verbally and in written form,” he warned.
They refused.
Eventually they were returned to Evin prison. The Elam report said during the five months of their prison stay, both have been sick and lost weight.
“Marzieh is in pain due to an on-going problem with her spine, as well as an infected tooth and intense headaches. She desperately needs medical attention,” the Elam report said. “Two months ago the prison officials told her the prison had proper medical equipment and that they will attend to her, but so far no proper treatment has been given.”
Under Shariah law, the penalty for apostasy often is death. According to reports about the punishment system within Iran, for women the execution often is preceded by rape.
Reports have revealed that both women have been subjected to solitary confinement as well as extended interrogations already, with health problems resulting.
“Despite the concentrated effort of officials to pressure them into recanting their faith, Maryam and Marzieh love Jesus and they are determined to stand firm to the very end no matter whatever happens,” the Elam report said. “They have demonstrated their love for Jesus and would offer their lives for Him if they were called to do so.
“Maryam and Marzieh’s case is a clear and harsh violation of human rights and religious liberty by Iran’s authorities. They deserve the support of all those who respect human rights and to be released without charges so they can pursue a life of freedom.”
These men of God put the majority of pastors in America to shame. While America’s pastors are thinking about how to get around NOT speaking “Hate Crime” and/or losing their tax exemption by preaching against sin, we have real men of God in other countries being beheaded and killed for daring to speak the truth.
Most preachers here can not even come out and speak against the commies in the WhiteHouse! They are too busy running here and there seeking signs and wonders, leading their sheep astray, going to conference after another, writing books on how to be happy, healthy and wealthy! Why should I follow any of them?! I don’t. If you have such a pastor who actually is not afraid to speak the truth, consider yourselves blessed and stand behind him because the day is coming where he will need you! Pray for him, NOW!
And the Whitehouse says the war on terror is over? They lie!
Bride of Christ, are we ready for this? Let us seek Him now while it is yet day.
Boko Haram: How 3 pastors were beheaded eyewitness
From TIMOTHY OLA, Maiduguri Thursday, August 6, 2009
One of the victims of last week’s attack by the Yusufiya sect in Borno State has given a shocking account of how the Islamic extremists killed three pastors who were captured along with other victims on the second day of the insurgence. The victim was among those held hostage in Yusuf’s enclave.
Speaking exclusively to Daily Sun in Maiduguri, the eye witness who preferred anonymity disclosed that the three pastors were beheaded on the instruction of the sect leader, Mohammed Yusuf shortly after bringing them out of his inner chamber.
“The pastors alongside one Ibo man were asked to change their faith to Islam like they did to other people taken as hostages. I think there was an argument by one of the pastors which gave the others some level of confidence to also resist accepting Islam.
“The Yusufiya men who were armed on that Tuesday afternoon were not comfortable with the pastors and they took one of them to the sect leader in his inner chamber. They came out later to the courtyard within the compound and cut their heads one after the other and thereafter, shouted allah akbar in wild celebration accompanied with several gun shots,” the eye witness disclosed.
He said the hostages numbering about 50 within the area of the execution of the pastors and another fair complexioned man which he could not identify, were gripped with fear as non could foretell the outcome of their stay at the enclave of the fundamentalists. He was however lucky to escape as he was freed in the night with others with a warning not to mix with kafrici (infidels).
Corroborating the account of the killing, a Senior pastor with Good News Church, Wulari Maiduguri Rev. Baba Gata Ibrahim told Daily Sun in an interview that a pastor in his church, Pastor George Orjih was beheaded on the instruction of the Boko Haram leader because the clergy man refused to accept Islam.
“An eye witness who was also captured by the Islamic militants gave us details of how the pastor was killed. He told us they were persuading him to accept Islam and he said over his dead body. He was even said to have preached Christ to Mohammed Yusuf and that reportedly angered the sect leader who then as he ordered that the pastor and others be killed immediately,” he disclosed.
The late Pastor George Orjih was said to have arrived Maiduguri last week from Jos where he was doing his Masters programme in Theology. Described as a fearless, hardworking, and intellectually sound, his care for the welfare and well being of his family allegedly contributed to his capture and eventual death.
“He was mindful of his family and their welfare. He was really out of the house but thought to go back again. That was how he was captured by the Boko Haram before he was killed. It was the very week, in fact the following day he returned from school where he was doing his Masters in Theology that he was arrested,” the senior pastor added.
He urged the government to provide adequate security for Christian in the state.
Also delivering a sermon during the funeral rites for late Rev. Sabo Yakubu, slain COCIN Church pastor, the speaker, Rev Bulus Azi urged Christians to emulate the pastors who were killed because of their refusal to betray their faith. Quoting from the bible in Revelation 7: 9-15, the regional chairman of the church told Christians to prepare to die anytime as their calling demand.
If your preacher, pastor, church or “religion” is not causing you to think of these things to come, but instead pointing you to prosperity, health, wealth, gold dust, angel feathers and seeking signs and wonders, then I exhort you to think of those who went before us for the truth’s sake. They died for their beliefs. Are we any different? Are we any better? No.
Any “gospel” that denies suffering is from hell.
We are to be of sober-minded, thinking on things above. This world is not our home. So let us not get too comfortable here.
As the end nears, let us exhort one another and encourage one another to stand strong for what lies ahead. For surely our lives are but a vapor–nothing compared to the joy that awaits us.
Be strong. Be vigilant in the truth always. Jesus will never leave us nor forsake us my brothers and sisters. Never.
Our brother, Axis4peace at youtube has given us this:
I’ve said the Feminist movement in America is the biggest bunch of hypocrites out there. How many do you think will come to the aid of this woman or even speak out for her? Not one of them. I’ve put this in the catagory of “persecution” because it is persecution to beat a woman who simply wants to wear pants. WAKE UP AMERICA!
A Sudanese journalist facing 40 lashes for wearing “indecent” trousersvowed on the eve of her judgment that she is ready to be whipped 40,000 times in her bid to change the country’s harsh laws.
Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, who works for the media department of the United Nations Mission in Sudan, is to be judged on Tuesday after waiving the immunity granted to UN workers.
She is to be judged under Article 152 of Sudanese law, which promises 40 lashes for anyone “who commits an indecent act which violates public morality or wears indecent clothing.”
Hussein, who is in her 30s and whose husband died of kidney failure, told AFP in a telephone interview: “I’m ready for anything to happen. I’m absolutely not afraid of the verdict.”
RedeemedHippie:[Can we Christians say such a thing? Are WE ready?]
Police arrested Hussein and 12 other women wearing trousers at a Khartoum restaurant on July 3. Two days later 10 of the women accepted a punishment of 10 lashes, but Hussein is appealing in a bid to eliminate such rough justice.
The other two women are also facing charges.
“If I’m sentenced to be whipped, or to anything else, I will appeal. I will see it through to the end, to the constitutional court if necessary,” Hussein said.
“And if the constitutional court says the law is constitutional, I’m ready to be whipped not 40 but 40,000 times.”
Hussein invited scores of journalists to her first court hearing on Wednesday, when she made a point of wearing the same clothes she wore when she was arrested — moss-green slacks with a loose floral top and green headscarf.
Hordes of people, many of them female supporters and some also wearing trousers out of solidarity, crammed into the courthouse for the hearing.
“My main objective is to get rid of Article 152,” Hussein said. “This article is against both the constitution and sharia,” the Islamic law ruling northern Sudan.
Adding insult to injury, some of the women whipped in July were from animist and Christian south Sudan where sharia law does not apply.
“If some people refer to the sharia to justify flagellating women because of what they wear, then let them show me which Koranic verses or hadith (sayings of the Prophet Mohammed) say so. I haven’t found them.”
Unlike many other Arab countries, particularly in the Gulf, women have a prominent place in Sudanese public life. Nevertheless, human rights organisations say some of the country’s laws discriminate against women.
“Tens of thousands of women and girls have been whipped for their clothes these last 20 years. It’s not rare in Sudan,” Hussein said.
“It’s just that none of them would dare complain, because who would believe that they were whipped just for wearing trousers? They’re afraid of scandal, of raising doubts about their morals.
“I want people to know. I want these women’s voices to be heard.”
By bringing the practice into the public eye “I’ve already won half the battle,” she said, vowing to wear the same “indecent” clothes to her judgment on Tuesday.
RedeemedHippie:[Let us pray for this woman: Father, I do not know this woman, but you do. You know exactly what awaits her. I ask you to strengthen her and empower her for what comes her way. Make her bold with truth. Prepare the hearts of her accusers to hear the truth. Help her to stand. Raise up other women who will stand with her. Shut the mouths of the wicked ones in her midst and show her mercy.]
Just one more example why I have nothing to do with the apostate church in America. Their “religion” does not “work” where there is suffering and persecution. Their “religion” is only of one of “bless me, bless me” and “oh, how I want to feel good and get gold teeth from God and have angel feathers come to our service.”
Take the following. THIS IS THE REAL DEAL. We have yet to see it. But our brothers and sisters in other nations are experiencing it this very minute. Lord come quickly and help our brothers and sisters in other countries to stand strong!
Paramilitary troops patrolled the streets of a town in eastern Pakistan yesterday after Muslim radicals burnt to death eight members of a Christian family, raising fears of violence spreading to other areas.
Hundreds of armed supporters of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an outlawed Islamic militant group, set alight dozens of Christian homes in Gojra town at the weekend after allegations that a copy of the Koran had been defiled.
The mob opened fire indiscriminately, threw petrol bombs and looted houses as thousands of frightened Christians ran for safety. “They were shouting anti-Christian slogans and attacked our houses,” Rafiq Masih, a resident of the predominantly Christian colony, said. Residents said that police stood aside while the mob went on the rampage. “We kept begging for protection, but police did not take action,” Mr Masih said.
Police and local officials said that at least eight people, including four women and a child, were killed in the fires. Two others died of gunshot wounds. Residents said that the casualties were much higher; one claimed that the number of dead could be in the dozens as many bodies were still buried under the rubble.Shahbaz Bhatti, the Minister for Minorities, said that 40 Christian homes were torched in rioting. He said there was no truth to allegations that a Koran had been defiled, and accused the police of ignoring his appeal to provide protection to Christians.
Tension started mounting last week after Muslims accused three Christian youths of burning a copy of the Koran. They denied the allegations, but clerics called for their death. On Saturday hundreds of supporters of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an outlawed Sunni sectarian group, poured into the town from surrounding districts. The group is believed to have close links with al-Qaeda and has been involved in several terrorist attacks targeting security forces in recent years.
Television footage showed armed men running through the streets, gunfire, and women and children wailing. Blackened furniture lay outside burning homes, while a group of people rushed a man suffering from burns on a cart through the streets. Rehman Malik, the Interior Minister, said that the paramilitary troops were sent after police and the local administration failed to control the situation. Security forces were also placed on high alert to prevent violence from spreading to other towns of Punjab.
Security in Gojra, which has a Christian population of about 50,000, was tightened yesterday as funerals were held for the eight victims. Christians make up a small minority of Pakistan’s 160 million people and have been the target of attacks by Islamic extremists before, particularly in eastern Punjab.
Christians also face intimidation because of discriminatory blasphemy laws, including one that carries the death penalty for defiling the Koran and images of the Prophet Muhammad. The law is often misused to settle personal scores.
I will no longer take comments from those of you who want to uphold your idols. Examples: Choo Thomas, Impending Doom, the likes of Tod Bently and any other person or group who this blog has more than enough given examples of their deceit and lies. I can not and will not keep going around the same old mountain. So please know that if you leave a comment trying to defend what has been addressed over and over, your comment will be trashed.
Just a note about comments: Chances are there will be times when we can not understand the tone of one another for the simple fact of not being able to hear another‘s voice. Even so, if I find you rude and antagonistic, your comment may not get posted. If I do post your comment in spite of any nastiness, I will not play games with you. If you come here looking for a fight, I might try and be patient with you. But no promises. If you give me an attitude, you might get one back. Contrary to popular belief, Christianity is NOT rolling over and letting people walk all over them for the sake of “peace.” If you want to come here merely for the chance to rudely attack the people here or any beliefs, then please go somewhere else.
I also will do my best not to be "rude," but no promises if I find you hateful and sarcastic.
I may or may not “turn the other cheek” here. When the truth is at stake, I find it hard to compromise by shutting my mouth for the sake of a fake “peace.” I will not let you get by acting like a jerk with insults directed towards me, the readers of this blog or this blog.
If your comment is not relevant to a post, chances are it will not get posted. If you want to leave me something that is vulgar, it gets trashed. Spamming me will get you no where. Leaving me an "comment" (argumentative or otherwise) that is two, three, four pages long will not go up.
If you want to disagree with a post, fine. But if there are plenty of comments on that particular issue that have already addressed that subject, do not leave a comment expecting me to put it up. I will not.
If you come here to just leave a link, it will not be posted unless we already “know” one another. If a link is not relevant to the subject at hand, it will not go up. If I believe the link leads to a deceptive place, it will not go up. If you are wanting to endorse anything that is Apostasy, New-Age, Communist, Liberal, Socialist, Emergent Church, Mystical, Occultic, Seeker Friendly Church, it will not be allowed.
Do not use text message code or whatever it is some of you do, as a way to communicate with me. I will not post your comment if you do this. I will not spend time trying to decode whatever it is you are trying to say.
If you try to defend what I believe is deceitful, wicked, sinful and wrong, your comment will not go up.
I will not spend my energy defending my positions on what I already believe strongly. Chances are you will not change my mind and I will not be able to change yours. So peace to you as you leave this place.
This is my little place in the universe. You are welcome here if you are civil. This is my turf, my place. Please remember that.
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