Πριν έντεκα χρόνια της απαγόρευσαν να φοράει τον Σταυρό της. Στη χώρα που όλα επιτρέπονται, ο Σταυρός απαγορεύεται.

ΗΠΑ: Απαγόρευσαν σε δωδεκάχρονη μαθήτρια να φοράει Σταυρό.

 

Άλλο ένα παράδειγμα για το πώς οι γραφειοκράτες της κυβέρνησης προσπαθούν να επιβάλουν την «πολιτικά ορθή» ατζέντα τους στα παιδιά του σχολείου.

Ένα σχολείο στην Ομάχα της Νεμπράσκα, λοιπόν, υποστηρίζει ότι ο χριστιανικός σταυρός και το ροσάριο έχουν υιοθετηθεί ως σύμβολα από συμμορίες και για αυτό αποφάσισαν να «προστατεύσουν» ένα δωδεκάχρονο κορίτσι.

Η πόλη της Ομάχα, έχει ένα μεγάλο και αυξανόμενο πληθυσμό Μεξικάνων και είναι πιθανό ότι από εκεί προέρχεται το "σύμβολο της συμμορίας", αν και η είδηση ​​δεν σχολιάζει αυτή τη πιθανότητα. Ακόμα κι αν οι Μεξικάνικες συμμορίες χρησιμοποιούν Καθολικά χριστιανικά σύμβολα, αυτό σημαίνει ότι οι Χριστιανοί θα πρέπει να εγκαταλείψουν τα θρησκευτικά τους σύμβολα; Δεν είναι λοιπόν, το βασικό πρόβλημα οι μαζικές δημογραφικές αλλαγές και η μετατόπιση του ιστορικού τοπικού πληθυσμού παρά η απαγόρευση των χριστιανικών συμβόλων; Όλοι γνωρίζουμε την απάντηση στο ερώτημα αυτό - τις δυνάμεις που θέλουν περισσότερους μετανάστες και δεν έχουν κανένα πρόβλημα με την κατάργηση του σταυρού. Το KETV 7 έχει την ιστορία:

Omaha, Neb. – Αυτό που θα πρέπει να είναι ένα σύμβολο αγάπης έχει υιοθετηθεί και κακοποιηθεί από τις συμμορίες λέει η καθολική εκκλησία.

Μία μαθήτρια της έκτης είπε ότι της είπαν ότι δεν μπορεί να φορέσει ένα κολιέ που μοιάζει με ροζάριο, διότι παραβιάζει τον κώδικα ενδυμασίας στα δημόσια σχολεία του Fremont.

 

Η Elizabeth Carey, 12 ετών, είπε ότι το σχολείο της εξέδωσε πέρυσι την πολιτική που απαγορεύει τα κολιέ.

«Ο διευθυντής είπε ότι δεν θα μπορούσα να φοράω το κολιέ μου καθόλου γιατί το φοράνε και οι γκάνγκστερ», είπε.

Είπε ότι το κολιέ είναι μέρος της εμφάνισης της που εκφράζει την πίστη της.

"Φοράω ένα κολιέ με ένα σταυρό, ένα T-shirt με σταυρό και ένα βραχιόλι με σταυρό», είπε. "Σκέφτομαι πως ο Ιησούς πέθανε στο σταυρό και το πώς ήταν αναμάρτητος για μας."

Ο έφορος Steve Sexton είπε ότι η πολιτική αυτή είναι για την ασφάλεια των μαθητών.

«Είχαμε πληροφορίες από την αστυνομία ότι έχουν υπάρξει καταγεγραμμένες περιπτώσεις δραστηριότητας συμμοριών στην περιοχή και είχαμε πληροφορίες που αναφέρουν ότι το ροζάριο το χρησιμοποιούσαν σαν σύμβολο της ένταξης στη συμμορία," δήλωσε ο Σέξτον.

Είπε ότι τα ροζάρια έχουν χρησιμοποιηθεί ως αναγνωριστικά σύμβολα συμμοριών στο Όρεγκον, την Αριζόνα και το Τέξας.

Από την καθολική αρχιεπισκοπή της Omaha ο ιερέας Joseph Taphorn δήλωσε ότι αυτό είναι απογοητευτικό.

"Δεν νομίζω ότι οι Χριστιανοί θα πρέπει να χάσουν αυτό που είναι σύμβολο της αγάπης του Χριστού, επειδή μερικοί άνθρωποι θέλουν να καταχραστούν το σύμβολο», είπε.

Είπε ότι η διαφθορά κάτι τόσο αγαπημένου όσο το ροδάριο αηδιάζει την εκκλησία.

«Πρέπει να είμαστε σε θέση να καταλάβουμε αν η μαθήτρια προσπαθεί να προωθήσει μια συμμορία", δήλωσε ο Taphorn. "Αν δεν είναι, γιατί θα πρέπει να τιμωρηθεί για το δικαίωμα της θρησκευτικής ελευθερίας και της θρησκευτικής έκφρασης;"

Η Carey είπε ότι δεν ξέρει καν τι είναι μια συμμορία. Είπε ότι την αναστατώνει το ότι τιμωρήθηκε επειδή φορούσε ένα περιδέραιο.

«Με κάνει να θέλω να ουρλιάξω», είπε.

Οι γονείς της δήλωσαν επίσης ότι ήταν αναστατωμένοι που στην κόρη τους απαγορεύτηκε η έκφραση των θρησκευτικών της πεποιθήσεων.

Η Carey είπε ότι θα συνεχίσει να εκφράζει αυτό που πιστεύει με τον σταυρό και τα ρούχα της.

"Είμαι αποφασισμένη να μην υποχωρήσω για τον Ιησού και θα κάνω ό, τι μπορώ για να σταματήσει αυτό», είπε.

Τα δημόσια σχολεία του Fremont λένε ότι η περιοχή δεν έχει κανένα πρόβλημα με τους μαθητές που φορούν κοσμήματα ή ρούχα για να εκφράσουν την πίστη τους, αλλά τα ροζάρια αποτελούν εξαίρεση.

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Civilian Christians Killed amid Military Fighting in Western Burma. Unknown whether caught in crossfire or deliberately targeted.

NAYPYIDAW, Burma (Morning Star News) – Burmese army jet fighters killed 21 civilians from the predominantly Christian, ethnic Chin group in airstrikes this month in western Burma (Myanmar), sources said.

In Paletwa Township, Chin state, the army on March 14 struck Meiksa Wa villages 2 and 3, killing 12 civilians, area residents reportedly said. Eight more died in attacks the next day on Wetma village, and one was killed in Pyaing Tain village, they said.

The Burmese military’s Members of Parliament said the predominantly Christian villages were targeted because army personnel believed Arakan Army (AA) rebels from Rakhine state, on Chin state’s southern border, had taken cover in them, according to Mai Thin Yu Mon, program director of Chin Human Rights Organization (CHRO).

Another 28 civilians were wounded in the attacks, he said, adding that more than 1,500 villagers fled the areas as some of their houses were burned down.

Chin Christian leaders and local residents said that, based on past persecution they have endured at the hands of the military, they suspect army personnel fired indiscriminately at the villages in part because the inhabitants were Christian. Under the previous military regime, troops came to their villages and systematically persecuted the Christians in order to impose Buddhism. Prior CHRO reports have outlined how Burmese troops destroyed church buildings and persecuted Christians.

Brig. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, a military spokesman, reportedly said that government troops were returning fire at AA rebels, and that it was unclear which side caused the civilian casualties.

“We used fighter jets and helicopters in military operations, but it is difficult to tell [if the fatalities] were caused by the jets,” he told The Irawaddy. “When we use the jets, we take more care and aim only at the enemy’s location.”

Encouraging Buddhism to try to unite Burma’s disparate peoples, the Burmese government has long persecuted Chin Christians for their faith. Many ethnic Chin retain their ancestral animist beliefs and practices, though today most are Christians, according to the Joshua Project and other sources.

Amid fighting in Chin state’s Paletwa area and in Rakhine state, unarmed ethnic Chin are targeted by both sides. The Rakhine people are predominantly Buddhist. CHRO’s Mai Thin Yu Mon said AA soldiers also attack civilians when they suspect Burmese army soldiers have taken cover in their buildings.

“Sometimes, the AA’s soldiers said that they were informed that the government soldiers stay in the villages, so they opened fire into the villages,” he said. “So villagers got injured because of those indiscriminate attacks.”

Though religious buildings and properties are commonly seen as safe places in Burma during armed fighting, local residents said that both Rakhine rebel and government troops take over Christian churches to use as shelter and cover during offensives.

CHRO condemned the Burmese military for indiscriminate attacks against ethnic Chin, Christian villages in a press statement. The rights group added that both government forces and Rakhine rebels commit abuses such as demanding money from the Chin, arresting those who cannot pay and using them as human shields in battle.

AA rebels recently kidnapped three Chin villagers who were not able to meet their demands for rice bags, Mai Thin Yu Mon said.

“The villagers were released after three days of detention,” he said. “But they were ordered to provide 20 bags of rice. The rebels have been extorting money and foods from Chin villagers since 2015.”

There are more than 2,600 Chin villagers taking shelter in the Samee Internally Displaced Persons camp in Chin state, including 20 pregnant women, he said. An estimated 90 percent of the IDPs are Christians.

“IDPs in the Samee camp also urgently need food, clothes, blankets and medicines,” May Thin Yu Mon said. “We are collecting donations for them. Some individuals who are ethnic Chin singers also donated some money.”

The Rev. Dennis Ngun Thawng Mang of the Chin Baptist Convention said he had received word of the attacks on the ethnic Chin, Christian communities.

“We are preparing to provide some financial assistance,” he said. “We are also trying to meet Burmese army officials. We will ask them not to harm our Chin Christian communities. We will ask them to protect our Chin Christian communities.”

Burma is about 80 percent Buddhist and 9 percent Christian. The country is ranked 19th on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2020 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian.

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Authorities Foil Suspected Islamist Terror Attack in Melbourne, Australia Anglican cathedral among targets.

 

December 23, 2016 By Our Australia Correspondent

MELBOURNE, Australia (Morning Star News) – Police in Australia today arrested seven suspected Islamic terrorists after thwarting a planned bomb attack on three sites in Melbourne, including St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Some 400 heavily-armed police raided homes in five of Melbourne’s northwestern suburbs. The raids reportedly culminated weeks of intensive investigations and monitoring by Victoria Police, Australian Federal Police, and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.

Of the five suspects still in custody, four are Australian-born of Lebanese descent, while the fifth is an Egyptian-born Australian citizen. Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton described them as “self-radicalized . . . [but] inspired by ISIS [Islamic State] and ISIS propaganda,” according to The Australian.

The terror plotters were reportedly preparing to attack Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station, Federation Square and St. Paul’s Cathedral using Improvised Explosive Devices and other weapons such as guns and knives, most likely on Christmas Day.

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin said the plot had concerned him “more than any other” over the past few years.

“They had moved very quickly from an intention to a capability and developed capability, including quite progressed plans, we will allege,” Colvin said, according to The Age. “We’ve heard about Federation Square, we’ve heard about the Flinders Street train station and St. Paul’s Cathedral. We believe that they were narrowing down exactly what their plan was, but that’s all in one very small part of Melbourne’s CBD.”

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull described it as “one of the most substantial terrorist plots that have been disrupted [in Australia] in recent years.”

Christmas services will continue at the cathedral as planned, albeit under heightened security.

Just two days earlier, on Wednesday evening (Dec. 21), a van loaded with multiple gas canisters was driven into the headquarters of Christian religious freedom organization Australian Christian Lobby (ACL), in the heart of the Australian capital, Canberra. The driver then reportedly ignited the canisters, causing a massive explosion.

A conservative Christian lobby group that lobbies for religious freedom and pro-family values, ACL has received multiple death threats during the course of the year, mostly for its reasoned defense of traditional marriage. The blast blew out the widows and ignited a fire, resulting in significant damage, according to the The Canberra Times. No one was working inside the building at the time.

The driver survived the attack and was flown to Sydney for burns treatment. The police did not release the bomber’s name, saying only that he is “an Australian citizen.” Canberra police have publically asserted that the attack was not politically, religiously or ideologically motivated, which ACL Managing Director Lyle Shelton doubted.

“I think something of this nature, that appears to be so deliberate, is an attack against the sort of things that we’ve been saying in the public square,” he told ABC radio. Shelton said he bore the bomber no malice and was praying for his recovery and for his family.

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Muslim Father Kills Daughter on Day She Converts. Woman dies after being stabbed in the eyes.

 

Christians in Mukono District, Uganda watch as judge delivers verdict for killer of several Christians. (Morning Star News)

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A woman in central Uganda who accepted Christ at a church service on May 29 was killed later that day when her father stabbed her in the eyes for leaving Islam, sources said.

After having several dreams about Christ, 28-year-old Hawa Amoti of Nansana, Wakiso District visited a Christian neighbor early on the morning of May 29, said the neighbor, unidentified for security reasons.

“Amoti came to our home very early in the morning and needed to know more of Issa [Jesus], whom she had seen in a dream,” he said. “After explaining to her about eternal life and forgiveness of sin that comes from Jesus who came to take away the sins of the whole world, she willingly accepted Jesus for the salvation of her soul. I then prayed for her, and then together we went to church in Nansana.”

After the church service, Amoti joined the neighbor’s family for lunch at his home and stayed until about 5:45 p.m., when she left for her home, he said.

Her father, Haji Shariifu Agaba, and brothers had already learned that she had been seen worshipping Christ at church when she arrived outside their home, one of her siblings said. Agaba ordered his sons to seize and beat her, then took a sharp knife and pierced her eyes, said a brother of Amoti who tried to defend her.

“I want to remove these eyes so that you stop seeing churches forever – even if you die, we are not going to bury you,” Agaba told her, according to the brother, whose name is withheld for security reasons.

Amoti’s wailing and screaming drew neighbors who rushed over to rescue her, the Christian neighbor said. As more members of the community arrived, Agaba and his sons went inside their house.

Neighbors arranged for a vehicle to rush Amoti to a nearby hospital, where she succumbed to profuse bleeding from her eye injuries, sources said.

Community leaders in Nansana condemned the attack and vowed to arrest and charge Agaba, they said.

Church members buried Amoti’s body in Luwero District.

Muslim Extremist Sentenced

In Mukono District, also in central Uganda, a Mukono High Court judge on May 26 sentenced a Muslim extremist to life in prison for killing at least two Christians, sources said.

Justice Mutonyi Margaret handed the sentence to Alias Mohammed Wamala for killing two Christian converts from Islam, Zulaikha Mirembe and another identified only as Nansamba, in 2017. Several witnesses testified against Wamala, who confessed to killing Mirembe, Nansamba and others, area Christians said.

“In 2017 the accused confessed to having killed Zulaikha Mirembe and several other Christians to fulfill what was written in the Koran about supporting the cause of Allah by killing infidels,” an area pastor told Morning Star News.

Justice Margaret handed Wamala the maximum sentence for the killings.

“This will set an example for all those who might want to engage in such a criminal acts in the future,” he said.

During the trial, Wamala and other Muslims were accused of ritual killings as part of an occult practice that involved a shrine where the bodies were buried, area Christian said.

Police arrested Wamala and five other Muslims in 2017 after Nansamba’s body was found in Kisoga village, Kayunga District, along with the bodies of four others whose names were not disclosed. Three other suspects, Vincent Paul, Isa Walakira and Jamiru Kimbugwe, were still under investigation, sources said.

Wamala’s lawyer, Emmanuel Turyomwe, had asked for lenient sentences to run concurrently, saying his client was remorseful, but the judge agreed with the state’s request for life imprisonment.

The attacks in central Uganda were some of the many instances of persecution of Christians in the country that Morning Star News has documented.

Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.

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Police in India Assault, Charge Pastor for Family Devotional Officers tie him to tree and beat him, sources say.

NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Nearly two months after police arrested a pastor in India from his grandmother’s home, tied him to a tree and beat him, threats from officers and others have kept him from filing a complaint on the brutality, sources said.

Pastor Pravesh Kumar of Amamahua, Uttar Pradesh state was visiting a sick uncle at his grandmother’s house in nearby Bhais Khur village on April 22 when police arrested him after a Hindu neighbor videotaped them singing during a family devotional on the roof, he said.

The neighbor had sent the video clip to police after recording it from the adjoining rooftop, Pastor Kumar said. Officers immediately arrived and questioned him about the purpose of the visit and about their singing.

When he explained that they were singing hymns, police told him they were arresting him on suspicion of forcible conversion because hymns were part of converting people, he said.

“They completely ignored the fact that the family we were visiting were all followers of Christ,” Pastor Kumar said.

Officers took the 26-year-old pastor to Bijauli police outpost at about 8 p.m., tied him face forward to a tree and physically assaulted him as they reviled him in coarse language, he said.

“I was beaten so brutally on my legs that they swelled up, and I was not able to walk,” Pastor Kumar told Morning Star News. “I was limping.”

His 55-year-old uncle arrived, noticed he was limping and entreated the policemen to stop the assault, he said. The officers demanded 20,000 to 25,000 rupees (US$256 to US$320) to release them, and because Pastor Kumar told them he had no money and had committed no crime, they said they would send him to the Bardah police station, he said.

Pastor Kumar and his uncle were transported to the Bardah police station, where an officer asked about his limp and scolded the officers for hitting him on body parts that bore readily visible marks.

The officer demanded a leather strap and told the junior policemen, “I will show you what body parts you should target while assaulting a person,” and then lashed the pastor 30 to 40 times and also beat his uncle, Pastor Kumar said.

As he struck Pastor Kumar, the officer demanded that he shout slogans hailing Hindu gods and goddesses: “Jai! Sri Ram [Hail! lord Ram]!” and, “Jai! Durga Ki [Hail! Durga],” and as he refused, he was further beaten.

When one of the junior policemen asked the officer if they should let Pastor Kumar’s uncle go, he refused, saying they would fabricate a report that the pastor and his uncle had fought each other. He ordered the officers to beat Pastor Kumar’s uncle.

Word spread of them being beaten in custody, and Christian leaders from Uttar Pradesh and Delhi called police to inquire about the arrest.

“When my well-wishers and concerned Christians called the police station, the officer came and told me that he received a call and beat me all the more, accusing me of having a ‘big group’ of supporters,” Pastor Kumar told Morning Star News.

As the officers kicked and struck Pastor Kumar and his uncle with police batons and a leather strap, the police continued to revile them with coarse language, he said.

The two Christians sustained several internal and external injuries. Pastor Kumar was beaten on all major joints, including the wrists and knees, with a ruptured nerve on a wrist that turned black, he said.

Police registered a complaint against them under the Indian Penal Code for “five or more assembling and disturbing public peace,” “abetment” and “abetting commission of offense.” They appeared before the Sub-Divisional Magistrate court in Lalganj, Azamgarh District after a medical exam, and the evening of next day they were released on bail.

Pastor Kumar was still taking pain medication two weeks after his release, he said.

Morning Star News refrained from calling police for comment as it could exacerbate mistreatment of the Christians, though Pastor Kumar gave permission to report on the case.

On the day of their arrest, Dinanath Jaiswar, a human rights activist and Christian leader in Uttar Pradesh, reached the police station along with other church leaders at about midnight. Jaiswar told Morning Star News that he was utterly shaken when he saw Kumar’s condition.

“He was brutally beaten in custody,” Jaiswar said. “I had tears in my eyes when I met him in the police station.”

A religious rights activist from Delhi who requested anonymity said that when he called the officer in-charge of the Bardah police station that same night, the chief refused to talk.

“The moment I spoke about Pastor Pravesh’s detention, he cut my phone and then stopped answering my calls,” the activist said.

Another Christian leader speaking on condition of anonymity said that he went to the police station the same night and asked police why were they torturing Kumar, a charge they roundly denied.

“It was so heart-breaking to see Pastor Pravesh,” the leader said. “We felt so helpless. We panicked as to whom should we approach for protection, when the ‘protectors’ themselves have become assaulters.”

Threats

When police sent Pastor Kumar and his uncle for medical examination, they instructed the accompanying constables that they must state that the pair’s injuries were the result of a scuffle between them, he said.

The station chief had warned him that if he told doctors or any senior police officer about the assault in custody, the officers “knew where to find” him.

“The officer told me that he would falsely implicate me and my uncle under the anti-conversion law and send us to jail if we tried to take any action against them,” Pastor Kumar told Morning Star News.

Jaiswar said the hospital doctor told him he could explain the injuries truthfully.

“The doctor at the hospital, shocked at Pravesh’s condition, told him that he can mention in the medical report the brutality, in which he was beaten with leather stap marks and got baton marks all over his body,” Jaiswar said. “But Pravesh was very scared of the warning the police officer had given him of the consequences of revealing the truth.”

Pastor Kumar was also hesitant to reveal anything that could spoil his brother’s imminent wedding, he said.

“I did not want to bring any kind of trouble upon the family and jeopardize my brother’s wedding,” he said. “Even after my release, my mother and other family members persuaded me to not do anything that would bring any kind of trouble upon the family.”

Jaiswar said he was an eyewitness to the injuries police inflicted on Pastor Kumar’s back, wrists and knees, and his difficulty in walking.

“I persisted that we must file a counter-complaint against the police,” Jaiswar said. “I wanted to make him stand before the senior officials and question the brutality of the police department for a small complaint like this one. But Kumar was too scared to take any action.”

Formerly a Hindu, Pastor Kumar had begun to follow Christ 18 months ago, along with his siblings and their families. The church where they worshipped was about 25 miles from their village, so his pastor encouraged him to start a fellowship at his house.

“For the past six months I have been conducting prayers in my house, and about 60-70 people attend the house church,” he said.

Since his arrest, he has not led the regular church service nor met for their regular Friday prayer meetings, he said. Residents in Amamahua have threatened him, saying they will follow the example set in Bhais Khur and call police if people gather in his house for prayer or worship.

“The villagers told me that they had no idea that they could do this to me,” he said. “Now they have learned from my arrest, and they will follow the same by complaining about me to the police if I conduct church service or meet for prayers.”

Complicity

A rise in the number of assaults on Christians in Uttar Pradesh has raised concern in the minority Christian community.

“The water has gone over our heads now,” said Jaiswar, a member of a rapid action team that helps Christians in Uttar Pradesh persecuted for their faith. “While we are extending help in one case, we are informed of two more incidents elsewhere. We are forced to shift our attention from this one to the others. By the time we are tackling the new two, there are one or two new cases. We are puzzled as to how to reach out to all of them when they are geographically miles apart from each other.”

An area Christian leader who requested anonymity said that government, administration, police and media have come together to target Christians.

“The government has instructed the administration to carry out arrests wherever people are gathering for worship and file complaints against them under the law,” he said. “The right-wing groups get the police along, and without cross-questioning, the police arrest the pastors and lay leaders. Within two to three hours an FIR [First Information Report] is registered against them.”

Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state in India with more than 200 million inhabitants and is also the most populous country subdivision in the world. Its Christian population is 0.18 percent, while the Hindu majority is 79.73 percent of the population, according to the 2011 census.

The hostile tone of the National Democratic Alliance government, led by the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, against non-Hindus, has emboldened Hindu extremists in several parts of the country to attack Christians since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took power in May 2014, religious rights advocates say.

India ranked 10th on Christian support organization Open Doors’ 2022 World Watch List of the countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian, as it was in 2021. The country was 31st in 2013, but its position worsened after Modi came to power.

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Family Sprayed with Acid for Leaving Islam In same district, former mosque leader beaten.

Amina Nagudi, 13, was sprayed with acid on March 8, 2022 in Namutumba District, Uganda for her faith. (Morning Star News)

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Upset over conversions to Christianity, hardline Muslims in an area of eastern Uganda this month sprayed a newly Christian family with acid and beat a former mosque leader, sources said.

In Intonko village, Namutumba District, Muslim relatives on March 8 sprayed acid on Juma Waiswa, 38, his 32-year-old wife Nasimu Naigaga, and their 13-year-old daughter, Amina Nagudi after they put their faith in Christ the previous month, Waiswa said.

They converted to Christianity when a pastor visited their home the morning of Feb. 17 and explained the gospel. When their relatives learned of their conversions, they called them to a meeting with other clan members on March 8, Waiswa said.

“During the meeting we were asked about our salvation, and we affirmed to them that we had believed in Jesus and converted to Christianity,” Waiswa told Morning Star News. “They told us to renounce Jesus, but we stood by the newly founded faith in Jesus.”

Christians had deepened the family’s faith in visits and Bible study after their conversion, he said.

“When we refused to recant our faith in Jesus, my father, Arajabu, recited some koranic verses, and after that they forcefully started beating us with sticks as prescibed in the Koran, claiming that we were apostates,” Waiswa said. “As this was not enough, my father went inside the room and picked up a bottle of acid and began spraying it on us while the group started shouting, ‘Allah Akbar [God is greater], you deserve death,’ and then disowned us.”

Initially they did not know what kind of liquid was sprayed on them, he said.

“But as we were fleeing for our lives, we started feeling some serious itching that continued till the pain intensified,” Waiswa said. “A nearby Christian neighbor called the pastor, who arrived immediately and took us to hospital in Mbale, but our daughter was seriously affected and was referred to a hospital in Jinja.”

On March 9, while the three were receiving hospital treatment in, their house was set ablaze, he said.

The three are still undergoing hospital treatment. They requested prayer for healing and for a place to stay after recovering.

Former Imam Injured

On March 13 in the same district, hardline Muslim villagers attacked former mosque leader Swaleh Mulongo of Bugobi village.

Mulongo said he had met with a local pastor, whose name is undisclosed for security reasons, for six years before putting his faith in Christ on Jan. 13.

After Mulongo stopped leading prayer at the Bugobi mosque, Sheikh Abubakar Sekimpi took over and organized a manhunt for him, the former imam said. He had begun worshipping at a church in Iganga, and hardline Muslims waited for him about five kilometers (three miles) from the worship site, he said.

“It was around 8 a.m. when four Muslims stopped me and began asking me so many questions regarding Christianity, but I did not respond,” Mulongo told Morning Star News. “Then the men started beating me up with blows and sticks, but thank God when they saw some people approaching, they fled away.”

With deep head wounds, a broken wrist and bruises on his back, Mulongo was taken to a hospital in Iganga that belongs to one of the Christians in Bugobi, he said.

The assailants continued on to kill goats and chickens of the pastor who had led Mulongo to Christ, the former imam said.

They left a letter warning, “We know you are a deceiver, and that you converted our imam to Christianity. We shall soon get hold of you, which will be a big regret to your family and the entire church.”

The letter left the pastor deeply disturbed.

“I have reported the matter to the area chairperson, who told me to be vigilant as the investigation is going on,” the pastor said.

The assaults were the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented.

Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.

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Death Sentence Upheld for Two Christians in Pakistan.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Morning Star News) – Hopes for freedom of two Christian brothers on death row under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws were dashed this month when a court upheld their death sentence despite lack of evidence against them, their lawyers said.

Qaiser Ayub, 45, and Amoon Ayub, 42, have been incarcerated since 2014, and their appeal of the death sentence before the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi Bench had been pending since 2018. Justice Raja Shahid Mehmood Abbasi and Justice Chaudhry Abdul Aziz took up their appeal on Feb. 28 but did not announce their verdict until June 8, attorney Khurram Maan said.

“We were quite hopeful that the judges would take note that the trial court had convicted our clients on the basis of a shoddy investigation and evidence, but we were shocked when the court announced its verdict on June 8, after a delay of three months,” Maan told Morning Star News.

Maan, of the European Center for Law and Justice (ECLJ), is representing Amoon Ayub, while Tahir Bashir of the Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) is defending Qaiser Ayub. Maan and Bashir said there is no evidence that implicates the Ayub brothers in the blasphemy charge.

Bashir said the brothers, incarcerated in the Sahiwal District Jail, were “very sad and disappointed” when informed about the appeal verdict.

“Qaiser has three children, while Amoon is childless,” Bashir told Morning Star News. “Both men were devastated when they learned that their appeal for justice has been denied.”

The case against the brothers was registered in June 2011 on a complaint by Talagang resident Muhammad Saeed, who alleged he came across a blog containing blasphemous material against Islam’s prophet, Muhammad, Maan said. The blog was created by Muslim friends of Qaiser Ayub who were resentful over a conflict with him, and they had put his name, phone number, email address and office address on their site, Maan said.

Qaiser Ayub’s friends had registered the website under Amoon Ayub’s name, and based on that and the contact information on the blog, police filed charges against both brothers and arrested them, Maan said.

“None of that information proved that either of the two brothers actually authored or posted the blasphemous material on the blogging website,” he said.

The lawyer said that Amoon Ayub was a music teacher at a private school in Lahore and was running a small charity for welfare of Christians, the United Christian Organization (UCO), with his older brother, Qaiser Ayub. The brothers also operated a website where they posted news about the activities of their organization, he added.

“The case against the brothers was based on the blasphemous content posted on a blog which, according to the brothers’ testimonies, was created by the Muslim friends of Qaiser using their contact information from the original website after a fight broke out between them over one of the friend’s sister,” Maan said.

The trial court convicted both brothers in December 2018, reasoning that the presence of their contact information on the blog and their neglecting to approach the website administrator to remove the contact details showed that they were responsible for creating it.

“Both the trial court and the high court refused to accept that any person can create a website and post anybody’s name and address on it,” Maan said.

During the appeal, Maan told the court that the brothers’ authentic website was online for only a year and had no blasphemous content on it.

“I pleaded with the court to inquire of the Cybercrime Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) why they had failed to authenticate the creator of the blasphemous blog from the WordPress management, to which the investigating officer said the company was not responding to their request,” Maan said.

The FIA did state to the court that it had held a “technical meeting” with the complainant, after which the charges were filed, Maan said, “but the fact is that the complainant is not even a matriculate [second-year high school student], so how could he have such a meeting with the agency?”

The lawyer said that he also cited a recent judgment by the Lahore High Court which held that a blasphemous text message found in the phone of an appellant in another case was insufficient evidence for conviction.

“The appellant could be convicted only if the prosecution establishes that the phone was in his use and that he authored and sent the alleged text message,” Maan said. “Similarly, in the Ayub brothers’ case, the prosecution did not establish that they authored or posted the blasphemous material on the blog. However, the court disregarded the submissions and relevant case law.”

Supreme Court Appeal

Attorney Bashir said the defense hopes the Supreme Court will administer justice to the falsely accused brothers, charged with blaspheming against Muhammad, which calls for a mandatory death sentence under Section 295-C of Pakistan’s widely condemned blasphemy laws.

“The SC must also take cognizance of the fact that trial courts and high courts become prejudicial if the case is of Section 295-C,” he said, referring to prolonged delays in trials and hearing of appeals.

The mere accusation of blasphemy often provokes mob violence and lynching of suspects in Pakistan, while penalties are light for those who make such false accusations. At least 1,949 blasphemy suspects were subjected to false allegations, prolonged trials and displacement between 1985 and December 2021, according to the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ).

The CSJ added that at least 84 people were killed after being suspected or accused under blasphemy laws since their promulgation as part of former military ruler Ziaul Haq’s Islamisation during the 1980s. Mobs lynched two people and injured two others in four cities of Pakistan between December 2021 and March 2022.

Pakistan ranked eighth on Open Doors’ 2022 World Watch List of the 50 countries where it is most difficult to be a Christian. The country had the second-highest number of Christians killed for their faith, behind Nigeria, with 620 slain during the reporting period from Oct. 1, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2021. Pakistan had the fourth-highest number of churches attacked or closed, with 183, and overall.

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Christian Convert from Islam Killed in Eastern Uganda.

 

 

Police dog and officer with body of Simolya Latifu, killed near Molu village, eastern Uganda on July 3, 2022. (Morning Star News)
 

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Three men reviling a convert to Christianity for leading Muslims to Christ in eastern Uganda killed him on Sunday (July 3), a witness said.

Simolya Latifu of Molu village, Kasasira Sub-County, Kibuku District was slain with a sword at about 7:15 p.m. at a swamp near Molu, the witness said. Latifu was 47.

Latifu had left an evening service at Christ Discipleship Worship Center in Molu at about 6:30 p.m., and three witnesses saw a motorcycle and then heard wailing and calls for help at a nearby swamp at 7:15 p.m., one said.

“The killers were condemning him for converting Muslims to Christianity,” the witness told Morning Star News. “We hid ourselves in a thick bush.”

The witnesses were able to recognize the alleged assailants as Ali Buyinza, Muhammad Kamunyani and Jamada Walyomba, he said.

“We saw Buyinza cut him on the head with a sword, and thereafter they left,” said the witness, unidentified for security reasons. “We remained there for about 30 minutes, and then we took courage and slowly went to see the slain man and discovered that he worshipped with us at Christ Discipleship Worship Center.”

They informed church Pastor Emmanuel Muzei and filed a report with police at about midnight, he said. Officers and area residents went to the area early Monday morning (July 4) and confirmed that the body was that of Latifu.

“Angry Christian residents from Molu village flooded to Molu village swamp to mourn the death of their beloved convert from Islam who had been going from one church to another testifying about how he converted to Christianity,” Pastor Muzei said. “His testimony was an encouragement to many Christians in my church and led many to Christ. We have lost a dynamic evangelist.”

Police arrested Buyinza, taking him to Kibuku police station amid tight security as residents sought to kill him, Pastor Muzei said. Buyinza told police, “We warned him to come back to our religion and gave him several opportunities, but he turned a deaf ear – we’re proud of killing him,” a source said.

Officers were still hunting for the other two suspects. On Tuesday (July 5), angry Christians from eight villages set the homes of suspects Buyinza, Kamunyani and Walyomba on fire, area sources said.

Latifu is survived by his wife and five children.

He converted to Christianity in June 2019 and then fled opposition to Lira District after leading several Muslims to Christ. Believing Muslim extremists had given up looking for him, Latifu had returned to Kibuku District in February, Pastor Muzei said.

Area Chairperson John Emuga of the Anglican Church of Uganda in Molu said he grieved after seeing Latifu’s body.

“We request residents to support the family of Latifu, and that all the assailants be brought to book,” Emuga said.

The attack was the latest of many instances of persecution of Christians in Uganda that Morning Star News has documented.

Uganda’s constitution and other laws provide for religious freedom, including the right to propagate one’s faith and convert from one faith to another. Muslims make up no more than 12 percent of Uganda’s population, with high concentrations in eastern areas of the country.

If you would like to help persecuted Christians, visit https://morningstarnews.org/resources/aid-agencies/ for a list of organizations that can orient you on how to get involved.

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Coptic Christian Girl Shot Dead in Egypt Threats, attacks continue as Christians are blamed for ouster of Morsi.

Jessica Boulous

 

CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – A Coptic Christian girl walking home from a Bible class at her church was shot and killed this week in Cairo by an unidentified gunman, human rights activists said today.

Amid a near-constant din of threats and scattered attacks against the Christian population in Egypt by militant political Islamists, the rights representatives said 10-year-old Jessica Boulous of the Ain Shams section of Cairo was killed early Tuesday evening (Aug. 6) while walking from the Ahmed Esmat Street Evangelical Church through a market to her home with her Sunday school teacher.

The teacher turned to buy an item at a market stall only to turn back and find Jessica lying in the dirt in a puddle of blood, rights activists said. A Muslim shopkeeper who knew Jessica saw her fall to the ground and ran to her side. He took off his shirt, wrapped it around her motionless body and rushed her to a hospital, but she was already dead.

A single bullet had passed through her chest and heart, killing her instantly, witnesses said.

Nasr Allah Zakaria, Jessica’s uncle, said the killing has devastated the girl’s family.

“I just can’t believe she is gone,” Zakaria said. “She was such a sweet little girl. She was like a daughter to me. I can’t believe she is gone.”

No one has claimed responsibility for the killing. Zakaria, pastor of an evangelical church in Egypt, said he didn’t know for sure if the shooting was religiously motivated but quickly added that violence against Christians “seems to be normal” in Egypt now.

Violence or intimidation against Christians has become almost a daily occurrence in most parts of Egypt. In the aftermath of the protests that led to the removal of Mohamed Morsi as president, militant supporters of Morsi have publically scapegoated the Coptic Christian minority for the Islamic Brotherhood-backed president’s fall from power. Many have called for revenge against Christians. Less than 12 hours after the Egyptian military announced that it had expelled Morsi from office, reports of attacks against Christians by Morsi supporters began.

After numerous attacks for about a week and a half, there was a relative lull in the violence. But at the end of July, the pace picked up once more. The attacks were inspired, human rights activists said, by a near-constant stream of vitriol from Islamic leaders calling for retribution against the Copts.

Members of the Muslim Brotherhood on Aug. 2 distributed flyer threatening to attack church buildings and police stations in Minya in Upper Egypt, according to local residents. Muslim Brotherhood leaders have stated that the attacks against the Christians will not stop until Morsi has returned to power. The new wave of attacks has included drive-by-shootings, kidnappings, attacks on church buildings and Christian-owned property and now two lethal shootings.

On the same day Jessica was killed, masked gunmen burst into a grocery store in Jazeerat Al Khazendara village in Souhag and attacked a Coptic Christian family according to the rights activists. During the kidnapping attempt, Milad Ebeed was abducted and his father, mother and brother were all shot. His father, Sadek Ebeed, 75, died at the store. The others sustained serious, but not life-threatening wounds.

Milad Ebeed was later released after a ransom was paid, the rights activists said.

Along with the shootings, the towns of Minya and Assuit have been the sites of repeated attacks against Christians, which make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s predominantly Sunni Muslim population. For the past two weeks, unidentified vandals have painted graffiti on church buildings and Christian-owned homes and businesses in Assuit declaring, “Egypt is Muslim, not Christian.”

At the same time, Islamists have been roaming Christian areas of Assuit handing out anti-Christian flyers and intimidating any Coptic business owner who keeps his store open, rights activists said.

On Saturday (Aug. 3), roughly 20 people were injured and five Coptic-owned homes were destroyed along with several Coptic-owned businesses in the village of Al-Sharqiya in Minya Governorate when a political dispute at a Coptic-owned café turned ugly. A fight that started over changing the channel from a news program quickly led to Islamist mobs rampaging through the village with clubs, swords and Molotov cocktails, according to human rights activists.

Mina Thabet, spokesman of the Maspero Students Union, said things could get worse in Minya.

“For the past few days, we have had many instances of attacks against Copts,” Thabet said. “Threats are widespread. In the Minya Governorate, I think it will be hard for the next few days.”

In a statement released Wednesday (Aug. 7), the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights and 15 other human rights organizations condemned Islamist incitement to violence and the government’s lack of will to stop it.

“These organizations strongly condemn the rhetoric employed by leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood and their allies, which includes clear incitement to violence and religious hatred in order to achieve political gains, regardless of the grave repercussions of such rhetoric for peace in Egypt,” the statement read.

The statement further denounced negligence of the state to protect Christians, to confront sectarian attacks and to hold assailants in several governorates responsible.

“This negligence reveals that the pattern of impunity which spread during the Mubarak era and remained in place throughout the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood continues to this day, even after both of these regimes were overthrown,” the organizations stated.

Zakara said that, strangely, Jessica, an only child, was concerned about the violence and seemed to have a premonition of her death. She watched protests on television and urged her parents to get involved, but at the same time she was afraid enough for her safety that she asked her Sunday school teacher to escort her home from Bible school.

“She said she didn’t feel safe,” Zakaria said. “She asked her mother and father, ‘What if I am at a protest and I got shot in the chest? What would happen to me?’”

 

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Coptic Christian Girl Shot Dead in Egypt... Εννέα χρόνια πριν, για να μην ξεχνούμε πως ο διάβολος μόνο απ' τον Χριστό καίγεται.

ΑΙΓΥΠΤΟΣ: Σκότωσαν κορίτσι 10 χρονών που γυρνούσε από το κατηχητικό

Άγνωστοι πυροβόλησαν και σκότωσαν ένα κορίτσι 10 χρονών, χριστιανή Κόπτισα, που γυρνούσε με τα πόδια στο σπίτι του στο Κάιρο ύστερα από ένα μάθημα στο κατηχητικό της εκκλησίας.

Μέσα σε ένα κλίμα συνεχόμενων απειλών και επιθέσεων εναντίον του χριστιανικού πληθυσμού στην Αίγυπτο από φανατικούς ισλαμιστές, εκπρόσωποι για τα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα, δήλωσαν ότι η 10χρονη Jessica Boulous από την περιοχή Ain Shams του Καΐρου σκοτώθηκε νωρίς το βράδυ της Τρίτης, 6 Αυγούστου , ενώ βάδιζε από την ευαγγελική εκκλησία της οδού Ahmed Esmat την Κυριακή με τον δάσκαλό της.

Ο δάσκαλος πήγε να αγοράσει κάτι από ένα μαγαζί και όταν γύρισε πίσω βρήκε την Jessica να βρίσκεται στο χώμα σε μια λίμνη αίματος. Ένας μουσουλμάνος καταστηματάρχης που ήξερε την Jessica, την είδε να πέφτει στο έδαφος και έτρεξε στο πλευρό της. Έβγαλε το πουκάμισό του, το τύλιξε γύρω από το ακίνητο σώμα της και την πήγε στο νοσοκομείο, αλλά ήταν ήδη νεκρή.

Μία μόνο σφαίρα είχε περάσει μέσα από το στήθος και την καρδιά της, και έφερε τον ακαριαίο θάνατο, δήλωσαν αυτόπτες μάρτυρες.

 

Ο Nasr Allah Zakaria, θείος της Τζέσικα, δήλωσε ότι η δολοφονία έχει καταστρέψει την οικογένεια του κοριτσιού.

«Δεν μπορώ να πιστέψω ότι έχει φύγει», δήλωσε ο κ. Zakaria. "Ήταν τόσο γλυκό κοριτσάκι. Ήταν σαν κόρη μου. Δεν μπορώ να πιστέψω ότι έχει φύγει. "

Κανείς δεν έχει αναλάβει την ευθύνη για τη δολοφονία. Ο Zakaria, που είναι πάστορας της αιγυπτιακής Ευαγγελικής Εκκλησίας, είπε ότι δεν γνωρίζουμε με βεβαιότητα αν ο πυροβολισμός είχε θρησκευτικά κίνητρα, αλλά έσπευσε να προσθέσει ότι η βία κατά των χριστιανών «φαίνεται φυσιολογική» στην Αίγυπτο τώρα.

Η βία και οι εκφοβισμοί κατά των χριστιανών έχουν γίνει σχεδόν καθημερινό φαινόμενο στα περισσότερα μέρη της Αιγύπτου. Στον απόηχο των διαδηλώσεων που οδήγησαν στην απομάκρυνση του Mohamed Morsi, φανατικοί υποστηρικτές του Morsi θεωρούν ως αποδιοπομπαίους τράγους δημόσια την κοπτική χριστιανική μειονότητα για την πτώση της Ισλαμικής Αδελφότητας. Πολλοί μιλάνε για «εκδίκηση κατά των χριστιανών». Πίσω από τις επιθέσεις βρίσκονται τα γεμάτα μίσος κηρύγματα ισλαμιστών ηγετών που ζητούν τιμωρία κατά των Κοπτών.

 

Ηγέτες της Μουσουλμανικής Αδελφότητας έχουν δηλώσει ότι οι επιθέσεις εναντίον των χριστιανών δεν θα σταματήσουν μέχρι ο Morsi να επιστρέψει στην εξουσία. Στο νέο κύμα επιθέσεων υπάρχουν πυροβολισμοί, απαγωγές, επιθέσεις σε εκκλησίες και σπίτια χριστιανών και δολοφονίες.

Την ίδια ημέρα που σκοτώθηκε η Jessica, ένοπλοι μασκοφόροι εισέβαλαν σε ένα μπακάλικο στο χωριό Jazeerat Al Khazendara στην Souhag και επιτέθηκαν σε μια κοπτική χριστιανική οικογένεια. Κατά τη διάρκεια της προσπάθειας απαγωγής, απήχθη ο Milad Ebeed και ο πατέρας του, η μητέρα και ο αδελφός του, όλοι πυροβολήθηκαν. Ο πατέρας του, Sadek Ebeed, 75 ετών, πέθανε στο κατάστημα. Οι άλλοι υπέστησαν σοβαρές πληγές.

Ο Milad Ebeed αργότερα αφέθηκε ελεύθερος αφού καταβλήθηκαν λύτρα.

Ο Zakara είπε ότι, περιέργως, η Jessica, που ήταν μοναχοπαίδι, είχε εκφράσει την ανησυχία της για τη βία και φαινόταν να έχει ένα προαίσθημα του θανάτου της. Πρόσεχε τις διαδηλώσεις στην τηλεόραση και παρότρυνε τους γονείς της να συμμετέχουν, αλλά ταυτόχρονα φοβόταν αρκετά για την ασφάλεια της ώστε ρώτησε τον δάσκαλο να την συνοδεύσει μέχρι το σπίτι της από το κατηχητικό.

"Είπε ότι δεν αισθάνονταν ασφαλής", δήλωσε ο κ. Zakaria. "Ρώτησε την μητέρα και τον πατέρας της, «τι θα συμβεί αν πάω σε μια διαμαρτυρία και πυροβοληθώ στο στήθος; Τι θα συμβεί σε μένα;»

 

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Honest Muslim Explains Sharia Blasphemy Laws.

 

ΦΙΛΑΝΔΙΑ: Χριστιανή βουλευτής διώκεται γιατί εξέφρασε τις απόψεις της βασιζόμενη στην Αγία Γραφή.

 

 

Μετά από έρευνα που ξεκίνησε το 2019, η γενική εισαγγελέας της Φινλανδίας ζήτησε να ασκηθεί κατηγορία για την Δρ Päivi Räsänen, μέλος του Κοινοβουλίου και πρώην Υπουργό Εσωτερικών, για τρεις κατηγορίες «εθνοτικής ταραχής» επειδή εξέφρασε ειρηνικά τις χριστιανικές της απόψεις σχετικά με το γάμο και τη σεξουαλικότητα. Για κάθε κατηγορία προβλέπεται ποινή φυλάκισης δύο ετών.

Η πρώτη κατηγορία προκύπτει από τη συγγραφή του βιβλίου της Δρ. Räsänen το 2004 με τίτλο «Άρσεν και θήλυ εποίησεν αυτούς: Οι ομοφυλοφιλικές σχέσεις προκαλούν τη χριστιανική έννοια της ανθρώπινης οντολογίας», που εκδόθηκε από το Ίδρυμα Luther. Στο βιβλίο, η Δρ Räsänen υποστηρίζει ότι η ομοφυλοφιλική δραστηριότητα πρέπει να αναγνωρίζεται από την εκκλησία ως αμαρτωλή, με βάση τις διδασκαλίες της Βίβλου. Υποστηρίζει περαιτέρω ότι η αποτυχία αναγνώρισης της αμαρτίας ως αμαρτίας υπονομεύει την ίδια την ανάγκη για Σωτήρα.

Εκτός από τη δίωξή της για την συγγραφή αυτού του βιβλίου, η Δρ Räsänen βρίσκεται κατηγορούμενη για δύο άλλα «εγκλήματα μίσους»: επειδή ανέβασε στον λογαριασμό της στο tweeter ένα στίχο της Βίβλου το 2019 και για υποτιθέμενα υποτιμητικά σχόλια που έκανε σε μια τηλεοπτική εκπομπή του 2018 που είχε τίτλο Τι θα σκεφτόταν ο Ιησούς για τους ομοφυλόφιλους;

Το 2019, η Räsänen μοιράστηκε μια εικόνα της Αγίας Γραφής που ήταν ανοιχτή στους Ρωμαίους 1: 24-27 («Διο και παρέδωκεν αυτούς ο Θεός εν ταις επιθυμίαις των καρδιών αυτών εις ακαθαρσίαν του ατιμάζεσθαι τα σώματα αυτών εν εαυτοίς») ως απάντηση στην απόφασης της Ευαγγελικής Λουθηρανικής Εκκλησίας της Φινλανδίας να γίνει σπόνσορας σε ένα "pride event” των ΛΟΑΤΚΙ. Κάτω από την εικόνα ρώτησε: «Πώς μπορεί το δογματικό θεμέλιο της εκκλησίας, η Αγία Γραφή, να είναι συμβατό με την άρση της ντροπής και της αμαρτίας ως θέμα υπερηφάνειας;»

Η Δρ. Räsänen, που έχει έξι εγγόνια, δεσμεύτηκε να καταπολεμήσει όλες τις κατηγορίες για την προστασία της ελευθερίας του λόγου για άλλους χριστιανούς στη Φινλανδία. Υποστηρίζει ότι είχε το δικαίωμα να κάνει τέτοια σχόλια. «Η απόφαση της γενικής εισαγγελέως είναι εκπληκτική, ακόμη και σοκαριστική», είπε. «Δεν νομίζω ότι έκανα απειλητικά, δυσφημιστικά ή προσβλητικά σχόλια. Τελικά, οι τρεις κατηγορίες εναντίον μου έχουν να κάνουν με το εάν επιτρέπεται στη Φινλανδία να εκφράζεις ελεύθερα τις πεποιθήσεις σου. Δεν καταλαβαίνω πως δυσφημίζω με οποιονδήποτε τρόπο τους ομοφυλόφιλους των οποίων την ανθρώπινη αξιοπρέπεια και τα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα έχω πει συνεχώς ότι σέβομαι και υπερασπίζομαι.

Την ίδια στιγμή, συνέχισε, «αυτό δεν αφαιρεί το γεγονός ότι, σύμφωνα με τη Βίβλο και τη χριστιανική αντίληψη του ανθρώπου, οι ομοφυλοφιλικές σχέσεις είναι αντίθετες με το θέλημα του Θεού και ο γάμος προορίζεται μόνο μεταξύ ενός άνδρα και μιας γυναίκας. Αυτά δίδασκε τόσα χρόνια η χριστιανική εκκλησία και αυτά θα διδάσκει πάντα».

Η γενική εισαγγελέας κατηγορεί επίσης τον Εκλεγμένο Επίσκοπο της Ευαγγελικής Λουθηρανικής Επισκοπής της Φινλανδίας, Δρ Juhana Pohjola, για κατηγορίες εθνικής αναταραχής για τη δημοσίευση του βιβλίου της Dr Räsänen. «Ως χριστιανός, δεν θέλω και δεν μπορώ να κάνω διακρίσεις ή να περιφρονώ κανέναν που δημιούργησε ο Θεός», δήλωσε ο Pohjola ως αντίδραση στην κατηγορία. «Κάθε άνθρωπος, που δημιουργήθηκε από τον Θεό και εξαγοράστηκε από τον Χριστό, είναι εξίσου πολύτιμος.

«Αυτή η απόφαση της γενικής εισαγγελέως λέει πολλά για την εποχή μας. Ενώ ανησυχώ για την κατάσταση της θρησκευτικής ελευθερίας στη χώρα μας, πιστεύω ότι το δικαστικό σώμα θα λάβει τη σωστή απόφαση».

Με τις κατηγορίες εναντίον ενός εξέχοντος μέλους του Κοινοβουλίου και του Επίσκοπου, η Γενική Εισαγγελέας στέλνει ένα σαφές μήνυμα στους Φινλανδούς όποιοι κι αν είναι και οποιαδήποτε θέση εάν κατέχουν. Ο Dr. Timothy Quill, γενικός γραμματέας της Διεθνούς Λουθηρανικής Συνόδου, δήλωσε: «Οι συνέπειες της απόφασης να κατηγορηθούν οι Juhana Pohjola και Päivi Räsänen είναι σαφείς: εάν οι αρχές είναι διατεθειμένες να το πράξουν σε έναν σεβαστό πάστορα, σεβαστή γιατρό και επίσκοπο, καθώς και σε μέλος του Κοινοβουλίου και πρώην Υπουργό Εσωτερικών, στέλνεται ένα μήνυμα φόβου και εκφοβισμού στον καθένα στη Φινλανδία που ακολουθεί τη διδασκαλία της Αγίας Γραφής για την ανθρώπινη σεξουαλικότητα».

Το φινλανδικό σύνταγμα εγγυάται την ελευθερία της θρησκείας καθώς και την ελευθερία της έκφρασης. Ωστόσο, η γενική εισαγγελέας ισχυρίζεται ότι οι ελευθερίες της θρησκείας και της προστασίας του λόγου δεν ισχύουν σε αυτήν την περίπτωση, επειδή τα σχόλια της Δρ Räsänen παραβιάζουν την "ισότητα" και την "αξιοπρέπεια" εκείνων για τους οποίους μιλά.

Αυτές οι διώξεις δεν μπορούν να θεωρηθούν ως μια ακόμα περίπτωση εφαρμογής του νόμου περί «ρητορικής μίσους». Τα σχόλια έγιναν με λογικό τόνο, δεν δυσφήμισαν κανέναν και δεν προκάλεσαν μίσος. Απλώς δεν ακολούθησαν την "επικρατούσα" άποψη, κάτι που έκαναν οι πιστοί Χριστιανοί για δύο χιλιάδες χρόνια. Η δημόσια τάξη και η ισότητα των πολιτών είναι αγαθά που πρέπει να υποστηρίζει κάθε κράτος. Δεν πρέπει, ωστόσο, να χρησιμοποιηθούν για να υποστηρίξουν μια τέτοια καταστολή του δικαιώματος να πιστεύει κάποιος και να εκφράζει τις πεποιθήσεις του με ήρεμο και λογικό τρόπο.

Η δίωξη που άσκησε η γενική εισαγγελέας κατά των Räsänen και Pohjola συνιστά σοβαρή παραβίαση των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων. Παραβιάζει το άρθρο 18 της Οικουμενικής Διακήρυξης των Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων, το άρθρο 18 του Διεθνούς Συμφώνου για τα Ατομικά και Πολιτικά Δικαιώματα και το άρθρο 10 του Χάρτη των Θεμελιωδών Δικαιωμάτων της ΕΕ, τα οποία επιβεβαιώνουν το δικαίωμα κάθε ανθρώπου «στην εκδήλωση των θρησκευτικών του πεποιθήσεων, στη λατρεία, τη διδασκαλία, την πρακτική και την τήρηση αυτών». Παραβιάζει περαιτέρω το δικαίωμα οποιουδήποτε να «γράφει, να εκδίδει και να διαδίδει σχετικές δημοσιεύσεις» που εκφράζουν τις θρησκευτικές του πεποιθήσεις, όπως περιγράφεται στη Διακήρυξη των Ηνωμένων Εθνών για την εξάλειψη κάθε μορφής μισαλλοδοξίας και διακρίσεων βάσει θρησκείας ή πεποιθήσεων.

Αυτές οι διώξεις είναι πράξεις καταπίεσης εναντίον Χριστιανών και όσων τολμούν να σκέφτονται διαφορετικά. 

Πηγή: redskywarning.blogspot.com

 

Συνάθροιση: Μία νέα εποχή ανατέλλει, μία εποχή διωγμού κατά των χριστιανών. Μία εποχή όπου όποιος τολμά να υποστηρίζει το ευαγγέλιο του Χριστού μας θα διώκεται από τους δήθεν δικαιωματιστές. Μία εποχή όπου όποιος τολμά να μιλήσει για το τί είναι αμαρτία σύμφωνα με την θεία διδασκαλία της Γραφής θα συκοφαντείται ως ρατσιστής, υποκινητής μίσους και άλλα ευφάνταστα. 

 

Με την χάρη του τριαδικού Θεού μας, δεν θα σταματήσουμε να μεταδίδουμε την διδαχή του σωτήρος Χριστού. Αγαπούμε όλους τους ανθρώπους ανεξαρτήτως φυλής, εθνικότητος και θρησκείας, αλλά αποστρεφόμεθα την αμαρτία ή την διδαχή που αντιτίθεται στην Αγία Γραφή. Διαχωρίζουμε το πρόσωπο απ' τις πράξεις του ή την πίστη του. 

 

Απαγορεύεται απ' το ευαγγέλιο οποιαδήποτε μορφή βίας κατά οποιουδήποτε. Αυτό όμως δεν συνεπάγεται πως θα συμφωνήσουμε με πράξεις ή διδαχές οι οποίες έρχονται σε αντίθεση με την διδασκαλία του Κυρίου μας Ιησού Χριστού. Αντιθέτως θα κηρύξουμε τί διδάσκει ο Κύριος κι όποιος επιθυμεί είν' ελεύθερος ν' ακολουθήσει τον σωτήρα Ιησού και ν' αφήσει τον δρόμο της αμαρτίας, εισερχόμενος στην μόνη αληθινή ευτυχία που είναι η κοινωνία με τον Χριστό!

A Christian persecuted for daring to have an opinion.

AFTER an investigation which began in 2019, Finland’s prosecutor general has charged Dr Päivi Räsänen, a Member of Parliament and former Minister of the Interior, with three counts of ‘ethnic agitation’ for peacefully expressing her Christian views on marriage and sexuality. Each charge carries a two-year sentence.

The first charge arises from Dr Räsänen’s 2004 authorship of a booklet entitled Male and Female He Created Them: Homosexual Relationships Challenge the Christian Concept of Humanity, published by the Luther Foundation. In the booklet, Dr Räsänen argues that homosexual activity should be recognised by the church as sinful, based on the teachings of the Bible. She further argues that a failure to recognise sin as sin undermines the very need for a Saviour.

As well as being prosecuted for writing the pamphlet, Dr Räsänen has been charged with two other ‘hate crimes’: tweeting a Bible verse in 2019, and supposedly derogatory comments she made on a 2018 TV programme entitled What would Jesus think about homosexuals?

In 2019, Räsänen shared a picture of her Bible open at Romans 1:24-27 (‘Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another’) in response to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Finland’s decision to sponsor an LGBT pride event. Below the picture she asked: ‘How can the church’s doctrinal foundation, the Bible, be compatible with the lifting up of shame and sin as a subject of pride?’

The grandmother of six has vowed to fight all the charges to protect freedom of speech for other Christians in Finland. She argues that she had the right to make such comments. ‘The decision of the prosecutor general is surprising, even shocking,’ she said. ‘I do not think I have made threatening, defaming or insulting comments. Ultimately, the three charges brought against me have to do with whether it is allowed in Finland to express your conviction. I do not see I would have in any way defamed homosexuals whose human dignity and human rights I have constantly said to respect and defend.’

At the same time, she continued, ‘this does not remove the fact that, according to the Bible and the Christian conception of man, homosexual relations are against the will of God, and marriage is intended only between a man and a woman. This is what the Christian church has always taught and will always teach.’

The prosecutor general has also charged the Bishop-Elect of the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Diocese of Finland, Rev Dr Juhana Pohjola, with a count of ethnic agitation for publishing Dr Räsänen’s booklet. ‘As a Christian, I do not want to and cannot discriminate against or despise anyone created by God,’ Dean Pohjola said in reaction to being charged. ‘Every human being, created by God and redeemed by Christ, is equally precious.

‘This decision of the prosecutor general says a lot about our time. While I am concerned about the state of religious freedom in our country, I trust that the judiciary will make the right decision.’

In pursuing these charges against a prominent legislator and Bishop Elect the Prosecutor General is sending a clear message to Finns whoever they are or whatever position they occupy. Rev Dr Timothy Quill, general secretary of the International Lutheran Council, said: ‘The implications of the decision to charge Juhana Pohjola and Päivi Räsänen are clear: if the authorities are willing to do this to a respected pastor, reverend doctor, and Bishop Elect, as well as a Member of Parliament and former Minister of the Interior, that sends a message of fear and intimidation to everyone in Finland who follows the Scripture’s teaching on human sexuality.’

The Finnish constitution guarantees the freedom of religion as well as freedom of speech. However, the prosecutor general claims that the freedoms of religion and speech protections do not apply in this case because Dr Räsänen’s comments violate the equality and dignity of those about whom she is speaking.

These prosecutions cannot be understood as an everyday application of ‘hate speech’ law. The comments were made in a reasonable tone, defamed no one and did not incite hatred; they merely stood out against the prevailing zeitgeist, something faithful Christians have done for two thousand years. Public order and civil equality are goods which any state should uphold. They should not, however, be used to support such a suppression of the right to believe and express one’s beliefs in a calm and reasonable manner.

The prosecutor general’s action in pursuing Räsänen and Pohjola constitutes a serious human rights abuse. It violates Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Article 10 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, all of which affirm the right of every human ‘to manifest religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance’. It further violates the right of anyone ‘to write, issue and disseminate relevant publications’ expressing one’s religious beliefs as outlined in the United Nation’s Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief.

These prosecutions are acts of oppression against Christians and any who dares to think differently. 

Πηγή: conservativewoman.co.uk

Lesbian Commander Booted Air Force Sgt. for Beliefs, Suit Claims.

The shocking stories of religious hostility in our nation’s military continue, and now Liberty Institute represents Senior Master Sgt. Phillip Monk, a 19-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force who was relieved of his duties because of his faith and moral convictions.

Monk, who served as a first sergeant at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, recently returned from deployment and found he had a new commander who was an open lesbian.

“In one of our first meetings, she was talking about her promotion, and she mentioned something about a benediction,” Monk told Fox News. “She said she wanted a chaplain but objected to one particular chaplain that she called a ‘bigot’ because he preached that homosexuality is a sin.

“She then said, ‘I don’t know what kind of people actually believe that kind of crap,’” Monk continued. “I knew I was going to have a rough time in this unit and I would have to be very careful about what I said.”

Issues arose when Monk was asked to advise his commander on a disciplinary matter involving an Air Force instructor who was accused of making objectionable comments about gay marriage. After a thorough investigation, Monk determined the instructor meant no harm by his comments, and he suggested that his commander could use the incident as a way to teach about tolerance and diversity.

Monk, a devout evangelical Christian, says he was told he wasn’t on the same page as the commander and that if he didn’t get on the same page, they would find another place for him to work.

Later, the commander ordered Monk to answer the question of whether people who object to gay marriage are discriminating. Monk responded that he could not answer the way his commander wanted and feared an honest response would put him in legal trouble.

At that point, Monk was relieved of his duties.

“I was essentially fired for not validating my commander’s position on having an opinion about homosexual marriage,” he told Fox News.

Monk also told Fox News that while he is scared to speak out, he is doing it to set an example for his three teenage sons.

“Every night after dinner we read the Bible together,” he said. “I tell the boys we’ve got a lot of stuff going on in this world and we need people to stand up. My boys know what I’m going through. They are looking at me, wanting to know how I’m going to handle this.”

Πηγή: charismanews.com

Σχόλιο για τους βανδαλισμούς ναών στην Ευρώπη και στη χώρα μας.

 

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Δεν χρειάζεται να είναι κάποιος ειδικός πολιτικός αναλυτής, ή εξειδικευμένος θρησκειολόγος, ή ειδήμων κοινωνιολόγος, για να καταλάβει την ραγδαία κατάρρευση του Χριστιανισμού στο δυτικό κόσμο και ειδικά στην Ευρώπη. Οι ειδήσεις από τη γηραιά ήπειρο είναι καταιγιστικές και προμηνύουν τον ταχέως επερχόμενο και αναπόφευκτο εφιάλτη, τον οποίο πρόκειται να βιώσουν οι ευρωπαϊκοί λαοί. Ο αποχριστιανισμός έχει αρχίσει εδώ και δυόμισι αιώνες από τον λεγόμενο «Ευρωπαϊκό Διαφωτισμό» με τα άθεα και μηδενιστικά του διδάγματα. Τώρα επιταχύνεται με γρήγορους ρυθμούς, ώστε είναι θέμα χρόνου να σβήσει η χριστιανική μνήμη στο δυτικό κόσμο, παίρνοντας τη θέση της ο άκρατος υλισμός, ο αχαλίνωτος ηδονισμός και ο φανατικός Ισλαμισμός, που θα ρυθμίζουν όλες τις λεπτομέρειες της ιδιωτικής και δημόσιας ζωής του δυτικού ανθρώπου.

Υπάρχουν εξηγήσεις γι’ αυτή τη ζοφερή και μη αναστρέψιμη κατάσταση. Ο Χριστός είναι ανεπιθύμητος, επειδή τα σωτήρια διδάγματα του Ευαγγελίου Του αποτελούν εμπόδια στην υλιστική και ηδονιστική ζωή του σύγχρονου ευρωπαίου ανθρώπου, γι’ αυτό πασχίζει να τον «ξεφορτωθεί» μια ώρα αρχύτερα. Άλλωστε αυτός ο «Χριστός» και η «Εκκλησία» του, δεν είναι ο αληθινός Χριστός και η γνήσια Εκκλησία Του, αλλά αιρετικά κακέκτυπα και αιρετικές επινοήσεις του Παπισμού και του γνησίου τέκνου του, του Προτεσταντισμού. Ένας «Χριστός» ο οποίος «εγκατέλειψε» τον κόσμο και την «Εκκλησία» του και την άφησε έρμαιο στην τυραννική εξουσία του «αντιπροσώπου του», του «Πάπα», είναι περιττός, καλύτερα να λείπει, δεν τον έχει ανάγκη ο σύγχρονος δυτικός άνθρωπος. Μια «Εκκλησία», η οποία κυβερνάται από ένα εξουσιομανή τύραννο δικτάτορα, δεν μπορεί να έχει καμία σχέση με την Μία Αγία Καθολική και Αποστολική Εκκλησία του Χριστού. Μια «Εκκλησία», η οποία το μόνο που έχει να παρουσιάσει στην χιλιόχρονη ιστορική της πορεία είναι το ψεύδος, οι δεκάδες κακοδοξίες, η τυραννία, η φρίκη των σταυροφοριών, οι θρησκευτικοί πόλεμοι, οι «ιερές εξετάσεις», οι γενοκτονίες, η αποικιοκρατία, τα ανείπωτα εγκλήματα κατά των Ορθοδόξων, τα φρικιαστικά και πέρα από κάθε λογική και νομιμότητα, ηθικά σκάνδαλα του παπικού «κλήρου», δεν μπορεί να έχει καμία θέση στις σύγχρονες δυτικές κοινωνίες.

Την αποχριστιανοποίηση της Ευρώπης έρχεται τα τελευταία χρόνια να ολοκληρώσει η κατευθυνόμενη πλημμυρίδα των εκατομμυρίων μουσουλμάνων παράνομων, (και ελάχιστων νόμιμων), μεταναστών. Ό, τι δεν κατάφεραν οι άθεοι και χριστιανομάχοι «διαφωτιστές» τους δύο τελευταίους αιώνες, το κατάφεραν οι νέοι έποικοι της Ευρώπης. Φυσικά όχι δια της πειθούς, διά του λόγου, αλλά δια της βίας! Δια των ολεθρίων και δαιμονικών διδαγμάτων του Κορανίου και της Σαρίας, (ισλαμικού νόμου), εισβάλλουν στην Ευρώπη, όχι ως φιλοξενούμενοι, αλλά ως κατακτητές! Έρχονται να συντρίψουν και τα τελευταία ίχνη του Χριστιανισμού, να γκρεμίζουν το Σταυρό και να ανυψώσουν την ημισέληνο. Να κατεδαφίσουν τους ναούς και να ανεγείρουν τζαμιά. Να ισοπεδώσουν τα καμπαναριά και να υψώσουν μιναρέδες, όπου θα διαλαλείται στους ευρωπαίους υποδούλους τους η πίστη δια της βίας στο «θεό» του Κορανίου και θα υβρίζεται η Παναγία Τριάδα, ως «ειδωλολατρία» και ο Χριστός θα υποβιβάζεται ως άνθρωπος, κατώτερος του Μωάμεθ! Ήδη άρχισε να διαφαίνεται στην Ευρώπη η τραγικότητα. Οι ευρωπαίοι πολίτες άρχισαν να βιώνουν τη φρίκη της ισλαμικής τρομοκρατίας, με τις συνεχείς επιθέσεις σε ανύποπτους και αθώους ανθρώπους, οι οποίοι κατακρεουργούνται από τους πιστούς του Αλλάχ, γενόμενοι τα εξιλαστήρια θύματά τους, για να γίνουν εκείνοι αρεστοί στο «θεό» τους και να εξασφαλίσουν τον «ισλαμικό παράδεισο»!

Μια άλλη πολύ ανησυχητική κατάσταση είναι οι συχνές επιθέσεις φανατικών ισλαμιστών σε ναούς και λατρευτικές συνάξεις. Αποκαλυπτική είναι η είδηση, η οποία μεταδόθηκε από τα ΜΜΕ, πριν από λίγες ημέρες και όχι τυχαία, σε πασχάλια περίοδο. Παραθέτουμε μια από τις πολλές ειδήσεις: «Μπαράζ επιθέσεων σε εκκλησίες στην Ευρώπη - Στην Γερμανία μουσουλμάνοι διέκοψαν λειτουργία. Τους τελευταίους μήνες έχουν γίνει αρκετές επιθέσεις σε εκκλησίες στην Ευρώπη. Οι περισσότερες εναντίον Ρωμαιοκαθολικών εκκλησιών, αλλά στοχοποιήθηκαν επίσης τόποι λατρείας άλλων χριστιανικών ομολογιών. Πολλές από αυτές τις περιπτώσεις περιλαμβάνουν εμπρησμό και καταστροφή. Για παράδειγμα, στο Glonn της Γερμανίας, στις 19 Μαρτίου, έγινε μια απόπειρα πυρκαγιάς στον προθάλαμο μιας προτεσταντικής εκκλησίας. Στις 20 Μαρτίου, μια ομάδα ξένων στη γερμανική πόλη Freistett κατέστρεψε ένα εκκλησιαστικό όργανο και το εσωτερικό μιας εκκλησίας. Το ίδιο Σαββατοκύριακο στις 22 Μαρτίου, τα παράθυρα μιας εκκλησίας συνετρίβησαν στο Σίνγκεν. Στο Rheinau μια εκκλησία υπέστη τόσο ζημιά που υπολογίστηκε σε χιλιάδες ευρώ. Στην Ιταλία, η ίδια εκκλησία δέχθηκε επίθεση δύο φορές στη σειρά, στις 18 και 22 Μαρτίου. Η εκκλησία στη Golasecca που χρονολογείται από το 1630 καταστράφηκε από βανδάλους. Στην Φότζα στην κοινότητα της Απουλίας εκκλησία υπέστη ζημιά στις 25 Μαρτίου από βανδάλους που ψέκασαν το χώρο με άσεμνες εικόνες. Αρκετές εκκλησίες βανδαλίστηκαν επίσης στην Αυστρία, την Αγγλία, τη Γαλλία και την Πολωνία. Δεν καταστρέφονται μόνο εκκλησίες, αλλά και νεκροταφεία κοντά σε εκκλησίες, όπως συνέβη πρόσφατα στην Πολωνία. Στις 23 Μαρτίου, καταστράφηκαν 201 τάφοι στο νεκροταφείο της εκκλησίας στο Olsztyn. Στη Μοσίνα, το ενοριακό νεκροταφείο καταστράφηκε τη νύχτα της 11ης προς 12ης Απριλίου. Μια εκκλησιαστική λειτουργία στη Νίντα στο κρατίδιο της Έσσης στη Γερμανία, διακόπηκε το Πάσχα από τρεις μουσουλμάνους νεαρούς άνδρες. Επιτέθηκαν σε αρκετούς ενορίτες και φώναξαν ότι υπήρχε μόνο ένας Θεός, δηλαδή ο Αλλάχ» (http://lefteria.blogspot. com/2021/05/blog-post_259.html).

Έχουμε τη βεβαιότητα ότι αυτή η λίαν ανησυχητική κατάσταση στον ευρωπαϊκό χώρο δεν είναι ούτε τυχαία, ούτε «αυθόρμητη», ούτε συγκυριακή, όπως τη θέλουν κάποιοι «προοδευτικοί», αλλά επιτυχής υλοποίηση ενός πολύ καλά οργανωμένου σχεδίου για την εξυπηρέτηση των στόχων της «Νέας Τάξεως Πραγμάτων», οι οποίες βρίσκονται σε πλήρη εξέλιξη. Για να καταρρεύσει ο Χριστιανισμός, ο οποίος στέκεται το μόνο ισχυρό εμπόδιο στην πραγμάτωση των στόχων της παγκοσμιοποίησης, δηλαδή της υποδούλωσης του κόσμου σε ορισμένες πολιτικές, θρησκευτικές και οικονομικές ελίτ. Για την πραγματοποίηση της παγκόσμιας κυβέρνησης, η οποία αποτελεί τον μονόδρομο για τους αφανείς «σκαπανείς» της παγκοσμιοποίησης και η οποία θα επιφέρει μια πρωτόγνωρη εφιαλτική κατάσταση, μη αναστρέψιμη, για την ανθρωπότητα. Δεν είναι άλλωστε χωρίς σημασία το γεγονός ότι οι αλλόθρησκοι παράνομοι μετανάστες στην Ευρώπη ζουν πλουσιοπάροχα, σε σχέση με τις εξαθλιωμένες πατρίδες τους, με επιδόματα, τα οποία χορηγούν οι ευρωπαϊκές κυβερνήσεις, γεγονός που σημαίνει ότι οι άνθρωποι αυτοί όχι μόνο είναι ευπρόσδεκτοι, αλλά και χρήσιμοι, και το χειρότερο, με την προοπτική της μόνιμης εγκατάστασής τους στην Ευρώπη, το οποίο σημαίνει την ταχύτατη και ραγδαία ισλαμοποίησή της! Η Ευρώπη πληρώνει τις ολέθριες επιλογές της, καθ’ ότι δεν είχε τη διάθεση να αποτινάξει την παποπροτεσταντική πνευματική πανώλη, η οποία την οδήγησε σε αυτή την κατάσταση. Είναι ευδιάκριτο πως απλά ξέφυγε από το στόμα της Σκύλας και έπεσε στο στόμα της Χάρυβδης! Και το πλέον τραγικό είναι ότι οι θιασώτες του Οικουμενισμού δεν θέλουν να δουν αυτή την τραγικότητα της Ευρώπης, την οποία έφερε η παταγώδης χρεωκοπία του δυτικού χριστιανικού οικοδομήματος, αναγνωρίζοντας τις αιρετικές του κοινότητες ως «Εκκλησίες» και το Ισλάμ ως θρησκεία, η οποία οδηγεί (και αυτή) στον ίδιο με την Εκκλησία μας Θεό!

Δυστυχώς η δραματική αυτή κατάσταση εδραιώνεται και στη χώρα μας. Καθημερινά έρχονται στο φως της δημοσιότητας περιπτώσεις βανδαλισμών και βεβηλώσεων ναών, οι οποίες έχουν την «σφραγίδα» μουσουλμάνων μεταναστών, κύρια σε παρακείμενους χώρους εγκατάστασής τους. Πρόσφατα βέβηλοι στη Λιβαδειά εισέβαλαν στο εκκλησάκι του Αγίου Νικολάου του νέου, όπου κατέστρεψαν και αφόδευσαν πίσω από την Αγία Τράπεζα! Λίαν ανησυχητική είναι και μια ανακοίνωση ενός κινήματος, το λεγόμενο «Αφγανικό – Πακιστανικό Ισλαμικό Κίνημα», το οποίο λειτουργεί με την άδεια του κράτους στην πατρίδα μας: Η ανακοίνωση αυτή, έγινε στις 9 Απριλίου, δηλαδή λίγο πριν η Ελλάδα γιορτάσει το Ορθόδοξο Πάσχα: «Με αφορμή τις ημέρες που έρχονταν ο πρόεδρος του κινήματος Ααντχίλ Μπιλάλ κάλεσε τους ομοδόξους του, μουσουλμάνους, σε διαμαρτυρία κατά ‘βλασφημίας’ την ημέρα της Αναστάσεως. ‘Το Πάσχα φτάνει μουσουλμάνοι σύντροφοί μου, όλοι κάνουμε αποχή από τη γιορτή των απίστων και μαζευόμαστε για διαμαρτυρία κατά της βλασφημίας στο Σύνταγμα ώρα 00.30 την Κυριακή (σ.σ. το βράδυ της Ανάστασης). Φέρνουμε πανό, σημαίες και φορεσιές μας ώστε να δείξουμε στους χριστιανοφασίστες ότι δεν είναι μόνοι σε αυτή τη χώρα! Ο Αλλάχ να σας ευλογεί όλους! Ο πρόεδρος Ααντχίλ Μπιλάλ’». (https:// paratolmosblog.blogspot.com/2017/04/sok-islamistes-stin-ellada-apokaloyn-apistous-kai-vlasfimous-tous-ellines-xristianoyseikones.html). Λόγω των περιοριστικών μέτρων, (μόνο για μας), δεν γνωρίζουμε αν πραγματοποιήθηκε η ισλαμική διαδήλωση κατά του Πάσχα, τη νύχτα της Αναστάσεως και η ανακοίνωση κατέβηκε από το διαδίκτυο, μετά από έντονες διαμαρτυρίες και σχόλια. Πάντως είναι ένας εφιαλτικός προάγγελος για το ζοφερό μέλλον και στην Ορθόδοξη πατρίδα μας!

Περαίνοντας, εκφράζουμε την ανησυχία μας για ό,τι συμβαίνει στην άλλοτε χριστιανική Ευρώπη και δυστυχώς και στη χώρα μας, στην οποία έχυσαν το τιμημένο αίμα τους οι ηρωϊκοί πρόγονοί μας, οι αγωνιστές της εθνικής μας παλιγγενεσίας, για να αποτινάξουν την φρικτή οθωμανική δουλεία, η οποία ήταν εδραιωμένη στα αντίχριστα διδάγματα του Κορανίου και της Σαρίας, η οποία επιτάσσει την εξαφάνιση κάθε τι, που δεν συμφωνεί με την θρησκεία του Ισλάμ. Ας εγερθούμε λοιπόν από την ανεπίτρεπτη πνευματική μας νωθρότητα και ας αγωνιστούμε με κάθε νόμιμο κοινωνικό μέσο, που μας παρέχει η πολιτεία, ενάντια στην καταστροφική και ολέθρια πορεία, στην οποία οδηγείται το Έθνος μας. Ας εντείνουμε παράλληλα και τον πνευματικό μας αγώνα με θερμότερη προσευχή και μετάνοια, ικετεύοντας τον άγιο Τριαδικό Θεό να διασκορπίσει τα σατανικά σχέδια των σκοτεινών δυνάμεων και να δοξάσει για μια ακόμη φορά την αγία Ορθοδοξία μας. 

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Πηγή: aktines.blogspot.com/2021/05/blog-post_869.html#more