The Motion Picture Association of America gave an R rating to a Christian movie and the church behind the movie believes it’s because of the film’s strong Christian message.
The MPAA told the Retta Baptist Church of Burleson, Texas the R rating was because of violence and drug use shown in the film “My Son.” Continue reading
A Syrian rebel group with connections to the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda attacked the historically Christian village of Maaloula Wednesday starting with a homicide bomber from the Jabhat al-Nusra group blowing himself up at a government checkpoint according to the Observatory for Human Rights.
The rebels then seized the checkpoint and a mountaintop hotel that was used as a base to bomb Christian churches throughout the town. A Jewish temple was also damaged in the bombing assault. Continue reading
A military tribunal has sentenced 11 members of the Muslim Brotherhood to life in prison after their convictions related to a series of terror attacks.
Five Brotherhood members were acquitted while another 45 received 5-year sentences for their parts in riots on August 14th and 16th. Continue reading
On the heels of the discovery of a Pentagon training document calling the founding fathers of America “extremists” and labeling conservative organizations as hate groups, a training document has been uncovered calling evangelical Christians and Catholics as an “extremist” group in the same category as al-Qaeda and Hamas.
The document also lists Mormons on the extremist list along with Sunni Muslims. Strangely, Shia Muslims were not listed as an extremist group. Continue reading
A mob of Islamic extremists attacked a Franciscan church school, burning it to the ground, and forced nuns to be paraded around like trophies.
The Daily Mail reported police had warned the nuns that Islamic terror groups were targeting them under the false claim they had given “inappropriate education” to Muslim children. Continue reading
Over 10,000 Islamists marched down the most heavily Christian street in Assiut, Egypt chanting “Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians.”
Children spray-painted “Boycott the Christians” on walls. Continue reading
At least 10 people are dead after a series of bombings in Kano, Nigeria, the largest city in the northern part of the country. The blasts targeted a Christian neighborhood that has previously been attacked by the Islamic terror group Boko Haram. Continue reading
Extremists Muslim have used the ouster of Mohammed Morsi as an excuse to kill and torture Egyptian Christians according to civil rights activists.
Muslim mobs have shot a priest dead in the middle of the street, marked Christian businesses with painted black X’s to target them for arson and churches have been besieged by mobs. Four Christians were slaughtered with machetes and knives in one village last week by an Islamic mob. Continue reading
A homicide bomber detonated his device near a church in the Christian quarter of Damascus in a terror attack aimed at killing Christians.
Rebel sources confirmed four people dead in the attack in the Bab Sharqi. The apparently target of the terrorist was the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox church. Neighboring shops were also damaged in the attack. Continue reading
Idaho senator James Risch is making an appeal to the Iranian people for Christian Pastor Saeed Abedini, jailed in Iran’s brutal Evin prison for his faith. Abedini has been in prison for nearly 300 days suffering long periods in solitary confinement, beatings and torture at the hands of Iranian jailers.
Abedini traveled to Iran to help build an orphanage. He had lived in Iran prior to becoming a U.S. citizen and had been a key people in the home church movement. He was arrested in 2009 and released after pledging to stop organizing house churches. Continue reading