A Muslim worship service being held at the National Cathedral was interrupted by a Christian protester offended by the Christian church being used for worship by those who deny the divinity of Christ.
“Jesus Christ died on that cross over there!” Christine Weick yelled after the announcements at the start of the service. “He is the reason why we are to worship only him. Jesus Christ is our lord and savior!”
Weick continued to yell her objections as she was being removed from the church.
“We have built, and allowed you here in mosques across this country. Why can’t you worship in your mosque, and leave our churches alone?”
The National Cathedral’s website said “Leaders believe offering Muslim prayers at the Christian cathedral shows more than hospitality. It demonstrates an appreciation of one another’s prayer traditions and is a powerful symbolic gesture toward a deeper relationship between the two Abrahamic traditions.”
One of the Cathedral’s officials has previously said she believes Muslims and Christians worship the same God.
A video has been posted online showing Muslim men near Atlanta beating themselves bloody to commemorate the death of Mohammad’s grandson.
The acts come on the Day of Ashura, marking the death of the son of Mohammad’s daughter during a battle in 680 A.D.
The video and photos of the Muslims outside Atlanta shocked viewers with images of infants having their heads cut with knives and men beating themselves until they bleed. They would whip themselves with chains.
“We’ve been doing this since we were kids. I started when I was three,” Mahmoud Jaber, 43, told the Associated Press in 2007. “It doesn’t hurt because the cry of pain goes away with the faith.”
Critics have been demanding to know why the government is not stepping in to protect children who are being cut and beaten.
“If this were happening in the home of an Atlanta resident, the department of child services would take the child from that home as quick as they could. If a family in Atlanta were encouraging their child to beat themselves or cut themselves… the state would not allow it!” writer Onan Coca said. “Yet, because Islam has strangely become some kind of protected cult in our society, we allow these children to be abused right in front of us— in view of the public and even our legal authorities.”
An atheist student has taken steps to have a church’s youth director banned from her school because she was offended he was talking about Jesus with students at her lunch table at Salem, Oregon’s Straub Middle School.
The student claims she has no issues with Christianity and that the church director made nasty comments to her, but witnesses say that Shelby Conway is not telling the truth.
The director, Tim Saffeels, says that he only sat at the table of Conway because a member of his church’s ministry. He said that some of the other kids at the table brought up the issue of Christianity and that he did not insult or berate anyone at the table.
Saffeels has been visiting schools for three years until the campaign by Shelby Conway to have him banned.
“I didn’t say at all any of the comments concerning atheists are evil, that their opinions are illogical,” Saffeels said. “In no way, at that moment, did there seem to be any issue concerning a confrontation or anything like that. The first time that I saw that there was an issue was when I received a call from the principal.”
He said that he doesn’t go into the schools to preach but rather to build relationships with the students who are already part of their ministry.
An admitted Satanist drove his vehicle into the Ten Commandments monument outside the Oklahoma state house, breaking it into pieces.
Michael Reed, Jr., says that Satan told him to destroy the monument and then urinate on it.
Reed destroyed the monument on Thursday and then walked into the Oklahoma City Federal Building on Friday stating that he was going to kill President Obama. He was taken into custody by the Secret Service for the threats.
Reed reportedly was placed into a mental hospital and is being indefinitely detained.
The ACLU, which had been actively trying to remove the monument, issued a condemnation of the action while still attacking Christians and those who support the monument.
“The ACLU of Oklahoma and our clients are outraged at this apparent act of vandalism,” it stated. “Our Oklahoma and federal Constitutions seek to create a society in which people of all faiths and those of no faith at all can coexist as equals without fear of repressions from the government or their neighbors. Whether it is politicians using religion as a political tool or vandals desecrating religious symbols, neither are living up to the full promise of our founding documents.”
Several elected leaders, including Governor Mary Fallin, have said they will pay money from their own pockets to rebuild the monument.
A baby that was thrown into a trash dumpster by her 13-year-old mother is in good condition after being rescued by movement and rustling in a dumpster.
A man who was looking for recyclables in a dumpster at the Sunnyside apartment complex in Merced, California around 6 a.m. heard some rustling in the trash. At first he thought it was some kind of scavenger animal but when he saw it was a baby he began screaming.
The infant was covered in trash, gnats and flies. Jimmy Alvarez scooped up the child, cleaned her and wrapped her in his T-shirt until he could contact authorities.
“I think she was going to die if we had not found her,” Annett Alvarez told KRCA.
The Los Angeles Time says police tracked down the girl through tips from the public. The mother of the teen said she did not even know her daughter was pregnant. The teen has not yet been charged with any crime but is in the care of Child Protective Services.
A Christian woman who is dying of cancer is writing a pro-life plea to counter the massive amount of publicity being given to the woman in Oregon who announced the day of her death by suicide.
Brittany Maynard has been gaining attention on major news networks because she plans to kill herself rather than live through the final stages of brain cancer. Many right-to-die media outlets have been airing her story, calling for assisted suicide to be allowed across the nation.
However Kara Tippetts, a Christian woman who is dying from cancer, is challenging Maynard’s claims and calling on her to realize the value of her life even if she has a terminal disease.
“Brittany, I love you, and I’m sorry you are dying. I am sorry that we are both being asked to walk a road that feels simply impossible to walk,” Tippetts wrote. “[But] in your choosing your own death, you are robbing those that love you with the such tenderness, the opportunity of meeting you in your last moments and extending you love in your last breaths. … That last kiss, that last warm touch, that last breath, matters—but it was never intended for us to decide when that last breath is breathed.”
Tippetts pleads with Maynard not to take an overdose of drugs on November 1st.
“Knowing Jesus, knowing that He understands my hard goodbye, He walks with me in my dying,” she explains. “My heart longs for you to know Him in your dying. Because in His dying, He protected my living. My living beyond this place.”
Seven California churches have filed suit against the state because they are being forced to pay for abortions.
The California Department of Managed Health Care sent letters to seven insurance companies that refused to offer abortion coverage.
“Abortion is a basic health care service,” director Michelle Rouillard wrote to the seven insurance companies that refused to offer coverage.“All health plans must treat maternity services and legal abortion neutrally.”
The Life Legal Defense Foundation and the Alliance Defending Freedom are defending the churches, claiming the state’s mandate is a violation of the federal Weldon Amendment, which says a state can be forfeited of certain funds if they discriminate against a healthcare provider who does not pay for abortions.
“Forcing a church to be party to elective abortion is one of the utmost-imaginable assaults on our most fundamental American freedoms,” ADF Senior Counsel Casey Mattox also stated in a press release about the matter on Thursday. “California is flagrantly violating the federal law that protects employers from being forced into having abortion in their health insurance plans. No state can blatantly ignore federal law and think that it should continue to receive taxpayer money.”
The man who has overseen the most anti-Christian Justice Department in American history is going to be leaving the position.
Justice Department and White House officials confirmed that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will be announcing his resignation but staying on until a successor is confirmed to replace him.
Holder’s tenure in the office has been marked by multiple scandals and an open hostility toward conservative and Christian groups.
During Holder’s reign, evangelical Christians were listed to soldiers at military basis as threats to the country, although that was later claimed as a mistake. They also said that when the soldiers were threatened with punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice if they donated to evangelical an Christian group, that was also a mistake.
Holder has also been at the forefront of suing Christian groups and organizations who refuse to follow the ACA’s mandates on abortion inducing drugs. He also vehemently defends the law against any Christian group that sues against it, including the Little Sisters of the Poor.
Even though over 200,000 residents of the Oklahoma City area have signed petitions asking the government to not allow a “Satanic Mass” aimed to mock the Catholic church and Christianity from taking place in the public Civic Center Music Hall, the city is not relenting in allowing the Satanists to mock Christians.
The Archbishop of Oklahoma City has released a scathing indictment of city leaders for allowing the event to continue, saying that they do not understand the spiritual forces at work when events like the black mass take place.
“Even though our city leaders apparently do not take this threat seriously, I do. As a Catholic priest and bishop I have witnessed in my ministry the battle between forces of good and evil in both ordinary and extraordinary ways,” Archibishop Paul S. Coakley wrote.
“It is not merely a struggle rooted in human weakness and ignorance, though these are certainly the source of much suffering and mayhem in our lives and in our world. Demonic activity and the chaotic forces of evil are very real. The madness of war accompanied by increasingly brutal acts of terror, the violence in our schools and communities are all evidence that something is terribly wrong.”
The group is planning a series of events including a “satanic exorcism” where they have agreed to modify the procedure to use vinegar instead of urine to stay in compliance with health codes. The action is to “pull the Holy Spirit” from the body of the subject.
They don’t believe the gunman acted alone.
The parents of New Jersey college student who was gunned down by a man who claims to be a homegrown jihadist spoke out to Fox News about the death of their son and the conditions under which he died.
Alison and Michael Tevlin’s son Brendan was shot eight times while sitting in his Jeep at a red light in West Orange, New Jersey on June 25th. The gunman, Ali Muhammed Brown, causally walked up to the vehicle and just started shooting.
Brown claims that he shot and killed Tevlin because of the U.S. military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said that he was a “jihadist” and that has led many to call it a case of domestic terror.
“I don’t think it makes that much of a difference at this time,” Allison Tevlin said on Fox News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.” “I think he murdered Brendan and he murdered several others and he is an American. He did what he did. And like I said, he didn’t act alone, so I don’t know if I — we have all the information or enough information to make that kind of judgment; it’s not really for us to make that judgment.”
Brown reportedly killed three other men in the Seattle area earlier in the summer before the murder of Tevlin. He’s currently held in the Essex County Jail on $5 million bail. If extradited to Washington