But this list isn’t simply to praise those who’ve stood. It’s to remind Christians that we have stood firm when the opposition has been fiercest and when God’s pattern for men and women has been mocked.

Children in the Crosshairs

We Must Stop Encouraging This Harmful Delusion: How Social Transition Damages Children

Some people think there’s no harm in switching pronouns, dressing in different clothes and going by a new name. What’s the harm in that? Plenty, it turns out. Affirming children in a false gender identity causes real damage.

Christian Persecution

‘What I Said Was Biblically Sound’: Councillor’s Life Torn Apart For Tweet Calling Pride A Sin

Cllr Lawal said: “It is now almost impossible to say something biblically truthful on sexual ethics in UK society without being cancelled and having your life ruined.“

Europe

Guidance Weaponized Against Truth: UK Says Refusing to Pay for ‘Gender Surgery’ Could Be ‘Domestic Abuse’

As sexual humanism continues to dominate the West, we will continue to see astonishingly bad legislation such as this guidance weaponized against those who stand for truth and refuse to live or speak a lie.

Christian Persecution

Trial Begins For Malta Man Facing Jail For Sharing How He Left Homosexuality to Follow Jesus

"If Individuals have sexual relations with a person of the same sex, they commit the homosexual act in God’s eyes, and that is a sin. Just like every other sin, one can repent from it and ask God for forgiveness and ask Him for strength to overcome"

Christian Persecution

Doctor Vindicated After Being Fired For Biblical Beliefs: ‘We Cannot Love People Truly When We Live And Disseminate A Lie’

“David Mackereth’s case challenged the sanity of our society, and our society was found wanting. If we tolerate this as a society, if we give in on the essential freedom of thought, conscience and religion, no other freedom is safe."

Religious Freedom

‘Activist Led Legislation’: UK Public Strongly Opposes Government’s Planned ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban

“The data reveals what we have believed all along that the ‘conversion therapy’ ban is LGBT minority activist led legislation which the majority of the country don’t want“

Christian Persecution

It’s Really ‘About Me Being A Christian’: Teacher Banned By UK Secretary Of State For Education For ‘Misgendering’

“Indoctrinating children across the country to bow before the Pride flag is celebrated, but if Christian beliefs are raised or expressed in the classroom, you can face having your career and life torn apart."

Days Of Noah

The Problem Comes Down To ‘Playing God’: First Three-Parent Baby Born In UK Despite Ethical Concerns

These concerns have now been repeated by several other Christian organisations this week. Essentially the problem comes down to ‘playing God’, engaging in radical experimentation on human embryos and thus commodifying human life.

Christian Persecution

UK Gov’t Faith Adviser Publishes Review Targeting The Use Of Christian Terms Like ‘Apostasy’ As ‘Extremist’

All this begs the question as to by what authority does Colin Bloom assert that calling someone else an unbeliever or a heretic is ‘extremist’? Christians should be very concerned about the definition of extremism proposed by Bloom and should have no hesitation in speaking out about it.

Children in the Crosshairs

Teacher Tells Children They Would Be ‘Dealt With Severely’ For Objecting To LGBT Lessons

“We are concerned about the focus of the school and the manner in which it has approached LGBT issues. We believe that this has infringed upon our rights as parents to raise our son in accordance with our deeply held Christian beliefs.“

Children in the Crosshairs

Massive Safeguarding Failure: Report Shows 69% Of UK Secondary Schools Require Children To Affirm ‘Gender Identities’

Society has lost its moral compass. How did we ever decide that it would be helpful for children to be taught that they might be born in the wrong body?

Christian Persecution

Bible College Fires Lecturer For Tweet On Biblical Sexuality, Threatens To Report Him To Counter-Terrorism

“Anyone concerned about academic freedom, Christian freedoms and free speech should be deeply concerned by what has happened to me.”

Europe

A Post-Christian Society: As England Has Gone, So America Is Going

Soon, Elizabeth’s son Charles will be coronated as King. His rejection of the Christian faith as the sole path to God is well-documented.

Christian Persecution

European Court of Human Rights Condemns Russia After Anti-Terrorism Law Was Used To Criminalize Pastor

"Millions of people around the world are free to do this without interference, but I was treated like a criminal and convicted under a Russian law directed at terrorists."

Christian Persecution

Street Preacher, Flagged As ‘Potential Terrorist’ For Sharing Biblical Truth On Gender, Wins Appeal

“This case has represented a disturbing trend in our society which is seeing members of the public and professionals being prosecuted and reported as potential terrorists for refusing to celebrate and approve LGBTQ ideology."

Religious Freedom

‘Watershed Moment’: UK Parliament Approves Censorship Zones, Rejects Amendments To Protect Silent Prayer

“There was nothing [Isabel Vaughan-Spruce] was obviously doing which was harassment or in any way objectionable. The police officer had to actually go into her mind… this is what surely is quite dangerous.”

Europe

Controversial Amendment To Spanish Law Will Decriminalize Beastiality, Experts Warn

Under a deceptive cloak of animal rights, Spain's government is legalizing the perversion and abuse of God's creatures. It is a far stretch to claim that this was done unintentionally.

Christian Persecution

‘International Significance’: Malta Man Becomes First Christian To Face Prison For Violating ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban

“I am determined however, to raise awareness on the danger and harm that ‘conversion therapy’ bans are and will cause, not just to churches and society in Malta, but all around the world."

State Of The Church

‘Shameful And Lawless Decree’: Church Of England To Offer Prayers Of Blessing And Affirmation For Same-Sex Couples

"This is not what God teaches. The Church of England is blessing sin. By doing this, they are attempting to nullify Christ’s atoning work on the Cross. Shame, shame, shame."

Children in the Crosshairs

‘Chilling Breach Of Parental Rights’: UK Court to Hear Case Of Preschooler Compelled To Attend ‘Pride’ Event

“I wasn’t even trying to stop the Pride event,” Montague said. “I just wanted my child to receive an education, rather than indoctrination.“

Europe

The Church In The West Stands On The Brink Of Destruction

If God were to abandon the West how could we complain, given that we have contemptuously pushed Him away so often, so publicly and so shamelessly?

Christian Persecution

Wake-Up Call: Second Person Faces Criminal Record For Silently Praying In The UK

"I assisted with abortions in hospital as part of my army medical training, but now I pray for those who perform abortions, because I realise how harmful abortion is to women and families, and that every single human life is valuable—no matter how small.”

Europe

Taking Away Basic Freedom: United Kingdom to Ban So-Called ‘Conversion Therapy’

“What the activists describe would already be illegal. This ban is all about silencing and criminalising anyone who questions or opposes homosexuality.”

Religious Freedom

Christians Are Commanded To ‘Pray Without Ceasing’ — Even In ‘Censorship Zones’

It’s about killing children and many people making a lot of money from it! It’s all about people shaking their fists at God to try to justify doing whatever they want regarding sex and its consequences.

Children in the Crosshairs

Controversial Scottish Bill Allows 16-Year-Olds to Legally Change Their Gender Against Parents’ Will

"In our day and age, many involved in western government believe it's the government that owns kids—and parents are just in the way of accomplishing the state's goals."

Religious Freedom

‘Are You Praying?’: Widespread Backlash After UK Police Arrest Woman For Silently Talking To God Near Abortion Clinic

“Prayer is simply talking to God, and Isabel Vaughan-Spruce was arrested for praying silently on the sidewalk. This persecution of Christianity is being seen more and more throughout the Western world.”

Religious Freedom

UK Government Admits It Was ‘Inappropriate’ To Argue That The Bible Is ‘No Longer Appropriate In Modern Society’

“I hope what has happened will protect other Christians who find themselves unfairly on the wrong side of the law for speaking Biblical truth.”

Religious Freedom

Charity Apologizes After Chaplain Is Threatened With ‘Consequences’ For Wearing Cross

Andrea Williams, chief executive of the Christian Legal Centre, said: “We call on chaplaincy teams and leaders across the U.K. to not be ashamed of the Christian faith“

Religious Freedom

Win For Arrested Preacher After Crown Prosecution Claims Parts Of Bible ‘No Longer Appropriate In Modern Society’

"Jesus was the answer for me, and I believe the world needs to know and experience this hope. That is why I do what I do, to help everyone to find the light of Jesus out of the darkness we all live in."

Christian Persecution

‘God Created Adam And Eve’—A Hate Crime? Greek Athlete Receives Prison Sentence For Biblical Beliefs On Gender

This Greek court has ruled that free speech does not apply to Tsiartas’ beliefs based on the Bible (and this is certainly not the first time this has happened).

Abortion

UK ProLife Group Takes Legal Action After City Council Criminalizes Their Ministry

“Instead of lamenting this loss of life we are industrialising it, making it ever easier to obtain abortion effectively on demand, and now planning to criminalise dissent."

Christian Persecution

Scottish Judge Issues Strong Rebuke of SEC For Wrongfully Discriminating Against Franklin Graham, BGEA

McCormick called this a “thinly veiled exercise in virtue signaling” by the SEC. He went on to say the exhibition center “bowed to public pressure, spurred on and whipped up by political leaders online.”

Religious Freedom

London Police Apologize for Arresting Christian Evangelist

"We don’t live in Pakistan; we don’t live in Saudi Arabia. I am Christian, and by default I believe that Muhammad is a false prophet. I should be allowed to say that in the U.K. without being stabbed or repeatedly arrested.”

World News

WORLDVIEW w/ Amir Tsarfati: Elections Have Consequences… And The World Is Paying The Price

This didn’t happen overnight, and by the time people began to see it coming it was too late. Now the leader of the free world is a man who no one takes seriously.

Euthanasia

European Human Rights Court Rules Euthanasia Of ‘Incurably Depressed’ Woman Violated Her Right To Life

What has happened in Belgium and other countries with similar trajectories paints a dark picture of the “dying with dignity” narrative.

LGBT+ Agenda

‘State-Sanctioned Persecution’: Scotland Purposes World’s Most Extreme ‘Conversion Therapy’ Ban

Overall they would criminalise prayer, consensual conversations, quoting certain Bible passages, and some preaching among other things. This amounts to a shocking infringement of fundamental freedoms.

Distress of Nations

Will The Nord Stream Sabotage Lead Putin To A Wicked Thought, As Europe Scrambles For A New Source Of Energy?

The attack on the Nord Stream pipelines has plunged Europe into an even more desperate energy situation with winter fast approaching.

Children in the Crosshairs

Christian Parents Awarded Legal Victory, Commitment From UK Gov’t To Reform Trans Policies In Schools

“It has taken people of great courage who love Jesus and His teaching, like Nigel and Sally, to say that transgender affirmation isn’t right.”

Religious Freedom

‘Freedom Is Worth Fighting For’: Christian Doctor, Punished for Praying With Patients, Reaches Settlement With NHS England

“I hope this outcome acts as an encouragement to other Christian professionals that it is more than OK to share your faith and that freedom is worth fighting for"

Israel & Middle East

WORLDVIEW w/ Amir Tsarfati: Perfect Economic Storm

China continues their zero COVID tolerance policy that is shutting down whole cities. Mix all that together and you have a perfect economic storm. It is likely to be a very eventful six months ahead of us.

Israel & Middle East

MIDEAST REVIEW w/ Amir Tsarfati: The New Global Natural Gas Cartel

What if the little gas giant Israel stands up against the price machinations of this new Russia/Iran cartel by increasing their output to the European nations that Gazprom is now squeezing?

Christian Persecution

European Court Denies Asylum for Iranian Christian Convert Whose Brother Was Tortured, Killed For His Faith

The court dismissed his case, asserting that it was “not particularly likely” that a Muslim would decide to become a Christian after his brother-in-law had been tortured and killed for his Christian faith.

Europe

UK Reverses Course on Extreme Transgender Ideology In Female Prisons

"The safety of female prisoners is being put at risk, and their dignity and privacy undermined, by being incarcerated with biological males, some of whom are known sex offenders"

Christian Persecution

‘Fundamental Right To Pray’: Elderly Liverpool Woman Cleared for Praying in Front of Abortion Clinic

"We do all have a fundamental right to pray—not least pray as I did, in the privacy of my own mind. It was wrong for the police officer to tell me that I could not pray in a public street."

Europe

Victory For ‘Truth and Free Speech’: UK Tribunal Rules In Favor Of Woman Fired For Tweet Questioning Gender Ideology

“Human beings cannot change sex. It is not hateful to say that. We have had enough of being sidelined in language, law, policy and public spaces.”

Christian Persecution

UK Court Rules that Biblical Beliefs About Gender Cannot Be Shared in the Workplace

“This ruling means that you can believe that it is impossible to change sex but if you live out that belief as a doctor your job may be at risk.”

Europe

Lithuania Places Itself In The Crosshairs Of The Kremlin, Cutting Off Rail-Transport To Russian Enclave

In response, Russia called the move "illegal and unprecedented" and warned that it "will have a serious negative impact on the Lithuanian population."

Israel & Middle East

MIDEAST REVIEW w/ Amir Tsarfati: Israel’s Energy Hooks The World’s Attention

Israel has officially become an energy superpower— The countdown to the Russian invasion to plunder the spoils of Israel in the Ezekiel 38 War has begun...

Christian Persecution

Finnish Appeals Court Announces Reopening of Päivi Räsänen’s Case

"I am happy that this decision will lead to the discussion of the Bible’s teachings in society. I am ready to defend freedom of speech and religion in all necessary courts."

Censorship

EU Works To Enact Law Giving It ‘Unprecedented’ Censorship Power

In reality, [the law] gives the EU censorship power over most of the earth’s primary communication platforms.

Europe

‘De-Putin-isation’ Is Only Hope For Civilised World, Polish PM Insists

Putin's doctrine "is a cancer which is consuming not only the majority of Russian society, but also poses a deadly threat to the whole of Europe."

Abortion

No, Amnesty International: Ukrainian Refugees Do Not Need Abortion

While the Russian military continues to kill thousands in Ukraine, Amnesty International and Planned Parenthood are campaigning for more abortions, which will kill even more innocent Ukrainians.

Religious Freedom

UK Employment Tribunal Upholds Pastor’s Religious Freedom

"I believe that children’s safety is paramount, and that everyone, but especially Christian pastors, must be able to voice concerns and ‘raise red flags’ where children may be at risk.”

Christian Persecution

Christian School Cancels Samaritan’s Purse Program After Complaint Calling Its Biblical Morals A ‘Danger To Children’

“If the school does not reverse its decision, it will embolden the complainants and the governors who support them to go further.”

Distress of Nations

Russia Cuts Off Gas To Poland, Bulgaria; PM Calls Escalation ‘Blackmail’ & A ‘Direct Attack’

"This time, Russia has moved the borders of imperialism, gas imperialism to the next step. This is a direct attack on Poland," the PM asserted in a speech to parliament.

Children in the Crosshairs

‘Truly Horrified’: UK Gov’t Member Calls Infertility Causing Trans Underwear For 4-yr-Olds Criminal Child Abuse

"The makers, sellers, and distributors of these items are breaking the Children's Act and are heavily abusing the NHS health criteria for children."

Globe

New Social Credit System In Italy Could Lead To ‘Serious Violations Of Rights,’ Spark Dangerous Trend

"These practices, if poorly developed or used, can lead to serious limitations and violations of citizens' rights and freedoms, as well as discriminatory practices."

Europe

New UK Police Guidance Allows Women To Be Strip Searched By Transgender Officers

"It tells you everything you need to know about what chief officers are thinking at the moment and where their priorities lie. Sadly, it's not with women."

Wars and Rumours of Wars

Finland Confirms NATO Application To Come ‘Within Weeks’ Despite Cyberattack, Breach of Airspace, & Threats Of ‘Destruction’ By Russia

Earlier this week, Russian lawmaker Vladimir Dzhabarov warned that by applying to join NATO, "the Finns themselves will [be signing] a card for the destruction of their country."

Religious Freedom

Finnish Court Unanimously Clears Christian Politician Of All ‘Hate Speech’ Charges, Quoting The Bible Apparently Legal After All

“In this victory for Päivi and free speech is a warning about the rise of authoritarian governments in the West targeting Christians for living according to Biblical truth"

Europe

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