The online video-sharing website YouTube can be a cruel place for young people, especially for teenagers who dare to criticize homosexuality.
WND reported in 2009 the story of 12-year-old ChristianU2uber, whose video arguing same-sex marriage is morally wrong resulted in a stream of responses that called him a “fag in denial” and suggested he “kill Christianity, and then kill yourself.”
A ministry that follows the dictates of its faith is engaging in wrongdoing, according to a New Jersey judge who recommended today that the state Division on Civil Rights find the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association violated the state’s nondiscrimination law.
A teacher’s decision to promote homosexuality in class rather than teach the approved economics curriculum – and the school district’s endorsement of that – soon will be hitting the court docket, as a complaint has been filed by a student subjected to the instructor’s “bullying.”
Officials with the Thomas More Law Center say they have filed a federal lawsuit against the Howell Public School District in Howell, Mich., and teacher Johnson “Jay” McDowell for punishing and humiliating a student after he responded to McDowell’s question about homosexuality with his biblically based perspective.
“Rather than teach the required economics curriculum for which he is paid, McDowell, with the full knowledge of school officials, used his position of authority to promote his homosexual agenda at taxpayers’ expense,” said Richard Thompson, chief of the law center.
In a stunning formal statement that directly confronts Barack Obama’s presidency-long campaign to promote and normalize homosexuality, a coalition of Orthodox rabbis and respected mental-health professionals says being “gay” is a behavior that can be changed and healed with therapy, if the person has the desire.
“The concept that G-d created a human being who is unable to find happiness in a loving relationship unless he violates a biblical prohibition is neither plausible nor acceptable,”
A new study shows that more U.S. citizens than ever before are living outside of the United States.
Statistics from the State Department indicate that about 6.4 million Americans are either working or studying overseas, the largest number in history.
via Young Americans Leaving The Country In Record Numbers : Personal Liberty Digest™.

The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority is banning the name of Jesus Christ from any text message sent in the country.
The government’s telecommunications agency has given mobile phone companies a list of 1,695 words and informed them that they have seven days to implement filters in their systems that would block the transmission of the words.
The official list includes a number of English language slang terms for sexual acts, religious words and other words Pakistani religious authorities consider obscene.
via Mobile networks told to ban ‘Jesus Christ’ from airwave.
Iran claims to have arrested 12 CIA agents and accused them of planning to strike at Iranian interests.
IRNA state media quoted an influential politician as saying that the agents were working in collusion with Israel.
Parviz Sorouri, who sits on the powerful foreign policy and national security committee, said the spy network aimed to damage Iran’s security, military and nuclear sectors.
“The US and Zionist regime’s espionage apparatuses were trying to damage Iran both from inside and outside with a heavy blow, using regional intelligence services,” said Sorouri.
“Fortunately, with swift reaction by the Iranian intelligence department, the actions failed to bear fruit.”
The lawmaker did not specify the nationality of the alleged agents, nor when or where they they had been arrested.
via Iran Arrests 12 CIA Agents Accused Of Planning Attack With Aid From Israel | World News | Sky News.
A large cross that had been prominently displayed outside a chapel on an isolated military base in northern Afghanistan was taken down last week, prompting outrage from some American service members stationed there.“We are here away from our families, and the chapel is the one place that feels like home,” a service member at Camp Marmal told POLITICO. “With the cross on the outside, it is a constant reminder for all of us that Jesus is here for us.”
via Cross removed at base in Afghanistan – Tim Mak – POLITICO.com.
Scientists and security specialists are in the midst of a fierce debate over recent experiments on a strain of bird flu virus that made it more contagious.
The big question: Should the results be made public?
Critics say doing so could potentially reveal how to make powerful new bioweapons.
The H5N1 virus has been circulating among birds and other animals in recent years. It’s also infected about 500 people. More than half died. But this dangerous virus has not caused widespread human disease because, so far, sick people haven’t been very contagious.
If the virus evolves to spread as easily between people as seasonal flu, however, it could cause a devastating global pandemic. So in an attempt to stay ahead of H5N1, scientists have been tweaking its genes in the lab to learn more about how this virus works, and what it is capable of.
via Bird Flu Research Rattles Bioterrorism Field : Shots – Health Blog : NPR.
The war between producers and their governments over the status of raw milk sales is heating up across North America, with an Ontario farmer approaching two weeks on a hunger strike on behalf of the consumer’s right to choose – and purchase – the type of food they want.
The issue was in the headlines only days ago, when a judge in Wisconsin decided in a fight over families’ access to milk from cows they own that Americans “do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow.”
via Farmer convicted of raw-milk violations stages hunger strike.
Joplin, Missouri, is the international headquarters of the Pentecostal Church of God. It is the host of the church’s primary Pentecostal college, Messenger College; this is the denomination’s only college in Joplin. There are other Pentecostal schools and colleges throughout Missouri that offer accredited and unaccredited higher education.
Some years ago, my wife and I decided to buy an older house we felt had great potential. We hired a well-qualified contractor to examine the house. When he was done, we faced a good news, bad news situation. We decided to hear the bad news first. Among other things, some expensive structural repairs were needed. He found mold on the first level and some flooring needed a new base. Finally, he was done with the bad news. The good news was that for a price and with some patience, he could repair the house, and we would have a beautiful place to live.
In many ways, this article is a reality check on the state of discipleship in the Assemblies of God. Like the contractor who examined our house, I set before the church good news and bad news.
I have chosen to give the bad news first. The bottom line, however, is good news. At a price and with some patience, we can repair discipleship in the local church. Discipleship can become the means by which millions of people are saved and trained by a healthy church in the coming years, if Jesus tarries.
In recent months many Assemblies of God leaders have experienced a great awakening in discipleship. This is a bold statement because there has always been an awareness concerning the importance of discipleship beyond pulpit ministry. There are many good books on discipleship. Terms, such as closing the back door, are common. But awareness is not enough. Our Fellowship must first have a great awakening to the crisis in discipleship. Then we can motivate the collective will and passion to pay the price and persist until every church has a powerful, transforming discipleship ministry.
CAIRO – Women in Cairo’s Coptic hospital wailed for their dead on Monday and Christians accused Egypt’s generals of failing to protect them from strict Islamists after 25 people, most of them Coptic demonstrators, were killed in clashes with troops.
via Egypt’s Christians vent fury at army after deadly clashes – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.







