According to ChinaAid, the Public Security Commission of China’s Communist Party Central Committee issued a secret plan in December 2010 to eradicate China’s house churches. The plan calls for all the churches and clergy to be documented on a computerized list by June 2012; churches and clergy not on the list would then be deemed […]
Painting seized
According to Assist News Service, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has seized a painting called “Cristo Portacroce” and returned it to the Gentili family. The painting was one of many forcibly taken from the estate of Federico Gentili di Giuseppe after the Nazi army invaded France in 1941. Some of the family escaped to Canada […]
The Last Good Neighbours
According to Assist News Service, the last remaining Samaritans continue to exist in two small communities, in Holon near Tel Aviv and in Nablus on the West Bank. The Assyrians deported most of the inhabitants of the northern kingdom of Israel to Mesopotamia (Iraq) about 722 BC and brought in other settlers. Depending on interpretations, […]
3.4 million tourists visited Israel in 2011
According to Travelujah, a record 752,000 tourists visited Israel in the first three months of 2012. The 3.4 million tourists who visited Israel in 2011 contributed $47 billion to the Israeli economy. Over two-thirds of the tourists were Christians.
Saved from the Titanic
The October 1928 issue of The Latter Rain Evangel (published by The Stone Church, an Assemblies of God congregation in Chicago) reported a fascinating story of the Titanic. The story was told by a young man in Hamilton, Ontario, three or four years after the Titanic sank in 1912. John Harper, pastor of Walworth Road […]
400-Year-Old Definition
Stephen Woodworth, a Conservative Member of Parliament from Kitchener, Ontario, introduced Motion 312 on April 26. The private member’s bill would establish a committee to re-examine section 223 of the Criminal Code, which states that a child only becomes a human being once he or she has fully proceeded from the womb. Woodward said that […]
Pro-life display vandalized
Four young men who tore down a pro-life display at Northern Kentucky University in early April have been charged with criminal mischief. One of the suspects told a local newspaper, “Tearing it down was expressing our right to free speech.” On the other hand, campus police simply watched another student put condoms on a pro-life […]
Assault on the Hill
A homosexual group calling itself “Angry Queers” claimed responsibility for smashing nine windows in a church in Portland, Oregon. The damage is estimated to be several thousand dollars. The vandals sent an e-mail laced with obscenities to local television station KOIN-TV stating that the church is anti-gay and anti-woman, adding, “We hope this small act […]
Parents feel bullied by anti-bullying law
A rally is scheduled for April 28 in Kitchener, Ontario, against an Ontario government bill that protest organizers say will “subvert parental rights and freedom of religion.” An earlier rally, on March 29 in Toronto, drew a crowd of 2,000. Bill 13, the Accepting Schools Act, was introduced in late 2011 and is currently being […]
The Painter of Light
American painter Thomas Kinkade passed away on Good Friday, April 6, at age 54, leaving a legacy that former friend Terry Sheppard called “a story of triumph and tragedy.” Kinkade was reputed to be “the most collected living artist in the United States,” with reproductions of his thousand paintings in an estimated five percent of […]
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