The Real War On Christianity Going On Today, Tomorrow, Every Day
Here’s a snapshot of what was going on around the world at the precise moment Americans were marking the July 4 holiday:
- Fr. Joseph Zhao Hongchun, apostolic administrator of the Chinese diocese of Harbin, was taken into police custody July 4 to prevent him from galvanizing opposition to the illicit ordination of a new Harbin bishop orchestrated by the government. He was detained for three days and released only after the ordination took place.
- New auxiliary Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin of Shanghai was placed under house arrest in a seminary after he publicly resigned from the government-controlled “Patriotic Association of Chinese Catholics” during his ordination Mass on July 7, which took place with the pope’s blessing.
- Rev. Kantharaj Hanumanthappa, a Pentecostal pastor in the Indian state of Karnataka, was leading a prayer service July 4 when 20 radical Hindus stormed in to accuse the Christians of proselytizing, threatening them if they didn’t leave. A police complaint was filed, but no action has been taken.
- The private home of Pastor Ramgopal, a Pentecostal minister in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, was raided by police allied with the Hindu radicals. The pastor was reportedly told, “Either you go away and never come back or we’ll arrest you.” He was released only after signing a statement promising not to lead any more prayer services in the area.
- A Catholic priest in Vietnam, Fr. J.B. Nguyen Dinh Thuc, was attacked by plainclothes police and thugs reportedly paid $25 a head to raid a missionary chapel in a rural area July 1. Their aim was to prevent the celebration of a Mass, part of what local Catholics describe as a policy of “religious cleansing” imposed by Hanoi. When the priest tried to make his way through the mob, he was beaten up, along with several laity who came to his rescue. Maria Thi Than Ngho, one of those laity, suffered a fractured skull in the melee. As of this writing, she remains in critical condition.
- Abdubannob Ahmedov, a Jehovah’s Witness in Uzbekistan, saw his four-year prison term for “illegal religious activities” extended for another 30 months for alleged violations of prison rules.
- Yelena Kim, a Baptist in Uzbekistan arrested in late June for “illegally teaching religion,” is now looking at three years behind bars after police raided her home and confiscated Bibles, hymn books and other religious materials.
- Ghulam Abbas, a mentally disabled man in a region of Punjab under Pakistani control, was thrown into jail July 3 after rumors spread that he had burned some pages from a Quran. Before any investigation or trial could take place, a Muslim extremist mob stormed the jail, dragged Abbas from his cell and burned him alive. According to local observers, it’s at least the 35th extra-judicial murder to take place following an arrest under Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws since 1986.
Deep thanks go to the Asia News service for bringing us these stories, which otherwise would be almost totally overlooked.
These accounts put flesh and blood on the most compelling Christian narrative of the early 21st century, which is the rise of an entire new generation of martyrs. According to the International Society for Human Rights, 80 percent of all acts of religious discrimination in the world today are directed at Christians, making Christianity by far the most persecuted religious community on the planet. Reliable estimates say that about 150,000 Christians are killed for the faith every year, which translates into 17 new martyrs every hour of every day.
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What doesn’t he understand about not canvassing. It’s their place, their rules, it’s the same rules for everyone, follow them or face the consequences, you’re choice. It’s the same choice your giant invisible fairy story gives everyone, believe or I’ll torture you for all eternity. ie no choice. Obey or go to jail, is a concept even the most stupidest religous person should comprehend. It’s the same as what they preach.
“Be of good cheer, for a great Message is being sent into the world from the Creator of all life in the universe. Have great confidence that the power and presence of Knowledge is within you, and as you learn to take the Steps to Knowledge, you will find its power, grace and guidance for yourself and for others. You will see that you truly were created by God and sent into the world for a greater purpose and that you have a greater destiny beyond this world and a greater future within and beyond the boundaries of time.” google Steps to Inner Knowledge by Marshall Vian Summers
“STEPS TO INNER KNOWLEDGE!”
KNOWLEDGE takes you on the journey of discovering Self Knowledge, the mysterious source of your inner power and authority. Following this Knowledge leads you to the essential relationships that you will need to find and to fulfill your purpose in life.
newmessage.org/pdf/steps-to-knowledge.pdf
Knowledge is the deeper spiritual mind that the Creator has given to each person. It is our natural Inner Guidance system.
It is the foundation of life.Steps to Knowledge represents both a path to God and a path of contribution in the World.
It engages the student in solving the two most fundamental questions in life. WHO AM I AND WHY AM I HERE?
It offers a new spiritual understanding and preparation that are needed to activate each person’s spiritual powers and worldly abilites.
Steps to Inner Knowledge is a gift to you from God.
If Knowledge can find expression in your life, then a greater value, a greater meaning, and a greater purpose can be demonstrated through your experience. The impact of this upon others will be profound and life changing. The expression of Knowledge can change another’s life forever. Nothing you can do for others, even feeding them if they are hungry, can compare with this gift. However, you yourself do not give it. You allow it to be expressed through you, and the gift is then given to another.
In the Greater Community, Knowledge is as rare and valuable as it is in the world. And, of course, there is much deception about who has it and what it is, as there is in this world. Knowledge is the most valuable and precious gift and ability you have. It will enable you to recognize and to discern others. It will allow you to see what others cannot see, to know what others cannot know, to say what others cannot say and to feel what others cannot feel. Knowledge brings you to the forefront of life—your life and life all around you. It restores your body and renews your mind and brings all the divergent feelings and motives within you into harmony and into a balanced approach to life. Nothing else can integrate you but Knowledge. No idea, no ideal, no method, no teacher and no power can do this except Knowledge.
You live life at two levels. You live life at the level at which you think, and you live life at the level at which you know. It is to bring you into life at the level at which you know that is the purpose of true religion in all of its forms. This reunites you with your Creator and with your greater purpose for being in the world.
This brings you back to Knowledge, for God can only be known. Your purpose can only be known. Your true relationships in life can only be known. Your true impulses can only be known. Your ideas about them are secondary and, as is often the case, can only interfere with the recognition of Knowledge. You can believe in all these things. However, belief must have real experience as its foundation, or it becomes self-deceptive.
STEPS TO KNOWLEDGE takes you on the journey of discovering Self Knowledge, the mysterious source of your inner power and authority. Following this Knowledge leads you to the essential relationships that you will need to find and to fulfill your purpose in life.
Let us say that KNOWLEDGE is not the things that are usually associated with it. It is not ideas. It is not a body of information. It is not a system of belief. Its outward manifestations are profound intuition, great insite, inexplicable knowing, wise perception in the present and in the future and wise understanding of the past.
Knowledge is greater than this. The POWER OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU. It is within your Inner Knowledge. Learn then to reclaim your Knowledge and you will learn to reclaim the power that God has given you, and you will reclaim your power as well, for your power will be necessary for you to approach God’s Power.
“Taking the [Steps to Knowledge] is essential and represents the fundamental focus of all real spiritual development and religious education… [You must] build a connection between your thinking mind… and the deeper mind within you that God has created – to protect you, to guide you, to keep you from harm and to lead you to the greater purpose that has brought you into the world…
As the people of earth face global unrest, environmental decline, energy scarcity, food deprivation, and shortages of fresh water, the future is in our hands. God doesn’t govern our world. God doesn’t control what goes on here. We face forces of nature. We face the consequence of human history. We face the results of our own actions. And we face interference from other intelligent races from the universe.
God has placed within the heart of each person Knowledge, a deeper mind, a connected mind, a mind that truly knows the will of the Creator and the resolution to our many problems. This is the answer to our prayers for deliverance. It has already been given to us.
So as we face a difficult future, we don’t have to make it okay. We don’t have to look out on suffering and conflict and justify it in the name of a meddling God, a cruel God, a negligent God. God has sent the solution and it’s in you. No miracles, no magic. Just the most powerful force in the Universe, and it lies dormant in your heart, waiting for you to find it and build a bridge to it in your experience.
Allow Knowledge to take root in your life. Let your actions flow from its direction. Let it bless you with its grace. It is your connection to the divine, and in a world of so much tragedy and need, it is the one thing that is all good.
God has blessed us with the Knowledge and the perspective we need to face and overcome the great obstacles before us all, so that we may discover and develop our gifts, and contribute them, to a world and even a galaxy in need of great, great blessing.
http://www.newmessage.org/pdf/steps-to-knowledge.pdf
http://wp.newmessage.org/greater-community-spirituality-what-is-knowledge/
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