What? Were the “Coexist” bumper stickers not working?
Or maybe they just haven’t made it out of the United States yet, because religious persecution is on the rise worldwide and no one is being targeted more than Christians.
h/t Patti Jo
Christian Persecution
PARKER: What’s next for Canada’s Christians, as church and state collide?
It’s the end of the Christmas season, and at first glance something wonderful seems to have taken place. Canadians have rediscovered their nation’s Christian roots.
Or have they?
Cheerful evidence that they have can be found in the 40 or so cities and provinces, including Toronto, Saskatoon, Calgary, and Saskatchewan, that for the first time have officially declared December to be Christian Heritage Month.
I do not attend “Winter Villages” or “Holiday Parties”
WARMINGTON: They call it ‘winter village,’ but it will always be Toronto’s Christmas market
You can take Christmas out of the market, but you can’t change the fact that it’s still a Christmas market.
But they are sure going to try.
Just when you thought the politically correct, woke, cancel-culture world was starting to be pushed back upon comes word Toronto’s most famous Christmas market is actually more of a seasonal market.
They call it the Distillery Winter Village.
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— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) December 24, 2024
h/t Auntie Polly
Hardship, war and settlers driving Christians out of Holy Land
The Persian armies that swept through Palestine in the early 7th century laid waste to every church they came to with the exception of one.
It is said that upon arriving in Bethlehem at the Church of the Nativity the conquering general, Shahrbaraz, decided to spare it when he saw a mosaic of the three wise men depicted on one of the walls of the 6th-century basilica wearing Persian clothing.
Six hundred years later, the church would again narrowly escape destruction following the arrival of Sultan Baibars, who persecuted Christians and pulled down the town walls.
Eight Indian villages just banned Christians, who must renounce their faith or move out
Eight village councils in the central Indian state Chhattisgarh just voted to ban Christians from their towns. They have given the Christians the options to renounce their faith entirely, or lose everything they own.
Apparently Comfort Sakoma-Fadugba’s Christian point of view was a bit too inclusive
When Canadian progressives talk about “inclusion,” you can be sure that Christians are about to be excluded.
When the Canadian Armed Forces issued a directive instructing chaplains that they must be “inclusive” at Remembrance Day ceremonies, for example, they meant that Christian prayers and traditional symbolism were to be excluded, especially because — as a 2022 report from the DND noted — Christianity is “a source of suffering and intergenerational trauma” for many Canadians, with this being “especially true for many lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and two-spirited members of Canadian society.”
Vancouver Police Board vice-chair resigns following sensible social media comments on Immigration, Trans lunacy & the beneficial role of Christianity in Canada
The Vancouver Police Board says its vice-chair has resigned following statements she posted to social media that were inconsistent with its code of conduct.
OMG! Behold The Horror!
Of the screenshots shared to Reddit, one post discusses how “mass immigration” and “a growing aversion to assimilation” are “transforming Canada into a place where a shared identity is disappearing.”
Another post questions Diwali celebrations at schools, saying the “push for secular education isn’t about religion — it’s about erasing Christian values from the lives of our children.”
Nashville Reporter Only Sees Racism In Moving To A Christianity-Friendly Small Town
On Nov. 18, Nashville News Channel 5 reporter Phil Williams delivered a breathless “exclusive investigation” into the supposed right-wing radicals targeting rural Jackson County, Tennessee, for a takeover. He claimed, “their views are not so different from the ideas espoused by the neo-Nazis and other white supremacists seen marching down Nashville streets in the past year.”
France and England are the European countries with the highest number of anti-Christian crimes
The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC) has published its annual report 2024 (referring to 2023). According to the organization, during that year more than 2,400 attacks against Christians took place in Europa.
Hostility Toward Christians Skyrockets Across Europe
Report fingers radical Islam and radical leftism as motivations for attacks on Christians.
While Christians in America are celebrating an end to the hostile Biden-Harris regime, Christians in Europe witnessed increased persecution and hatred last year, according to a new report. The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe) published its annual report on Friday, examining instances of “intolerance and discrimination against Christians” over the course of 2023. Unfortunately, the report found that religiously-motivated hate crimes against Christians more than doubled last year.
Tears, anger as Toronto City Council debates honouring Christianity
December will be Christian Heritage Month in Toronto – but only after a surprisingly emotional half-hour at City Council.
After Gord Perks unspooled a rant about Canada and its history with the Christian faith, a tearful Lily Cheng, who represents the Willowdale ward, rose to tell council: “Christianity saved my life.”
Pete Hegseth hits back at accusations his tattoos are white supremacist symbols: ‘Anti-Christian bigotry’
Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense has spoken out against claims that his tattoos are symbols of white supremacy, calling the criticism “anti-Christian bigotry.”
Pete Hegseth, a longtime Fox News host and war veteran, sports a large Jerusalem Cross on his chest and the Latin inscription Deus Vult, which translates to “God wills it.”
Be Careful What You Think: In Britain, It Might Be a Crime
It seems oddly mediaeval to convict a man for his prayers.
But the British courts have defied all reasonable expectations of modern democracy by convicting a man for doing just that on the streets of Bournemouth.
Adam Smith-Connor is a military veteran who served his country in the reserves in Afghanistan. As part of his medical training, he participated in 30 abortions in 2003—actions he now deeply regrets. Adam converted to Christianity in later life, and is now deeply committed to prayer on the issue. In November 2022, he stopped to pray for a few minutes, in silence, near an abortion facility, remembering a time he had paid for an ex-girlfriend to abort his own child.
GIESBRECHT: Staggering number of churches burned, more than thought
Blacklocks reports that since 2010, when the Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) commissioners began making the claim in interviews and in interim reports that thousands of indigenous children had died at residential schools under suspicious circumstances, more than 400 Christian churches have burned in Canada.
Those allegations were false, and based on a conspiracy theory.
Thought Police: Protecting the People from Prayer
In their zeal to defend abortion at all costs, governments are beginning to criminalise silent thought. Their efforts must be resisted.
Since its earliest versions surfaced sometime in the Middle Ages, the venerable German folk song “Die Gedanken sind frei” (Thoughts are free) has been an anthem to a keystone of human dignity: freedom of thought. This song gives voice to the fact that, while oppressive authorities can forbid speech, assembly, worship, or anything else that happens outside the realm of a person’s consciousness, what goes on inside the brain cannot be stopped by anyone. In Germany, the song’s contemporary version took shape in the first half of the 19th century, expressing popular opposition to censorship and authoritarianism. Forbidden after the failed German revolution of 1848, it resurfaced in 1898 when the composer Gustav Mahler included it in his song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn). In the 1930s and ’40s, the song played a role in the resistance against Nazism. In 1989, demonstrators sang it to express their demand for a peaceful transition to democracy in the German Democratic Republic.