Christian Persecution

ANALYSIS: The Increasing Limitations on Christians in Canada

A March 29 social media post by Veterans Affairs Canada wishing veterans a “happy March holiday season” caused quite an uproar among many politicians and veterans, who worry that the Christian Easter holiday is being purposely renamed.

“Is [Veterans Affairs] too woke to acknowledge either the cultural or religious significance of Easter?” Conservative MP Michael Barrett wrote on X on March 30. “53% of Canadians are Christian. And nobody worth worrying about is offended by wishes of a Happy Easter.”

Observers have noted increasing instances of Christians feeling sidelined in Canada in recent years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Christian Persecution, Christianity

Criminal Attacks On American Churches Up 800 Percent In Last Six Years

While the Biden administration cracks down on the Christians Democrats and the press smear as extremists, church attacks are up 800 percent in the last six years, according to a new report from the Family Research Council (FRC).

In February, the conservative group published the report, “Hostility Against Churches Is on the Rise in the United States.” It identified 915 acts of hostility against churches between January 2018 and November 2023.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christianity, Christianophobia, USA

Christian Nationalism: The American Revolution Versus The French Revolution

Christianity stands athwart neo-Marxists’ over-arching goal of creating an all-powerful government, free from any competing moral or ethical authority. Because America was founded on Biblical principles, neo-Marxists have to drive Christianity from the public square and uncouple America’s founding from its Judeo-Christian roots. The left’s latest effort has been to attack “Christian Nationalism.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christianity, Christianity and the left, Christianophobia

Christians in the Crosshairs

The Left pretends to want to save Christians from themselves.

The left hates Christians, even the liberal, nonjudgmental ones in nondenominational megachurches with pastors in skinny jeans. But because this is an election year and their presumed candidate and his vice-presidential backup option are such pathetically weak choices, the panicked left cannot afford to alienate all those Christian deplorables and drive them toward the Republican candidate. So their strategy, as always, is to divide and conquer. Thus, the left is ramping up hysteria about a segment of the Christian population they are painting as a clear and present danger to “democracy” (i.e., Democrat hegemony): Christian nationalists.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian "progressives", Christian Persecution, Christianity, Christianity and the left

MPs choose not to condemn church fires

A call to condemn the most recent arson attack on a Christian church — Feb. 9 at Blessed Sacrament Church in downtown Regina — failed to gain unanimous approval in the House of Commons.

On Feb. 12, Conservative MP Corey Tochor called for unanimous consent to condemn the arson at Blessed Sacrament. Members of the Liberal-NDP governing coalition responded with “no.” Speaker of the House of Commons Greg Fergus quickly stated, “there is no unanimous consent.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Christian Persecution, Christianity

Trudeau’s Canada ranks third on list of Western countries persecuting Christians

Canada is third on the list of Christian-persecuting Western nations under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s leadership.

According to a report published on January 31 by Family Research Council’s (FRC) Center for Religious Liberty, Canada ranks third among Western countries that persecute Christians for their faith.

h/t DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Christian Persecution, Christianity

Meloni Party Wants to Save Christmas in Schools

The Brothers of Italy (FdI), the party led by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, has introduced a bill that would ban any school from cancelling Christian celebrations at Christmas or Easter, infuriating the Italian Left.

The bill was presented to the Italian Senate this week just days before Christmas and declares that “it will no longer be possible to cancel the nativity scene, Christmas, and Easter within Italian schools of all levels,” the newspaper Il Giornale reports.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christianity, Christianity and the left

John Robson: Christians are being persecuted worldwide. Why no liberal outcry?

If you’re into Bible verses at Christmas, unlike the craft store clerk who didn’t know what a “nativity scene” was even after I mentioned wise men, Mary, Joseph and the “Christ child,” I suggest Matthew 5:11. Which, for her and her millennial ilk, says “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.” So there’s a lot of blessing worldwide.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christianity and the left, Christianophobia

‘War on Christmas’: Movement to Cancel Holiday in Canada Seen Before in Communist Regimes

The Canadian Human Rights Commission said in a recent report that having statutory holidays for Christian celebrations such as Christmas is “a form of discrimination … deeply rooted in our identity as a settler colonial state.”

It’s the latest shot across the bow in what’s often called a “war on Christmas,” primarily driven by those seeking to secularize public life, says Christmas expert and historian Gerry Bowler of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christmas, Communism, Communists

Conservative MP introduces bill to declare December ‘Christian Heritage Month’

A Conservative member of Parliament is introducing a private member’s bill that would designate December as “Christian Heritage Month.”

Marilyn Gladu, the MP for the Ontario riding of Sarnia–Lambton, introduced Bill C-369, the Christian Heritage Month Act, to the House of Commons on Tuesday.

The bill lands as the Conservatives press a petition campaign against a Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) paper that described statutory holidays marking Christian religious dates as discriminatory.

The CBC is happy to report the bill does not stand a snowball’s chance in Hell of passing.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christianity, Christianity and the left, Christianophobia

Finnish Politician Cleared of Hate Speech Charges for Second Time

“It isn’t a crime to tweet a Bible verse, or to engage in public discourse with a Christian perspective. The attempts made to prosecute me for expressing my beliefs have resulted in an immensely trying four years, but my hope is that the result will stand as a key precedent to protect the human right to free speech. I sincerely hope other innocent people will be spared the same ordeal for simply voicing their convictions,” added Räsänen, the former Finnish Interior Minister and grandmother of eleven. 

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