Report From Washington - February 3, 2012

Obama exposes Israeli military plans, then says Jesus wants people to pay more taxes / Obama's continued attacks on the Catholic Church / Senator informs Obama that he is is not Jesus / Two Prayer Caucus backed bills pass House / Senator Rubio wants religious exemptions from Obama Care / Cherry picking the Bible / Occupy movement burns American flag and then goes anti-semitic / Dubai police chief says USA can't be trusted and has actually helped Iran / Media may have discovered persecuted Christians / A real success against Islamic terror

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THE PRESIDENCY 

OBAMA OUTS ISRAEL - The Obama Administration has warned an enemy, Iran, that one of our allies, Israel, is about to attack its nuclear sites. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta informed the media this week that Israel was planning an attack on Iran within a few months. Iran now knows when to heighten its defenses and how to prepare a retaliation against the Jewish state.

OBAMA SAYS JESUS WANTS TAX HIKES - I have not attended the National Prayer Breakfast for many years because it has become a political mockery rather than a gathering of the faithful to pray. As if to prove my point, President Barack Obama used this week's National Prayer Breakfast to push his tax increases, saying that as a Christian he knows that Jesus would want the rich to pay higher taxes. He awkwardly offered his proof by reading Luke 12:48 out of context. The passage actually concerns the treatment of servants by masters and has nothing whatsoever to do with taxes or government.

OBAMA AND THE CHURCH - According to President Barack Obama, a Christian school is a secular body separate from the church. He used the argument to try to force employee standards on church schools (although thankfully he lost in the Supreme Court). Now he wants to use mandated health insurance to force Church owned organizations such as schools and hospitals to provide health insurance that includes contraceptives, sterilization and even the "morning after pill."
CONGRESS 

SENATOR TELLS OBAMA HE IS NOT JESUS - A few hours after President Barack Obama invoked the words of Jesus to promote tax hikes Senator Orrin Hatch took to the floor of the Senate and made this comment: "Just this morning at the National Prayer Breakfast the President took what has always been a non-partisan opportunity for national unity and used it to promote his political agenda. He suggested to the attendees that Jesus would have supported his latest tax-the-rich schemes. With due respect to the President, he should stick to public policy. I think most Americans would agree that the Gospels are concerned with weightier matters than effective tax rates." The Senator went on to point out Obama's attack on the church using Obama Care earlier in the week. Read more 
PRAYER CAUCUS BACKED BILLS - The WWII Memorial Prayer Act, H.R. 2070 passed this week by an overwhelming 386-26. Prayer Caucus members introduces the bill because the Park Service omitted "so help us God" in an inscription of President Roosevelt's address to Congress following the attacks on Pearl Harbor. This bill directs the inscription of President Franklin Roosevelt's historic "D-Day Prayer" at the World War II memorial in Washington, D.C. Pressure must be placed on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to pass the bill in the Senate.
By a voice vote the House also approved the War Memorial Protection Act, H.R. 290. This legislation ensures that memorials commemorating the U.S. Armed Forces may contain religious symbols. The bill counters decisions by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (The Nutty Ninth) to remove such monuments to veterans as the Mt. Solidad Cross.
RELIGIOUS EXEMPTION FROM OBABACARE - U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced a bill called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012 that will expand the nearly nonexistent exemption for religious employers in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as ObamaCare.
As it now stands, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is forcing religious employers to pay for contraceptives, sterilization services, and abortion-inducing drugs for their employees. In a failed attempt to respond to complaints, the DHHS has given religious organizations one year to adapt to the ObamaCare mandate. Read more
RELIGION AND CULTURE 

CHERRY PICKING THE BIBLE - In America today there is a growing fad which has been called Designer Christianity. Cherry-picked Christian ideology has zero to do with God's Word and everything to do with the moral relativism that now pervades modern philosophy. It is a pick-and-choose brand of religion where a person selects exactly what he or she wants to believe, misinterprets and takes Scripture out of context, and then labels those who object to that sacrilege as mean-spirited, un-Jesus-like, and anti-Christian. Read more  
OCCUPY MOVEMENT GOES ANTI-SEMITIC - Does it actually surprise anyone that the Oakland, California Occupy movement endorsed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel? A statement at the Occupy Oakland website stated that Israel had "prodded" the United States into Afghanistan and Iraq wars. This is the same group that broke into the Oakland City Hall, smashed windows and furniture and set fires. These are Obama's thugs practicing their assault tactics in preparation for the November election.
MORE FROM THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM COALITION

NEW CHAIRMAN'S REPORT - Now available, the Chairman's Report for January 27, 2012. IN THIS ISSUE: Obama's continued war on religious freedom / Court defeat for Obama on EEOC attack on churches / HAMAS cheered by Obama support of Arab Spring / Rick Santorum defends faith and family / Former congressman jailed over Sudan contacts / Egypt's richest man faces blasphemy charge / Muslim Brotherhood owns Egypt / The Arab Spring turns to an Islamic fall / Boko Haram kills hundreds more in Nigeria / New York Times says Boko Haram "not a problem" / More from Religious Freedom Coalition 
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INTERNATIONAL

DUBAI POLICE CHIEF NO LONGER TRUSTS AMERICA - At a January 19, 2012 regional security conference in Bahrain, Dubai's longtime chief of police Dahi Khalfan Tamim gave an assessment of security threats to the Gulf states. He said that the U.S. was the main security threat, had realized Iran's dreams in Iraq, was "embracing" the Muslim Brotherhood, and was no longer an ally. (This is what our allies in the Gulf have to say about us.) Read more

MEDIA DISCOVERS PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS - Has the media discovered persecuted Christians in the Middle East? For the most part the answer is no. Despite Asia Bibi and other Christians in jail for blasphemy, and despite the murders of Christians in Iraq, Iran and other Islamic areas, the media is for the most part silent.The Boko Haram has killed hundreds of Christians so far this year alone, yet the New York Times ran an opinion editorial stating that the Boko Haram is "not a problem in Nigeria." However, there may be spark of light at Fox News. Read more
MORE UK TERRORISTS - Three terrorists from Stoke-on-Trent plotted al-Qaeda-inspired bomb attacks on pubs and clubs. Usman Khan, Mohammed Shahjahan and Nazam Hussain, wanted to bring terror to their home city by placing homemade time bombs in pub toilets. Read more
SUCCESS AGAINST ISLAMIC TERROR - A Philippine Air Force strike against an Islamic terror target has killed Zulkifli bin Hir (also known as Marwan), a Malaysian-born bomb maker the US wanted dead so badly that it put a $5 million bounty on his head. Three other Islamic terror leaders were killed in the attack that may cripple the Abu Sayyaf, which kills hundreds of Christians a year in the Philippines. The American media virtually never mentions Islamic terror attacks in this region of the world.

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March 26, 2010 - Washington, DC

OBAMA WALKS OUT OF MEETING WITH ISRAELI PM TO GULP DOWN A BURGER / OBAMA ABORTION ORDER IS A WASTE OF PAPER / FIRST CHURCH SERVICE IN CAPITOL HELD IN OVER 150 YEARS / OBAMA , BIDEN AND THE SUICIDE BOMBER / MOB STOPS CHURCH CONSTRUCTION IN INDONESIA / NIGERIAN MUSLIMS MURDER MORE CHRISTIANS / IRAQI REFUGEES SITUATION / READ ABOUT MAY DAY 2010
 
NEW MARCH 25, 2010 CHAIRMAN'S REPORT NOW ONLINE- The March 25, 2010 Chairman's Report is now available online in PDF format. Read about the first church service held in the Capitol Building since 1868! Huge victory as "under God" stays in the Pledge to our flag. Barack Obama shows the world how not to lead. Hundreds of Christians murdered in Nigeria. Click here for PDF version.

THE PRESIDENCY

OBAMA AND ISRAEL - President Barack Obama walked out of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to have dinner privately this past Tuesday night. The PM and his aides were directed out of the Oval Office to the Roosevelt Room, which is rather small, to wait and confer. After Obama finished dinner he summoned Netanyahu back to the Oval Office. The Israeli delegation, fearing that their conversations were being recorded, said little of importance to each other while waiting for Obama to dine. Obama further insulted Prime Minister Netanyahu by refusing to have their picture taken together. Obama has no problem doing cuddly smiling photos with Marxist dictator Hugo Chavez, and he even bows and gives hugs to murderous Saudi royalty who trample the rights of their citizens. Obama believes the anti-Semitic rhetoric of his pastor of twenty years, Jeremiah Wright who claimed that all the world's problems could be solved by forcing Israel to its 1948 borders. Once that is done, Obama naively believes, the fanatical attacks by Muslims on the United States will stop.  
OBAMA'S ABORTION ORDER - One day after a lavish White House ceremony signing his "health care reform" law, President Obama signed an executive order that he was forced to agree to, which bars federally funded abortions. The signing was behind closed doors and no photographs or media were present. As his self imposed deadline approached for the vote on the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," President Obama was forced to cut a deal with pro-life Democrat Congressman Bart Stupak and his group. Even though Democrats hold a near 40 seat margin in the House, the bill passed by only three votes. Without the otherwise very liberal pro-life Stupak and his group the bill would not have passed. The Executive Order is actually meaningless. Codified laws (those passed by Congress) supersede executive orders. Read expert analysis by Congressman Tiahrt

THE CONGRESS

CHURCH SERVICE IN THE CAPITOL - On Sunday, March 21st at 11:00 AM, Members of Congress held a church service in Statuary Hall (the old House chamber) in the Capitol. Only members of Congress, their spouses and staff were permitted to attend. The church service was called by Republican leaders because Speaker Nancy Pelosi had demanded a Sunday vote for the "historic" Obama Care entitlement program. Members felt they would not be able to attend church in their home districts and still make it back in time for votes. Because the Chapel in the Capitol is far too small to hold the number of people that would be in attendance, the church service was held in Statuary Hall.

This was an historic moment. To my knowledge no church service has been held in the Capitol Building itself since 1868. It has been well over 150 years since the Capitol Building was used for a church service; however, from the time it was built until after the Civil War, weekly church services were held there. Congressman Randy Forbes, the founder of the Prayer Caucus, organized the service and officiated at it. My good friend Todd Akin led the singing of Amazing Grace.  
OBAMA AND THE SUICIDE BOMBER MEMORIAL - Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) pointed to Obama's amazing double standard in his treatment of Israel. The congressman pointed out that during VP Biden's visit to Israel, the Palestinian Authority unveiled a statue to a suicide bomber who had killed 38 innocent civilians including 13 children at a market. Apparently Obama and Biden were perfectly OK with the public statue to this mass murderer being dedicated during Biden's visit. Yet they were bent on punishing Israel for building homes for Jews in their own capital city. Read Cantor's statement.

CULTURE AND RELIGION

MAY DAY 2010 - A cry to God for a nation in distress! Join with Christian leaders of all denominations who love God, as we humble ourselves, pray, seek the face of God, and turn from our wicked ways-individually and as a nation. Jesus will be front and center at May Day. Join national leaders on May 1, 2010 - starting at sunrise (6:10 A.M. EDT) and finishing at 2:00 P.M. at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. Learn more  
NEW MARCH 25, 2010 CHAIRMAN'S REPORT NOW ONLINE- The March 25, 2010 Chairman's Report is now available online in PDF format. Read about the first church service held in the Capitol Building since 1868! Huge victory as "under God" stays in the Pledge to our flag. Barack Obama shows the world how not to lead. Hundreds of Christians murdered in Nigeria. Click here for PDF version.

INTERNATIONAL

MOB STOPS CHURCH CONSTRUCTION - An Islamic mob in Indonesia has stopped the construction of Santa Maria Immaculata Catholic Church in West Jakarta. Meanwhile government officials stopped work on the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) building in West Java. Indonesia is the "moderate Muslim" nation in which President Barack Obama received his early education. Read more  
MORE CHRISTIANS MURDERED IN NIGERIA - ABUJA, NIGERIA (Worthy News)-- A group of Muslim herdsmen disguised as soldiers murdered at least 10 more Christians in the same area as the massacre of hundred o Christians less than two weeks before. The atrocities committed against the Christians are too brutal to repeat on this page. Although half the population is Christian, Nigeria has a Muslim president who has done nothing to stop the violence. Read more
IRAQI REFUGEES NEED HELP - Please help Iraqi Christian refugees with a tax deductible gift in 2010. All contributions posted online this week will go to assist Iraqi Christian refugees in Jordan and Syria. Please contribute at www.rfcnet.org or at the Iraqi Refugee Project page at Face book.
PETITION TO HILLARY CLINTON ON IRAQI CHRISTIANS - Read and sign the Internet petition to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The petition urges Clinton to direct our embassies to assist Christians who have fled Islamic terror in Iraq. The petition is located at www.iraqich ristianrefugees.org.

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MARCH 25, 2010 CHAIRMAN'S REPORT

The March 25, 2010 Chairman's Report is now available online in PDF format. Read about the first church service held in the Capitol Building since 1868! Huge victory as "under God" stays in the Pledge to our flag. Barack Obama shows the world how not to lead. Obama versus Israel. Hundreds of Christians murdered in Nigeria. Read more: Click here for full edition on PDF.

February 26, 2010 - Washington, DC

Obama's official Muslim envoy / What is the Organization of the Islamic Conference? / Health care summit was a road show / House resolution supports Iraqi Christians / Chairman Rangle in ethics trouble again / The House is in chaos says Politico / May Day in America / Christians attacked in Pakistan / Geert Wilders to be Prime Minister?  
FEBRUARY CHAIRMAN'S REPORT NOW ONLINE- The February 10, 2010 Chairman's Report is now available online in PDF format. This issue highlights the deportation of Iraqi Christians from Sweden and the continued efforts of the government of the Netherlands to eliminate free speech in the name of political correctness. The leader of the second largest political party in the European Union may go to jail for "insulting Islam" Click here to read PDF

THE PRESIDENCY

OBAMA'S OFFICIAL MUSLIM ENVOY - On February 13, President Obama announced the appointment of Rashad Hussain, deputy associate White House counsel, as U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). This is an organization that represents a group of nations promoting a specific religious agenda. Appointing an American envoy gives that organization some legitimacy. The OIC has a structure that is highly discriminatory, and it promotes a reactionary, anti-Israel agenda. It also attacks free speech and free exercise of religion in Western nations.

It gets worse. Rashad Hussain publicly defended a terrorism sympathizer in 2004. When he was appointed he lied about defending the terrorism sympathizer and even had references to his comments removed from a magazine. Politico.com, however, found an audio tape of his comments. Faced with the truth he "remembered" his comments. Obama says he has "faith" in Hussain even though he was caught in a bald faced lie and a cover-up. This says a lot about the character of the current occupants of the White House.
JUST A GREAT SHOW - I just loved the show -- I mean Health Care Summit -- held at Blair House with President Barack Obama as mediator between Nancy Pelosi and the far left on one side and the Republicans on the other side. The President had planned this to be an ambush of Republicans, to show the American people it is just the "party of no." A headline in the Washington Post said simply, The Democrats' health-care ambush failed. Health care in America does need to be fixed, but outrageous spending by both Democrats and Republicans has left the nation broke and dependent on handouts from China to even keep the government going. A slow incremental approach is needed to fix health care problems without causing the government to default on its loans to the Chinese, Japanese and Arab royalty.
 

THE CONGRESS

RESOLUTION SUPPORTS IRAQI CHRISTIANS - Wednesday the House passed by a vote of 415-3, Congressman Frank Wolf's H.Res. 944. The Resolution supports religious minorities in Iraq and its language details how Christians and other religious minorities have been brutalized in Iraq since 2003. Read more at Congressman Wolf's site! 
HARRY REID SAYS UNEMPLOYED MEN BEAT THEIR WIVES - "Men when they're out of work tend to become abusive," according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The Majority Leader, who is up for reelection this year, is running behind in the polls and this should hurt his popularity among men. One columnist wondered if Reid would beat his wife if he lost the election and became unemployed. Not only did he say that unemployed men were abusive, he said that unemployed women were not. REALITY: The comments of Harry Reid were elitist. Like most liberals he groups people by sex, race, religion and ethnic background and uses broad statements to classify them. Liberals just don't see people as individuals; they see them as serfs who are beneath them.Read more
RANGEL IN TROUBLE -- AGAIN - The House ethics committee found that Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel violated House gift rules by accepting corporate-funded trips to the Caribbean through an organization called the Carib News. Rangel has a long history with the Caribbean. He owns rental property in Jamaica which he did not report income on for years. He also uses a rent controlled apartment meant for the poor as his office in New York. This is the guy that Nancy Pelosi chose to run the most powerful committee in the House. Read more
A HOUSE IN CHAOS - Thursday, February 25th may go down as one of the weirdest days the House has ever seen. Under Nancy Pelosi, the House is usually in at least a mild state of chaos, but Politico.com termed the day a House in chaos. Besides dealing with the Rangel affair and the bungled Health Care summit, the House also, by accident we are told, passed a law that protecs terrorists and allows the criminal prosecution of our intelligence agents. It was a wild day!
 

CULTURE AND RELIGION

MAYDAY IN AMERICA - The Religious Freedom Coalition is a sponsor of May Day 2010. On May 1st of this year, Christian leaders of all denominations who love God will humble themselves and pray at the Lincoln memorial in Washington, DC for our nation and its leaders. This event is not to impress the media or those in Washington, but to reach the heart of God. Thousands of people will join in Washington with leaders to pray for our nation. There are buses scheduled from many states including New York, Florida, Texas and Missouri. Please be a part of this great prayer movement if you can join us. Learn more
NEW FEBRUARY CHAIRMAN'S REPORT NOW ONLINE- The February 10, 2010 Chairman's Report is now available online in PDF format. This issue highlights the deportation of Iraqi Christians from Sweden and the continued efforts of the government of the Netherlands to eliminate free speech in the name of political correctness. The leader of the second largest political party in the European Union may go to jail for "insulting Islam" Click here to read PDF 

INTERNATIONAL

MORE CHRISTIANS ATTACKED IN PAKISTAN - The United States sells advanced weapons including the F-16 fighter to Pakistan, a nation with hundreds of madrassas that teach jihad. Not a critical word is ever said by our government about the abuse of Christians in Pakistan. This week, hundreds of Muslims attacked a Christian colony in the port city of Karachi, because a Christian was involved in a petty dispute with a Muslim fruit vendor there. Islam preaches "collective punishment," meaning that all Christians must be punished for any wrong done by one Christian toward a Muslim, even if the accusation is untrue. Read more  
GEERT WILDERS TO BECOME PRIME MINISTER? - The trial of Geert Wilders continues in the Netherlands. Prosecutors want to put this Member of Parliament in jail for being critical of Islam, but his popularity is building. Currently his populist PVV (Party for Freedom) only has nine seats in the Parliament, but polls show that increasing to 24 just behind the largest party. Because it is a multi-party system outcome is hazy. Meanwhile the Labor Party released po sters and campaign literature in Arabic which is sure to infuriate the real Dutch population further.
WESTERN CIVILIZATION ON TRIAL - The trial of Member of Parliament Geert Wilders is not an issue for just the Netherlands. It is not just Geert Wilders that is on trial; it is Western civilization. If Muslims in Western nations can have people put in jail for "insulting" their religion, it is a statement of surrender of not only Christianity, but the secular West. More at NRO
IRAQI REFUGEES NEED HELP - Please help Iraqi Christian refugees with a tax deductible gift in 2010. All contributions posted online this week will go to assist Iraqi Christian refugees in Jordan and Syria. Please contribute at www.rfcnet.org or at the Iraqi Refugee Project page at Face book.
 

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November 20, 2009 - Washington, DC

Obama's "Tinkerbell world" / The politically correct general / Stimulus money goes to AARP / Unlimited abortions for $12 a year? / Another attack on "In God We Trust" / Iran releases Christian women in surprise move / More on Iraqi Christian refugees

NEW NOVEMBER CHAIRMAN'S REPORT - The all new November 18, 2009 Chairman's Report is now available to read in PDF format. This issue centers on the family of evangelist David Ortiz and his wife Leah in Ariel, Israel since the bombing of their home. Click here to review.

THE PRESIDENCY

OBAMA'S TINKERBELL WORLD - Would you be willing to die to make Europeans think better of America? Apparently Barack Obama thinks the opinion Europeans, Asians and Africans have about him is more important than the security of our nation. In a recent CNN interview he said, "... before my election, less than half the people -- maybe less than 40 percent of the people -- thought that you could count on America to do to the right thing. Now it's up to 75 percent." What does "the right thing" mean? To despotic leaders it means Barack Obama is more interested in his international image than in the security of his nation and they will take advantage of that weakness. OBAMA'S POLITICALLY CORRECT GENERAL, PART TWO- As I mentioned last week, Army Chief of Staff George Casey, Jr. said about Ft. Hood that it would be a "greater tragedy" than the 14 murders if Army 'diversity' was negatively affected. My good friend and syndicated columnist Don Feder had a great suggestion for General Casey: "Casey should demonstrate his commitment to diversity by offering to lead a squad of randomly picked Muslim GIs on a mission in Afghanistan - all of whom are behind him with loaded weapons." Sounds like a fair test to me. Read Don's full article on political correctness and Islam. There is still no word from the Army as to why in its quest for 'diversity,' the 51st Translation Interpreter Company at Fort Lewis became 100% Muslim. More than 85% of Arabic speakers in the USA are Christians.
STIMULUS MONEY TO AARP - The AARP is using a lot of money to promote Obama Care. Where is that money coming from? AARP received $18,176,224 in "Stimulus" funds from the Obama Administration, yet reports that it created NO jobs with the funds. What was the money used for? When pushed, AARP claims the funds were used to "train" people to get jobs, but can't tell when or where the classes were held. Hmmm. Sounds like a payoff to me. Meanwhile, Congressman John Boehner of Ohio says that millions of dollars of Stimulus funds went to ten congressional districts in his state that DO NOT EXIST. See list. La Raza, (English translation "The Race") which is in actuality a rather racist organization, has also received Stimulus funds. Some of the more outrageous Stimulus expenditures can be found at Watchdog.org.
 
THE CONGRESS
UNLIMITED ABORTIONS FOR $12 A YEAR - Under the heading of "prohibiting abortion funding" the Senate bill sets out rules that require insurance companies to provide unlimited abortions for poor women, and then on page 123 states that insurance companies "... may not estimate such a cost at less than $1 per enrollee, per month." Since the coverage is not "free" the "public" insurance isn't paying for the abortions, according to Democrat lawmakers. National Right to Life has a different opinion and calls the Senate bill "unacceptable." OBAMA CARE'S REAL COST - Both the House and the Senate versions of Obama Care will have a ten year cost of over $2 trillion dollars and will pay for abortions. The bill will also still leave about 24 million Americans with no medical insurance. Read more
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD - If you have an opinion on Obama Care, there is a site that allows you to express that opinion to your congressman and Senators. The service is free of charge and is located at: http://highnoonforhealthcare.org

CULTURE AND RELIGION

ATTACK ON "IN GOD WE TRUST" - For months I reported on the efforts of Congressman Randy Forbes (R-VA) to place the national motto, "In God We Trust" in the new Capitol Visitor Center (CVC) beneath the Capitol Building. The CVC was designed to be politically correct and have no mention of the religious heritage of our nation. Congressman Forbes won the legislative battle and the motto was engraved in the CVC. But what Congress and the people want does not really count in America any more, and the radical left is well aware of it. The Freedom from Religion Foundation has filed a lawsuit to have our national motto removed from the CVC. Read more NEW NOVEMBER CHAIRMAN'S REPORT - The all new November 18, 2009 Chairman's Report is now available to read in PDF format. This issue centers on the family of evangelist David Ortiz in Ariel, Israel since the bombing of their apartment. Help your Sunday School class understand these issues better. Click here to review.

INTERNATIONAL

IRAN RELEASES CHRISTIAN WOMEN - On November 18th, Iran released Maryam Rostampour, 27, and Marzieh Amirizadeh, 30, from the infamous Evin prison in which many dissidents have died. They have been held since March 5th when they were arrested without charges being filed. A month later they were accused of "blasphemy" because of their Christian faith. On several occasions they were brought before a judge who offered to release them if they would renounce Jesus, which they refused to do. International pressure has been intense and no reason was given by Iran for releasing the two young women. The release was "conditional," meaning that they could be re-arrested at any time IRAQI CHRISTIAN REFUGEES - The persecution of our brothers and sisters in Christ who fled Iraq has gotten worse since our troops left the cities. Rather than Christians returning to Iraq, more are making their way to Jordan and Syria. Our ministry is barred from operating in Syria, but our feeding and medical program continues in Jordan. A third shipment of medical supplies has been delivered and a fourth is planned for December. the RFC has also fully funded our feeding program in Amman for another three months. Your help is still needed.
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