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Christians are Under attack all across the World
Remember them in Prayer and Dont forget at the end of the book
WE WIN!!
 
 
 
 
  
How long is it going to be? UNTIL we all wake up and see our values and our rights are slipping away from us?
 
 

The Manhattan Declaration

A Call of Christian Conscience

Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family.

We are Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians who have united at this hour to reaffirm fundamental truths about justice and the common good, and to call upon our fellow citizens, believers and non-believers alike, to join us in defending them. These truths are:
  1. the sanctity of human life
  2. the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife
  3. the rights of conscience and religious liberty.

Inasmuch as these truths are foundational to human dignity and the well-being of society, they are inviolable and non-negotiable. Because they are increasingly under assault from powerful forces in our culture, we are compelled today to speak out forcefully in their defense, and to commit ourselves to honoring them fully no matter what pressures are brought upon us and our institutions to abandon or compromise them. We make this commitment not as partisans of any political group but as followers of Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen Lord, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

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An urgent call to prayer for marriage and family
 
Chruch of England Move..C of E urged to 'move beyond defensive self interest' in Synod media debate
 
The new Chair of the Church and Media Network has called on the Church of England to move beyond "defensive self-interest", ahead of a debate at the Church's General Synod.

A private member's motion to be debated at the Synod next week will call on Ofcom to “explain why British Television, which was once exemplary in its coverage of religious and ethical issues, now marginalises the few such programmes which remain and completely ignored the Christian significance of Good Friday 2009.”

Regular religious programmes on BBC television include 'Songs of Praise' a weekly act of Christian worship on BBC1 on Sunday evenings and 'The Big Questions' an hour long weekly debate in front of a live studio audience on Sunday mornings. The BBC has also just screened the series 'A History of Christianity', and is currently broadcasting the fourth series of 'An Island Parish', which follows a year in the life of the remote Isles of of Scilly off the western coast of Cornwall.

In 2006, the BBC staged The Manchester Passion, an ambitious live passion play about the last hours of Jesus, retold using a backdrop of the contemporary music of Manchester.

Elaine Storkey, who takes over as Chair of the Church and Media Network from the Rev Dr Joel Edwards this week, urged members of the church and media to forge a new relationship and seize the opportunities of the digital media environment.

“I welcome the fact that Synod is going to discuss the media,” said Dr Storkey, who is a long-standing member of the General Synod. “We need to recognise that the industry has changed and continues to change at a dizzying pace. I hope we will go beyond defensive self-interest. This is a time for prophetic and supportive voices. In this new digital media environment the Church needs to find fresh ways of working with the major broadcasters.”

The Network has issued a briefing paper to Synod members outlining the “huge missional opportunities” offered by the new digital environment and calling on the Church to find “a new positive mode of engagement.”

“We need to find new strategies to ensure that faith-based programming is lively, vibrant and plentiful,” she said. “We also need to encourage and support other key areas such as quality children’s programmes.”

This year’s Church and Media Conference will take place from 7th – 9th June and will look at religion in the digital environment. Its title is Voices from the Cloud. More details of the conference are at http://www.churchandmediaconference.info

By Ecumenical News International  Canadian military to delete Bible verses from gun sights
29 Jan 2010

Canada's military says it plans as soon as possible to remove references [to] phrases from the Bible citations inscribed on some of its firearm sights that have whipped up a storm of controversy - writes Leanne Larmondin.

Before a US television network broke the news story on 18 January 2010, armed forces around the world - including the United States, Britain, New Zealand and Australia - did not realise that U.S. manufacturer Trijicon had put biblical citations on firearm sights in use by forces in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Alongside the serial number on one type of Trijicon gun sight, an inscription reads JN8:12. In the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, John 8:12 reads: "Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, 'I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life'.".

A Canadian Special Operations Forces Command spokesperson said the military has a limited number of the affected sights but he said the inscriptions are inappropriate and the armed forces will move as quickly as possible to rectify the situation.

Canadian military technicians are examining how to remove the inscriptions without damaging the sights. Trijicon, a Michigan-based company has a US$660 million contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the US Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army.

Trijicon announced it would provide free modification kits to remove the Scripture citations but it is uncertain when the kits will be available to Canadian forces.

In a 20 January statement on its website, Trijicon said future orders for the US military would not include the inscription. The company noted, "As part of our faith and our belief in service to our country, Trijicon has put Scripture references on our products for more than two decades."

General David Petraeus, head of the US Central Command, said he found it "disturbing" that the references were put on the gun scopes because of the perception they might convey that the US was on a Christian crusade in its war against Islam, an accusation that it indeed faces from some Muslims.

Australia and New Zealand also expressed concerned about the biblical references inscribed on the firearm sights.

[With acknowledgements to ENI. Ecumenical News International is jointly sponsored by the World Council of Churches, the Lutheran World Federation, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Conference of European Churches.]

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