Persecuted Christians USA

[drjean]

I am on Samaritan Purse 's notification list for volunteers..full article here: https://www.samaritanspurse.org/article/persecution-against-u-s-christians-on-the-rise/

Christians are being targeted for standing for their beliefs
Christians across our nation are experiencing increasing hardship, targeting, and persecution because of the stand they take for biblical principles.


“I believe we’re going to see persecution in this country,” Samaritan’s Purse President Franklin Graham said. “We’ve already seen many laws that have been passed that restrict our freedom as Christians. I believe it’s going to get worse. We do have a problem in this country and we are losing our religious freedom and we’re losing it a little bit day by day.”


Samaritan’s Purse has established a fund to help people who face financial distress and are punished for their sincerely held religious beliefs, convictions, and conscience.


“They have taken a stand for the Word of God, and they should not have to stand alone,” Graham said. “Please pray for our nation. When our judges are punishing Christians for practicing what they believe, that’s persecution, plain and simple.”

 

[drjean]

sorry dupe post... trying to find the right pic

 

[Jude1:3Contendforthefaith]

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[drjean]

I "fear" soon it will not be so "secretive"... as outward attacks gain momentum and the useful who are ignorant of their own beliefs ? well it's the majority group think....

I heard on a documentary someone say that the Netherlands was taken over by the evil regime "because they were too" tolerant? considerate? of the opposing view.

May God give us wisdom to see... I will not become so political in this forum (though other threads are all about the politics of countries that persecute) but there is an overtaking of our laws, and what is taking their places are anti God... only the Christians are being seen as "intolerant" while we are not being tolerated for our beliefs. We do have "honor killings" here in the USA and hardly any are being held accountable for them. And those of us promoting Choose Life are persecuted to our doorsteps as well... and into court sometimes. Two generations lost there

Also That I cannot attend church because I have a service dog, a minor persecution but still..the ramifications are widespread... no fellowship, no worship, no offering, etc. It cripples me, and others...

God help us all.

 

[Jude1:3Contendforthefaith]

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[JackRT]

A fairly large block of my fellow Christians have what could be called an entitlement mentality. For a great many centuries we Christians have had things our own way and have controlled society to such an extent that we have been able to impose our own agenda without challenge. However, when minority groups started demanding and receiving rights that they had previously been denied, rights that Christians held all along, these same Christians felt threatened and some even claimed that they were being persecuted. Rights and freedoms are not part of a zero-sum game. Expanding them does not thereby reduce them for some other group. For example, extending marriage rights to homosexuals has not reduced the rights of heterosexuals in the slightest way. In reality Christians have lost no rights and are not threatened in any meaningful way. In Canada and the USA Christians are certainly not being persecuted.

 

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[drjean]

[url=https://www.samaritanspurse.org/article/persecution-against-u-s-christians-on-the-rise/]Samaritan's Purse declares Persecution against US Christians is on the Rise[/URL]

 

[JackRT]

Yes we are and it is being done in secret and illegally.

I have been a Christian for 75 years and I have never experienced any persecution at all --- except maybe a bit on forums like this. What I have witnessed over the years is a good deal of Christian entitlement and sometimes very arrogant behaviour. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy.

 

[drjean]

I cannot argue with a person's own experience or testimony. I agree about being our own worst enemy at times, and I'm sure you have heard that the Christian Army is the only army that shoots it's wounded.

But I also cannot be silent just because someone else might not afford me the same non-argument about my personal experiences.

I began the thread via Franklin Graham's site because his organization is world-wide combatting persecution and giving support. Often it is the only NGO allowed into a country after an earthquake or other disaster. But their work here in the USA is rich as well.

The ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice) also battles here in the USA, as well around the world, regarding persecution of Christians.
https://aclj.org/free-speech/aclj-petitions-supreme-court-in-major-free-speech-case

https://aclj.org/religious-liberty/...eligious-use-in-the-privacy-of-their-own-home

It continues. I recall a few decades ago when the socialists used the fire department to prevent in-home Bible studies, declaring too many for safe egress....
https://aclj.org/american-heritage/legislative-prayer-confusion
https://aclj.org/american-heritage/legislative-prayer-confusion

Here's actual proof of attacks on our beliefs, laws; article and organization attacks another because it wants the US laws upheld and as the Constitution states no other laws allowed (per se)... and this is the vitriol written to undermine and harass and destroy our way of life: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/act-america

If we aren't praying about these, the persecution will enlarge.

 

[LoricaLady]

The Bible says that if we truly follow Messiah we will experience persecution, including from our own families.

2 Timothy 3:12 "Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution."
If you aren't suffering persecution, wait until you are serving the Lord more fully, then you will know the truth of that verse. The devil and his legions will always try to thwart those who are promoting the Kingdom of the Almighty. They won't leave you alone or overlook you!

John 15:18 "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated Me first."
John 15:25 "But they have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, 'THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE.' If you are truly following Him, you too will have enemies who hate you without a cause.

I have seen the truth of that in my own life. But, of course, the Savior is worth it! Remember, though, that it isn't even really the people who come against us who are our enemies. They and we have the same enemies, they just don't know it.

Ephesians 6:12 "For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places". In other words, the devil et al made 'em do it! Of course we all have to make choices about what side we will take, but many persecutors are truly blinded by the devil, jumping up and down on his sticky strings. That is one reason why we are told to "Pray for those who despitefully abuse you."

I do pray for persecuted Christians everywhere, every day, and have done so for years. When I meet the Lord I want to be able to give a good report on what I did for those who were suffering the most for His Name.

 

[drjean]

Truly you have found your calling in Christ!

 

[drjean]

Regular Christians Are No Longer Welcome in American Culture

Yes, the 4th of July is the day of the year for lowering partisan flags and raising the red, white and blue one that unites us all. But for many American Christians who lean in toward traditionalism, these are anxious times.

What’s a tolerant American to do? First we must understand that red-hot rhetoric about a “war” on Christianity is misbegotten: there is zero equivalence between the horrors of ISIS-led genocide against Christians in the Middle East and what Pope Francis calls the “polite persecution” of believers in the West. (According to Pew, 77% of Americans described themselves as religiously affiliated in 2014, down from 83% in 2007.)

Yet we must also acknowledge that when some Americans citizens are fearful of expressing their religious views, something new has snaked its way into the village square: an insidious intolerance for religion that has no place in a country founded on religious freedom.
http://time.com/4385755/faith-in-america/

 

[drjean]

https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-persecution/stories/hearing-gods-voice-noise-sharia-law/

[url=http://www.zwemercenter.com/the-application-of-sharia-law-in-the-united-states/] The application of Sharia Law in the US [/URL]

There are many cases offered by those who warn of creeping sharia, and each must be evaluated on its own merits. There may be examples–many or few–in which the above descriptions have been violated. The above is offered to all who have been affected by the clamor that “the Muslims are coming.” Indeed, they are already here and are coming as citizens within a nation of laws. They are undoubtedly changing the demographic and culture of our country, as every set of immigrants has done before. That they are Muslims, outside of the general Christian heritage of most previous groups, does add a different application of the American guarantee of freedom of religion. It may also result in these newer Americans who, either unaware or rejecting of our liberty, seek to illegally restrict individuals in their own communities.

 

[drjean]

For those wondering about things they can "do" ... come to the Christian Preppers forum!

 

[drjean]

still grieving.

By Elizabeth Dias
November 9, 2017
The word came in the middle of Sunday-morning worship at River Oaks Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. A gunman had stormed First Baptist Church two miles down the road. First responders raced from their pews to help their neighbors. Everyone else prayed.

But it was too late. For a congregation whose Sunday attendance averaged 50, the losses were catastrophic. “Most of our church family is gone,” said the pastor’s wife, Sherri Pomeroy, whose teenage daughter was among the dead.

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We grieve when a predator targets people in prayer, but it happens painfully often. In 2015, a white supremacist killed nine people at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church–a massacre that allegedly inspired a Sudanese immigrant to open fire at a Tennessee church in September 2017. This year, more than 100 Jewish community centers have faced bomb threats, and dozens of mosques have been targeted with violent threats or vandalism.

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Robert Jeffress, the pastor of First Baptist Dallas and an outspoken Trump supporter, says his staff worked with DHS to complete a safety assessment several months ago. “Large churches like mine have done this, but smaller churches are less likely to do this under the mistaken assumption that they are not as big of a target as we are,” says Jeffress. To protect his 13,000-person congregation, Jeffress has paid security officers at every service, both uniformed and plainclothes, as well as a volunteer security team. The church no longer allows worshippers to carry backpacks of any kind. But it does still permit them to carry arms.

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Now, he says, it is time for leaders to budget not just for children’s or music programs but for security. “These churches have to pivot,” Rodriguez says. “Nothing is sacred.”

http://time.com/5016716/religious-leaders-action-attacks-in-houses-of-worship/

 

[drjean]

Defend Prayer. Defeat the ACLU.
Prayer is under attack in America like never before.

The ACLU and angry atheist groups are trying to ban prayer at the opening of town council meetings. But we’re ready to fight back in court.

For years, county commissioners have opened meetings in prayer, inviting members of the community to join them.

The ACLU and other leftist groups are filing lawsuits seeking to strike down legislative prayer – and they have won in some courts. It’s a growing threat.

The ACLJ has argued these types of cases numerous times before the Supreme Court. Prayer doesn’t violate the Constitution. In fact, the Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld legislative prayer.

But the radical ACLU won’t give up, and neither will we. We’ve helped successfully defend legislative prayer at the Supreme Court before and we’re ready to defend it again in courts across America.

 

[drjean]

A memorial honoring a #military #chaplain is being targeted by the #MRFF. They want to remove its #Chaplain Flag and #Christian Cross. This absurdity cannot stand.
Angry atheists are attacking the Military Chaplains’ Flag and the Cross.



Mikey Weinstein and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) – the radical anti-Christian group that calls Christians in the military “monsters who terrorize” – has just attacked a Korean War memorial in an Air Force base museum that includes a Chaplains’ Flag. The flag includes a Cross because the chaplain and his assistant being honored were Christians.

MRFF calls the Chaplains’ Flag, and especially the Christian Cross, “evil” and demands someone be “punished” if it’s not removed immediately.

It’s absolutely absurd and dishonoring to the memory of the chaplain and his assistant who saved hundreds of children from being slaughtered by Communist invaders.

We’re taking urgent action, sending a legal letter to the Air Force base refuting MRFF’s baseless anti-Christian attack on the Chaplains Flag and the Cross. MRFF must not be allowed to use the military to dishonor Christians who serve and sacrifice.

 

[Gell]

Yes we are and it is being done in secret and illegally.

The world hates Jesus Christ, therefore those who follow Him are also being hated by those who are perishing.

 

[Serbian_W0lf]

Nah. We are not persceuted in USA. But we are bullied by the left/feminists, but that is not opression.