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    Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

    By
    Robin
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    By now all Christian Voice members should have received the January edition of our monthly newsletter. In it we have given an update of the horrendous situation in North Korea, where Christians are treated more severely than in any other nation on earth.

    Building on this month’s report, our March newsletter will feature a review of Kang Chol-Hwan’s chilling exposé of the concentration camp system, The Aquariums of Pyongyan: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag.

    Kang Chol-Hwan came from one of the many Korean families who had come there from Japan in the mid 20th century. Throughout the 1950s there was a large contingent of Koreans living in Japan who had fled to the island to escape the horrors of the Korean war. These refugees had a good life in Japan. Many of them held lucrative jobs, and they were surrounded by friends and family who had also immigrated to the island. Yet many of these Koreans decided to return home to start a life for themselves in the communist North.

    These Korean refugees in Japan had been listening with eagerness to news of the revolutionary struggle occurring back in the north of their homeland. They heard how the “people’s struggle” had culminated in the establishment of The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea under the faithful leadership of Kim Il-sung (1912–1994).

    Reports continued to flood into Japan through the communist organizations about what a paradise North Korea was becoming. While there were some dissenting voices, warning that North Korea was far from being a communist utopia, the pro-North Korean political groups in Japan dismissed these warnings as anti-communist propaganda.

    Thus it was that throughout the late 50s, thousands of Korean families living in Japan decided to immigrate back to their homeland. Leaving behind friends, family and wealth, tens of thousands took the journey, almost ecstatic to be part of Kim Il-sung’s “Paradise on Earth.”

    Those who were left behind in Japan waited anxiously to receive news from their family and friends. Often they were met with only silence, or else letters with an unclear meaning. Assuming this must mean things were fine, many other Koreans sailed over.

    What the returning Koreans stepped ashore, what they found was not a communist paradise but a prison. Some new arrivals who were loyal to communism were arrested immediately upon arrival, never knowing why and spending the little that remained of their lives in utter confusion and despair. Most were allowed to integrate into North Korean society (little better than a prison itself), but only after the wealth they had brought over from Japan had been systematically confiscated.

    Kang Chol-Hwan, author of The Aquariums of Pyongyang, was born into a family whose grandparents were among these immigrants. Kang’s his grandparents’ stepped ashore on North Korean soil, one of his uncles recalled seeing several Koreans who had immigrated a few weeks earlier come up to some of the immigrants and say, “What happened? We sent our friends and family letters warning people not to come! Why didn’t your family listen?” The reality is that their letters had never been allowed to reach Japan.

    After listening to this ominous exchange, Kang’s uncle looked around him. “It was like the city was dead – the strangest atmosphere” he recalled. “The people all looked so shabby and aimless in their wandering. There was a feeling of deep sadness in the air, and no movement betrayed the slightest hint of spontaneity.”

    By the time Kang’s grandparents realized their mistake, it was too late. They would never be allowed to go back to Japan.

    Kang’s parents and grandparents actually had it good. They were allowed to live in the capital city, Pyongyang, and because they had brought over so much wealth, they were favoured by the party leaders. Kang’s grandfather was even able to keep a Volvo he had brought over from Japan, in which he took his children and grandchildren on drives in the country. (Every outing had to be authorized, usually requiring a hansom bribe to a party bureaucrat).

    Moreover, because his grandfather worked in food distribution, there was always plenty to eat. Since Kang had never experienced his family’s other life in Japan (his father married in 1967, after the family had already immigrated) he had nothing with which to compare and led a genuinely happy childhood, or as happy as one can realistically expect to be in that totalitarian state.

    The trouble began in 1977 when Kang was nine and his grandfather simply disappeared. No one was ever told what he had done, but it was supposed that someone must have reported him for being disloyal. In North Korea there are never any trials, and the mere suspicion that a person is disloyal to the communist party can be enough to send him and his entire family to a labour camp.

    Not long after this, agents showed up at the family’s house and abruptly informed the household that they were being transferred. No explanations were given, but the hardest part about it for Kang was that his mother was not allowed to accompany them. Since she was descended from an ‘heroic family’ she was not allowed to join her children even though she begged to be able to.

    Nine-year old Kang, along with his seven-year old sister Mi-ho, his father, grandmother, uncle and aunt, were taken to a camp in Yodok, South-Hamkyung Province. For the next ten years Kang remained in the camp, without ever being told what his grandfather had allegedly done to warrant this treatment.

    Kang’s account of his time in the North Korean Gulag gives us unique insight into the camp system and the totalitarian regime that sustains it. We also learn about his exciting escape to China and finally to South Korea, where he was converted to Christianity and became one of the chief advocates for human rights in North Korea.

    Next month’s Christian Voice newsletter will contain a review of the book, including a detailed description of the horrors witnessed by Kang in the camp – conditions which are still a reality for the thousands of Christians imprisoned in these camps.

    In the following video, Kang Chol-Hwan uses satellite imagery to show the horrors of the concentration camp system.

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    Social Workers on TV – where is the Church?

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    Stephen
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    Taking a risk – Bristol Social Services

    Our misgivings about child protection social workers were pretty-well confirmed last Monday 30th Jan 2012 with a fly-on-the-wall documentary following a child welfare case in Bristol.  You can catch the next episode on BBC2, Monday night at 9.00pm (not Scotland) and/or view episodes HERE.

    Called ‘Damned if they do, damned if they don’t’, last Monday’s progranmme followed a seemingly inexorable chain of events in which an uneducated couple lost their son, and then their newly-born daughter, to the care system.  The couple went to Bristol Social Services for help, as many do.

    We realised afterwards that, except for a hand-out of a bed for their son, there was no help from Bristol SS, only a series of directives and ultimata which the inadequate parents would always be hopeless at fulfilling.  These lost souls needed a training course in nutrition and house-management for a start, and a basic all-round education would not have come amiss either.

    On ITV’s This Morning yesterday, towards the end of the programme, two high-ranking Bristol social workers, including the one pictured, said they were ‘taking a risk’ by allowing the programme to follow them around.  They were right.  Even though the family in the programme were an obvious ‘hard case’, the outcome still left a bad taste in the mouth.

    They reminded us of the source of their philosophy, which appears to be: ‘If in doubt, take the child out’.  It all stems back to the Children Act 1989.  This Act made the ‘welfare of the child’ the paramount consideration of the family Court.  Keeping a family together is not remotely a consideration.  For those who believe the Family has equal status with the State as social institutions of Almighty God, this approach takes some getting used to.

    Even knowing what we know about the dangers of the Care System (with apologies to all you good Christian foster parents out there) the Court will still have a default position that the child’s welfare is best served by being in care.

    So if they are ‘Damned if they do, damned if they don’t’, why do they not lean towards ‘Don’t’ rather than ‘Do’?  (This was a question that the naive Eamonn Holmes was never going to ask.)

    The answer is that if they ‘Do’ take a child and get it wrong, then owing to the secrecy of the family courts (in the ‘best interests of the child’ of course) no-one ever gets to hear of it.  If they ‘Don’t’ take a child and it all goes sour, the child’s fate ends up on front pages of the newspapers and social workers lose their jobs.

     

    EU Seeks to Indoctrinate School Children

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    Robin
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    Judith Schilling manned a resource stall for the European Commission at the Education Show in Birmingham.

    Last week we reported on the way homosexual activists are actively trying to recruit school children, with some openly admitting it.

    The ‘gay’ lobby is not the only group that has fixated on school children. A report in the Express last week showed how the Brussels’ propaganda machine is introducing resources designed to teach children about the benefits of the EU.

    A film was taken at an Education Show in Birmingham in which Judith Schilling was interviewed about her display of resources from the European Commission.

    In the film Mrs. Schilling commented, “…everybody has now picked up the idea that we will never succeed in convincing people about the value of being a member of the European Union if we do not start early enough with the young people, before they form prejudices and are misinformed by other sources.”

    The free literature for teachers included a resource titled, “The EU: What’s in it for me?” explaining “how we benefit from membership of the EU in our daily life, everything between lower roaming charges and cleaner bathing water.”

    Robin Phillips, press secretary for Christian Voice, commented, “The EU is getting desperate because they know that the majority of people in Britain, as well as many of the other states, are not in favour of continuing EU membership. Thus, the EU’s only hope is to try to raise up a new generation that accept the European Union as not only normal but beneficial. To do that, however, they have to start when the children are very young.”

    Further Reading

    Eurocrats Prop up Dagon

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    Evolution Dismantled in 5 Minutes

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    Robin
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    "Bugs stay bugs"

    In the video below, Dr. Berlinksi talks about the absence of any laboratory evidence to support the central claims of the Darwinian hypothesis. At the end of the day, what we find is an “inherent species limitation” in which “bugs stay bugs.”

     

     

     

    Relativism in Action

    By
    Robin
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    We hear a lot these days about the dangers of moral relativism, or about what happens in a society that has abandoned its commitment to objective morals. This was a theme touched upon in David Cameron’s recent speech on the King James Bible, which we covered in the recent January Christian Voice newsletter. This emphasis on objective morals is important, but it is equally important to remind ourselves what moral relativism looks like on ground level.

    Earlier in the week for his Breakpoint program, Chuck Colson told about the recent experience of Dr. Stephen Anderson, who teaches philosophy at A.B. Lucas Secondary School in Ontario, Canada. His students had just finished a unit on metaphysics and were about to start one on ethics. Colson writes about Dr. Anderson’s plan for getting the conversation about ethics going.

    Bibi Aisha, the teenage wife of a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan. When Bibi tried to get away from her abusive husband, her family caught her, cut off her nose and ears, and left her to die in the mountains.

    To jump start the discussion and to “form a baseline from which they could begin to ask questions about the legitimacy of moral judgments of all kinds,” Anderson shared with them a gruesome photo of Bibi Aisha, a teenage wife of a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan. When Bibi tried to get away from her abusive husband, her family caught her, cut off her nose and ears, and left her to die in the mountains. Only Bibi didn’t die. Somehow she crawled to her grandfather’s house, and was saved in an American hospital.

    Writing in Education Journal magazine, Anderson relates how he was sure that his students, “seeing the suffering of this poor girl of their own age, [they] would have a clear ethical reaction,” one they could talk about “more difficult cases.”

    But their response shocked Anderson. “[He] expected strong aversion [to it], … but that’s not what I got. Instead, they became confused . . . afraid to make any moral judgment at all. They were unwilling to criticize,” as he said, “any situation originating in a different culture. They said, ‘Well, we might not like it, but maybe over there it’s okay.’”

    Anderson calls their confusion and refusal to judge such child mutilation a moment of startling clarity, and indeed it is. He wonders if it stems not from too little education, but from too much multiculturalism and so-called “values education,” which is really just an excuse for moral relativism.

    Anderson writes, “While we may hope some [students] are capable of bridging the gap between principled morality and this ethically vacuous relativism, it is evident that a good many are not. For them, the overriding message is ‘never judge, never criticize, never take a position.’” Anderson wonders whether in our current educational system, we’re not producing ethical paralytics? Well, if the horrifying example of the students’ reaction in this case is any indication, Anderson already knows the answer.

    Unfortunately Anderson is right. Thanks to relativism, political correctness, multiculturalism, postmodernism, and countless other isms, a generation of young people have been left hesitant to criticize moral atrocities when those atrocities are rooted in a different cultural tradition. How can I say that something that would be wrong for me (or even us) to do is also wrong for people with a different background?

    This cultural relativism was condemned by Sam Harris in his book The Moral Landscape. “While few philosophers have ever answered to the name of ‘moral relativist” Sam Harris wrote, “it is by no means uncommon to find local eruptions of this view whenever scientists and other academics encounter moral diversity.” Harris continued:

    Forcing women and girls to wear burqas may be wrong in Boston or Palo Alto, so the argument will run, but we cannot say that it is wrong for Muslims in Kabul…. Moral relativism, however, tends to be self-contradictory. Relativists may say that moral truths exist only relative to a specific cultural framework – but this claim about the status of moral truth purports to be true across all possible frameworks. In practice, relativism almost always amounts to the claim that we should be tolerant of moral difference because no moral truth can supersede any other. And yet this commitment to tolerance is not put forward a simple one relative preference among others deemed equally valid. Rather, tolerance is held to be more in line with the (universal) truth about morality than intolerance is.

    The interesting thing is that Sam Harris is himself an atheist and a materialistic determinists. Moral absolutes can and do exist, he asserts, but they are rooted in neither God nor biological evolution. Rather, they are grounded in neuroscience. This is the thesis of Harris’ entire book, which we have reviewed in the January Christian Voice newsletter. (To join Christian Voice and receive a copy of our newsletter, click here.) We have shown in our book review that the reductionist account of morality that Harris offers ultimately lapses into the very relativism he is so keen to avoid. For example, Harris writes that each of us

    is like a phenomenological glockenspiel played by an unseen hand. From the perspective of your conscious mind, you are no more responsible for the next thing you think (and therefore do) that you are for the fact that you were born into this world.” (p. 104)

    “Gazzaniga is surely correct to say that ‘in neurosceintific terms, no person is more or less responsible than any other for actions.’ Conscious actions arise on the basis of neural events of which we are not conscious. Whether they are predictable or not, we do not cause our causes.” (p. 217)

    Just think about that: if you and I have no control over what we do, and if we are not responsible for any of our actions, then how can moral values exist in any objective sense? Indeed, within the framework of the scientific determinism that Harris espouses, it is impossible to say that what happened to Bibi Aisha is ultimately wrong in any objective sense.

     

    Shares dive as Tesco sales slump

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    Stephen
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    Tesco has recorded a disastrous Christmas after announcing in early November a £30,000 donation to next year’s divisive, depraved London ‘Gay Pride’.

    Sales in the UK were down 2.3 per cent on last year at Tesco’s busiest time of the year.  The figures stunned investors and Tesco shares slumped 53.5p, or almost 14 per cent, to 331.6p, wiping more than £3 billion off its value.  (Those in the know did OK.  Tesco’s Chief Operating Officer was able to offload 50,000 of his Tesco shares a week before the announcement avoiding a £35,000 loss if he had waited.  Tesco say he holds 20 times that number of shares, but every little helps.)

    By contrast, Sainsbury overtook Asda with like-for-like sales in the Christmas period up 2.1%.   Morrisons were up 0.7%.  Tesco was the only one of the ‘big four’ to see sales and profits drop.

    The news follows a Christian Voice campaign of prayer, backed up by emails to directors complaining at the ‘Gay Pride’ decision and leafleting at Tesco stores.  Just before Christmas a panic-stricken Tesco announced that the 2012 ‘Gay Pride’ donation would be its last.  Hours later, in the face of a homosexual backlash, it had to clarify that gays and lesbians were really important and promise that it would support its homosexual contact group ‘Out at Tesco’ in other ways in 2013, which only made matters worse.

    Stung by revelations that it dumped Cancer Research Race for Life days before its Gay Pride announcement, Tesco has now made Cancer Research its 2012 ‘Charity of the Year’, although it seems to expect its staff, customers and suppliers to do all the work.

    Analysts are blaming Tesco’s ‘Big Price Drop’ idea for the store’s failure, which has led to them issuing a profit’s warning.   Natalie Berg, of consultant Planet Retail, said: “Tesco has taken its eye off the ball.  It has focused too much just on the price of food.  We now all expect high-quality food and everyone is claiming to be the cheapest – consumers are much more wary.”

    However, it could fairly be said that Tesco took its eye off the ball even more when it bowed to pressure from its homosexual staff and associated itself with the ‘Gay Pride’ brand, with all its anti-Christian aggression, indecency, immorality and separatism.

    Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said today:

    ‘Tesco’s announcement that it was giving £30,000 to Gay Pride came in early November and Christian Voice quickly mobilised prayer and action.  The action included emails to directors and leafleting at stores, making ordinary shoppers aware of the store’s support for depravity.  We were already disappointed with Tesco’s secret sale of fresh halal lamb and chicken, and their arrogant refusal to label it ‘ritually slaughtered’.  But the ‘Gay Pride’ decision was even more serious.

    ‘Our prayer – which we said ‘will humble proud Tesco’ – centred on a desire that the Tesco board would rescind the decision, which has not happened yet.  Indeed their announcement on 23rd December made matters worse.

    ‘However, bad, confused, initiatives have beset the Tesco boardroom.  Tesco’s ‘Big Price Drop’, launched in September, was destined to fail.  I believe God was anticipating our prayers, knowing from the action we were to take that our prayers would be serious, and that the Almighty was behind that disastrous decision.

    ‘On top of that, Tesco’s ‘Gay Pride’ announcement, made six weeks before Christmas, could not have come at a worse time for them.  It was madness to think that such brazen support for the tiny 1% of the population who are homosexual could have a positive effect.  As a result, thousands of Christians and other decent people boycotted the store at what should have been its busiest time of the year.

    ‘I now call on Tesco to repent of their arrogance before matters get worse and people lose their jobs.  Withdraw the grant to Gay Pride.  Apologise to the decent families upon whose patronage their business depends.  Deal better with your suppliers.  And label halal ritually-slaughtered meat so people can see what they are buying.’

    Exod 10:7  And Pharaoh’s servants said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?

    WHAT YOU CAN DO:

    1 Pray that God will send repentance into the Tesco boardroom, and that they will reverse their grant to gay pride.

    2 Boycott Tesco and encourage others to do the same (see (3) below.

    3 Mount a witness with banners and/or give leaflets out to shoppers outside Tesco’s high street stores ‘Tesco Direct’ (they can throw you out of their car park, but you have every right to witness on the street).  Contact us for leaflets.  The text of the LEAFLET is HERE

    4 Email/write to the Tesco Group Chief Executive, Philip Clark,  philip.clarke@tesco.com and their Marketing Director, Richard Brasher:  richard.brasher@tesco.com.  You can also write to their new Chairman, Sir Richard Broadbent, at New Tesco House, Delamare Rd, Cheshunt, Herts, EN8 9SL.  His email seems to be: richard.broadbent@tesco.com   (HERE is what one ex-Tesco-customer wrote.)

    5 Sign our petition ‘Boycott Tesco’ and by so doing, record your decision to shop elsewhere.

    6 There are a couple of other really effective things to do as well, but we shall let Christian Voice members exclusively know about them at the proper time through our newsletter which never goes up on the web!  For that – and/or to support us in this spiritual battle – you will need to Join Christian Voice:

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    TESCO – from the horse’s mouth

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    Stephen
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    Now that the story about Tesco giving £30,000 to the debauched and aggressive 2012 London Gay Pride Parade (called ‘World Pride’ this year) is almost two months old, some of us have forgotten that (or even whether) they stopped supporting the ‘Race for Life’ organised by Cancer Research just days before announcing their cash for the gays.

    Here is a bit of the confusion reaching us: Fred says: ‘Tesco has not stopped supporting Cancer Research UK, indeed 2012 is likely to produce the biggest sponsorship ever after £7 million in 2011’.  Another correspondent takes a sideways line: ‘£30,000 is not much out of Tesco’s total charitable giving budget.’

    Last point first.  It does not matter how much Tesco are giving to ‘Gay Pride’.  If they made a charitable donation of £500 to the National Secular Society or gave £750 to the Euthanasia fanatics, or £1,000 to the abortionists at Marie Stopes, Christians and other decent people would be outraged, even if Tesco said ‘But we are giving £64million to other good causes’ (which is what they do say).

    So what is the truth about ‘Race for Life’?  The Daily Mail stated on 11th November: ‘Tesco has triggered outrage by ending its support for the Cancer Research ‘Race for Life’ while deciding to sponsor Britain’s largest gay festival.
    ‘Tesco has worked with Cancer Research for more than ten years, raising hundreds of millions of pounds to help combat an illness that will affect one in three of the population.

    ‘The chain’s main contribution was support for the annual fundraising Race for Life, the UK’s largest women-only charity event, which has raised more than £400million for the fight against cancer since it began in 1994.

    ‘But shortly after Tesco announced the partnership would end, the firm said it would be a headline sponsor of Pride London.’

    The Mail continued by quoting both Cancer Research and Tesco to back up their story:  ‘Cancer Research UK, which gave no sign of disappointment about losing Tesco’s support, is looking for a new partner for the Race for Life.

    ‘Emma Gilbert, who organises the event, said the partnership ‘came to a natural end’ for both parties.

    ‘But she added: ‘Tesco employees have taken part in events across the UK, raising over £7million for our life-saving research, and we hope they will continue to take part in the events.’

    ‘Tesco said it was in talks with the charity to support its work in other ways and would encourage staff to continue taking part in the Race for Life.

    ‘A spokesman said the decision to drop its support ‘is not connected to our £30,000 sponsorship for Pride, which is one of hundreds of community and charitable events that we will be supporting next year’.

    So Tesco could not and did not deny that they had ended their support for Race for Life and days later announced the sponsorship for ‘Gay Pride’ (note how their spokesman leaves out the ‘gay’ bit).

    We understand very well that one cannot take what this newspaper says at face value, and we uncovered some Daily Mail spin in their story about atheism at the BBC.  But letters and emails from Tesco have confirmed the Daily Mail’s take on the giant superstore.  An email dated 22nd November 2011 from Matthew Maycock, Customer Service Executive on behalf of the Chief Executive, Philip Clarke, said:

    ‘We remain very proud of the work we have done with Cancer Research UK and Race for Life. Since 2002 nearly two-thirds of our staff have taken part in or supported races, raising over £7 million. Though the nature of our relationship has changed, we will continue to support Race for Life in the years to come through the thousands of our staff that enter the event each year – paid for by Tesco.

    ‘We took a decision to support Pride London with a donation of £30,000 because our Out at Tesco network asked us to help.’

    So there we have it.  The Mail’s story, and our story is true.  Tesco themselves have confirmed that they have indeed ended their formal support for Race for Life (‘nature of our relationship has changed’) and are now relying on their staff to take up the slack.  As to the London (Gay) Pride donation, they admit this was lobbied for by the demanding, anti-Christian Tesco homosexual contact group ‘Out at Tesco’.  It was rolling over when ‘Out at Tesco’ asked for a few pounds for their gay jamboree that has landed Tesco in this mess.  Tesco should have been strong enough and smart enough to have said, ‘Sorry, guys, we just don’t sponsor divisive political statements’.

    We are distributing these LEAFLETS at Tesco stores and you can click HERE for other prayer and action, including the email addresses of Tesco executives.

     

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    Islam and the Left – a strange alliance

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    Robin
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    Hillary Clinton with Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation

    In the Christian Voice newsletter we have often had occasion to comment on the strange alliance between fundamentalist Islam and Western left-wing politics. This strange alliance has been particularly strong in 21st century Europe.

    On the surface, left-wing politics and fundamentalist Islam share nothing in common. Well, almost nothing. They do share in common a hatred of traditional Christianity. Peter Hitchens put his finger on the psychology of the Left’s alliance with Islam in his book The Rage Against God, when he noted that,

    “The Left’s hostility to Christianity is actually specific, because Christianity is the religion of their own homes and homeland, the form in which they have encountered – and generally disliked and resented – the power of God in their own lives. Islam, for most of their time on Earth, has been an exotic and distant creed, never taught to them as a living faith, and never likely to be their own, or to require their obedience. Therefore they can sympathise with it because it is the enemy of their Christian monoculture and as an anti-colonial and therefore ‘progressive’ force. Some Marxists formed alliances with British Muslims despite their highly conservative attitudes towards women and homosexuals. Others prefer to live in a state of unresolved doublethink.”

    I said earlier that hatred of traditional Christianity is the only thing that Islam and the political Left share in common. However, there is one more thing. Both are incredibly intolerant of dissent, as seen by the recent coalition of the OIC with the Obama administration to push through a UN resolution that many fear will criminalize criticism of Islam. We will be covering this resolution in our January newsletter. To join Christian Voice and receive our monthly newsletter, click here.

    Read the Bible in One Year

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    Stephen
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    We are passionate about the word of God at Christian Voice.  Almost the first thing we published, way back in 1994, was a Bible Reading Plan, called ‘Lamplight’, so our members could seek the Lord in an exciting and accessible way.  After all, if you don’t know the word of God, how will you pray with the mind of God?

    Using the Lamplight Plan, you read through the Bible in one year, with two chapters of the Old Testament, a Psalm or other Wisdom passage and a chapter or half a chapter of the New Testament every day.  You invest around 20 minutes a day and on New Year’s Eve, 2012, you have read the whole Bible and are finding out in Mal 3&4, Psalm 150 and Revelation 22 that, as they say, the good guys win!

    There are two ways to get the Lamplight Plan.  One is to order it for £1.95 incl P&P on our resources page.  The other, which I think is the best way, is to join Christian Voice, and get this faith-building resource free, along with Britain in Sin, which lays bare the anti-Christian legislation of the last fifty years and the appalling social consequences, and our information-packed briefings Understanding Islam and Labelling Halal all by return of post.  You won’t want to miss any of those!

    We really need the support of faithful believers at such a time as this, and you will benefit by joining Christian Voice in targeting your prayer and action through the vital information we provide.

    This is a time of alignment, when the Lord is calling out those who will really stand four-square on his word, tell the truth and seek the Lord’s face for what action to take.  We are going to do exploits for the Lord and see His power in answer to our prayers!

    Join Christian Voice by clicking here and we’ll send you our latest newsletter and all the other goodies, including your Lamplight Bible Reading Plan by return.

    God’s word says:

    Malachi 3:16  Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.

    Let’s do it!

    The “Gay” Culture War: It’s Nearly Lost

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    Stephen
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    By Dr. Scott Lively

    Many Christians are only now awakening to the seriousness of the threat to our society posed by the homosexual movement. But, unfortunately for us all, it is only the sounding of the victory trumpets by “gay” activists that has stirred Christians from their slumber. The watchman’s walls have been broken and breached, the village is in flames, and triumphal “gay” culture warriors are leading a long string of young prisoners by their necks into the woods. Most disturbingly, many of the captives, including some of the children of these still sleepy-eyed Christian parents, seem happy to go.

    I have long warned that the homosexuals agenda is not about tolerance but control. It started, of course, with a plea for tolerance, but then immediately shifted to a demand for acceptance and in due time to celebration of all things “gay.”

    It wasn’t enough, however, for prominent public officials in every major city to lead the “Gay Pride” parades. No, the agenda continued to unfold to another level, requiring forced participation in “gay” culture. Much of the country is on that cusp of celebration/coercion today, led by California with it’s new aggressive K-12 homosexual advocacy curriculum, mandated by law.

    Even conservative Texas is not immune. Just this week Fox News covered the story of a ninth grader suspended from school for telling a classmate he believes homosexuality is wrong. The outraged teacher who demanded punishment for the boy reportedly keeps a picture on the classroom wall of two men kissing and frequently steers classroom discussions to the homosexual issue.

    It took the intervention of a Christian public-interest law firm to get the school to rescind the suspension. But how many students of this same teacher have over the years simply assimilated his values as normal, their parents none the wiser?

    Were the Nazis anti-homosexual? Far from it! Find out the truth in Scott Lively’s jaw-dropping book “The Pink Swastika”

    More importantly, how many other classrooms across America are headed by such men and women? Their activist network, the Gay Lesbian Straight Teachers Network (GLSTN – later changed to “education network” GLSEN to hide the teacher/activist association) was powerful enough to launch its founder Kevin Jennings to the position of Obama White House “safe schools” czar for a time. I’d guess their agenda is an influence in just about every classroom by now.

    I’m old enough to remember the debate about whether homosexuals should be allowed to be teachers at all, let alone allowed to punish students for disagreeing with the class-time advocacy of their sexual lifestyle. I remember the protestations from the pro-homosexual side, that “gays and lesbians just want the right to be left alone. They would NEVER interject their private lives into the classroom.” They all lied, and we believed them, and now our children and grandchildren are being forced to celebrate “gay” culture under penalty of law.

    That is the end game for the “gays.” The final stage of their agenda, which has always been about taking control of things, is the power to punish dissent: to silence or crush their detractors. They only have this level of control in a few places yet, but they are moving fast to achieve it everywhere, and the momentum is on their side. And wherever they have it, they use it.

    This brings me, in conclusion, to the subject of “gay marriage.” Huh? How does “gay marriage” in any way relate to homosexual propaganda in schools? Or to Christian parents awakening late to the indoctrination of their children?

    It is the same issue, my friends. “Gay marriage,” “gay” curriculum, “gay” parades, “gay” TV shows, “gay” soldiers, “gay” adoption, “gay” diseases, “gay” recruitment and on and on. So many seemingly separate issues that are really just one issue: the unnatural, dysfunctional, personally and socially destructive phenomenon of homosexual sin. We are warned clearly and emphatically about it in the Bible. We have seen its corrupting effect in history. And we are literally watching its ethic of sexual anarchy supplant the biblical model of family as the guiding value system of our society.

    I’m not going to add here how much I really love homosexuals and just hate their sin. As a question of public policy it really shouldn’t matter what I think about the perpetrators, just whether I am telling the truth about their agenda. I don’t want to reinforce the ridiculous assumption that Christians need to offer a disclaimer to prove they aren’t haters. It wouldn’t mitigate their hostility toward me for saying it anyhow. Trust me.

    I’m not saying here that Christians are without hope of overcoming the challenge before us. Nothing, after all, is impossible with God. What I am saying is that we cannot possibly win, especially at this late stage of the game, if our “heroes” continue to fiddle about with the “definition of marriage” and fall all over themselves trying to prove they’re not haters by endorsing other, non-marriage-related bits of the “gay” agenda.

    We need to stand firmly and unapologetically on the hard truth that homosexuality is not a benign, morally neutral social phenomenon. It is an insidious and contagious form of sexual perversion condemned by God as an abomination. I cringe even writing these words because I know the wrath I am inviting on myself. Still, someone needs to say this boldly and publicly because it is the truth, and only the truth can set us free of the political correctness that has imprisoned us until now.

    The homosexual agenda represents an existential threat to Christian civilization and we’re in the final phase of the war, losing badly. It all hinges upon you, Christian reader. Either get into the “game” in earnest, immediately, or wave goodbye to everything good and holy in public life.

    Dr. Scott Lively is an attorney, pastor and author of several books on the homosexual agenda, including “The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party” (co-authored by Jewish researcher Kevin E. Abrams).

    Domenic Johansson To Face Christmas Without Parents

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    Domenic Johansson remains separated from his parents, even as Swedish Social Services seek to remove all remaining parental rights.

    Domenic, now 10 after his recent birthday, has been separated from his parents two and a half years, following his abduction by Social Services while seated in a commercial airliner with his parents awaiting departure on a flight to India.

    Domenic is a citizen of India, and his mother’s family all live in India. However, Swedish Social Services in Domenic’s home town of Gottland decided to prevent the family’s departure in order to force the boy to attend their school.

    The family had received no preliminary warning, nor they had been forbidden from leaving the country. They had also not been accused of breaking the law. Indeed, the only complaint the Swedish Social Services had against the family at the time was that they wanted to homeschool.

    Throughout the ordeal the rights of the parents have not been respected and they have not even been allowed to choose their own legal representation.

    The HSLDA and ADF have been trying to bring the case before the European Court of Human Rights. However, Social workers have been discussing allowing Domenic’s foster family to take him to visit Thailand while World Net Daily reported on 7 October that Gotland Social Services have been seeking to officially terminate all remaining parental rights.

    Christian Voice Members will receive information in our next newsletter about the protests we have planned, and other ways that you can help reunite Domenic with his parents.

    Summary of the Domenic Saga

    The tragic saga began the year before when Domenic was six and his father, Christer Johannson, contacted the Swedish Ministry of Education to inquire about home education.

    Domenic as he played happily just hours before his abduction.

    Christer Johannson is Swedish, while his wife, Annie Johansson, is a citizen of India. Because they were planning on relocating to India soon to be with Annie’s family, Christer thought it would be best to homeschool Domenic during the interim. While Christians, the parents were not committed to homeschooling for ideological reasons and had even planned on putting their son in the public school once they reached India.

    Annie has two Masters Degrees and is highly qualified in the task of educating her son. Moreover, homeschooling was not illegal in Sweden at the time.

    When Mr. Johansson got in touch with the Swedish Ministry of Education to inquire about home education, the Ministry told him to contact his local school principal in order to obtain the necessary curriculum. However, when Mr. Johannson contacted the principal of the nearest public school, the principal refused to provide the materials, saying “You don’t have the right to educate your son and I will be taking this further.”

    What the principal meant by “taking it further” was that the family would be reported to the social services. Mr. Johansson didn’t know that at the time, but he did know that the Ministry of Education, Swedish law and Europe’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights all allowed them to homeschool. So he and Annie began homeschooling Domenic.

    Officials at the local school district were furious about this and called Mr. Johansson before a hearing of the Child and Education Department.

    Domenic in the airplane watching as police board to put him into foster care. The Swedish Social Services’ purpose in preventing the family moving to India is because they wanted Domenic to attend the state schools in Sweden.

    During the hearing Mr. Johansson explained to the judge that the family was planning on relocating to India in six weeks to be with Annie’s family. It did not make sense to keep Domenic in the state school only to withdraw him shortly afterwards. The judge replied, “Ok, fine” and asked for the date of travel.

    No court order was issued prohibiting the family from leaving the country. Domenic is a dual citizen of Sweden and India and had every right to accompany his parents on the move. Thus, Christer and Annie were shocked when the authorities boarded the airliner and forcibly removed Domenic.

    Social Services’ only purpose in removing Domenic from the airplane was to prevent him moving to India where he would be outside the jurisdiction of the Swedish state schools. He was not truant from school at the time because it was summer break. As the Alliance Defence fund have pointed out in their application of appeal to the European Court of Human Rights:

    “Domenic Johansson was removed from that plane only because social services believed it knew better than his parents what was in Domenic’s best interest; a belief steeped in discrimination against their religious and philosophical beliefs with regard to Domenic’s upbringing and education…Swedish officials removed this boy from an international flight solely to prevent his parents from moving to another nation and from educating him in a manner that is lawful in India, in Sweden, and in a majority of nations…

    “please let me come home”

    For the Johansson family, that was just the beginning of their troubles. After having their son snatched from their custody, the immediate problem was how to get Domenic back.

    Christer and Annie were only able to visit their son, now in foster care, for one hour every five weeks.

    They soon faced a new dilemma. The visits with their son were allowed to continue but only on the condition that they pretend to their son that they did not want him to come home with them and were happy for him to be in foster care. Social Services said they would lose visitation rights forever if they did not keep up the pretense.

    During every visit there was always a social worker in the room, listening to every word and taking notes.

    I interviewed a man who spoke to Christer last September when this was going on. He said:

    “In September Christer expressed his frustration to me that social services was putting extreme pressure on him and his wife to pretend to Domenic that they don’t want him back and that they are happy with his current custodial arrangement, in order to be allowed to have continued visitation.

    Christer said that the requirement to pretend to be happy with the situation was putting a great deal of additional mental and emotional stress on his family, beyond what you would expect from the situation itself.

    After 18 months, the Johannsens finally exhausted all the legal appeals available to them in the Swedish court system. They hired one of the best human rights lawyers in Europe, but the judge dismissed her from the case. Last December, the Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden rejected their final appeal on the grounds that by preventing the family moving to India, the court was protecting Domenic’s “right to education.”

    Meanwhile, it became increasingly difficult for Christer and Annie to keep lying to their son.
    Every time the visits occurred, Domenic would ask, “please let me come home.” And every time the parents were forced to try to pretend that they didn’t want Domenic back.

    Christer knew what often happened to other Swedish children in foster care, and worried for his son’s safety. In Daniel Hammarberg’s shocking exposé of the Swedish social services,The Madhouse: A Critical Study of Swedish Society, Hammarberg gives alarming evidence of what happens to the mental health of children like Domenic who have been taken away from their parents. (To read excerpts from the book, click here. To get the book on Kindle, click here.) Some of victims of the Swedish Social Services, such as 13 year old Elin, have even committed suicideChrister began to worry what might happen to his son if Domenic continued to think that his parents were rejecting him.

    This put the parents in an agonizing position. Should they continue to lie to their son and destroy his faith in the only two human beings in this world that truly love him? Or should they tell Domenic the truth – that they love him and want him back?

    After an agonizing time, Christer decided to tell his son the truth and suffer the consequences. So just last week during visitation, Domenic once again begged his father to take him home. This time, instead of lying, Christer said, “ok, let’s go.” The social workers in Sweden are unarmed so there was nothing they could do to stop him from walking out of the visitation room with Domenic.

    Domenic was able to spend a beautiful day and a half with his parents and grandparents, whom he had not seen in 18 months. During this time Christer and Annie explained to Domenic the truth. They explained that they had not rejected him, that they loved him and had been fighting for his freedom for the last 18 months. They told him that whatever happened they would always love him.

    “Held Hostage” by the Government

    The police wasted no time. When they found out where the family was, several squad cars descended upon the Johansson home. Armed police swept in, dragging Domenic out into the unseasonably frigid temperatures without even giving him an opportunity to get his jacket. Christer was thrown into jail, charged with kidnapping his own son. Although he was released last February (to read our story about it, click here), Domenic remains a captive.

    Domenic loved his parents and grandparents. He had a rich and happy childhood and was well provided for by his intelligent Christian parents. However, in Sweden it is the State that is the ultimate parent. Drunk with a sense of their own omnipotence, Swedish Social Services could not let the family move to India for the simple reason that they would then no longer be able to force Domenic to attend their state schools.

    “I have never in 20 years of practice seen a case more badly handled,” commented Harrold-Claaesson, a noted international human rights lawyer and president of the Nordic Committee for Human Rights. She continued:

    “This family has been so traumatized that they may never recover. The Swedish government has grossly violated this family’s human rights, both under Swedish law and under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR). Under the ECHR people have the right to leave their country. But in this case the social services took this poor little boy and prevented him from leaving with his parents. He is being held a hostage—essentially kidnapped by the Swedish government. It is an absolute embarrassment for Sweden and for every person involved in this case. Each person, from the social workers to the judges, should be ashamed of their behavior and their continuing callousness towards this family. They all must be brought to justice for their crimes against the Johansson family.”

    To read all our earlier reports about the Johansson family, click here.

     

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    Prayer will humble proud Tesco

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    Boycott Tesco and email their Chief Executive. Remember: Every Little Helps!

    Or to put it more accurately, God will humble proud Tesco, in answer to prayer.

    As the Daily Mail has reported, retail giant Tesco have stopped sponsoring Cancer Research UK and switched their support to that annual display of aggression and depravity, London Gay Pride.  But the Bible says: When pride cometh, then cometh shame (Prov 11:2).

     

    Tesco’s idea of family – sad body-building homosexuals obessessed by looks and the male anatomy

    Mr Richard Littlejohnsaid: ‘If gays want to dress up as Carmen Miranda or mince up and down The Mall in nothing but their knickers, that’s fine by me. But why would Britain’s biggest supermarket want to be associated with such an event, at the expense of cancer victims?’ 

    And this is on top of Tesco secretly selling halal lamb and chicken to unsuspecting shoppers.

    There are five important and effective things Christians can do:

    1 Pray that God will send repentance into the Tesco boardroom, and that they will reverse their grant to gay pride..

    2 Boycott Tesco and encourage others to do the same.

    3 Mount a witness with banners and/or give leaflets out to shoppers outside Tesco’s high street stores ‘Tesco Direct’ (they can throw you out of their car park, but you have every right to witness on the street).  Contact us for leaflets.  The text of the LEAFLET is HERE

    4 Email/write to the Tesco Group Chief Executive, Philip Clark,  philip.clarke@tesco.com and their Marketing Director, Richard Brasher:  richard.brasher@tesco.com.  You can also write to their new Chairman, Sir Richard Broadbent, at New Tesco House, Delamare Rd, Cheshunt, Herts, EN8 9SL.  His email seems to be: richard.broadbent@tesco.com   (HERE is what one ex-Tesco-customer wrote.)

    5 Sign our petition ‘Boycott Tesco’.  Make sure you right-click and then open it in a new tab or window to keep this page on-screen.

     

      There are a couple of other really effective things to do as well, but we shall let Christian Voice members exclusively know about them at the proper time through our newsletter which never goes up on the web!

    Aggressive and depraved - London Gay Pride

    Tesco’s spin centres on ‘diversity’ as an ‘inclusive store’ – they even have an ‘Out at Tesco’ webpage promoting sodomy amongst their employees and a page commending staff for taking part in the 2010 parade – and ignores the fact that Gay Pride is a provocative and aggressive display of indecency and perversion.  For all their posturing, would Tesco actually like a gay pride march through one of their stores?  And if they are really interested in diversity, will they be sponsoring the ex-gay movement?  Don’t hold your breath.

    If you can bear it, here is a video link of Soho Pride, part of the London set-up in 2008.  And it that was not enough, here is a video link showing just what the gentle, tolerant gays and their supporters think of those who disagree with them with music from someone called Lily Allen.  Thanks, Anglican Mainstream.

    Tesco have denied that sponsoring gay pride was at the expense of Cancer Research, but the facts are that Tesco’s support for the annual fundraising Race for Life, the UK’s largest women-only charity event, helped Cancer Research raise more than £400million for the fight against cancer since it began in 1994.

    Tesco announced it would be a headline sponsor of Pride London just days after ending their partnership with Cancer Research.  Tesco’s Head of Research and Development, a militant anti-Christian homosexual called Nick Lansley, lobbied hard for that decision. 

    Here at Christian Voice we have a soft spot for cancer charities ever since Maggies Centres courageously turned down tainted money from the blasphemous Jerry Springer the Opera in 2006 and were rewarded by making far more from the publicity around that decision than what they would have received from the show.  Why on earth should Tesco think that dumping a cancer charity to take up with Gay Pride is a clever (even a good commercial) decision?

    The militant atheist magazine Freethinker helpfully points out that the Co-op sponsor Manchester Gay Pride (as well as throwing Christian Voice out of their bank) and that ASDA’s parent Wal-Mart give benefits to gay partners of employees in the USA.  Unless ‘Christian fundies want to starve themselves’, they chuckle, ‘they better (sic) start thinking fast of joining the grow-your-own movement’.

    Well that’s a good idea in itself, but have they forgotten Sainsbury, not to mention your local shops?  In addition, as we pointed out in our video on the supermarkets and halal, if you want to be sure of avoiding halal-slaughtered fresh meat, just shop at M&S or Morrisons.

    Some words from Proverbs and from Mary on the subject of pride to inform your prayer.  Remind the Lord of his word as you pray:

    Prov 8:13  The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
    Prov 11:2  When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
    Prov 13:10  Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
    Prov 14:3  In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
    Prov 16:5  Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
    Prov 16:18  Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
    Prov 29:23  A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

    Luke 1:49 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name. 50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. 51 He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. 52 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.

    James 4:6  Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

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    George Whitefield: Awakening the Nations to Repentance

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    Today the Episcopal Church (USA) honours George Whitefield with a special feast day. There is good reason for this since Whitefield played a seminal role in the spiritual formation of the United States. The article below, which first appeared in Christian Voice’s July 2009 newsletter, explains about Whitefield’s remarkable life and his influence in both Britain and America.

    If you had been at the Bell Inn, in Gloucester England in the 1720’s, you would have witnessed an unusual site. A small boy was acting out a sermon for the entertainment of the guests. It was not uncommon for this boy, the youngest among widow Elizabeth Whitfield’s seven children, to engage in theatrical re-enactments of sermons and Bible stories for the guests at his mother’s inn. But this time, something was different. Reciting the sermon he had heard on Sunday as a type of game, young George Whitfield was quite unprepared for the response he received as some of the onlookers began to weep.

    It was a portent of things to come. When George grew up and became a famous preacher, he found that his words had a strange affect on people, provoking emotions for which he was often unprepared.

    Born in 1714, George’s childhood was far from easy. His father died when he was only two, leaving the running of the inn to Elizabeth. After a disastrous second marriage and divorce, George’s older brother eventually took over the management of the inn, while George was sent to the cathedral school of Saint Mary.

    From an early age George had showed a keen interest in matters of religion. However, as Stephen Mansfield reflects in his biography of Whitefield, the boy was not without a touch of paradox. “He stole money from his mother’s purse but then used it to buy religious books. He would fight viciously with boys in the streets and then fall weeping on the floor of his bedroom to pray for the souls of those he had just pummeled. His brothers and sisters thought he loved church just because it was a grand drama that suited his vain, theatrical little mind, but his mother later found him asking such astute questions that she knew something of the divine was penetrating his soul Sunday after Sunday.”

    Keep reading…

     

    Homosexuals hold sway in Ireland

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    Eamon Delaney

    All the unsuspecting man did was write a column headed:

    ‘Loud and proud gays want to take over rest of society’

    Eamon Delaney said ‘Increasingly, it seems as if the homosexual community has forgotten that it is the minority’ with its demands for gay marriage, adoption, children’s birth certificates falsified to show two ‘mothers’ or two ‘fathers’, etc, etc.

    And it is as if the wrath of Juno has landed on his head.  The column, in the Irish Independent, attracted over 500 comments in a week, the vast bulk of them adverse.

    Just google ‘Eamon Delany gay’ and see how viral the whole thing went.  But some are standing up for him, with the Irish Iona Institute (not to be confused with a similar sounding body this side of the Irish Sea) among the best.

    This is in a country which did not even legalise sodomy until 1995.  Just sixteen years later and righteousness cannot even raise its voice, just like Lot in Sodom.  And look at what is happening in the UK.

    What a lesson to African and Caribbean countries to keep their anti-sodomy laws, as Shirley Richards has pointed out in a very articulate and well-researched article in the Jamaica Gleaner.

    If you let the camel get his nose inside the tent, pretty soon you have the unwelcome company of his backside.

    Run Towards the Roar: the Courage of Boniface

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    In Wessex England, sometime in the late seventh century, a group of boys gathered on the grass after church. While the rest of the villagers enjoyed their church’s fellowship meal, the boys were being led by one young man in his favorite sport – throwing boulders at one another.

    The young man would be known to history by the name he would later adopt: Boniface. As this young man grew, he quickly distinguished himself as the roughest, toughest boy in the village.

    Not only did Boniface excel in the virtues of strength, courage and manliness, but he also had a reputation for his aptitude in academics.  This may be one of the reasons why, from an early age, he was attracted to the monastic way of life. In those days, the priests were the custodians of knowledge and it was in the monasteries that the great libraries were housed.

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    The Fellowship of His Sufferings: The Testimony of Amy Carmichael

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    Few would have expected David and Catherine Carmichael’s eldest daughter, Amy, to grow up to become one of the world’s most famous missionaries.

    Born in 1867 in the small village of Millisle, Northern Ireland, there was nothing particularly unusual about this girl, who was known for her wilfulness, tomboyish attitude and a propensity to get into mischievous pranks.

    Little did the Carmichael parents realize that their daughter would be God’s tool for rescuing hundreds of children from a life worse than death in the darkness of the Indian jungles.

    Though Amy’s father died when she was five, the gap had been amply filled by the widower Robert Wilson. Cofounder of the Keswick Convention, Wilson was a catalyst for the holiness movement in England and a support for many missionaries around the globe. When she was in her young twenties, Wilson asked to be allowed to adopt Amy, for whom he felt a special fondness after the loss of his only daughter. Thus it was that Amy moved in with Mr. Wilson and his sons to work as his secretary. The job put Amy in direct contact with many of the missionaries around the world, including Hudson Taylor, Theodore Monod and F.B. Meyer. This was no doubt instrumental in pressing upon Amy the call to mission work.

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    Debunking the Palestine Lie

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    The video below is a useful resource for debunking some of the common myths about a Palestinian state that are currently being perpetuated by the media and by America’s President Obama.

    Forced adoption: how the Lord must grieve

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    Christian Voice is currently preparing a major feature for our upcoming newsletter on the evils of forced adoptions in Britain.  As our report was being prepared, news broke about another heartrending story.

    Sam, 23, had her baby Angela removed from her in 2009 when Social Services concluded she was psychologically damaged and therefore unfit to be a mother. Social workers have also threatened to remove any future children Sam bears. However, independent psychologists who analysed Angela have said she is fine.

    Christian Voice has been in touch with Ted Jeory, the journalist from the Express who covered the story, and he reports that Sam is still waiting for a verdict that will determine whether she is allowed to have her daughter back.

    The trouble started on the very day Sam gave birth to Angela in late 2008. Because Sam had grown up with 12 sets of foster parents, social services believed she must be psychologically scarred and so they placed her and her newborn in a family assessment unit with drug users and alcohol abusers.

    Six months into the observations social workers claimed that mother and daughter were not bonding sufficiently and that Angela should be placed in care.

    Last year Sam asked the European Court of Human Rights to intervene, after she had exhausted all ordinary legal channels.

    “It killed me and it still does,” she was quoted by the Express as saying.

    “I was treated like a criminal in there. I really didn’t feel I was given any help and they wanted me to fail. They said I wasn’t bonding and that she was losing weight. I’d had post-natal depression but I was bonding with her.

    “She was and is so special to me. I still have nightmares about the day they took her from me. She was clinging to me, she knew something was wrong, she was upset.

    “I had to put her into the social worker’s car and she started screaming. I wasn’t allowed to do anything. They just made crystal-ball predictions without giving me a chance. I wanted another assessment but they refused.”

    When will this evil of social workers stealing children stop?

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    Oppose Sex-Shop in Cornwall

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    Christian campaigners are praying for a large turn-out in St Austell on Wednesday 7th September for the hearing of a sex-shop application.

    The meeting will be held in Restormel District Council Chamber, 39 Penwinnick Road, St Austell, PL25 5DR, at 10.00am. The sex-shop itself is in Little Castle Street, Truro, next to a shop selling school uniforms about 200 yards from the Cathedral.

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    PRAY: For a large number of Christians and concerned parents and residents to attend the licensing committee on 7th September. That the Licensing Committee will overturn its previous decision and refuse a license for the sex-shop. Pray for the fear of God, or at least some consideration of the welfare of children, to inform the committee

    WRITE: The time for formal objections having passed, write or email the members of the Miscellaneous Licensing Committee being respectful but firm in urging them to reject the proposal for a sex shop in Truro as inapproriate for the City and locality (Each is addressed ‘Dear Cllr SURNAME’):

    Cllr Jim Flashman (Chairman) (Conservative: Kelly Bray)
    West Prince Farm, Sevenstones, Callington, Cornwall, PL17 8HZ
    Phone: 01579 350893, Mobile: 07976 253692
    Email: jflashman@cornwall.gov.uk

    Cllr Lisa Dolley (Vice-Chairman) (Independent: Redruth North)
    8 Plain-An-Gwarry, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 1HU
    Mobile: 07807 787280
    Email: ldolley@cornwall.gov.uk

    Cllr Russell Bartlett (Conservative: Gunnislake)
    Bracken, 1 Myrtle Terrace, Drakewalls, Gunnislake, Cornwall, PL18 9ES
    Phone: 01822 833681
    Email: rbartlett@cornwall.gov.uk

    Cllr Grenville Chappel (Independent: Falmouth Penwerris)
    26 Grenville Road, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 2NW
    Mobile: 07799 143588
    Email: gchappel@cornwall.gov.uk

    Cllr George Edwards (Liberal Democrat: Newquay Treloggan)
    Flat 18, Chymedden, Trebarwith Crescent, Newquay, Cornwall, TR7 1TG
    Phone: 01637 852251
    Email: gedwards@cornwall.gov.uk

    Cllr Steve Eva (Independent: Falmouth Arwenack)
    34 Trescobeas Road, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 2JG
    Phone: 01326 311539, Mobile: 07974 812103
    Email: seva@cornwall.gov.uk

    Cllr Brian Hobbs (Liberal Democrat: Torpoint East)
    41 Peacock Avenue, Torpoint, Cornwall, PL11 2EX
    Phone: 01752 814575
    Email: bhobbs@cornwall.gov.uk

    Cllr Scott Mann (Conservative: Wadebridge West
    3 Bethan Drive, Wadebridge, Cornwall, PL27 7RW
    Phone: 01208 815561
    Email: smann@cornwall.gov.uk

    Cllr Mick Martin (Conservative: Lanivet)
    Galorndon Core, Millpool, Bodmin, Cornwall, PL30 4HZ
    Phone: 01208 821200
    Email: mmartin@cornwall.gov.uk

    Cllr Chris Pascoe (Liberal Democrat, Threemilestone and Gloweth)
    Willow Green Farm, Threemilestone, Truro, Cornwall, TR4 9AL
    Phone: 01872 263612, Mobile: 07971 573766
    Email: chpascoe@cornwall.gov.uk

    Cllr Liz Penhaligon (Conservative: Lelant and Carbis Bay)
    Sovigo, 47 Upton Towans, Hayle, Cornwall, TR27 5BL
    Phone: 01736 756939
    Email: epenhaligon@cornwall.gov.uk

    Cllr Christopher Rowe (Liberal Democrat: Penwithick)
    Sanfernando, 78 Treverbyn Road, Carclaze, St Austell, Cornwall, PL25 4EW
    Phone: 01726 75835, Mobile: 07974 944683
    Email: chrisrowe@sanfernando.fsnet.uk

    Judicial Review

    A previous decision in August 2010 by Cornwall Council’s Miscellaneous Licensing Committe, by seven votes to three, to grant a license to the sex-shop, ‘Mrs Palm’, was overturned on Judicial Review and the license quashed in June 2011 after an application from the Christian Institute on behalf of Truro resident and former County councillor Mrs Armorel Carlyon.

    However, the owners of the sex-shop immediately applied for a ‘waiver’ to trade without a license in the interim and that was granted by the Council’s Miscellaneous Licensing Committee. An attempt by the Christian Institute to challenge the grant of the waiver by Judicial Review was refused by the High Court on Monday 22nd August 2011.

    The result is that the ‘Mrs Palm’ sex-shop is open and trading already on the waiver in advance of the license re-hearing.

    Inappropriate Location

    The objectors say that the sex-shop is inappropriate in Truro, which is a Cathedral city popular with tourists and families and which already has an unlicensed ‘Ann Summers’ shop which sells mainly lingerie. They observe that Cornwall Council can lawfully set the ‘appropriate number’ of sex-shops in Truro at ‘Nil’ under the relevant Act of Parliament.

    In any case, they say that right next-door to a school uniform outfitters is not an appropriate location for a sex-shop. Campaigners say that if a sex-shop can open in a Cathedral city next-door to a shop whose business depends on a regular traffic of school-children, such an establishment can open anywhere.

    They have noted that Northamptonshire Council recently rejected a plan to convert a disused corner shop into a takeaway fish and chip shop, on the grounds that its location, in the vicinity of two schools, could undermine health policies. While health appears to a factor local authorities can take into consideration, moral issues are not listed among those which a council can take into account when deciding upon an application for a sex-shop.

    Petition Presented

    A 700-strong petition against the sex-shop was presented to theCouncil after being gathered by the owners of Trevails, the school outfitters shop. Many of their customers have expressed disquiet at having to walk past ‘Mrs Palm’ to buy school uniforms. 99 letters of objection were sent in.

    Cornwall Council is Conservative-controlled with the support of the Independent Group (Cons 48 seats, LibDem 40, Ind 32) and the Chairman of the Council’s Miscellaneous Licensing Committee, Jim Flashman, is a Conservative. Elections to the Council will be held again in May 2013.

    CCF: Serving God and Mammon

    By
    Stephen
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    ‘No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.’ Matthew 6:24

    Last months’s Christian Voice newsletter carried an article about David Cameron’s party for gay activists in 10 Downing Street.  We also reproduced the full text of his speech.

    Mr Cameron’s determination to force sodomy on Africa was also printed in Pink News, which was understandably delighted, and in the London Evening Standard.  The Press Association syndicated the story world-wide, so it hardly suffered from inadequate or biased reporting.

    Whatever one’s view on the rights and wrongs of using foreign aid to co-erce the governments of poorer nations to legalise vice, or indeed to change policy in any direction, the bare facts were undeniable.

    Mr Cameron’s declaration of intent has led us to call a meeting next month, to record a VIDEO and post a PETITION, all with a hope that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at the end of October will tell Mr Cameron that the white man does not know best and that his neo-colonialism is not acceptable in the modern world.

    We circulated details of the video, petition and meeting by e-mail to our members and supporters and wider afield, in the hope that there would be an international reaction against what we see as David Cameron’s cultural imperialism.

    One e-mail recipient, a member indeed of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, decided to complain closer to home, and e-mailed its leadership, hoping to elicit their support in bringing some prophetic witness to bear inside the Conservative Party itself.  He received the most extraordinary response.

    A spokesman from the Conservative Christian Fellowship replied:

    ‘Sadly the report you refer to is both sensational and unhelpful.  As I understand it the British Government’s approach to supporting Human Rights in Africa hasn’t changed since the 1948 UN Declaration Human Rights. Something I am sure all Christians can comfortably sign up to.’

    Our correspondent, taking this plain if ungrammatical denial on trust, then understandably berated Christian Voice:

    ‘Where did you get your information?’ he fumed.  ‘If it was from the homosexuals, I would beware of listening to people who are against both the Gospel and the Conservative party.’

    I dislike having to criticise fellow Christians in public, and would not do it at all without first having e-mailed the CCF myself (and received no reply).  Nevertheless, an organisation which its Patron, Gary Streeter MP, says has ‘made an impact’ and ‘stood up for Christian values’ and which claims to be ‘a vibrant Christian witness within the Conservative Party’, turns out to be less committed to Christian values and the cause of the Gospel than to the Conservative Party in whose headquarters it is based.

    In point of fact, it is so dedicated to putting a brave face on the less-than-Christian antics of the Coalition Government that it is prepared to twist the truth.  Fair enough, to describe a report as ‘sensational and unhelpful’ is not to say it is untrue, although that was what they intended and it was the impression taken away by their member.  But to go on to say that British Government policy towards homosexuality has not changed in sixty-three years and that the Government is doing only that which Christians cannot fail to support is a barefaced, risible, outright lie.

    True enough, we do not know what the leaders of the CCF have been saying privately to Mr Cameron.  They may, for all we know, have been protesting with all their strength.  But their public response hardly gives an inkling that they have any misgivings about his pro-gay foreign aid policy whatsoever.  Denying it actually exists, following a well- publicised and undisputed speech from the Prime Minister himself is certainly not a promising start.

    It may be that some aspiring young things see their membership of the CCF coupled with enthusiastic support of their party as a stepping-stone to eventual membership of the House of Commons.  ‘When I get there, or when I become a minister, or when I become Prime Minister, then I’ll speak out and make a real difference,’ they might think.
    But it doesn’t work like that:

    Luke 16:10  He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

    We are tested on our faith at every stage.  By working hard to advance our employer’s or the party’s cause by honest means, by making ourselves useful, being diligent at every turn, we can certainly earn the right to be listened to.  That is how we advance, not by defending the indefensible.

    Matt 6:33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
    When we put the demands of God, his kingdom and righteousness second, the problems start.  Not only can we not serve God and another master at the same time, but the Apostle James points out:

    Jas 1:8  A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

    Jas 4:8  Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

    And indeed, as James suggests, that kind of thinking, ‘Just wait till I get into power then I’ll show them,’ leaves out the power of God to raise up one and pull down another.  It forgets his power to bestow favour in the eyes of men.

    Joseph in Egypt certainly did not think like the CCF appear to.  He did not flinch from acting properly when his boss’s wife tried to seduce him.  Today that would be seen as a forgivable bit-on-the-side but the Godly men of old viewed adultery as a betrayal.  For resisting wickedness Joseph was thrown into prison, and that might have been the end of him, had not the Lord granted him favour because of his faithfulness first with the prison governor and then with Pharaoh himself:

    Gen 39:21  But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

    Acts 7:10  And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

    Joseph was not the last to be granted favour by God for his faithfulness to the Law of the Lord.  Samuel was not afraid to tell Eli that the Lord’s judgment was to fall on his house.  Despite this, or because the Lord knew what kind of fearless young man Samuel was to be, in the previous chapter we read:

    1Sam 2:26  And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the LORD, and also with men.
    Daniel stood up for righteousness, refusing to eat meat dedicated to idols.  He managed by diligence and study and by his willingness to learn to make himself useful in the service of the king, but without compromising his beliefs.  So we read:

    Dan 1:9  Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs.
    God bestows favour on the faithful.  Proverbs says:

    Prov 12:2  A good man obtaineth favour of the LORD: but a man of wicked devices will he condemn.
    And in the Gospels we read:

    Luke 2:52  And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.
    Peter risked unpopularity by standing up on the Day of Pentecost and giving his great sermon with all its condemnation of those who crucified Jesus and encouragement to turn to the risen Jesus and be saved.  It was straight-down-the-line no-holds-barred full-on evangelism.  And it was honoured by God, in the numbers saved and bestowing of favour with men.  The believers, we read, were:

    Acts 2:47  Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

    When we look at the example of the prophets we see men, even men in the Court, who risked their lives by telling kings things they did not want to hear.

    Nathan admonished David for his adultery and murder of Uriah: ‘Thou art the man’, he told him, chillingly (2Sam 12:7), in what I believe was a public rebuke, in the light of the public consequences which Nathan said would follow.  It is certain that David’s sin was public knowledge and Nathan’s condemnation of it was more than a quiet word in private.

    The prophet Isaiah did not shrink from public condemnation of national sins.  Even as a young man, he was denouncing the princes in king Uzziah’s administration for taking bribes and perverting judgment (Isa 1:23).  And despite this (or because of it once again!) we see the Lord giving Isaiah a glittering career in the heart of government even under unrighteous king Ahaz (2Chr 28:1) and being unafraid to pronounce judgement on king Hezekiah for his stupidity in showing the Babylonian ambassador all his wealth (Isa 39:6).

    Not all the prophets were as high up as Nathan and Isaiah, but not one of them flinched from his duty to tell it as God saw it.  They were well-versed in the scriptures, meditating in the law of God (Josh 1:8, Psa 1:2, 119:15 &c) and through that knowing the mind of God.  They were not men-pleasers but devoted to God.  They and the Apostles set their sights, not on climbing the greasy pole of earthly preferment, but on what the Epistle to the Hebrews describes as ‘a better resurrection’ (Heb 11:35) and Paul portrays as a ‘crown of righteousness’ (2Tim 4:8).

    We cannot serve both two masters, and these events sadly show that when we try, truth falls alongside faithful witness.  That ought to be a lesson to us all.

    Let us pray that Christians in political parties put Jesus Christ and His kingdom before their party and their miniature earthly empire. We cannot serve two masters.

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