Day: July 1, 2019

Members of Chinese Megachurch Say They Were Tortured While in Custody

Randolph Jason

Members of Chinese Megachurch Say They Were Tortured While in Custody By Will Maule for Faith Wire A number of Christians from the heavily-persecuted Early Rain Covenant Church have said they were tortured while in custody. Police swooped in on the underground Chengdu congregation last December, detaining upwards of 100 members. Now, many of those who have been released say they were tortured by Chinese authorities in a bid to get them to incriminate their founding pastor, Wang Yi. Yi, who is a fierce critic of the government and has even…

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Could dementia be just another manifestation of chronic inflammation?

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Could dementia be just another manifestation of chronic inflammation? by: Isabelle Z. for Natural News Cognitive decline is a part of getting older to some extent, but what causes some people to develop full-blown dementia while others will never experience it? While much about this illness remains a mystery, researchers are honing in on inflammation as a root cause of this condition. Blaming chronic inflammation on aging is an easy answer, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Some behavioral factors, like obesity, a lack of physical activity, and smoking, can…

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Christophobia’ Is Almost Nonexistent

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Christophobia’ Is Almost Nonexistent from ZeroHedge “Christianity originated in the Middle East. Thus, the displacement or evacuation of Christians from the Middle East is very dangerous for the safety of the region… also in the Mediterranean Sea region. Europe is affected by this.” — Egyptian Coptic Pope Tawadros II, in Germany, where he was inaugurating a new Coptic church for his exiled community. Deutsche Welle, May 14, 2019. Regrettably, the tragedy of these Christian massacres is directly proportional to the neglect with which they are reported in the West. “‘Islamophobia’ looms large; talk of ‘Christophobia’…

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Is Christianity Good for Science? (Podcast)

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Is Christianity Good for Science? Podcast by John Stonestreet for Break Point Our theme for this year’s Wilberforce Weekend was “Is Christianity Still Good for the World?” Today on the BreakPoint Podcast, we present one of the absolute highlights of the weekend: John Lennox’s riveting talk on “Is Christianity Good for Science?” Or, as he also put it, is Christianity a good worldview in which to do science?  If you’ve ever been wary of defending Christianity from the false accusation that it’s anti-science, or that science is the only…

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Should We Use Bethel Songs in Worship? 4 Diagnostic Questions

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Should We Use Bethel Songs in Worship? 4 Diagnostic Questions by Todd Wagner for The Gospel Coalition At Watermark Community Church in Dallas, where I’m privileged to serve as pastor, there’s a sign in a back room that I made when teaching through 2 Peter: Divine Physician’s General Warning: Ingesting false teaching will complicate your life, possibly eternally. Examine the Scriptures to see if the things you hear are true. Here’s the obvious message: Evaluate everything against God’s Word, which includes both the teaching we hear and also the lyrics we sing in corporate worship.…

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YES, OUR GLOBAL CLIMATE IS CHANGING RAPIDLY, AND NO, THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT AND THERE IS NO POWER ON EARTH THAT CAN STOP IT

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YES, OUR GLOBAL CLIMATE IS CHANGING RAPIDLY, AND NO, THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT AND THERE IS NO POWER ON EARTH THAT CAN STOP IT by Geoffrey Grider for Now The End Begins Is our climate changing drastically, yes, it surely is, and it is doing it at the command of Jesus Christ. The changes are taking place in preparation of the coming judgment on the whole world that will take place in the time of Jacob’s trouble. What can mankind do to stop it? Nothing. Zero. Zilch.…

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Shiitake mushroom improves immunity

Randolph Jason

Shiitake mushroom improves immunity by Dr. Joseph Mercola for Mercola Mushroom lovers will be pleased to know that researchers studying the earthy fungi continue to find benefits for health in them. One of the most popular mushrooms is the shiitake (Lentinus edodes), which grows on decaying hardwood trees such as oaks, maples, chestnuts, hornbeams and ironwoods in their natural environment, but are commercially grown elsewhere.1 Recreating the same environmental conditions has allowed growers in the U.S., as well as Canada, Singapore and China, to proliferate the brown-capped delicacies. According to Market…

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Farage: We Must End ‘Globalist Drive’ to Outsource People’s Sovereignty to Elites

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Farage: We Must End ‘Globalist Drive’ to Outsource People’s Sovereignty to Elites by Victoria Friedman for Breitbart Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that patriots must end the “globalist drive” to outsource decision-making to supranational bodies like the EU, warning that the elites want to see the nation-state “dissolved”. Speaking to American conservative activist Candace Owens in a PragerU interview aired Sunday, Mr Farage explained that Brexit was a “fightback” against European institutions determining Britons’ future for them, with the United Kingdom battling to become a “normal nation” again…

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Christian Village in Mali ‘Virtually Wiped Out’ After Jihadists Massacre 100 Men, Women, Children

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Christian Village in Mali ‘Virtually Wiped Out’ After Jihadists Massacre 100 Men, Women, Children by Emily Jones for CBN News Approximately 100 Christians were massacred by Muslim terrorists in the West African nation of Mali this month. BBC reports that on June 9, armed Fulani Muslim militants invaded a predominately Christian village in Sobame Da, and killed men, women, and children. Officials say they found at least 95 bodies. The attackers also killed animals and set fire to houses. “About 50 heavily armed men arrived on motorbikes and pickups,” a survivor…

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