www.news24.com 01/02/12 Thirty-five Ethiopian Christians, 29 of them women, face deportation from Saudi Arabia for “illicit mingling” after police raided a private prayer gathering, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday. The New York-based watchdog said the women were subjected to “unwarranted strip search”, while the men were beaten and insulted as “unbelievers”. Click the following [...]

Posted: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 There are no surprises in Release International’s list of predicted hotspots for persecution in 2012. If anything, the organisation fears the plight of Christians around the world may get worse. The organisation has received reports from partners that Christians are coming under increasing suspicion in North Korea. Practising Christianity is [...]

The Christian Post  - Jan. 03 2012  One court in Delhi issued summons to the tech companies to stand trial for offences relating to distributing obscene material to minors, after it was shown images deemed offensive to Hindus, Muslims and Christians, reported Reuters. Another Delhi court earlier reportedly ordered the companies to remove photographs, videos or text [...]

Nov 8th 2011 – Paul L. Williams, Ph.D. Behold Your New Religion, America: Chrislam is an attempt to synchronize Christianity with Islam. While it began in Nigeria, Chrislamic ideas have spread throughout much of the world. The essential concept of Chrislam is that Christianity and Islam are compatible, that one can be a Christian and [...]

Dear Friends, Our office has received several calls and emails from people who want to know as to when and where would Mandy’s funeral be held. Also thank you very much for your many messages of sympathy and love for Mandy’s family. Be assured we will pass it onto her family. As for the funeral, [...]

by Matthew Holehouse – 29 Dec 2011 – Daily Telegraph A Christian convert whose body was found dumped in a canal on Christmas morning was the mother of a month-old baby boy, it has emerged. Ruby Love, 23, from Harrow, North London was found by a dog walker in the Grand Union Canal in Southall, [...]

FAITH UNDER FIRE – World Net Daily - By Drew Zahn © 2011  A board of county commissioners in North Carolina is asking the Supreme Court for help: Its members don’t believe they should have to forbid volunteers from mentioning the name of Jesus in prayers offered before their meetings. But the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans [...]

Dear family & friends in Christ, I am sure you all are aware that the Federal Labour Party has taken a decision last weekend at their conference in Sydney to permit Gay Marriage as their party policy. This is a very sad day for Australia. As Andrew Bolt said in his column in the Herald [...]

By Jaya Narain and Steve Doughty posted on 23rd October 2011 A housing association manager faces losing his home because of his Christian views about gay weddings in churches. Father-of-two Adrian Smith, 54, was demoted and had his pay drastically cut after he posted comments on  his private Facebook page in which  he said that celebrating [...]

Happy Birthday Catch the Fire Ministries! Today we celebrate 13 years as a ministry! We praise the Lord for all the amazing things He has done for and through CTFM! Thank you so much to all our mighty prayer warriors and intercessors for your wonderful input over the years. May God bless you abundantly as [...]

Dear friends and family in Christ. 1) Brother Yun, the author of the Heavenly Man book and Chinese Underground Church Leader, will be ministering the Word of God in the power of the Holy Spirit at CTFM in Hallam (Melbourne) this Sun 27th of Nov at the 9.30am service only. Click the following link to [...]

Dear family & friends in Christ, 1) We at Catch The Fire were absolutely blessed last Sunday as we heard the powerful testimonies shared by the team which came from the Underground Church in China and the Back to Jerusalem Movement! Although Brother Yun was not permitted to board his flight from Bangkok to Melbourne, [...]

Posted by Raymond Ibrahim Bio ? on Nov 4th, 2011 For a religion that is perpetually “misunderstood,” the consistency of Islam is remarkable. Consider how ostensibly diverse issues—complaints of “human rights” abuses at an American university and murder in an Egyptian classroom—are interconnected.t First, the American story.  According to Fox News: The Washington, D.C. Office of [...]

By Stephanie Samuel | Christian Post Reporter - Politics  Mon, Oct. 31 2011 Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said the Arab Spring and the Muslim campaign against Catholic University are symptoms of a growing anti-Christian climate, and pledged to defend religious freedom around the globe. Speaking at a South Carolina fundraiser Saturday, Gingrich criticized the Obama administration’s [...]

by Aimee Herd : Jun 6, 2011 : Trevor Persaud – Christianity Today “…in places like Tehran and more educated communities, if you say, ‘I have become a Christian,’ they will respect you because of your courage and your independent thinking.” -Issa Dibaj (Iran)—Just as we have witnessed in China, where oppression against Christians there [...]

The German site Politically Incorrect has an excellent commentary on the acquittal of Geert Wilders on Sharia-inspired “hate speech” charges: “A Historic Victory for Freedom!,” by Frank Furter, translated by Anders Denken: Dear PI Community, We finally made it! The movement for Islam criticism is celebrating a great, and even historic, victory. Let’s thank those [...]

Monday, 11 July 2011 - Mission Network News News – Featured News Christians working in remote Pakistani communities are facing extreme pressure, according to a Voice of the Martyrs Canada report. A believer was handing out gospel literature when a group of Muslims threatened him to try to get him to stop. In another city, Christians [...]

Posted by Raymond Ibrahim on Jul 22nd, 2011 From around 2005-2010, this 76 year-old Coptic priest was Islam’s bane. Appearing weekly on Arabic satellite, where he was viewed by an estimated 60 million people worldwide, mostly Muslims, he meticulously exposed any number of theological problems with Islam—all from Islam’s own books—while simultaneously evangelizing from his own [...]

Friday, 01 July 2011 – Robert T. Frank News – Featured News When our Founding Fathers signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, they considered religious freedom one of Americans’ most fundamental rights. Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, also wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. He considered these two of his [...]

Dear family & friends in Christ across our Nation of Australia and around the World, Over the past several years, I have been very carefully watching the unfolding events across the world and asking the questions, “Will the Western world surrender to the Middle East and lose its Judeo-Christian Heritage, Freedom of Speech, Democracy, etc. [...]