April marks the anniversary of the launch of the systematic extermination of the Christian Armenians by the Ottoman Turks. The Jihad began with the arrest of 250 Christian leaders in Constantinople (what is today called Istanbul), on 24 April 1915. Over 1.5 million Christians were slaughtered by Muslims in Turkey during 1915. Corruption and Cruelty […]
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American Elections and Foreign Policy Affects the Persecuted Church
Ideas Have Consequence US Foreign Policy often affects believers in Africa and the Middle East: A Trail of Betrayal During the 4 years of the presidency of Jimmy Carter, 13 countries fell to communism. In most cases, they did not just fall to communism, but were actually betrayed into the hands of communist revolutionaries. It […]
Westminster Abbey to be Lit Red to Highlight Christian Persecution
Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral will both be back-lit red in November to raise awareness for Christian persecution around the world. Lord Alton, an advocate of the effort, wrote: “In November, Westminster Cathedral and Westminster Abbey are to be floodlit in red to commemorate the persecuted. If every parish in the country did the same […]
What is a Caliphate?
Boko Haram has declared North Eastern Nigeria an Islamic Caliphate. ISIS has declared a Caliphate over Northern Syria and Iraq. So what is a Caliphate? Dictatorship A Caliph is “the commander of the believers.” A Caliphate is an Islamic state led by a supreme religious and political leader known as a Caliph. The Caliph is […]
The Holocaust in Rwanda—22 Years Later
Twenty-two years ago, April 1994, one of the most dreadful campaigns of mass murder was unleashed upon the Tutsi people of Rwanda. In just 100 days, more people had been slaughtered with machetes and clubs than have died from atomic weapons in all of history. Convenient Timing At the time, world media attention was focused […]
The Great Siege of Malta
11 September marks a strategic date in history. It marks the defeat of the Islamic Jihad against Malta. This article can also be read as a PowerPoint with pictures. The Turkish Threat In 1565 Islam was threatening all of Europe. The Ottoman Turkish Empire had conquered the entire Middle East, sacking the greatest city in […]
Mitsuo Fuchida – From Pearl Harbour to Calvary
Mitsuo Fuchida (1902-1976) is best known for leading the devastating air attack on Pearl Harbour, 7 December 1941. After the war, Fuchida became a Christian Evangelist, who conducted Evangelistic outreaches throughout Japan, the United States and Europe. Japanese Naval Aviator Fuchida was the son of the Master of the Primary School in Kashihara. His grandfather […]
Were Atomic Bombs Necessary to End World War Two?
This year, 2015, will mark the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the Atom bomb on Hiroshima, 6 August 1945 and Nagasaki, 9 August 1945. Did the Atomic Bombs Actually Save Lives? I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save both American and […]
Does the US Supreme Court’s Re-Definition of Marriage Really Matter?
With the US Supreme Court’s decision and the extraordinary pressures to re-define marriage and accommodate the demands by gay activists for homosexual unions to be accepted as “marriage”, many are asking: Well, what difference does it make? Revolutionary Agenda Fourteen years ago, Africa Christian Action published the landmark book: The Pink Agenda – Sexual Revolution […]
Jesus Christ Changed the World
Transforming Time Jesus Christ changed the world forever. When He was born, He transformed the very way we measure time. He turned aside the river of the ages and lifted the centuries off their hinges. His birthday, His Incarnation, touched and transformed time. Now the whole world counts time as Before Christ (BC) and AD […]
How Was the Greatest Century of Missions Derailed into the Worst Century of Persecution?
4 August marks the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War. A Tale of Two Conferences The Father of modern Missions, William Carey, was a man ahead of his time. In 1810, he proposed a World Missions Conference, and he suggested Cape Town as the ideal venue! It was 100 years later, […]
Mass Marketing the Mandela Myth
Film Review The new Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom film presents a selection and distortion of the history of South Africa and Nelson Mandela as the secular humanists of the New World Order would like us to perceive it. The film rushes through the life and times of Nelson Mandela, completely ignoring the Cold War […]
31 OCTOBER IS REFORMATION DAY
31 October is the birthday of all Evangelical and Bible-believing churches. On 31 October 1517, Dr. Martin Luther launched the Protestant Reformation with his bold stand at the Castle Church in Wittenberg. Freedom and Productivity Western civilisation has been blessed with the greatest freedoms, productivity and prosperity ever known in history. The liberty, standards of […]
A BIBLICAL RESPONSE TO HALLOWEEN
“Test all things; hold fast to what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.” 1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 A Celebration of Evil Halloween is a religious day, but it is not Christian. Tom Sanguinet, a former high priest in Wicca has said: “The modern holiday that we call Halloween has its origins in the full […]
Why Celebrate the Reformation?
To the Ends of the Earth Many years ago a Frontline Fellowship Mission team was approaching a remote village in Cuando Cubango province (what the Portuguese refer to as the ends of the earth) in Angola. The team heard the sound of enthusiastic singing. They immediately recognised the tune, even though they could not understand […]