November 8th is the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. More information can be found here: www.persecution.com/idop. The following is a video from Voice of the Martyrs on the day of prayer:

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Author Bill Donahue on the October 15 edition of CBN’s The 700 Club:[Link to Video]
Among the more interesting quotes from the clip, Donahue discusses efforts in Massachusetts and California to require Catholic adoption agencies to allow gay couples to adopt children in order to receive taxpayer funds:
We’re not going to allow gay people to adopt [...]

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; How then could I gaze at a virgin? …. for that would be a fire that consumes [...]

The New York Times published a fair article about murdered pro-life activist James Pouillon and the pro-life protest movement in general.  One of the more interesting sections of the article states :
This is a particularly American brand of faith: confrontational and action oriented. The most cited verses come not from the Gospels detailing the life [...]

From Lou Engle of TheCall:

Rifqa Bary’s Update for October 13th 2009: Please Pray

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Many of you have already heard of Rifqa Bary, the 17 year old young lady, who’s life has been threatened by her Muslim father because she has confessed Christ. Because of the death threats she fled and sought refuge [...]

It’s John Lennon’s birthday today, and as often happens with figures like Lennon, discussion on the meaning of his life and legacy is coming forth. Who was he? A pop artist? A product of marketing geniuses? A lost soul in need of boundaries and structure? Perhaps he was many of these things, but I think a keen insight into who he really was came in an interview in which he was asked [...]

Wayne Hobson wrote a piece on Dr. Brown and the Coalition of Conscience for the Charlotte Baptist Examiner on the subject “Does God Hate Gays?” His series of articles looks at how various Charlotte groups view the GLBT community, and chose Dr. Brown and the COC to represent an “opposing, yet compassionate message,” comparing [...]

Here’s a sign that was held at a Boston Gay Marriage Protest from a few years ago:

Here’s the biblical text the sign is referencing in its entirety:
If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then turns against her, and charges her with shameful deeds and publicly defames her, and says, ‘I [...]

Fifty thousand participants were expected for the Islam on Capitol Hill event in Washington D.C. on September 25th.  Roughly three thousand showed up.  As we reported prior to the event, a small group of Jesus followers from North Carolina were also there to give away DVDs documenting the conversion to Christianity of different Muslims thanks [...]

A couple of days ago, atheists from around the country celebrated “Blasphemy Day”. As one website encouraged them to: “…admit to committing blasphemy against all gods. Religion is mythology. Gods are lies. Preachers are liars (yes, all of them), and anyone who believes in magic men in the sky are fools. Please take a moment [...]