Christian persecution expected to increase in 2019

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Sexual abuse of children is tolerated within our culture.

By StevieRay Hansen | January 19, 2019

Jesus come quick, there is nothing left in society that’s sacred…. Sex traffickers are looking for anyone that they believe they can make money on. And that would be Children, women and boys who have very chronic problems with self-esteem. And you have sex traffickers who would present themselves as the knight in shining armor.” Sex traffickers reach beyond socioeconomic status by preying on the emotionally and mentally vulnerable. “And one of the patterns that you will see is someone who has already been sexually violated at the hands of family members. Then those people, because of the trauma of that experience, are sometimes very attractive to sex traffickers,” Cook continues. “What you have is a person who is just extremely vulnerable.” Children are undoubtedly the most vulnerable and most exploited segment of the population. Children may be easily intimidated into…

FBI: 30-40 children sex trafficked within metro Detroit during Detroit Auto Show

By StevieRay Hansen | January 19, 2019

HNewsWire- DETROIT (WXYZ) — The FBI says 30-40 children are trafficking within the greater Detroit area during the North American International Auto Show. The bureau joined Detroit Police Chief James Craig to talk about human trafficking ahead of the auto show opening to the public on Saturday. According to Michael Glennon with the FBI, there is a 280-300 percent increase in sex trafficking workers in the area. Ten percent of them are under the age of 18. Chief Craig said that on Wednesday, VICE unit got a tip on a missing girl. They followed up, and found out that the missing girl was abducted and she was sexually assaulted. The suspect was preparing for her and another missing female to move them to Atlanta to continue with sex trafficking activity. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations says human…

PEDOPHILE PRIEST WHO RAPED 200 CHILDREN FORGIVEN BY THE POPE

By StevieRay Hansen | January 17, 2019

HNewsWire- James Porter, the evil priest who raped over 200 children, confessed his pedophilia to the Pope who decided it best to “forgive and forget”, it has been revealed.By ignoring his pedophile confession, the Pope left Father Porter to sexually abuse many more children that could’ve otherwise been spared. The pedophile priest was caught after a private investigator, who was working with the serial rapist’s victims, taped a phone conversation in which Porter admitted to raping over 100 children. The church ended up settling 131 claims related to Porter, making it the largest sex abuse scandal in history until new allegations later emerged in Boston involving defrocked priest Paul Shanley.  Although he admitted to raping all those children, prosecutors on the case believe the actual number was well over 200 victims.According to the Boston Globe, the Roman Catholic priest admitted in…

These so-called ‘men of God’ sexually abused children. Then they found refuge at other churches

By StevieRay Hansen | January 17, 2019

HNewsWire-Pastor Bruce Goddard acted immediately when he learned the principal at Faith Baptist Church’s school in Wildomar, California, had been intimately involved with a 17-year-old student. He rented the 35-year-old principal a U-Haul and shipped him out of state. He did not call the police. The accused wound up at First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, a church affiliated with Goddard’s alma mater, working again with teenagers. The abused girl was later told that church officials in Indiana were aware of his involvement with her when he arrived. An eight-month investigation by the Star-Telegram shows that what happened at Faith Baptist is just one example in a nationwide pattern of cover-ups and shuffling of suspected abusers among churches and universities that, like Faith Baptist, are part of the independent fundamental Baptist movement. The cover-ups are reminiscent of the scandals of…

The leader of an international child porn ring was killed in a prison beating this week

By StevieRay Hansen | January 17, 2019

HNewsWire-(T)he leader of an international child porn ring was killed in a prison beating this week — after one of his victims predicted his fate. Christian Maire, a married father-of-two from Binghamton, was sentenced in December to 40 years in prison after the FBI discovered he was the mastermind behind a twisted Internet gang dubbed “The Bored Group.” The article goes on to state the following:Maire and his eight counterparts posed as adolescent boys on teenage dating sites and convinced young girls to strip, masturbate and perform other sex acts via webcam, according to investigators. They even lured some of their victims to cut themselves on camera. At his sentencing, a female victim forecasted Maire’s demise, the Detroit News reported. Fellow inmates at the federal prison in Milan, Michigan, where Maire was locked up, attacked him Friday, according to the…

Orphans Suffer With These Issues,Policymakers From DC

By StevieRay Hansen | January 17, 2019

HNewsWire-God is the backbone of the family unit. Put another way, without God evil takes root and destroys everything it touches including the family, it should be obvious by now that when we take God out of the equation the equation becomes sinister…. Members of Congress (Pharisees) and state legislators (hypocrites)cannot understand why whole sectors of society, particularly in urban areas, are being torn apart by crime. And without that knowledge, sound policy making is impossible. A review of the empirical evidence in the professional literature of the social sciences gives policymakers an insight into the root causes of crime. Consider, for instance: Over the past thirty years, the rise in violent crime parallels the rise in families abandoned by fathers.High-crime neighborhoods are characterized by high concentrations of families abandoned by fathers.State-by-state analysis by scholars indicates that a 10 percent…

Cyntoia Brown, a sex trafficking victim who had been serving a life sentence

By StevieRay Hansen | January 17, 2019

HNewsWire- StevieRay Hansen Commentary:Cyntoia Brown, a sex trafficking victim who had been serving a life sentence for the murder of a man who paid to have sex with her when she was 16.This story is all too common of children being exploited for sexual gratification. Brown was born Cyntoia Denise Mitchell to Georgina Mitchell in Tennessee on January 29, 1988.Her father is unknown. Mitchell drank alcohol during her pregnancy, which Brown’s defense attorneys would later claim to have caused her to have been born with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, and, after Brown was born, Mitchell began to use crack cocaine. Unable to care for her infant daughter, Georgina ultimately placed the child up for adoption with Ellenette Brown, also known as Ellenette Washington. Though Washington tried to provide a stable home for Cyntoia in 2004, the latter, then 16-years-old, ran…

Three Toledo area pastors and wifes charged with sex trafficking children

By StevieRay Hansen | January 17, 2019

HNewsWire-Mr. Haynes, who led the Greater Life Christian Center, is charged with multiple counts of conspiracy to sex-traffic children, sex-trafficking of children, sexual exploitation of children, and obstruction of a sex-trafficking investigation. Wife,stepdaughter arrested in pastors’ child trafficking case.He was arrested in April, 2017, along with the Rev. Cordell Jenkins, founder and pastor of Abundant Life Ministries. Mr. Jenkins’ wife, former Lucas County Administrator Laura Lloyd-Jenkins, was later indicted on charges of obstructing the investigation and making a false statement to federal investigators. A third area pastor, Kenneth Butler, pleaded guilty May 14 to conspiracy to sex-traffic children, obstruction of a sex-trafficking investigation, and two counts of sex-trafficking of children. He is to be sentenced to more than 17 years in prison. From left, Cordell Jenkins, Kenneth Butler and Anthony J. Haynes, three pastors who have been accused of assaulting…

Transgenderism is a “mental disorder”

By StevieRay Hansen | January 16, 2019

HNewsWire-Johns Hopkins Chief Psychiatrist: Transgender Is A ‘Mental Disorder’ Transgenderism is a “mental disorder” that merits treatment, that sex change is “biologically impossible. A prominent psychiatrist, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Paul R McHugh, claims that transgender individuals suffer from a form of mental illness and that Gender Reassignment is “biologically impossible.” On the heels of the American College of Pediatrics Reaching the Decision that Transgenderism of Children is Child Abuse (click and read!), people are melting down everywhere! To be clear – people should be treated very seriously when attempting to rectify their feelings with surgery or dangerous hormone treatments because they do need help and fast. Can people reasonably disagree about a cure? Can people also agree that children should not be making these choices? Dr, McHugh also states that people who endorse gender reassignment are in fact…

Human Trafficking Nightmares – Fake News Ignores the Reality

By StevieRay Hansen | January 15, 2019

HNewsWire-Arrest Made After 5-Month-Old Child Dies in Foster HomeNatalie Parker, 37, Was Arrested Monday According To The Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office. Natalie Parker, 37, who was the foster parent of the infant and four other children in the home, turned herself in to authorities on Monday, according to the sheriff’s office. Kaufman County Sheriff deputies were called to Parker’s home in the 2000 block of Chisholm Trail in Forney on Dec. 29, 2018 after getting a 911 call about an unresponsive infant. The child was dead when they arrived, police said. The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services were notified and removed the other children from Parker’s custody. Natalie Parker, 37, who was the foster parent of the infant and four other children in the home, turned herself in to authorities on Monday.Parker faces charged of injury to a…

No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, And their righteousness is from Me," Says the Lord.

Vice President Mike Pence told a crowd of graduates from the Christian-based Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, that they ought to be ready for ridicule because this secular world is about as intolerant of those of the faith as can be.

There is no doubt that persecution is a stark reality of living the Christian life. Christian persecution is to be expected: the apostle Paul warned that “everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted” (2 Timothy 3:12). Jesus said that, if they persecuted Him, they will also persecute His followers (John 15:20). Jesus made it clear that those of the world will hate Christians because the world hates Christ. If Christians were like the world—vain, earthly, sensual, and given to pleasure, wealth, and ambition—the world would not oppose us. But Christians do not belong to the world, which is why the world engages in Christian persecution (see John 15:18–19). Christians are influenced by different principles from those of the world. We are motivated by the love of God and holiness, while the world is driven by the love of sin. It is our very separation from the world that arouses the world’s animosity (1 Peter 4:3–4).

Christians must learn to recognize the value of persecution and even to rejoice in it, not in an ostentatious way but quietly and humbly because persecution has great spiritual value. First, the persecution of Christians allows them to share in a unique fellowship with the Lord. Paul outlined a number of things he had surrendered for the cause of Christ. Such losses, however, he viewed as “rubbish” (Philippians 3:8) or “dung” (KJV) that he might share in the “fellowship of [Christ’s] sufferings” (Philippians 3:10). The noble apostle even counted his chains as a grace (favor) that God had bestowed upon him (Philippians 1:7).

Second, in all truth, Christian persecution is good for believers. James argues that trials test the Christian’s faith, develop endurance in his life, and help develop maturity (James 1:2–4). As steel is tempered in the forge, trials and persecution serve to strengthen the character of believers. A Christian yielding graciously to persecution demonstrates that he is of superior quality as compared to his adversaries (see Hebrews 11:38). It’s easy to be hateful, but Christlikeness produces kindness and blessing in the face of evil opposition. Peter says of Jesus, “When they hurled their insults at Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats. Instead, He entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly” (1 Peter 2:23).

Third, Christian persecution enables believers to better value the support of true friends. Conflict can bring faithful children of God together in an encouraging and supportive way they might not have known otherwise. Hardship can stimulate the Lord’s people toward a greater resolve to love and comfort one another and lift one another to the throne of grace in prayer. There’s nothing like an unpleasant incident to help us reach a greater level of brotherly love.

Even in the face of Christian persecution, we can press on. We can thank God for His grace and patience with us. We can express gratitude for those whom we love in the Lord and who stand with us in times of distress. And we can pray for those who would accuse, misuse, or abuse us (2 Corinthians 11:24Romans 10:1).

A working definition of hate speech is "speech that is intended to insult, intimidate, or cause prejudice against a person or people based on their race, gender, age, sexual orientation, political affiliation, occupation, disability, or physical appearance." If that is the accepted definition, a Christian should never participate in hate speech. However, the problem is that the definition of hate speech is broadening over time. Proclaiming that a certain belief is wrong or that a certain activity is sinful, based on biblical principles, is increasingly being included in the definition of hate speech.

Ephesians 4:15 refers to "speaking the truth in love." First Peter 3:15 instructs Christians to defend their faith, but to do so "with gentleness and respect." Colossians 4:6 proclaims, "Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt." Sadly, some Christians fail to follow these biblical instructions. Some Christians (or at least people who claim to be Christians) speak the truth but speak it in such a way that it is very hateful. One prominent example would be Westboro Baptist Church and its "God hates fags" slogan. Westboro Baptist Church is correct in declaring the Bible's teaching that homosexuality is sinful, but they are declaring this truth in such a way that it is intended to be incendiary, offensive, and hurtful. Needless to say, the Bible does not support such methods.

It is likely that in the near future, governments will begin declaring more speech as hate speech, thereby making it illegal. In some parts of the world, it is illegal to say that homosexuality is a sin. In some countries, it is illegal to declare one religion right and other religions wrong. This steady broadening of what qualifies as hate speech could eventually lead to any effort to evangelize being declared hate speech since it would be "hateful" to tell a person that what he/she currently believes is incorrect.

What the perpetrators of this expanded hate speech definition fail to realize (or admit) is that to tell someone the truth is an act of love, not hate. Is it hateful for a teacher to tell a student that his/her answer is wrong? Is it hateful for a building inspector to tell a construction company that they are building on a faulty foundation? Of course, the answer to these questions is no. However, that is precisely the illogic that is being applied to current hate speech legislation. Telling someone that his/her religious views are wrong is somehow hateful. Telling someone that his/her lifestyle is immoral is somehow hateful. The logic is not, in any sense, consistent with how truth is determined in other areas of society.

Our goal is to speak the truth in love. We do not hate Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Catholics, Mormons, or Jehovah's Witnesses. Rather, we simply believe that these groups are making some serious theological and biblical errors. We do not hate homosexuals, adulterers, pornographers, transsexuals, or fornicators. Rather, we simply believe that those who commit such acts are making immoral and ungodly decisions. Telling someone that he/she is in the wrong is not hateful. In reality, refusing to tell someone the truth is what is truly hateful. Declaring the speaking of truth, presented respectfully, to be hate speech, is, in fact, the ultimate demonstration of hate.Source

StevieRay Hansen

Editor, HNewsWire.com

It is impossible to find anyone in the Bible who was a power for God who did not have enemies and was not hated.

Like Joseph and Daniel of the Old Testament who served secular kings, we are called to serve everyone and help them fulfill their divine destiny. Jesus made it clear that people who want to lead or be great must be the servants of all. Serving is the way of leadership in the kingdom.

Forcing our way onto the world is not great leadership. Some accuse us of doing this very thing because we speak up on moral issues. It is important that we speak up on issues, but it's also equally important that we love everyone no matter their persuasions.

Someday Jesus will rule the world; in the meantime, we should just serve well and let our good works speak of our Father who loves everyone.

Evil Exists So Spiritual Warfare Becomes Necessary!

MY MISSION IS NOT TO CONVINCE YOU, ONLY TO INFORM…

Evil men don’t understand the importance of justice, but those who follow the Lord are much concerned about it. ~ Proverbs 28:5

Jesus come quick, there is nothing left in society that’s sacred….

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  1. Mark Herbert on November 6, 2022 at 12:29 am

    God’s Love does not persecute, discriminate , hate, abolish, torture, kill, arm, buy guns, judge to determine intention for persecution, go blind, block HOLY Spirit, so help stop religious hate and persecution through dismanteling wicked assemblys of misinformed folks

  2. Patrick Galasso on May 17, 2019 at 11:35 am

    Romans 8:34, “Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.”

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