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Marine Dad Banned from School Property After He Objected to Islamic Indoctrination of Daughter ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 28, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, yesterday afternoon, filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of former Marine, John Kevin Wood, and his wife, Melissa, who refuse to allow their teenage daughter to be subjected to Islamic indoctrination and propaganda in her high school World History class. The lawsuit was filed against the Charles County Public Schools, the Board of Education, and the Principal and Vice-Principal of La Plata High School located in La Plata, Maryland. The Woods' daughter was forced
to profess and to write out the Shahada in worksheets and quizzes. The Shahada is the Islamic Creed, “There is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.” For non-Muslims, reciting the statement is sufficient to convert one to Islam. Moreover, the second part of the statement, "Muhammad is the messenger of Allah," signifies the person has accepted Muhammad as their spiritual leader. The teenager was also required to memorize and recite the Five Pillars of Islam. Charles County Public Schools disparaged Christianity by teaching its 11th grade students, including the Woods' daughter, that: "Most Muslims' faith is stronger than
John Kevin Wood, with his wife Melissa
the average Christian.” He immediately contacted the school to voice his objections and to obtain an alternative assignment for his daughter. The Woods, as Christians, believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God and our Savior, that Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins, and that following the teachings of Jesus Christ is
the only path to eternal salvation. The Woods believe that it is a sin to profess commitment in word or writing to any god other than the Christian God. Thus, they object to their daughter being forced to deny the Christian God and to her high school promoting Islam over other religions. To be continued in Page 7.
Pro-Lifers Indicted for Exposing Missionary from Florida killed Planned Parenthood in Burkina Faso terror attack
Planned Parenthood abortionist executives, who admitted on tape and later promised to stop selling aborted baby parts for profit, were cleared by a liberal Houston grand jury, who instead indicted the pro-life journalists that posed as purchasers to expose the sellers. “Months after the release of undercover videos detailing Planned Parenthood’s scheme to traffic aborted baby body parts, a grand jury has finally brought brought criminal charges. Not against Planned Parenthood, but against David Daleiden, the pro-life activist behind the undercover sting videos,” reports The Federalist. “A grand jury in Harris County, Texas, returned two charges on Monday afternoon against Daleiden, the activist who planned and organized the undercover sting videos. “Lauren Reeder, one of the prosecutors in the Harris
By Mark Ellis and Anthony Gutierrez, Special to the ASSIST News Service
“Reeder’s LinkedIn page indicates that she has been a Planned Parenthood board member since 2013 and a fundraiser for the abortion provider since 2009.” [Dr. Chaps’ comment: So let me get this straight: Undercover journalists catch Planned Parenthood on tape admitting felonies, but instead of indicting the felons, city liberals led by a Planned Parenthood lawyer persuade liberal citizens to punish the Christian journalists? This smacks of a prosecutorial cover-up and anti-Christian persecution.] Let’s petition Congress to define life beginning at conception.
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO (ANS - January 30, 2016) -- A Florida man who went to Burkina Faso as a missionary to dig wells and care for orphans was killed with 29 others on Jan. 15 when heavily armed terrorists from an Al-Qaeda affiliate attacked two hotels and a cafe. ike Riddering, 45, described as an amazing father and pillar of faith, found himself ambushed at the Splendid Hotel in Ouagadougou where he was to rendezvous with a group of short-term missionaries on their way to an orphanage 70 miles from the capital. “Heaven has gained a warrior!” wrote his wife Amy Boyle-Riddering on Facebook. “I know God has a purpose in all things but sometimes it is a complete mystery to me.
Mike Riddering with his beloved orphans.
An amazing father to his children and a papa to everyone. My heart is so heavy and I am having trouble believing he is gone. Mike was an example in the way he lived and loved. God be glorified! Mike Riddering I will love you always! You left quite a legacy here. I can only imagine the adventures you are having now.”
Some of the attackers infiltrated the luxury hotel at night while others wearing turbans arrived later in four-wheel drive vehicles. Burkina Faso forces helped by French soldiers counter-attacked the next day in order to free the hostages and killed four extremists after an intense gunfight. ASSIST News Service www. assistnews.netPO Box 609Lake Forest, Ca 92609
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Naghmeh Abedini, wife of freed pastor, Saeed Abedini, files for legal separation By Dan Wooding
BOISE, IDAHO (ANS – January 27, 2016) -- The wife of Saeed Abedini, the Iran-American pastor freed this month from an Iranian prison as part of a prisoner swap, has filed for legal separation from her husband, according to an Idaho state judiciary website. NaghmehAbedini previously had said in a message to supporters, that became public last fall, that her husband had been abusive and suffered from a pornography addiction. According to Ben Klayman of Reuters, Reuters has not been able to independently confirm her allegations, and the husband could not be reached for comment through a spokesman. NaghmehAbedini said on Wednesday that her husband, freed earlier this month, had threatened the end of their marriage. After a brief stay with his parents and sister at The Cove, a Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) retreat center, he landed in Boise, Idaho, on Tuesday after his release 10 days ago in Iran, and already had a “wonderful reunion” with their children Rebekka, 9 and Jacob, 7.
Naghmeh Abedini is pictured in the home of her parents in West Boise, Idaho, (Photo: Reuters/Ben Klayman)
“But on the same day she also filed for legal separation, according to a Idaho state judiciary website. She told Reuters she had not filed for divorce, but declined to elaborate and her attorney could not be reached to comment,” said Klayman. In a statement on Facebook, NaghmehAbedini said today (Wednesday January 27. 2016) that she had taken “temporary legal action to make sure our children will stay in Idaho” until the situation with her husband has been resolved. Saeed Abedini, a naturalized
U.S. citizen, was sentenced by an Iranian court in 2013 to eight years in prison for allegedly compromising Iran’s national security by setting up home-based Christian churches there. He was one of five Americans released as the United States and Iran swapped prisoners and Washington lifted sanctions on Tehran in return for the Islamic Republic abiding by an agreement to curb its nuclear ambitions. The pastor’s wife also said he demanded three months ago that she do certain things that she did not detail in order to promote
ARE YOU SAVED? By Gayle O’Connor Almost 30 years ago we had a pastor who never spoke to anyone without asking “are you saved?” He always had a big smile and a ton of enthusiasm for evangelizing the lost so he didn’t want to miss anyone. No matter who it was or where he was, you could count on the question – “are you saved?”The question was always followed by a big smile and a little chuckle which broke the ice and opened the way to tell everyone about Jesus. Now the evangelist has a different approach. He just simply knocks on a door and says, my name is _____ and I’m out in the neighborhood today sharing the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Has anyone shared it with you lately? He gets a lot of different answers. I tell you this to encourage you to share the gospel and win lost souls to Jesus Christ. Just recently the evangelist found out from a co-worker that one of his friends had never accepted Jesus. At first opportunity the evangelist handed the young man a card with the gospel scriptures on it. A while later he passed by the young man’s office door and saw him reading the card so the evangelist asked him if he would
like him to go over those scriptures with him and his response was, “yes, I would like that.” So, he shared the gospel with him, the young man repented of his sin, and asked Jesus to come into his heart and God gloriously saved him. It’s just that simple. Because, you see, we are just messengers. The Holy Spirit does the work. One more soul for Jesus. Just like the children’s song…….Praise Him, Praise Him, All Ye Little Children, God Is Good, God Is Good. So, in this little story do you see what happened? We don’t know if the co-worker planted the seed of the gospel or if someone else planted it but we do know that the co-worker did a lot off watering. The evangelist came into the picture and he watered. All the while God was preparing the young man’s heart. Then the day came when God had the heart ready and the evangelist was able to reap the harvest. And they all rejoiced!!! 1 Corinthians 3:7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase. Glory be to God!!! He is mighty to save. Let us all be faithful and sow the seed.
him in the eyes of the public or he would end the marriage. “I love my husband, but as some might understand, there are times when love must stop enabling something that has become a growing cancer,” she wrote. On her Facebook page, NaghmehAbedini had apologized to her followers for not disclosing the abuse sooner. “I sincerely had hoped that this horrible situation Saeed has had to go through would bring about the spiritual change needed in both of us to bring healing to our marriage,” she said. “Tragi-
gically, the opposite has occurred.” In an interview at her parent’s home in Boise last week, Naghmeh told Reuters that rebuilding their marriage after her husband’s imprisonment would take time. Please pray for the difficult situation this couple are facing at this time. ASSIST News Service (www. assistnews.net).PO Box 609Lake Forest, Ca 92609
Saeed Abedini being greeted by his mother, sister and father, along with Franklin Graham.
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Bradenton City Council rejects religious use of former Kiwanis Building From the Editor
According to an article in the Bradenton Times, A requestto allow a former Kiwanis building for Special Use was denied in a 2-3 vote at a recent Bradenton City Council meeting. If approved, the building—which sits on the busy intersection of 14th Street West and 21st Avenue West— would have been allowed for unspecified religious assembly. The reason stated parking as an issue which could certainly be a factor, but then it is commercial and would not other types of organizations or businesses have a similar problem? Could it be that the Bradenton City Council has something against religious organizations having a place on in this badly needed area. I can remember a few years back when a vacant lot nearby was being used to feed the hungry on the weekends and now it has a fence enclosing it so no one can access the property. There was a number of our homeless and needy that were ministered to there but not anymore. This building is located in an area of the city that could use the influence of the Church and
should be welcomed. If there is something that needs to be done to enable it to be better suited for that purpose, then let the would be owners or renters apply for a permit to make the necessary changes. Instead we have a governing council that just says a blanket no and leaves the are open for other venues. I wonder if a night club were to purchase it what would happen? How about an adult bookstore? Come on council can we really pick and choose in this great country we live in? To me this is an attack on the church in Bradenton and a form of persecution, and you are wrong. This must stop here before it grows to greater proportions. It is time to contact our council members and let them know how we stand. The complete article can be read online in the Bradenton Times from Jan 14th. According to the Bradenton Times article, the final vote on the item had Smith, Gene Gallo and Patrick Roff rejecting, while Byrd and Gene Brown voted for approval.
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Christian Judge Roy Moore defies ‘Gay’ Marriage By Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD
The heroic Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court is taking another stand. “Alabama’s top justice has ordered the state’s judges to uphold the Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment, despite the U.S. Supreme Court Obergefell v. Hodges decision last June redefining marriage,” reports LifeSiteNews.com. “Chief Justice Roy Moore said probate judges have a ministerial duty not to issue marriage licenses in conflict with the state marriage amendment pending a decision from the Alabama Supreme Court. “Confusion and uncertainty exist among the probate judges of this State as to the effect of Obergefell on the ‘existing orders’ in API,” Moore said in a January 6 administrative order.”
Judge Roy Moore with Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt all marriage licenses. This disparity affects the administration of justice in this State.” “Moore said he did not intend to defy the Supreme Court but that there were ‘conflicting orders’ between the U.S. Supreme Court and the Alabama Supreme Court, according to a report from the Montgomery Advertiser.”
“Many probate judges are issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in accordance with Obergefell; others are issuing marriage licenses only to couples of the opposite [Dr. Chaps’ comment: Chief gender or have ceased issuing Moore stood with me in 2006
By Madeline and Bob Duffany go to church, but they don’t know the love of God, because of their own personal hurts and personal dysfunction.” Louise is a Licensed Clinical Pastoral Counselor with National Christian Counseling Association, working with temperament analysis. This evolved from her work in an inner healing ministry in Georgia for several years. Her next goal in ministry is discipleship. Both Pastor Nick and Louise currently work in marriage counseling. Pastor Nick and Louise met in Denver, and were married two months later. He was saved over the radio, when they were in Atlanta, and became sold out to God, both becoming elders in a Methodist Church. In 1995, he served as a teacher for a short while at Coastal Worship Center, a five-fold ministry church in Georgia, but soon was recognized as a called Pastor, and took on that position in the Church in 1999, serving for ten years. In 2008 they started a church in Arkansas, but after two and a half years of struggle and
If only other judges had his courage.] Let’s petition Congress to defend traditional marriage: Contact: The Pray In Jesus Name Project, PO Box 77077, Colorado Springs, CO 80970.
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Meet Pastors Nick and Louis Alleva Pastor Nick and Louise Alleva currently reside at Christian Retreat in Bradenton, Florida. Married 31 years. Earlier in their lives, Nick went to Catholic School, Louise to Lutheran School. Nick shared, “When we got married, we needed to go back to church for the kids, and when we did, we ran smack flap into Jesus, and it changed our lives.” At a Methodist Church, Pastor Nick was struck by the love of God displayed by the members of the Church. He was influenced by a lady singing, ‘I’m so glad to be part of the family of God.’“I realized that God loves me.” Louise was born and baptized by the Nuns in a Catholic hospital in Rock Island, Illinois. As a young teen in the Methodist Church, she accepted Christ and witnessed to her Mother, who was saved already. Louise’s current path of ministry stems somewhat from a childhood of dysfunctionality, which has given her the desire to help others who are perhaps struggling with “slavery to Sonship.” “A lot of people (and this is where I was)
for the right to pray “in Jesus’ name” and has stood tall for the 10 Commandments display. Now he defends his state Constitution and God’s law defining marriage between one man and one woman.
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Jesus’ Second Coming by Ed McGraw Explore the “big idea” that Jesus is coming back! Read what the Bible said about Jesus hundreds of years before He was born The Messiah The word Messiahin Hebrew means “the Anointed One”. It is a title for Jesus that is used in relation to the people of Israel. Jesus is God’s great Deliverer who would deliver Israel and all who would believe in Him from the condemnation of sin through His sacrifice on the cross. He would also deliver Israel from all her enemies through His conquering power. The New Testament (Greek) term for Messiah is the Christ. Jesus is His name; Christ is His title. The term messianic prophecyrefersto Old Testament predictions about the Messiah. Once you start looking seriously at prophecy, you will be amazed at how much of the Bible refers to the future. We are not talking about a few verses or a chapter here and there. Prophecy is spread all throughout the Bible. Jesus’ Second Coming I have calculated that there are 8,532 verses that contain predictive information. Twenty-seven percent of the Bible is prophecy! I have further figured out that 6,641 Old Testament verses (28.5 percent) and 1,711 New Testament verses (21.5 percent) speak about future events. The only Bible books that contain no predictions are Ruth and Song of Songs in the Old Testament and Philemon and 3 John in the New Testament. The remaining sixty-two books all include at least some prophetic material. Some biblical books are almost totally predictions: Zephaniah: 89% Nahum: 74% Revelation: 63% 2 Peter: 41% Some of the larger books contain hundreds of verses of Prophecy, Ezekiel have 821 verses that speak directly to the future, 65 percent of the book: Isaiah - 754 verses: 59% Matthew - 278 verses: 26% Prophecy is no minor theme in the Bible. If God put that much in His Book, it is clear He wants us to know this stuff!
Jesus certainly took prophecy seriously. He repeatedly pointed to events in His ministry as the fulfillment of Old Testament predictions. When Jesus told His followers that one of them would betray Him, He gave this explanation: John 13:18 “I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture: He who shares my bread has lifted up his heel against Me” Jesus took His own predictions seriously-He expected his followers would do so as well. He said, John 13:19 “I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He” The Bible contains approximately 2,500 predictions about events that were future when the predictions were recorded or spoken. Two thousand of these predictions have been fulfilled in every detail. What are the odds? We can conclude that five hundred predictions in the Bible are about events yet to happen. With all this material to cover, where do we start? Some people want to jump right in by talking about the mark of the beast or how long the Tribulation will last or who the Antichrist is. If you are not familiar with those terms, do not panic! We well get there eventually. As fascinating assome of those subjects are, the place to begin is with the central, most important, most universally known prediction in the Bible: John 14:3 Jesus said, “I will come back” That is the bottom line of everything we believe about the future. All other prophecy revolves around and springs from this clear prediction that Jesus who lived here on earth, died on the cross, and rose from the dead and the same Jesus will come back again. For Christians, Jesus is everything. So we are not surprised that, as God unfolds His future plans, Jesus is at the very center of it all. It did not just start in the New Testament either. It has always been the case that biblical prophecy centered around Jesus. In the Old Testament, God’s prophets spoke about a great Deliverer who would come as anointed King,
the Messiah. Yet as those prophets looked ahead in time and saw the coming Messiah, they only saw part of the picture. On one hand, the prophets predicted the coming of a suffering Messiah, a meek, humble servant of God who would take on Himself the penalty of sin. At other times, the prophets spoke about a powerful, victorious Messiah who would conquer His enemies and rule the world. Sometimes both elements were woven into the same prophecy this one, for example: Isaiah 9:6-7 For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace. 7 There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, On the throne of David and over his kingdom, To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness From then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this. Isaiah who lived seven hundred years before Jesus saw a child born meek and humble who would sit on King David’s throne and reign forever powerful and victorious. Zechariah four hundred years before Jesus predicted the arrival of a gentle Messiah: Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. Then, in the very next verse, the prophet says this: Zechariah 9:10 He will proclaim peace to the nations. His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the River to the ends of the earth. The predictions about the Messiah were so different that some Jewish people in the first century thought there would be twoMessiahs-humble and sin-bearing, the second majestic and earth-conquering. The solution was not in two Messiahs, but in two appearances of the same Messiah. The Old Testament prophets did
not realize that there would be two separate times when the Messiah would come to earth. They expected just one event. It is like looking at a photograph of a high mountain range, like the Rockies or the Himalayas. Two mountain peaks may look like they are right next to each other or even part of the same mountain. When you get to the top, however, or fly over in an airplane, you realize that whatlooked like one peak was rea
lly two peaks separated by a long valley. As the Old Testament prophets looked ahead to the Messiah, they saw His glory and His humility displayed in one appearance. When Jesus came, however, we saw only the humble Teacher, the Gentle Shepherd, the Healer, the sin-bearer. Jesus’ promise cleared up the mystery that He would come again a second time and this second appearance would be in awesome power.
Family Research Council response to Obama’s State of the Union Address
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Family Research Council President Tony Perkins released the following statement in response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address: “Tonight the president detailed the many ways in which he has fundamentally transformed America. When he took office, Barack Obama set out to accomplish this goal by tragically departing from the values that made America a great nation. But unfortunately, for the President, this isn’t cause for concern -- but celebration. “The evidence of this transformation is everywhere -- from terrorists attacks on our streets to the confusion in our classrooms; from the further fracturing of the family to the misuse of our military to the expanding racial divide. And unfortunately, we’ll be spending the better part of a generation trying to repair the damage of the Obama administration. But, as those who watched tonight’s State of the Union know, there is light at the end of the lawless tunnel. We see it in the fresh face sitting in the Speaker’s chair behind President Obama. We saw it in the audience, where women of conviction like Kim Davis and the Little Sisters of the Poor were seated -- symbols of courage in the president’s war on religious liberty. And we see it in the speeches of the men and women vying to stand exactly where the president is next year. “Tonight, we remember that for every outrageous ruling on marriage, there were brave county clerks. For each attack on faith and nature’s law, there were cities like Houston. And for every atheist suing to take God out of schools, there were godly principals. At last night’s State of the Family address at FRC, we paid tribute to them all -- and called on the Church to pray and act for a spiritual, moral, and cultural renewal in our nation. That clearly was not the president’s message tonight, but it’s the message our country needs to hear.
“President Obama’s faith in Washington is far greater than his faith in the American people. He calls for national unity in the same breath that he lauds same-sex marriage - the single most divisive Supreme Court decision since Roe vs. Wade. And his condescending attitude discourages the kind of cooperation he claims to desire. “Marriage, religious liberty, human sexuality, the church, race relations, and our core beliefs have all been frayed by the words and deeds of this administration. As Christians, if we don’t have the freedom to live according to our faith -- whether it’s in the home, whether it’s in the workplace, or in school -- then we really can’t be free. “That’s why, I believe, it’s time for America’s Christian leaders to come together and show our political leaders a way forward,” concluded Perkins. Family Research Councilhttp:// www.frc.org
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Dr. Mike Evens: “Fight Terrorists by Defining No One Should Be Compelled them as ‘Infidels’ and not ‘radical jihadists’ to Facilitate Abortion Drugs Mike Evans, Founder of The Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem
NEW YORK, Jan. 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With debates and statements heating up as elections get closer, it seems that no Republican presidential candidate debate would be complete without a lecture on radical Islam. It implies that America should be at war with radical Islam. Dr. Mike Evens, a celebrated author and a strong member of the Republican Party, who spent decades in the Middle East, is convinced that playing the “radical Islam card” only benefits the jihadists. In his new essay, published in Jerusalem Post last week, and contrast to popular republican views, he realized that in today’s world “He who defines the terms controls the debate.” And that it is an ideological war that America must fight. By definition, “Radical” to the Muslim world means “Salafi.” “Salafi” (Arabic for ancestor) and “Islam” (submission) provide the entire basis for the Islamic religion and for Sharia law. Ninety- nine percent of all suicide bombers are Salafist Muslims. Salafism is the purest form of radical religion. Radical means fundamental and goes to the root of Salafism. To declare war on radical Islam is to declare war on all Islam, since 60 percent of all Muslims are fundamentalist, radical Salafists – no less than 750 million Muslims,
including countries like Turkey, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt. It’s exactly what jihadists want. Twenty-first century wars are ideological, economic, media-driven proxy wars. Evans has come up with a few solutions as to how such a war should be fought on the American part. First and foremost, with semantics as a weapon: It is much wiser to define all jihadists as “Islamic infidels” and control the terms of the ideological war. Not all Arabs want to blow themselves up; the vast majority of Muslims are not jihadists. In the Muslim world, calling someone honorable is the highest compliment and humiliation is worse than death. To humiliate, according to Evens, a terrorist should not be mentioned by name at all. Instead of being acknowledged as a radical Islamic jihadist describe them as “Islamic infidels.” The jihadists are at war with the infidels, and would not want to be labeled as one. The second angle Evens wishes to change in American perspective is that since 9/11, America has focused on who kills us, but not on why they kill. The answer is always the same: They believe we are infidels. The Islamic infidel card should be played on them, and the Muslim world be persuaded to join, especially since the majority of those
whom jihadists kill are Muslim. Thirdly, the US must fight a special ops war, including in the media, targeted on uprooting the perception that America is a Goliath to the Islamic David. Fourthly, Islamic infidels must be bankrupted. Currently, the Islamic state of Iran receives $150 billion compliments of the US, and Turkey and even Jordan are buying IS oil. Finally, Evens believes that the US must employ Israel as a strategic proxy. Israel helped America win the Cold War in the Middle East without the US sacrificing lives. Israel can assist the US with defeating ISIS. Mike Evens is the founder of the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem, a best selling author and a political activist.
TUCSON, Ariz., Jan. 13, 2016 / PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -The Obama Administration has gone far beyond the bounds of a civilized society in attempting to compel the Little Sisters of the Poor and others to facilitate abortion-inducing drugs, argues the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. AAPS filed an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in strong support of the religious liberty of organizations and individuals to refuse to “sign off ” on the mandate for abortifacients, as imposed under the Contraceptive Mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA” or “ObamaCare”). “Our government today should not be doing anything analogous to what King Henry VIII did to Sir Thomas More 480 years ago, by forcing men and women to violate their conscience in subservience to the sovereign,” observes AAPS executive director Jane M. Orient, M.D. “We have a tradition of liberty in our Nation that needs to be respected now as much as it was in 1776,” she added. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) should have been construed by the lower courts to protect individuals and
organizations against being forced to facilitate “contraceptives” that actually may cause abortion, as the regulation by the Obama Administration requires. “By mandating coverage for life-ending drugs and devices, including the abortion-inducing drug ella, HHS exceeded its discretion,” writes AAPS in its amicus brief in Zubik v. Burwell. “The statutory language of Section 2713(a)(4) of the ACA, which requires private insurance plans to cover certain preventive services, does not require the inclusion of any ‘contraception’ as a covered service,” AAPS added. It was particularly unjustified for lower courts to deny rights to religious non-profit organizations after the U.S. Supreme Court recognized similar rights of the owners of closely held, for-profit corporations in its Hobby Lobby decision. Government should respect objections by all to health plans that facilitate the destruction of human life in its embryonic stage. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a national organization representing physicians in all specialties, founded in 1943 to preserve private medicine and the patient-physician relationship.
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Counselor’s Corner ByByCharles Glass Dr Louise Alleva
CHOICES....
ples on how to tear down those walls or strongholds. Then we Several weeks ago I heard can learn how to become free a testimony from a former and receive God’s perfect love. convict that really spoke to me. He has a prison minis- But first let me introduce mytry and the focus of his mes- self. My name is Louise and sage to the inmates is simple the best choice I made was and to the point. They are many years ago when I acthere because of the choi- cepted Jesus as my personal ces they made. Period. And Savior and Lord. From that each day the outcome would day on I started my journey be because of their choices. of searching for the same freeOf course he goes on to offer dom I want to offer you. Over the message of redemption years of study and training I in Jesus as another choice. was called, with the direction of my mentor and guide, the While listening to him I Holy Spirit, to be in the micouldn’t help thinking that we nistry of Christian counseall have lived or are still living ling. I earned a Doctorate of in another kind of prison. A Ministry in Christian Counkind of stronghold. Being seling, a temperament counbehind brick and mortar walls seling certification, clinical with bars can seem overwhel- pastoral counselor license and ming but how many of us am an ordained minister. I’m feel hemmed in and helpless also just a person who started just as if we were imprisoned out by learning the hard way physically. Overwhelmed? that making good choices is a long and winding road for Hopelessness, anger, bitter- all of us, but it’s worth it. Now ness, unforgiveness, and hurt I invite you to come along built up over time can beco- with me so you can find your me very strong walls around destiny. The choice is yours! us just as strong as any prison wall. So, like that minister, I This month I want to begin am writing you to say, we all with the first choice we all have choices. We can choose need to make before anything to be in a prison of our own else. Then in future articles I’ll making or choose to be free. share more in-depth subjects Free from the emotional ties and offer resources and mateof the past, free from the re- rials that I’ve gleaned from my sults of our hurt, free from the training, teachings from many pain of rejection, abandon- great and Godly counselors ment, abuse and the outcome and ministries I have stuof some of our choices that died over the past 10+ years. we’re not so proud of. I’d like True freedom can’t begin until to begin a journey with you in you have settled in your heart sharing solid Biblical princi- where you are with the Lord.
I begin most of my counseling sessions with the question, “Have you received Jesus as your Lord and Savior?” Since I do Christian counseling everything I do in a session leads to the fact that if you are a follower of Christ, even a brand new one, you have all the heavenly rights and privileges of a beloved child of God. When you begin to become free from the hurt and pain that life has piled on you, you then have the chance to choose God’s offer of life and all the peace, and joy that it offers. John 1:1213 says “But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God”. ESV So, Lesson #1 If you sincerely want to receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, read out loud the following. “Lord, I acknowledge that Jesus Christ is God and that He came to earth as a man in order to live the sinless life that I cannot live. I acknowledge that He died in my place, so that I would not have to pay the penalty I deserve. I confess my past life of sin and I am now ready to accept and trust Jesus Christ as my Savior and my Lord. I ask Jesus to come into my heart, take up residence there, and begin living through me. AMEN Welcome to the family of God! If you are wondering “now what”? You can be-
gin by emailing me, louise. alleva@hotmail.com for questions or prayer. Then look for a Bible believing church you can visit or if you are already a Christian, then pray for those who may be saying this prayer for the first time.
today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants.”
In conclusion. Deuteronomy. 30:19 says “I call heaven and earth to witness against you
Be blessed, Contact Dr Alleva at: Louise.Alleva@hotmail.com
Next month I’ll be sharing on who our true enemy is.
Continued from Front Page The school ultimately refused to allow the Woods’ daughter to optout of the assignments, forcing her to either violate her faith by pledging to Allah or receive zeros for the assignments. Together, John Kevin Wood, Melissa Wood, and their daughter chose to remain faithful to God and refused to complete the assignments, even though failing grades would harm her future admission to college and her opportunities to obtain college scholarships. Adding insult to injury, in an effort to silence all pro-Christian speech in her school, La Plata’s principal, without a hearing or any opportunity to refute the false allegations against him, issued a “No Trespass” notice against John Kevin Wood denying him any access to school grounds. Wood served 8 years in the Marine Corps. He was deployed in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm and lost friends to Islamic extremists. A few years later, Wood responded as a firefighter to the 9-11 Islamic terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Wood witnessed firsthand the destruction created in the name of Allah and knows that Islam is not “a religion of peace.” The school prevented John Kevin Wood from defending his daughter’s Christian beliefs against Islamic indoctrination, even though as a Marine, he stood in harm’s way to defend our nation, and the Charles County Public Schools.
Richard Thompson, President and Chief Counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, commented: “Defendants forced Wood’s daughter to disparage her Christian faith by reciting the Shahada, and acknowledging Mohammed as her spiritual leader. Her World History class spent one day on Christianity and two weeks immersed in Islam. Such discriminatory treatment of Christianity is an unconstitutional promotion of one religion over another.” Thompson added, “The course also taught false statements such as “Allah is the same God worshipped by Christians, and Islam as a “religion of peace. Parents must be ever vigilant to the Islamic indoctrination of their children under the guise of teaching history and multiculturalism. This is happening in public schools across the country. And they must take action to stop it.” The Woods’ lawsuit seeks a court declaration that Defendants violated their constitutional and statutory rights, a temporary and permanent injunction barring Defendants from endorsing Islam or favoring Islam over Christianity and other religions, and from enforcing the no trespassing order issued against John Kevin Wood. You may reach the Thomas More Law Center at (734) 827-2001 or visit our websiteat www.thomasmore.org.
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