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Christians face an increasingly hostile culture. Several recent events in the world of politics drove this reality home to me. And it’s a hard reality. As I grappled with the disappointments, I had to once again ask the question, why? Why do we do what [...]

We are rather selective when it comes to claiming God’s promises. We need to read them in context and understand the conditions under which we can actually claim them. If not, there can be harsh consequences. Many Christians are very keen on claiming God’s promises. [...]

Open Doors just released its 2022 'World Watch List' which ranks the 50 countries where it is most difficult to follow Jesus. For the first time in two decades, North Korea is not in top spot due to the worsening situation in Afghanistan. Open Doors [...]

Jews are Indigenous to Israel. The boycott of the Sydney Festival by various politically-correct artists over a single Israeli performance in the month-long cultural event is causing division rather than bringing peace. Terrorist organisation Hamas made a statement late last week regarding the Sydney Festival, [...]

The Bible presents three legitimate ways that Christians can respond to persecution: fleeing it, facing it, or staying to fight it. We need God's wisdom to know which strategy to apply when. What happens when Christians face hardcore opposition and persecution? If heavy resistance to [...]

According to Jesus, if you are following Him and experiencing hatred from the world for your faith, you are most likely on the right path. Non-believers sometimes claim that Christianity is a hateful religion and that Christians are haters. But the opposite is true. Ironically, [...]

This article can be summarised in three questions: First, how did we as Christians arrive at this state of being in a “culture war”? Second, as the culture has drifted so far from us, what do we have left to us and what do we [...]

Editor's Note: GlobalPrayerforChina.org, the online voice responding to Cardinal Charles Bo’s request to come together internationally to pray for the Church and Peoples of China, describes the ongoing human rights violations by the government of China. Read the original article here. ___ Across the board, [...]

The mainstream media in the U.S. has become so riven by Left and Right ideological partisanship, and reduced to strident propaganda megaphones for either the Democrats or the Republicans. But it must be said that those on the Left are now far worse, being willing [...]

The persecution of Christians worldwide continues to get worse: If you have ever wondered what is the surest way to face persecution, torture and death in so many places around the world, we fully know the answer to that: simply be a committed follower of [...]

In preparation for a series of books using my mother’s sermon notes, I came across this message, and I hope this abridged version will encourage and challenge us. The message is based on Daniel 3. 1. Idols. Idolatry is giving worship due only to God, [...]

You may have heard this argument before: how dare we speak of religious persecution in the West when the persecution of Christians in other nations is so horrific? I agree wholeheartedly that persecution in the non-Western world is a terrible injustice that we have an [...]

In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau. When his captors discover that he speaks several languages, he is put to work as a Tätowierer (the German word for tattooist), tasked with permanently marking his fellow [...]

The ABC’s reporting of the media witch-hunt centring upon the Roman Catholic Cardinal George Pell, proves that our nation’s national broadcaster is anything but impartial. Just watch the following interview between Greg Craven, the Vice-Chancellor and President of the Australian Catholic University, and ABC presenter [...]

Our society values equality, tolerance and liberty. We see it as our duty to stand up for justice, to be a voice for the underdog, and to ensure that the freedoms we enjoy are extended to everyone—right? Not entirely. There’s a group we’ve forgotten. Because [...]

In his helpful and timely book, God Is Good For You, Greg Sheridan quotes the Cistercian Father Michael Casey on the modern postmodern movement. Drawing on the work of French sociologist, the late Jean Baudillard, Casey posits that the five qualities postmodernism lacks are ‘depth, [...]

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