Pastor Tunde Bakare Sets Record Straight on Presidential Candidate

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Pastor Tunde Bakare Sets Record Straight on Presidential Candidate

The Pastor and the Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare has set the record straight about the APC’s presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.

The controversial pastor, in an exclusive interview with SaharaTV, has debunked insinuations and impressions that the social media has circulated that he is against General Muhammad Buhari. It would be recalled that Bakare ran with Buhari in 2011 on the presidential ticket of the Congress For Progressive Change.

In the new video, Pastor Bakare explained that the audio tape being circulated was a talk he gave immediately after the last governorship election in Ondo state in 2012, saying he made it clear for those who cared to listen that he supports Buhari’s ambition come rain, come shine.

In the new video, Bakare pledged his utmost loyalty to Buhari, making it known that he knows what he is doing and when he supports someone, he does so fully. The pastor, who had just arrived from a trip to the United States, told Sahara Reporters that he was knowledgeable about the behind-the-scenes political horse-trading that produced Yemi Osinbajo as Buhari’s VP candidate.

The interview was conducted at the Latter Rain Assembly church in Lagos, and Pastor Bakare spoke on a variety of topics. Enjoy watching the revealing video below:

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Australian Bishops Commend Steadfast Faith of Middle East Christians

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Australian Bishops Commend Steadfast Faith of Middle East Christians

Christ is being “reborn again in the lowly stable” this Christmas because of the remarkable faith of Iraqi Christians who were driven out of their homes, a group of Australian bishops have said after visiting refugees in Lebanon and the displaced in Erbil, Iraq.

The December 15-19 mission of the seven bishops was aimed at offering spiritual support, humanitarian aid and hope to Christians exiled from their homes in Mosul and the Nineveh Plain after they refused to convert to Islam.

Around 120,000 Christians were displaced in the incursions last summer by ISIS militants. Nuns and clergy, including bishops, are among the displaced in Irbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

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During the visit to Iraq, the bishops met families still camped in tents on church grounds, in half-finished buildings or in pre-fabricated huts in Erbil as well as in some surrounding villages.

“So many of the people we met said, ‘We lost our homes, our lands, our jobs, all our possessions — everything — but we will not lose our faith,” Archbishop Julian Porteous of Hobart told Catholic News Service in Beirut. “You can feel the faith.”

An elderly woman told the bishops that when she was threatened by the Islamic militants and ordered to convert to Islam, she defiantly responded: “I am a Christian. I will not convert. You can kill me if you want.”

“We saw extraordinary courage and depth of commitment to the Christian faith,” Archbishop Porteous said. “It is quite remarkable…Read More

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Phillipine City Where all Taxis Are Required To Have A Bible Verse Painted on Them

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Phillipine City Where all Taxis Are Required To Have A Bible Verse Painted on Them

One city in the Philippines requires that a Scripture be painted on the main public transportation method—a three-wheeled motorcycle. (Photo via CBN News)

Any driver caught without a Bible verse is fined or has their license revoked. The city wants the world to know how much they love God’s Word.

Smack in the middle of the Philippines, 395 miles south of Manila, lies a tropical paradise dripping with natural beauty.

It’s easy to see why the island province of Bohol is one of the country’s famous tourist destinations.

Mile after mile of pristine white sandy beaches and crystal clear water attracts scores of outdoor enthusiasts from around the world.

But the tranquil island getaway is also famous for something else: thousands of noisy, but fast three-wheeled motorized taxis known as tricycles that serve as the island’s main mode of public transportation.

“It can get you to any part of the island. It’s cheap and you can fit between four and seven people at one time,” said Dennis Cantina, who has built these tricycles for 10 years. (Photo via CBN News)

But he and many others who live in Bohol will tell you these are no ordinary tricycles.

“Not only is this the most reliable form of transportation, but on the back of every tricycle is a message of hope and that makes me very proud to build them,” he said…Read More

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Nokia working on Smartphone With Android 5.0 Lollipop

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Nokia working on Smartphone With Android 5.0 Lollipop

After launching its first Android tablet in November, the Nokia N1, the Finnish firm is now rumoured to be working on an Android 5.0 Lollipop-based smartphone called Nokia C1. If the rumour is true and smartphone is released as the Nokia C1, the firm would be breaching the Microsoft acquisition agreement.
According to Techweb, Nokia is working on a device codenamed Nokia C1 that runs a custom build of Android 5.0 Lollipop based on the Nokia Z Launcher.

The tipped specifications by the Chinese blog (via Phonearena) include a 5-inch display; an Intel processor coupled with 2GB of RAM; 32GB internal storage; an 8-megapixel rear camera and a 5-megapixel front camera for the alleged Nokia C1.

To remind you about the Microsoft-Nokia acquisition agreement, the Finnish company Nokia can no longer use the Nokia brand on smartphones till Q4 2016, and on feature phones for 10 years. To bypass the restriction, Nokia may very well launch the smartphone under a different brand.

Microsoft had completed the acquisition of the devices and services division of Nokia in in April this year. After the deal, Nokia was left with its core network equipment and services business, Here mapping and navigation unit, and Nokia Technologies. Since then the two new consumer-facing products from Nokia have been the Z Launcher and the N1 tablet.

Earlier this month, Nokia announced its Here maps app will only be developed by it for Android and iOS, while Microsoft would take over development of the application for the Windows Phone platform.

Last month, Nokia had announced its “first Nokia-branded Android tablet” called the Nokia N1. The tablet will be launched in China in Q1 2015 with a brand-licensing agreement extending to an OEM partner (Foxconn) that will manufacture, distribute, and sell it.

The Nokia N1 will cost $249 (roughly Rs. 15,400) before taxes, and will be made available in other markets globally, said company during the unveiling. The Nokia N1 features a 7.9-inch (2048×1536 pixel) IPS LED-backlit display protected by Gorilla Glass 3; a 64-bit 2.3GHz Intel Atom Z3580 processor (4 cores, 4 threads) coupled with a PowerVR G6430 GPU; 2GB of LPDDR3 (800MHz) RAM; 32GB of inbuilt storage (non-expandable); an 8-megapixel rear autofocus camera; a 5-megapixel fixed focus camera; 5300mAh battery, and predictive Nokia Z Launcher interface on top of Android 5.0 Lollipop.

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Prayer Vigil Held for Slain NYPD Officers

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Prayer Vigil Held for Slain NYPD Officers

Family and friends of the two New York police officers killed on Saturday have responded by attending a candlelight vigil on Sunday evening and calling for peace.

Officers Wenjian Liu, 32, and Rafael Ramos, 40, were shot in the head while they were sitting inside a police patrol car in Brooklyn.

The suspected gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, indicated on social media before the attack that he wanted to kill two policemen in the wake of the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases, where police had killed unarmed black men.

Brinsley, who has a criminal record, reportedly shot his ex-girlfriend in Baltimore, before travelling to New York, and after shooting the officers, later killed himself in a New York subway station.

Liu, who had been a police officer for seven years, got married just a few months ago. Ramos was married with two children, and known as a devoted family man and Christian.

According to the Wall Street Journal Ramos’ cousin, Ronnie Gonzalez, said: “My cousin had a couple of priorities in his life. One was God, because he was a God-loving man.

“I wish I could be half the man my cousin was,” Gonzalez added. “He was sweet. He didn’t deserve…to die.”

His aunt, Lucy Ramos, said in a statement that she hoped they could “move forward and find an amicable path to a peaceful coexistence.”

Ramos was also due to be commissioned as a lay chaplain on the day that he was killed.

Rev Marcos Miranda, the president of the New York State Chaplain Task Force where Ramos was training to become a chaplain, told the Christian Post: “I will remember his kindness the most — even the kindness in his eyes — in our talks, he asked what I thought of him being a police officer, and I said it was an honourable job. He said he thought it was ministry because he was helping those in need.

“He never thought he could be a chaplain, he saw himself doing this type of ministry after he retired from the NYPD. He was very excited about that possibility,” Miranda said…Read More

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Christians Remaining in Syria Fight to Keep Their Land

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Christians Remaining in Syria Fight to Keep Their Land

Thousands of Christians have been forced out of the Hasaka province in Syria this Christmas.

Syria’s Christian population was about 2.2 million, or 10 percent of Syria’s population. Many fled their homes because of fear of persecution for allegedly supporting the Syrian government.

The Christians say they do not support the government.

“We used to have big Christmas celebrations here and now look at the streets,” said a resident named George. “What is there to celebrate? I can’t and won’t leave my home.”

The Syriac Union Party has created a Christian militia to support and to protect the Christians still in the area. The militia, called Sutoro, formed in 2013.

“We are protecting what has been ours for hundreds of years,” said Aboud, who only gave his first name to reporters. “We are the original owners of the land.”

Said Ashur Abu Sarkun, general commander of Sutoro: “It’s very connected to the land. People don’t want Christians around … We welcome an autonomous region where Christians make decisions with the Kurds and Arabs.

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Church gets Anonymous $52,000 Check in Christmas Card

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Church gets Anonymous $52,000 Check in Christmas Card

The Africa Lighthouse Baptist Temple has received an early Christmas blessing.

An anonymous donor wrote a big check for the church located in Albemarle County, Virginia, a gift that enabled the congregation to pay off the mortgage on the property.

Peter Chege, the church’s pastor, recounted how a church spokeswoman opened the envelope containing the check. He said he was shocked when he was shown the contents.

“She opened it up, thinking it was just a regular Christmas card, and in the middle she found a check. And it was not just a check for $1,000 or $2,000, but a check for $52,000,” the pastor said.

Chenge said it would have taken his church a decade to raise that amount of money.

Services on Sunday saw the Africa Lighthouse Baptist Temple congregation celebrating and giving thanks for the generous donation they have been given.

“One year ago, we moved to this property with nothing but faith and $5,000 we had put down for the down payment for the property,” Chenge said according to NBC29.com.

The church of African refugees needed $120,000 more, so they began raising money to pay off the property.

Now, thanks to the substantial donation, the property is paid for in full a year after the church members started their fundraising efforts.

Laura Kesavuka, a church member, said, “We now have our own piece of land. We pray in peace and in our own language, and we are truly grateful.”

Chenge, who emigrated from Kenya nine years ago, said the money will help the church support African immigrants in central Virginia.

“We help them with their first cellphone, we help them even get cars, learn to drive, learn English lessons, apply for a job,” said the pastor. “Now we have a home, we have [a] base from where we can operate and grow and launch more into the community.”

As for the future, the church, whose goal is to “reach the world for Jesus through evangelism, fellowship, discipleship, and church-planting endeavors,” has big plans.

“The future is exciting. We want to have a homeless shelter, we want to have a lot of things that we want to do just for the community,” shared Chenge.

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“Al Shabaab Militants Have Put Bounty on my Head” ,Kenyan Pastor

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“Al Shabaab Militants Have Put Bounty on my Head” ,Kenyan Pastor

A pastor in Kenya of Somali descent whom Islamic extremist Al Shabaab militants have threatened for leaving Islam fears he soon could be killed.

According to the East Africa Correspondent of Morning Star News (morningstarnews.org), Somali Al Shabaab rebels have offered a reward to anyone who kills the Rev. Mahad H. Birik, and after a video of him describing his conversion from Islam seeped into major Somali broadcast, Web and print media two months ago, the pastor of an undisclosed church on the outskirts of Nairobi said longstanding threats on his life became concrete this month.

“My family is now living in a sleepless state,” said the father of two children – one age 15 from a wife who was taken from him when he left Islam, and a 2-year-old from remarriage.

“My life and that of my family is in imminent danger. It is very serious and real, as Muslim extremists are strategizing on having my head.”

Morning Star News reports that on Sunday (Dec. 14) Somali men unknown to him followed Birik and his wife to their church. A security guard stopped the men, asking them who they were and what they wanted, and they left. Birik said police identified their car as registered to Kamau Kamotho, whom officers have long sought on suspicion of being a hit-man for hire. After several masked men hovered near his house one night early this year, he relocated his family to another area of Nairobi.

On Dec. 4, masked men showed up at about 7:30 a.m. at their new residence, located in a compound where around two dozen other families live. They arrived in a car with tinted windows, he said, according to the Morning Star News report.

“One of them came out of the car and started asking whether a Somali pastor was still inside the compound,” Birik said. “The watchman became suspicion as it was very early in the morning. He was able to see through the lowered window, where the driver of the car came out from, and saw two masked men, and then he raised an alarm by whistling.”

A second person got out of the car, and the watchman retreated backwards, he said; residents rushed to the scene, and the suspicious figures got back into the car and drove away.

The Morning Star News explained that Al Shabaab, an Islamic extremist insurgent group in Somalia, announced through Kenyan and Somali media and over mosque loudspeakers in 2009 that they would pay a large sum of money for Birik’s head, he said.

“The Al Shabaab have a sophisticated network,” said Birik, who also works for a relief agency. “I do not know when they will hit me; I am sure I can no longer hide myself. I therefore want the Christian world as well as human rights groups to know that my life is in danger, and I need urgent rescue…Read More

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School Assignment on Islam Angers Parents

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School Assignment on Islam Angers Parents

Parents of children attending a North Carolina school are demanding to know why their children were given a vocabulary assignment that included the Prophet Muhammad and the Islamic faith.

“It really caught me off guard,” a Farmville, North Carolina High School student said. “If we are not allowed to talk about any other religions in school, how is this appropriate?”

Students were given a worksheet that read, “In the following exercises, you will have the opportunity to expand your vocabulary by reading about Muhammad and the Islamic word.”

The assignment included the words “astute,” “conducive,” “mosque,” and “zenith.”

“I was reading it and it caught me off guard,” the unnamed student said. “I just looked at it and I knew something was not right, so I emailed the pages to my mom.”

A parent called the assignment Islamic propaganda.

“It’s very shocking,” she said. “I just told my daughter to read it as fiction. It’s no different than another fictional book you’ve read.”

A school district spokesman said the lesson adhered to the Common Core standards for English Language Arts.

“The course is designed to accompany the world literature text, which emphasizes culture in literature,” a statement from the district said.

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Bin Lorry Crashes into Christmas Shoppers

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Bin Lorry Crashes into Christmas Shoppers

A minister from a church in Glasgow City Centre says he’s praying for the families of people who have died after a bin lorry crashed into a group of pedestrians.

Police Scotland has confirmed there is an “ongoing serious incident” in Glasgow’s George Square close to Queen Street Station.

The Ambulance service says two people have died whilst the number of causalities is in double figures.

Revd Dr Colin Dow from Glasgow City Free Church told Premier: “It’s too raw to even think about it at the moment.

“When you think about things like this, you just have to think, why oh Lord?

“How long will these things happen? Last year we had the Clutha crash here in Glasgow and this year we’ve got this.

“And you want the Lord to bring peace to these people at Christmas because their families are going to be absolutely devastated.”

Eyewitnesses described bodies lying in the road and ‘hundreds’ of emergency services.

The Scottish Fire Service tweeted: “Firefighters are in attendance at a serious incident in Queen Street, Glasgow. Our crews are working alongside other emergency responders.”

Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, who’s a Catholic, tweeted: “There is a major incident in Glasgow’s George Square. Multiple emergency services on the scene. Thoughts & prayers with everyone injured.”

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