Footballer Castigated over Jesus picture

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Footballer Castigated over Jesus picture

Former England footballer Phil Neville’s under fire via social media after putting a picture on his Instagram page depicting Manchester United goalkeeper David de Gea as Jesus.

He posted the picture with the message ‘Great saves @d_degeaofficial’ after the Spaniard’s performance against Stoke City on Tuesday night.

The goalkeeper recieved widespread praise for a number of fine saves in United’s victory.

But the picture sent to Phil Neville’s 139,000 followers didn’t go down well with everyone.

One said ‘Delete it…this is not funny! God isn’t for joke (sic)’. Another said ‘you should respect others and the God they believe in’.

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Imprisoned and Tortured Egyptian Christian Convert Vows to ‘Starve Himself to Death

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Imprisoned and Tortured Egyptian Christian Convert Vows to ‘Starve Himself to Death

The Christian convert who made history by becoming the first person in Egypt’s history to attempt to legally change his religious affiliation on his government identification from Islam to Christianity, has “vowed to starve himself to death” in response to his “illegal” imprisonment, his attorney said.

Bishoy Boulous, who is formerly known by his Muslim name of Mohammed Hegazy, was sentenced to five years imprisonment by an Egyptian court in July on the allegation of causing “sectarian strife.”

Boulous’ attorney, Karam Ghobrial, claims that the 32-year-old’s detention is in “violation of the law” and that the charges against him were motivated by his original attempt in 2007 to have the Egyptian government legally recognize his conversion from Muslim to Christian, Front Page Magazine reports.

“The [current] judge is behaving in a prejudiced manner in this case because Bishoy had public[ly] announced his conversion to Christianity, [stressing] the need for attention to this case and escalating it so everyone knows what this convert is being exposed to,” Ghobrial said.

In July, a Minya Criminal Court judge sentenced Boulous, who was working as a reporter for a Coptic Christian television station at the time, for “disturbing the peace by broadcasting false information.”

At the time, Boulous was producing a documentary regarding the social turmoil pertaining to Islamic attacks on Egyptian Christians.

Although Boulous’ appeal hearing was scheduled for Nov. 16, it is unclear whether or not Egyptian State Security allowed him to travel from his prison in Cairo to attend the appeal hearing in Minya, which is over 150 miles away.

Ghobrial expressed concern a few days before the hearing that his client would not be allowed to travel to attend his own appeal hearing, which meant that his five-year sentence would have been confirmed…Read More

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Book Review: The Prophetic Blessing by John Hagge

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Book Review: The Prophetic Blessing by John Hagge

THE POWER OF THE PROPHETIC BLESSING by JOHN HAGEE
Pastor John Hagge, the man with the anointing to impact the blessing of the Lord through his teaching is out with another wonderful, impactful and insightful book titled ‘The Power of the Prophetic Blessing’, the book reviews how to step into God’s blessing, how to command supernatural blessing to flow into every areas of your lives and you will also know that a life of blessing is what God set out for you not a life of poverty.

While reading the book, I discovered that things can never go wrong with me because of the secrets of how to access God’s blessing that I found in this book. I also found some powerful words in the book that I believe if you say it to yourself for a month or two, you will experience God’s blessing like never before.

John said these words, I believe it, I claimed it and it is working for me. He said “He (God) has promised to make you the head and not the tail. He will give you houses you didn’t build, vineyards you didn’t plant, and wells you didn’t dig. He will plant you by rivers of living water, and whatsoever you do will prosper! He is the Lord who gives you the power to get wealth.”

These words are the essential ingredients needed for the blessings of the Lord and you will find them in this insightful book ‘The Power of the Prophetic Blessing’ by John Hagge, a man who is in God’s blessing. No matter whom you are or what you have, it’s the blessing of the Lord that will give you peace, why don’t you get a copy of this book to learn how to be blessed by God.

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7,000 Dancers to Tango in Rome for Pope’s 78th birthday.

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7,000 Dancers to Tango in Rome for Pope’s 78th birthday.

Thousands of tango dancers will celebrate Pope Francis’s 78th birthday with a flash mob later this month, according to the Catholic News Agency.

The organisers have promoted the event on social media as “the largest milonga in the world” – a milonga being a more informal, relaxed version of the tango. Some 7,000 dancers are expected to take part.

“We have gotten all of the permits and we will dance a milonga with the official permission of the city of Rome and the Vatican gendarmerie!” said Cristina Camaroni, who is organizing the flash mob.

The event is planned for 4pm on December 17, Pope Francis’s birthday. The flash mob dance, which is expected to last two hours, will take place in Risorgimento Square in Rome, near to St Peter’s.

About 3,000 of the dancers, wearing white handkerchiefs around their necks, are expected to take part that morning in the Pope’s general audience in St Peter’s Square.

Pope Francis is known to enjoy the tango, which originated in the late 19th century on the Uruguayan border of his native Argentina.

“I like Tango very much. It’s something that comes from inside of me. My favorite singers are Carlos Gardel, Julio Sosa and Ada Falcon, who later became a nun,” he said as Cardinal Bergoglio in the 2010 book-interview The Jesuit by Francesca Ambrogetti and Sergio Rubin.

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Commemoration of Christmas Truce top Priority for Churches

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Commemoration of Christmas Truce top Priority for Churches

A Christian charity’s organising carol services with the hymn Silent Night in churches and sports stadia across the country, commemorating one hundred years since the Christmas truce between British and German soldiers.

HOPE together’s picked the hymn because British and German soldiers are said to have sung it together on Christmas Eve as part of the truce. They also famously played a football match together on Christmas Day.

Fans at Stoke City Football Club will be singing Silent Night with a 400-piece choir, when they take on Chelsea Football Club later this month.

Roy Crowne, the Director of HOPE together, told Premier’s Inspirational Breakfast: “On Christmas Eve on the German side, there was a song that was sung… The English recognised the tune and recognised it was Silent Night… and because of the significance… everyone realised it was Christmas Day the following day.

“They went as whole groups from parts of our country and I’m sure parts of Germany, and I think in the light of that, and the horrific war that it was, this was a moment where they just thought: ‘it’s Christmas’.

“And I think, the significance of Christmas they still remembered, and said: ‘how can we shoot each other on Christmas Day’?

“Isn’t it amazing that the Gospel and a Saviour coming into the world to bring peace, reconciliation, was born on that day: ‘surely we should try to remember’? And they did.”

The carol events come as Staffordshire County Council has published a war general’s letter from one hundred years ago, providing new details on the famous truce between British and German soldiers over Christmas in 1914.

The letter says a German shouted for a truce, and offered to leave his trench as long as a British soldier did as well.

A British soldier carefully left, and seeing a German was doing the same others followed from both sides, the letter says.

It also says soldiers shared cigars, sung songs and walked on No Man’s Land together.

General Walter Congreve VC, who wrote the letter to his wife, said he was invited to leave the trench as well, but chose not to “as I thought they might not be able to resist a general.”

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Thousands attend State-Recognized Funeral for the Munroes

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Thousands attend State-Recognized Funeral for the Munroes

Thousands celebrated Dr. Myles Munroe and his wife, Ruth, two influential leaders in Christianity being laid to rest Thursday in a state-recognized funeral in the Bahamas.

The funeral came nearly a month after the couple died in a plane crash along with eight others from their church Bahamas Faith Ministries.

Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie called Dr. Myles Munroe “indisputably one of the most globally recognizable religious figures our nation has ever produced.”

The story of that rise to prominence is incredible. He was born to poor parents in 1954 and is one of 11 children.

“I was born to transform followers into leaders. And leaders into agents of change,” Myles Munroe said in 2008.

Myles Egbert Munroe discovered his life’s purpose at age 13, not long after a school teacher told him he was nothing and he would never amount to anything. It’s a story he shared on CBN’s Turning Point program.

“And I ran home to that house and fell before my mother and began to cry. And my mother did something that I hope every mother does. She looked at me and she held me very close and she shook me and she said ‘First of all don’t you ever say that again,’” Munroe said on the show.

“And she gave me her big Bible,” he continued. “One verse of scripture, Ephesians, chapter 3, verse 20. And she said, ‘You go in that dirty room and you read that.’

“And I went I read the Scripture and my tears were dropping on the page as I remember what the teacher said to me,” he recalled. “And that Scripture said one thing, it said ‘Now unto him, who is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above far beyond you could ever think, ask or imagine according to the power that worketh in you,’ and I remember my tears began to turn into laughter…Read More

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Christian MP Arrested on Rape Allegation

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Christian MP Arrested on Rape Allegation

Christian MP Mark Pritchard has been arrested following an allegation of rape, and has been released on bail.

According to Sky News, Mr Pritchard, MP for The Wrekin in Shropshire, was arrested and questioned by police on Tuesday following an allegation of rape.

He voluntarily attended a police station and was bailed.

A statement from the Metropolitan Police said: “We can confirm that a 48-year-old man voluntarily attended a north London police station on Tuesday, 2 December where he was arrested, following an allegation of rape in central London.

“He has been bailed to a date in early January 2015 pending further enquiries.”

Mr Pritchard has been MP for The Wrekin since 2005.

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New Movie: Little Boy” Set to Make Big Waves

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New Movie: Little Boy” Set to Make Big Waves

A new American movie called “Little Boy,” an upcoming drama film, directed by Smithsonian Institute Award Winning Director Alejandro Gómez Monteverde (Bella), and written by Monteverde and Pepe Portillo, promises to make a big splash in 2015.

It features an all-star cast and two Oscar nominated actors including Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson, as well as Kevin James, Ben Chaplin, Michael Rapaport, Cary Tagawa, Ted Levine, David Henrie, Eduardo Verastegui and Jakob Salvati, the 7-year old lead actor who delivered an extraordinary Oscar caliber performance.

The film is executive produced by Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, the producers of the hit movie “Son Of God”, and the upcoming remake of “Ben-Hur”. Little Boy is produced by Eduardo Verastegui, Leo Severino, Alejandro Monteverde, Emilio Azcarraga, Bernardo Gomez, Micky Ohare and Sean Wolfington.

Mark Joseph, an award-winning film and music producer, author, columnist and founder of MJM Entertainment Group, has kindly supplied the story line for the ASSIST News Service, so here it is:

Pepper Flint Busbee, nicknamed “Little Boy” by the folks in his town, is constantly ridiculed and bullied due to his unusually short stature. The bullying and nicknames do not bother him in the slightest, however, because he finds every comfort a child could need in the unique relationship he shares with his father. The two are inseparable. Little Boy considers his dad his best, and only, friend.

Consequently, his world is shattered when his Dad enlists to fight against the Japanese in the Pacific. Pepper’s life pauses as he awaits word of James’ promised return from the war. His hope vanishes when the Busbee family receives word that James has been captured and taken as a prisoner of war by the Japanese. (Photo via ANS)

Inspired by the supernatural powers of his comic book hero, “Ben Eagle”, and a sermon of the town’s pastor where the preacher announces that with “faith the size of a mustard seed you can move mountains”; Pepper is convinced he can garner the power to achieve the impossible—end the war and return his father home safely…Read More

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Employees Refrained from Uttering Religious Greetings to Customers

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Employees Refrained from Uttering Religious Greetings to Customers

SmartStyle, a family hair salon brand located inside Walmart stores, has declared war on Christmas. Regis Corporation owns the salon, which also operates under brand names like Supercuts, Sassoon Salon, Regis Salons and MasterCuts.

“I got a haircut yesterday at SmartStyle in Walmart,” an employee from the American Family Association (AFA) reports. “The woman who cut my hair told me the employees had been instructed to refrain from ‘religious’ greetings such as ‘Merry Christmas’ and ‘God bless you.’ I asked her if it was a corporate decision and she said they had been instructed by the district manager on such greetings.”

Could it be true? The AFA called the SmartStyle corporate office to confirm. A company representative told the group, “Employees are instructed to say ‘Happy Holidays’ so that they don’t offend people who are Jewish or other religions.”

Franklin Graham is taking note of this type of hostility. As he sees it, the United States in the last few decades has witnessed increased hostility toward the sacred nature of Christmas, erupting into what has become a blatant war on Christmas.

“Stores, schools and communities across America continue to find new and intolerant reasons to remove any religious references to Christmas, stripping it of any holy or historical significance. Christian songs, prayers and other spiritually vital connections to the Lord Jesus Christ are deleted or diminished,” Graham says.

“That’s because at its root and core, the war on Christmas isn’t really about Christmas at all—it’s about the Son of God. The war on Christmas is a war on Christ and His followers. It’s the hatred of our culture for the exclusive claims that Christ made: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me” (John 14:6).

Want to take action? You can contact SmartStyle right now and let them know their anti-Christmas policy and move to prohibit employees from wishing their customers a “Merry Christmas” is not acceptable.

“SmartStyle employees are not cattle or robots. They are real people, with real feelings, who want to give a genuine, heartfelt greeting to their customers,” the AFA said in its ActionAlert. “But at SmartStyle, political correctness is taking away the joy of Christmas for its employees and its customers.”

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Google to Unveil Kid-Friendly Versions of Chrome, Search and YouTube

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Google to Unveil Kid-Friendly Versions of Chrome, Search and YouTube

Google Inc plans to roll out child-friendly versions of its most popular products in a bid to be “fun and safe for children”, USA Today reported, quoting Pavni Diwanji, the company’s vice president of engineering.
The company will likely create specific versions of its search, YouTube and Chrome products for children aged 12 and under, USA Today reported, adding that Google did not provide a timeline for the rollout.

“We want to be thoughtful about what we do, giving parents the right tools to oversee their kids’ use of our products,” USA Today quoted Diwanji as saying.

A Google spokesperson declined to comment, but confirmed that the effort described in the report was accurate.

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