The Wallabies player is facing a code of conduct hearing on Saturday to determine whether his $4 million contract will be terminated for posting on social media a warning about all those destined for hell.

In the video, first revealed by The Daily Telegraph in Australia and shown on Channel 9 breakfast TV programme ‘The Today Show’, Folau referred to the book of Daniel where three men stand up for their beliefs with the threat of death.

“At some stage, each and every one of us will face our own fiery furnace, and some of us may have already faced that,” Folau told members of Sydney’s Truth of Jesus Christ Church.

“In your workforce, if they’re telling you something that will compromise your faith, this is a test of faith in which you’re going to be put in a challenge, and the question is – what are you going to do?

“With these guys, they were challenged and it was a matter of life and death, physical death. But they understood their treasures were stored up in heaven, not here on earth.

Israel Folau is preparing for the showdown of his career – taking on Rugby Australia tomorrow, over his future in the code. #9News @damonews pic.twitter.com/owpgDKgN6c

— Nine News Sydney (@9NewsSyd) May 3, 2019

“As the scriptures say, ‘don’t set your mind on things below, but set it on things above’.

“We all know as born again believers in Christ, that everything we have here is…

Christian charity Open Doors was informed that armed members of the terrorist organisation – that has pledged allegiance to IS – invaded the Christian community of Kuda near Madagali in Adamawa state, north east Nigeria on Monday.

They then went door to door, killing as many as 25 people.

Funeral arrangements that had begun the following day were promptly halted as bereaved friends and family, sympathisers from neighbouring communities and even security agents fled as the terrorists were spotted again in the community.

Christian leaders in the area told Open Doors: “We are in danger – we have no one to fight for us to end this killing of our people.”

Field workers have asked supporters around the world to pray for the Lord’s grace to the Church in the Madagali area as they face renewed instability.

A spokesperson from Open Doors told Premier: “Pray for the Holy Spirit to be at work in the lives of all those affected.

“Pray that security will be restored soon.”

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The 48 year old will move from his current role as suffragan Bishop of Dudley, in which he has served since 2014.

He replaces namesake Rt Rev Graham James who stepped down in February.

Speaking about his new role, he said: “It’s a great honour and somewhat daunting to be nominated as Bishop of Norwich. I’m excited to have been called to serve among the people of Norfolk and Waveney as together we seek to live out Jesus Christ’s call to love God and our neighbours.

“A theme of God’s calling in my life is that each new chapter has been to a new and unexpected place. The Diocese of Norwich is equally a new and unexpected place for me, and what a wonderful privilege it is to be called to serve here.

“I see the role of a bishop as encouraging others to live out their faith in Jesus Christ with a generosity of spirit and compassion, bringing people together to serve their neighbours in partnership with others.”

Bishop Graham was ordained as a priest in 1997. Before moving to the midlands he served in the north east of England.

He’s an honorary canon at St Cyprian’s Cathedral in Kumasi, Ghana and has a keen interest in ecology.

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The Foreign Secretary said governments had been “asleep on the watch” over the issue as the interim findings of a review he launched, led by the Bishop of Truro the Rt Rev Philip Mounstephen, was published.

Christians are the most persecuted religious group, the report found, with acts of violence and intimidation becoming more widespread.

It warned that in parts of the Middle East, Christianity could be “wiped out” as people flee persecution.

Mr Hunt – speaking in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on his week-long visit to Africa – accepted the findings that the persecution of Christians was nearing a “genocide”.

“I think we’ve all been asleep on the watch when it comes to the persecution of Christians,” he told reporters.

Thank you Bishop @pmounstephen for your hard-hitting interim report on Christian persecution across the globe. It comes as the world is reeling after horrific attacks on churches in #SriLanka. Look forward to next stage as you examine what more #FCO can dohttps://t.co/UyRDCkuBEX

— Jeremy Hunt (@Jeremy_Hunt) May 3, 2019

“I think not just the Bishop of Truro’s report but obviously what happened in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday has woken everyone up with an enormous shock.

“I think there are various reasons for this but the report makes it very clear that there are different reasons in different parts of the world why persecution of Christians in specific…

Since April 1969 – for 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year – at least one UK ballistic missile submarine has been on patrol beneath the waves of the world’s oceans.

The service at Westminster Abbey aims to recognise the commitment of the Royal Navy in maintaining Operation Relentless – the longest mission in the history of the services.

Ahead of his sacking from the Cabinet, former defence secretary Gavin Williamson visited HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, in Scotland on Monday.

Accused of leaking a top-secret Government discussion on Huawei’s role in helping build Britain’s 5G network, which he denies, he toured HMS Vigilant, which carries the Trident nuclear missiles.

Speaking to reporters on board, he said: “Having that continuous nuclear deterrent, the word is deterrence and it is about delivering peace, it is delivering prosperity and it is delivering security.

“And that’s what it has been doing every single day it has been at sea.”

Noting how the submarine fleet is “literally going head-to-head with adversaries” in the North Atlantic, he said submariners take an “immense amount of risk on to their shoulders”.

“The submarine service has always, quite rightly, called itself the silent service,” he added.

“But I think it maybe just sometimes needs to be just a little bit less modest and talk about some of…