Omar al Bashir was removed by the military after almost 30 years in power.
Release International told Premier the new leadership will have the opportunity to enshrine freedom to worship in the law.
Speaking during Premier’s New Hour, Andrew Boyd from the charity explained: “There have been decades now of extreme persecution and Release International’s hope is that this could now be a turning point. It is a window of opportunity for things to change.
“And we call on the international community, leaders of the free world, to help Sudan make the transition it needs to become a democracy, and to expect and require and encourage that country to give that most basic freedom that everybody needs.
“And that’s the freedom of faith.”
Boyd said Christians in the predominantly Muslim country have faced the heaviest oppression in the Nuba Mountains, where the government has been driving out minority groups in a programme of ethnic cleansing.
Churches have also been demolished and church leaders have been arrested, with church property often seized.
The charity said there have been “encouraging signs” for the two million Christians in Sudan since the coup.
The Chief of the Military Council, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has released hundreds of political prisoners and described the…
Fire Burns at Two Christian Landmarks: Temple Mount in Flames at the Same Time as Notre Dame Fire
As a massive fire was ripping through the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, a significantly smaller fire stared in the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
According to Newsweek, a small fire broke out at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound – famously known as the home of the Temple Mount – on Monday evening in the Marwani Prayer Room, also known as Solomon’s Stables.
Video footage of the fire posted to social media shows clouds of smoke ascending from the roof of the prayer room. According to reports, the fire at the Al-Aqsa Mosque broke out around the same time as the massive fire at Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral.
Reportedly, a guard told the Palestinian National Authority news outlet that the “fire broke out in the guard’s room outside the roof of the Marwani Prayer Room, and the fire brigade of the Islamic Waqf handled the matter successfully.”
According to the Daily Mail, the room where the fire occurred is under the southeastern corner of the Temple Mount – the third holiest site in Christianity.
No injuries or damage have been reported at this time and there has been no…
The original route for the Apprentice Boys of Derry (Bridgeton) Easter Sunday parade would have passed St Alphonsus Church, Glasgow, where Father Thomas White was targeted as an Orange walk went by on July 7 last year.
Father White was spat on as he spoke to parishioners outside the place of worship in London Road.
Bradley Wallace was jailed for ten months in February after admitting assaulting the priest – a charge aggravated by religious prejudice.
Glasgow City Council re-routed the procession, which will go from Tullis Street to Cathedral Square and back, away from the church, following a meeting on Tuesday.
A council spokesman said: “Members chose to re-route the procession after hearing serious concerns, raised by Police Scotland, about the potential for disorder due to protests and counter-protests from people opposing or supporting the event.”
The Archdiocese of Glasgow tweeted: “We welcome the decision of @GlasgowCC to re-route the march planned for Easter Sunday morning past St Alphonsus and St Mary’s.
“The right of ordinary people to go to Mass on Easter morning, free from intimidation and fear is one that must be respected and defended.”
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Bernie Sanders Endorses Abortion ‘Up Until the Moment of Birth’
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Monday dismissed the debate over late-term abortion up to the moment of birth, calling it a “political issue” but ultimately saying he thinks it should remain legal.
Sanders made the comments during a Fox News town hall in Bethlehem, Pa., with host Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.
MacCallum asked Sanders, “With regard to abortion, do you believe that a woman should be able to terminate a pregnancy up until the moment of birth?”
“Look,” Sanders responded. “I think that that happens very, very rarely, and I think that this is being made into a political issue. … But at the end of the day, I believe that the decision over abortion belongs to a woman and her physician – not the federal government, not the state government, and not the local government.”
In January, New York became the latest state to legalize abortion up to the moment of birth. Virginia considered a similar bill that was backed by Virginia’s governor. Referencing those controversies, during his State of the Union address, President Trump called on Congress “to pass legislation to prohibit the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother’s womb.”
Pro-life leaders criticized Sanders’ comments. Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, called them “total barbarism.” Marjorie…
Kristie Higgs, 43, was accused by bosses at Farmor’s School of making homophobic comments on her personal Facebook page, after she questioned sex education lessons at her own child’s primary school.
She said she had legitimate concerns over new Government guidance on sex and relationship lessons, however she was told her claim that children at the school were being indoctrinated, amounted to homophobia.
The posts by the Christian mother-of two were only visible to her friends.
Roger Kiska from the Christian Legal Centre, which is supporting her, told Premier her dismissal, was grossly unfair.
“Losing your job for gross misconduct – which is really the worst black eye you can have, as far as employment – that suggests that you’ve committed fraud or done something incredibly egregious – it makes you almost unemployable.
“So this is obviously taking a tremendous toll on her.”
The first post shared began with her writing in capital letters “please read this they are brainwashing our children!”
She then went on to urge people to “please sign this petition, they have already started to brainwash our innocent wonderfully created children and it’s happening in our local primary school now”.
The rest of the post, written by another mother, highlighted that a government consultation on whether to make relationships and sex…
Telling the Passover Story in the Shadow of the Pittsburgh Massacre
(RNS) — After losing her mother-in-law in last October’s Pittsburgh massacre, Marnie Fienberg quit her job.
A federal contractor in communications strategy who lives in northern Virginia, Fienberg couldn’t go back to work after the shiva, or seven days of Jewish mourning, were up.
Later she realized she couldn’t cook a Passover seder either.
For a dozen years before the shooting, Fienberg and her mother-in-law, Joyce, had prepared the meal at the heart of the holiday together. Joyce Fienberg was used to cooking the seder meal — a ritual reenactment of the story of the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt — for as many as 25 guests. She always made matzoh ball soup, sometimes three different kinds — her regular recipe, a heartier whole-wheat version, and a gluten-free version.
That was typical Joyce. She doted on her guests and their dietary choices, wanting each and every person at her table to feel cared for and loved.
This year Marnie Fienberg will do Passover differently. She has envisioned an ambitious project called “2 for Seder” that has caught on as a way to overcome anti-Semitism by better acquainting non-Jews with the Passover story of the biblical flight from slavery to freedom.
Using her communications expertise, she partnered with trusted Jewish groups that liked the idea, from the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh to the…
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The fire that devastated the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was an accident, according to the president of the Paris region. Donors have already pledged millions of dollars to rebuild the medieval landmark, one of the most iconic in the world.
The Cathedral was begun in 1163 with the laying of the cornerstone and largely completed by 1345. The cathedral towers are both 226 feet tall. They were the tallest structures in Paris until the Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889.
Around four hundred firefighters battled the blaze for nine hours before extinguishing it. The cathedral’s iconic spire fell, but the towers were saved.
The Notre Dame Cathedral is a significant metaphor for religion in our times.
French President Emmanuel Macron described the devastating fire as the “emotion of an entire nation.” Thirteen million people visit the cathedral each year, making it one of the world’s most beloved structures.
The words “Submit to God thru Islam” and “Muhammed is his prophet” were displayed in black spray-paint on the outside of Midway Presbyterian Church, according to local police.
The Anderson Police Department has offered a reward for information that leads to any arrest linked to the vandalism of the church.
Members of the church, which dates its origins back to the 1800s, covered the windows ahead of the thunderstorms on Sunday night.
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43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Love is a subject that almost every one can teach theoretically but our emphasis this month will be on the doing of it. First component of love as shown to us in john 3:16, God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son; the first prove of love is giving.
To love is to recognize value in someone. When you love God, you recognize God’s value and want to demonstrate it by giving to Him in celebration of His worth or value. There is absolutely nothing on this planet that is anywhere near God’s value: so what do you do? You give him your life.
When you recognize and value people, then you recognize the gap between their reality and their potential. You want to bridge that gap by giving. God recognized value in us; He demonstrated this value by giving the life of His only son because He wanted to bridge the gap between where we were as sinners and our potential as the righteousness of God.
The second prove of love which is a derivative of the first is forgiving. To forgive means to cancel a debt. In this instance, they are emotional debts. To forgive is to refuse to hold feelings of resentment or animosity against someone. When we love, we give and forgive.
The question today is who should we love? Matthew 22: 37–40 say love the Lord your God with all your heart, might and your soul, which is the first commandment. The second one is like it; love your neighbor as yourself. We are to love God and secondly we are to love other people. Who qualifies to be your neighbor? That would be anyone that lives in your vicinity, family members, and your colleagues in the office, someone that is not far from you.
Jesus breaks is down in Matthew 5 saying love the ones that hate you. The ones that persecute and curse you. Love your enemies. You can’t figure out what to do to your enemies better than God. Our attention here is being drawn to the fact that in our relationships with people, their actions should not change our nature. Our actions should not be reactions to what they do but it should be something that emanates from our own nature.
God makes the sun to shine during the good and the bad and rain to fall because our actions can never change Him. God is love; the worst hatred from anyone will never change the love nature of God. If God is love and we have the nature of God then we are love.
If the only measure of our capacity for love was the good things that we have been doing to other believers, to people that are nice to us and you know there’s a blessing for that because it’s a commandment from the bible. There is a blessing for giving.
Pastor Samuel Adeyemi is the Senior Pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, a fast growing, life changing church committed to “raising role models” based in Lagos. He is also the President of Success Power International.
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