A 41-year-old Polish filmmaker, audio producer and director is working on a “super production” of an Audio Bible that is meant to provide listeners with an epic recording of the sacred scriptures.

“As a filmmaker, audio producer, and director, I want the Audio Bible to feel like a cinematic audio experience,” Krzysztof Czeczot told Aleteia. “When you close your eyes, you should be in the middle of the story, because the word has power, but also, the word has a space.”

The casting for the upcoming project will feature 100s of voice actors, ranging from A-list Hollywood actors to everyday people. Additionally, the technology that will be used in the production is through a binaural recording, an audio technique that is meant to provide a “3-D sound” to listeners, especially when using headphones.

Czeczot explained that he took a trip to Israel with his team to record “the sounds of the spirit of the place,” such as the crowds, people in the market, animals, and so forth.

“We were in Jerusalem, we were in the desert, we were on the Dead Sea, we were in Jericho,” he added.

Czeczot had previously put out a Polish edition of the Audio Bible which has sold roughly 145,000 copies. The Audio Bible project’s YouTube channel has over 5.4 million views.

A video on the making of the Polish Audio Bible notes that the project took approximately 3 years to complete,…

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Responding to reports that the Vatican sent a delegation to Beijing to renew negotiations on the appointment of Catholic bishops, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a stern reminder during an impromptu visit here on Wednesday (Sept. 30) that faith leaders need to “exercise a moral witness against the persecution of believers.”

His comments, first published in an article and then repeated at the U.S. Embassy event, were met with pushback from church officials.

“Nowhere is religious freedom under assault as much as it is in China today,” Pompeo said at the symposium on “Advancing and Defending International Religious Freedom through Diplomacy,” organized by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See in Rome.

“As with all communist regimes, the Chinese Communist Party deems itself the ultimate moral authority. The increasingly repressive CCP, frightened by its own lack of democratic legitimacy, works day and night to snuff out the lamp of freedom, especially religious freedom, on a horrifying scale,” he said.

Pompeo quoted the pontiff’s call, in his 2013 exhortation “Evangelii gaudium,” for the church to be “permanently in a state of mission.”

“To be a church ‘permanently in a state of mission’ has many meanings,” said the American secretary of state. “Surely one of them is to be a church permanently in defense of basic human rights. A…

Ravi Zacharias International Ministries has launched an investigation into recent claims that the late apologist Ravi Zacharias sexually harassed several women.

According to Christianity Today, Zacharias, who regularly received massage therapy to help manage pain caused by a 1985 spinal injury, was accused by three women who worked at a two-day spa he co-owned of inappropriately touching them, exposing himself to them, and masturbating in front of them during his treatment sessions between 2005-2010.

The women requested anonymity out of fear of retribution.

While it is unclear if Zacharias committed any of these acts, Zacharias’ former business partner reportedly issued an apology via text to one of the women.

According to Christianity Today, one woman claimed that Zacharias, insisting that he was burdened by his ministry, would regularly masturbate in front of her. She recalled him doing this at least 50 times.

Another woman claimed, “He would expose himself every time, and he would touch himself every time.”

She asserted that the private massage room “was where he went to get what he wanted sexually.”

One of the women also claimed that “He would touch my leg, which was kind of by his hand, but then he would run his hand up to the middle of my thighs and then to the private area.”

While another reportedly recalled him touching her lower back and sliding his hand down her pants or…

Recently reelected Polish President Andrzej Duda joined fellow pro-life supporters in the country’s 15th March for Life and Family, as reported by Faithwire. The 48-year-old president is a strong supporter of restricting abortion, stating that “the 21st century’s greatest battle will be for the family.”

Several other political leaders joined Duda, including the Superintendent of Schools for Poland’s Malopolska region Barbara Nowak and Krzystof Bosak of Duda’s competing Confereracja party.

Poland maintains strict abortion laws, only allowing it in cases of rape, incest, or when a mother’s life is in danger. The law also permits an abortion if a child is diagnosed with serious disabilities; yet, Polish citizens have lately taken the charge to fight this law, according to Live Action.

At the beginning of the pandemic, Polish lawmakers debated striking the permission in an effort to defend disabled children.

“From this place, together with you, I call on the judges of the Constitutional Tribunal to be able to stand up with great responsibility for the civilization of life and against the progressive civilization of death,” said Superintendent Nowak. “I appeal to the judges of the Constitutional Tribunal: Do not force us into the civilization of death. We stand for respected life, from the very beginning to the very end. We do not want to be like in the West, ‘modern and…

President Trump said Tuesday during the first presidential debate he has a constitutional right to nominate a new justice to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, while Democrat Joe Biden said the president’s nominee would endanger Obamacare and women’s rights. 

“We won the election. Elections have consequences,” Trump said. 

“We should wait and see what the outcome of this election is,” Biden responded.

The debate was filled with interruptions, crosstalk and name-calling, and led Lou Dobbs of Fox Business Network and George Stephanopoulos of ABC News each to call it the worst debate they had ever seen. 

A CBS News/YouGov poll after the debate said only 17 percent of debate watchers said they were “informed” by the debate. About one-third (31 percent) said they were entertained. More than two-thirds (69 percent) said they were “annoyed.” 

The opening topic focused on Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to fill the seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  

Trump emphasized he is elected for four years, not three, and constitutionally doesn’t have to wait for the election to conclude. 

“We have the Senate, we have the White House, and we have a phenomenal nominee respected by all,” Trump said. “… In fact, some of her biggest endorsers are very liberal people from Notre Dame and other places. So I think she’s going to be…

By Leonardo Blair, Christian Post Reporter Follow | Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Hillsong Church apologized late Tuesday night for a post on its Twitter account that called President Donald Trump a “bully” and suggested his microphone be cut during the first presidential debate.

“Can’t they just mute Trump’s microphone!! He’s coming across as such a bully. No respect for him sorry. #PresidentialDebate2020,” said the since deleted tweet that criticized the president nearly an hour into Tuesday’s debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.

Despite the deletion of the tweet, a screenshot of the post quickly became viral on social media and drew concern from people like Greg Locke, popular internet personality and leader of the Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee.

“Dear @Hillsong, that was deleted very quickly. Careful. I sat beside @brianhoustontv at the RNC acceptance speech…

A Wisconsin court on Monday blocked a local school district policy that allows students to transition to another gender identity at school without parental notice or consent. 

State Judge Frank D. Remington issued an injunction blocking a policy by the Madison Metropolitan School District that allows school officials to conceal information about a child’s gender identity from parents. 

In essence, the policy lets students live one way at school and another way at home – and it gives teachers permission to deceive parents.    

The policy is part of the district’s recently approved “Guidance & Policies to Support Transgender, Non-binary & Gender-Expansive Students.”

Remington’s injunction prevents the district from “applying or enforcing any policy, guideline, or practice” that “allows or requires District staff to conceal information or to answer untruthfully in response to any question that parents ask about their child at school, including information about the name and pronouns being used to address their child at school.”

The legal group Alliance Defending Freedom sued the district on behalf of multiple parents. 

The district’s official policy allows children of any age “to socially transition to a different gender identity at school by selecting a new ‘affirmed name and pronouns’ to be used at school ‘regardless of…