Monday, February 25th, in the year of our Lord 2019
By Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldView.com)
Chinese Students Forced to Sign Atheist Manifesto
The Education Bureau of the Chinese district of Lishan has launched a campaign to eradicate religious belief in kindergartens, which includes forcing schoolchildren to sign an atheist manifesto, promising to avoid religious activities, reports Breitbart.com.
The commitment statement includes the declaration: “I will adhere to the correct political direction, advocate science, promote atheism, and oppose theism.” Plus, the new campaign forbids schools from hiring new teachers who hold religious beliefs.
China’s ruling Communist Party under President Xi Jinping has made the forced separation of children from religious influence a hallmark of its efforts to enforce China’s official atheism.
Venezuelan Socialist Dictator Uses Military to Block Humanitarian Aid
A high-risk opposition campaign to deliver humanitarian aid into Venezuela descended into chaos Saturday after President Nicolas Maduro’s security forces fired on demonstrators and aid trucks were set ablaze as his blockade held firm, reports AFP News.
Tragically, two people, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed in clashes with security forces on the Brazil-Venezuela border.
Opposition leader Juan Guaido, who’s been recognized by America and many other countries around the world as the official, legitimate president, had set a Saturday deadline for the delivery of food and medical aid stockpiled in Colombia and Brazil.
Trump Withdraws 1,800 of 2,000 Troops from Syria
Following President Trump’s December announcement that he would be pulling all U.S. troops out of Syria, he has decided to leave 200 troops in the Middle Eastern country in order to keep the peace, reports Christian Headlines.
Urge Your 2 Senators Today to Vote for Anti-Infanticide Bill
In reaction to New York’s abortion law which removes protections for babies born alive after a botched abortion and Virginia’s attempt to do so as well, Republican Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska introduced the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act last month.
Since it will be voted on in the U.S. Senate today at 5:00pm, it’s absolutely urgent that you call both of your two senators immediately urging them to vote for this important anti-infanticide bill.
SASSE: “In a few minutes, the United States Senate is going to have an opportunity to condemn infanticide.
“100 United States Senators are going to have an opportunity to unanimously say the most basic thing imaginable: and that is that it’s wrong to kill a little newborn baby.
“Every Senator will have the opportunity to stand for human dignity – to stand for the belief that, in this country, all of us are created equal. Because if that equality means anything, surely it means that infanticide is wrong.
“In Virginia, disgraced Governor Ralph Northam tarnished the American idea of equality under law, he betrayed the universal truth of human dignity, and he turned the stomachs of civilized people not just in this country but in every country on earth.
“Governor Northam endorsed infanticide. Infants could be kept comfortable and rescuciated and also baby girls can be left cold and alone to die.
“Just a few years ago the abortion lobby was really clear in its talk in hoping that abortion would be ‘’safe, legal, and rare,’ Now we’re talking about keeping the baby comfortable while the doctors have a debate about infanticide.
“That is what we’re talking about here on the floor tonight. We’re actually talking about babies that have been born. The only debate on the floor tonight is about infanticide.
“Governor Northam is a disgraced coward and he has such an abysmally low view of human dignity that he couldn’t bring himself to say this basic truth: it’s wrong to let little babies who’ve been born die. He couldn’t say it.
“This isn’t about Republicans or Democrats. We’re way beyond that. Everyone in the Senate ought to be able to say unequivocally that the little baby deserves life. That she has rights, and that killing her is wrong.
“The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act prohibits exactly the kind of infanticide that Governor Northam was endorsing. That’s it. That’s what the legislation is about.
“There are just two sides of the debate on the floor tonight: you’re either for babies or you’re defending infanticide.”
Call 202-224-3121. Ask your two Senators to vote for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act today. That’s 202-224-3121.
Ephesians 5:11 says, “Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.”
UNC Professor: Roe v. Wade Should Be Overturned
In a sometimes testy debate with controversial so-called “Christian” abortionist Dr. Willie Parker on whether abortion is a moral wrong, conservative University of North Carolina professor of criminology Mike Adams says he believes the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide deserves to be overturned because it’s a “scientific and logical disaster”, reports The Christian Post.
ADAMS: “I am here this evening to defend a very simple logical syllogism. The major premise or the first premise is that it is wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human being. My minor premise, second premise, is that abortion does in fact intentionally kill an innocent human being and my conclusion is that therefore abortion is wrong.”
In the debate which took place Thursday night at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Dr. Parker, who has performed 10,000 abortions, asserted, odly enough, that he’s doing God’s work by killing the babies.
Matthew 7:15-16 says, “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognize them.”
You can watch The Abortion Debate, in its entirety, beginning at the 13:41-mark.
4-Year-Old Wheelchair-Bound Boy Enjoys a Trampoline
And finally, despite the fact that 4-year-old Wyatt Burggraff is confined in a wheelchair due to his Spina Bifida, that didn’t prohibit him from enjoying the bouncing sensation on a trampoline while strapped in his wheelchair, aided by an associate at TNT, a Fargo, North Dakota-based gym for children with serious disabilities, reports FaithWire.com.
At one point Wyatt can be heard shouting “faster!”
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Nigerian Pastor Murdered and His Family Kidnapped
A Nigerian pastor was murdered and his family kidnapped after Muslim Fulani gunmen opened fire on their car on February 7th in Zamfara state, northern Nigeria, reports BarnabasFund.org.
Pastor Anthony Idris Jatau’s car skidded off the road in the attack, and he and his family were dragged out. The pastor’s body was found two days later, on 9 February, but the whereabouts of and two sisters-in-law are unknown at the time of writing.
The Muslim kidnappers are holding the Pastor Jatau’s wife and three children in separate locations and have demanded a ransom for the family’s release.
The Islamist militia that wants to drive out Christians from northern Nigeria.
Bernie Sanders Leads the Democratic Presidential Candidates
The first New Hampshire Democratic Primary Poll since Sen. Bernie Sanders announced he’s running for president finds Sanders at a slight advantage with 27% of the vote, former Vice President Joe Biden with 25% and Sen. Kamala Harris at 12%. No other candidate clears double digits, reports News.Trust.com.
In a related New York Times story, Liberal Democratic presidential contenders’ rush to embrace the left’s most ambitious proposals has some Democrats worried there could be a price to pay when they try to defeat President Donald Trump next year.
Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Kamala Harris have endorsed plans to provide Medicare coverage to every American, tuition-free college, a national $15 minimum wage and the so-called “Green New Deal” advocated by U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
But Trump and his allies in the Republican Party have seized on those stances to attack the Democratic 2020 field as outside the American political mainstream.
Idaho Couple Suing Planned Parenthood over Botched Medical Abortion
An Idaho couple is suing a New Mexico Planned Parenthood after an abortion failed and they were left with “an additional unplanned child,” reports Christian Headlines.
Bianca Coons and her living-in-sin partner, Cristobal Ruiz, traveled 700 miles to an Albuquerque Planned Parenthood in 2016 when Coons was six weeks pregnant for a medical abortion, or the abortion pill, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
According to the lawsuit, they already had two children and were “destitute and attempting to maintain and limit the size of their family.”
After the abortion pill failed to report, and the doctors assured her that her baby’s heart was still beating, Coons opted not to have a surgical abortion.
Shockingly, the spiritually blinded couple wants $765,000 in compensatory damages for the “additional unplanned child.” You might be among the thousands of married couples listening right now, like my bride Amy and I, who would have gladly adopted that precious baby.