Posted by Ian Knight There's a lot of news you're not getting from the national networks or the major metropolitan newspapers. Good news. It seems censorship is alive and well in Canada - especially in the major news media. The biggest story they don't want to tell you is this: There is growing global support for the idea of Judeo-Christian principles in government! The professional cynics of our news media (parroting America's liberal-left media) sneered when U.S. President George W. Bush, in his State of the Union message, acknowledged his and his nation's need of divine guidance and help. They sneered - but the President's approval ratings went up. What does that tell us? It says - very loudly - that the American people are hungry for leadership with the humility to bow before Almighty God. Rest assured, Americans are not alone in this desire. Let me tell you what's been happening around the world. Many years ago, when Fiji was still a British colony, I worked as a newspaper reporter at the capital, Suva. There was trouble in that tropical 'paradise'. Racial and political tensions were high, and periodic rioting broke out. Three years ago, you may remember, our news media reported that a coup overturned the elected government. But what the media have not reported in the years since is that Fiji has restored democratically-elected government - and it's a Christian government. The new constitution defines Fiji as "a nation under God." The President, the Prime Minister and the Chairman of the Legislative Council are all born-again Christians. And racial reconciliation has begun. Keep Fiji in your prayers. Holland recently re-elected Jan Balkanende, a devout Christian, as Prime Minister - giving his Christian Democrat party more seats this time. Balkanende had promised to roll back the effect of years of liberalism that had left Holland awash in pornography, prostitution, drug use, abortion and euthanasia. The Dutch people answered very clearly, "That's what we want!" Norway's Prime Minister today is a former Lutheran Pastor, Kjell Bondevik. First elected in October 1997, Bondevik suffered a brief setback when his Christian People's Party lost a vote of confidence over its commitment to the Biblical principle of environmental stewardship. The leftists in the Stolting were able to engineer a vote that brought down the Government, and the Socialist party took over for the 18 months left in their term. But in the next election, Bondevik's Christian-led coalition was returned. It seems the Norwegian people, after decades of left-wing Secularism, have decided that they want leadership motivated and guided by Biblical principles. In the UK, the new Christian People's Alliance made gains in last year's local elections, which is the traditional path into Parliament. In fact, they won their first seat in the same riding where the governing Labour Party made its start, half a century ago. In South Africa, the African Christian Democratic Party tripled its standing in the ANC-dominated Parliament. In Australia, the Christian Democrats have elected members to the upper chamber of New South Wales. New Zealand's Christian Heritage Party is gearing up for a national election in March. Uganda is the only African country with a declining rate of AIDS infection - achieved by a government campaign that stressed Christian principles of abstinence before marriage, and fidelity within marriage. Nigeria and Zambia have Christian Presidents working hard to overcome racial and religious tensions, and long-standing histories of bureaucratic corruption. Around the world, people are turning away from the Marxist concept that man is merely an economic animal, a consuming unit - even if that idea still dominates 12 of the 13 Federal political parties in Canada. The question now before Canadians is: are we ready for a political movement that will restore the Biblical principles upon which this nation was established, and by which it grew to prosperity, peace and international stature during its first century? Or will we continue on the destructive path of militant Secularism that has brought 35 years of debt, social decay, rising crime and violence, the slaughter of two million babies before they could draw their first breath, and epidemic levels of sexually-transmitted disease in our schools? The choice is ours. If we want to give our children a hope and a future, the answer is clear: we need to become once again a nation that recognizes, as the Preamble to our Charter of Rights says, "the supremacy of God and the rule of law." May He help us to choose wisely. By RON GRAY CHP _________________ GOD: "I did but you aborted them!" The Enemy of My Enemy is... Persecuting My Friends? - Saudi Arabia is termed a "valued member of the alliance". In Jiddah, 15 foreign nationals were arrested simply for being Christians; two have been released, but the other 13 (from India, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Eritrea) are still being held in custody - and denied access to their consuls. Saudi Arabia's Wahabi Muslims are very intolerant of all other faiths. Saudi Arabia is also the home of the bin Laden construction empire, which has made tens of billions of dollars - including contracts to rebuild the American embassies destroyed by Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida! - Pakistan has agreed to provide access from which US troops can reach into Afghanistan. At the same time, Pakistan has arrested and tortured a Christian schoolmaster, Pervez Masih, on charges of blasphemy - which is a capital offense in Muslim Pakistan. For 15 years, Masih has operated a private Christian high school (without charitable institutions such as his, very few Pakistanis would get any education), and there has never been any complaint. However, two years ago Mohammed Ibrahim established a Muslim high school in the same neighbourhood, and has been trying to force closure of Masih's Christian high school. It was Ibrahim who filed charges of blasphemy against his rival. Pervez Masih is being held in a 4x6-foot cell, and he is being tortured. His application for bail was rejected, and in August he was forced to withdraw his appeal against this ruling. - Ethiopia continues to persecute Christians. In September, armed men bombed an evangelical church in Dabat, and a mob of more than 1,000 attacked and destroyed a church in Debark. The Muslim police arrested... the Christians, who were detained in prison for three days, then ordered to leave the city. But no charges were laid against those who had attacked the Christians, in either city. - Regarding Israel, The American President has spoken favourably of a Palestinian State to be carved out of territory Israel won in a defensive war 35 years ago. The lands on the West Bank and Golan Heights had been used by Jordan and Syria as a site to launch rockets onto Israeli schools and kibbutzim in the territory assigned to Israel by the United Nations. Thus Yasser Arafat's 30-year career of terrorism is to be rewarded with a nation-state that will provide him with a base inside Israel for the PLO's avowed campaign to "drive the Jews into the sea." The Palestinian Authority produces daily children's television broadcasts which indoctrinate Palestinian children with the idea that it is "glorious" to become a suicide-bombing "martyr", and also preaches anti-Jewish propaganda in its elementary schools. - In Pakistan, Indonesia, Nigeria and across the Islamic world, Christians are living in fear and intimidation, and face the very real prospect of violent reprisals from angry Muslims if America and its allies attack Afghanistan, reports the Barnabas Fund (a charity headquartered in the UK): "At a time when Church and political leaders in the West have -- quite rightly -- rushed to condemn attacks against Muslims, they (Christians living is Islamic nations) cannot understand why these same leaders have not also spoken up on their behalf, or come to their defence. They feel betrayed both by their fellow Christians and by Western Governments." Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo, International Director of the Barnabas Fund added, "Never in living memory has the situation for Christian minorities in the Islamic world been so precarious." Nations which have shown themselves to be viciously intolerant are now being treated as our "friends and allies" in this war on terrorism. Maybe 'ya gotta do what ya gotta do'; but the West should beware of strengthening the hands of those who ultimately want to destroy us. How can Americans possibly be friends with groups who call them -- or us -- "the great Satan"? By RON GRAY
on 3/28/2003, 12:34 pm
Good News That's Been Censored in Canada
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