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Prayer Alert: Muslim Converts to Christ Arrested

International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on October 13, 12 Christian men from Darfur were arbitrarily arrested by officers from the Sudan National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) for mingling with the local Muslim community. Reverend Kuwa Shamal confirmed, “The arrests were done at Nyala market while the young men were interacting with Islam adherents, building rapport for witnessing, when Sudan’s security authorities surrounded them and led them to the police station, handcuffed.”

Darfur is a predominantly Muslim, war-torn region. The constant conflict between the Arab Muslims and Christians led to the secession of South Sudan in 2011, after which Sudan pressed harder for adopting stronger Islamic policies.

Commenting on the incident, a lawyer who represents Christians prosecuted in Sudanese courts, expressed, “Until now, the Christians have not been asked what was happening or given a chance to explain what they were doing. This is a total breach of the law of the land that gives freedom of worship and sharing of one’s faith. It is also unlawful to detain anyone without trial.”

Adding to the matter, Rev. Kuwa said, “Some of the arrested men are disciples that I baptized in 2015 when they left Islam and converted to Christianity. The detainees have been doing a recommendable work of sharing the Good News in Darfur, and we pray for their immediate and unconditional release.”

Christians in Sudan who convert from Islam often face discrimination and hostility as a result of their faith. They are considered apostates who deserve the death penalty, according to radical Muslims throughout Sudan.

What’s happening to our country?!! I have a clue…

My heart is especially heavy on this Saturday evening. As the Nation Anthem finished during the 4th game of the World Series, I said to the family, “I’ll be right back.” I had to do this video, which reminds us that the Anthem protestors, the morality dismissers, the America haters, and the violent kooks in this country are an illustration of how far we have strayed from our fundamental underpinnings.  Feel free to share this with others.

Okay, I’ll chill and go watch some baseball with the family.

Middle School Satan-Worshipper’s Plot to Kill Stopped

Two middle school students in Florida–admitted Satan-worshippers–were arrested Tuesday after they concocted a “plot to kill students” via a variety of weapons, including a pizza cutter, police said.

The girls — ages 11 and 12 years old — “wanted to kill at least 15 people,” Bartown Police Chief Joe Hall said at a news conference Wednesday. The two “were waiting in the bathroom for (an) opportunity to find smaller kids that they could overpower to be their victims.”

Both girls were searched in a Bartow Middle School office, where a butcher knife was located on one of the students. Knives, scissors and a pizza cutter were also found, according to Fox 13.

The girls admitted to investigators that they were “Satan-worshippers.” The girls, Hall claimed, said “they were willing to drink blood, and possibly eat flesh.”

“As I sat there last night [and] watched these interviews, I do not believe this was a joke,” Hall said.

After the girls were taken into custody, authorities reportedly searched their houses and discovered more additional attack plans. A hand-drawn map of the school was allegedly discovered with the words, “Go to kill in bathroom,” written on top of it.

One of the text messages exchanged in a conversation found by authorities reportedly read: “We will leave body parts at the entrance and then we will kill ourselves.”

Dodger’s Pitcher Gives God Glory in Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers are playing the Boston Red Sox in the Major League Baseball’s World Series.  Among the group of athletes is starting pitcher and outspoken Christian, Clayton Kershaw.

While speaking with CBN News, the thirty-year-old MLB player described how he has carried his Christian faith into the major leagues saying, “I think getting to play baseball and the blessing that it is to go play every day is a platform to incorporate yourself with a lot of other different people that think baseball’s cool. If you tell people you’re a follower of Christ, that you’re a Christian, it can resonate with people a little bit more just because of the platform you have.”

Kershaw explains that God continues to teach and guide him saying, “What God’s teaching me about my life … first and foremost, that He’s in control of it, which is sometimes hard for me to grasp. I think He’s really teaching me to let go of the reigns a little bit and just give Him complete access to my life.”

The star pitcher speaks of his devotion to God, stating “He’s all-powerful, He brings joy to my life, He brings pain and sorrow to my life, all for a purpose. Instead of trying to figure that out all on my own, on my timing, He’s teaching me that I’m on His timing.”

Regarded by many as one of the best pitchers in baseball, Kershaw has spent 11 years with the Dodgers. He upholds an ERA of 2.39 and 1.00 WHIP. In his spare time, he participates in Highland Park High School’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes Huddle, where he was once a student. He recalls the impact the FCA had on him beginning in his teenage years: “It really helped me grow and showed me that it’s a lifestyle. Jesus is your Savior, and you live for Him. Everything you do is for Him, and athletics are a part of that.”

Trump Admin: gender assigned at birth, male and female

Given the authentic Christians President Trumps has surrounded himself with, we shouldn’t be surprised that he is going where no President has ever gone before…

President Trump is continuing to dismantle Obama-era policies that promote transgender rights, this time by defining gender as a biological condition determined at birth.  In other words, a human is either born a man or a woman.

Followers of Jesus are praising the move.

“For the Trump administration to stand firm to say that sex-based determination really is only gender-based, biologically male and female, is not only consistent with science but it’s consistent with the traditional definition that we’ve had as a country and understood as a country throughout our history,” said Jenna Ellis, director of Public Policy for the James Dobson Family Institute.

One man applauding the Trumps administration’s move is Walt Heyer.  As a former transgender person, Heyer has experienced sex-change regret first hand.

“The surgery fixed nothing – it only masked and exacerbated deeper psychological problems,” Heyer wrote in The Daily Signal.

He applauds the Trump administration’s move to define transgender out of existence.

“As a former trans person, and as someone who daily receives stories of physical and emotional devastation wrought by trans ideology, I look forward to a federal definition of sex as being rooted in immutable biology, without the option of being self-selected,” he says. “The science is absolutely clear.  Sex doesn’t change over time, even with hormones and surgery—and that’s a good thing.”

A report in the New York Times cites a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) memo seeking to establish a legal definition of gender under Title IX, the civil rights law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex.

HHS is proposing a person’s gender be defined by the genitalia they’re born with and can’t be changed.

LGBT activists are furious about the proposed change.

“Making clear that we will not stand to see the human rights of transgender people erased by this administration from federal law,” said Erica Sackin, of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. “We have seen so many attacks by the Trump-Pence administration, against transgender people and it is not okay.”

The Obama administration loosened the legal concept of gender, recognizing it as an individual choice and not one determined at birth.  That created a host of legal and moral challenges concerning access to bathrooms, dormitories, and single-sex programs that once were defined strictly by male or female.