Life News reports:
“It’s a girl” has become a three-word death sentence to hundreds of millions of unborn babies across the globe. The United Nations estimates as many as 200 million girls are missing in the world today because of female gendercide. Killed, aborted and abandoned—these are the brutal realities of the actual “war on women.”
The Christian News Network reports:
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney sought to woo voters in the state of Virginia yesterday by slamming the Democratic party for removing the mention of God from their platform and claiming that he would never make such an omission, while being careful not to use any language that referenced the god of Mormons.
The Media Research Center reports that the media appears to be insisting that Christian athletes keep their faith to themselves. Those who refuse to do so are severly criticized by writers, sports networks and leagues. According to MRC:
Hostile writers have also gone after [Tim] Tebow’s supporters. Bernstein labeled Tebow’s fans “lunatic-fringe cultists” and “batspit crazy fanatics.” Columnist Rabbi Joshua Hammerman of “The Jewish Week” outrageously warned that a Tebow victory in the 2012 Broncos-Patriots football game could spark riots in the streets: “If Tebow wins the Super Bowl, against all odds, it will buoy his faithful, and emboldened faithful can do insane things, like burning mosques, bashing gays and indiscriminately banishing immigrants.
Lifesite News reports:
Participants in Spain’s first annual Crossroads walk, a cross-country march for the right to life, were confronted with a group of angry Greenpeace activists, who were peeved by the walkers’ pro-life position, according to organizers.
(CRN wishes to warn the reader that the linked article does contain offensive language as used by the Greenpeace activists.)
Christian Newswire reports:
In recent months, the media has been flooded with images of citizens gathering in city centers and lining the streets holding banners, waving signs, and speaking up for their religious freedom. Simultaneously, American courtrooms are now bursting with lawsuits brought by businesses and religious organizations demanding protection of their rights of conscience.
The Christian Science Monitor informs us that self-professed messiah Sun-myung Moon, who believed he was ordained by God to minister to the world “built up a global commercial empire, founding the Washington Times 30 years ago along with newspapers in Seoul and Tokyo and numerous other enterprises in fields ranging from publishing to tourism to fishing.”
Life News reports that a recently released list of speakers for the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, is noticeably lacking in pro-life advocates. Rather, the “list is long on speakers who have spent their entire political careers advocating for abortion.” As a result, some pro-life supporters have labeled the DNC as a “Celebration of Abortion.”
The Christian Post reports:
On Sunday, the Pennsylvania Pastors Network launched its second Pulpit Sunday where preachers in the state didn’t shy away from politics.
Pastors throughout Pennsylvania are signing up to preach about cultural and moral issues every first Sunday of the month until the November elections.
Christian News Network reports that the Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs is hosting its own events this weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina as the Democratic National Convention is taking place in the same city.
While the organization had stated that they anticipated 20,000 to attend the events over the weekend, they were disappointed that approximately 300 Muslims showed up for Jumah. Some sat on rugs, some in outdoor folding chairs and others simply on the grass as they turned toward Mecca, which is said to be Islam’s most reverenced city.
Christian News Network offers a recap of the final evening of the Republican National Convention:
The Republican National Convention came to a close Thursday night, featuring a Mormon invocation and Catholic benediction, an acceptance speech from nominee Mitt Romney, musical entertainment, and numerous speeches from politicians, Olympic stars and celebrities across America.
Marsha West discusses the dangers of pragmatism in the Christian world. In their zeal to defeat the far-left’s anti-God agenda for society, the New Religious Right has taken whatever pragmatic means they deem necessary to include partnering with false teachers and cultists, in an effort to “bring America back to God.” Likewise, many Christian leaders have tossed aside biblical orthodoxy and embraced pragmatism as an evangelistic technique to reach the unchurched. Pragmatism “is found wherever Christians run to join programs and hurry to change their worship services because of what they expect to see happen because of the changes they make. In short, it is found anywhere the emphasis is removed from what Scripture says and where the emphasis is placed on the expected results.”
The Orange County Register offers continuing coverage of the ongoing legal battles involving TBN:
The mighty Trinity Broadcasting Network’s prodigious legal maneuvering against Brittany Crouch Koper — granddaughter of founders Jan and Paul Crouch — and her husband has drawn a sharp rebuke from a federal judge, who has threatened to brand Trinity a “vexatious litigant.”
Life News reports:
Out of England comes a miraculous story of a courageous mother, 41-year-old Jo Powell, who discovered a lump on her breast days after finding out she was pregnant with first child. Powell refused to start treatment until later in her pregnancy so she would not harm or kill her unborn child.
CNS News reports:
A new Gallup poll released today indicates that Americans rate public schools the worst place to educate children.
In the national survey conducted Aug. 9-12, private independent schools, parochial and church-related schools, charter schools and home-schooling all rated higher than public schools.