VIDEO: Court Forcing 501c3 Pastor to Pay Nearly a Half-Million Dollars Over Free Speech Settlement

“All he did was circulate recall petitions, the bishop says. Two federal courts and the state attorney general have sided with him. But the former mayor and a local judge appear out for blood to the tune of $475,000 straight from the pocket of Bishop Tom Brown. “This is the most unjust action that has ever taken place against any church in the United States of America,” Brown says. He leads Word of Life Church in El Paso, Texas.” –Source

What this pastor and all the unknowing people that may eventually send him the $475,000 he needs is, it’s all HIS FAULT! This is not a free speech situation at all and so I see no reason topost it as such. If this pastor, like all the other pastors that signed unto the 501c3 trap that was prophesied thousands of years ago would have read the contract they were signing, he would know it’s written right into it that once he signed that contract he can no longer speak politically from his pulpit. And so now he’s in hot water after getting caught telling his people in the church to recall the Mayor. And he deserves to be in trouble because he reneged on the contract. But for some odd reason he is saying this is all an unjust action of the city and State? How’s that possible when he agreed to stop preaching on politics?  Continue Reading…

Interfaith blowback means Francis has hardliners’ attention

In general, Pope Francis gets high marks for his inter-religious outreach, which has been a core feature of his papacy from the beginning. Shortly after his election in March 2013, for instance, he went to a juvenile detention center in Rome and included two Muslims among the inmates whose feet he washed.

Since then, he’s traveled to Israel and impressed Jews with his commitment to the Jewish/Christian relationship, he’s become only the second pope to enter a Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka, and, while in the country, he also donned a saffron robe given to him by a Hindu holy man during an interfaith meeting.   Continue reading

Benedict XVI says he dismantled Vatican’s ‘gay lobby’

ROME-During the days following his historic resignation, many observers speculated that an alleged “gay lobby” within the Vatican had pressured Benedict XVI to step down. In a new interview-book, the emeritus pope admits to the existence of such a lobby, but says it had only “four or five members” and that he’d managed to dismantle it.

Benedict XVI, Final Conversations is the title of the book to be released worldwide on September 9.

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At Ecumenical Service Pope Urges for Peace in Artsakh, Genocide Remembrance

YEREVAN—As a centerpiece of his Papal Visit to Armenia, Pope Francis held an Ecumenical service for peace in Yerevan’s Republic Square, during which he urged Armenia’s youth to be active peacemakers in a world “suffering from persecutions and conflict.”

Pope Francis and Catholicos Karekin II led the procession to the Republic Square as all bells at Yerevan churches tolled simultaneously to mark this historic occasion.   Continue reading

Our new alliance unites 600m city dwellers in fight against climate change

When it comes to confronting climate change, the world’s cities are proving that there’s strength in unity. The historic climate agreement reached in Paris in December, which was approved by nearly all of the world’s nations, was made possible in part by the progress that cities have made by working together.

Today, the two biggest coalitions of cities in the world – the EU-based Covenant of Mayors and the UN-backed Compact of Mayors – are forming an alliance to link more than 600 million city dwellers in the fight against climate change.  Continue reading

Snake pastor ‘shows power’ by driving over 2 congregants

Pretoria – Controversial “snake pastor” Penuel Mnguni is back in the public eye again, this time after images of him driving over his congregants were posted on social media.

The Facebook page for his End Times Disciples Ministries showed images of Mnguni behind the wheel of a car, driving over two people outside the Kameelrivier B stadium hall on June 3.

The text accompanying the pictures said they showed a “demonstration of power”.  Continue reading

Orlando Changing How the Church Relates to the Gay Community

VIDEO:  The tragic events in Orlando have affected all Americans and have made many people turn to religion to seek answers.

Christians and churches were among the first to open their doors to love and support the victims and families of the Orlando tragedy.

As a result, new relationships formed between the LGBTQ and Christian communities. Stereotypes on both sides shattered as they came together in mourning.  Continue reading…