💭 Members of parliament in Uganda have passed a bill that would make homosexual acts punishable by death.
Nearly all the 389 legislators voted on Tuesday for the anti-homosexuality bill that introduces capital and life imprisonment sentences for gay sex and ‘recruitment, promotion and funding’ of same-sex ‘activities’. The bill will now go to President Yoweri Museveni, who can veto it or sign it into law. But in a recent speech he appeared to express support for the bill. The bill marks the latest in a string of setbacks for LGBTQ+ rights in Africa, where homosexuality is illegal in most countries.
👉 Courtesy: The Guardian
👉 Soon the ICC will Issue Arrest Warrant for President Yoweri Museveni.
…Let’s connect the dots….
💭 Hundreds of Ugandan Sect Members Flee to Ethiopia, Fearing Doomsday
Leaders of sect convinced them that end of world is near and death is about to strike their area.
HUNDREDS of people belonging to a religious sect in eastern Uganda have fled from their villages to Ethiopia, Ugandan police said Sunday.
Police said that according to their investigations, the sect members fled to escape the end of the world, which they believe will start from their area.
According to the Anadolu Agency, they said the members of the sect were told by its leaders that their area would soon be hit with death and all the people there would die. They reportedly sold off their property and fled to Ethiopia, from where they are communicating with some of their relatives in Uganda.
‘We are investigating a religious sect called Christ Disciples Church with its base located in Obululum village in the eastern Uganda district of Serere. We started the investigations after getting information that people were being trafficked to Ethiopia since February and it is going on till today,’ area police spokesman Oscar Ogeca told Anadolu’s Godfrey Olukya.
He said the people, who number in the hundreds, were told by their leaders that death is coming soon to their area and the only place they would be safe is in Ethiopia. They were convinced that they should go and spread the gospel there.
✞ Christian Theology Lecturer Fired After Tweets On Homosexuality Describes ‘suffering And Persecution’
A lecturer dismissed from Methodist institution Cliff College after sharing his “evangelical” views on homosexuality says he was surprised by the school’s actions as he describes “a horrendous amount of suffering and persecution”.
Dr Aaron Edwards’ dismissal occurred amid the Methodist Church’s movement towards accepting same-sex marriage, which impacted the college’s doctrine on relationships.
Dr Edwards argued that maintaining an evangelical stance was crucial for the institution’s student base and heritage.
In response to the Anglican Church’s decision to bless same-sex relationships, Dr Edwards tweeted “robustly against homosexuality from an evangelical perspective”.
The tweet read: “Homosexuality is invading the Church. Evangelicals no longer see the severity of this b/c they’re busy apologising for their apparently barbaric homophobia, whether or not it’s true. This *is* a “Gospel issue”, by the way. If sin is no longer sin, we no longer need a Saviour.”
The college initially asked him to remove the tweet – he said he could not delete it in good conscience, as he believed in its message.
The tweet led to his suspension after receiving considerable backlash online, from Christians and non-believers alike. After being accused of bringing the college into disrepute, and threats to take the matter to counter-terrorism team Prevent, Dr Edwards was fired.
In an interview with Premier Christian News, he said he was surprised at his suspension and defended his tweet as a biblical approach to sin “encroaching” upon the church.
The dismissal has had a significant impact on Dr Edwards’ family, leaving them with no income. At the same time, they face eviction from their home within a matter of weeks.
He said: “We don’t know what’s going to happen, but we know God’s going to provide.
“We’re in a loving church. I’ve had so many people praying and prophesying over us over the last month, and that has been amazing.
“Though there’s been a horrendous amount of suffering and persecution, and also people attacking me thinking I’m trying to be a martyr, because I’m talking about it – and I just don’t think they understand what it’s like to go through these things.
“At the same time, my church has been right behind me, and people have been supporting us in all sorts of ways.
“We’ve got a Crowdfunder up now where we’ve asked people to if they want to contribute, I’ve got a vision for theological education in the future that I’d like to explore further, and so I think we’re going to be okay, because I just believe God’s got us in his hands.”
Dr Edwards is currently considering legal action and appealing his termination with support from Christian Concern.
💭 Mosque, Church and Synagogue to be shared. Lucifer chose The Holy Lent season for that!
The so called, „Abrahamic Family House„ opens in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
This is a fruit of the heretic Pope Francis’ visit in 2019, the multifaith center of worship will open to the public on March 1.
❖❖❖[2 Corinthians 6:14]❖❖❖
„Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?”
😈 The United Arab Emirates have ✞Ethiopian Christian blood on their hands.
☆ Since 2020 Genocide in Tigray: Over a million Orthodox Christians Massacred
☆ 200.000 Women, Nuns, Girls Raped in
☆ The Siege ofTigray is Causing mass Starvation for Millions
🛑 World War III started on Nov 4, 2020 (as America’s presidential election hogs the international media spotlight) after the fascist Oromo regime of Ethiopia supported by Eritrea, The US, The EU, the UAE, Turkey, Somalia, China, Iran and many other Eastern and Western nations waged a coordinated Jihad against Christian Ethiopians of Tigray. Even Jewish Israel to some extent supported the genocidal Islamic-Protestant Oromo regime of Ethiopia.
💭 Hollywood Actor Mark Wahlberg joined NBC’s Today Show to discuss what his faith means to him.
On Ash Wednesday, Mark Wahlberg opens up about why faith is important to him, and working with the Catholic prayer app Hallow. He also shares if he still wakes up in the middle of the night and why he moved with his family to Nevada.Some of those in Hollywood do respect faith.
During the interview, the actor said, “you know it’s not popular in my industry but you know I can not deny my faith.”
💭 Chair of government-funded charity says Islam is “demonic”
Posted: Wed, 22 Feb 2023
The government recently gave thousands of pounds to a Christian group whose chair said Islam is “demonic” and “spiritual wickedness”, the National Secular Society has found.
Zion Projects, a Christian charity based in Eastleigh, Hampshire, is one of 16 religious organisations given a total of £1.3 million in public money as part of the government’s ‘Faith New Deal’ fund. Zion Projects was awarded £43,220 last year for a project entitled “As One Hampshire”.
In this 2020 video on Vimeo shows Danny Stupple, the chair and a trustee of Zion Projects, making anti-Islam comments during a Covid-19 lockdown meeting of the “Eastleigh Prophetic Hub”.
In the video, which opens with the Zion Projects logo, Stupple responds to a question about Islamic ‘calls to prayer’ being broadcast during lockdown by saying “a very strong force of spiritual wickedness known as Islam is engaging in warfare against the Lord with its open air prayers”.
He said that Islamic prayers are “one example” of “the enemy” trying to use the Covid-19 pandemic, adding that the Islamic system of belief “is truly demonic”.
He advised that anyone who hears the calls to prayers should “deny it power in Jesus’ name”, which is “more than able to deal with the spiritual forces of wickedness in those prayers”. He called such a scenario a “warfare context”.
The findings follow a recent report by Muslim advocacy group Mercy Mission UK which questioned the absence of Muslim organisations among recipients of ‘faith new deal’ grants. All but three of the recipients are Christian; two are interfaith organisations, and one is Jewish.
A freedom of information request to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLHC) found 351 organisations applied for Faith New Deal funding, including at least 21 Muslim groups.
The NSS has written to Baroness Scott of Bybrook, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at DHLC, to express its concerns and ask what checks were made on the recipients of Faith New Deal funding.
Stupple: Dominic Cummings ‘anointed’ to achieve Brexit
In the same video, Stupple also suggests God is using the pandemic to “make the point of the value of life” because he anticipates “the same amount of babies being saved as the number of people who die” as a result of women being unable to get abortions during lockdown.
He also claims that Brexit is “important to the Lord” and that Dominic Cummings has an “anointing” to accomplish it.
He says biblical creationists don’t “make the mistake of thinking like the world thinks with its evolutionary offer”, which “leads us into a wrong conclusion about the origin of things such as virus.”
Stupple ran as an independent candidate in the Eastleigh 2013 by-election. He opposed same-sex marriage as part of his campaign, saying “real marriage is between a man and a woman” in a campaign video.
Zion Projects was also awarded £19,750 by Hampshire County Council last year to “help to provide a range of projects including a community café”.
The ‘faith new deal’ fund
The government’s “Faith New Deal pilot scheme” was launched in 2021 for faith-based organisations that provide community services to “tackle issues affecting the most vulnerable”. Groups with no religious ethos were ineligible for funding.
The NSS has criticised the scheme as “discriminatory” and has raised concerns about the ethics of giving public money to faith groups which may have an agenda to proselytise. Several of the groups funded by the faith new deal require workers and volunteers to be Christians.
In addition, four groups with Christian connections received a total of nearly £1 million from the DLHC’s UK Community Ownership Fund, according to updates from the DLHC published this month. They included Barking’s Lifeline Church and Sawyers Church, both of which are affiliated with the Evangelical Alliance which opposes same-sex relationships.
The “As One” campaign
Zion Projects’ “As One Hampshire” project appears to be a local branch of the national “As One” campaign by Uturn UK, a Community Interest Company which promotes “street associations” to engender “civic responsibility and volunteering”. Church leaders are used to promote the street associations locally.
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