DEMOCRAT
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
Barbara Streisand sings for you.
REPUBLICAN
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?
GUESS WHO?
…Just a food for thought…
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It has a little over 500 employees with the following statistics:
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Unbeknownst to many in the West, a spiritual awakening among Christians in Ukraine was instrumental in the country’s famously successful—and peaceful—Orange Revolution.
by Stephen Adams
It was hard to miss Ukraine’s Orange Revolution. For weeks in November and December world news media focused on the dramatic spectacle—massive vote fraud, hundreds of thousands of chanting protesters in the streets, ominous threats of a bloodbath, the Supreme Court overturning rigged election results and then the happy ending without violence, pro-democracy forces finally victorious in a clean election.
UNKNOWN PERSONS SET FIRE TO CHELIABINSK CHURCH
Press Release, Slavic Legal Center, 4 May 2005
Plenipotentiary for human rights is heading a campaign against religious minorities.
On the night of Saturday to Sunday of Easter (30 April-1 May 2005), at four o’clock in the morning unknown persons threw a bottle with flammable liquid through the door of the “Blagovestie” Evangelical Christian-Baptist church of Cheliabinsk. The brothers who were on custodial duty in the church did not immediately discover the fire. At first, smoke spread throughout the church and then the fire alarm system was activated. The flame was quickly put out by the efforts of the brothers using a fire extinguisher.
People’s dirty little secret is neither little nor secret. So these pastors are taking it on.
The number one Christian porn site on the internet. That is how youth pastors Craig Gross and Mike Foster advertise their ministry intended to help those addicted to online pornography. With humor and candor, XXXchurch.com warns about the dangers of pornography with unconventional campaigns like the Porn Mobile and the NoHoZone, advising modest dress. Both ordained ministers in Southern California, they are featured in a new documentary Missionary Positions and have appeared in GQ and on the 700 Club. We spoke with Gross in the only free time he had during a recent spate of appearances, 6:30 a.m. on a Thursday.
by Stephen Adams
Sunday Adelaja, a Nigerian expatriate who pastors Kiev’s largest church—the 25,000-member Embassy of God—faced continual threats and intimidation from authorities because of his support for Ukraine’s Orange Revolution.
“It was horrible,” he said, being a Nigerian black man and heading such a highly visible ministry.
He was monitored and followed, he said, by government agents, threatened with deportation, had his passport seized, was ordered not to leave Kiev, was threatened by the attorney general and was sued 22 times. There was talk that Yushchenko’s opponent, Viktor Yanukovych, planned to eliminate the “cults”—that is, non-Orthodox churches.
Portal-credo.ru, 15 April 2005
In the evening of 10 April, Rev. Siegfried Springer, 74, the bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran church for the European part of Russia, was detained without explanation at border control at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport. He was told that his visa had been cancelled; he was placed in a receiving area for deportees, and on the following day he was taken by plane back to Germany. This was reported by rights advocates of Krasnodar.
Siegfried Springer was born into a family of German colonists in Stavropol territory and left from Germany with his parents in 1943. He returned to USSR in 1957 for a festival of youth and students in Moscow. Since that time he worked on evangelistic projects in USSR and RF. From the beginning of the 1990s he lived in Moscow. (tr. by PDS, posted 18 May 2005)
NEW “EMMANUEL” CHURCH PROTEST AGAINST CITY HALL
Portal.credo-ru, 9 June 2005
At Moscow’s city hall on Tver Square a new action of protest has begun, which is being conducted by members of the “Emmanuel” central church of Christians of Evangelical Faith Pentecostals that unites more than 1,000 persons. The action is directed against the arbitrariness of city authorities in relations with the senior pastor, the press secretary of the “Emmanuel” church, Yury Popov, reports to Portal-credo.ru.
EKATERINBURG DIOCESE ASKS PROSECUTOR TO RESCIND PROHIBITION ON ANTISECT DEMONSTRATION
Interfax, 16 June 2005
The missions department of the Ekaterinburg diocese sent to the prosecutor’s office of Sverdlovsk province a letter with a request to find illegal the prohibition of the administration of Ekaterinburg on conducting a picket against the activity of the “New Life” sect. As a representative of the missions department reported to the “Interfax-Urals” news agency, city authorities cited the fact that the “Energetik” house of culture where the sectarians conduct their meetings is a house of worship.
MOSCOW DIVISION OF RODINA PARTY DEMONSTRATES AGAINST RUSSIAN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN INSTITUTE
Portal-credo.ru, 24 June 2005
A demonstration against the construction of the Russian-American Christian Institute (RAKhI) was conducted on 23 June 2005 by the regional division of the “Rodina” party in Moscow and deputies of the “Rodina” fraction in the Moscow city duma. The demonstration was held on a vacant lot near the Yauza, whose address is Menzhinsky street, No. 38.
