Respect?

 New Syrian regime keeping promises to respect Christians.

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When the government of Bashar al-Assad fell in December last year, many Christians were concerned that the new regime, dominated as it is by al-Qaeda offshoot HTS, could spell trouble for Syria’s religious minorities.

Two months in however, the signs are generally positive. Earlier this week the European Union (EU) said it would be removing Assad-era sanctions on the country in recognition of its “inclusive political transition”.

The decision to lift sanctions coincided with a meeting of Syrian leaders from diverse sections of society aimed at agreeing a new way forward for the country. The eventual aim is a new constitution.

While representatives from many segments of Syrian society joined the meeting, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces and Kurdish groups were excluded from the process.

International Christian Concern noted that HTS and the de-facto leader of Syria Ahmad al-Sharaa “appear to be dominating the discussion” on the country’s future but conceded that Christian representatives are involved in the process of rebuilding the country.

ICC said, “While al-Sharaa has promised respect minority rights and lead Syria inclusively, many challenges remain in a country wracked by decades of government-encouraged division between various ethnic and religious groups.”

In the early days following Assad’s fall, attacks on Christian places of worship were reported. Since then, al-Sharaa has met with Christian leaders and appears to be committed to protecting Christians and other minorities from more extremist elements.

Christians, Shia Muslims and Druze appear to have become more comfortable operating openly in the last two months, although concerns still remain.

One priest in Damascus told the Wall Street Journal, “This may be the calm in the eye of the storm.”

ICC notes that one key area for the country's Christians will be whether their rights are protected in any future constitution.

Changes to the educational curriculum in the country have been criticised by some for apparently replacing nationalist rhetoric with Islamic terminology.

Time will tell. CT.

Marriage and Family.

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There are signs of increasing interest in restoring marriage and family in British politics as evidence mounts that the traditional model is best for children and society, and a declining birthrate threatens more problems in the future. 

The Centre for Social Justice made a clear case for societies to return to valuing marriage in a recently published interview with the Social Democratic Party (SDP) described below, which had offered a number of family-friendly policies in its last election manifesto. 

There are a few signs of a trend back to more traditional values in the mainstream, too. Former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak began to talk more positively about the family ahead of last year’s election, though his Conservative Party has a troubled history with “family values”. 

Meanwhile at last week’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) Conference, as well as hearing a clear message that our societies need faith in Christ to be renewed, the influential delegates also heard speakers promoting family values, fatherhood and the importance of caring for children at home rather than in nurseries. 

“The individuals who come together to constitute society have to sacrifice their narrow pleasure seeking individuality demanding gratification in the moment,” said psychologist Jordan Peterson at ARC, which he co-founded. “For the sake of their mutual reciprocal relationships with others locally, first in marriage, in family, in town, in city, expanding to province and state and country nested all under the auspices, let's say, of the Divine.”

Just before ARC, the SDP published a video titled: “We need to prioritise the family” on YouTube that featured a conversation between party leader William Clouston and the head of policy at the Centre for Social Justice, Ed Davies. “The family is the foundation of society, a truth that any sensible society should put at the heart of policymaking,” began Clouston, in a wide ranging discussion on the causes, effects and possible solutions to the rapid decline in marriage. 

The SDP is not a major force in British politics at present, although its stance of being more left wing on the economy and more right wing on social issues is arguably more in line with the views of the population than the mainstream political parties. However its policies are influential – especially on Reform, the party on the right that is closest to power, according to opinion polls. The latter has recently adopted the slogan “Family, community, country,” which is similar to the SDP’s own. 

One reason the topic is discussed more is the damaging effects of the declining birth rate, which Christians have long warned about. Others are the awareness that our decline in marriage is so rapid; and that there is now good scientific evidence that this harms children. 

“Fifty years ago a 16-year-old sitting their O levels ... had a 90% chance of living with their mum and dad - today for a child sitting their GCSEs this summer it will be about 50:50,” said Davies in the video. “It's incredible how quickly that's happened.”

He pointed out that most children are now born to parents who are not married. Davies cited the The Institute for Fiscal Studies who found that the UK is second only to the US in developed nations in having the “most fragile and complex family structures.”

The decline in marriage has mostly affected poorer families. The CSJ studied the Family Resources survey found that children in the top 20% income bracket had an 85% chance of having married parents, but in the bottom 20% only 19% had married parents.

It is not always easy to compare ‘like with like’ in social issues, and this particular subject is complicated by the fact that lone parenthood leads to lower income and lower incomes lead to lone parenthood. But the CSJ found that there were big differences in the marriage stability in different ethnic groups that also seemed to correlate with children’s educational progress. 

Other outcomes that are better in two parent families include crime and mental health. 

“Pretty much any outcome you can think of, in terms of social policy, you are looking at an advantage to being raised by your mum and dad in a committed relationship,” said Davies. 

He was clear that two parent families are beneficial to children and society: “Of course,” he said. “I get that it's hard to talk about, but the evidence at a population level particularly is absolutely clear on this, that actually being raised by your mum and dad gives you the best start in life.”

Davies acknowledged that the reason politicians are reluctant to talk about the importance of marriage is that it might offend those who are not married or who have divorced. 

“I think the reason we don't like to talk about it is because it is personal and it's sensitive,” he said. “I really understand why people are reticent, and in some ways particularly for politicians, you're trying to get the votes, you don't want to alienate people. People are scared of stigmatizing [single parents]. 

“But I think we're in this position now where it is so widespread and normalized to put children in this position that we have to start looking at this through a child-centric lens.”

The cultural causes of the decline in marriage are complicated and varied. Davies said the real concern for him is that “we have stopped valuing the act of commitment, the marriage, in the first place”.

Clouston cited societal change such as women in the workplace and individualism as causes: “It's a completely different world... [Before] you would not put yourself first, maybe you'd have duty to other people and maybe sacrifice a few things.”

While a commonly cited cause of the decline in marriage is the rising cost of housing, he said that a more important factor is not finding a person to marry.

The decline in Christianity was also discussed, although only its peripheral effects rather than the influence of genuine faith. “I don't see it coming back very quickly,” said Clouston. “I urge people to attend church whether they believe or not, because it's the belonging, not the belief necessarily.”

The pair discussed possible policies that might help to reverse the decline in marriage and family, such as the state paying for pre-marriage counselling, and the sharing of tax allowances and benefits between a couple. Another policy discussed was “front loading” child benefit so that more is paid when the child is young. 

However Clouston advocates for being willing to talk about the benefits of marriage and to work to change the culture: “Outcomes for children as a society are better in married traditional families, that is true, and [you’ve] also got to say that ‘lads need dads’ and be honest about it, and not flinch from it. And then if we could change the status of motherhood and fatherhood I think we'd be really onto something.”

Davies also touched on the issue of childcare: “We are now moving as an entire Western world into more and more child care at a younger age without ever asking if it's in the children's interest,” he said. “And so we are going down this road further and further that undermines the family.” CT.

Heather Tomlinson is a freelance Christian writer. Find more of her work at https://heathertomlinson.substack.com or via X (twitter) @heathertomli

Mel Gibson.

Mel Gibson talks Hollywood opposition to 'Passion of the Christ,' says Gospels are 'verifiable history'.

Actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson during an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience released on Jan. 9, 2025. (Photo: YouTube/Joe Rogan Experience)

(CP) Actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson went on the "Joe Rogan Experience" podcast, where he discussed his faith, the challenges of creating Christian-oriented films in Hollywood and why he believes Darwinian evolution is a flawed theory.

Best known for the Oscar-winning "Braveheart" and "The Passion of the Christ," Gibson, 69, discussed the challenges he faced in making 2004's "Passion," which became the highest-grossing R-rated film in U.S. history, raking in $370.8 million against its $30 million budget.

"There was a lot of opposition to it," said Gibson on the episode, which debuted Thursday. "I think if you ever hit on that subject matter, you're going to get people going because, of course, it's a big subject matter.

"The idea was that we're all responsible for this, that His sacrifice was for all mankind, and that for all our ills and all the things in our fallen nature," he added. "It was a redemption, so you know, and I believe that."

Rogan, a self-described agnostic who was raised Catholic, agreed with Gibson, saying he believes that Christianity, unlike other religions, is often subject to criticism, especially in secular Hollywood.

"Christianity is the one religion that you're allowed to disparage," he said, adding that while Hollywood is full of "progressive, open-minded leftist people" who might embrace various religions, Christianity, "for whatever reason that represents like white, male, colonialism, whatever it represents, it's negative."

Gibson, who at one point was named the "most powerful Christian in Hollywood," said despite facing such resistance, it was "an honour" to get the film made in the first place.

"I was born into a Catholic family. I'm very Christian in my beliefs," he said. "I do actually believe this stuff to the full."

When the topic of the veracity of the resurrection of Christ came up, Gibson said he considers the Gospels to be "verifiable history," pointing to extra-biblical historical accounts that confirm the existence of Jesus of Nazareth.

He also pointed out that all the apostles who spread the message of Christianity were willing to sacrifice their lives to spread the Gospel.

"Every single one of those guys died rather than deny their belief," said Gibson, adding that "nobody dies for a lie." The resurrection, however, remains the most challenging part of the story for many to accept, as it "requires the most faith and the most belief."

But, added Gibson, "Who gets back up three days later after he gets murdered in public? ... Buddha didn't do that."

When Rogan asked him about his views on evolution, Gibson was skeptical.

"I don't really go for it," he said. "Ice Age dinosaurs ... what did they turn into?"

While Gibson said he believes he "was created," he said he remains open to some form of natural micro-evolutionary processes like "gain of function," but within the framework of a larger "creation."

He also said he believes that the world has order and that "anything left to itself without some kind of intelligence behind it will devolve into chaos," implying a need for a "big intelligence" orchestrating everything.

Gibson said he sees humans as distinct from other creatures. "I think we have a soul," he said. "We're created with a soul."

After recording the episode of Rogan's podcast, Gibson said Thursday he learned his girlfriend and young son were evacuating their home to escape the raging Palisades Fire as he sat in Rogan's famous studio.

He made reference to the multiple wildfires burning through Southern California during the podcast.

"I think all our tax dollars probably went for [Gov. Gavin Newsom's] hair gel," Gibson told Rogan. "It's sad. The place is just on fire."

Gibson later said in a phone interview with News Nation that he was "ill at ease" during the podcast, adding, "I knew my neighborhood was on fire, so I thought, 'I wonder if my place is still there.'"

© The Christian Post

And Whyever Not?

 Pope Francis appoints a nun to lead Vatican office in historic move.

Duncan Williams | Tue 14 Jan 2025.

Her new role makes her the first woman to lead a Vatican dicastery. CT.

Butterfly.

 

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Under Attack When Putting Things Right?

Hillsong College commits to reforms amid charity regulator investigation..

David Goodwin | Fri 24 Jan 2025 11:57 GMT

Australian megachurch Hillsong is facing fresh scrutiny after a ruling by the country's charity watchdog, the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC), found a number of financial irregularities at its college. CT.

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An Utter DISGRACE To Justice. SACK THe Appeal Judge!

Mike Amesbury: MP walks free after appealing sentence for assault.

He had received a ten-week jail term after pleading guilty over the incident in October, with led to his suspension by the Labour Party

Laurence Sleator

Thursday February 27 2025, 12.00pm GMT, The Times

Mike Amesbury, the former Labour MP convicted of assault after punching a constituent in the street, has won an appeal to have his jail sentence suspended.

The 55-year-old was handed a ten-week prison term on Monday after pleading guilty to hitting Paul Fellows on Main Street in Frodsham, a market town near the River Mersey, on October 26 last year.

His application for bail while he appealed his sentence had been denied. He was also ordered to pay £200 compensation for the “early-hours drunken brawling”.

Amesbury, who was elected in 2017, has refused to resign as MP for Runcorn & Helsby in Cheshire and will continue to claim his £91,000-a-year salary as an independent despite his conviction. He still faces the possibility of losing his seat if enough of his constituents sign a petition, which will run for six weeks.

Amesbury was suspended from the Labour Party in October after a video emerged showing him punching Fellows while waiting for a taxi at 2.15am. Fellows was seen falling to the ground, at which point Amesbury hit him at least five more times. Times.

Former Aussie PM.

Former Australian prime minister details God's faithfulness amid trials: 'He's always been there'.

Jon Brown  22 January 2025.

(CP) The former prime minister of Australia has told The Christian Post how God sustained him when he led his country through an especially tumultuous time, and how he has learned to find his value not in power, but in God's love for him.

Scott Morrison, a Christian who served as Australia's 30th prime minister from 2018 to 2022, detailed his faith journey in his 2024 book, Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness.

The book posits three main questions based on Jeremiah 29:11, exhorting readers to consider "Who am I?," "How should I live?," and "What should I hope for?" The book provides pastoral reflections on how to answer such fundamental questions while weaving compelling stories from his own life and time in office.

Morrison emphasized to CP that the book is not a political memoir, but rather a message of hope to readers facing their own doubts and struggles.

"It's not a political book," he said. "If I wanted to write a political book, it probably would have been three times longer and would have been full of defenses and advocacy of my political agenda. That's what I did in politics, and I did that for a long time."

Morrison said his faith was not something he went into very often in great depth while serving as prime minister, but that leaving the public stage has offered him "an opportunity for me to just to be very open about my Christian faith and to declare it."

'A very difficult time'

Morrison's time as prime minister was marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which he described as the biggest crisis Australia had faced since World War II.

The COVID-19 protocols in Australia drew criticism from some who believed they were too strict, though the country of 25 million people was one of the few able to bring new community-acquired COVID-19 cases down to zero in 2020. Morrison pushed back against critics who maintain there was a global conspiracy to oppress citizens.

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"It was a very difficult time, and I think there was a lot of uncertainty and anxiety at the time," Morrison said. "People were trying to understand and explain what was going on. I just knew that we were dealing with a pathogen which was very, very dangerous and we had to deal with it. If there was a conspiracy, no one invited me to the meetings."

"It was tough. You're never going to get remedies and responses to that which was going to make everybody happy," he added.

Morrison said dealing with the rise of China was the most difficult issue he had to deal with as prime minister, noting how the Chinese government "sought to bully and break Australia," even as they were straining under the weight of the pandemic, a recession and some of the worst natural disasters the country had seen "in quite some time."

"Everywhere I went, I was seeing devastation and heartache in my own country, and that was heartbreaking," he said, adding that he credits God for strengthening him "to stand up to China and to do so with the backing of many of our friends, particularly in the United States, with whom I formed some very good personal and close relationships."

'Anxiety is human'

Morrison is also very open in his book about how he began to suffer anxiety attacks while serving as prime minister that required medication in 2021. He urged Christians not to be ashamed if they need help with their mental health amid what he described as "an anxiety crisis, particularly in Western society."

"Anxiety is human," he said, adding that his anxiety was not caused by policy challenges or security threats, but rather "physical exhaustion combined with the tenacious, relentless, personal, vindictive attacks — principally through secular voices in the media and opponents."

"We're all flesh and blood, mind and spirit," he said. "And these things can affect us after some period of time."

"I say to Christians that you take a pill for a headache, and your mental health is no different," he said. "The stresses that we labour under at times need that sort of support."

"I was on my knees at that time, I was praying, I was seeking the counsel and support of Christian friends and others, but there are physical things that happen that can affect your mental health, and you've got to be mindful of those things."

Morrison also said Christians should acknowledge the spiritual aspect of anxiety by casting their anxieties on the Lord.

"As Christians, we need to learn how we can just hand these things over to God; the anxieties are real, the things we're anxious about are real," he added. "We can't pretend they're not there, and we've just got to deal with them and hand them over to Him and allow Him to give us peace."

'Constant source of strength and wisdom'

Morrison stressed the importance of having a community of believers who upheld him in prayer while he was in office, including a tight-knit group of pastors.

"You can't live your faith other than in community of brothers and sisters in Christ, and that's intentional by design, I believe," he said.

"God helps us when we're on our knees in prayer; He helps us when we're reflecting on His work, and He also encourages us and supports us through those he puts around us. I've always been blessed with that, and, frankly, sought it out."

Morrison suggested the increasingly secular nature of Western societies makes Christian fellowship even more vital.

"You can't live in a secular society faithfully and strongly if you're not in a community of those who love Christ," he said. "They are a constant source of strength and wisdom and support and love, and to be in such a community is one of the great joys and blessings of Christian life."

'We don't have to prove anything'

A section in the third chapter of Morrison's book delves into the many setbacks and failures he has suffered, starting with when he was fired from his job in the country's tourism agency during his late 30s. He claims he was fired for political reasons by then-Prime Minister John Howard, with whom he had a good relationship and whose campaign he worked for.

The experience, he writes, was "humiliating and soul destroying," but revealed to him how much he was placing his self-worth in his own accomplishments instead of in God's unconditional love for him.

"We don't have to prove anything to God, even the things we think we are doing for Him," Morrison writes. "God's love has nothing to do with what we think we can offer. He loves us just as we are, in all our brokenness."

"God's love is transformational if you allow it to be. It's one thing to accept it; it's entirely another to let it transform you and allow you to see yourself through His eyes instead of through the perspective of what you have or haven't accomplished."

That lesson would prove invaluable throughout the rest of his life and steel him to experience other losses, including ultimately losing reelection as prime minister in 2022. He writes that while some politicians who lose begin to crave the "relevance" they lost, he is free from such an "affliction."

Morrison suggested to CP that one of the greatest lessons he has learned is God's faithfulness regardless of what vocation to which he is called in the different seasons of his life.

"I just found God faithful to me in every walk of life, whether it was as prime minister, as a treasurer, as a cabinet minister, a member of parliament, a father, senior chief executive, all these sorts of things that I've done over the course of my life," he said.

"He's always been there with me, and that's really what I'm trying to say. It doesn't matter what your vocation is, what job you have, what you're doing in life. The prize is Christ and His presence. That's what will sustain you always in everything." CT.

© The Christian Post. 

All I Know Is That It Is Not A Budgie.

 

The Medieval Idea of 'Sanctuary' In Churches Was Seldom Rationally Managed.

Churches are no longer off-limits for immigration arrests under Trump

Jennifer Moreno | Fri 24 Jan 2025.

Authorities in the US have been given the green light by the Trump administration to arrest undocumented migrants at schools, churches and hospitals. CT.

Walk In Faith!

I SO Want Melanie To Be Wrong.

 

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Reconciliation — or surrender? An apparently worthy initiative is based on a dangerous moral equivalence. Melanie Phillips Feb 26   Jewish and Muslim faith leaders who signed the “Reconciliation Accords” pose with the King at Buckingham Palace At a time when the west is beginning to wake up to the nature and extent of the threat from the Islamic world, Jewish faith leaders in Britain appear to be waving the white flag of surrender. Last month, a group of prominent Jewish and Muslim faith leaders — including Britain’s Chief Rabbi — presented to the King the “Muslim-Jewish Reconciliation Accords” which had been created in secret over the course of a year. Described as a “framework of reconciliation, understanding, and solidarity”, the document calls for “sustained dialogue, mutual understanding and practical collaboration”. Acknowledging that “tensions in the Middle East often have ripple effects on Muslim-Jewish relations locally,” it says: These conflicts can lead to mistrust, heightened emotions, and fractures to relationships that we cherish and value so dearly. Talk about understatement. “Tensions”? “Ripple effects”? “Mistrust”? Do such bland vagaries really convey the impact of the past 16 months of Muslim-led hate-marches against Jews and Israel following the Hamas-led pogrom in Israel on October 7 2023? While most Muslims pose no threat whatever, and many of the most vicious antisemites and Israel-bashers are white-skinned, Muslims have played a disproportionate part in this anti-Jewish hysteria. The incitement against Israel and the Jews has been orchestrated by both Sunni and Shia Muslim extremists in alliance with the western left. And as opinion polling repeatedly reveals, antisemitism in the Islamic world is far higher than in the general population. The inter-faith document says that “both communities must strive to offer reassurance, promoting dialogue and reaffirming our shared commitment to peace and mutual understanding”. “Shared commitment”? Really? How many Muslim members of this group publicly denounced Hamas after the October 7 atrocities and said “Not in our name”? How many have publicly rejected the Muslim Brotherhood, the jihadi parent body of Hamas that’s entrenched in Britain’s Muslim community? How many have publicly condemned those members of their community who regularly parade through the streets chanting for intifada, the death of Jews and the destruction of Israel? Worse, this document draws an equivalence between Jews and Muslims, Judaism and Islam, antisemitism and Islamophobia. It implies that both Jews and Muslims equally promote tensions against each other. Not so. Jews have no issue with Muslims other than when Muslims threaten them, the State of Israel or western civilisation. The document draws a shocking equivalence between Judaism and Islam. It selectively quotes Islamic precepts to conceal ways in which Islamic thinking threatens Jews and the west. For example, it fails to acknowledge that in Islamic thinking the warlike verses in the Koran supersede the peaceful ones. It fails to acknowledge the hatred of Jews embedded in Islamic theological texts, such as the hadith (or source) that states; The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him! Proponents of inter-faith initiatives generally claim that, since their work is all about finding common ground, theological issues must be avoided at all costs because these only cause friction. But this document actually draws explicitly upon theology in order to propagate a false impression that erases Islamic Jew-hatred. The equivalence it draws between antisemitism and Islamophobia is very troubling. All bigotry is wrong, and the increase in unprovoked attacks on Muslims is reprehensible. But there’s no comparison between that and the state of siege under which British Jews — who have never threatened anyone — have been forced to conduct their activities for years. Most important, the claim of Islamophobia is a weapon of censorship to silence all criticism of the Islamic world, including the extent of Muslim antisemitism. At least one member of this group, Imam Qari Asim, has sought to deploy such restrictions on free expression. In 2022, the government removed him as deputy chair of the government's Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group after he backed calls for The Lady of Heaven, a film about the daughter of Islam’s founder Mohammed, to be banned. The government said Asim’s actions were “a clear effort to restrict artistic expression;” the campaign he supported had “led to street protests which have fomented religious hatred,” and “risked fuelling extremism and tension in communities that would undermine cohesion in British society”. Yet this “reconciliation” group appears to have surrendered to just such an impulse to fetter free expression. For its document states: While we acknowledge the importance of free speech, we recognise how offensive or derogatory language regarding sacred figures and practices which stand at the heart of our respective faiths can be, and therefore pledge to treat them with due sensitivity and good faith. Respect for other faiths is indeed essential. But as we have seen repeatedly, the Islamic world interprets such respect as meriting killing people who criticise, poke fun at or even just publish images of Mohammed. In Batley, west Yorkshire, a teacher who showed his class a picture of Mohammed in a lesson about free speech received death threats so severe he is still in hiding for his life almost four years later. In Britain, the Muslim community is pressing for “Islamophobia” to be criminalised under what would amount to an Islamic blasphemy law. Yet astonishingly, it seems that the Jews in this group have pledged to go along with this lethal interpretation of “sensitivity”. Did they forget the Batley teacher? Or didn’t they care? Of course it’s right to reach out to those of good faith in other cultures. And there are brave and decent Muslims who do speak out against these excesses by their community. But they are rare and isolated voices. Forming an alliance with a community that refuses to acknowledge the threat posed by a large number of its members against Jews and others isn’t reconciliation but bending the knee to intimidation. Jews don’t attack Muslims with hatred and lies. Why do these Jewish faith leaders state that Jews must offer reassurance to a community many of whose members attack them in this way? Why don’t these Jewish leaders demand instead that their Muslim counterparts ensure that this behaviour actually stops? The Jewish members of this group are undoubtedly acting with fine intentions. But they have come across as at best naive and at worst craven. Either way, Britain’s beleaguered and frightened Jewish community has been exceedingly ill-served. *** My new book The Builder’s Stone: How Jews and Christians Built the West – and Why Only They Can Save It, can be bought on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk .

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