Saturday, January 03, 2026
Mass Rape: It Was Not Just UK Governments Unwilling To Act Against Organised Rapists.
Ten Years On, German Elite Still Plays Down 2015 Cologne New Year’s Eve Migrant Sex Attacks.
Getty ImagesOver 1,000 women were sexually assaulted and raped across Germany’s major cities exactly ten years ago today, in an enormous and apparently coordinated act of violence by recently arrived migrant men, the nature and causes of which are still the subject of attempted obfuscation to this day.
The North African origins of the perpetrators of the infamous mass rapes and sex assaults seen in German cities on New Year’s Eve 2015-16 were not “a criminogenic factor”, a German academic has asserted, but rather were a function of radical “masculinity”. The remarkable comments come as the nation looks back ten years on to an event that both darkened the lives of a huge number of young women and changed the course of political history as it became “a turning point in the debate about refugees”.
The attacks — which were initially unreported in the German national media — were first brought to global attention by Breitbart News and saw women in practically every major German city set upon by gangs of migrant males. There were over 1,300 people targeted in the city of Cologne alone, primarily women. Of them, 600 women were sexually assaulted and 28 raped, while still more were beaten and robbed.
One 18-year-old woman was reported to have had an abortion after falling pregnant from being raped alongside another woman on the floor in the square between the Cologne Cathedral and the city’s central railway station.
Nationwide, over 1,200 women are reported to have been sexually assaulted in just one night. Although there were said to have been over a thousand perpetrators, the vast majority were never traced, and a decade later, just 39 convictions have been secured. Only two of those were for sexual assault, it is reported.
Early eyewitness accounts, which were borne out much later by police investigations and arrests, stated the perpetrators were overwhelmingly men of North African origin, mainly of Moroccan and Algerian extraction. Compounding the scandal of the attacks, were Angela Merkel government’s policies, which had brought the perpetrators to the country only months before, and the astonishing failures of the police to even realise what was happening at the time and what was widely claimed to have been an attempted cover-up.
The Cologne police command centre rejected the support of reserve officers held nearby and dismissed them home on the evening of the attacks, even as their own officers struggled to contain the chaos on the Cathedral square. The following morning, the force published a cheerful press release stating the night had passed off “peacefully” and without incident.
Broadcaster WDR notes then-Federal Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière acknowledged the attacks were “a turning point in the debate about refugees in Germany” and changed the course of German political history, setting migrant-critical party the AfD up for greater successes and ushering support for stricter migration policies in the years that followed. Evidently the narrative created on that night ten years ago remains difficult for left-wing pro-migration politics and activists, and attempts to revise history continue.
As reported by German broadsheet Die Welt, Hamburg-based police researcher Rafael Behr, a former professor of police science at the Hamburg Police Academy, used the anniversary to put forward his particular theories. The paper states he told WDR5 radio that the perpetrators having Arab or North African origins is not from a criminological point of view, “a criminogenic factor”.
Instead, he asserted: “I would summarize it as a radically uprooted masculinity”.
Behr rejected the German police shorthand for “North African Repeat Offender”, ‘NAFRI’, as unhelpful and said instead the Cologne attacks should be seen in the light of “masculinity as the motive and not nationality”. The paper quoted him as saying that the migrants had “endured existential fears” and were then transferred to a society “where they are not allowed to do anything, not even have the prospect of being allowed to stay here.”
On New Year’s Eve, then, “something was being compensated for that night” and this “was released explosively”.
This sudden rush of thousands of sex assaults and rapes taking place simultaneously across Germany was essentially spontaneous, he said he believed, and was not actually “strategically” planned, as has been widely reported.
The policing academic also said the criticism of the police that they failed to intervene on the night had “deeply affected” and “shook” the force, but emphasised that in the years that followed, the police investigated themselves and this allowed them to discard “many stereotypes and prejudices”.
Local Cologne newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reports the 10th anniversary of the sex assaults was being memorialised on Wednesday night by a vigil in the same square by the Women’s Heroines group, which accuses police of being overwhelmed and that the importance of the attacks have been downplayed.
The Heroines group said in a statement of their motivation:
The consequences of failed migration and integration policies have long disproportionately burdened women: with acts of violence in public spaces, parallel societies that isolate themselves through clothing and behaviour, sprawling concentrations of young men, and an openly displayed rejection of central values of the free democratic order and thus of the hard-won women’s rights in Europe.
The Cologne New Year’s Eve attacks ten years ago were a warning sign of this trend at the expense of women and girls. And the far too late reaction of the city and authorities at the time was a worst-practice example of failed analysis… the acts were not accidental and cannot be explained by alcohol, trauma, or “cultural misunderstandings”… here is a clear motive: contempt for Western civilization. Europeans are seen as weak, their legal system as exploitable, their women as legitimate prey.
The group made 11 demands of the government, including that the government should recognise it has a constitutional duty to protect the life and liberty of women and girls and that this “takes absolute precedence over all considerations related to migration, integration, residency, and perpetrators”.
Violent and sex criminal migrants should have their citizenship stripped and be deported, they said, and big-money NGOs that ” downplay, excuse, or cover up violence” should be defunded.
Failure to deliver means the rule of law loses its legitimacy, they warned.
A persistent question in the wake of Germany’s 2015-16 New Year’s Eve attacks remains whether it could happen again. At the time of the attack, the pattern of behaviour in the mass rapes and sex assaults was compared to the “Taharrush” phenomenon in the Arab world, a “game” where large gangs of men attack women for sport. And given the frequency with which this has been cited over similar attacks since, it seems clear that it has already continued to occur in Europe, if at a slower pace.“Taharrush” was cited on New Year’s Eve 2024-25, for instance, in the Italian city of Milan, when groups of “North African men” stalked women out partying for the holiday, with an eyewitness account stating: “We were trapped, helpless in the face of such violence! It was a waking nightmare… We were surrounded, and we couldn’t move! We held hands while they touched us all over the clothes and under the clothes! Despite our jackets and scarves. And it lasted 10 minutes, which is a very long time in this kind of situation.”As reported at the time:According to a report from the Italian newspaper Il Giornale, the prosecutor’s office in Milan suspects that the alleged sexual assaults were a manifestation of the “Islamic ritual” known as taharrush gamea, or the “collective sexual harassment in crowds”. The paper said the attacks generally target “insolent women, guilty of showing up in public”.
According to a report from the Italian newspaper Il Giornale, the prosecutor’s office in Milan suspects that the alleged sexual assaults were a manifestation of the “Islamic ritual” known as taharrush gamea, or the “collective sexual harassment in crowds”. The paper said the attacks generally target “insolent women, guilty of showing up in public”.
… The first widely documented ‘taharrush gamea’ incident occurred in Egypt in 2005 when the government allegedly hired gangs of men to assault female protesters and journalists sexually. Amnesty International reported in 2015 that since 2012, “mob sexual assaults, including rape, have become a regular feature of protests in the vicinity of Tahrir Square in Cairo.”
The practice has since spread into Europe, most notably in the 2016 New Year’s Eve Cologne attacks brought to international attention by Breitbart London… Gang sex attacks have also occurred in Italy, including in Milan on New Year’s Eve 2022 in the very same Piazza del Duomo when nine young women fell victim to similar sexual assaults, leading prosecutors to believe that the recent attacks may have been a copy cat of the incidents two years prior.The practice has since spead into Europe, most notably in the 2016 New Year’s Eve Cologne attacks brought to international attention by Breitbart London… Gang sex attacks have also occurred in Italy, including in Milan on New Year’s Eve 2022 in the very same Piazza del Duomo when nine young women fell victim to similar sexual assaults, leading prosecutors to believe that the recent attacks may have been a copy cat of the incidents two years prior.
Faith and Reality.
https://www.christiantoday.com/news/missionary-turned-soldier-in-ukraine-balances-faith-with-harsh-frontline-realities
Friday, January 02, 2026
Blogger: The Christian Revival Cannot Rely In Any Fashion On Churches Which Do Not Wholeheartedly Follow The Scriptures.
The Christian revival is here, and next year it will get even stronger.
For a younger generation that has only experienced uncertainty, the Church offers hope for the future. DT.
The quiet revival of Christianity, particularly among Gen Z, has been underway for some time. But 2025 was the year in which this stirring of renewed spiritual interest became impossible to ignore, even amongst doubters. If current trends continue, 2026 will see the search for authentic spirituality continue to expand.
According to YouGov, the proportion of British people attending church at least once a month has increased from 8 per cent in 2018 to 12 per cent in 2024. Bible sales were reported to be up 87 per cent between 2019 and 2024. While many parish priests may still wish for fuller pews at morning communion, the overall picture is that a significant number of churches in England are undergoing rejuvenation, with growing interest especially from younger people: Easter and Christmas services were overflowing.
Earlier in the year Christian summer festivals flourished, with over 100,000 attending these gatherings across the nation. All are preparing to increase their numbers for 2026. Big Church Festival, Britain’s biggest Christian festival, drew a record 35,000 attendees when it was held in West Sussex last August. Over half the visitors were aged between 18 and 24.
But it isn’t sufficient to acknowledge growing interest in Christian life without the necessary spiritual leadership that ought to shepherd curiosity into conversions. In his Christmas message the King referenced the importance of spirituality in our lives. He started by telling of how he and the Queen had recently been praying with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican. He went on to develop the theme of pilgrimage and journeying as being of particular significance for our modern world, referring to the wise men and the shepherd journeying in search of Jesus, adding that through physical and mental challenges they found an inner strength.
For Gen Z the concept of journeying is a resonant one, as is the reference to mental strength. They look for real life stories and want to understand the struggles and hopes of those with whom they want to go through life together.
For younger people, that journey is looking increasingly uncertain. They worry about the environment. We have war again in Europe, which had been unthinkable for several decades. The cost of living is a constant concern. Many have hefty student debts and are finding themselves with disappointingly few good job opportunities. The days when you could expect to settle into a profession for life are over thanks to AI. Meanwhile, popular culture has grown evermore trivial, with social media shortening our attention spans. Christianity provides young people with an authentic anchor of faith which is lacking from other areas of their lives.
This aching desire of a generation for purpose and spiritual fulfilment in a turbulent world was well captured by the King, who of course is also the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
DT.
An Abomination.
Aborting baby girls proves Britain’s multiculturalism experiment has failed
Why is a leading charity protecting the barbaric tradition of ‘sex-selective’ terminations?
As the mother of three beautiful daughters, I consider myself to be a very lucky woman...
Indeed, there are those who so value sons over daughters that they pressurise the women in their communities to abort female foetuses. This grim practice is called sex-selective abortion, and while most might assume that it only happens in the likes of China and India, it is in fact taking place in Britain too, among both first and second-generation immigrants whose roots lie in the Indian subcontinent.
It is rarely spoken about, but has come to light of late after the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), which provides abortions to more than 100,000 women across the UK annually, was criticised for suggesting that termination on the grounds of “foetal sex” was not illegal.
Official advice, however, begs to differ. “This Government’s position is unequivocal: sex-selective abortion is illegal in England and Wales and will not be tolerated,” the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said this week. “Sex is not a lawful ground for termination of pregnancy, and it is a criminal offence for any practitioner to carry out an abortion for that reason alone.”
Campaigners from within the British-Indian community have been quick to speak out against the BPAS, which states on its website: “The law is silent on the matter. Reason of foetal sex is not a specified ground for abortion within the Abortion Act, but nor is it specifically prohibited.”
They have spoken up because they all too often see women being coerced into forced marriages, suffering domestic violence and then being made to terminate pregnancies on the grounds that the baby will not be a boy.
The Government’s own figures indicate the scale of the problem. There was a “statistically significant imbalance” in the ratio of boy to girl births between 2017 and 2021 for children of Indian ethnicity, particularly so in instances of the birth of a family’s third child, analysis by the DHSC has found. This is when the pressure is really on women in such circumstances to produce a son.
“This may indicate that sex-selective abortions are taking place,” the report concluded. “If so, it is estimated that approximately 400 sex-selective abortions may have taken place to female foetuses over the five-year period from 2017 to 2021.”
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Why Have So Many Voters Not Spotted That The Greens Are EVEN Worse Than Labour?
Just 12 Per Cent of UK Voters Approve of Left-Wing Labour Party Government.
Capping off UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s disastrous first full year in office, a poll from YouGov found that just over one in ten voters approve of his government’s performance.
This Is NOT About Women In The Church! - It Is About Following God's Word!
First lesbian archbishop laments people leaving church over her sexuality: 'Very hurtful'.
GAFCON leader points to warning in Romans 1:26.
The Most Rev. Cherry Elizabeth Vann,was named the 15th Archbishop of Wales in July. | Screengrab/ChurchinWales/InstagramThe first openly lesbian archbishop in Christian history recently said she finds it "very hurtful" that some people are leaving her church in protest of her gender and sexuality.
"There are still patches all over the place where people continue to struggle with women in leadership and I have to respect that," the Most Rev. Cherry Vann, 67, who serves as bishop of Monmouth and was elected in July as the 15th archbishop of Wales, told the BBC last week.
Thursday, January 01, 2026
Too Little Reality In Our Celebration Practices.
Who was St Stephen and why is he remembered on December 26?
The 1896 fresco of The Stoning of St Stephen by S. G. Rudl in the Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Prague. (Photo: Getty/iStock)
The carol says, “Good King Wenceslas last looked out on the Feast of Stephen.” In many countries, December 26, also known as Boxing Day, is better known as St Stephen’s Day. Stephen was the first Christian martyr. This is the story …
The name Stephen
The name Stephen in English comes from the Greek Στέφανος (Stephanos), where it means wreath or crown. In English use, variants include Steven and Stefan, and it is often abbreviated as Steve. The female version is Stephanie.
In other languages it appears in different forms, such as Étienne in French, Esteban in Spanish, Stefano in Italian, Štěpán in Czech, Štefanije in Croat, Fan in Albanian, and Steffan in Welsh. It is a popular name in many countries of Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant heritage. Stephen was considered an honourable name and was the name of a king of England from 1135 to 1154. It was also used by five kings in Hungary and by 10 popes.
Stephen of Jerusalem
The name Stephen is only used of one person in the Bible. He comes into the New Testament story in Acts chapters 6 and 7. His story is set in the early years of the Church, when it was growing. There were Christians who were Greek-speaking Jews and others who were Hebrew Jews. These first Christians, mostly from a Jewish heritage, held property in common, with the wealthier sharing what they owned with the poorer members of the community. At this time, there were many widows in need of charity. The Greek-speaking Christians, also called the Hellenists, complained that their widows were being discriminated against in the daily distribution of food (Acts 6:1–6).
As a result, the apostles called the Jerusalem community together. They asked them to select seven reputable men who would be appointed to minister to the task. The seven men who were chosen were Stephen, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus of Antioch (Acts 6:5). The apostles laid their hands upon them and set them apart to serve those who were overlooked in the community. Stephen was first in the list and was appointed because he was “a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit” (Acts 6:5).
Stephen the Martyr
Luke wrote that Stephen performed great wonders and signs (Acts 6:8), and that the number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, including many Jewish priests (Acts 6:7). As a result, this caused consternation among the Jewish authorities. Opposition arose and false accusations were brought against him, especially from the Synagogue of the Freedmen, which was a Greek-speaking synagogue for Diaspora Jews now living in Jerusalem. The text specifically mentions that it included Jews of Cyrene and Alexandria in North Africa, and Jews from the Roman provinces of Cilicia and Asia. They argued with Stephen, who seems to have preached at the synagogue, and he may well have been a member or former member of the synagogue himself.
Some members of the synagogue made false accusations against him, claiming that he had spoken blasphemous words against God and Moses (Acts 6:11). He was hauled before the Sanhedrin on charges of speaking against “this holy place and the law” (Acts 6:13). Luke notes that in that hostile courtroom, “all who were sitting in the Sanhedrin looked intently at Stephen, and they saw that his face was like the face of an angel” (Acts 6:15).
In Acts 7 we read that the High Priest spoke to Stephen (Acts 7:1), who responded not with self-defence but with a sweeping retelling of Israel’s story, from Abraham through Moses and the prophets. Stephen showed how God has always been on the move, not confined to one land or one building, and how God’s people have repeatedly “resisted the Holy Spirit” and rejected the messengers sent to them (Acts 7:1–53). Perhaps the part that annoyed them most was that Stephen confronted them and said that they had “betrayed and murdered” the “Righteous One” about whom the prophets had spoken (Acts 7:52), meaning Jesus. The reaction was fury (Acts 7:54).
Luke’s narrative in Acts then turns from Stephen’s words to his vision. He looked up “and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God” (Acts 7:55). He cried out and said, “Look, I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God” (Acts 7:56). The implications of this were outrageous and blasphemous to those present.
Stoning
The crowd dragged him outside the city and stoned him. As the stones fell, he prayed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit” (Acts 7:59), echoing Jesus’s cry, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit” (Luke 23:46) when he was on the cross. Then Stephen fell on his knees and cried out, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them” (Acts 7:60), echoing Jesus’s prayer, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34). After he was killed, he was buried and the church mourned for him (Acts 8:2–3).
Persecution
The book of Acts describes how, following the stoning, great persecution broke out, and most believers fled Jerusalem and were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. This was prophesied by Jesus when he said that some people would kill them, flog them in the synagogues, and pursue them from town to town (Matthew 23:35), and that in Jerusalem they would stone some of them (Matthew 23:37).
Saul at the Stoning
Luke added a small detail that the “witnesses laid their coats at the feet of a young man named Saul” (Acts 7:58), who “approved of their killing him” (Acts 8:1). Saul began to try to destroy the church by going from house to house and dragging off men and women and putting them in prison. This man who witnessed the death was Saul of Tarsus, who later had a dramatic conversion and is better known today as St Paul. Tarsus is in Cilicia, and Luke specifically mentions that the Synagogue of the Freedmen included Jews from Cilicia, which seems to indicate that Saul was from this synagogue. Paul later stated, “When the blood of your martyr Stephen was shed, I stood there giving my approval and guarding the clothes of those who were killing him” (Acts 22:20). The first martyr’s death thus becomes the catalyst for Saul’s journey to faith in Christ.
Traditions about St Stephen
Stephen is considered the first Christian martyr and one of the first deacons of the Christian Church. The site of his death is not specified in the Bible, but by tradition it was east of Jerusalem, outside Lion’s Gate, which leads to one of the quarters of the city. Christians have thus traditionally known it as St Stephen’s Gate.
His death occurred a few years after the start of the Church at Pentecost and is dated variously as AD 33, 34, 35, or 36. Stephen was never formally canonised, but he is known as St Stephen. St Stephen’s Day is traditionally on December 26 in the Western Church, December 25 in the Armenian Church, and December 27 in the Eastern Orthodox world. He is considered the patron saint of deacons and stonemasons. There are many churches around the world dedicated to St Stephen, including 145 in the Church of England. The most famous is Stephansdom, the cathedral in Vienna, Austria.
St Stephen’s Day
St Stephen’s Day, also called the Feast of Stephen, is an official public holiday in many Central European countries such as Austria, Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic, where it is the second day of Christmas and a time for visiting family and friends.
The Christmas song about Good King Wenceslas was inspired by Duke Václav of Bohemia, who lived in Prague. In the song he goes out “on the Feast of Stephen,” which is December 26. The parallel with St Stephen is that both men were concerned with the poor and both were martyred.
In the UK and many Commonwealth countries, the day is a bank holiday but is instead called Boxing Day, from the tradition of giving boxes or gifts to servants and the poor — a practice that draws on Stephen’s role in serving the needy.
Collect
The traditional Anglican collect prayer for St Stephen’s Day is: “Grant, O Lord, that in all our sufferings here upon earth, for the testimony of thy truth, we may steadfastly look up to heaven, and by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed; and, being filled with the Holy Ghost, may learn to love and bless our persecutors, by the example of thy first Martyr Saint Stephen, who prayed for his murderers to thee, O blessed Jesus, who standest at the right hand of God to succour all those that suffer for thee, our only Mediator and Advocate. Amen.” CT.
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Well. What Can We Possibly Say?
We’re the young doctors leaving the NHS to move to Australia.
Higher pay, shorter hours and days off on the beach are luring thousands to leave the NHS every year, many of them for down under.
Songbird Survival.After A Dramatic Healing By Jesus - What Happened Next?
34) Then the whole town went out to meet Jesus. And when they saw him, they pleaded with him to leave their region. Matt 8.
And so it is to this very day. How many people are so messed up in their heads, they cannot recognise a really good thing when they see it?
Only be scared of the Lord if you reject Him. Welcoming Him into your life as guardian and saviour is the very best thing you can do in an entire life.
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
A Most Unpleasant Read.
https://www.christiantoday.com/news/400-girls-missing-thanks-to-sex-selective-abortions
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