How the Land of the Serpent Became the Land of the Bible

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Extremly interesting video about the history of America. But first a glimpse on the central characters of this history, the Anabaptists, Moravian Brethren, Baptists, Separatist Puritans (Pilgrims), also the Lutheran Pietists, etc. 

Think: the Moravian brethren were so zealous and had such an heart to save souls that in the extreme cases some of them even sold themselves as slaves in order to be able to enter in the plantations in order to let some of those African slaves to know Jesus and avoid to go to Hell!

You have to mind that, for example,  in South Africa the white, Cold Protestants forbade the "niggers" to enter or to listen to the sermons in their churches.... For the Moravian brethren this was inconceivable! Indeed, once entered in the plantations or the surrounding area, problems came also from the white "Christian" owners who tried to boycott the missionary work of the brethren:

Above video: History of Deadly Assassins, Jesuit & Moravian Missions |Intermediate Discipleship #87 Dr. Gene Kim

https://youtu.be/ymeac7FYw_U

Second and third video

Here the second video, about the biblical history of America, together with a third one. The name comes not from Amerigo Vespucci, but from Ameru, the Peruvian name of the Serpent, and Ameruca, literally "the Land of the Serpent". Ameruca = America. Just one wovel. 

One of the first settlers were the Rosicrucian, see Francis Bacon, Walter Raleigh, all gnostic people, related to the gnostic utopia of another Bacon, Roger.  Then arrived Rome and her daughters, the Catholics and the Cold Protestant denominations, Calvinists, Lutherans, Puritans, Anglicans, etc. Cold because they persisted to reform the church of Rome or Anglican, but you cannot reform what is rotten. They wanted the power of these church-state, and the Spirit of Christ was already dead in them. They went for power and were moved by the force of cold, dead ritual formalism.

Then we have a second "front". Anabaptists, Moravian brethren, Baptists, Pilgrims, all separatist denominations, whose zeal for soul, whose love for their Saviour unabated moved them to search land where to bring the light of Jesus. And they were also persecuted by the Catholic system and the Cold Protestant in the Old Continent. 

The third video shows how the history of the colonization in America confirms the Bible.  Here dr. Gene Kim reads from the book of dr. William P. Grady. The first flux of colonies underwent a serious sequence of problems: devastating climate adversities, attack from the savage tribes of natives, and on and on. But the second stream, the separatists, enjoyed the best conditions. Puritans, who persecuted the separatists (search about the persecution on Baptists) had a hard life, but the Pilgrims, notwithstanding the terrible winter, were welcomed by the "Indians". One of them even knew the English language and helped the Pilgrims to survive what others could not afford: his name was Squanto.

Above image: How Satan Turned America Against God (Understanding the Times), the book of dr. W. P. Grady.

Dr Grady, in his book (a Pastor now coming from US purchased a copy for me), righteously identifies the hand of God respectively in the misfortunes occurred to the "gnostic" colonizers (Rosicrucian groups, "New Atlantis", the various state churches, reformed or Catholic ones, etc.) and in the providential help from the Lord for the separatists. The Massachusetts of the Puritans saw a great increase of Baptists, God knows how to be ironic.

Therefore we have two Americas: one is the "Land of the Serpent" (Lucifer, Satan), which attracted the "Cold", both nominally "Christian" as well openly Gnostic front. The other is the America of the separatists. God used the separatists, taking away the North part of the Land of the Serpent from the power of the Devil which supported the Rosicrucian and the state-churches, and developed it and transformed it in the greatest country in the world to use and send in all the world the King James Bible AV 1611. In doing this God replaced a British Empire which became the hotbed of the gnostic versions of the Bible (Westcott & Hort).  Great Britain, the cradle of the word of God in the AV 1611, was deemed by the Almighty no more worthy of the honor to publish and send the King James Bible in the whole world with her empire. The honor was transferred to the former "Land of the Serpent", now Land of the word of God (USA).

So the hand of God took away that name (Ameruca) from the Devil. That name, America, became synonym with Christian missionary zeal, and a symbol of the Bible.  Isn't great the sovereign power of Almighty God in this world? A great blow to the pride of the Leviathan.

Jesus said he didn't come to bring peace in the world, but sword and division. The Satanists of the Old Continent together with their church-state, wanted to unite the Land of the Serpent with Europe, God said NO and protected the separatists. We Christians, born again Christians, are, cause our (new) nature, separatists. Jesus with His circumcision separated our soul from the body. And circumcised us from the world. We don't follow the Lamb "whithersoever he goeth". We are PART of the Lamb, we are the BODY OF CHRIST. And there's nothing in this world that can separate us from Him, forever, nor the Devil, nor the Rosicrucian or the Masons, nor the Cold Protestants or the Jesuits nor the Aliens. The blood of Jesus covered us forever, and will burn the evil spirits, their Devil and the lost damned souls forever in Hell. 

Don't be a fool, ask Jesus for His precious blood when there's still time, before the America of the Bible will be drowned in the Ameruca of the Rosicrucian, the One World Kingdom of the Antichrist, the Devil incarnate; Jesus loves you, He will never abandon you, He will NEVER betray you:

Above video: History of the 30 Years War & America's Origins |Intermediate Discipleship #88 Dr. Gene Kim

https://youtu.be/qFgb3--3OAk

Here in the third video dr. Gene Kim explains the history and the name America as a biblical truth:

Above video: History of The Pilgrims and The First Baptists | Intermediate Discipleship #89 | Dr. Gene Kim

https://youtu.be/bfo2ryPyakg

Banned from posting in a Inquisition apologetic blog.

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I have been banned from posting comments on the Catholic blog pahteos.com 

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2017/12/inquisition-killed-4-9-million-john-bugays-whoppers.html#

In it the author was defending the idea that the Inquisition killed at most 3,000 (three thousands) "hertics" affirming....

Claiming that “millions” were killed is precisely one of the ridiculous myths that helped me to decide to no longer debate theology with anti-Catholics. It’s futile. It’s a waste of time. I’ll do little exchanges like this one, but not an entire dialogue on theology.

I overlooked the above warning, and tried to post this text:

The thesis of this article resemble the Holocaust denial thesis.  Priscillian is officially the first Christian martyr of the Whore of Rome. In the 4. century. Catholicism thinks to be the "New Israel" adopting also the theology of the "kingdom of God on earth" enforced by the state power. Therefore Catholicism deals with the ones refusing to submit to her "kingdom" exactly as Israel was commanded by God when entering the Promised Land: "kill 'em all". Indeed the slogan was adopted by the Catholic butchers (adding "let God sort 'em out") when dealing with towns where a mix of "heretics" (Bible believers) were mixed with common Catholic people who could be infected  and therefore to be eliminated together with the Christians.

As promised, my comment was banned:

The author is very dishonest. First he limits the borders of the Inquisition in narrow bureaucratic terms, the Roman and Spanish Inquisition. Then he extract only the official documents pertaining the death of Christians who were submitted to these two Catholic jurisdictional areas, claiming that few thousands of sentenced "heretics" were the total sum of all the people killed by the Inquisition. He refuses to acknowledge that the Catholic mass murder was well beyond the numbers of the bureaucracy of the Inquisition in Italy, Spain, Mexico from 1542 to 1860 AD. 

For example, in the middle of that period, in the 1655, in the Savoy near the city of Turin, Waldensian were threatened with the genocide, at the hand of Irish Catholic mercenaries, and indeed, we have 1712 heroic Christian martyrs fulfilling Revelation 17:

Revelation 17:6

“And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.”

In only one shot the massacre of Piemont of 1655 shed the blood of a greater number of martyrs than the one of 300 years of Roman or Spanish Inquisition (the official estimates by "prudent" historians - children of the Whore? - amounts respectively to 1,250 and 1,050). But,  I presume, they were "not sentenced by the Inquisition" therefore, they are not victims of the Inquisition.  Does a formal detail exonerate the Catholic church of millions of Bible believing Christians?

In the same source I checked for this info, there's an interesting witness about the genocidal nature of the Catholic church as described in Revelation 17:6. It is reported the first hand witness of a Jesuit who expresses the assassin heart of the Whore he served:

A Jesuit priest, Fabrizio Torre, whose task was to deal with Waldensian recantations wrote to a fellow Jesuit: ‘It is not a matter of war, but rather of exterminating a multitude of enemies of God and rebels against their prince….And who can tell of the public devotions, the confessions, the communions and prayers before the Blessed Sacrament, so that the troops imbued thereby with faith and courage swept over the snow-laden Alps hunting down the wild beasts of hell with such butchery that to escape death by steel they rushed headlong with wives and children into the valleys where they saw nothing but fire and slaughter….the soldiers terrified these wretches, who could find no better way to escape than to kill themselves. Others taking better advice came in their hundreds, in remorse and humility, to the Holy Catholic Faith.’ 

Taken from:

Waldensian Church Missions

https://waldensian.org.uk/articles/cromwell-lecture

Mr Armstrong often, in an attempt to divert the accuse of religious genocide against his church, point the finger against the persecution of Catholics at the hand of Protestants. Far from me a passionate defense of Protestantism which targeted Baptists, Anabaptist and other not Protestant Christian denominations, but we cannot equate the Catholic thousand year genocide of Christians and Bible believers, with the military reaction against that Satanic power which was defeated in some European nations, but was trying to take back the lost territories.

Jesus gave to Paul six mysteries, and one more (seven mysteries in all) was given to John who spoke about it in the 17th and 18th chapter of the book of Revelation. This mystery concerning the future Catholic church identified with  the city of Rome and impersonated in a Whore was fulfilled in many ways along the church age. During the seven years of Tribulation that church and her empire also named Babylon the Great, will extend to the whole world but will be destroyed by her ten kings. 

The persecution of Bible believing Christians gave to that cup filled with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus a physical reality.  The blood of those Waldensian was the pure image of the blood of Jesus shed to give life to the walking dead. Those martyrs will come back as kings and judges during the Millenium of Christ. They are an example to warn the cold Christianity of today. 

The 1655 massacre was the last tail of the Sardis period of the Catholic church. With the beginning of the Reformation till 1900 AD we have the Philadelphia church period. The great awakening in the world during that period of time was sustained also by the fresh memory of those massacres in the valley of Piedmont. And to us, today, in our comfortable lives, what is saying the voice of those martyrs?

 15I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

16So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

20Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

Jesus said:

12But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

He was talking about "synagogues". Isn't the church of Rome the synagogue of Satan? Catholic doctrine pretend the Catholics are the "New Israel". They are false Jews:

Revelation 2:9 “I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.”

 

In the 4. century. Catholicism thinks to be the "New Israel" adopting also the theology of the "kingdom of God on earth" enforced by the state power. Therefore Catholicism deals with the ones refusing to submit to her "kingdom" exactly as Israel was commanded by God when entering the Promised Land: "kill 'em all".

"Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." is a phrase reportedly spoken by the commander of the Albigensian Crusade, prior to the massacre at Béziers on 22 July 1209.[1] A direct translation of the Medieval Latin phrase is "Kill them. The Lord knows those that are his own". Papal legate and Cistercian abbot Arnaud Amalric was the military commander of the Crusade in its initial phase and leader of this first major military action of the Crusade, the assault on Béziers, and was reported by Caesarius of Heisterbach to have uttered the order.[1]

Less formal English translations have given rise to variants such as "Kill them all; let God sort them out." Some modern sources give the quotation as Neca eos omnes. Deus suos agnoscet, evidently a translation from English back into Latin, and so omitting a biblical reference to 2 Timothy 2:19 evident in the original.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caedite_eos._Novit_enim_Dominus_qui_sunt_eius.

19Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

There's nothing in 2 Timothy 2:19 that hints to murder. God knows them that are His despite many, who are the children of the Devil, praise Him with their lips but have their heart far from Him. Isn't He the One who search the heart and try the reins (Jeremiah 17:10)?

Therefore are the same Catholic sources to confirm the genocidal nature of the Catholic church.

The Madonna Of Truncheon, protector of interior minister Mr Salvini?

Above image - the caption read "THE MADONNA OF TRUNCHEON - protector of Fascists".

Source: Wikipedia - https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_del_manganello

"...........Refugee rescue boats carrying stranded migrants face fines of up to €1m (£918,000) after the Italian parliament passed a controversial law promoted by Matteo Salvini, the far-right interior minister.

Under the law, boat captains bringing rescued refugees to Italy will face arrest if unauthorised. Their vessels could be confiscated and the owners of the operations face steep fines of between €150,000 and €1m.......

When the bill was first proposed, Claudia Lodesani, MSF Italy’s president, said it was “like fining ambulances for bringing patients to hospital”........

“The security decree, with more powers to police forces, more border checks and more men to arrest mafiosi, is law,” tweeted Mr Salvini, the interior minister. “I thank you, Italians, and the Blessed Virgin Mary.” 

Read it all at the Independent online:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italy-refugee-rescue-boat-fine-law-salvini-senate-vote-a9040936.html

Here, the prayer Fascists had to do for Madonna of the Truncheon (from above linked Wiki page). Wikipedia says about the "prayer":

"......Asvero Gravelli, an organic journalist for the regime, editor of the magazine «Antieuropa» and collector of fascist chants, composed a sort of prayer, which would have been placed also in the back of the holy picture of the Madonna of the truncheon, which read as follows"......:

«O you holy Truncheon
you wise and austere patron,
more than a bomb and a knife
you are severe with your enemies.
O you holy Truncheon
Of knotty oak son
true miracle [you do] each time,
if in the hour of danger
[you] beat the cowards and impostors.
Truncheon, Truncheon,
that lights up every brain,
you will always be the only one
that the fascist will adore. [9] »

It was an easy 'prophecy' (if it would be possible to prophesy also today, as the last prophecy was announcing the destruction of Jerusalem and the continual apostate condition of the 'Christian' world in the church age before the rapture).

As everyone can see, the "restauration" is only a paper tiger hiding a new Darwinist revolution. The targets of the new right, LGBT, abortionists, immigrants and on, are only the means. The goal is the restoration of the Catholic (but also Orthodox and of many other denominations) doctrines, among which the most important is the one of the "sinless" Holy Virgin. Satan is much more intelligent than what humans think to be. He understands that his LGBT, abortionist etc. front cannot stand against a true biblical front. He understands that he has to crawl inside the Christian front and weaken it, taking away from it Jesus Christ, our only hope. Substituting Jesus with the worship of His biological mother, transforming with a perverted manipulation of His words in a "spiritual" mother of God, is the first step Satan has to do to weaken further the already apostatized Christian world.

A great ecumenism under the sway of the "blessed virgin" and protected by an "holy Truncheon". In it - stay sure - many Baptists, no matter how much independent and KJV-onlyst, will fall, and will be judged by Him as lost. Pray for them.

I and a Bulgarian blogger forecasted (not 'prophesied') it already years and years ago. We were simply under the tender mercy of Our Father in heaven, who allowed our sinful minds to watch at least for a moment, a reflex of His unbearable shiny knowledge.

The mother of Jesus was born as sinner. She was only the biological mother of the biological body of our Savior. She didn't create the world, she didn't create man, she was never caught up in heaven without physical death, she entered heaven only through the blood of the Lamb and through physical death, exactly like me and you have to:

“And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." Luke, 1:47

Be forever blessed the name of our only savior, Jesus the Lamb, and His precious blood, who rescued us from the Hell of the heathens. 

Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Italy: "Proscriprion lists" against dissenting teachers in the public school in Monfalcone
http://spirithismouth.blogspot.com/2019/08/italy-proscriprion-lists-against.html

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Italy: "Proscriprion lists" against dissenting teachers in the public school in Monfalcone

The major of Monfalcone (right-wing majority), a town 20 km far away to the west from Trieste, openly invites students and their families to denounce teachers of their kids who should exhibit a "left-wing" oriented view of the world. The aim is to break the "decades long monopoly" of the left on the schooling system in Italy.

The major Cisint not only didn't retreat her proposal, but hardened her stance threatening anyone opposing her politic with a judicial suing.  The opposition in the regional parliament of Friuli Venezia Giulia labelled her proposal as in line with the "Twenty Years (Fascist regime in Italy) and Old East European Communist dictatorships" memory. (I add: the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia used a lot the delation of the children to destroy families and institutions.)

Bible believers should be concerned. Creating a monster ("Communists") and legalizing tyrannical ways to fight it (in the case of major Cisint the delation of children and boys/girls student) is an alibi to extend it to anyone and anything in the society is opposing the increasing authoritarian regime in Italy. Bible believers who would not kneel to the newly introduced worship of the nation religion, shall be labelled as "covert Communists" who "use the Bible" for a "Communist goal". If you then link this "Communist haunt" of the Cisint major with the increasing attack of the majority political forces against the historical truth of the tragedies ocurred in this area after the WW2, it is plausible that in the future Bible believer who would refuse to put their belief at the service of the new nationalism, will be openly accused to be "traitor of the homeland", and "nephews of the Tito's butchers of Italians". 

Notice, if you have not yet been caught by that particular, on how Satan exploits the LGBT and pro-abortion movement he the same instigated, as an alibi to introduce his Fascist regimes where the "national" blood is worshiped instead the one of Christ (or trying to defile His precious blood morally mixing it with the one of the s.c. "heroes of the homeland"), where the figure of the 'virgin' Mary substitute the works of the Holy Ghost, and God definitively doesn't anymore sit in heaven but on a chair on earth, in the office of a prime minister, or interior minister or in Vatican.
From ilfriuli.it:

Monfalcone, no to proscription lists
After the proposal of the mayor Cisint, solidarity with the teachers from the representatives of the Flc CGIL

05 August 2019

Solidarity with the teachers and staff of the schools in Monfalcone, affected by the "proscription lists" of the mayor Cisint by Francesco Sinopoli, general secretary of the Flc CGIL, and Adriano Zonta, general secretary of the Flc CGIL of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

"The positions expressed by the mayor of Monfalcone, Anna Maria Cisint, against teachers and professors are extremely serious and must be censored", the unions explain in a note. "Going beyond, and by far, the institutional limits granted to his role, she even thought of creating a 'private listening point' for students and families. The motivation is to stem the tendencies of that part of the teachers who poison with their ideologies young people 'substantially opposing the party to which the mayor is a member'. Two colossal and poisonous errors commited by Mrs. Cisint: (dis) educating to inform, thus leading students and families to denounce the free expression of teachers and teachers, on the one hand; put in constant fibrillation the schools, the managers, the personnel of Monfalcone who would thus find themselves paradoxically accused of "doing politics", and tried publicly [my note: in the style of the Chinese Red Guard...] . A mayor does not have these powers ".

Continue the reading in original text (Italian) at the URL:
https://www.ilfriuli.it/articolo/politica/monfalcone,-no-a-liste-di-proscrizione/3/204208
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Christians Fleeing Persecution in Russia + Salvini in Moscow: "In Russia I feel at home"

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2019/july/german-court-asylum-russian-baptist-persecution.html

Christians Fleeing Persecution in Russia Can Stay in Germany
Faced with mounting threats and anti-missionary laws, Baptists win asylum appeal despite supposed constitutional protections in their home country.
Kate Shellnutt
July 23, 2019 8:32 AM

As evangelicals increasingly become the target of Russia’s severe anti-evangelism laws, a German court ruled this month in favor of a Baptist family who fled attacks, insults, and threats in their homeland.

Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) initially rejected the Russian Christians’ asylum application because it did not consider their persecution to be the result of the Russian government, which guarantees freedom of belief in its constitution, the evangelical news outlet Idea.de reported.

But a Düsseldorf court overturned the decision in early July. The decision cited Russia’s 2017 ban on Jehovah’s Witnesses and concluded that it’s probable for Baptists, as a fellow evangelistically oriented faith group, to suffer government persecution as well. They have been granted the right to stay.

“In general, Germany is very sympathetic to persecuted religious groups, especially to Christians,” Thomas K. Johnson, special advisor for the World Evangelical Alliance’s International Institute for Religious Freedom, told CT. “This is not a precedent; the precedents are already very old. This is a continuation.”

While in Russia, the Baptist family suffered repeated insults, physical violence, and threatening phone calls over their missionary activities, and police refused to offer protection, according to the family’s lawyer, Zaza Koschuaschwili. They said they were followed by young men in black uniforms.

Last year, Pentecostals and Baptists faced the most punishments under Russia’s anti-missionary laws, which bar adherents from sharing their faith anywhere but designated church sites.

The religious freedom news service Forum 18 shared stories of a Baptist church being raided, a Baptist pastor punished for displaying worship times, and a pair of Baptists charged for discussing their beliefs at a bus stop. The Baptist Union's Moscow Theological Seminary is among several Protestant schools that have faced additional government scrutiny and punishments over the past year; the seminary was banned from admitting new students and had to suspend activities for 60 days for alleged violations.

The Russians fleeing to Germany join approximately 1.5 million people who entered the country around the 2015 refugee crisis as well as an existing population of “Russian Germans” that dates back three decades.

“After 1989, Germany opened its doors to many in Eastern Europe who had a German cultural background, many of these were Baptists in the former Soviet Union,” said. “There are today many large Baptist churches in Germany where one might hear as much Russian as German.”

Two Baptist denominations in Germany—the International Baptist Convention and the Union of Evangelical Free Churches (Baptists) in Germany—number around 60 and around 800 churches each, according to the Baptist World Alliance.


Salvini in Moscow: "In Russia I feel at home, while in some EU countries I do not"
https://www.corriere.it/politica/18_ottobre_17/salvini-mosca-in-russia-mi-sento-casa-mentre-alcuni-paesi-ue-no-636e442c-d224-11e8-9cd8-6bfe110c11f0.shtml

Sometimes a good news

Just soon after having issued a law threatening the evangelical activity as a "crime":

Bolivia’s President Revokes Evangelism Restrictions
Evo Morales announces on national TV that controversial criminal code will be scrapped.
Morgan LeeMorgan Lee
January 22, 2018 10:33 AM
https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2018/january/bolivia-evo-morales-revokes-evangelism-ban-criminal-code.html

 Other articles on the matter:

Home > News & Reporting > Archives > 2018 > January
Developing Story

    January 22, 2018 10:33 AM Bolivia’s President Revokes Evangelism Restrictions
    January 17, 2018 10:18 AM Bolivia Makes Evangelism a Crime
    September 09, 2013 11:49 AM Bolivia Imposes Animist Worldview on Christian Churches

See also (in Italian, with considerations on the new Brazilian president Bolsonaro):

Sunday, November 18, 2018
Ogni tanto qualche buona notizia
https://spiritosuabocca.blogspot.com/2018/11/ogni-tanto-qualche-buona-notizia.html
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Down with Jesus in Bulgaria:

Bulgaria Considers Controversial Restrictions on Church Activity
New amendments could halt training, foreign funding, and missionary outreach by evangelicals.
Kate Shellnutt
November 16, 2018 8:00 AM
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1994/november14/4td088.html
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“Should the law pass, existing theological seminaries are at risk of shutting down, evangelical church pastors may no longer be able to conduct worship services, and the acceptance and use of donations will be subject to government approval and limitations,” stated the World Evangelical Alliance, which has joined with the Bulgarian Evangelical Alliance to oppose the legislation.
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    Only Bulgarian citizens will be able to carry out liturgical activity if they have had theological training in Bulgaria or their foreign school is approved.

    Only Eastern Orthodox and Muslim believers will be able to train clergy and run schools.

    A foreigner will only be able to preach if doing so with a Bulgarian ordained minister.

    Foreign donations will only be allowed for building construction or social aid and will need government approval. No salaries of pastors, for example, could be paid from abroad.

    No religious activities can take place outside of buildings designated for them.

    Only religious groups with +300 people will have legal status.

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Pls, pray for the bro and sis in Bulgaria, facing incoming persecution.

Monday, July 23, 2018
SPIRITUAL FATHER OF PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW AND ALL RUSSIA ACCUSED PROTESTANT REHABILITATION CENTERS OF PROSELYTISM [article]
http://spirithismouth.blogspot.com/2018/07/spiritual-father-of-patriarch-of-moscow.html 

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SPIRITUAL FATHER OF PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW AND ALL RUSSIA ACCUSED PROTESTANT REHABILITATION CENTERS OF PROSELYTISM [article]

Copied and posted below, an interesting article about the inner thoughts and feelings of the Russian Orthodox clergy. Remember that in Russia Bible-believers have been outlawed by the Yarovaya law which, under the false appearance of the 'regulation of religious affairs', allows the Russian secular and clergy powers to appear 'tolerant' only because Bible believer are permitted to be Bible believer in the closeness of their own mind.

Source: Foundation for the support of persecuted christians in Russia and CSI, URL: https://fondsp.org/en/read/spiritual-father-of-patriarch-of-moscow-and-all-russia-accused-protestant-rehabilitation-centers-of-proselytism

SPIRITUAL FATHER OF PATRIARCH OF MOSCOW AND ALL RUSSIA ACCUSED PROTESTANT REHABILITATION CENTERS OF PROSELYTISM

Schema-Archimandrite Eli (Nozdrin), spiritual father of Optina Monastery and Patriarch Cyril of Moscow and All Russia, sent a letter to the members of the Supervisory Board of the National Counter-Drugs Union stating his resignation from the Board.

“I hereby state my resignation from the Supervisory Board of the National Counter-Drugs Union due to the fact that this organization has found itself under the influence of the religious groups that use the opportunities of counter-drugs activities for the conversion of Orthodox Christians into their faith”, wrote Eli in his letter published by the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate and cited by RIA-Novosti.

In spite of the failure of the Schema-Archimandrite to specify these religious groups many people had reasons to believe that the shadow was cast on the Protestant members of the Union who had been very successful in their attempts to rehabilitate the drug addicts.

For example, 700 drug addicts underwent rehabilitation in one of such centers located in the city of Tomsk during the 15-year period of its existence. At least 350 of them never came back to drug use.

Sergei Ryakhovsky, Senior Bishop of the Russian Union of Christians of Evangelical Faith, Member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, confirmed that in the last few years such rehabilitation programs as Exodus, Splendiferous Way and New Life had proven their efficiency. They passed the test of practicability and the test of time, stressed the Bishop. The Protestants stand ready to share their experience with similar organizations acting under the auspices of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. So far this process had been developing spontaneously. But, in his opinion, this work must be systematized and streamlined. Only then we would be able to save many people who are now standing at the death's door, said Ryakhovsky.

The Protestants are known for their intransigent attitude towards drug trafficking. Drug dealers respond to it by intensive slander campaign against those whom they call the “sectarians”. According to Constantine Bendas, Assistant to the Senior Bishop, in this campaign they often resort to their lobbying potential.

National Counter-Drugs Union is an association established with a view to coordinate the activities of public and non-profit organizations of Russia in the sphere of the prevention of drug use and drug-related crimes. The Union works in liaison with the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation; federal and regional authorities; public, religious, youth, sports and other organizations. As noted on the Union’s official website, there are no political or religious aspects in its activities.

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".....even our enemies themselves being judges"

 An Image Worth Of Biblical Commentary:

https://en.crimerussia.com/upload/iblock/9e6/1_1.jpg

7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses. Jeremiah ch. 5.

This is allowed by God to show how disgraces come upon us only by ourselves, we are the responsible because we are sinner and dragged to sin. Soccer game is not devilish in itself, but a nation which exults in the soccer game and gives glory to football 'heroes' in the game of arena is a nation which doesn't give glory to God. It is the nation's sin that allowed further evil to come on itself, don't blame too much Putin now, the selfish Russian government is only the executor of the God's will:

Taken from RussiaCrime: "While the people rejoice at the national team’s achievements, the Government implements unpopular reforms under all the shouting. While Cherchesov and his players are winning mundial games, the authorities raise the retirement age, increase the value added tax rate, introduce new taxes for self-employed, impose levies on online purchases, and block anonymizers. In addition, the Yarovaya law is coming into effect, utility rates go up, and other innovations significantly changing our life are forthcoming."
URL: https://en.crimerussia.com/gover/government-implements-unpopular-reforms-during-2018-fifa-world-cup/

And just in the EU, thanks to the devilish distraction of the world soccer competition, even ....".....our enemies themselves being judges" (Deuteronomy 32:31; the source is a pro-Russian pro-Putin source):

"The Parliament of the European Union (EU) will soon vote on new proposals regarding digital copyright laws which will effect social media outlets, major digital publishers and outlets, non-corporate/private sector digital publishers and outlets, not for profit digital publishers and outlets and even individual social media users. The new rules are designed to protect the owners of copyrighted material, but critics say that if enshrined into EU law, the regulations could have a stifling effect on freedom of speech, artistic expression and the dissemination of information that is vital to the public good."
Taken from:
If China or Russia Did to Internet Freedoms What Europe is About to do, There Would be Pan-Western Condemnation
Written by Adam Garrie on 2018-06-21  
https://www.eurasiafuture.com/2018/06/21/if-china-or-russia-did-to-internet-freedoms-what-europe-is-about-to-do-there-would-be-pan-western-condemnation/

25 Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you. Jeremiah ch. 5.

6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.
7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe them:
8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them. Hosea ch. 13

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(the text has been edited and corrected 07/04/2018)

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's,...

Above image - if you don't see it here, go to: https://www.ncronline.org/sites/default/files/styles/article_full_width/public/Francis%20Kirill%20signing.jpg?itok=VoEIhNOY

"........Meanwhile, the Orthodox Church has used state power to restrict or suppress confessional rivals, whether they are much-harassed Baptist communities or Russia's Jehovah's Witnesses. The Russian Supreme Court's prohibition of Jehovah's Witnesses in 2017 was condemned by human rights groups but enthusiastically supported by Kirill's foreign relations director, Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, citing the Witnesses' "false teachings" as justification.....
........As for criticizing regime policies, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate's Church and Society Department, Vladimir Legoyda, insisted in April this would never happen. Opposing secular authorities wasn't characteristic of Orthodoxy, Legoyda assured the Rossiyskaya Gazeta daily. Nor had Christ himself sanctioned such things.".

[Taken from: https://www.ncronline.org/news/vatican/russias-catholics-weigh-benefits-vatican-orthodox-exchanges]

When Satan dresses up as secular authority, for a Christian is a must to oppose it. The words of Legoyda are patently a manipulation of Christ's words. The Lord prohibited any secular, fleshy war against the secular authorities. But when a secular authority usurps the role of the Holy Ghost, and pretend to exercise His role in leading the souls of men, a Christian is called to have not respect of it. Go and read the Scripture and you will find there this truth. And you will find that Christ never sanctioned the union between state and church, but condemned it:

17 And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.

What were trying to do there the Pharisees? Weren't they trying to instigate Jesus in a clash based on the flesh of this world (money, power, ideology, etc.) against the Roman power? Or in the opposite case, weren't they trying to show Him as a collaborator of the Roman power and its religious role? (having Jesus, for the sake of political opposition against the Pharisees, answered as fleshy supporter of Roman's rules). 

We are approaching the end time tribulation. These are simply signs of the armies of false Christs that are ready to overwhelm the earth from the pit of Hell. In pronouncing those words, "Nor had Christ himself sanctioned such things", he himself witnessed that Christ sanctioned also....:

17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;
18 And ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them and the Gentiles.

Weren't those synagogues spiritual pictures of the Gentile's churches? And in those verses a pictures of the Gentile's Sinagogues of Satan? No matter how much Jehova's Witnesses are apostate heretics denying the deity of Jesus, the hypocrisy of the elders of Russian National church surpasses of great lengths the one of JWs. No self acclaimed Christian believer has until now been brought in a JWs' synagogue to be (spiritually or not) scourged. 

May God witness your false heart by your false words.

One last thought. I observed a parallel convergence in Russia of UFO and s.c. Alien sightings, together with the last wave of persecution against 'religion' during the last two decades of the existence of Soviet Union (maybe argument of a coming next post). The great crisis of the Communist system and the extreme need of escape that spiritual cage were pushing many souls to watch to Christian denomination in the Western world. Many of them prospered in Russia after the fall of Communism, showing the extreme hunger for the Lord of the Russian people. But Satan and his fallen angels worked a lot in those years of Soviet Russia, well aware of what's going on. Today they harvest their evil fruits. But shall not soon the Devil's fruits rotten? Shall Russia remain forever a cursed ground for Jesus' feet? We have to know that Russia's way of the National churches (Devil's way) is a wave that necessarily, I mean scripturally, has to submerge and pollute also the apostate Western world. Untill both, Western and Eastern will be united in a common persecution against Bible believer and born again Christians. BUT, no matter the years of tribulation, Christ when shall come again to require that land for an everlasting tribute to Him, will weep away all the damned souls now ruling that land. Be happy and cheer of the persecution in Russia! That's our Lord sign that He counts you as among His lamb!

"....... The Holy Ghost now, following the faith of the Russian Yarovaya law which is spreading all along Eurasia & Italy, is allowed to communicate with the mortal souls only through the "voice of the king", in other words through the state institution."

Friday, May 11, 2018
Churches in Ukraine robbed and shut down as conflict divides communities [article] 

http://spirithismouth.blogspot.it/2018/05/churches-in-ukraine-robbed-and-shut.html

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Churches in Ukraine robbed and shut down as conflict divides communities [article]

 ....a short intro: In Italy the recent electoral race has seen two winners: Lega Nord and Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S). Both are among the most warm supporter of Putin's Russia. You can for example check it for yourself on these two articles, further political research is possible with the search engines of the website:

https://www.stopfake.org/content/uploads/2017/11/disinformazione-m5s-1728x800_c.jpg

 

Why does the M5S use the same techniques as Russian disinformation? 

https://www.stopfake.org/it/perche-il-m5s-usa-le-stesse-tecniche-della-disinformazione-russa/

https://www.stopfake.org/content/uploads/2017/02/salvini-1728x800_c.jpg

Salvini and the deception on the Russian sanctions. Are we sure that the possible prime minister is not controlled by foreign powers?

https://www.stopfake.org/it/salvini-e-l-inganno-sulle-sanzioni-russe-siamo-sicuri-che-il-possibile-premier-non-sia-controllato-da-poteri-stranieri/

It is impossible to avoid to deal with political stuff, anymore. Period. Now the politic world, the secular world, is entering with both feet, wearing heavy military boots, in the Kingdom of God. The separation between state and church is definitively ended, even in its the most false but anxious representations. The ideology of Panslavism, namely Panslavism 2.0 has decreed (as any other kind of cult of the nation anywhere, in every country of the world), that the intermediary of God for the humans is the state, which, following different national traditions, is painted with the colors of the society, of the national awakening or of the same state Leviathan. The Holy Ghost now, following the faith of the Russian Yarovaya law which is spreading all along Eurasia & Italy, is allowed to communicate with the mortal souls only through the "voice of the king", in other words through the state institution. Well said Jesus our Lord and King of Kings, when addressing such apostates who, in His times and analogously to our Eurasian days, denied the work of the Holy Spirit outside their Pharisaic institutional authorities, when He said:

28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:

29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:

30 Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit. 

Mark, 3:28-30

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Churches in Ukraine robbed and shut down as conflict divides communities

Suspected separatist militia robbed an Evangelical-Baptist church in Kadiivka, around 30 miles from Lugansk in eastern Ukraine, on the night of 27 March 2018.
 

URL: https://fondsp.org/en/read/article/1464319 

Several people in military-style clothing arrived at the church in two cars and entered the empty building after 9:30 p.m. At 11 p.m. two trucks arrived and the men in uniform began to strip the church and load property, furniture and fittings on to the trucks.

The entire church was stripped bare. Barnabas Fund’s contact stated they “literally took everything”, from the pulpit, sound equipment and musical instruments, to the kitchen sink and refrigerator. They even took the interior doors, curtains, and light switches, and pulled the tiles off the bathroom walls. After emptying the church attic and shed they drove away. Church representatives reported the robbery and vandalism of the church to police and city administration the following day, who promised to get back to them “within two weeks”.

The Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine is a “grey zone”, where Christians are trapped between the Ukrainian army and Russian-backed separatists. Protestant churches in the conflict-racked region have been targeted by separatist elements, as they are perceived as pro-European.

In February 2018, authorities in the autonomous region of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic adopted regulations "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations", requiring the mandatory registration of religious organisations within six months. Organisations not registered by August 2018 will be considered to have ceased their activities. Small religious gatherings are permitted in homes, but any religious organisations which receive money or assistance from foreign citizens will be required to submit a full report of their activities.

An Orthodox church in the village of Ptycha in government-controlled western Ukraine was shut down by police on 3 April, after a mob wearing balaclavas invaded the church and evicted two elderly women parishioners who were inside. The church building in Ptycha is used by two Ukrainian Orthodox congregations, one of which is aligned with the Moscow Patriarchate, whose members have been targeted for being seen as pro-Russian; Orthodox churches of the Moscow Patriarchate have been seized and attacked across western Ukraine.

A minister from the Moscow Patriarchate congregation in Ptycha told OSCE monitors that the two congregations would cooperate to hold (Orthodox) Easter services in the church garden.

Source: barnabasfund.org

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Lunedì 26 febbraio 2018
Trieste sempre più in rivolta a Dio e colma della bile di Efraim.
 http://spiritosuabocca.blogspot.it/2018/02/trieste-sempre-piu-eurasianista-e-pro.html

Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Trieste-Slavyansk ed il sindaco Roberto Dipiazza 
(Trieste-Slavyansk and the mayor Roberto Dipiazza)
http://spiritosuabocca.blogspot.it/2018/02/laria-del-pogrom-anti-biblico-dei.html
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How God Deals With Nations # 2

The power of God in the hearth of atheism 

I was checking the latest news about the Syrian crisis, and was caught in the secular geopolitical mood: Trump, Putin, cruise missiles, F 22 and S 400 and on and on and on. But when I gave a little look about the situation in China as pertain the churches, I suddenly awoke from that intoxicant smoke.
I felt deeply ashamed - after having being shocked by this video. This doesn't mean that you see in it a footage of an Alien abduction or Isis' butchers chopping humans alive. You see something that most of the people in our Western civilization consider simply "highly boring" stuff. Or deserving of soft scorn. At the opposite, after seeing that, I feel to be not deserving the mercy of God, I feel to be only lukewarm water, constantly in danger to be spitted from the mouth of the Lord (Rev. 3:16) . A wannabe Christian, a disgusting insect hanging from the hand of God over the flames of Hell (Jonathan Edwards). Worse than the worst of these believers:

Above video - Underground Churches in China...Rare Video Clip, URL: https://youtu.be/CcCHInA6UMg

The video contains what I believe to be Pentecostal meetings. Speak in tongues doesn't seem to be represented. I know perfectly that today the speaking in tongue, after the Scripture has been written down and is accessible to all, is no more a feature of the Christian faith. But there's a strong allusion to something other in the video. The speaker tells that "they have not a Bible". I believe this is a warning of God to us, who are plenty of Bibles with the most various references and commentaries. But in our "Christian" civilized Western world are everyday more lukewarm water.

The persecution of independent more or less Biblical Christian churches in Russia and China, a persecution which involves any other kind of cult outside the national religion, seems to be a trend that will not stop, but extend all over the world. In Italy one of the two winners of the political elections is a fan of Putin's Russia, Matteo Salvini. He invited Italian entrepreneurs to plant business - not churches, in the secessionist pro Russian republics of Donbass. He represents the trend in Europe towards the "one nation, one people, one church". 

https://www.stopfake.org/it/la-lega-nord-invita-veneti-e-lombardi-a-delocalizzare-le-loro-aziende-in-ucraina/

Just one shell kills some Italian businesmen in Donbass. They don't need to disguise as "Ukrainan forces", just exhibit the Russian original uniform. When pro-Russian guys will say "Ukrainian disguised as Russsians!" to "give the blame on us!", don't worry, all the world will believe it.  The day after the Italian parliament votes to exit Nato. Americans kicked out. The Italian peninsula becomes the admiral ship of the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean. 
Of course this one is  only a speculation. I don't do that in order to refresh the geopolitical cospirationism as political fight.  This simply could be what God has in store for us. Jesus warned us, how much we are intelligent to understand the signs of the weather, but fully blind to see the signs of the times.

Therefore is this trend something we should fight as secular, political soldier, or accept as Christian soldier facing with dignity persecution? Rather, isn't God, taking away the freedom and the guarantee in which we are sleeping our faith,  awaking us? We started to love too much this world, and its protective institutions, till the point where we forgot that it is the faith that keep us standing and not a liberal constitution. There are certain moment in (His)story where He puts you in front of a choice: Or you march towards the crown of glory of the persecution and martyrdom, or towards Hell, there's no middle way.
 
The rising of Christian faith outside the Western world is a sign against the Western world. We lukewarm Westerner will be spitted from the mouth of the Lord.
And if for a moment you think well, you understand why Atheist Communist China needs the Western world values, our values: covetousness, idolatry of money, consumerism and Evolutionistic Edonism. Or the intellectual vanity. The coming of our Lord is everyday nearer and Satan desperately tries everything to escape that moment. In the past he tried to substitute the loving and saving presence of Jesus in our lives with the one of a sinful human person: the pope, the priest, the political leader. Today Satan invites his victims to substitute Jesus with the same proper self.  YOU, Western Christian, watch again the above video and ponder: how long will endure the patience of God for me? Am I ready to go in the eternal depths of Hell, or meet the Lord in the air?

Tuesday, April 10, 2018
China banning online Bible sales ‘absurd’ [article]
http://spirithismouth.blogspot.it/2018/04/china-banning-online-bible-sales-absurd.html
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China banning online Bible sales ‘absurd’ [article]

"Other religious texts, including those belonging to Islam, Taoism and Buddhism, were still available on JD, Taobao and Amazon – the three largest online retailers in China. But none has the Bible available."
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From 

April 10 2018 by Aaron Earls, Facts & Trends
URL: https://brnow.org/News/April-2018/China-banning-online-Bible-sales-absurd

China is purportedly the largest publisher of Bibles in the world, but the communist nation has now apparently blocked online Bible purchases for its residents.

Beginning last week, searches for Bibles at leading online retailers in China came up empty, according to reports from The New York Times and CNN.

The reports indicate certain Bible studies or illustrated storybooks were available through searches. Two merchants told CNN the Bible could be purchased through private messages, but public listings were now “impossible.”

China has historically restricted in-person Bible sales to state-sponsored channels and government-run churches, but online sales presented a loophole of sorts for Christians within the growing underground church movement.

That loophole has now apparently been closed as part of increased religious freedom restrictions – particularly against Christians.

Other religious texts, including those belonging to Islam, Taoism and Buddhism, were still available on JD, Taobao and Amazon – the three largest online retailers in China. But none has the Bible available.

Still, The New York Times reports that Chinese publishers have printed 160 million copies of the Bible and export it to more than 100 countries. About half of those are published in Chinese.

According to the Financial Times, the largest Bible factory in the world is in Nanjing, China, and run by the Amity Foundation, a government-sanctioned Protestant charity.

“In 2012, we celebrated production of the 100 millionth copy,” Qui Zhonghui, president of Amity, told The Telegraph. “It took 20 years to print the first 50 million copies, but the second 50 million took just five years.”

Yet the online ban is part of a troubling trend for Christians in the communist nation, as government pressure appears to be increasing.

William Nee, a China researcher at Amnesty International, told CNN there is “a broader trend under President Xi Jinping to more tightly control religion, especially Christianity. It’s absurd that the government claims to promote religious freedom at the same time that they’re banning the sale of Bibles.”

The New York Times reports more than 1,500 crosses were removed from churches from 2014 to 2016 in a Chinese province with close ties to Xi. Earlier this year, Chinese authorities reportedly destroyed several church buildings, including one where 50,000 Christians worshiped.

China ranks as the 43rd worst nation for Christians on Open Door’s most recent World Watch List.

Despite increased persecution, Christianity is projected to continue experiencing explosive growth in China.

According to projections from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, by 2020 China will have around 148 million Christians – or as many as Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom combined.

(EDITOR’S NOTE – Aaron Earls is online editor of Facts & Trends, factsandtrends.net.)
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Thursday, March 15, 2018
Will Satan plan the next Tien An Man massacre in Cina targeting Bible believers with a Catho- Communist alliance?
http://spirithismouth.blogspot.it/2018/03/will-satan-plan-next-tien-man-massacre.html
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LIKE IN RUSSIA: Thanks to "ISIS' violence against Christians", everyone else can persecute Christians UNDER THE RADAR

New law in Bolivia threatens preaching and ‘witnessing’

Christians in Bolivia are warning they could be about to see the end of religious freedom in their country under a new law which brackets criminal groups with religious organisations.
The law bans people trying to ‘recruit’ others to take part in ‘armed conflicts or religious or worship organisations’. This could mean that street preaching is banned, even inviting someone to a Christian event could count as an offence.Evangelical representatives are warning it could mean the end of religious freedom in the country.
“Will they denounce us if we bring a group of people to a Christian camp? Will I no longer be able to preach the Gospel on the streets?” asked pastor Miguel Machaca Monroy, President of the coalition of evangelical churches in the capital city.

The National Association of Evangelicals in Bolivia also criticised the new Penal Code and a statement said: “It is deplorable that Bolivia becomes the first Latin American country to persecute the rights of freedom of conscience and of religion, which are protected by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the declaration of San José de Costa Rica, and our Constitution.
“Christian evangelical churches in our country are institutions aiming to rehabilitate the human being, improve the moral, spiritual, ethical and social conditions of our citizens.
It added: “Now, we have been put in a situation in which practising the Gospel has been criminalised.”
The new law, found in Article 88.11 of the Penal Code, reads: “Whoever recruits, transports, deprives of freedom or hosts people with the aim of recruiting them to take part in armed conflicts or religious or worship organizations will be penalised five to 12 years of imprisonment.”

Global Christian News http://www.globalchristiannews.org/article/new-law-in-bolivia-threatens-preaching-and-witnessing/
See source:
https://fondsp.org/en/read/article/1450234

UZBEKISTAN: No books allowed, Bible ordered destroyed

By Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18
Uzbekistan still searches homes and fines people for meeting and having religious literature, claiming in one case to look for a gun. After one person admitted to reading Christian books at home, their home was raided and Bible confiscated. Elsewhere, a Bible was destroyed.
On 10 November police in Andijan in eastern Uzbekistan raided the private flat of Irina Stepanova, a member of the local state-registered Baptist Church. Police claimed that they were looking for an allegedly illegally stored gun, but concentrated on confiscating Christian books. She now faces charges for possessing Christian books and other Christian material (see below).

On 19 November, 14 officials from various agencies, including the local police Struggle with Extremism and Terrorism Department, raided the private home of Stanislav Kim in Urgench in Khorezm Region in north-western Uzbekistan. People meeting for Sunday morning worship were arrested, interrogated for two hours and threatened at a police station. Christian books were confiscated. After one person admitted under interrogation to reading Christian books their home was also also raided and books including their personal Bible were confiscated (see below)........
Continue to read in:
https://fondsp.org/en/read/article/1449764

IRAN: CHRISTIANS RECEIVE EIGHT YEAR SENTENCES

Two Iranian Christians were sentenced to a total of eight years in prison by a revolutionary court in December 2017, after being convicted of national security-related crimes.
Suroush Saraie and Eskandar Rezaie, who are both members of the Church of Iran denomination, each received seven-year sentences for “creating a group that works against national security” and an additional year for “propaganda against the state.” Both men are appealing the verdict, which was handed down on 28 December 2017 by the 4th Chamber of the Revolutionary Court in Shiraz.
During the same court hearing, a Christian woman named Zahra Norouzi Kashkouli was sentenced to a year in prison for “being a member of a group working against the system.” She too is appealing the sentence.
Article 23 of the Iranian constitution states that “the investigation of individuals’ beliefs is forbidden, and no one may be molested or taken to task simply for holding a certain belief.” Nevertheless, there has been a rise in arrests of members of minority faith communities since the advent of the Rouhani presidency, and Christians have routinely been charged with national security-related crimes in order to justify excessive sentences......
Continue to read in:
https://fondsp.org/en/read/article/1450045