A New Perspective on Constantine

by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Three Christians were killed in mid-July by Muslim Fulani Herdsmen attacks in North-Central Nigeria, among them a pregnant mother of two.

Margaret Wakili, 27, who lived in Ancha village, Plateau state, was killed on her farm on July 15, a day after the Herdsmen raided Tafigana, Kperie, Hukke and Rikwechongu villages, burning millions of naira worth of food stores, according to area resident Zongo Lawrence.

“We are left without rescue,” Lawrence told Morning Star News. “Hundreds of our people have been killed by the Fulani herdsmen in the past three years.”

The other Christians killed were father and son Thomas Wollo, 46 and Ngwe Thomas Wollo, 7, adding to a toll that has seen 17 Christian deaths this year in an area rife with seemingly unending raids from the Muslim pastoralists.

Along with the Christians who were killed, 75 houses were burnt to the ground while Christians attended worship services, according to Lawrence.

Open Doors USA CEO David Curry recently pinpointed this section of Nigeria as one of the most difficult places in the world to be a Christian, issuing a statement to the effect that “despite years of promises, Boko Haram and Fulani Militants are killing Christians without resistance from the Nigerian government.”

Nigeria is number 12 in Open Doors USA’s persecution rating system.

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by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – The new Palestinian Authority textbooks have not changed much from the virulent antisemitism of the older editions, according to Algemeiner.

A report by the Institute for Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se) shows that even apparently neutral subjects like math in the newer editions are laced with propaganda against the Israeli state, with one exercise asking students to compare the number of terrorists elevated to martyrdom in the First and Second Intifadas.

The first round of textbooks was published after the Oslo Accords in the early 90s, and observers hoped they would be improved upon when the PA announced 3 years ago that it was changing its textbooks, but to no avail.

PA Education Minister Sabri Saidam has complained that Israel will not use his organization’s textbooks to teach Arab children—textbooks that fail to acknowledge the borders of ancient or modern Israel, and instead posit a Palestine running from the Jordan to the Mediterranean to Egypt where “Zionist occupiers” currently inhabit the land.

The EU and UK, which have contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to the development of the textbooks, are currently engaged in a review of their content due to be released later this year.

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by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – The extent of anti-Christian indoctrination in Chinese schools came to light recently in a testimony published by Bitter Winter, which detailed the way Christian children are being turned against their parents.

Xie Jiao, according to the human rights magazine, is now the preferred term for Christianity in the Chinese school system, meaning something loosely translated as “heterodox teaching”–used to stigmatize opposition and consolidate official control since the Ming dynasty.

“Before starting school, I told my child about God’s creation, and he believed it. But after being taught at school, my child is like a different person,” one Christian woman, whose son accused her of being Xie Jiao, told the magazine. “In atheistic China, these pure and innocent children have been taught to hate God.”

Another report coming out of Xinzheng City, Henan Province from late April revealed the sadistic nature of the brainwashing, in which children are being asked to report on their parents’ movements with regard to spiritual matters.

“If your mom goes to church and believes in God, she doesn’t want you as her child anymore,” a teacher at a primary school reportedly told a student.

China has the most advanced apparatus for persecuting Christians and other Xie Jiao in the world, with most churches having been ordered to install surveillance cameras over the last few years, and many Uighur Muslims detained as “pre-criminals,” or on the basis of a mere likelihood to commit crime.

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(Worthy News) – At least one gunman opened fire Sunday at Northern California’s Gilroy Garlic Festival, killing at least three and injuring 15, before being fatally shot by police stationed nearby who responded in less than a minute after the initial shot was fired, a police official said.

The shooting rampage began at 5:41 p.m. on the north side of the festival, Chief of Police Scot Smithee said at a press conference late Sunday.

Smithee said the gunman gained access to the festival by cutting through a fence near a creek area. He said some witnesses reported a second suspect, but police could not immediately confirm those reports. [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]

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by Jordan Hilger, Worthy News Correspondent

(Worthy News) – Chinese pastor Wang Yi, who was arrested in December on charges of “inciting subversion of state power,” has now been charged again by the Chinese government with “illegal business activities.”

An elder at a Beijing house church told Radio Free Asia that Chinese Christians see the charge as nonsensical, as Wang was neither involved in the sale of Bibles nor any other kind of Christian literature that could be construed as an illegal business.

As an addendum to the new charges, members of Wang’s Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, 100 of whom were rounded up along with their pastor in early December, were reportedly asked to make false accusations against him—on pain of having their hands and feet manacled for more than 10 days to keep them from sleeping.

“If God decides to persecute the church by the Chinese Communist regime…I am very happy to obey God’s arrangement, because his arrangement is always loving and beautiful,” Wang wrote in an open letter penned in September 2018, which was published by church members, according to his instructions, 48 hours after his disappearance in December.

“I also understand that this is precisely the reason why the Chinese Communist regime is full of fear for a church that no longer fears it,” the letter explains.

Wang Yi was a constitutional scholar and human rights attorney before his conversion to Christianity in 2005.

Earlier, in 2004, he had been listed as one of the 50 most influential Chinese intellectuals by Southern People Weekly, a magazine for Chinese culture and current affairs.

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(Worthy News) – U.S. economic growth slowed less than expected in the second quarter as a surge in consumer spending blunted some of the drag from declining exports and a smaller inventory build, which could further allay concerns about the economy’s health.

But the fairly upbeat report from the Commerce Department on Friday had some red flags for the 10-year-old economic expansion, the longest on record. Business investment contracted for the first time in more than three years and housing declined for a sixth straight quarter.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell early this month flagged the two sectors as areas of weakness in the economy. They are likely to provide additional cover for the Fed to cut interest rates next Wednesday for the first time in a decade because of rising risks to the economy’s outlook from a bitter trade war between the United States and China, and slowing global growth. [ Source: Reuters (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – The Supreme Court handed President Trump a major victory by ruling his administration could move ahead with its plan to use $2.5 billion in Defense Department funds for construction of a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

In an order Friday, the high court lifted an injunction from a federal district court in California that blocked the Trump administration from using the money, initially designated for counter-narcotic efforts. Liberal Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan would have denied the Trump administration’s request. Justice Stephen Breyer said he would allow the federal government to finalize contracts but not finalize construction. [ Source: Washington Examiner (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Boris Johnson has set the UK on an apparent course towards a no-deal Brexit by playing down the likelihood of any talks with the EU unless Brussels agrees to scrap the existing withdrawal agreement and Irish backstop, both of which it has ruled out.

The seemingly intransigent tone prompted Leo Varadkar, the Irish prime minister, to warn that a no-deal departure could lead more people in Northern Ireland to seek a united Ireland.

Johnson’s spokesman said there were no talks with the EU scheduled, and that if they happened it must be “clear what the basis for those discussions needs to be” – a message the new PM then delivered personally to Angela Merkel. [ Source: UK Guardian (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Russian police rounded up more than 1,000 people in Moscow on Saturday in one of the biggest crackdowns of recent years against an increasingly defiant opposition decrying President Vladimir Putin’s tight grip on power.

The detentions came around a protest to demand that opposition members be allowed to run in a local election. Authorities had declared it illegal and sought to block participation, but thousands of people turned up anyway in one of the longest and most determined protests of recent times.

Chants of “Russia without Putin” and “Putin resign” echoed through central Moscow as guardsmen clad in riot gear beat back protesters with batons and roughly detained people. [ Source: Reuters (Read More…) ]

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(Worthy News) – Two UN Economic and Social Council resolutions passed last week accused and singled out Israel as the only country violating women’s rights, according to UN Watch, a non-governmental organization.

Among the 54 countries on the UN council that favored the resolutions were Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, Venezuela and Egypt. [ Source: Israel Hayom (Read More…) ]

It amazes me how the U.N. condones votes like these. It is a total mockery of human rights to allow Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, and Yemen to name Israel as the world’s only violator of women’s rights. #Embarrassing https://t.co/VOr20Ma9Po

— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) July 25, 2019

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