In an era in which places of worship have become, too often, targets for violence, United Nations officials and religious leaders gathered in New York City on 19 September to talk over plans for preventing attacks against people of faith.
“This is not conversion therapy.”
Luis Javier Ruiz, who used to live as a gay man before he met Jesus, said that phrase several times throughout the Freedom March event in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday, Sept. 14.Ruiz helped lead the Orlando event, which showcased testimonies of people who left the LGBT lifestyle and found freedom in Christ. About 300 to 400 people attended the event and several were baptized, says Jeffrey McCall, who founded the Freedom March after Jesus delivered him from drugs and a transgender lifestyle.
NRB General Counsel Craig Parshall will lead religious liberty discussion with Muslim attorney/author Asma Uddin and journalist/author Steven Waldman.
The FBI recently arrested ISIS-inspired Mustafa Mousab Alowemer for allegedly plotting to blow up a local church using a backpack filled with explosives.
Care Net, a nonprofit ministry that supports one of the nation’s largest network of pregnancy centers, will kick off its 36th annual conference this morning at the Union Station Hotel. The conference is the nation’s largest yearly gathering of pregnancy center and church leaders.
The Alliance for Israel Advocacy (AIA) (www.israeladvocates.org) responded to an Haaretz op-ed entitled Meet Donald Trump’s Least Disloyal Jews, written by Allison Kaplan Sommers and published August 27, 2019. The op-ed highlighted the growing political influence of Messianic Jews. Citing Sommer’s op-ed, Joel Chernoff, Executive Director of AIA said, “Both Washington D.C. and Jerusalem acknowledge a new era of Messianic Jewish influence. What was once considered taboo, is now recognized and increasingly valued in the halls of power.”
