Watchmen On The Walls http://www.watchmenministry.com/ Copyright 2010 Calvary Chapel Chino Hills <p style="font-family: Georgia,`Times New Roman`,Times,serif; font-size: 13px; padding-top: 5px;">The outrageous ruling of two federal judges threatens to redefine marriage in California &ndash; and ultimately in every state across the nation. This ruling is not only an attack on marriage, but completely disregards the will of seven million Californians who voted to uphold marriage as the union between one man and one woman in their state Constitution.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia,`Times New Roman`,Times,serif; font-size: 13px;">No court should undercut the democratic process by taking the power to preserve marriage out of the hands of the people. But we are not surprised that this attack on marriage &ndash; tried in San Francisco &ndash; turned out this way.</p> <p style="font-family: Georgia,`Times New Roman`,Times,serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://www.alliancedefensefund.org/Marriage?referral=I0212PROP8">Learn more.</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1973 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1973 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(WND) A New Testament professor is setting the world of Bible scholarship on fire with his claim that newly discovered fragments of early Christian writings could include a first-century version of the Gospel of Mark, from the same century in which Jesus and the apostles lived.</p> <p><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/earliest-gospel-of-mark-found/">Entire article.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1972 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1972 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(Christian Post) Nearly 2 million dead Americans are still on active voter registries, and 1 in every 8 registrations in the United States is invalid or has major inaccuracies, according to a new study.</p> <p>Research released Tuesday by the Pew Center on the States shows that the country is spending more on voter registration while getting worse results than other nations such as Canada. The study points to antiquated systems that don&rsquo;t reflect modern technology and fail to address the biggest obstacles to maintaining accurate, up-to-date voter-registry databases.</p> <p><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/other-races/210327-pew-study-2-million-dead-americans-on-active-voter-rolls">Entire article.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1961 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1961 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(OneNewsNow) A conservative media watchdog group is going after MTV for airing a television program with inappropriate content that targets children as young as 12.</p> <p><a href="http://www.parentstv.org/" target="_blank">Parents Television Council</a> accuses the cable channel of taking HBO-style content and marketing it to a Nickelodeon-age audience. Dan Isett is director of public policy for the PTC.<br /> &nbsp;<br /> "MTV has a new show called `I Just Want My Pants Back` -- and as you might imagine it`s a show that`s absolutely replete with both sexual content and sexual dialogue," he says. "And it`s one that`s been mis-appropriately rated as appropriate for a 14-year-old child -- and MTV is on the record as having targeted a demographic beginning with children as young as 12."</p> <p><a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1536168">Entire article.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1967 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1967 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(OneNewsNow) Conservative Christian groups are outraged that a school decided a lunch a preschooler`s mother prepared was not healthy enough and replaced it with chicken nuggets.</p> <p>The elementary school in Raeford, North Carolina, decided the four-year-old`s lunch -- which consisted of a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice -- did not meet nutritional standards established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Why? Because it did not contain a vegetable.</p> <p><a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Education/Default.aspx?id=1537456">Entire article.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1970 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1970 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(Christian Post)&nbsp; One Christian organization is looking to reach what it believes to be a closed country &ndash; the public school.</p> <p>With religion being pushed out of schools for nearly five decades now, only a minority of teenagers today are said to be Bible-believing Christians. Hoping to change those statistics, however, The Life Book Movement began, targeting Bible-illiterate high school students in the largely hard-to-reach public institutions.</p> <p><a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-students-latest-mission-field-public-schools-69503/">Entire article.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1965 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1965 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(OneNewsNow)&nbsp; Lawyers for churches facing eviction from being allowed to meet in New York schools have won at least a temporary reprieve.</p> <p><a href="http://alliancedefensefund.org/" target="_blank">Alliance Defense Fund</a> says the&nbsp;temporary restraining order is in effect for 10 days while the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York more fully considers constitutional arguments about the city&rsquo;s unique-in-the-nation prohibition on worship services in vacant public school buildings on weekends.</p> <p><a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=1537508">Entire article.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1971 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1971 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/">LifeSiteNews</a>)&nbsp; The young woman staggered out the back door of the abortion clinic. She barely managed to make her way to her car before she collapsed on the curb, sobbing uncontrollably.&nbsp;</p> <p>The year was 1980. Kathleen, in her early 20&rsquo;s, had recently separated from her husband and had just aborted another man&rsquo;s baby. In her time of crisis, Kathleen had turned for help to the only organizations she knew, Planned Parenthood and Family Planning Associates. The first gave her a pregnancy test, the other aborted her baby. As Kathleen doubled up from pain on the curb side, rocking her tear-streaked face in her hands, she vowed to God that if he showed her just one woman who faced a choice like hers, she would do all she could to guide that woman down a different path.</p> <p><a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/from-aborting-her-own-baby-to-starting-a-network-of-pro-life-medical-clinic?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com+Daily+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=ac0b4df422-LifeSiteNews_com_Intl_Headlines-02_15_2012&amp;utm_medium=email">Entire aticle.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1969 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1969 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(FOXNews)&nbsp; A British archaeologist working in northern <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/ethiopia.htm#r_src=ramp">Ethiopia</a> believes she may have discovered an ancient goldmine that holds clues about where the Queen of Sheba obtained her storied wealth.</p> <p>Louise Schofield, a former curator at the <a id="KonaLink0" style="text-decoration: underline ! important; position: static; font-family: inherit ! important; font-weight: inherit ! important; font-size: inherit ! important;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/15/queen-shebas-lost-gold-mines-discovered-archaeologist-claims/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+delicious%2Fgqlf+%28Christian+Headlines+Top+Headlines%29">British Museum</a>, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/12/archaeologists-and-quest-for-sheba-goldmines">told The Observer</a> she was alerted to the mine by a gold prospector while working on an environmental development project in Ethiopia`s Tigray region.</p> <p>The site is within the former territory of the nearly 3,000-year-old Sheba kingdom, which scholars believe spanned from Ethiopia to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/topics/yemen.htm#r_src=ramp">Yemen</a>. Schofield pointed to nearby clues that suggest the site was an important place in the ancient civilization, including a 20-foot (six-meter) <a id="KonaLink1" style="text-decoration: underline !important;position:static;font-family:inherit !important;font-weight:inherit !important;font-size:inherit !important;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/15/queen-shebas-lost-gold-mines-discovered-archaeologist-claims/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+delicious%2Fgqlf+%28Christian+Headlines+Top+Headlines%29">stone slab</a> carved with a sun and crescent moon -- a "calling card of the land of Sheba," <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/12/archaeologists-and-quest-for-sheba-goldmines">she told The Observer</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/15/queen-shebas-lost-gold-mines-discovered-archaeologist-claims/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+delicious%2Fgqlf+%28Christian+Headlines+Top+Headlines%29">Entire article.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1968 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1968 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(OneNewsNow)&nbsp; A Concerned Women for America spokeswoman finds it "tremendously alarming" that some girls as young as nine years old in United Kingdom schools are receiving birth control without their parents knowing anything about it.</p> <p>According to the National Health Service, 7,400 British girls between 13 and 15 were given implants or hormonal injections last year alone. The government defends the program, which dates back to 2009, claiming that it has managed to reduce teen pregnancies by 22 percent. Officials assure the public that only "properly trained personnel" take the girls` medical histories and approve the procedures.</p> <p><a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1535842">Entire article.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1966 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1966 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(Christian Newswire)&nbsp; Amidst increasing persecution in Sweden, beleaguered homeschool families look to the United States for help. </p> <p>One homeschool family, the Himmelstrands, chose to homeschool their three children for years before they were denied permission from their municipality in 2008. Now the Himmelstrands face fines in excess of $26,000 (US). <br /><br /> Jonas Himmelstrand, president of the Swedish Association for Home Education, appealed yesterday to the supporters in the United States and around the world, "We ask our fellow home educators to email the Swedish authorities on a mass scale about the situation in Sweden. We want to let Swedish officials know that their actions have drawn international attention. Please write to the Swedish Embassy in your country on our behalf." </p> <p><a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/1357e07d92564630">Entire article.</a><br /></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1964 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1964 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(AP) When it comes to religion, British politicians tend to heed the famous advice of Tony Blair`s spin doctor, Alastair Campbell - "We don`t do God."</p> <p>But a Muslim Cabinet minister has become the latest member of Prime Minister David Cameron`s government to urge the country to embrace its Christian heritage. Sayeeda Warsi also said that "militant" secularism poses a threat to Europe, a comment that has angered atheists and highlighted the divisive political potential of religion.</p> <p><a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=1535914">Entire article.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1963 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1963 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(Christian Post) Just in time for Valentine`s Day, the <a href="http://frc.org/" target="_blank">Family Research Council</a> has released a new report entitled "162 Reasons to Marry."</p> <p>Love is in the air -- for traditional marriage, that is. Dr. Patrick Fagan, director of FRC`s <a href="http://www.marri.us/" target="_blank">Marriage &amp; Religious Research Institute</a>, says in the paper that they have come up with <a href="http://www.marri.us/reasons-to-marry" target="_blank">162 reasons</a> for the benefits of matrimony between a man and a woman.</p> <p><a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1535844">Entire article.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1962 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1962 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(Christian Post) Legal scholars say the U.S. Supreme Court may have to decide whether federal court has the power to overturn a state protection of traditional <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/topics/marriage/">marriage</a> in the wake of the controversial ruling negating <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/region/california/">California</a>`s Proposition 8.</p> <p>But it is not clear whether this is the case that either protectors or challengers to traditional marriage want the high court to decide. American Center for Law and Justice attorney and legal scholar David French says he is somewhat perplexed by last Tuesday`s ruling by the 9th Circuit Appeals Court and questions how the Supreme Court would handle the case.</p> <p><a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/prop-8-appeal-will-supreme-court-decide-gay-marriage-once-and-for-all-69208/">Entire article.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1960 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1960 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(<a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/">LifeSiteNews</a>)&nbsp; If you think of yourself as &lsquo;pro-life&rsquo; except in the case of rape and incest, you will have to look Kristi Hofferber in the eye and tell her that her mother should have aborted her. And it almost happened.</p> <p>In an <a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/at-30-i-learned-that-my-mother-was-raped-by-her-fatherand-i-was-that-child">extraordinary and moving personal testimony</a> published today by LifeSiteNews, Kristi explains that she grew up in a happy Christian home, her only complaint being a constant and growing sense of unease borne of the knowledge that she was adopted. This restlessness finally drove her to seek out the facts about her birth parents shortly before she turned 30.</p> <p><a href="http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/conceived-in-incestuous-rape-but-not-defined-by-my-dna-kristi-hofferbers-in">Entire article.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1959 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1959 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(AP)&nbsp; Friends have eulogized John and Wanda Casias as spiritual soldiers who gave their lives to God and hearts to Mexico, where the American missionary couple was slain last month.</p> <p>Hundreds attended the Wednesday service at Liberty Baptist Church in the Dallas suburb of Lewisville. Pastor Dick Webster told mourners that the Casiases "gave their lives for the cause of Christ." Webster added he wants to make sure their work continues.</p> <p>The couple were found dead January 31 at their home in a village outside Monterrey, about 95 miles south of the Texas border in an area plagued by violence.</p> <p><a href="http://www.onenewsnow.com/Missions/Default.aspx?id=1532916">Entire article.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1958 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1958 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p> </p> <p>(Family Research Council) Congress needs to hear your voice on a critical matter related to life and religious freedoms.</p> <p>Because of a provision in Obamacare, the Obama Administration issued a "regulation" mandating that all private health insurance plans completely cover contraceptives and sterilization services (including those with abortifacient mechanisms of action). Organizations that provide insurance to their employees will be forced to cover such services, even if they have moral or religious objections.<br /> <br /> The good news is that Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE) and Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) have introduced the "Respect for Rights of Conscience Act" to provide conscience protections for any services to which individuals or groups have moral or religious objections. With the news coverage at a peak, it is imperative to contact your U.S. House Representative to support the Fortenberry bill (H.R. 1179) and to contact your U.S. Senators to urge support for the Blunt bill (S. 1467) to provide conscience protections for health plans, health providers and individuals to prevent government discrimination such as the contraception mandate.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.frcaction.org/index.cfm?i=PG12B13&amp;f=AL12B02">Urge Congress to support conscience rights in response to the Obama Contraceptive Mandate.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1957 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1957 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(Los Angeles Times)&nbsp; For the last decade, the battle over same-sex marriage and other rights for gay couples has been hard fought in U.S. courts and legislatures and at the ballot box. Use this map to view milestones in the fight and how state laws have changed since 2000.</p> <p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-gmtimeline-fl,0,5345296.htmlstory">Click here to see map.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1956 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1956 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(Christian Post) Some 60 churches may be left homeless as a ban that prohibits <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/topics/worship/">worship</a> services at <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/region/new-york/">New York</a> City public schools takes effect on Sunday. While churchgoers continue to fight the ban, some are also crying foul over the lack of support from <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/topics/megachurch/">megachurch</a>es.</p> <p>New York`s megachurches have been mostly silent on the issue since the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a Bronx congregation that tried to secure access to a public school auditorium for Sunday services. Some New York City church leaders wonder why the large churches have not done anything to help.</p> <p><a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/nyc-megachurches-mostly-silent-on-church-ban-issue-68755/">Entire article.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1947 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1947 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST <p>(Christian Post)&nbsp; Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation`s announcement reinstating Planned Parenthood grants may leave an opening for the breast cancer foundation to reject the nation`s leading <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/topics/abortion/">abortion</a> provider in the future, a Komen board member and pro-life activist said.</p> <p>The statement released last week assured readers, "We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants."</p> <p>However, Komen Board Member John Raffaelli later told Washington Post Columnist Greg Sargent the Komen foundation still plans to base future grant decisions on organizations` ability to provide mammograms.</p> <p><a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/did-komen-really-reinstate-planned-parenthood-grants-68947/">Entire article.</a></p> http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1955 http://watchmenministry.com/article.php?id=1955 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST