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christians in japan struggling to share the gospel. however the recent disasters are causing many japanese to reconsider their lives. japan's churches are praying for a spiritual shaking in the country. >> reporter: whether they're in church or standing on a street corner, the members of this church loudly sing their songs of grace. these young people are part of new youth movement that many japanese christians hope will revive japan's churches. this philippinos pastor was born and raised in hawaii. the church in japan is small and getting smaller everyday. the average japanese church has 30 people and many have less than 10 members. church historians says, traditional churches are dying out. >> after the war, a lot of them came to japan as christians. so, after the war, you know, the japanese church went a lot. now a lot of prophets are getting older and now facing the time for retirement. also many members are getting older too. >> reporter: like most christians, he believe god is using the recent disasters to open the hearts of japa

>> today on "christian world news" crackdown in iran, hundreds of christians bliind bs and one pastor facing a death sentence. >> this flavors the gospel message with creole cooking. >> how a selfish lark led to a lifetime of service and rescue of hundreds of children in nepal. christians jailed in iran. one pastor could pay for his faith with his life. hello everyone i am wendy griffith. george thomas is on aassignmt. arack dn against christians in iran, targeting house church pastors and leaders. hundreds have been imprisoned since the beginning of the year. gary lane has more. reporter: crackdown has led to 285 believers in 35 cities arrested in iran in the past 6 months. according to elam ministries, an organization that serves christians in that country. many have spent weeks and months in prison, long stretches in solitary confinement and endured interrogations and psychological abuse. iranian pastor hormoz shariat is with antioch ministries and hosts a talk show. >> most don't tell their family if they can't have a lawyer, even a formal charge, sometimes they get killed without

people would be christians. did not think of it as an official designation. spent again, timing is everything. john adams i argue in the book is a unitarian who reject the trinity, thanks a lot of religion and superstition, grew up in a congregational home, sees himself as a christian based on that. here's the flipside. he's the author of a 78 massachusetts constitution which gives a religious establishment in place because he believes religious and morality are essential to the good of massachusetts. this last until 1833. i think jon and i are arguing the flipside of, arguing the opposite side of the coin but i don't think we are in disagreement at all. >> we have time for one more question. in the back in the red sweater. >> i'm curious to your answer, we have members of the supreme court today that feel they should rule their decisions on what the people were thinking at the time of the constitution being written. now, where'd you come down on something like that? [applause] >> you give me a pointer to the su

[laughter] you know, what is a christian nation? how do you define christian in this case? how do you define nation? how do you define founded? there's many on the right and the christian nationalists who, you know, argue, well, america was founded in 1620 when the pilgrims came over and they tried to establish a christian civilization, and thus there it is, the christian nation and so forth. of course, we have john's evidence here that suggests in virginia there was clearly no emphasis at least from jefferson, madison, and all of those evangelical baptists who supported them that they were trying to create a christian nation so let me just for the sake of time here, let me throw out four or five very quick conclusions that i've drawn about the role of religion in the american founding, the religion of the founding fathers and so forth. the book is divided into three parts. the first thing i try to do is to try to trace the history of the idea that america was founded as a christian nation or america is a christian nation so i trace this from 1800 all the way up to the pres

he's a fundamentalist christian that. is not the case absolutely at all. >> they quickly labeled him christian when there's nothing religious acted his approach. >> the idea in any way he represents any mainstream or even fringe sentiment in the christian community is ridiculous. >> jon: yes. [laughter] the massacre in norway is a tragic story about the persecution of christians. [laughter] look, i'm going to go out on a limb here. laura ingram, mmm, is right. the idea that this killer represents mainstream sentiment in the christian community is ridiculous. that being said, people drawing the connection between a philosophical underpinning of his madness to a christian crusader mentality are not doing it to get at you. the connection stems mostly from two things: the shooter's 1,500-page, crucifix drenched call to reclaim western christian come from the infidels, and two, the shooters's knights templar 2083 power point paying tribute to charles the emperor to vlad the impaler. now, obviously i would have more sympathy fo

bill o'reilly is very clear as to why this norway killer is christian. >> breivik is not a christian. that's impossible. no one believing in jesus commits mass murder. there is no evidence this man was a member of a church. no evidence that he had anything to do with the christian faith. we can find no evidence, none, that this killer practiced christianity in any way. they call him a christian because he says he is? come on. [laughter] >> jon: come on! and let me say this in defense of mr. o'reilly, isn't it enough for one man to have the burden of determining who amongst us is either a pinhead or a patriot? but to ask him to also separate christian from heathen, it's too much of a burden. [laughter] he's but one very tall man, or as i'm convinced, a short man on another man's shoulders wearing an oversized suit. my point is this: clearly... [applause] [laughter] clearly o'reilly did not believe this killer's actions or profile qualify him as christian, which i would agree with, but his barrier to entry is somewhat less strict when it comes to linking the fort hood maniac and islam.

right one of the interesting things about christianity is that most christians think that most christians are wrong about most things most of the time because there's such a poor. denominations and perspectives and this and that and the other and to sort it out is incredibly difficult hardly anybody is willing to take the time but another interesting thing happens in the midst of our world when you get out on the street and you begin talking about the bible or christianity to the to the layman or the person on the street almost everybody to a person thinks that they know already by gentlemen said what god is about let me just be here right now we're going to we're going to a short break and we'll continue our discussion on the selling of jesus state party . came. to the kooky it's a big splash in the world of politics business let's turn to science and i choose products to understand. pieces kept he followed procedures to keep you bigger surprise at their feet break through back. sunlight on stone unsettling updates here on. the future covered. download the official t. application q i pho

we are a christian organization. world vision serves people regardless of their faith background, hardless of their nationality. our bottomline is who is in need and serving them. >> you are indeed a terrific organization working all around the world. nathaniel herd with world vision, thank you for your insights today. >> thank you. >> to find out how you can help, log on to our website at cwnews.org. >>> coming up, could this be the philistine temple that was destroyed? exploring the ruins of the philistine place and what it tells us about the bible. >> israel may seem isolated and surrounded by those that seek its destruction, a group of christians wants the jewish state to know it is not alone. christians united for israel held its 6th annual summit in washington. erik stakelbeck was there. >> reporter: from u.n. declarations to middle east resolutions and iranian nukes tthreats against israel grow with each passing year. christians united for israel or cufi has kept pace since its finding. >> cufi is the largest

right well one of the interesting things about christianity is that most christians think that most christians are wrong about most things most of the time because there is such a poor risler a true denominations and perspectives and bissonnette in the other and to sort it out is incredibly difficult hardly anybody is willing to take the time but another interesting thing happens in the midst of our world when you get out on the street and you begin talking about the bible or christianity to the layman or the person on the street almost everybody to a person thinks that they know already gentlemen i said what god is about let me just be here right now we're going to we're going to a short break and we'll continue our discussion on the selling of jesus state because. it's. to the k.k.k. he says. it's significant because. it's the. last time close it was in the cool down reaching the summit the flock from all over the world is out a few centimeters to sell costs time artsy goes to the underworld reach. for the cold war still gets people to feel nature try likes to save its culture to where creat

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public christian events are unusual in france. the translated messages taped for later broadcast to france, middle east and french speaking africa on other christian networks. >>> peru's president erected a statute of christ. it is 121 feet tall. a brazilian construction company donated it. he prayed for the nation and read christ the attitudes. >>> finally, today, a bilingual festival to reach hispanics in southern california. franklin graham worked with some 600 hispanic congregations for the outreach. they had a saturday morning event for children and 2 nights of public meetings for adults. 1500 people responded to gram's invitation to follow christ. it is where his father billy graham came to prominence in 1949. his granddaughters visited the sight. >> washington and hill street. this is where it all started for my grandfather's ministry, first crusade back here in 1949. the largest erected tent california has seen, 6500 people every night for 8 weeks. >> she is one of franklin graham's 4 children and brother will is a preache

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for these christians it's the holy land zion the home of god's chosen people christians who know you the who is for you usually who is real nice to me i'm thousands gathered here in washington to show their support for the nation. of israel god says i will bless those who places. and personally i would i would like to be part of that thank you very much. organized by pastor in televangelist john haiti christians united for israel summit plenty of big names including glenn beck john bolton and members of congress i want you to look over the over the strike yesterday in the words of harm to destroy those eight years in each show me. and and and hope for is really. something else like all those he's become the leader of my hope you are the hope of the hosts of the promised land each year the conference brings together christian and jewish leaders for prayer. speeches if we stand up and say no more no more hatred no more demonizing israel no more helen thomas' no more distortions no more misrepresentations we can set the limit on what to do and a celebration of the special bond between i

he actually says i am a christian. he talks a number of times about his christianity. he talks about crusades. we have to rid the christian europe of the islamic terrorists and i jihadist? >> bill: could you give me the jesus christ christ quote because we couldn't find one. >> yeah. i have got one here where he, sorry. um, oh, i have got o'reilly right here. he says in his european declaration of independence he refers to the lord jesus christ. >> bill: in what context? >> he refers three times. >> bill: i like the lord jesus christ? >> no. he didn't. >> bill: keep christ in christmas bumper sticker on his volvo? look, there is no evidence this guy is in church, has anything to do with jesus, and just because he calls himself a christian, mussolini called himself a christian. >> he says we believe in christianity as a cultural, social identity and moral platform. this makes us christian. >> bill: what? that's insane. evidence doesn't say he believes in jesus christ and jesus' teaching. >> he calls himself a cultural christian. who are we to decide whether he is a chri

he said it is important for christians to pray for the muslims during ramadan. >> christians during the month of ramadan must pray for muslims to know god and become a reality. >> islam is a fast growing religion and 50 muslim majority countries in the world. people are oppressed by the strict interpretation of islamic law imposed on society. women suffer the worst treatment. >> women in islam are treated as half of a man. just by virtue of making a woman less than a man, it is very oppressive in itself. placing them in the back not allowing them to drive in saudi arabia. they have to be seen as a piece of flesh. they have to cover themselves. >> god is on the move in the muslim world. dr. youssef says they are turning to christ like never before and many experiencing dreams and visions from the holy spirit. >> we just talked to an imam who saw jesus in a dream. he woke up, got into the call number on our channel the kingdom set and talked to a person who led him to christ. now he is a wonderful servant of the living god. this happened on good friday of this year. i can tell you many, m

for these christians it's the holy land psion the home of god's chosen people christians who now you can eat for israel israel israel and israel thousands gathered here in washington to show their support for the nation of israel god says i will bless those places. and personally i would i would like to be part of that thank you very much. organized by pastor televangelist john higgins the christians united for israel summit plenty of big names including glenn back john bolton and members of congress i want to keep the liberty of the strike yesterday in the words of the orange to destroy all those years in each oh. oh. oh those were really. something else owes the congo leader my hope that. the whole issue in the process was reaching for the promise that each year the conference brings together christian and jewish leaders for prayer. speeches it would stand up and say no no he didn't want to demonize he is really not my helen thomas is no more just no more misrepresentations we can set the limit on one thing and a celebration of the special bond between israel and the united states

percent of all turf attacks the rest is primarily homegrown domestic terror mostly committed by christians so it doesn't t.h.s. have a backwards should there be more people at the department looking into threats beyond islamic terror for example threats from right wing christian fanatics like anders breivik who brought unspeakable violence to norway last week here offer his take on this is brian fisher director of issue analysis of the conservative american family association brian welcome. good to see you thank you brian only one guy had v.h.s. looking into the possibility of a right wing killers in america when they're responsible for hundreds of deaths and hundreds of attacks in the last decade by half. well i'm not familiar with the numbers that you're looking at but i know for instance in the case of anders breivik i read through his entire fifteen hundred eighteen page manifesto this was a guy that it made he had no personal relationship with god or jesus christ perfectly happy to have worshipers of odin on his team he was into racial purity he wanted to develop these and be true fer

and then 700 years of egypt christian by the 4th century was 100% christians. and then when the arab came on the 7th century, they found all of the christians and named them cops. that's why cops is under defined as inhabitant of egypt, but is a christian. when they came, there were only christian. and then for 1400 years, there were persecution, they have asked the people to either convert or to pay the taxes or to be killed. so many of them have converted to islam. and some of them pay the taxes. and we added descendants of these people who not necessarily noble people, but people who could pay the taxes and maintain their religion. and the coptic language was maintained until the 19th century. it's pharaohic language. people are discovering the history today of a lot of different muslims. some of the muslims say i am coptic. i am a coptic muslim. because i bring back my history to the period. the muslim brotherhoods are against that because since the 7th century, everything before is erased does not exist anymore and we are going to the arabic culture toward

times" and reuters played up the christian angle. breivik is not a christian. that's impossible.o one believing in jesus commits mass murder. the man might have called himself a christian on the net. is he certainly not of that faith. also breivik is not attached to any church and in fact has criticized the protestant belief system in general. the christian angle came from a policeman not from fact finding we can find no evidence, none that this killer practiced christianity in any way. so why is the angle being played up? two reasons. first, the liberal media wants to make an equivalency between the actions of breivik and the oklahoma city bomber tim mcveigh and al qaeda. the left wants you to believe that fundamentalists christians are a threat just like crazy jihadists are. in fact in the "new york times" today an analysis says that some believe we have overreacted to the muslim threat in the world. of course, that's absurd. jihadists have killed tens of thousands of people all over the world. taliban, elements in pakistan use governmental power to support terrorism by muslims

teachings or christianity it makes him a back christian if a muslim does it say for instance it's not her abductor that tried to take out fort hood today that makes him a good muslim because his of yala ji his religious right you know it's not true just totally book to write him to do that you know that is not true you know a that the bible has as many admonitions to kill in fact any one of the ten commandments if your kids talk back to you take them out in the public square and kill them the bible has as many of those things as the qur'an may have that's you know and second at the day after nine eleven the world was united with us in downtown tehran iran they had a candlelight vigil in support of the united states the not not just the vast majority of virtually universal majority of muslim leaders around the world have repudiated these kinds of terror terror attacks well under simply wrong about the reaction in the muslim world on nine eleven i've seen video footage in gaza for instance where palestinians were starting to see a single exception being out candy you don't find anything

times and reuters played up the christian angle. bravic is not a christian, that's impossible.lieving in jesus commits mass murder. the man might have called himself a christian on the net, but he is certainly not of that faith. . >> jon: fox news bill o'reilly this week calling out the new york times and others in the mainstream media how they labeled the radical extremist who terrorized norway last week and o'reilly got a lot of criticism from the comments. >> really? >> yeah, he did. >> that's strange because pains me to say this, agree with bill o'reilly with that statement 100%, that's completely, 100% accurate what he said. as if a passivist guns down people if they put that as the heading. would have said, now, self-identified passivist guns down people, but not, you know, just putting on him he's a christian. of course he's not a christian, that's ridiculous and even, even the way they're trying to portray him as a right wing extremist, he had, he sports a one child policy, government control of private industries, he wants to rid the world of oil consumption, i mean, t

for these christians it's the holy land zion the home of god's chosen people christians tonight youth for israel israel israel and israel thousands gathered here in washington to show their support for the nation of israel god says i will bless those who places where. i am personally i'd like i would like to be part of that thank you very much. organized by pastor in televangelist john higgins the christians united for israel so many those plenty of big names including glenn back john bolton and members of congress i want you to look over the. just right. in the worst of her shoes to destroy most. each show me. and i was really. something else like oh was he a leader or my. hostess let. each year the conference brings together christian and jewish leaders for prayer. speeches we stand up and say no more no more hatred no more demonizing israel not my helen thomas is not more to scholarship no more misrepresentations we can set the limit on one thing and a celebration of the special bond between israel and the united states when ever we kind of stiff israel something bad happens here w

the protestant christians the seems like a more recent phenomena and politicizing it. in a partisan way is even more reason what is the thread that is tying all of these together both here in the united states and internationally which we here in the united states work what is animating this movement is who are the people behind it what are their real goals well yes you're absolutely right the protestant of untellable opposition to abortion as much as we now take for granted is a relatively new phenomenon you know when roe versus wade came down in one nine hundred seventy three there was tremendous catholic opposition and outrage but evan jellicoe as did the modern angelical movement was still in its infancy and there just wasn't that much outrage you know jerry falwell had a few years earlier been chastising martin luther king for getting involved in politics you know there was still a sense that it wasn't for the church to involvement to involve itself in kind of worldly matters now what really you don't ramble bulmer who is a both in evansville call and a historian

and then 700 years of egypt, christian, by the first century was 100% christians. then when the other came, they found only christians and they named them copts. so that's why copts is defined as happened in of egypt. and then for 1400 years there were persecutions. they have asked the people to either convert or to pay their taxes, or to be killed. so many of them have converted to islam, and some of them paid the taxes, and we are the descendents of these people who, not necessarily noble people, but people who could pay the taxes and maintain their religion. and the coptic language was maintained until the 19th century. now that people are discovering the store today, a lot of muslims, and even some of the muslim say i am also coptic. i am a coptic muslim. because i bring back my history. the brotherhood's are against that. since the seventh century everything before is erased, does not exist anymore, and we're going towards the arabian peninsula. it was arabian peninsula. so they call the seventh century invasion, they call it opening. it is real innovation, a

this country was founded on judeo christian principles it was founded as a christian nation not it is true definitely true and i did so as your sign through the new testament and all the mirror that suffered by thomas is still. on the status of he was one person why he was that he was the d.s. and i'm here most of the other phones wide open george washington i'll use the other him up until nineteen sixty two we had a reading and prayer in school and it was an atheist that got rid of that and since the one nine hundred sixty s. that country is believed because of course there will be constant a.p.'s filed a suit and i think that the atheists have really hurt our nation the overwhelming majority of americans are christians over seventy eight percent profess to be christians even though they don't live like christians they profess to be christians so let's let people have their religion have their worldview have their perspective and live in peace but let's not have the government not having go you know if rick perry was was a mormon or if he was a buddhist or if he was hindu or somethin

over seventy eight percent profess to be christians even though they don't live like christians they profess to be christians so let's let people have their religion have their worldview have their perspective and live in peace but let's not have the government. not having you know if rick perry was was a mormon or if he was a buddhist or if he was hindu or something like that and he was saying hey let's all pray to rama you know for the rain i would be concerned wouldn't you not if he was in front of you being a politician they don't say whatever they need to say but i think that his position before christian group in america where the country is overwhelmingly christian that it makes a lot of sense and i believe that one reason we have some of the conditions that you talk to fight at the beginning of the show is because we have ousted god from public life because of a small minority of people those a.p.'s created when one nine hundred sixty two and the constitution does not say anything about a wall of separation between church and state that was to prevent this man of a state chur

for these christians it's the holy land psion the home of god's chosen people christians who now you can eat for israel israel israel and israel thousands gathered here in washington to show their support for the nation of israel god says i will bless those places. and personally i would i would like to be part of that thank you very much. organized by pastor televangelist john higgins the christians united for israel summit plenty of big names including glenn back john bolton and members of congress i want to keep the liberty of the strike yesterday in the words of the orange to destroy all those years in each oh. oh. oh those were really.

>>> coming up, a new campaign to support christians in the holy land. also, a surprise in utah, the usually conservative mormon church lobbies hard and successfully for a liberal law on immigration. >> the church has become a worldwide church, and its interests now extend far beyond utah. >>> and an irish monastery where through prayer and simple work, these women seek to become close to god. >>> major funding for "religion & ethics newsweekly" is provided by the lily endowment, an indianapolis-based private family foundation dedicated to its founders' interest in religion, community development, and education. additional funding by mutual of america, designing and customizing individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. and the corporation for public broadcasting. >>> welcome, i'm bob abernethy and it is good to have you with us. africa is now facing one of the worst food crises in more than 50 years. the united nations this week said that tens of thousands of people are believed to have died in somalia alone. man

certainly, jesus and his followers had no force to force people to become christians.he fourth century was established by the roman emperors. anna kirsty kit -- the key theologians came out in favor of coursing those. the church never thought that it was right to go out and, of course, everybody. that continued to be the standard position from about the end of the fourth century into the 20th century. never officially abandoned. i think they would have abandoned at a long time ago, but this rather noxious doctorate or you could force the backend, intending to be quite a pond on the side of any discussions among christians. the american judge took the lead in saying we ought to get rid of that. he was promptly silenced by rome, but at the second council he was resurrected. he came to the council and led the american bishops who did take the lead on this. the party said it was the issue of the council. the council triumphantly established that every person had a right to religious freedom, and that was the doctrine of cap what church. it was quite a repudiation of that s

version of christianity that bush and blair have been coming up with over the last ten years or so so i think that this is actually the tip of an iceberg is actually quite a lot of this and you know nazi activity out there and now i think the antiterrorist or thought is right across the world we're going to have to take this brand of terrorism much more seriously and particularly worrying is that he was

who was back then reigning in the key of adopted christianity he took several citizens of the key of to the waters of the river here in kiev and turned them into orthodox christians this is the biggest religious holiday for the believe years old across the post soviet space indeed russia ukraine and belarus are celebrating this holiday and today it's thursday is the final day of the celebrations were understand that services and liturgy will be held everywhere across these countries and also this will become a native with bright colorful concerts later in the evening now indeed of course this is a very important for the history of russia that the country adopted orthodox christianity but that choice may well have been different and the beautiful monastery which you can see over there may have easily been a mosque because back then in the year nine hundred eighty eight delegates from all religions came over to key of two of the priests to offer their religion historians are still finding proper explanation why did lead even to choose orthodox christianity some even joke that just choi