where can these iraqi christians go? >> foreign fighters moving into the country practically everyday this group of snipers recently >> there are 10 other existing cells supporting this cell. >> some 16,000 people have died march 2011. >> the so-called arab spring have made it difficult for christians in the middle east. my good friend carl muller joins us. this is the christians in the civil war, tell us why they are more vulnerable and the difficulties they are facing today. christians have been moreless as the regime gets more desperate, christians are caught in the middle suffering greatly. between secular or islamic choice. what does that mean for christians? >> that is true. christians are more vulnerable than ever to the extremists as they mold in the rebel form to our concern is enhanced by the fact that christians are being increasingly targeted in these cities. >> we are seeing iraqis that fled to syria who fled muslim persecution in homeland iraq. the ironny of ironny, the same where can these christians go? >

many are christians, and how are they faring? >> they are doing very well spiritually, and many churches are being planted. they fought for 22 years to be rid of this threat of islamization, and they've won that and they're doing well. >> george: they're celebrating this milestone, and about a year later we have thousands of refugees that are fleeing. who are helping them? >> christians have always been the first responders, george. groups like "operation blessing," "perscation project," they're in there providing material relief and superior court relief. we're seeing a healthy church growing and many churches being built. >> george: what is your sense, is there an arab spring hitting the shoulders of sudan? >> we'll see, but he is very unpopular. he is a war criminal. >> george: and the economic and political challenges they face -- >> and security. >> george: gary lane, international correspondent, thank you for your insights. >> wendy: and baseball in the time of cholera. a look at the devastating impact the disease has h h o

and he was able to separate out christianity from jesus, say no to christianity and say yes to yeast. >> how many of the colonists, what percentage were rigiously affiliated or had had religious beliefs in some specific denomination? >> i'm not sure the percentage. but much smaller percentage of churchgoers than we have now. something more on the order of, i don't know, one out of five rather than the vast majority. and those who were christians and who did go to crunch typically didn't think a lot about jesus either. >> how much did jefferson take out of the bible? >> took out about 9/10 of the saying of jesus, tenth survived. >> took outhe miracles? >> miracles, anything that sounded to him like calvinist theology, to jesus like god or healing and he took out the rest your ration, ends the story with the crucifix. >> did the early founders view the united states as a christian organization? >> nasa a good question. some of them did and many did not but i think it's fair to say that most of them had a more deistic view, a view that yes, god, yes, afterli and rewards and punishments

she quotes from many christian authors, and so the christian content is in the exhibition.he way that she turns it and twists it by juxtaposing it with secular content and certainly with secular imagery that she's drawing from popular culture is truly unique. a work called "wide open," and corita incorporated, she sort of blends two texts. one, this psalm, psalm 24 verse 9, with a speech that lyndon johnson gave to congress about the issues of poverty in america. and so she took those two texts and combined them here in an amazing print. corita was looking for words that would be very evocative and that would lead us to a different place. so she would extrapolate those words, those phrases, in some cases, the images, and contextualize them in a way that made them spiritual and engaging. corita's print about john f. kennedy and pope john xxiii incorporates the logo of the sunkist citrus-growing company which was actually based in los angeles, and she also printed in some lemons and what looked to be limes, incorporated those elements into the print. she often used the word "

conservative christians broadly.se the word teavangelicals because there are a lot in the tea party. >> host: if there part of the movement how are they looking at mitt romney? >> guest: let's be honest. they were not that enamored with him during the primary. we have seen the exit polls and a lot of surveys that have gone with it. having said that this isn't so much about mitt romney as president obama. how do the teavangelicals si mitt romney? somewhat skeptical but realize this is their best shot and only shot and realistic shot of bringing this president and taking him out of office. >> host: his mormonism? >> guest: 15% of evangelical christians and many are teavangelicals, really would not vote for a mormon. having said that not to stereotype folks around the country that geographically and time mormon sentiment is in southern states where he will win anyway. if you look and a swing state battle it probably isn't going to be as much as people think. >> host: david brody our guests, "the teavangelicals" the insi

elsewhere, such as the brave christians in nigeria. almost every day churches are arsoned and children are assassinated in other countries, even in so-called moderate countries as turkey and indonesia, christians face discrimination and humiliation on a daily basis. and the course -- the course of all this christian suffering is islam. rivers of tears are flowing from the middle east where there is only one safe haven for christians, and indeed there's only one place in the middle east that christians are safe to be, it's the state of israel. [ applause ] and that, ladies and gentlemen, that is why israel deserves the support of christians worldwide. as a matter of fact, israel is the canary in the coal mine. if israel cannot exist in peace, none of us can. israel is the only democracy in the middle east. it's a safe haven for everyone. it's a beacon of light in an area of total darkness, and if israel falls, ladies and gentlemen, if israel falls, everybody will feel the consequences. as a matter of fact, israel is fighting our fight.

christians in th o yes. r orter:od>>r:woy has woenbe preaching in the bush for 25 years. >> when we first came into this community the witch doctors were very strong here and they cursed the church to die. and now today the witch doctorsn are seeing that they, they were defeated. ll reporter: in the small ages, or bomas, that speckle the countryside, it's as if time has stood in place, although these traditionally nomadic people are no longer quite as leery of outsiders. >> i remember one day when i first came here i heard two ladies talking and they said, is it an animal or what is it. look at, he has hair on his arms. they were trying to figure out what i was, 'cause they'd never seen a white man before. >> reporter: woods is missionary with a u.s. based non-denominational organization called christian missionary fellowship, or cmf. they call what they do "planting churches." >> we empower natural maasai to do the ministry. i didn't start any of these churches. i'm not the leader of any of these churches,

a christian suffering is islam. a christian suffering is islam.an christian suffering is islam. rivers of tears are flowing from the middle east where there is only one safe haven for christians, and indeed there's only one place in the middle east that christians are safe to be, it's the state of israel. [ applause ] and that, ladies and gentlemen, that is why israel deserves the support of christians worldwide. as a matter of fact, israel is the canary in the coal mine. if israel cannot exist in peace, none of us can. israel is the only democracy in the middle east. it's a safe haven for everyone. it's a beacon of light in an area of total darkness, and if israel falls, ladies and gentlemen, if israel falls, everybody will feel the consequences. as a matter of fact, israel is fighting our fight. mothers in the west -- [ applause ] mothers in the west can sleep safely at night because israeli mothers at night worry about their sons in the army because they are fighting our fight, and that's why i say that we all are israel. we should all support israel because islam's so-called

there is a big concern among the christian population in egypt, both the evangelicals and the christians. what impact this is going to have on them now and in the future. >> reporter: how are they responding to these changes? will they go underground? or will their witness increase? >> i think one thing they will have, charlene, is witness increase. we talked to some people in ministries who go into the muslim world and say what happens and what is happening in egypt, is there is sort of an explosion of evangelism, and many muslims are come to jesus christ because of this. they don't see islam is the solution, as the muslim brotherhood is saying. some people oflizing. of leaving. one expert i was talking to today said the people who can, who have the money, are emigrating, but the poor cannot. another leader i spoke to said he is trying to encourage christians throughout egypt to get ready, to gird their loins, so to speak, to get ready for the times that are coming that he says are going to be even greater. i believe there will be a depth of spirituality, and they're going to go deeper

we already have special christian schools, christian cable networks, christian camps and christian dating sight sites now we have a christian way to ignore our families with mindless procrastination. (laughter) sadly, folks, there are still some things in my life that don't broadcast my face to the world. for instance, i want christian electricity, not the devil's lightning from that freaky three-pronged socket in the wall who will let anybody plug into it. alternating current? no thanks, i don't want ac/dc, i want only j.c. (laughter and applause) next up, a wag of my... thank you. people are applauding jesus. (laughter) next a wag of my finger at the japanese scientist who invented a rock paper scissors playing robot that never loses. even more shocking, japanese scientists built a robot and didn't try to have sex with it (laughter) apparently this rock paper cyborg wins by cheating. used as an ultra high speed camera to make its move one millisecond after its ow human opponent has made his. it just looks like it's going at the same time so it always wins and therefore i assume always g

but christian is right.these are numbers that you know, month to month numbers don't mean a heck of a lot. and the things that are wrong in the housing market is not that people are not saying they don't have management. but the banks are not lending and they have bad from their appraisers and they put it in the file and the feds will say you can't make that loan. >> that's the problem. >> and part of the reasons that banks are not lening, why would you loan anybody for 3 percent and make money on their own . >> maybe we should come up with a new government program for ttracey? >> being with the promises from more government. shovel reed and unemployment under 8 percent and housing fixs and green jobs and lifting people out of poverty and none of it ever work . we need more intervention and stimulus in the market place. one thick they never talk about is economic freedom. are we in a recession or not? according to the nlrb it ended three years ago. we don't have the environment for economic >> maybe we need

my neighborhood was christian and muslim, but all of my christian neighbors had to leave the village and then the country. the muslim neighbors were safe. they stayed in their houses. >> because the regime severely restricts independent reporting, it is impossible to verify it the attacks. under the a sawed off's regime for, the christians have been protected. -- under the assad regime, the christians have been supportered. >> there is evidence to back out what the patriarchate same. we spoke to three families who felt forced to leave. they did not want us, one woman said. she was referring to the opposition. we had no toys but to go. it is important to remember that there are many different opinions. -- we had no choice but to go. >> before the violence, people were living normally. later on, we feared what the regime was doing because it was bombing everybody. they did not differentiate between muslims and christians and that is why we had to flee syria. >> do you think that christians have a future and syria? >> no, i see no future not only in syria but in all of the middle east.

my neighborhood was christian and muslim, but all of my christian neighbors had to leave the village and then the country. the muslim neighbors were safe. they stayed in their houses. >> because the regime severely restricts independent reporting, it is impossible to verify it the attacks. under the a sawed off's regime for, the christians have been protected. -- under the assad regime, the christians have been supportered. >> there is evidence to back out what the patriarchate same. we spoke to three families who felt forced to leave. they did not want us, one woman said. she was referring to the opposition. we had no toys but to go. it is important to remember that there are many different opinions. -- we had no choice but to go. >> before the violence, people were living normally. later on, we feared what the regime was doing because it was bombing everybody. they did not differentiate between muslims and christians and that is why we had to flee syria. >> do you think that christians have a future and syria? >> no, i see no future not only in syria but in all of the middle east.

he is a christian! skull you ignorant--i'll spare the rest of the adjectives but you're literally ignorant. how did you get that way? fox news channel. look at this. >> we're not a christian nation. he said that america is arrogant and went on the apology tour. his first major teach speech then turkey and cairo. his lack of outspokenness on the movement. the refusal that the shooter was terrorist. >> sips he becamesince he became president he has been pandering to the islamic world. parading through the islamic world. >> now barack obama raised as a muslim, this is huge. >> cenk: now he had to walk that back but the rest of the insinuations have not been tracked back at all. they say it over and over again. it is their agenda, it is their purpose to purposely confuse you that the president is a muslim. they think that then you'll vote against him. one more question on the purchase poll, are you uncomfortable with mitt romney's religion. 13% that uncomfortable that he's a mormon. that's not right either.

and muslims clasped hands to protect christians celebrating mass.think that spirit of unity and fellowship was a very moving part of how egyptians and all the rest of us responded to what happened in those days in that square. if, in the years ahead, egyptians continue to respect that precious tradition of what every single egyptian can contribute to the future of their country, where people of different faiths will be standing together in fellowship, then they can bring hope and healing to many communities in egypt who need that message. as we look to the future, not only in egypt, not only in the newly free and democratically- seeking states of north africa and the middle east, but far beyond, we will continue to advocate strongly for religious freedom. this is a bedrock priority of our foreign policy, one that we carry out in a number of ways. earlier today, the united states did release our annual international religious freedom report. this is the fourth time i have had the honor of presenting it. it comprehensively catalogs the official and so

enterprise is fundamentally incompatible with being a christian. that is they think our economic system is fundamentally immoral and contradicts with the christian world view. those are i think the two most potent and dangerous conflicts i think we have to deal with if we're really going to have in the conservative movement not nearly a marriage of convenience or a marriage of inconvenience, but intellectual program that we can stand firm on and that we can come together on in the public square to transform the public square. in the book "indivisible" james and i argue in terms of the diagnosis about what is happening in our culture, something like 86% of the population self-identifies as christian and a sizable number beyond that actually subscribe to the idea that there is a creator and we are endowed by our create were certain inalienable rights. if that's true, most of the population are thits, jews, christians, like that. how has it that the demands of culture have been almost entirely occupied by the secular left? what exactly has happened? i

we know that the virgin birth was not a part of the earliest christian preaching. the earliest generation, the earliest decades of christian preaching had to do with the resurrection, the fact that this man who is crucified is our messiah and god raised him from the dead. that was the systems of the early preaching. it was in the succeeding decades as more questions began to arise as the notion of jesus' did i have vicinity began to really take hold that questions were to arise that well, if he was divine how did that happen? and then questions of his birth became very important questions. it's very clear that, for example, luke went back and had to do research. he had to investigate. he tells us that at the start of his gospel. in order to find out what he calls the exact truth. and the fact that he concluded that jesus was born of a virgin may well be because that was a part of the tradition that he discovered as he went back and did his research. >> do you have thoughts on what you're hearing? >> of course i do. this is my business. >> what are your thoughts? >>

lilly endowment, an indianapolis based private family foundation, dedicated to its founders and christian religion, community development and education. additional funding provided by mutual of america, designing customized, individual and group retirement product. that's w we're youretirement company. the estate of william j. carter. the jane henson foundation and corporation for public broadcasting. >> welcome. i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. several major decisions from the supreme court this week. five of the nine justices voted to uphold president obama's healthcare law, saying the law's individual mandate is legal. religious groups were divided over the legislation. some had called healthcare reform a "mol imperative" while others worried the law would allow federally funded abortions. faith communities had also lobbied hard around arizona's immigration law. on monday, the court struck down three parts of that legislation. but, it left in place the requirement that local police check the immigration status of people they believe could be in the country illegally. i

but i mean, i'm a christian in america saying, yes, exactly. we are made in the image of god. we are not simply tools for other people to use. and so rand herself believed in the inherent dignity and value of the individual. well, guess what. that's precisely the same foundation of the pro-life argument. rand herself was rabidly pro-choice but pro-choice not by sag, well, the unborn are humans but it's okay to murder. what she did is she believed a pseudoscientific theory and thought that the unborn child went through different stages and one stage was a fish and reptile and this sort of crazy stuff that no one seriously beliefs and if you kill an unborn being you are not killing a human. she was inconsistent. but she still believed in the dignity of the individual. a lot of people say, yeah, but if you're pro life you are imposing a kind of religious idea on the question. that's not true. if you read the literature, the sort of debate over the pro life issue you never find anyone arguing over questions of the soul in the bod day enthiand th like that. all you need to get from

and christians account for just 10% of this country's population. on the eastern wall of the church, facing the muslim holy city of mecca, the arabic symbol allah. christian monasteries were protected as holy places by the prophet muhammad, dall'oglio and this one harkens back to a tradition he calls abrahamic hospitality. >> these people have been in the same villages working with the same people for 14 centuries. we are together in front of god and recognize each other as believers. in the islamic town, these muslim, christian and jewish, they worship god in a kind of choir. >> father paolo encourages visits from the dialogue with muslims, many of whom joined christian visitors in the climb up 347 stairs to the monastery. some like scholar atas gomul, exploring aspects of islam's relationship with judahism and christianity stay for a while to conduct research in the growing library. >> i was surprised to find so many books about islam in a christian monastery. i think it is very good to have a dialogue between the religions, to respect each other

representing some gambling interests and the head of christian coalition. and so used reputation was sullied and he kind of disappeared for a while but now he's back with the new organization and what's what's the story first of all are the koch brothers behind i mean who is funding the oh it's just going to just i wish i could know that tom don't you wish you could know that but there are five hundred one c four they do not have to reveal their donors so you have this organization that is going to be basically running the g.o.p. ground game going on in nationwide and particularly in the swing states very big in florida very big in wisconsin very big in january and so they're going to be running the ground game it's a nonprofit. but they're using all this new bells and whistles technology for turning out the vote in for running internal polling and who's doing that business ralph reed's for profit consulting firm the nonprofits hiring ralph reed's for profit consulting firm to do that work for his work if you can get it yeah go in what what is the you know

population and like russia the christians of egypt are orthodox christians the copts some of one of the oldest christian communities in the world at least ten million people could be in risk of genocide if things get out of control in egypt it may not happen that way but it could there is an islamic government in turkey but the turkish islamist government are you saying that democracy is deadly yes not in every country but democracy has to grow gradually in countries in the region you have to have a strong middle class growing you have that you have to have enough people with property to learn principles of responsibility this is not something that muslim people cannot learn there are many highly successful muslim democracies in the world turkey certainly of them are crissy egypt can be but it needs to be able to develop its middle class and alleviate its poverty situation first right now we do not have democracy in egypt we have rather like the french revolution two hundred twenty years ago we have an authoritarian regime which has been toppled we have a lot of people expressing th

to be christian.angelical folks out there and i found the stories to be great. this book is littered with personal stories. one of them about a tea party libertarian who was the head of the new york city tea party patriots. was a libertarian and wanted nothing with god and started to go to one of the tea party meetings with a lot of other tea party groups in florida. there was a big segregation of folks. some of those departed leaders started witnessing to him about the gospel at one of those tea party meetings. three months later he ended up introducing his wife to jesus christ. he became a teavangelical. it was interesting because he was witnessed to with the gospel of jesus christ within a tea party setting with other tea party leaders, which i thought was interesting. there's a lot of stories like that. host: bob is on the republican line. you are on with david brody. caller: thank you. i very much appreciate your take on this. i have been a member of the tea party quite some time. not that i go t

christianity is important. you can't run for president in this country and say you're an atheist. >> it's very recent that these religion -- >> do the nitty-gritty politics, chris, add what helped him run up his totals in nevada and in an election con committeesest test. chris: we mentioned al smith. he stepped into a photo-op that backfired. he is posing with a gaggle, a flock of cardinals and bishops there, probably forgetting the anti-catholic element would use it against him. this shot was everywhere during smith's campaign. it didn't help. it reminded us of some other unforgivable decisions to do photo-ops. here what another new york governor with cavemen in oregon, campaigning, i said camping out, that's what it looked like. that got some play around the world. dick nixon was told it would help humanize himself by posing for a walk on the beach at his california home. nixon's idea of a walk on a beach included wearing winged-tipped shoes. that is nixon for you. and he did that himself, that tank photo-op.

how do you think these christians do not have power. how do you explain christians make up only 8% of the population in the first half of 20 century, they are secretion prime minister at that time, and then since we are in the post objectivity era and our knowledge is objective county think the fact that you're greatly one to post the same is affecting your analysis in any way? thank you. >> at me take a second part first. [laughter] you know, this is been a running theme, i am married to an alawite. my father-in-law served in the syria navy for 40 years. he became a major general, or something like that. he joined, when he was a young man, there was no education in his village until 1947 when his grandfather built the first school, and at grade four, fourth grade he was able to go to school, and he got down and he got in the navy, which is what alawites did. and his proudest pitcher is in the living room is him being handshake by -- because he was graduated from alexander. there was no naval academy in syria and it was unification to u

everybody to be christian.here were so many teavangelical folks out there and i found the stories to be great. this book is littered with personal stories. one of them about a tea party libertarian who was the head of the new york city tea party patriots. was a libertarian and wanted nothing with god and started to go to one of the tea party meetings with a lot of other tea party groups in florida. there was a big segregation of folks. some of those departed leaders started witnessing to him about the gospel at one of those tea party meetings. three months later he ended up introducing his wife to jesus christ. he became a teavangelical. it was interesting because he was witnessed to with the gospel of jesus christ within a tea party setting with other tea party leaders, which i thought was interesting. there's a lot of stories like that. host: bob is on the republican line. you are on with david brody. caller: thank you. i very much appreciate your take on this. i have been a member of the tea party quite some

they think that our economic system is contradictory to the christian world view. those are the most potent and dangerous conflicts we have to deal with if we are going to have not a marriage of convenience or inconvenience, but intellectual programs that we can stand firm on and that we can come together in the public square to transform the public square. in the book, james and i argue that in terms of the diagnosis, 86% of the population identified as christian and a sizable number beyond that subscribe to the idea there is a creator, we are endowed by our creator. if that is true, the majority of the american people are the guests -- are theists. how is it that culture has been entirely occupied by the secular left? what is happening? the first century, a small band of persecuted christians were hounded and tortured and killed by the roman empire. within three centuries, they had transformed civilization and the empire themselves. why is it that some 86% of us cannot manage to turn the culture around? we think the reason we cannot do that is because we spend a