>> wendy: this week and christian world news, nigeria on the brink, as radical muslims attack christians in the north. some fear a civil war is in the making. >> george: plus they're calling it a house of horrors. what happened at this pennsylvania abortion clinic is so awful that the doctor is charged with four counts of murder. yet most of the american media are ignoring the story. >> wendy: and from the trash pile to the courts of the king. this woman made her living digging for junk until she found a christian ministry willing to help her climb out. >> george: in a nation divided by religion, muslim extremists could force a civil war. hello, everyone, i'm george thomas. >> wendy: and i'm wendy griffith. last year more christians were killed in nigeria than in any other country. senior international correspondent gary lane tells us why nigerian believers are targeted and what can be be done to help them. >> reporter: bombings like this one gave nigeria the sad distinction of the nation with the highest christian death toll. more than 900 christians reportedly were killed in nigeria la

of betraying christians.erry's article accuses the government of aiding and abetting discriminations against christians. >> yes, i was very keen to make a very clear statement about what i regard as the duplicity of the prime minister in saying wonderful words about the christian church and what the leaders are doing, but the actions of his government go in a completely different direction. >> reporter: he cites a number of cases where the government has discriminated against christians in the workplace. >> christians are being discriminated against, and some are losing their jobs. if i think we've really got to stand up for our faith today, whether in america or britain, or elsewhere. i've often said if you behave like a door mat, don't be surprised if people treat you like one. >> reporter: lord kerry believes this is especially crucial for christians to speak out against the cameron government's push to legalize gay marriage. >> we must actually work with the government not to rescind our marital laws, but

a few christian d.v.d.eaching series provides spiritual and educational responses. >> i think it is going to help our nations, our countries, to be well-equipped to deal with terrorism and to also deal with the people here that we need to take care of, the muslim people that god brought here for us to give them the gospel right here. >> reporter: the truth unlocked d.v.d. series provides an understanding of islamic religious beliefs. tim clemens is co-producer of "truth unlocked." >> this came about with our kids interacting with other muslim kids within their school. and i felt very ill-equipped and ignorant with another culture that moved in. >> reporter: this talk show host appears on the "truth unlocked" d.v.d., and she is a former muslim and says westerners should understand them before they start a relationship. >> a man and a wife are welcoming a couple into their home, and the man of the house would extend the hand to shake the hand of the wife. instantly she is offended because she is veiled and sh

persecuted because they are christians. it is a humane tarian crisis, no light has been shed on it apparently christians are not popular enough to talk about them. when they go to church to pray and already politically ostracized and get bombed, the conclusion there is pure religious hostility for a non-muslim. it is difficult for the main stream media to rationalize it. muslims are attacked in israel, that is because they are frustrated, angry, muslim attacks west are angry, underdogs. they are the majority and their minorities are being attacked in way worse ways from humanitarian view than muslims are by americans. >> reporter: what role does islamic teaching play? >> in the book for instance, what i discuss about what is happening to christians, i don't just discuss the patterns. for example, i'll talk about churches being attacked and bombed and executed. christians saying wrong word about islam. if you go back and look at the historic historical, same exact teachings. the continuity is undeniable. what is happening no

has an anti-christian agenda. he says it has more to do with lack of biblical knowledge. >> i think a lot of it has to do with ignorance. we have lost the whole land of christian theology inr country. so people can confuse marriage with just being nice to one another. df on man, marriage, which, ofot. we're inheriting a heritage of neglect of the bible. and i think it is a to sc reporter: how they to communicate their language. >> don't take anything for granted. don't let people get away tone right. speak with gentleness. speak in the truth and love. be courteous to others. >> reporter: he sends out this challenge to u.k. churches, to bring their voices before government, and the question remains: will david cameron listen and bring this nation back to godly values.ing for cbn new, london, england. >> george: thanks, peter. this week the boy scouts of america decided to allow openly homosexual scouts.ill this decisihe organization that is so heavily supported by faith-based groups. some see the drastic drop suppo

many christians, those that came from christian backgrounds, also had instilled not only a faith in a love of country. because of just how blessed this country has been. i mean, because they understood that since most of the founders had this christian faith, over alf, about 2/3 were even ordained christian ministers, of the signs of the declaration of independence, they wanted freedom of religion. so you could be an atheist, you could be a muslim, you could be a buddhist, whatever. you could believe in the power of crystals and nothing else. whatever it was. because it was the christian faith, if it is truly christian, then it provides everyone with freedom of choice. as god has given us. there are other religions that do not give freedom of choice. and we know as the islamic countries where we are not allowed even as members of congress to carry in a bible or to talk about our faith at all, they clearly prohibit the free exercise of religion. even since this country, so many thousands of americans, vlade down their lives to bring eedom to afghanistan, this country gave afghanistan

and an example i am going to use is if you walk into a christian science church or christian science reading room in any town or city of the united states, conventionality exudes from it, it just fits that conventional american protestant type mode. but over issues of healing for instance, when, from healing through prayer, when someone dies or some issue has been raised in the courts, that tends to push them along the continuum at least into a middle ground, and in some cases where there has been some severe conflicts and some convictions, particularly involving children it can push them in there, so there is a lot of movement here. also let's not just think about the united states, so that's primarily what we are looking at. you go to cities of los angeles and there is a buddhist temple of one sort or another in just about every other corner next to your episcopalian and methodist church. so buddhism in los angeles is taking on a much more conventional status where as if they-- well for instance, to flip my examples here, but there are enough muslims in macomb to actually build a m

we're having a wild discussion of religious doctrine in the context of christianity, and virginia just brought a cartoon out here that is really, you know, quite apropos. some new visitors to heaven are talking to what i assume is god, i imagine, and it says ... god's saying, "why, no, we have no catholic or protestant districts here." and you know, there we are. it reminds me a little bit of, what was it, our foothills from, you know, down in the hindu world a couple few classes ago. we were talking about there's lots of arguments down in the foothills. but when you really get up to the mountain, when you really get up to heaven, well, then what are those distinctions. so you know, cute little people saying, "well, what's my room? where's my doctrinal cubical in heaven?" and they get a resounding, "it's all one here." so interesting stuff. you know what i'd like to do, because we were talking about jonestown and there's so many questions that you might have, and i'm sure you do in this class, which we're going to devote in part to conservative protestantism. these are folks, probably

it's like ok sign this raise your hand and say i'm a christian a good if you're. well on it's going to jump in as we got to go to school for like sixty years even if your idea years old you know they're going to toss a ball for you ok but it's good. somewhere in here we've lost your initial question which was whether atheism is the new religion. and i think that i don't first of all i don't think it's a new religion and yes i agree with jason that humanism is perhaps the religious manifestation of atheism but my point is that all humans as individuals are wounded just beings they all believe in something we can to the knowledge only goes so far so they have to use a belief or a face system somewhere and where it concerns the origins of things and the universe origin themselves where we come from whatever reason for being in the universe and where we're going these are all religious question think human suppose i don't think dogs do i don't think any other end life form does i'm a communication is limited with my dog but he doesn't seem to think to abstractly and s

we were given christian birth certificates. "now you are not jews anymore," she told us. >> marzynski: the balcony i loved to play on, until a man walking on the street looked up and called me a jew. i started to sob and scream, "i am a jew, come here and take me!" the next day, an anonymous letter arrived: unless my mother and i leave immediately, the gestapo will be notified. once again, i had to separate from my mother. krysia brought me here to the apartment of a polish priest, jozef kaminski. this elegant part of warsaw was largely occupied by german dignitaries. the priest looked at my christian birth certificate and agreed to take me in. eventually he learned that i was jewish, but he let me stay. i would look through these windows and watch the german officers walking by. i imagined myself a holy man. i made the sign of the cross with my hands and blessed the evil-doers do below. the priest arranged for my stay at a catholic orphanage 20 miles from warsaw, run by the italian order of brothers orione. there were 45 orpha

en serio, christian el olor? ♪. ♪. ♪. ♪. ♪. >>> continuamos con mucho mÁs de "despierta amÉrica". esta maÑana. con nuestro invitado especial. christian chÁvez. >>> eso. >>> quÉ honor que estes con nosotros, en esta maÑana de hoy. >>> aprendiste a bailar, o desde el nacimiento. >>> siempre me gustÓ bailar, desde el centro de educaciÓn artÍstica de televisa, saludos, me converti en bailarÍn. >>> nunca fuiste a esea? >>> sÍ iba, pero se jubilaba. >>> nunca es estuvo en un grupo baila bien. >>> siÉntate. estamos conversando, toda la maÑana, y la gente esperaba para conversar, se hizo pÚblico, sufriste de violencia domestica, quÉ le dices a alguien que estÁ en su casa, y sufre lo mismo que tÚ y no se atreve a contarlo, christian. >>> pues mira, primero que nada agradezco el cariÑo y la forma en que se estÁ tratando el tema, muchas veces la gente piensa que por ser figura pÚblica tienes que hablar del tema, y no hay sentimientos, tengo una familia antes de ser actor y figura pÚblica soy ser humano, tengo mi familia, mi

christian climbs onto the line and struggles to find his balance. he's tried and failed this same walk before. so he knows how difficult it will be. >> translator: the first are some of the worst. the start is the most difficult. >> tentatively, he takes a few steps. he tumbles, instinctively clinging to the rope for safety. it's a scary reminder how easily this can go wrong. seemingly unshaken, christian appears to start again. unlike a tight rope, the slack line is loose. it bounces and swings as christian tries to balance. the line is flat, but only one inch thick. christian is 3,280 feet in the air, nearly three times the height of the empire state building. slowly, cautiously, breathing deeply, christian places one foot in front of the other, bridging the gulf step by step. as he reaches the halfway point, he starts singing to himself. a tiny voice in the vast canyon. seconds later -- >> woo-hoo! >> he's made it. >> yeah! >> immediately after the stunt, christian try to go explain why he took on the challenge. >> translator: we create contrast

a christian seminary is there to produce committed christians. the university is now there to reduce committed leftists and they are succeeding. that is the biggest reason for election results, the biggest reason for the shift in american values. you don't hear these ideas in an american campus, not at usc, i am not picking on u.s. c, doesn't matter where we would be. there are fine teachers and every university no question but overwhelmingly is an indoctrination. a man of the left just had a guy from the e.u. san bernardine no, he said to him i am curious in light of the latest terror attacks, i am just curious, if there had been a show mocking is long on broadway like there is mocking mormonism do you think first that anyone would have put it on and do you think there would have been violent results and the professor says oh no, it would have been the same. perfectly ok with that. this is what you are taught on campus, you are taught lies. ilya diversity is so scared of islamists that they refuse at the last moment in their own book on the moha

which embraces anti-christianity as one of the few prejudices left.be he has been tapped by the pentagon to stop all those christian bombings. the story was ignored except as breitbart.com points out a tongue kiss by sally quinn at "the washington post" where the people quoted in the article actually equated preaching with rape. look, when president obama brought up self-radicalization. i thought he meant it was bad. with benghazi, fort hood, the 100 granted benefits to terrorists now this as muslim supremist seem to blow us up the government rewards them. maybe i'm missing the point is it possible that labeling christians as feigns he was looking to reward them. are american christians now in line for free stuff, respect and admiration on the huffington post. maybe if i declare myself radicalized will a pop star think i'm cute? remember the story babysitters tormented by a creep calling her on the phone. the scary part comes when she realizes the calls are coming from inside the house. america is that house and the phone won't stop ringing. it's time

it's not easy if you are a christian or not a christian. it's just a whole lot better when you know jesus christ as your savior and you know you have the holy spirit living on the inside of you to enable you to reach those goals whatever they may be. in thinking about that. what i would like for us to do, i would like for us to consider this whole issue of discipline in our personal life. and i want to give you a number of things i want to encourage you to jot down. we'll put them on the meg screens. there's lots of it. it's very important. that's why i'm placing this many notes on the screen so you can write them down. if you're a parent, get them down for your children. if you're a student, get them down for yourself. if you're a grandparent, you need to get them down for your family. i want to encourage you to take it seriously, your discipline or lack of it is going to determine your destiny. what you do. what you accomplish. where you go. how you get there in this life whether it's good, bad or indifferent. or whether you fail in your

keep it christian. ask a question whether their rights are violated in the uber politically correct world we live in. including in the military today. it is changing obviously under barack obama's very secular progressive policy. >> bill: i didn't like the way you say that word secular. that's what he did to me. i think that a poll among the military have you been prosthetic will he advertised in the christian way. you heard carville up top say he doesn't believe the far left is making a lot of encroachments on mainstream liberalism and you say? i think he is wrong. liberalism got what it wanted with barack obama winning a second term. whether or not he can accomplish everything he wants to accomplish, maybe not. it's still okay, right? he is still the most left wing person to ever step into power in the united states of america i still think they believe he is with them on hot button social policies on these issues. he may not be with them completely on trade. he has been more like bush than i think li

christianity will stand quite well on its own and it has for many many years out it will continue to do so so even if some fruitcake this trend to make a new religion there's nothing new under the sun he's probably six setting a bunch of people up to be deceived by the false messiah carl from wisconsin where did cains wife come from it all people and things get destroyed from the first world age he did make a complete into it is two separate questions the answer to all people being destroyed and sees you can read jeremiah chapter 4 beginning with verse 18 that was speaking of the first earth age were detained get his wife god created a lot of people all the races the sixth day and he looked at it was good some of them want to the net land of nod and wink king was driven from adam and ease family he went to the land of nod and took one of the six-day creations as his wife is real simple when you follow the manuscripts murray from iowa some christians say that jesus gives us power like he had them because we are children of god we can be just like jesus can you please explain i don't w

there have always been those that stood against christians.'s talk a little bit about the role of law in the formation of nazi germany and how allowed enabled some of the things to occur that did. do we have a parallel there here? we have very interesting parallel. you see, hitler made the laws in germany for a text that i quote that say he is the chief law giver. so what he did is eerie defined the person hood so that jews weren't considered as persons. they were in german the german word, that is to say, they were sub human. >> which meant thess troops could kim them, et cetera, et cetera without incrimination without being charged with a crime. >> this became so apparent when the nurn beggar trials were held. the question was by what law should we judge hitler's henchmen. others are argued that we didn't break any laws. we were simply following the laws of our country and laws of our flag. and by the way it was an american by name of robert jackson who stood up and said there is law above the law. there transcendent law. >> and you and i kn

la orden se extendiÓ, y el gran ausente fue christian chÁvez porque se nuencuentra en miami.justicia, fue amenazo por Él y tengo muchos documentos, tengo mensajes donde me dice que estÁ en la casa de mi hermana, y recibÍ amenazas de cada miembro de familia. >>> chÁvez no quiso entregar entrevistas, pero esta semana asegurÓ que la vÍctima de violencia es Él. y que la primera seÑal la vio en aÑo nuevo a dÍas de conocerlo a ben. >>> absolutamente falso, salimos a una fiesta, christian le cayo encima y le dijo que no pusiera sus ojos en mi. al dÍa siguiente me mandÓ un ramo de flores. >>> aÑadiÓ que es un verdadero actor, sabe como atraer atenciÓn de los medios, y narrÓ lo vivido hace un aÑo cuando tuvieron un accidente en mÉxico. >>> me llevaron en ambulancia, me dieron un collarin, y cuando christian dio entrevistas se quitÓ el collarin y se lo puso. >>> y le mandÓ un mensaje. >>> espero que consigas trabajo rÁpido, porque eso te hace feliz. >>> kruger quiere que le pague por los daÑos que realizÓ en su departamento. pendiente quedÓ sobre el dinero que le debe a su ex pareja, e

doesn't speak for all christians. he sure doesn't speak for christianity as a whole.ity should be based on the inherent inspired infallible word of the lord christ. that's what most of us look at. that's what most of us turn to in times of need, in times of want, in times of plenty, because that's what the bible tells us to do. we don't look to pat robertson, and again, he makes comments like this all the time. it does drive people to his network, it does drive up donations. i understand he believes the way he believes and he's entitled to do that. >> hogan, the truth is -- >> hogan, he speaks for a lot of people, including your candidate, rick santorum, in the republican party that have talked this way about, for instance, homosexuality, and that is just morally repugnant but you know, a couple hookers in a hotel room, the woman should just kind of hush about that, that's moral values? >> quick thing, there was a poll of college students, 65% of college students view christianity as being anti-gay. that is the problem being defined by your extremists. faith is no lon

he's contrasted that church with the early christian.and when he describes the christians they sound like the foot soldiers to they went into town and were called outside agitators and extremists. because they were intoxicated by god, but and i would just read you one other aspect of the critique. now the preacher is back. he writes, -- i have lost a great line but i would play what he said, oh, how it blemished the body of christ the king is saying they get to give up on the white ecclesia's. pretty fancy topic he's talking that talk, but what he is saying is when he writes all, if you heard king as i have, when he preaches it once again, oh, how we have blemished the church of christ, the body of christ. so that's what he says. they have been conformists and not courageous. and, therefore, they are really guilty of spiritual malpractice but one other thing he says, i have longed to the. right here is where he says, i have longed to give them say love the negro because he is your brother. ouch, it's tough. no matter, calling somebody la

christian, where i grew up, we had earthquakes, new york has had sandy.relocate? >> yeah. i grew up in "hurricane central" in the jersey shore and toby comes from a spirit of a good place. it's not practical. every place has something. the nature of natural disasters are, they're unpredictable. we don't know wn or how they're going totrike. just as easily as something hits this area in oklahoma, the plains is a big section of the country. tornadoes are there all the time. the only response we really have is to be compassionate when something like this happens and to recognize that it's going to come at great cost. but that's something that we all pull together to make sure that people can rebuild and go on with their lives. >> ga b, relocate in instead of rebuild? what do you think? >> i think it's actually up to the people. look, i come at this from a perspective of personal responsibility. no matter where you live as others have pointed out already, whether i's california with the forest fires there or you live in florida with the hurricanes or long isl

time than western christians. and this coming week, many western christians observe ascension day, when they mark the ascension of jesus into heaven, 40 days after his resurrection. >>> finally, a story for american clergy who are notoriously overweight. you are not alone. in thailand, monks have the same problem, apparently because many thais believe that feeding their monks generously is a good deed that will earn them special merit in the next life. but now, thai nutritionists are leading a national campaign to help monks slim down. cocoanut milk, for instance, is not recommended. that's our program for now. i'm bob abernethy. you can follow us on twitter and facebook and watch us anytime on the pbs app for iphones and ipads. there's always more on our website. audio and video podcasts are also available. join us at pbs.org. as we leave you this eastern orthodox easter weekend, scenes of icons at the holy cross antiochian orthodox church in maryland. ♪ >>> major funding for "religion & ethics newsweekly" is pro

. >>> a christian rock star accused of paying to have his wife killed.d we go inside the strange business of murders for hire. >>> and no touching. beyonce slapped by a fan aft after -- during her concert. >> hello, everyone, thanks for joining us tonight. guns and drug sales are the two most profitable illegal industries in columbia. number three, selling animals. tonight, we go undercover and inside an underground trading ring, where the mysterious sloth is being illegal sold to the highest bidders. here's abc's john schriffen who's journey to colombia to find out more about this popular enterprise. >> after driving for hours through this rural part of colombia, we arrived. that man, eyeing us suspiciously, an alleged animal trafficker. inside this house, we were told he has illegal exotic animals for sale. >> all right. i'm rolling. >> zool ift lucy okay and i are about to pose as curious customers, armed with only our hidden cameras rolling, we want to see how easy to buy rare and wild animals. he's skeptical but agrees to unveil one of the hottest s

>> there were times. >> like a good christian? >> there were times. i thought if i can just change, get myself together, then i'll make it. but that all changed eight years ago when i really had a personal confrontation with the resurrected living jesus. >> tell me about that. what does that mean? >> well, i was in the midst of reading another one of these books by dallas willard, a famous wonderful writer, about the spiritual disciplines and i finished the book, about how you need to have more prayer and discipline and journaling and, you know. and, i thought i'll go back and read through this book again. i went to the pref answer. in, there he said that we have a great opportunity to reach out to the world with the companionship of god that transforms friendship of jesus that is spoken about by a pastor from london. i thought wow that's interesting. transforming friendship. i mean i don't have a friendship with jesus. i'm a work horse. i'm a slave. i work hard to please. >> pardon me, but were there times when you woke up in the morning saying i won

into the depths of the white christian soul. he mentions rabbi graftman, but he's focused really on his christian clergy. and he says i have gone through the wonderful spires of the white churches and wondered who worships there, who is their god? sounds like so cerebral and ruminating. but there is cold distance like an anthropologist looking at a different tribe who doesn't even share, perhaps, the same god as king. who is their god? there's coldness there masquerading the anger. there's that staccato embrace of extremism after he spent paragraphs to say, no, we're not reckless, i'm not an extremist. finally, he said, the more i thought about it, i am an extremist. jesus was an extremist. let justice roll down like water. and king uses the words of these indisputable authorities like a boxer smacking his opponents. boom, boom, boom. and he ends up saying i don't really care how you label me or about white opinion. i've tried to say i'm not an extremist, but, no, i'm done trying to convince you of that. more than anything else

the prime tenet of christianity is that god created the world t r hunity.ernini made love and creation the key to his chapel. [michael wood] baroque architecture follows different laws from those of antiquity and the renaissance. gone is equillibrium and logic. instead, the framework seems to move. boundaries seem to melt and walls to dance. the stone seems to bend itlf to the will of the architect. the most willful architect of them all was francesco borromini. saint ivo della sapienza is borromini's masterpiece. his architecture is intellectually complex, a startling amalgam of mathematics and fantasy. he knew the history of architecture d drew upon the past boldly and freely. the facade curves in, but the dome above it curves out, presenting the beholder with a dramatic contrast. that it seems almost asymmetrical, odd he opposes convex and concave arcs. the result is that the building itself seems to be alive and pulsating. borromini's work emphasized one of the central teachings of the roman catholic church in the 17th century. salvation could not be at

dozens and dozens of instances of christianity under attack.t occurred a few days ago when mikey weinstein, the head of the military religious foundation had a meeting at the pentagon where he was urging them, the military, to enforce regulations that he believes would result in the court martial of any proselytizing, sharing their faith. the pentagon issued a statement to me on monday. they said that proselytizing was against the department of defense regulations. after our story came out earlier today, they walked back that statement, saying they do believe in sharing your faith, that soldiers are allowed to do that. but, sean, we're getting new information from the air force. the air force today issued a statement to me today. i want to read this. they say proselytizing, inducing someone to convert to one's faith goes over the line. it is not allowed. so basically we're getting conflicting information now from the military. one thing is very clear, that under this administration we have seen the christian faith come under a significant attac

persecuted for being christian.jason collins has had to hide something personal about himself for most of his career and tim tebow takes something about himself, his faith and flaunts it in stadiums full of thousands of people. in matthew 6:5 jesus tells us not to trust the guys who show off their faith in public and we should pray in private. if every time jason collins scored on the rebound he made out with some guy on the basketball court. the most controversial criticism of jason collins however comes of course from espn analyst chris broussard who said... now, i think chris broussard's generally a good guy most the time and to be fair, he was asked for his personal opinion on air on a network that knew how he felt. he supports jason collins coming out. this is traditionally the fallback of many biblical literalists who don't know what the hell they're talking about. a lot of folks are demanding espn fire him. this backlash has spawned a greater backlash of homophobes asking what's the problem with chris broussa

some conservative christian groups said they were among those targeted by the irs, amid the growing controversy over reports the agency discriminated against politically conservative groups. franklin graham, son of billy graham, said his relief organization, samaritans purse and the billy graham evangelistic association were both audited after the association sponsored newspaper ads opposing gay marriage. graham called the irs action morally wrong and unethical. but the groups did not lose their tax exempt status. the founder of focus of the family, james dobson, said he also faced discrimination when he sought tax exempt status for a new ministry. his request was also eventually granted. >>> a breakthrough in cloning human embryos is raising new ethical concerns. employing the same technique used to clone animals, scientists at oregon health and science university for the first time were able to remove stem cells from a cloned human embryo. those cells could be used to treat certain diseases. boston cardinal sean o'malley, the head of the u.s. conference of catholic bishop's pro-life committee