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Where is Glenn Beck just one week after his last daily show on FOX News?

After a rally restoring the honor to Washington last summer, the conservative pundit is working to restore courage to Jerusalem in an August rally. In advance of this rally, Glenn Beck is in Israel, set to address the Knesset on Monday July 11th. 

The talk show host will advise MKs on fighting de-legitimization of Israel abroad and on defending Israel’s right to exist. The visit will focus on the Palestinians plan to ask for recognition of a Palestinian state in September’s meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. It will be filmed for Beck’s online show in anticipation of the rally. 

Scheduled to take place on August 24th in Jerusalem’s Old City and Teddy Stadium, the rally is meant to show support for Israel by recreating the Glenn Beck restoring honor rally, which he held last summer in Washington, D.C. 

The Jerusalem rally, Glenn Beck says, will “unite the people of the world in standing with Israel and remind us of the need to have faith, honor and courage in our own lives.” 

The news in Israel reports that a number of American dignitaries are expected to participate in the rally, including Sarah Palin, Joe Lieberman, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, and Michelle Bachman. 

 

 

An Iranian pastor who was sentenced to death for converting to Christianity may only have a few days left to live. The conviction of Youcef Nadarkhani has been upheld and confirmed by the Iranian Supreme Court, and can be carried out at any time. 

While in prison, authorities have use various methods to try to convert Nadarkhani back to Islam, including giving him pills in an attempt to claim he was insane, arresting Nadarkhani’s wife, and threatening to give his children away to a Muslim family. 

Update on this story: Iran's Supreme Court has overturned Nadarkhani’s death sentence, sent the case back to the court in Nadarkhani’s hometown, and asked him to repent. 

He has been sentences to nine years in jail and a 10-year ban on practicing law or teaching for “actions and propaganda against the Islamic regime.” 

 

Islamic extremists in Pakistan killed 2 Christians and burned churches in response to the burning of Qur’ans in Florida, by pastor Wayne Sapp and preacher Terry Jones on March 20.

Although the Qur’an-burning was repeatedly condemned by Christians in Pakistan, these extremists felt that the killing of innocent people was an appropriate response. 

Is there no end to Pakistan’s blasphemy laws? Someone of your religion, halfway across the world burns a Qur’an, so we burn your church, we burn your Bibles, AND we kill you??

 

"In order to meet Iraq's Christians this year, Santa Claus will have to steer his sleigh to Jordan, Syria, Kurdistan or Europe. After Al-Qaida's October 31 massacre at a central Baghdad church, thousands of Christians have decided that their homeland is no longer safe."

Click here for the full article on Christian persecution in Iraq.

Catholics in Bogor in Indonesia are not allowed to celebrate Christmas Mass.

Christmas festivities were canceled in Iraqi churches.

In the UK, members of an Islamic hate group launched a poster campaign on “the evils of Christmas”.

And in Iran, several Christians prepared to spend Christmas behind bars.

Enjoy the time with your families and friends, but remember those who are not as fortunate.

Santa Claus was banned from Head Start classes in Minnesota, so as not to insult the Muslim students.

So instead, they're just ruining Christmas for the other 4-year-olds...

Read the full story here.

Der Spiegel reports on a recent report showing the impact of Islamic extremism on Christians around the world.

The rise of Islamic extremism is putting increasing pressure on Christians in Muslim countries, who are the victims of murder, violence and discrimination. Christians are now considered the most persecuted religious group around the world.

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In many countries through the Muslim world, religion has gained influence over governmental policy in the last two decades. The militant Islamist group Hamas controls the Gaza Strip, while Islamist militias are fighting the governments of Nigeria and the Philippines. Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen have fallen to a large extent into the hands of Islamists. And where Islamists are not yet in power, secular governing parties are trying to outstrip the more religious groups in a rush to the right.

While there are both Muslim and non-Muslim countries on the list of offenders, a review of the report shows that a majority of the countries where Christians are persecuted are member states of the Organization of the Islamic conference (OIC).

According the OIC website, “The Organization is the collective voice of the Muslim world and ensuring [sic] to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony among various people of the world.” [italics added] The contradiction between this claim and the facts on the ground is straightforward.

Against this backdrop: In October, the Christian Science Monitor reported on the OIC’s push in the UN for a legally binding international treaty against blasphemy. This is in addition to the resolutions they regularly pass—successfully—on the issue. In 2006, the IHEU noted that another OIC anti-blasphemy proposal would have given justification for Muslim violence—as in the Mohammed cartoon riots several years back—without actually promoting human rights.

The recent study shows that there are a number of OIC states who support inter-religious reconciliation. However, against the backdrop of the anti-blasphemy measures in the UN—along with years of persecution of religious minorities—it’s apparent that the majority are less interested in “peace and harmony” than in promoting an Islamist agenda which could ultimately impact our free speech at home, while the plight of religious minorities worsens around the world.

CNN correspondents went behind the scenes to report on a refugee camp in Islamabad, Pakistan. Over 2,000 refugees have come to the camp for one reason only, because they are Christian. Christians are 5 percent of the population in Pakistan, and are very often faced with extreme acts of violence and too often murder. The refugees claim that they were expelled from their homes by their own government. Since the founding of the camp a few months ago, already two have died from poverty. A few weeks ago six people were killed when Muslim demonstrates burnt down houses in a Christian enclave. Afterwards, 15 more houses were torched. Persecution because of religion should never be tolerated. It is our responsibility to be aware of what is happening around the world. We must take action to help raise awareness and spread the message that these actions will not be tolerated. Click here to read more about the threat that Radical Islam poses to Christianity.