Under Heavy Security, Catholic Pilgrims Visit Lourdes Shrine

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Watched over by French soldiers and police, Catholic pilgrims from around the world prayed together for healing and peace Monday at a grotto shrine in Lourdes where exceptional security greeted the spiritual travelers due to recent extremist attacks.

CHR Comments: The Feast of the Assumption of Mary was observed without incident. The article includes a brief account of the visions and miracles associated with Lourdes.

Source: Under heavy security, Catholic pilgrims visit Lourdes shrine – The Washington Post

Anti-Islam Group Storms Anglican Church in Australia

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Right-wing protestors dress in mock Muslim outfits and storm a church service on Australia’s east coast.

CHR Comment: The article does not explain why the anti-immigration group targeted this congregation for their protest.

Source: Anti-Islam group storms Anglican church in Australia – BBC News

Church Confirms Argentine Apparitions as ‘Supernatural’

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SAN NICOLAS DE LOS ARROYOS, Argentina (RNS) Once a month, thousands of devout Catholics descend on this city, where an uneducated resident said she began seeing visions of the Virgin Mary on Sept. 25, 1983.

CHR Comment: Gladys Motta is now more than 80 years old and says she has received over 1800 visions from the Virgin Mary and 68 from Jesus. In addition to building the shrine, devotees are now publishing the content of Motta’s visions.

Source: Church confirms Argentine apparitions as ‘supernatural’

Iraqi Refugees Receive Vision and Baptism

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Under the threat of the Islamic State (ISIS), thousands of residents from Fallujah, Iraq, have fled to a refugee town called City of Refuge.

CHR Comment: According to Frontiers USA mission, a refugee named Layla received a vision that someone would tell her about Jesus. The conversions are in part a response to those events.

Source: Iraqi refugees convert to Christianity, share Gospel to families and friends | Christian News on Christian Today

Heidi Mund Claims to Receive Visions

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She had a vision of the refugee “disaster” now engulfing Germany even before the first signs of trouble broke out.

CHR Comment: As Germany continues to welcome refugees, Heidi Mund claims that God showed her the refugees would lead to disaster in her nation. Mund’s Facebook posts about her visions have led to investigations of hate speech.

Source: ‘People of darkness’ want to destroy Germany, says woman who claims God spoke to her about her country’s future | Christian News on Christian Today

Nigeria Chibok Girls: Boko Haram Video Shows Captives

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The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram releases a video showing some 50 of the schoolgirls seized by the group from Chibok more than two years ago.

CHR Comment: Boko Haram continue to abuse and exploit the Chibok girls whom they took captive in April 2014. The report notes that many of these girls are Christians, now forced to “marry” Islam militants.

Source: Nigeria Chibok girls: Boko Haram video shows captives – BBC News

Random Shooting of Comfort Dog Team

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Joplin police are trying to determine the motive of a 26-year-old man who was arrested early this morning following an active-shooter situation, which resulted in three crime scenes and five . . .

CHR Comment: The comfort dog team was from Immanuel Lutheran Church in Joplin. The motive for the shooting is not yet determined but appears to be random.

Source: UPDATE: Names of shooting victims released | News | joplinglobe.com

Parents Reject Children as ‘Infidels’ in Uganda

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Eight children from a village in Uganda were beaten by their Muslim families and cast away as “infidels” after giving their lives to Jesus Christ.

CHR Comment: The stories here are a bit confusing. One wonders, for example, how the children are spending so much time with the Christian ministers without the parents knowing about it. Why do the parents only become concerned after the conversions? There seem to be some missing elements in the stories, which require further explanation.

Source: 8 Children Beaten, Rejected by Parents as ‘Infidels’ in Uganda for Converting to Christianity

Conservatives Pull Off a California Religious Liberty Win

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“Religious liberty, we found out, is not dead in California,” says religious liberty advocate Andrew Walker.

CHR Comment: SB 1146 was changed to protect religious schools, such as Christian universities, so that they could maintain their moral perspective and practices while also retaining access to California grants for education. Many hundreds of phone calls to state congressmen led to the changes in wording.

Source: Conservatives Pull Off a California Religious Liberty Win