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Almost all the Kosovo churches are gone.

Al-Qaeda's Links in the Balkans

Posted July 1, 2002

By Jamie Dettmer

Since Sept. 11 the U.S. intelligence services have been working hard to uncover links between Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network and other Islamic groups throughout the world. And the Bush administration has not been slow to advertise connections once discovered or to demand cooperation from local authorities in order to disrupt the links.

Osama Ben Laden setting up the muslim KLA in Kosovo in the 80’s. Why have we let the slaughter go on.

http://www.insightmag.com/news/256955.html

Above link shows article on Al-Qaeda's involvement in Balkans and Kosovo. They set up the KLA in the 80’s. Why is NATO and the US letting them run around with guns, to kill and drive out over 300000 christian serbians.

WAS THE GOAL OF THE NATO CAMPAIGN IN KOSOVO TO ALLOW REPLACEMENT OF ONE REPRESSION WITH ANOTHER ?

http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/german/Germany2.html

Germans debating the truth of KOSOVO,,,, They are questioning the role of NATO and the US when they have evidence of the destruction of almost all the churches by the KLA Muslim Army in Kosovo.

Alter area of the 16th century Church of St. Nicholas, which was looted, vandalized and seriously damaged by explosives. This happened after the arrival of Italian KFOR (NATO) troops in Pec, Kosovo, in June 1999. The initials carved into the picture are 'UCK'. That's Albanian for 'KLA', the Kosovo Liberation Army, which NATO and the UN

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION TO PICKS UP IN NEW MILLENNIUM

By John David Powell

For Christians, 1999 ended just as badly as it began.

The year started with details of persecution from around the planet .

One year ago, an Australian missionary and his two sons were burned to death by a Hindu mob in India. Human Rights Watch says the government of India cannot stop the growing violence against Christians that has resulted in the murder of priests, the rapes of nuns, and the destruction of Christian churches, schools and cemeteries followed by the US State Department Human Rights Annual Country Reports on global persecution from the previous year.

"Nearly all states claim to respect the principle of religious freedom," proclaims the state department's annual report. "But in too many, governments refuse to respect this fundamental right, discriminating against, restricting, persecuting, or even killing those whose faith differs from that of the majority population."

It ended with charges of Christian cleansing in Kosovo .

From June to October of last year, after Clinton and NATO declared their victory for human rights, anti-Christian forces in Kosovo damaged or destroyed 76 churches, monasteries, and religious shrines. Yugoslavia's envoy to the United Nations describes it as "an ethnic cleansing of the most hideous type."

More than 10,000 icons and other sacred objects have been looted or destroyed and tens of thousands of Serbian-language books have been burned, along with a large number of foreign works, according to the envoy. NATO's righteous indignation apparently has limits.

White House spokesman Joe Lockhart raised the ire of his president's own denomination when he said Southern Baptists and other Christian organizations "perpetuate ancient religious hatred."

The president, said Lockhart, "has been very clear in his opposition to whatever organization, including the Southern Baptist, that perpetuate ancient religious hatred."

One wonders if Clinton's opposition applies to government-sponsored anti-Christian hatred. It doesn't seem so.

On Christmas Day came a report out of Saudi Arabia that a Filipino Christian, employed in that country for 14 years as an engineer, had been detained since Dec. 1 for suspected Christian activities. According to sources in the Philippines, the man's arrest was part of a wider investigation by the Saudi religious police known as the "muttawa." Under the strict Islamic law practiced in Saudi Arabia, Christian and all other non-Muslim worship are prohibited.

East Timor was a bloody ground last year. Indonesian soldiers and militiamen may have killed thousands of Timorese Christians and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes in the violence that savaged the mostly Roman Catholic former Portuguese colony in the last months of the year. Civilians also fought one another. More than 500 people were killed in clashes between Indonesian Muslims and Christians in 1999.

More than 2 million people have died in the 16-year-old civil war in Sudan. Ninety percent of those killed were non-Muslim civilians in the south who died fighting to preserve their Christianity. Last year, 100,000 people were starved to death in the government's fabricated famine. The United Nations and other human rights groups have documented the Sudanese government's goals of ethnic cleansing. The Khartoum government is also suspected of using chemical weapons against civilians.

Published reports in November alleged the Chinese government plans a full-scale crackdown on the country's underground Catholic Church if there is a breakthrough in behind-the-scenes talks with the Vatican to establish diplomatic ties. China frequently imprisons priests and worshippers who remain loyal to the Vatican and refuse to participate in the state-approved church. In the closing days of 1999, six Chinese Protestant leaders were sentenced to "education through labor" prison camps for operating underground churches.

The US government is scheduled to give Egypt $2.5 billion this year. In return, the government continues its crackdown on Coptic Christians. In what has been described as one of the most horrific instances of religious persecution in modern times, a thousand Christians last year were manacled to doors, then beaten and had electrical shocks applied to their genitals. Teenage girls were raped, babies were struck with sticks as their mothers watched helplessly, and men were nailed to crosses. When religious leaders protested, they were arrested and charged with capital offenses.

Turkey, once the center of the Christian world, is now a leader in Christiana persecution. Churches have been demolished, seminaries have been closed, Christians have been forced from their villages, personal property has been confiscated, Christian girls have been kidnapped and forced to marry Muslims.

In November, 38 Sri Lankan refugees were killed in a church that was shelled by artillery. Neither the military nor the rebels claim responsibility.

Reports out of Laos say Christians are facing increased persecution, arrest and intimidation by police. Officers have reportedly forced some Christians to sign affidavits promising to renounce their faith. Sometimes the persecution is more subtle. Take Israel, for instance. Crucifixes and Christmas trees were banned from Israeli hotel lobbies during the millennium holiday season because they were deemed offensive to Jews.

Don't expect circumstances to change here on the cusp of the new millennium. No, that's not right. Do expect changes. For the worse.

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http://www.a180.net/christian_persecution.html

Christian Persecution: Where's The Outrage?

Joseph J. Nelson <jjnprofile.html>

Greetings to those who would consider all things political. Quite often our elected officials use their political standing to take up the cause of some other group, individual, or organization. At any given time one might witness Hillary advocating a Palestinian nation, Charles Rangal seeking affirmative action rights, or Barbara Boxer lamenting the poor condition of Iraqi children. However, what will remain all but vacant from Washington are those who would fervently take up the cause of Christians in persecution. Considering that this nation was built upon a Judeo-Christian ethic, or that tens of millions of Americans (majority religion) are of the Christian faith, or even that a government that took such pains to be seen voting against the removal of "In God We Trust" from the pledge of allegiance, the persecution must indeed be small to go unseen or unheard by our very own politicians. I wish it were so, but the facts speak differently.

In 1996 alone, more than 160,000 Christians were murdered for their faith and countless others subjected to unimaginable torture. In this modern age their has been close to 100 million Christian martyrs. In China Christians are being forced to worship in atheistic government-controlled churches upon pain of death. In the Sudan, a jihad has been declared upon the Christians from the Muslim north with the horrific consequences of 300,000 dead and the creation of a vibrant slavery market which sells Christian women and their children for as little as $15.00. Throughout the Middle-East Christianity is banned, with secret raids taking place to seek out worship services. And the persecution is not merely confined to a few countries. By the time one factors in the countries of China, Sudan, Pakistan, North Korea, the entire Middle East, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos, Russia, and various areas in South America it is clear that the persecution is in epidemic proportions. Somehow this remains vacant from our media and most of our elected officials.

When 15,000 Falong Gong members in China were arrested the world was told about it. When the atrocities in Kosovo began to build, a coalition was sent to defeat Milosevich. When hate crimes against those from the Middle East rose by a few hundred in the U.S., we knew about it from the constant media coverage. How many Christians need to die, be tortured, or sold into slavery before the world (or even the U.S.) takes notice?

I submit that we now witness a backlash against Christianity in this modern age. However, there are a few politicians which are beginning to speak out. The House Majority leader, Tom Delay, upon meeting with Chinese dignitaries remarked that whenever Christians are persecuted in China, those are his brothers and sisters who are being persecuted, and it will not be forgotten. This is but one man. However, if the tens of millions of Christians in this country were to speak loud enough to their congressmen and to the world, the international persecution of Christians would finally be put out into the open for all to see.

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Best World Wide Record of Persecution

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/3518/persecutionpage.html

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Religious Liberty Commission (RLC)

http://www.worldevangelical.org

· Purpose

· Results Desired

· Vision Statement

· Staff & Personnel Team

· Commission Members

· Special Advisors

· Political Advisors

· How to find out more

Purpose

The purpose of the World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (RLC) is to promote freedom of religion for all faiths worldwide as defined by Article 18 <un_article18.html> of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights, and in accordance with Scripture <rlcscripture.html>. Our aim is to help all people, but especially Protestant Christians, to exercise their faith without oppression or discrimination. Because the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) represents some 150 million Christians in 115 countries, it is both an effective and influential global network.

In particular, the WEA-RLC will seek to protect the freedom of Evangelicals <evangelical.html> by monitoring religious liberty, responding to infringements of religious liberty and promoting the need for constant vigilance in maintaining religious liberty. Our specific approach <rlc_approach.html> to mission is based upon the initial developmental process <rlc_process.html> from 1988-92. The RLC is one of several <commissions.html> of the World Evangelical Alliance.

The Religious Liberty Commission has 13 members, with three special advisors and nine political advisors. The chairman is Mr. John Langlois, a lawyer from Guernsey UK. The executive director, its only full-time member of staff, is Johan Candelin, an ordained minister from Finland.

Results Desired

The results of our policies <rlc_policies.html> and activities will be to strengthen the ability of the body of Christ worldwide to express its faith by fostering an environment in which Christians are free to fulfill their biblical mandate, and to equip the church in responding to discrimination, pressure and persecution.

Vision Statement

To serve as a coordinating and networking team

within the international political advocacy community

that can effectively serve evangelicals being persecuted,

harassed and oppressed because of their faith.

We do this primarily by responding to and partnering with

WEA member organizations.

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http://www.persecution.org/

ICC International Christian Concern

We have watched their evolution since 1994 with respect to the Internet Branch of their Ministry. They have moved into some really vital ministries.

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http://www.worthynews.net/

Excellent large list of scope of the world wide persecution

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http://www.christiannewstoday.com/

This is their sales page link,,,,, share with Roland...... http://www.christiannewstoday.com/TheMarketPlace.html

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Best rendered reason for becoming a web minister. Describing the commitment, cost and hard work.

By Nazir S Bhatti,

Editor, PCP.

Please visit his site, it is a labor of love.

http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com

Congratulation to our readers on First Anniversary of Pakistan Christian Post.

Editor's Special Note

As I have always faced the tough situations with courage to uphold the truth and voice of poor Christians without any fear and threats in past. I have successfully achieved the goal of completion of the Pakistan Christian Post of its first year on Internet, as independent news on line. The daily hate and threatening e-mails and telephone calls from extremist Muslim groups and government of Pakistan agencies to stop me from this service again failed and to keep me apart from my poor community.

I wish to bring some facts on record for my friends and community that I never forgot their miseries and distress when the national media of Pakistan owned by Muslims always ignored protests, rallies, hunger strikes, press releases, press conferences and socio-religious events of true Christian social, religious and political leaders to cover in their newspapers to keep Christian minority a voiceless community in Pakistan.

Attempts by some Christians were initiated to start weekly journals of Christians but the same failed due to lack of funds and cooperation of community organizations. The churches have some weekly and monthly journals with funds but these publications have set their policies to cover the church activities and to publish the sermons and material of clergy only. The need of any newspaper was totally ignored by churches and other funding organizations in Pakistan.

The founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah have stressed upon Muslim community during Pakistan movement to establish more and more newspapers and to struggle with fountain pen instead of sword as he claimed that words are more powerful than and effective than cuts of sword. The Christians of Pakistan never paid due attention to these comments of unique and remarkable leader to rely upon readings and printing of their motives.

The members of Muslim community abroad played very effective and positive role to raise voice of oppressed communities on international forums and media to aware the international community the situation of human rights for better understandings of society in Pakistan We can find hundreds of newspapers and journals in US and UK in English and Urdu established by the Pakistani Muslims but the Pakistani Christians living in western countries from decades never paid any attention on the situation of their poor nation in Pakistan and international community never knew the true situation of human rights of Christians and depended on the propaganda of government of Pakistan.

Under unavoidable circumstances, during my stay abroad, I discussed the issue to morally support the poor Christians of Pakistan with many Christians but their response was never encouraging. My friends also suggested me to join any church to become a pastor and to have proper status here but I preferred the manual labor, which I never experienced in my native land.

Traveling in subway to my workplace every morning, evening, in solitude and among friends I prayed to my lord to provide me courage and help to serve my poor brothers, sisters and elders in Pakistan with my own resources. Sometime I was confused that how I can help my people being thousand miles away from them without funds? Then suddenly God revealed me to go on globe and raise voice for my community and he gave me the name Pakistan Christian post.

I have no knowledge of computer and it was major obstacle to put PCP on Internet nor I have enough funds to engage any expert to complete this task. I decided to learn the basics of computer and started attending coaching classes after my long duty hours. After 12 hours of manual labor I traveled for two hours to reach the institution to take one-hour training course

daily. I hoisted the PCP website on " free server " first time in Jan 2001.

It was very difficult for me to maintain the standard of design and to feed the news, articles and editorials when I was not having enough writers and correspondents. I spend hours after my duty to work on PCP website daily to try it more and more attractive and contact Christian writes to send their material for PCP. The journey of PCP kept on creeping and Christians started writing me and by the blessings of Lord now the PCP is well-designed and most informative media of Pakistani Christians.

The idea of PCP was also supported by the American rights of freedom of speech and expression in this great land on globe. In my inward eyes, I sketched the lay out of PCP. I worked hard, reduced my meals, smokes and drinks to save money for PCP. I was afraid sometime that on commissioning of PCP, the government of Pakistan and fundamental Muslim elements can create potential threat to my family, relatives and friends in Pakistan but Lord directed me to move ahead and assured me of success and safety of all concerned.

It's to clarify that no contributions or funds are involved unto this day in PCP and my earnings are only part of this media availability as service to my community.

I wish to bring Pakistan Christian post in print media from Pakistan and new York in future and hope that lord shall help me to do so in the best interests of Christians of Pakistan if the government of Pakistan award the declaration of PCP from Islamabad.

Pakistan Christian Post shall be bridge and source of communication among the Pakistani Christian in west and in Pakistan and to keep aware the international community the true situation of Christians.

Now there is dream of PCP on printing media and it needs your cooperation, help and support. We can leave this community asset for our next generations by volunteer rendering our services from every city, town and village of Pakistan as correspondents, writers and distributors of PCP. The Pakistani Christians abroad can also follow the same way to serve their poor community members who desperately need their attention and love to march ahead to have better life in Pakistan.

I hope that after this note many facts are on record for better understanding of our companions and to invite more writers and correspondents to join this media campaign of PCP as service to Christian nation in Pakistan.

Nazir S Bhatti,

Editor, PCP.

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