Sunday 04-08-12

ANOTHER CHRISTIAN MURDERED BY MUSLIMS
(Friday Church News Notes, March 30, 2012, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “Al Qaeda-linked group claims it killed American,” FoxNews, March 18, 2012: “A group linked to Al Qaeda claims it killed an American teacher in Yemen for Christian proselytizing. Joel Shrum, a 29-year-old English language teacher from Harrisburg, Pa., had worked for two years in the central city of Taiz. Yemeni officials say Shrum was killed in his car Sunday morning when assailants in military uniforms sped up next to him on a motorcycle, opened fire and then sped away. Witnesses say he was killed instantly. A text message sent to journalists said, ‘This operation comes as a response to the campaign of Christian proselytizing that the West has launched against Muslims.’ It claimed Shrum was ‘one of the biggest American proselytizers.’”

OUTSPOKEN PREACHER SUED BY HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW
(Friday Church News Notes, March 30, 2012, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - The following is excerpted from “‘Gay’ Case Puts Speech in Category with Torture,” WorldNetDaily, March 25, 2012: “One of the nation’s leading legal organizations is defending an evangelical pastor who was sued over his speech by a foreign group under a law that usually is used to target torture, genocide, war crimes and summary executions. ‘This lawsuit against Rev. Scott Lively is a gross attempt to use a vague international law to silence, and eventually criminalize, speech by U.S. citizens on homosexuality and moral issues,’ said Mathew Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. Liberty Counsel will represent Lively in the case brought in federal court in Massachusetts by a foreign group called Sexual Minorities of Uganda. The premise for the lawsuit is the Alien Tort Statute, which provides a cause of action for violations of international laws that are ‘specific, universal, and obligatory.’ ... The Ugandans allege that beginning in 2002, Lively preached in Ugandan churches and shared his opinion on homosexuality and pornography. ‘It further claims that as a result (albeit a convoluted one), some members of the so-called LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex) community faced discrimination, and one (SMUG Advocacy Director David Kato) was killed on January 26, 2011,’ Liberty Counsel reported. ‘The suit leaves out the fact that the suspected killer is a male prostitute with which Kato had sex and refused to pay.’ ... Liberty Counsel’s announcement said the suit “is a direct attempt to silence Rev. Lively because of his speech about homosexuality and pornography.”

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