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Recent trends in Poland, Hungary, Croatia and Georgia point to a "re-traditionalization that’s going on all over the world in response to the virulently anti-cultural, anti-traditional dynamics of secularism and secular globalization." Linked to these signs of a revitalized Traditional Christian Worldview is the rejection by many of these same countries of the EU's suicidal immigration policies. In Poland recently hundreds of thousands turned out in protest of mass Muslim immigration and the threat of Islam: Czech Republic Joins Poland, Hungary and Slovakia in Refusing EU-Imposed Migrants Poland to Muslims: "Here, Jesus is our KING..so get out!'  (VIDEO) In sad and pathetic contrast, in Western Europe they respond to Islamic jihad terror attacks and Muslim rape gangs with candles and teddy bears. The Reawakening of Christian Civilization in Eastern Europe by Steve Turley, Turley Talks , Jun 11, 2017 Recently, there’s been some very impressive examples of the reaw...

The Christian response to persecution from Islam: Thanks to OCP Media , June 2, 2017.

Tracked annually by The Religion of Peace website , the Muslim sacred month of Ramadan proves the significance of traditional Islamic teachings on jihad, infidels, apostasy and blasphemy. Ramadan is truly the Month of Jihad and Conquest for Muslims the world over, and this year was one of the bloodiest in modern history as Muslims strived to please their bloodthirsty god. Scroll down for two reports... Ramadan Bombathon 2017 religionofpeace.com , June 25, 2017: Once again, it was a Ramadan to Remember! As religions go, Islam smoked the competition yet again. Innocent people were beheaded for not knowing the Quran ... children   machine-gunned for being Christian ... yet not a single attack (that we could find) in the name of another religion during the 'holy' month. Against the 174 attacks, 1595 bodies, and 1960 injured in  29 countries across the globe, there was just two Muslims killed in anti-Muslim attacks - one by an intoxicated loner with mental health issues in Londo...

Islamic supremacism ratchets up its already relentless jihad against the tiny Christian remnant in Turkey.  According to government reports cited by Wikipedia, Islam makes up between 96.4% and 99.8% of Turkey's population, with a tiny fraction ( less than 0.2%) being Christian . The Christians in Turkey are being hounded to oblivion, as can be seen by the shocking decline of their population just over the last hundred years: The percentage of Christians in Turkey fell from 19% (or perhaps as high as 25% of the population of 16 million) in 1914 to 7% percent in 1927, due to events which had a significant impact on the country's demographic structure, such as the Armenian Genocide ... and the  Istanbul pogrom of 6–7 September 1955. There were 236 churches in Turkey as of approximately five years ago, with at least nine churches named Hagia Sophia turned into mosques since then, and now 50 more churches and monasteries closed. That is a reduction in places of worship of 25%...

Islamic prayers were recently held at the Hagia Sophia in former Constantinople in a televised event attended by Turkish officials and strongly condemned by the Greek Foreign Ministry.  This is yet another highly symbolic event inked to this great and ancient church building, which we Orthodox Christians must respond to... There has been a growing movement within Turkey for several years demanding the re-conversion into a mosque of Hagia Sophia — for centuries the greatest church in all of Christendom. The great church was turned into a mosque in 1453 after the Muslim Turks conquered Constantinople and subjugated the surviving Christian inhabitants. Following the defeat of the Ottoman empire in World War I, the new leader of the secular state of Turkey, Kemal Ataturk, in 1935 put a stop to Islamic prayers in Hagia Sophia, and had it converted into a museum. Ever since Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power in Turkey in 2003, calls for turning Hagia Sophia back into a functioning mosque...

Rather than an outlier Muslim practice held over from its pagan desert origins, female genital mutilation must be seen in its wider context of Islam's view of women, and as an especially shocking indicator of the true nature of the 'god' of Islam. This is my first original essay on Islam in some time. Let me remind all my readers, while we must always stand for Christ the Way, the Truth and the Life, and stand  against Islam and every lie and heresy which denies Him, we must at the same time  love and  approach our Muslim neighbors and invite them to come to know the true Jesus that they may have eternal life. Those whom the Father draws will come to Him, and we must be open-hearted and ready to help them in their journey . Put another way, respect for a lie shows contempt for the Truth. Respect for our neighbor shows love for the Truth. This is the final installment in a 7-part series on Islam and FGM:  Part 1   |   Part 2   |   Part...

"Perhaps some today find Christianity irrelevant to their lives because they have never seriously encountered the Orthodox experience of Jesus Christ." American Christianity declines as the Martyrs of the Middle East bear Powerful Witness to Christ Homily for the Sunday After the Ascension in the Orthodox Church by Fr Philip LeMasters, Pravoslavie , June 2, 2017: A recent survey of Americans about religion is getting a lot of attention, especially because it shows that fewer people now identify themselves as Christians and more consider themselves unaffiliated with any religion. Perhaps at least part of the reason for these declines is that many people have not found something worth living and dying for in the churches with which they are familiar. Their experience reflects the failure of so much Christianity in our culture to embody with integrity the good news that we celebrate during this season of the Ascension, which invites us to participate personally in the fulfillmen...