The U.S. Commision on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) noted in its recent 2010 annual report that President Obama has fallen short of doing what he can to lobby for the protection of religious freedom in the world.

The report noted that until now, President Obama has failed to appoint an Ambassador-At-Large for International Religious Freedom, a request that was made to him last month in a petition signed by lawmakers, scholars and human rights groups.

The same petition requested that the position be given equal level to other Ambassadors-At-Large who report directly to the Secretary of State, according to The Christian Post.  Read more... (661 words, 2 images, estimated 2:39 mins reading time)

President Barack Obama made a pilgrimage to pray with Billy Graham, the American preacher who harnessed the media and made Christian evangelism a global phenomenon, recently.

Evangelist Billy Graham in 1966. Graham has met with every U.S. president since Harry Truman.

Obama rode in his motorcade to Graham’s mountainside log cabin in Montreat, which is near Asheville, N.C., upon the conclusion of his North Carolina vacation with his wife, Michele, and friends.

It was Obama’s first meeting with the ailing evangelist who has counseled commanders in chief since Dwight Eisenhower.  Read more... (482 words, 2 images, estimated 1:56 mins reading time)

President Barack Obama’s recent nomination of Goodwin Liu  has raised concerns among advocates of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage as “a legal union between one man and one woman for purposes of all federal laws.”

Liu, 39, is the associate dean of Berkeley Law School.  He has advocated many liberal causes including supporting national health care, affirmative action, same-sex marriage and slavery reparations.

President Obama’s recent nomination of Goodwin Liu Worries Defense of Marriage Advocates

Liu’s appointment was preceded by several tax-paid advertisements by the U.S. Census Bureau urging same-sex couples who “consider themselves married” to fill out the Census form as a married couple.  Read more... (321 words, 2 images, estimated 1:17 mins reading time)

President Obama declared the H1N1 Swine Flu outbreak a national emergency recently.

The emergency declaration, signed by the president late Friday, purportedly increases the ability of medical treatment facilities to handle a jump in influenza A (H1N1) patients by allowing medical officials to temporarily bypass certain federal requirements.

Swine flu has shut down schools and businesses; but is it really as serious as people are making it out to be?

Since April this year we have seen thousands of schools temporarily closed, and thousands of sick workers told to stay away from the office to prevent the pandemic spread of the virus, but how catastrophic has this outbreak really been in terms of the loss of human life to date?  Read more... (1234 words, 3 images, estimated 4:56 mins reading time)

How will Future of Equal Rights Affect Christians & Ministry?

Will Washington's new LGBT bill limit the free speech of pastors to speak against homosexuality?

Yesterday, Thursday, October 22, 2009, the United States Senate passed a bill that has been the subject of political debate and controversy for nearly a decade. Since the early days of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., there has been a civil rights push to institute a federal law against all sexual and gender-related hate crimes.  Read more... (633 words, 2 images, estimated 2:32 mins reading time)

Will Christians vote for their Economy or their Faith in 2012?

Former Arkansas Governor and 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is on  Republican voters’ wish list for the 2012 election, according to an October 19 Rasmussen poll. Huckabee carried 44 percent of the telephone survey respondents with Mitt Romney at 39 percent. Where were these voters in 2008? Why was the prospect so gloomy that these men had to leave the race early?

How did Mike Huckabee—an avid, kind, fun-loving and sincere Christian—lose the 2008 primaries so quickly when many now see him as a viable 2012 contender? But the biggest question is, will Christians still trust their pocketbooks more than their God in 2012?  Read more... (609 words, 1 image, estimated 2:26 mins reading time)

From CBC-

Social website Facebook yanked a poll this week about assassinating President Barack Obama after being contacted by the U.S. Secret Service.

On Monday, Facebook dropped a question that asked voters whether the U.S. president “should be killed.”

The social networking company made the move after receiving a request from the Secret Service, other web services reported.

“We are aware of [the poll],” Ed Donovan, a spokesman for the Secret Service, told the Plum Line, a service of the Washington Post newspaper. “We are taking the appropriate investigative steps.”  Read more... (154 words, 2 images, estimated 37 secs reading time)

Can American Christians be this Courageous?

Background: Two Iranian Christian women, Maryam Rustampoor (27) and Marzieh Amirizadeh (30) were first arrested in Iran in March and accused of apostacy against the Muslim faith.

Current: Rustampoor and Amirizadeh, who have both become ill while in Evin prison, were brought to trial in August. A sentence was supposed to be pronounced. Instead, because of the strong Christian testimony of these two young women, the prosecutor sent them back to their cells to reconsider their testimonies before sentencing would be pronounced.  Read more... (648 words, 2 images, estimated 2:36 mins reading time)

President Obama’s speech to public school students on Sept. 8 caused an uproar among conservative parents. Prior to the speech’s delivery, many “conservative” parents accused the president of trying to indoctrinate their children with socialist ideas. Others said they were concerned because the speech had not been screened for political content.

There was even a  Student Walkout to Prayer (President Obama’s Live Address To Students), which more than 1,000 people attended, according to Facebook. (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128572170027)

When Obama gave his speech Tuesday, he urged students to work hard and stay in school.