IN THIS ISSUE: Reverend Keith Roderick, Religious Freedom Coalition board member and long time defender of those persecuted for their faith, dies at age 61 / Are all congressmen basically alike, or are some God fearing and hard working? / The good and the bad on Capitol Hill / Christmas for Refugee program
The American Freedom Law Center recently held a conference in Cincinnati, Ohio on the danger that Islamic Sharia law poses to our First Amendment freedoms. To make this danger as clear as possible, a Muslim scholar who operates out of an Islamic Center in Memphis, Tennessee, has provided us with a frightening view of the future in America should Sharia be adopted as a parallel legal system in the U.S.
In this issue: Senator John McCain verbally attacks Syrian clergy visiting the Capitol to plea for help – this after he had traveled to Syria promoting the civil war there. Senator McCain and Secretary John Kerry travel to Kiev to encourage the mobs which have forced out a democratically elected government there. Why do President Obama and the Western media hate Russia so much? Also, the Religious Freedom Coalition makes specific plans to help Christian refugees in the Middle East.
The Very Reverend Keith Roderick, our brother in the Lord and a member of the Board of Directors of the Religious Freedom Coalition, has passed away. Father Keith, as most called him, died in his sleep at home at age 61 greatly to be missed by the oppressed of this world.
In This Issue: In February the Religious Freedom Coalition has been a part of several major Capitol Hill events which presented news from the Middle East that the Obama Administration and many in Congress do not want to hear. Chairman Murray met with the Syrian church leaders which Senator McCain later cursed during a congressional meeting.
In this issue, William Murray includes his remarks as keynote speaker at the National Religious Freedom Day celebration at the Fredericksburg, Virginia monument which commemorates adoption of the world’s first formal statute guaranteeing religious freedom. .The same week, Murray escorted a noted Islamic scholar from Australia, Dr. Mark Durie, to meet with Congressmen in Washington, D.C., and to speak at the Hudson Institute. Durie’s topic was the attempt by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), a group of 57 Muslim majority nations, to use their voting power in the United Nations to pass international blasphemy laws.
A local atheist group attempted to hijack National Religious Freedom Day at the site Thomas Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Religious Freedom Coalition chairman William J. Murray was the keynote speaker and atheists demanded a “rebuttal” at an event that was 90% parade and celebratory. The atheists were informed that this was a celebration not a debate.
Christmas for Refugees program to expand We made a special day even more special: During December, 2013 the first ever Christmas for Refugees dinners were held despite numerous last minute problems including the heaviest snow storm in Jordan in decades. Originally just one dinner with as many as 900 children was planned. Honestly I […]
For nearly two decades I have written a weekly news update from Capitol Hill which was emailed to supporters of the Religious Freedom Coalition. Regrettably over the years the number of subscribers declined as news feeds became more popular and the number of readers did not justify the amount of preparation work required. The service has been discontinued.
Preparations were underway in Jordan’s capital Amman for “the first ever Christmas meal for Christian refugee children from Iraq and Syria” who have been “mostly ignored by Islamic charities,” organizers said.Project Director William J. Murray, who leads the Washington-based Religious Freedom Coalition (RFC), told BosNewsLife he would supervise the dinner “to make sure all the children we can reach out to and invite will have a special occasion.”