Scrolling around...August 16, 2013

BBC to air kids’ show on ‘gay marriage’
...The show has been re-named for the edition, and will be called Marrying Dad and Dad instead of Marrying Mum and Dad...

Christian churches warned of Boy Scout legal risks
...The policy change has legal ramifications for religious chartering groups, potentially exposing them to lawsuits if they continue to sponsor troops while seeking to maintain the traditional Christian teaching that homosexual behavior is immoral.

What could happen is “somebody would come and say, ‘We want to use your church for a same-sex wedding ceremony,’ and the church would say, ‘Wait, we have a religious belief against that,’” said Erik Stanley, an alliance lawyer and Eagle Scout...

New Bishop, Old Problems: First Female Presiding Bishop Unlikely to Stem Lutheran Denomination Decline
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) elected Elizabeth Eaton, ELCA’s bishop for the Northeastern Ohio Synod, as the denomination’s first female presiding bishop on August 14, 2013.  Despite Eaton’s professed desire to unite Lutherans divided over contentious issues such as homosexuality, however, analysis and evidence indicate that her historic election has little chance of altering the “liberal-leaning” ELCA’s ongoing woes....

Appeals for prayer for Egypt
...Archbishop Mouneer Anis said St Saviour's Anglican Church in Suez was "under heavy attack" from Morsi supporters who threw stones and molotov cocktails at the church and destroyed the car of the Reverend Ehab Ayoub, the priest-in-charge of St Saviour's Church.

"I am also aware that there are attacks on other Orthodox churches in Menyia and Suhag in Upper Egypt, as well as a Catholic church in Suez. Some police stations are also under attack in different parts of Egypt. Please pray and ask others to pray for this inflammable situation in Egypt," Archbishop Anis said.

He added: "Please pray that the situation will calm down, for wisdom and tact for the police and the army, for the safety of all churches and congregations, and that all in Egypt would be safe."...

Calls for Obama to freeze Egypt’s military aid come from left, right

What do Muslim Brotherhood members do when Egyptian Security Forces launch a forewarned operation to clear them from Cairo tent cities?
Attack Christians. That's right.

'Horrible': Christian churches across Egypt stormed, torched
...Egypt will have much to deal with if, and when, things do settle down. Once that happens, Angaelos says that a proper investigation of the church attacks should follow -- especially since, he feels, the sheer scale of incidents suggests they were orchestrated, rather than a byproduct of chaotic unrest...

List of churches in Egypt destroyed by the Muslim Brotherhood

Islamists Raid Ancient Monastery in Egypt, Pledge to Turn it Into a Mosque
...Bishop Aghabious of Deir Mawas has sent a call to national and international authorities to request help to save what is remaining of the monastery, which dates back to the fifth century AD.

The bishop said the militants looted most of the valuables and announced they would be converting the monastery into a mosque for Friday prayers...

Egyptian Christians Targeted by Islamists
...Some called it "Black Wednesday," the day when Muslim Brotherhood mobs stormed, looted and burned churches and Christian organizations throughout Egypt...


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