The Faithful Watchman

Now that Donald Trump has won the election, he is going to have to deal with Vladimir Putin and Russia, and that isn’t going to be easy.  The Russians have no incentive to end the conflict because they are steadily gobbling up territory in eastern Ukraine.  As long as the Russians are making progress toward achieving their goals, why would they want to stop?  On the other side, the Ukrainians will never agree to any peace agreement that allows the Russians to keep all of the territories that they have already taken, but the Ukrainians are losing even more ground with each passing day.

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LONDON – Outside the Brussels Stock Exchange, on the one-year anniversary of the October 7th massacre, pro-Hamas demonstrators joined in a public prayer for Allah “to burn the Jews.”

Pro-Hamas, anti-Israel demonstrations, featuring the chant “From the river to the sea,” have been held daily in Brussels since the massacre. Some have included the leaders of Belgium’s major left-wing political parties.

Even though the European Union has designated Hamas a terrorist group, Hamas-affiliated organizations are operating in several countries.

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The Realities of Pornography Use Today

Pornography is now more readily available and consumed by a larger audience than ever before. Here are some of the latest trends from Barna’s newest study of pornography use, Beyond the Porn Phenomenon, produced in partnership with Pure Desire Ministries.

Porn use remains a growing problem.
Since Barna’s 2015 study The Porn Phenomenon, the number of U.S. adults consuming pornography has continued to rise, with a 6-percentage point increase (from 55% in 2015 to 61% presently). There is also a notable uptick in the number of women accessing pornographic content (39% then vs. 44% now).

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ABILENE, Texas (KTXS) — A youth leader at Abilene’s Beltway Park Church has been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography.

A member of the church contacted Abilene Police with concerns regarding one of their youth leaders, according to court documents.

Documents state Charles Goff met with a fellow church member and admitted to struggling with pornography.

Goff specifically said he struggled with videos of teen girls 14-15 years old.

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“Cathy, what should I do about my social anxiety?”

An acronym for Churchy Answers That Help You, Cathy is a new AI chatbot that answers faith-based questions from the perspective of a friendly, knowledgeable Episcopalian. Despite its feminine name, the “priestbot,” as Cathy sometimes calls itself, is genderless. There are no ornate flowing robes or croziers, either. But like a wise cleric, Cathy jumped right in with an answer.

“Dealing with social anxiety can be challenging, but there are several approaches that might help,” the bot responded. “Practice relaxation techniques” and “challenge your negative thoughts,” Cathy suggested.

Read more at: msn.com

In schools across Northern Ireland, students are finding it more challenging to reveal their Christian faith than their sexual orientation, according to testimony provided during an ongoing inquiry into Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) at Stormont.

David Smyth, a representative of the Evangelical Alliance Northern Ireland, told the Education Committee that some young people find it “much more difficult now to come out as an Evangelical Christian in school than it is to come out as LGBT,” according to the BBC.

Read more at: christianpost.com

In Canada, are some students “more equal than others”? A new medical school is opening in Toronto, Canada, and it will “reserve 75 percent [sic] of its seats for Indigenous, Black, and other ‘equity-deserving’ groups, including 2SLGBTQ+.” Yes, that means what you think it means—“able-bodied straight white students can’t apply for these seats.” It’s discrimination in the name of equity. So what’s “equity”?

Well, equity is a big tenet of critical race theory (CRT), the worldview dominating Western academia. Basically, equity, in this context, is equality of outcomes not equality of opportunity.

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ROME — Religiously motivated hate crimes against Christians in Europe jumped by a whopping 226 percent in just one year, according to a grim report by a prominent Christian persecution watchdog group.

On Friday, the Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe) released its Annual Report 2024, which documents a startling rise in violent incidents and hostility against Christians, as well as in vandalism and arson attacks on churches.

Read more at: breitbart.com

The plan comes as the DOJ revealed on Friday that it thwarted a second Iranian assassination plot against Trump.

President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly planning to ramp up the U.S. pressure campaign on Iran by enacting crippling sanctions on the Islamic regime immediately after taking office.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the plans include “drastically increasing sanctions” on the country and killing its oil industry as part of an “aggressive strategy to undercut Tehran’s support of violent Mideast proxies and its nuclear program.”

Read more at: dailywire.com

The FBI has arrested a Michigan man for allegedly threatening to murder conservative Christians if Donald Trump wins the election.

In a press release, the Justice Department said the FBI National Threat Operations Center received “an anonymous online threatening submission” on Nov. 2.

‘Sissel said that he hated conservative Christians, who he enjoyed threatening.’

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