January 15, 2019

SOCIAL MEDIA CENSORS PRO-LIFE RADIANCE FOUNDATION

Heavenly Father, we ask that news will be distributed fairly and truthfully without hindrance in the

days ahead for our nation. A free society needs to know the truth regarding issues of importance.

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We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen

to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood. (1 Jn 4:6)

The Radiance Foundation, a pro-life organization founded by a black American, has alleged it is facing

censorship on most major social networks, including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The group’s

response to the blacklisting has been to call on the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe to “Stop Jim

Crow’ing us.”

The Radiance Foundation, like many other groups with a conservative agenda, has had its pro-life

images removed from Instagram, its advertisements blocked on Facebook, and its posts shadow-banned

on Twitter, as part of a widespread Internet blacklisting campaign.

“We were mentioned in many media outlets for ‘interfering’ in Ireland’s Abortion Referendum back in

May 2018 accused of ‘paying for ads’ by the Transparency Referendum Initiative,” claimed the Radiance

Foundation’s Chief Creative Officer, Ryan Bomberger, in an email to Breitbart Tech. “It was the same

month that [Facebook] disallowed us from boosting any posts or placing any ads. They, soon after,

required us to go through an authorization process providing our residential address (wouldn’t take our

business address), personal driver’s license, SSN, and other deeply personal information to go through

an approval process to exercise our right to free speech.”

“Prior to that, however, Facebook had repeatedly blocked our content. We would receive many

messages from our followers on our page. Despite repeated contacts with Facebook about the issue,

nothing ever changed,” Bomberger continued, adding that “Instagram threatened to suspend our page

because we compared Planned Parenthood’s killing of black lives to the KKK in this meme.”

Bomberger, a black man who frequently criticizes Planned Parenthood’s abortion rate of black babies,

also claimed Twitter has recently started to censor the organization by placing “sensitive material”

warnings over its content — a claim Breitbart Tech confirmed.

Bomberger has faced similar problems in the world of academia. After giving a speech at the evangelical

Christian Wheaton College, the student government alleged that Bomberger made students feel

“unsafe” after he shared his life story of being a black American conceived by rape who was adopted

instead of aborted.

The Radiance Foundation is not the first pro-life organization to have faced similar difficulties on social

media.... Facebook and Google also banned advertisements during Ireland’s 2018 referendum on

abortion...., and.... Facebook blocked links to a crowdfunding website for a movie about Roe v. Wade.

Twitter has also previously blocked pro-life advertisements from Blackburn, and even temporarily

banned a pro-life activist with Down Syndrome for posting pro-life material.... (Excerpts from Charlie

Nash article on Breitbart)

HOUSE PASSES BIPARTISAN BILL TO ELEVATE STATUS OF U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY ON ANTI-SEMITISM

Thank you Father for this important bipartisan legislation. Pray for God’s heart for the Jewish people

in Israel and everywhere to be reflected in U.S. foreign policy.

It is a Land that the Lord your God seeks out; the eyes of the Lord your God, are always upon it, from

the beginning of the year to the end of the year. (Deut 11:12)

A bipartisan bill to elevate the status of the U.S. special envoy on anti-Semitism overwhelmingly passed

in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday.

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), a libertarian, was the sole vote against the legislation.

The Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act was reintroduced last week by Rep. Chris

Smith (R-N.J.). If enacted, it would upgrade the status of the special envoy to combat anti-Semitism—a

position the State Department has left vacant for 20 months—to an ambassadorship requiring Senate

confirmation.

The president would be required to fill the position within 90 days. The special-envoy position is

currently vacant and has been so since the start of the Trump administration.

“Over the past decade, there has been a rapid rise in anti-Semitic acts and rhetoric in many countries:

Jews harassed, assaulted and even murdered; synagogues attacked; graves and cemeteries desecrated;

anti-Semitic slurs; targeting the State of Israel with the ‘three Ds’–demonization, double-standard and

delegitimization–as my friend the great Soviet refusenik and religious prisoner Natan Sharansky named

them,” said Smith.

“Anti-Semitic hatred is hardwired into the ideology of violent Islamist and white supremacist groups. But

this evil goes beyond those perpetrators,” he added. “Politicians, entertainers and public intellectuals

across the philosophical spectrum have exhibited anti-Semitism. Strong American leadership is essential

to battle this bigotry.”

The bill now heads to the U.S. Senate. (Excerpts from Breitbart Jerusalem on Breitbart News)

THANK GOD: 70 PERCENT OF MILLENNIALS SUPPORT LIMITS ON ABORTION!

Lord, this battle for the lives of our youth has been waged for a long time in our nation. We ask for

effective strategies to combat the forces of darkness that are killing our unborn.

From birth I was cast on you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God. (Ps 22:10)

A poll released Monday by the nation’s largest organization of pro-life youth found that 70 percent of

millennials support limits on abortion.

“Millennials have lived with the harsh realities of abortion all their lives and understand more than their

parents’ generation that we must address the human rights issue of our day and make changes in

defense of mothers and their preborn infants,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of

America (SFLA). “Millennials may reject labels in general, but when it comes to the specifics of abortion

policy, they are anti-abortion.”

The poll, conducted by pollster the polling company, inc./WomanTrend for SFLA’s Institute for Pro-Life

Advancement, asked 18-34-year-olds during the first week of January about their attitudes toward Roe

v. Wade and America’s current abortion policies....

The poll found that, while 56 percent of American millennials – now the largest voting bloc in the

country – are political Independents, 65 percent want to vote on abortion policy, compared to only 16

percent who want abortion to remain in the hands of the courts, and 19 percent who are unsure.

According to the poll, 20 percent of millennials identify themselves as Republicans and an equal

percentage as Democrats....

Additionally, only seven percent of millennials polled supported abortion without any exceptions and

funded by tax dollars – the position embraced by the Democrat Party.

“Our poll found that Millennials do not blindly support unlimited abortion paid for with their tax dollars,

no matter what the popular culture says,” said Hawkins….

Regarding taxpayer funding for abortion, 45 percent of Millennials polled opposed it, with 33 percent

supporting it, and 22 percent undecided….

With about a third of abortions now induced by drugs like RU-486, 56 percent of Millennials surveyed

opposed selling the abortion drugs online or dropping the requirement for a physical exam due to the

potential risks to women.

Regarding Planned Parenthood, 41 percent of Millennials polled had an unfavorable reaction to the

abortion vendor after learning about the organization’s political spending in the millions to elect pro-

abortion candidates, as well as its more than $1 billion in income, about half of which is derived from

American taxpayers.

In addition, 43 percent of those surveyed had an unfavorable reaction to Planned Parenthood when

they examined the organization’s decline in basic healthcare services as seen in its own annual report....

“On the issue of abortion, labels like pro-life, pro-choice, access, health, or women’s rights often

camouflage the true realities of the policies that today crisscross the country,” she said….

“And for those elected officials who want to engage in life-affirming legislation, Millennial voters are

listening when you compassionately address the specifics of Life in law,” she added…. (Excerpts from Dr.

Susan Berry on Breitbart)

PRAYER MAKES A LEADER - FRANCIS CHAN

Sometimes we find a message that we feel is timely and powerful, reflecting what God is speaking to

the Church. This is one of the most powerful messages on prayer that we have heard in a long time.

Be challenged and blessed.

In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence. (Eph 3:12)

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