April 25, 2024

Central Park Nativity Scene Scores Victory Against War On Christmas.

The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights set up a nativity scene Tuesday in New York City’s Central Park, despite uproar over public religious displays. The group erected the nativity display not only as an expression of the Christian faith and the reason for Christmas, but also to clear up confusion about the constitutionality […]

French City Cancels Christmas Market, Can’t Afford € 20,000 in Security Costs After ISIS Attacks

Christmas Tree German Christmas Market Berlin This week, the French city of Lyon announced it would cancel its world-famous Christmas market after seven years, as costs to protect the market against potential terror threats escalated to € 20,000 — a price the city could not afford. Security around Christmas markets in Europe has increased following Tunisian […]

It’s Official! Senate Passes Trump Tax Cuts! President Gives Americans Greatest Christmas Present in Decades!

After months of work and last minute alterations, the US Senate passed President Trump’s tax cuts in a vote of 51 – 49. No Democrats voted for the bill. President Trump noted earlier this week, Democrats only want to increase taxes on working Americans. From the Oval Office, the President stated that Democrats only want tax […]

Trump Family Brings Christ Back to Christmas: 2017 Card Wishes Americans “Merry Christmas” Unlike Last Guy

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are bringing Christ back to Christmas. Melania released video of the beautiful White House decorations. And this year a Nativity scene was included. The decorations are up! @WhiteHouse is ready to celebrate! Wishing you a Merry Christmas & joyous holiday season! pic.twitter.com/d6ZuyeFvrw — Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) November […]

Six Syrian Refugees Detained For Allegedly Planning Christmas Attack In Germany.

German police detained six Syrian nationals Tuesday who are suspected of planning an attack against a Christmas market in the city of Essen. The suspects were detained in three different cities after an operation involving around 500 police officers. The men, aged between 20 and 28, are believed to be Islamic State members. “The accused […]

ISIS threatens ‘Christmas blood’ attack – and names the target.

Islamic terror group ISIS is hinting at a “Christmas blood” attack, and has identified the target: the center of Catholic worship, the Vatican. Here’s a news video from Fox News on the threat:   Where was the threat made? A poster is being circulated among ISIS supporters that shows a man driving in a car […]

Obama’s Christmas Gift to Israel: A Stab in the Back

“For the rod of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; that the righteous put not forth their hands unto iniquity.” Psalms 125:3 (The Israel Bible™)   Photo: Breaking Israel News Eight years of steadily increasing animosity on the part of the Obama Administration towards Israel reached its peak on Friday when the […]

Most Americans Prefer ‘Merry Christmas’ to ‘Happy Holidays’: Poll

Almost six in 10 Americans prefer “Merry Christmas” to “Happy Holidays,” and a strong majority associate the meaning of the season with the birth of Jesus, a recent poll has found. (Photo: Reuters/Randall Hill)Christmas decorations and a small tree frame the Mother Emanuel AME Church after the federal trial of Dylann Roof who was found […]

MUST SEE VIDEO => DONALD TRUMP WILDLY CHEERED at Christmas Eve Church Service

President-elect Donald Trump was applauded and cheered by parishioners as he and his wife arrived for a Christmas Eve service around 10:30 p.m. EST at Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida according to reports. The church was the site of Trump’s 2005 wedding to soon to be First Lady Melania Trump. Florida parishioners […]

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Christmas

Sunday will be Christmas, a day dedicated to sharing gifts and time and joy with family and friends. For those who celebrate Christmas, it is the best day of the year, when people are at their best and give their best to each other. But Christmas hasn’t always been the warm, gift-giving celebration that it is today – […]

Trump Receives Warm Christmas Letter From Putin

President-elect Donald Trump received a letter on Friday from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who offered Trump his “warmest Christmas and New Year greetings” and urged him “to take real steps to restore the framework of bilateral cooperation.” “A very nice letter from Vladimir Putin; his thoughts are so correct,” Trump said in a statement. “I hope both sides […]

Is Christmas Still a Religious Holiday in America?

Nearly nine in ten Americans will celebrate Christmas this year, but a majority say the holiday is only “somewhat” or “not too” religious for them. In recent years, fewer Americans consider Christmas a “strongly religious” holiday. Less than half of Americans who celebrate Christmas (43 percent) still consider it a “strongly religious” holiday, according to a new study […]

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Christmas Eve and Hanukkah: An Amazing Convergence

By any measure, “2016 has been incredible” is a huge understatement. And now as we are about to move swiftly into 2017, there is at least one more incredible moment: the rare convergence of the first evening of Hanukkah and Christmas Eve. These are two awesome Biblical holidays celebrating the Lord’s miracle light and power […]

Reasons for Non-Christians to Celebrate Christmas

Unquestionably, no one who has ever lived has impacted the course of human history to the extent that Jesus of Nazareth has.  In fact, to speak this way is to dramatically understate matters, for such was the power of His life that Jesus didn’t just impact history; He radically subverted it. Jesus was in history. […]

Jacobins, Soviets, Nazis, and Democrats: 4 Aggressors In The War On Christmas

What do the Jacobins, Soviets, Nazis, and Democrats have in common? All four breeds of ideologue have waged war against a common enemy: Christmas. The War on Christmas rages on in 2016, despite the belligerents’ persistent gaslighting. Not even the funny papers have escaped the crosshairs of the anti-Christmas crusaders: two weeks ago in Killeen, […]

ISIS Releases Hit List of US Churches to Target for Christmas- Previous List Included: NY, CA, TX and FL Churches

ISIS fighters remove the cross from a church in Iraq-Syria. ISIS supporters posted a list of Christian Churches to target for attacks this Christmas season. The list appeared in a recent online post. Vocativ reported: A user going by the name of “Abu Marya al-Iraqi” posted an Arabic-language message calling “for bloody celebrations in the […]

AfD Hits Out at Merkel after Christmas Market Attack: ‘These Are Your Dead’

The anti-mass immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has hit out at German Chancellor Angela Merkel after Monday’s Christmas market attack, saying the victims are “her dead”. A Pakistani migrant, named as 23-year-old Naved B, was arrested for allegedly driving a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing at least 12 people and injuring […]

Truck Plows Into Crowd At Berlin Christmas Market, Nine Dead

BERLIN, Dec 19 (Reuters) – A truck plowed into a crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on Monday evening, killing nine people and injuring 45 others, in what Germany’s interior minister said looked like an attack. Police said on Twitter that they had taken one suspect into custody and that another passenger from the truck […]

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Reclaiming Christmas

John Gibson, in The War on Christmas, writes, “In the United States of America, a nation overwhelmingly Christian, literally any sign of Christmas in public can now lead to complaints, litigation, angry protests, threats, and bruised feelings. … Secular liberals say they’re just protecting the constitutional rights of non-Christians who don’t want to see or […]

BREAKING: Man Arrested at Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree with Lighter, Gasoline and Hamas Book

BREAKING—- Man arrested near Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree with gasoline, matches and a book on Hamas! Man Arrested Near Rockefeller Christmas Tree With Gasoline Can, Matches, Book on Hamas – https://t.co/L8JKPqouj9 pic.twitter.com/WzG09toupF — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 7, 2016 Yuriy Alterman, 38, of the Bronx was seen walking erratically towards the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. Alterman, […]

France Thwarts Massive Christmas Attack with Arrest of 7 Muslim Terrorists

More of the poison fruit of the hijrah — the Muslim immigration into the West. The planned attack was to have been on one of France’s largest Christmas markets at Strasbourg. “France officials say “terrorist act” thwarted with arrest of 7,” CBS News, November 21, 2016: PARIS — French anti-terrorism police have arrested seven people […]

MIGRANTS RIOT ON CHRISTMAS DAY IN SPAIN

Members of the Roma community and African migrants fought a running battle on the streets of a small Spanish town on Christmas Day, following the murder of a Guinean man. Police were attacked, petrol bombs thrown and roads blocked. “Garbage bins are being burned, cars have been burned, windows have been shattered,” said Manolo Garcia, […]

Obama’s Christmas Address A Call To Welcome Migrants And Honor Troops

President Barack Obama, joined by first lady Michelle Obama, discussed getting into the holiday spirit, Christian values and paying tribute to the military in the annual Christmas address. According to Michelle, the 2015 White House Christmas theme is “A Timeless Tradition,” with each room being decorated to commemorate the country’s traditions including saluting the troops and their families and helping kids […]

President Lincoln and Christmas

  Over the years, I’ve enjoyed reading presidential Christmas proclamations. Some are more prominent than others. President Washington always stands out because he set the table for others to follow. Then there is President Roosevelt in 1941 after Pearl Harbor. President Truman in 1945 or the first peace time Christmas in a few years. More recently, […]

Where Did These 5 Popular Christmas Traditions Come From?

(Photo: Screengrab/YouTube/WCPO.com) A nativity scene at the Franklin County courthouse in Brookville, Indiana, displayed during the 2014 Christmas season. Christmas is a time full of tradition, as the holiday has been celebrated for centuries long before the United States was a thought or Europe knew about America. This special wintry time of year is full […]

The Story of Christmas from the Gospel of Matthew

“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.”—Isaiah 9:6. What exactly do Christians celebrate at Christmas? This is the story of the birth of Jesus in the […]

THE IMPORTANCE OF SAYING ‘MERRY CHRISTMAS’

The nearly universal change from wishing fellow Americans “Merry Christmas” to wishing them “Happy Holidays” is a very significant development in American life. Proponents of “Happy Holidays” argue that it’s no big deal at all, and that proponents of “Merry Christmas” are making a mountain out of a molehill, especially when proponents say that the […]

Muslim Tolerance: Sultan of Brunei Bans Christmas

When left to their own devices… The Sultan of Brunei has declared that anyone found illegally celebrating Christmas could face a five year jail sentence, according to reports.The conservative Muslim country on the island of Borneo stated the punishment would apply to anyone found sending festive greetings – or wearing Santa hats. Non-Muslims are allowed […]

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