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We’re sending you this email with a heavy heart… and also great hope.
Lyle’s blog will tell you all about why 5 Texas pastors had their sermons subpoenaed in what is nothing short of an attack on religious freedom.
Make sure you read it to get all the details and then pray for these pastors.
Please also pray for their legal team at Alliance Defending Freedom.
ADF do some really impressive work.
We’re really looking forward also to hearing ADF Senior Legal Counsel Roger Kiska speak at our national conference next week.
Religious freedom is one of our most basic liberties.
We must always be prepared to defend it. Don’t forget that with God, all things are possible!
That’s the source of our great hope.
God bless
The ACL Team
PS. Don’t forget to register for ACL’s National Conference and your chance to hear ADF’s Roger Kiska
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Why 5 Texas pastors had their sermons subpoenaed
By Lyle Shelton
This week in Houston Texas, the city council issued subpoenas demanding five pastors hand over their sermon notes on the topics of “equal rights, civil rights, homosexuality, or gender identity”.
Read why
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Why it is a challenge to provide aid to the persecuted
By Daniel Simon
Norm from Open Doors talks about the challenges faced by aid agencies trying to deliver relief to persecuted Christians in Iraq and Syria.
Listen to the interview
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How March for the Babies celebrates unborn life
By Dan Flynn
Several thousand Victorians took to the streets in the 6th Annual March for The Babies on 11 October 2014. The March is held to mourn the loss of life through abortion and to express support for women who may have had an abortion or who may be contemplating one.
Read more
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What’s wrong with commercial surrogacy?
By Daniel Simon
There are growing calls for an inquiry into international commercial surrogacy following another tragic case involving Indian twins with one twin being unwanted and left behind.
Listen to the interview
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For the diary – a selection of upcoming events
18 October – Conference, COSEK, SA (ACL’s Jim Wallace speaking)
24-25 October – ACL National Conference, ACT
26-27 October – National Leader’s Prayer Breakfast, ACT
27 October – Theology @ the Pub, State Election Special, VIC
31 October – Conference, Freedom of Religion, QLD
2 November – Solidarity Sunday, All states
14-16 November – Conference, Caring for the garden in a fallen world, NSW
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