After the SCOTUS decision on Phillips, could the state of Colorado or any other state force a Christian to act against his faith? According to Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the answer…
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Did SCOTUS Restore Religious Liberty in Phillips Case?
Tuesday June 12th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsPresident Trump Signs Executive order for New Faith Initiative
Monday June 11th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsPresident Donald Trump signed an executive order on May 3 launching a new initiative designed to bolster the influence of faith groups in government. The order was signed on the National Day of Prayer. “The new executive order is designed…
View This Article →America Now in Conflict over Religious Liberty vs. Same-Sex Marriage
Friday June 8th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence Briefings“In his dissenting opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges Justice Clarence Thomas predicted that the court’s declaration that same-sex marriage is a right would ultimately lead to conflict between that purported right and religious liberty. “In his concurring opinion… in Masterpiece…
View This Article →Surprise Guatemalan Eruption destroys Villages, Kills Unprepared Residents
Thursday June 7th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsOn Sunday, June 03, a surprise eruption at the Volcano of Fire (Vulcan de Fuego) sent lava, boiling mud and searing ash into villages around its flanks killing at least 69. People of the villages skirting the mountain began mourning…
View This Article →Masterpiece Cake Shop: Leaves Religious Liberty Unresolved
Wednesday June 6th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence Briefings“Mixed reactions are pouring in after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled… in favor of Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who refused an order for a same-sex wedding cake and set off a five-year legal battle. “The news Monday morning of a…
View This Article →The Vatican and the Oil Dealers
Tuesday June 5th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence Briefings“The Vatican will host executives of the world’s top oil companies for a conference next week on climate change and the transition away from fossil fuels, a Vatican source said on Friday. Pope Francis, who wrote a major document on…
View This Article →In Donald Trump, Evangelicals have found their Man
Monday June 4th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsIf you want to understand the relationship between American Evangelicals and Donald Trump consider this. “Critics say that the Trump-evangelical relationship is transactional, that they support him to see their agenda carried out.” But evangelicals take the long view on…
View This Article →Up to 120,000 Christians in North Korean Gulags
Friday June 1st, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence Briefings“Between 80,000 to 120,000 people are trapped in North Korean gulags with many of them being imprisoned for their faith, the U.S. State Department has said… The agency released its congressionally-mandated 2017 International Religious Freedom report, an annual document describing…
View This Article →The Attack on Churches Begins
Thursday May 31st, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence Briefings“An event center manager sued a Catholic Church in Portland, Oregon, for $2.4 million, claiming that after suffering harm to its reputation because it abided by the church’s anti-gay policy, the Holy Rosary Church terminated its contract because it hired…
View This Article →First Person Convicted under Malaysia’s Anti-Fake News Law
Wednesday May 30th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence Briefings“A Danish national has become the first person to be convicted under Malaysia’s new anti-fake news law.” Salah Salem Saleh Sulaiman, 46, on (April 30) pleaded guilty to maliciously publishing fake news in the form of a YouTube video on…
View This Article →Paul Ryan says America needs Catholicism
Tuesday May 29th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsRoman Catholicism is so accepted now in the United States, that the forced resignation of the Roman Catholic Jesuit chaplain of the House of Representatives by the Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, caused quite a stir. It even led…
View This Article →Will there be Peace on the Korean Peninsula?
Monday May 28th, 2018 in Briefings, Prophetic Intelligence BriefingsWith the Korean War still not officially over, and a recent history of tense war posturing between North Korea and the United States, including nuclear tests in North Korea, naval war games in the region, and other provocative behavior on…
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