Almost Amos

It's never nice to talk bad about the dead, led alone the well respected Mr Lee Kuan Yew.

In the eight-minute long video titled "Lee Kuan Yew Is Finally Dead!", Amos says that the late "Lee Kuan Yew is a horrible person because everyone is afraid that if they say something like that, they might get into trouble."

Amos compared the late Lee to Jesus Christ, by saying both figures "are both power-hungry and malicious but deceive others into thinking they are both compassionate and kind".

He also said Lee's followers were "completely delusional and ignorant, and have absolutely no sound logic or knowledge about him that is grounded in reality". This was what Amos compared to Christians' knowledge of the bible and the religion's priests.

According to Amos, "(Lee) was a dictator but managed to fool most of the world to think he was democratic... by granting (Singaporeans) the opportunity to vote to make it seem like we have freedom of choice".

Other issues Amos raised in the video include the rise in cost of living in Singapore and the high taxation rates the government imposes with little spending on areas like healthcare. He attributed this to a dearth in knowledge about where government monies are spent on and a "suspicious" trend in suing those who asked openly about this.

Amos issued a challenge to prime minister Lee Hsien Loong, when he asked if the latter wanted to sue him for his opinions on the video.

“If Lee Hsien Loong wishes to sue me, I will oblige to dance with him.”

Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided up his clothes by casting lots. Luke 23:34

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.Romans 6:23

Palm Sunday

It's the day Jesus entered Jerusalem before the Crucifixion

On Sunday, Christians all over the world will be carrying palms and other branches. That’s because it’s Palm Sunday, a celebration of the day Jesus entered Jerusalem before he was crucified and then resurrected, according to the Christian faith.

Palm Sunday includes a procession of the assembled worshipers carrying palms, representing the palm branches the crowd scattered in front of Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem. The difficulty of procuring palms in unfavorable climates led to their substitution with branches of native trees, including box, yew, willow, and olive. The Sunday was often designated by the names of these trees, as in Yew Sunday, or by the general term Branch Sunday.

Remembering Mr Lee Kuan Yew (1923 - 2015)

The Bishop, Clergy and all members of the Anglican church here joins the nation in mourning and pay tribute to Mr Lee Kuan Yew, our beloved founding father of modern Singapore.

He had served the nation faithfully with an exemplary integrity, advancing the well-being of many Singaporeans. The foundation of a confident, mature and socially cohesive society has been laid, making a mark on the world map on so many fronts.

We pray for Mr Lee's family members, especially our Prime Minister, Mr Lee Hsien Loong, that they will be comforted in their bereavement and experience the peace of God.

Mr Lee on Christianity

Perseverance 
Resilience 
Determination

http://billmuehlenberg.com/2015/03/23/lee-kuan-yew-singapore-and-christianity/

You see most Chinese here are Buddhists or Taoist ancestor worshippers, I’m one of them, so it is a tolerant society, it says whatever you want to believe in, you go ahead. And these youngsters, the educated ones, Western-educated especially, now they are all English-educated, their mother tongue is the second language. Therefore, they begin to read Western books and Western culture and so on and then the Internet. So they begin to question like in Korea that what is this mumbo-jumbo, the ancestors and so on? The dead have gone, they’re praying before this altar and asking for their blessings and then they have got groups, Christian groups who go out and evangelize. They catch them in their teens, in their late teens when they’re malleable and open to suggestions and then they become very fervent evangelists themselves. My granddaughter is one of them. She’s now 28. My wife used to tell her look, don’t go for any more of these titles, just look for MRS. It’s just around the corner, God will arrange it.


TIME once made Lee Kuan Yew cry. It was the fall of 2005, in Singapore, during nearly five hours of interview spread over two days. The conversation had turned to family and friends, and faith as a source of strength in the face of adversity. “I would not score very highly on religious value,” said Lee, then 82, still in good health, and a sort of Minister Emeritus. Yet when he talked about the illnesses and deaths of loved ones, Lee allowed himself a rare moment of vulnerability: his eyes welled up.

Lee Kuan Yew remains critically ill

Sharing a lovely prayer 4 Mr Lee Kuan Yew.
Please Pray 4 him:-

Heavenly Father,
We know dat Mr Lee Kuan Yew is sedated & lying in hospital.

We pray 4 a spiritual experience 4 him, dat in his stillness,
he will discover dat the Lord is our God (Psalm 46:10)

We pray dat U will give LKY a divine Visitation,
dat he will experience a bedside conversion;
even if it's only through his last minute intent & repentence,
just like the thief on Jesus's right at the Calvary.

We do not know what's going through his head right now
but we pray 4 peace & inner healing 4 LKY.
Dat he be reconciled with U,
4 all his past deeds, good or bad.

4 a peaceful journey towards his eternal home
in accordance to Ur divine Will for him.

This is as much as we can do 4 a man who has dedicated his entire
life to our beloved country, Singapore.

For all these, we commit LKY to U.

May U hear our prayers.

In Jesus wonderful name we pray. Amen!

Pray for Mr Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew's condition 'worsened due to infection'

Pray meeting first prayer item - Mr Lee Kuan Yew!

Singapore's first Prime Minister is on antibiotics and doctors are closely monitoring his condition, says the Prime Minister's Office. He has been in hospital since Feb 5, when he was admitted for severe pneumonia.

Mr Lee Kuan Yew's condition has "worsened due to an infection" and he is on antibiotics, according to a statement by the Prime Minister's Office on Tuesday (Mar 17).

Doctors are closely monitoring his condition, the PMO added.

Mr Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first Prime Minister, has been in hospital since Feb 5, when he was admitted for severe pneumonia.

In a Feb 28 statement, the PMO said: "He remains sedated and on mechanical ventilation in the ICU at Singapore General Hospital. He is continuing with his antibiotics."

Attacks on Chrisitans in Pakistan

Suicide bombers kill 15 people outside Pakistani churches

A pair of suicide bombers attacked two churches in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday as worshippers prayed inside — killing 15 people in the latest assault against religious minorities in this increasingly fractured country, officials said.

A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, Ahsanullah Ahsan, claimed responsibility for the assault in a statement emailed to reporters, and warned, "There will be more of such attacks."

Afterward, an angry Christian mob blocked a major highway, ransacked a bus terminal and burned two people to death who they suspected of being involved in the attacks. Christian demonstrators blocked roads in other major Pakistani cities as well.

The explosions occurred in quick succession in the Christian neighborhood of Youhanabad at two churches while parishioners worshipped at Sunday morning services. The churches are about 600 meters (650 yards) apart. At least 70 people were wounded, said Zahid Pervez, the provincial director general of health, who gave the death toll.

Area hospitals filled with casualties and scenes of mourning. Shaheen Bibi's 10-year-old son Abhishak was among those killed.

"My son had gone to the church to pray for a good result in his examinations," Bibi said as she cried and struck her head against the chest of a relative. "He wanted me to sew him some new clothes if he passed his examinations."

Witnesses said the bombers targeted a crowded gate when a large group of worshippers was waiting to enter one of the churches.

Life in Pakistan is increasingly dangerous for religious minorities, especially Christians. They have been targeted by extremist Sunni Muslim militants and are also discriminated against in the wider society, where they are often limited to menial jobs like garbage collection.

U.S. State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki on Monday spoke up for the rights of Pakistani minorities.

"The United States stands in solidarity with the people and government of Pakistan in confronting this type of extremist violence," she said. "We support the right of every person to practice religion without fear of intimidation, death, coercion or any form of reprisal. This is a basic human right both in Pakistan and throughout the world."

Much of the country is already on edge after years of militant violence including an attack on a Peshawar school in December that killed 150 people — mostly students.

The angry crowd attacked two people they thought were connected to the attack, and burned them to death while others attacked buses in the city, said deputy inspector general of police Haider Ashraf. Two police officers who were protecting the churches were also killed in the explosions, which Ashraf confirmed were caused by suicide bombers.

A spokesman for the Punjab provincial government, Zaeem Qadri, also said it was unfortunate that the mob had killed the two suspects rather than turning them over to police. He said authorities are reinforcing security at the 481 remaining churches across the city.

Militants attacks targeting minorities have intensified recently, including attacks on a string of mosques belonging Shiite Muslims, a minority in Pakistan. In 2013, twin blasts at a church in Peshawar killed 85 people.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has his power base in Lahore and his party, the Pakistan Muslim League-N, also runs the Punjab government, where his brother is chief minister. The provincial government has been accused in the past of not doing enough to protect religious minorities and fight extremist groups based in the province.

Rape of Bengal nun, Christians targeted

 Rape is India is getting worst...

No arrests in Bengal nun ‘rape’, church attack, local Christians nervous


After the alleged rape of a 71-year-old nun at a missionary school in Ranaghat in West Bengal’s Nadia district, none of the suspects has been held despite CCTV footage identifying them. Police have not been able to establish the identities of the attackers either.

Nadia SP Arnab Ghosh said they had detained eight persons and were interrogating them, refusing to reveal more.

Another senior police official said that of the eight detainees, one appeared to be part of those captured on CCTV. Photographs of the suspects have been sent to BSF outposts near the border too in order to ensure they don’t escape.

Around 12 armed men had raided the Christian missionary school in the early hours of Saturday and allegedly raped a 71-year-old nun and assaulted two others. The gang is also alleged to have desecrated the school’s chapel.

The condition of the nun who was said to have been raped is now stable.

Archbishop of Kolkata Thomas D’Souza said there was a growing sense of insecurity among the 600-odd Christian families in the area. Pointing out that the closest police station was 6 km away, he demanded that a police post be set up nearby.

About the church attack being linked to previous incidents in Delhi and Bangalore, D’Souza said, “Anything is possible. Nothing can be ruled out, but until police make some arrests, nothing can be said for sure as well.”

Nadia District Magistrate P B Salim denied there had been any request for security by school authorities. “Police intervention had been sought for a problem which was immediately looked into. But there was no requisition to provide security personnel,” he said.

Christians of the area who came to the school to express solidary on Sunday said they were nervous. Leena D Rozario, a senior member of the area’s parish committee, said their children studied in the same school and could be the next target.

Ranaghat — about 200 km from Kolkata — has a large concentration of Christians, mostly converts from Hinduism.

“There are so many unanswered questions. Why would the offenders, after looting the money, go on to vandalise the church or rape a septuagenarian nun? And when the men can be identified on CCTV, why have there been no arrests?” said Rozario.

Herod Mullick, state working president of the Bangiya Christiya Pariseba (state forum of all Christian denominations, east and northeast partner of All India Christian Council), said the attack appeared part of a trend. “It is evident that the attackers had a motive other than robbing the place. There are similarities to incidents in Delhi and Bangalore,” he said.

Actor Locket Chatterjee, who recently joined the BJP, and leader of Opposition, the CPM’s Suryakanta Mishra, were not allowed to enter the church premises, with police saying they did not have the required permission.

An angry parish priest, Suraj Biswas, said they wouldn’t allow any politician in. “If they want to express solidarity, they should come without a party flag. There will be a candlelight march tomorrow and on Wednesday, a rally of members from several minority communities, at Esplanade,” he said.

BJP district president Kalyan Kumar Nandi said fingers shouldn’t be pointed at the party for the attack. “We demand the strictest punishment for whoever responsible irrespective of their political affiliation. If need be, a CBI probe should be held. Some leaders are trying to portray it as a deed of the BJP and RSS. I want to tell them that there are a huge number of Christians living peacefully in places like Goa and Chhattisgarh.”

National Institute for Gender Justice chairperson Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury, who visited the attacked church, said she would be giving a memorandum to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “How can so many persons enter the place and no patrolling car notice it? The state police is not capable of an inquiry. I would recommend an inquiry by a central agency,” she said.

The attack is reported to have lasted over three hours, from 1:30 am to about 5 am. According to sources, the gang first ransacked the school office before breaking into the convent.