August 2018

Audio sermons

Bethel FPC, September 2nd, 2018

Kilskeery FPC, August 26th, 2018.


Kilskeery FPC anniversary day of prayer,  August 19th, 2018


Kilskeery FPC open air service, Sunday August 12th, 2018.


Kilskeery FPC, Sunday August 5th, 2018

Preacher: Rev. Larrry Power


Kilskeery FPC, Sunday July 29th, 2018.

Preacher: Rev. Brian McClung


  • KICS talks. These have finished for the school year. They will recommence, DV, in September.
  • All recently added audio sermons can be seen here.

 News review for week ending Friday 31st August, 2018.

“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many,” Matthew 24:4-5.

Pope keeps silent on abuse claim letter at end of Irish visit

Pope silent on claims he covered up sexual misconduct by US cardinal following Irish visit

Pope will not say ‘a single word’ on cover-up claims

Former Vatican official: ‘Pope knew about abuse allegations and must RESIGN’

Pope on claims he covered up sexual abuse allegations: ‘I won’t say a word about it’

Call for Pope Francis to resign after new sexual abuse claims

Read more of this news review here.


Evangelical Alliance leader Peter Lynas and Maghaberry Elim’s Robbie Butler consort with Popery

Read more here (Link to the Protestant Revival website)


News review for week ending Friday 24th August, 2018

“Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,” 2 Peter 3:3.

DUP not attending Dublin Castle Pope address

Arlene Foster to miss date with Pope in Dublin

Arlene Foster turns down invitation from Irish Government to Pope’s visit

Arlene Foster ‘regretfully’ declines invitation to Pope’s speech in Dublin Castle

‘In a statement, the DUP said Mrs Foster appreciates the invitation but regretfully will be away with her family at that time.’

Are we to understand that had she not been on holiday, she would have ‘happily’ (the opposite of regretfully) attended?

If this is not the case, why did she ‘regret’ being unable to attend? Why did she not plainly say that she would not attend any gathering honouring the head of the organisation, the chief ordinance of which is spoken of as ‘a blasphemous fable and a dangerous deceit’ by her own Church of Ireland historic standards?”

Read more of the weekly news review…


“The DUP has missed an opportunity by not meeting Pope Francis on his Irish visit this weekend.”

So ran the headline of an article in the Belfast Newsletter of Saturday 25th August, the day the pope landed in Dublin. It was written by Ben Lowry, the deputy editor of the newspaper.

In the article he states two reasons for the opinion set forth in the headline.

1. ‘As Christianity in the West slowly but relentlessly declines, some aggressive secular values are prevailing. The speed with which social policies have changed on issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion, and the almost hysterical way in which traditionalists are harangued on those topics, means that Christians at times seem almost to have been browbeaten into not really stating what they think on such important matters. Read more


The Lessons of the Omagh bomb

I was reminded of this message with the recent publicity surrounding the 20th anniversary of this dastardly act by dissident IRA terrorists.

Shamefully, no one has ever been convicted of the crime even though it appears to be well known who is guilty!

The message was prepared in the morning prayer meeting just before the morning service so you will have to forgive its short-comings!

Click here to listen and to read a statement issued at the time by the Free Presbyterian ministers in the area.

The following article was published in the Burning Bush at the time.

Irish Republicans Murder 28 in Omagh

The full horror of the IRA’s 30 years of murder by bomb and bullet, almost exclusively directed against the Protestant people in Northern Ireland, has been brought home to the Roman Catholic nationalist community by the horrific bombing in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, on Saturday 15th August. Read more


Groomsport Presbyterian Church celebrates same-sex marriage of former trainee ‘minister’

(Source: Protestant Revival website) …it has recently come to our attention that Groomsport Presbyterian Church, near Bangor in County Down, has offered its support to same-sex ‘marriage’ by cheerily celebrating the recent ‘wedding’ between a former intern ‘minister’ in the congregation and her ‘girlfriend’.

In their church magazine, known as ‘Eagle Wing’, it is proudly boasted of ‘Rev’ Jennifer Barchi’s ‘marriage’ to her ‘girlfriend’. Read more

Ecumenical charismaniacs looking to Rome for revival at Nutts Corner

(Source: Protestant Revival website) The ongoing charismatic efforts to degrade the spiritual landscape in Ulster continues apace, and they will focus their efforts next month on an ecumenical prayer initiative called ‘Healing The Land’.

Indeed, the event, scheduled for Saturday, 8th September at Nutts Corner, is being marketed as for Protestant, Catholic and those of no denomination – an ecumenist’s dream.

Perhaps Nutts Corner is a very apt venue for an easy-believist event, not just because of its name but for its reputation as a place to purchase something cheaply. Read more


Presbytery Statement re Presbyterians attending the Papal Visit

Love for the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ and concern for the eternal souls of men will prevent any Bible believer from union or communion with a Roman Catholic Church that remains as contrary to Holy Scripture today as it ever has been.

  • As long as it proclaims its leader as the supreme head of the church on earth,
  • denigrates the work that Christ completed on Calvary by the pretentious teachings central to its mass,
  • refuses the scriptural way of salvation that justification is by faith alone in Christ alone,
  • fleeces its adherents by means of an imaginary purgatory,
  • and offers indulgences with as much aplomb as Tetzel managed in Martin Luther’s day,

no true Christian should engage in fellowship with this system, never mind travel to welcome its Pope. Read more


News review for week ending Friday August 17th.

“The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted,” Psalm 12:8.

Sinn Fein stop and search claims ‘nonsense’, says ex-RUC man

“Which of their claims were ever anything other than ’nonsense’??!!”


Irish unity would bring thousands of job cuts: DUP’s Hamilton

“I have often said that, if it were God’s mercy (and it was) that spared the 6 counties of the north east of Ireland from ‘Home Rule’ in June 1921, then it must be God’s judgment that delivers us under the rule of Dublin!”


William Frazer thanks everyone for support after father’s IRA murder mocked on republican bonfire

Willie Frazer hails support of nationalists over placard

“There is no limit to Irish Republicans’ depraved cruelty!!!”


Omagh bomb took my sight at 15, but I’m a mum with a family now… I can’t let myself be consumed by anger

Read the rest of the week’s news review here.


A Tribute to Mrs Anne Ferguson

Given by Rev Ivan Foster at her funeral service in Lurgan Free Presbyterian Church, August 14th, 2018, when some 600 people gathered to sympathise with and support Rev Gordon Ferguson and his family in their bereavement.

I am not a member of Anne Ferguson’s family. However, we were both members of a family God gathered unto Himself in a time of rich blessing in the mid-60s down in Co. Fermanagh.

Anne was saved on 27th April 1969. That Sabbath evening was my first in the Lisbellaw pulpit following a month-long prison term in Crumlin Road jail. Read more

Listen to the entire funeral service here.


Our unassailable God

“There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD,” Proverbs 21:30.

The day following the sodomite “Gay Pride” parade in Belfast, (Saturday, 4th August) I went to God’s house much cast down by the news reports of the support given to that evil demonstration! In a land so blessed by God over the last 500 years and more, to hear of children and babes in arms in their hundreds being brought along to such an event and being used to ‘sanitise’ this defiance of the laws of God and of nature, was most distressing.

It was in such a state of mind I went to God’s house. But it was there that God had a word for my soul! Read more


News review Friday August 10th

For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them,” Acts 20:27-30.

Peter Robinson: ‘Some refuse to talk about the elephant in the room… but it is positioning itself to squat upon their laps’

DUP row deepens as Robinson says ‘battle for the union is on’

DUP: Arlene Foster saw Peter Robinson border poll article before it was published

Robinson’s views on future border poll are spot on, insists DUP chief Foster

Read the rest of the week’s news review here.


News review Friday August 3rd

“If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself,” 1 Timothy 6:3-5.

Probe over donations to terror-linked group

Government demands answers after one of Britain’s biggest charities gives £275,000 to Irish republican group linked to banned terrorist organisation

Watchdog demands answers over claims charity gave £275k donations to INLA linked group

Human trafficking: 150 child slave victims identified (in Wales)

The trade of Antichrist’s commercial kingdom: “And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more: the merchandise of . . . . . wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men,” Revelation 18:11, 13.

Read the rest of the week’s news review here.

July 2018

Audio sermons

  • KICS talks. These have finished for the school year. They will recommence, DV, in September.
  • All recently added audio sermons can be seen here.

Prayer meeting, Cookstown FPC, July 24th, 2018.

Open air service July 22nd, 2018.

Sunday service July 15th, 2018.

Sunday services July 8th, 2018.

Sunday services June 24th, 2018.

Other recently added sermons


News review for week ending Friday 27th July 2018.

“Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?
Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?”

Romans 9:20.

 

Baby born with half a heart defies doctors to start nursery

“Doctors offered to terminate the pregnancy on three occasions.” If the medical experts had had their way this little one would have been murdered in her mother’s womb! Are they not guilty of incitement to murder?


(Northern Ireland) Anti-abortion group’s capital protest

NI abortion reform: More than 170 politicians sign letter


End of male and female ‘good for all’, Peer claims

If there was never before a reason to abolish the House of Lords (!), this evil and loony ‘Lord’ provides ample reason for the saving of wasted £millions for the nation by its termination.

See more news from the past week….


Apostolic ‘selfies’

The “Independent” newspaper reported on 8th July 2018, that, “Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte says he will quit if someone can prove God exists.” The proof the President required was “a selfie”, the modern term for “a photograph that is taken of oneself, typically with a smartphone or webcam.”

It is now more than two weeks since that news report appeared. When I read it my mental response was somewhat immediate for some of the texts I have listed in this article sprang into my mind, especially John 20:31. “But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.” The Bible is written to give documentary proof of the truth of the gospel in a style and manner acceptable in the 1st century and still employed in our courts today.

While I did not write an article right away, the matter came before me many times until I had to put pen to paper or rather, fingers to keyboard.

Here is the result. I am sending a copy to the Press Office of President Rodrigo Duterte with a request that it be passed to him.

Pray that it might be indeed brought to his attention and that God’s Word, as He wills, “shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it,” Isaiah 55:11. Read more


News review for week ending Friday 20th July 2018.

“And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he (the Lord) doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?” Daniel 4:35.

Police come under ‘prolonged and sustained attack’ as trouble continues in Bogside

New siege of Derry as the residents of Fahan Street cower and pray for relief

‘Londonderry riots being orchestrated by cowards hiding in the shadows’

Police chief says New IRA to blame for city violence

‘IRA’ blamed for Derry gun and bomb attacks

DUP slams Sinn Fein’s ‘double standards’ over city violence

 

See more of this week’s news review….


The Distress of Preaching God’s Word in a Day of Apostasy – A sad lament by a preacher to his mother!

“Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me,” Jeremiah 15:10.

This morning (July 19th) I read Jeremiah chapter 15 along with Judges 2, two of the chapters appointed for reading today for those who follow the Robert Murray McCheyne Bible Reading Calendar. Both these chapters highlight the tendency of God’s people to depart from the ways of the Lord as He sets forth in His Word and to eagerly enter the paths dictated by their own depravity. Read more


Christian Schools And The Future Of Free Presbyterianism

Recently, a visiting preacher said in a sermon in the pulpit of Kilskeery Free Presbyterian Church, that the Free Presbyterian Church had “lost a generation of children”!

I believe that was most sadly true and the reason for it has been the failure to remove our children from under the tutelage of the state system of education. It has become the main instrument of the devil and his agents for the spreading of the rejection of everything God’s Word sets forth. Sodomy, transgenderism and every form of modern, depraved philosophy has found its way into the state’s curriculum and is imposed upon the minds of the young in the classroom.

This was warned of 40 years ago when the plans for first Independent Christian School was initiated but to a very large degree the Free Presbyterian Church chose to ignore the warning and what the visiting preacher stated is the result.

Here is a message, preached 32 years ago and widely circulated repeatedly within the Free Presbyterian congregations and much further abroad. Please read it here.


In the past we mounted daily links to notable news stories in Northern Ireland and the UK with our occasional comments.

Now we are doing it on a weekly basis and also sending it out by email to those who have requested that all material mounted on The Burning Bush website be sent to them by email.

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Christian regards to all,

Ivan Foster.
13th July 2018.

News review for week ending Friday 13th July 2018.

SF still run by unelected individuals, says Martin (Fianna Fáil leader)

Defence Secretary blasted over apparent amnesty suggestion for IRA terrorists

Ruth Dudley Edwards: We can’t allow terrorists to be seen as the moral equals of legitimate state forces


Cautious DUP welcome for Chequers Brexit proposal

In the light of David Davis’ resignation and criticism of the proposal, one wonders just how much the DUP understand about Brexit!!!!

DUP ‘unhappy’ with aspects of May’s Chequers Brexit plan

Oh! They must have read my comment above!!

 

Read more of this week’s news review

 


Notice to Readers from the Editor

As from today, July 7th, 2018, we are planning to circulate any articles and recordings via email as well as mounting them on our site.

We already have a small emailing list of those who like to receive items directly to their email inbox.

Should any of our readers wish to add their address to the distribution list, please contact the Editor requesting your name be added and you will receive any new articles or audio recordings that are produced or promoted by the Editor.

– Rev Ivan Foster.


News review for week ending Friday 6th July 2018.

Malachi O’Doherty: So, Mary Lou, the RUC was disbanded? the Provos have gone away? and Gerry was never in the IRA?

Read the Belfast Telegraph article.


Protestors lose bid to overturn abortion clinic buffer zone

Read the BBC news article.

Ex-Moderator reveals anguish over Presbyterian’s same-sex row

“Asked if he saw a parallel with the way in which Christian Churches eventually had to revise their long-held – but ultimately false – position on the issue of slavery, the distinguished clergyman said: ‘I struggle with precisely that question.’ ”

This learned ‘doctor’ seems to forget that the change in the Christian view referred to was a getting into step with the Bible not, as he would wish, a defying of the Scriptures!!! Read the Belfast Telegraph article.

 

Read more of this weeks news review


THE PERVERTED THINKING OF THE REJECTER OF THE BIBLE

“Ex-Moderator reveals anguish over Presbyterian’s (sic) same-sex row.” So ran the headline in the Belfast Telegraph of July 2nd 2018.

Last month, the Presbyterian Church in Ireland’s General Assembly decided that same-sex partners could not receive communion and their children could not be baptised in the Church. Former Presbyterian Moderator Dr John Dunlop, has spoken of his personal struggle with the issues of same-sex relationships in the Church in the wake of recent controversial decisions by its ruling body.

“There are many people in the Presbyterian Church who are happy with the decisions which have been made – but then there are other people who are LGBT, or their family and friends, who have found this very unsettling,” he said. Read more


The latest evidence of Dr Joel Beeke’s links with the dreadful apostasy of today.

The President of the Martin Bucer Seminary in cosy fellowship with the Pope!

I have recently been sent some web links that serve to show further evidence of how Joel Beeke is closely allied with the “Balaams” and “Elymases” of today.

Joel Beeke, once considered a ‘fundamentalist’, cosied-up to and defended by those within the ranks of Free Presbyterianism both in the UK and USA and by English and American Baptists, is openly in fellowship with rank apostates and Romanisers such as Bishop Prof. Thomas Schirrmacher, PhD, ThD, DD.

…The German newspaper ‘Die Welt’ calls Bishop Schirrmacher one of the three leading experts on religious freedom globally and “Pope Francis’ most loved Protestant”. Read more


News review for week ending Friday 29th June 2018.

Irrevocable Anglican split on sexuality fears

You would like to think that there would be at least some who would NOT follow the lead of the apostate Welby!! Read the Newsletter report.


DUP leader Arlene Foster attends GAA final

Read the Newsletter report.

Read the BBC report.

Foster: Attendance at gaelic football final is step toward reconciliation

Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

Sinn Fein hails Arlene Foster’s visit to football final as hand of friendship

Read the Newsletter article.

Read more of this week’s news review

June 2018

New audio sermons

  • KICS talks. These have finished for the school year. They will recommence, DV, in September.
  • All recently added audio sermons can be seen here.

Sunday services, June 10th, 2018. 

Sunday services June 17th, 2018.

Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony meeting, June 22nd, 2018.

Sunday services June 24th, 2018.

 

Weekly News Review

Friday 22nd June 2018.

Nationalist bid to have Union flags removed from NI courthouses

Read the Newsletter report.

Flying union flag at courthouses in Northern Ireland unfair to nationalists, court told

The article presents a sample of the perverted logic of Irish Republicans. They are determined to remove every vestige of our ‘Britishness’ here in this part of the United Kingdom! Sadly, London aids and abets this slow political strangulation of the British citizens of Northern Ireland. Irish Republicans hate every symbol of Britishness except the £££££ on their benefits and allowance payments! Read the Belfast Telegraph report.


Arlene Foster attending LGBT event ‘important step towards dialogue’

Read the Newsletter report.

Foster attending LGBT event ‘important step towards dialogue’

Read the Belfast Telegraph article.

Arlene Foster defends decision to go to landmark LGBT event and says DUP may have lesbian and gay representatives

Read the Belfast Telegraph article

DUP must apologise for decades of ‘hurt and pain’ – LGBT people wary of Arlene Foster’s outreach

Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

The whole moral decline within the DUP becomes ever more evident. According to the DUP leader there may even be sodomite councillors and MLAs and those concerned about such developments don’t protest publicly but hide behind the party press office!
The Bible says: “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin,” James 4:17.

Mrs Foster is quoted as saying: “Just because we disagree on marriage does not mean that I can’t say that we value those who are LGBT in our society.”

Just what did the perverted citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah contribute to the well being of those cities – apart from provoking the wrath of God and bringing about their eternal damnation????

Mrs Foster will find that there is a price to pay for such an ‘about turn’!


Ruth Dudley Edwards: The protest over Peter Robinson’s professorship at Queen’s was ludicrous

Worth a read!! Read the article.

‘Republic can’t really afford united Ireland now, but if they could get Northern Ireland into a semi-detached position then perhaps they could move into a full united Ireland in 10 or 20 years…’

Certainly worth a read! Read the Belfast Telegraph article.


Pope’s ‘Nazi’ abortion remarks spark controversy ahead of Irish visit

Read the Irish News report.

McDonald calls for reality check to overcome abortion objections

The Sinn Fein president will have to one day face the reality that when she promotes abortion she is advocating a brazen defiance of God’s law which states, “Thou shalt not kill,” Exodus 20:13. There is a severe and eternal penalty for such!! Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

‘We believe in right to life – but IRA killings and abortion are different’

Here is an example of the rank hypocrisy and perverted logic of Irish Republicans!!! Read the Newsletter article.


Sinn Fein Renews its Vows to the IRA

“Comments by the Sinn Fein leader in Northern Ireland . . . . . underscore the reality that the Republican movement has not and will not change. O’Neill puts dead IRA men in the same category as the innocents they went out to slaughter when she says “We all have a right to remember our dead.”  – Jim Alister, TUV leader. Read more.

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, (retired Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C,) alleged to have sexually abused minor

And so it goes on!! Read the USA Today report.


Weekly Review of News from Northern Ireland for week ending Friday 15th June, 2018.
By Rev Ivan Foster

Sinn Féin vote to change abortion policy

The abortion of a twelve-week old unborn baby is very definitely murder.

But that is nothing new for the party that supported and still supports the murder of thousands of innocent adults in its recent terrorist war!

God’s judgment most assuredly will fall in His time on these evil people! Read the BBC report.

A reminder of the shameful Pastor McConnell saga

Worth a read! Read the Newsletter article.

Irish (Roman) Catholic hospitals ‘will have to perform abortions’

This dreadful decision by the people of Ireland will create many a conflict of conscience!! Read the BBC news story.

DUP ‘fines politicians for media interviews’

“The DUP has declined to comment on claims it fines its politicians if they talk to the media without permission.” Read the BBC news report.

Former DUP Spad acts as ‘judge, jury and executioner’ on discipline matters

Read the Newsletter report.

Northern Ireland parties slam DUP’s fines system

If this is true, and the lack of denial suggests it is, what ‘wussies’ and ‘wimps’ the modern DUP members are who submit to such procedure and what draconian measures the DUP is prepared to take in an attempt to suppress free speech!!! Read the Belfast Telegrap article.

Sinn Fein’s Gerry Kelly urges unionists to ‘reciprocate’ after shaking Prince Charles’ hand

Kelly’s demand illustrates the true nature of the ‘handshake’ – political propaganda whereby pressure can be exerted on the Unionist people to concede to Sinn Fein/IRA what their terrorist campaign of 30-odd years could  not achieve.

It also shows what a fool Prince Charles is when he was prepared to participate in such a dishonourable sham. Kelly was a leading member of the IRA terrorist campaign at the time Prince Charles’ great-uncle, Lord Mountbatten, was murdered by the IRA in 1979. Read the Newsletter report.

We all have right to remember our dead – I won’t stop doing so, says Sinn Fein’s O’Neill (SF Vice-President)

Celebrating the murder of her opponents by her terrorist compatriots is seen as quite compatible with ‘reconciliation with Unionists’. Is it any wonder Ulster Protestants reject Sinn Fein’s ‘overtures’ as utter sham! Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

Lord Alderdice resigns from Presbyterian Church.

Read the BBC news article.

Lord Alderdice resigns from Presbyterian Church following ban on same-sex relationships

‘Gasp’! How sad for that church! The Presbyterian Church rarely take a step forward, rather it has been sinking downward ever since it exonerated J E Davey of blasphemy in the 1920s and then elevated him to the moderatorship of the General Assembly in 1954.

But the resignation of Alderdice is good news for them indeed, though I am sure that some will see it as a sad loss.

The article highlights the theological loyalties of those who have objected to the PCI’s stand on sodomites, weak and all as it has been! Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

Lisburn fun run bomb: Survivor tells how IRA has caused her 30 years of suffering

Read the Newsletter report.

30 years on, RUC duo recall horror of Provos’ Lisburn Fun Run blast that left six soldiers dead in the street

How could the DUP enter power-sharing with those who supported such actions and which they claimed made them worthy of hanging! Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

Arlene Foster to attend Ramadan celebration event

No matter how her attendance is viewed it amounts to an endorsement of a heathen event! Tolerance does not require us to engage in or approve of the religion of Islam! Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

Irish laypeople lead funerals as Catholic priest numbers reach crisis point

Read the report.

Irish adoption authorities confirm many of 15,000 illegal adoptions sent to USA

Read more

UK Supreme Court states Northern Ireland abortion laws ‘incompatible with human rights’

All part of the ‘world-wide anti-God campaign’. The USA will not prosper while it embraces such wickedness! Read the article.


Pope Francis will not be coming to Northern Ireland

Praise the Lord for answered prayer. Read the Newsletter report.

Former Catholic school head Paul Dunleavy in court over child abuse claims

Read the Irish News report.

Jeffrey Donaldson’s daughter a leading campaigner for abortion reform

Jeffrey Donaldson says: ‘I brought my children up to develop their own opinions on life.’ That is not how he should have brought them up. Such are his daughter’s views that it appears she would see no wrong in aborting, murdering, a grandchild of his!
Is this not most dreadful for him to contemplate?

“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up,”  Deuteronomy 6:4-7.

Our own opinions are ever wrong and are to be rejected and the truth of God embraced. Our heart is a fountain of sin and iniquity said the Saviour.
“But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man,” Matthew 15:18-20.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9.
“Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God,” Romans 8:7-8. Read the Belfast Telegraph article.

Couple resign from Presbyterian Church as same-sex ruling row escalates

This article aptly displays the corruption that long has resided in the heart of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. The most abominable views and conduct have been tolerated and condoned.

Those who attack the recent decision on same-sex relationships have resorted to lies. One of the biggest lies is that put forth by ‘Lord’ Alderdice. He suggested the Presbyterian Church in Ireland was moving closer to Free Presbyterianism. Nothing could be further from the truth!!! The PCI, with its women ministers and elders, endorsement of modern versions, strong links to Roman Catholicism and liberal theology is far, far removed from the position and stand of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster.

God’s Word says: “no lie is of the truth,” 1 John 2:21. “ . . . in which it was impossible for God to lie,” Hebrews 6:18. “God is not a man, that he should lie,” Numbers 23:19.

The liars have but displayed the wickedness that lies at the core of the PCI!! Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

Same-sex couples welcome in Presbyterian Church – but cannot be full members

This is  far from right!

Should a person regularly coming to church drunk be welcomed? Should a burglar regularly coming to church with his pockets full of stolen property be welcomed? Should a man whose wife continually shows the bruising his brutal treatment has left be welcomed in church? Of course not.

David, in Psalm 101 verse 7 says: “He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.” No welcome here for the habitual sinner!

Daniel’s counsel to Nebuchadnezzar is also relevant here. “Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity,” Daniel 4:27.

Those who are openly engaged in what God calls an abominable relationship should  not be welcomed at church. Such a welcome endorses their continued brazen defiance of God and His Law and sends a signal that there is little wrong with their wicked lifestyle.

Christians must reject the ‘wishy-washy’ sentimentality of ‘liberal and modernistic’ neo-evangelicanism with its ‘open arms’ stance toward all. The repentant mercy-seeking sinner, whatever his/her lifestyle has been should be welcomed but not those who are merely campaigning for an acceptance of their wickedness by the professing Church of Christ!

Should those whom God has given up be welcomed in His house? “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient,” Romans 1:26-28.

It is quite obvious that the Presbyterian Church in Ireland has taken little notice of God’s view on this matter and has acted in defiance of His Word in order to placate the liberal element in the denomination!

“Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds,” 2 John 1:9-11.

Read the Newsletter report.

Billy Kennedy: Scots to blame for Presybyterian split over same-sex marriage

Mr Kennedy is a staunch member of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland and therefore defends his church’s stance in this article. He makes some good points but is wrong to defend the present stance of his church as being “Bible-led” for it falls short of that! Read the Newsletter article.

Peter Robinson’s old DUP colleagues dismiss his call over border poll

Read the Belfast Telegraph article.

Presbyterian Church in Ireland votes against gay membership

Read the BBC news report.

‘It’s a CONSPIRACY!’ Portillo has SHOCK warning as May is SURROUNDED by Remainers

Read the Daily Express report.

‘It’s not even soft Brexit – we’re not coming out!’ Peter Bone LASHES Brexit backstop deal

Read the Daily Express article.


Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland Southern Presbytery Protest to Dr J R Beeke

The protests centre upon the desecration of the Sabbath by unnecessary recreational travel in connection with Dr Beeke’s  “Rhine River Reformation Cruise”. As is in keeping with our experience of Dr Beeke, no reply to the letter of protest has been received. Read the protest here.

Here is an article I wrote on the matter last September, entitled  “Dr Beeke’s ‘Boozy’ Reformation Tour!!”, when the cruise was first advertised By Dr Beeke.

Supreme Court Abortion Judgment

Statement by TUV leader Jim Allister:-

“While it is good that the Supreme Court rejected the Human Rights Commission’s appeal, I disagree with majority view that denying abortion is a breach of human rights.

“Abortion is about killing. Before an abortion there is a living baby with a beating heart in the womb; abortion kills and removes that living creation. Thus, how anyone can think of such an act as a ‘human right’ is beyond me.”


Three people bring legal challenges against Ireland’s abortion referendum results

Read the report.

Supreme Court rejects NI abortion law case

It is clear however, that there is little sympathy for Northern Ireland’s position amongst the “Law Lords” as the report below shows!! Read the BBC report.

Top judge: NI abortion law inflicts ‘inhuman’ treatment on women

Read the Newsletter report

Varadkar ‘endorsing’ IRA terrorists by opening west Belfast festival

Read the Newsletter article.

Irish Presbyterians vote to loosen Scottish church ties

Read the BBC report.

Minister explains why he helped in baptism of child of a same-sex couple

This poor fool, long  unorthodox in his views,  is as the those described by Jude: “These . . . . clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever,” Jude 1:12-13. Read more.

DUP MLA Jim Wells compares abortion to Nazi Holocaust

Read the BBC report.

More murders under new abortion laws than in Nazi death camps: DUP’s Wells

Read the Newsletter article.

DUP’s Wells was wrong to compare abortion to Holocaust, says Arlene Foster

Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

Foster dismisses Nazi abortion comparison

Maybe Arlene Foster could explain why she thinks that what Jim Wells said was “the wrong use of language”.

Has there not been approximately the same number of unborn children murdered by abortionists as Jews murdered by the Nazis?

Or perhaps Mrs Foster does not believe that the unborn child is really a human being and is therefore something less human than the Jews that were slaughtered??

In truth her comments raise questions about the sincerity of Mrs Foster’s anti-abortion stance and that of her Party’s membership as a whole! Read the Newsletter article.

Theresa May repeats claim paramilitaries are not being investigated for Troubles killings

Why does she not do something about such a despicable state of affairs? Read the Irish Times article.

SDLP veteran: leader’s stance on abortion has disappointed grassroots

Read the Newsletter report.

(Christian Brother) Brother Paul Dunleavy charged with sex abuse against boys

Read the BBC report.


It’s OK to play sports on Sundays, but don’t miss Mass, says Vatican

The pope’s declaration indicates that he considers himself greater than the God Who commanded all men to

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Exodus 20:8-11.

Only a greater than God can alter His eternal law. Although, a blaspheming reprobate such as the pope may dare to try and raise himself above God and amend His law. Read the Catholic Herald report.

(American) Christian baker victorious in gay couple wedding cake case

Read the Irish Times report.

Trump insists on ‘absolute right’ to pardon himself

Read the Irish Times article.

DUP out of step with public opinion on abortion – Sinn Fein

The moral rule with which all should be in step is the Ten Commandments. Such a rule Sinn Fein cares nothing about since its central policy dogma is based upon murder, the murder of her opponents and now unborn children! Read the Newsletter report.

(Arlene) Foster considers attending Fermanagh’s outing in gaelic football’s Ulster Final

If she does then to please opponents she shows herself ready to offend the Lord. Breaking the Christian Sabbath is no small matter. Here is but one example of the consequences of a people desecrating God’s Holy Day.

“Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them,” Ezekiel 20:12-13.

The terrible judgments which overtook Israel at the hands of the Babylonians is clearly recorded in history. The DUP leader would be most foolish indeed to ignore the warnings of history and desecrate the Sabbath for mere political expediency. Read the Belfast Telegraph article.

The failed abortion survivor whose mum thought she was dead

This reveals the heartlessness of the abortionist!!

“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. . . . , without natural affection, ” 2 Timothy 3:1, 3. Read the BBC report.

Robert McCartney’s family urge Sein Fein’s new Belfast mayor to tell them what she saw on night of killing

Read the Belfast Telegraph report.


19th century abortion law ‘puts women in same category as rapists’

Abortion law in Ulster is older than the 19th century. It dates back to publication of God’s Law!! Read the Newsletter article.

NI same-sex couples marry in Ireland and Great Britain

The campaign against Ulster continues with this BBC pro-sodomite report. Read the BBC article.

SF voters ready to switch to DUP over abortion, claims Arlene Foster

Undoubtedly there is despair amongst many Roman Catholics over both Nationalist parties coming out in support of abortion. Sadly, it is a fact that while SF voters were content to vote for murderers some are upset at their party’s pro-abortion stance. Read more

Paisley to reveal letter from priest urging Catholics to vote for DUP

Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

Abortion row: Paisley challenged over claims priest is urging people to vote DUP

Read the Irish News report.

Row on papal indulgences offer

After making one or two good scriptural points and responding to the deceits of the priest Patrick McCafferty, sadly the Irish Presbyterian Church then adds: “ . . . we want to join with our fellow Roman Catholic citizens in welcoming Pope Francis” to his visit in Dublin this summer.”

They are happy to welcome a man who is a peddlar of lies just like the Dominican friar Johann Tetzel. This is the confused position that comes from trying to “ride two horses” as the ecumenically-inclined Irish Presbyterian Church does.

Martin Luther would not have issued such a welcome!! Read the Newsletter report.

Bishop of Derry disappointed that pontiff won’t be travelling north

We are most happy at his disappointment on this issue but sadly, those who embrace this faith have a greater disappointment ahead of them!!!! Read the Irish News article.


Special Season of Prayer for our Independent Christian school

“Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. . . . Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved, . . . Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. . . . Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved,” Psalm 80:1, 3, 7, 19.

The opening verse brings us to the days of Israel marching to the promised land. The placement of the tribes was ordained of God. The three tribes mentioned here followed after the Kohathites who carried the Ark of the Covenant, the very symbol of God’s presence amongst His people.

When the people of God are going forward as God intends them to proceed then their eyes will ever be on the blood-sprinkled Ark. It is there that God meets with us. “And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel,” Exodus 25:22



“New Wine – But the Old Spirit”

An announcement of what is nothing short of an ecumenical get together in Sligo later this year has been drawn to my attention. I just wish that the person who drew it to my notice had made themselves known for I would have liked to have thanked them for sending me the information.

The introductory announcement states:

We are called to live lives that count. Lives that count for the Kingdom and for the King. As we call out to Him together – God’s Kingdom presence breaks into this world. New Wine Ireland exists to enthuse, equip and resource the local church across Ireland for radical mission that will change this nation.

That is straight out of an ecumenical pamphlet of 60-70 years ago. The style and methods of presentation are very different, 21st century rather than 20th century, but the overt aims are the same – a uniting of all ‘churches’. Read more


Vatican ‘supports’ compulsory crosses in Bavarian public buildings, state’s prime minister says

Not surprising given the Vatican’s support for Hitler until it became obvious he was going to lose the war!!!! Read the story from the Independent.

Itinerary suggests Pope will not travel north during August visit

Surely the Roman Catholic ‘Irish News’ would not publish a lie!!!! Read the report.

Theresa May will ‘rue the day’ she calls DUP’s bluff: Nigel Dodds

Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

Ben Lowry: Simon Coveney gives succour to a dissident terrorist and still the UK stays silent

This is the nation that at the beginning of WW II, stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany!

Now it appears to tremble before a tiny state led by a sodomite and with a majority of citizens who support killing babies in the womb.

‘How are the mighty fallen’! Read the Newsletter article.

‘UN BIASED against Israel’ US vetoes Arab resolution on Gaza which ‘fails to blame’ Hamas

Read the article from the Express.


(Chief Constable) George Hamilton’s assessment of IRA (structures still remain intact) puts heat on Sinn Fein

Read the Belfast Telegraph article.

Abortion: London will not risk law change in Northern Ireland, claims DUP’s Jim Wells.

Read the Belfast Telegraph report.


Correspondence about Pope’s claims continued

There has been another round of letters to the Editor of the Newsletter. Below is a second letter from Micheal O’Cathail and a reply from Rev. Foster.

In his response (‘Popes claim to be God,’ May 18) to my letter (‘It is inaccurate to suggest that Popes claim to be God,’ May 16), the Rev Ivan Foster asks regarding his letter of May 7 “… why he (me/mise) made no reference whatsoever to them (ie Pope Boniface)”.

It’s quite simple really. There have been nine Popes named Boniface. There was Pope Boniface 1, who was a contemporary of St Augustine of Hippo, the author of the Confessions and also a discourse on The Trinity etc.; Boniface 1 was Pope from December 418 to September 422; and there was Pope Boniface 1X; he was Pope from November 1389 to October 1404; in between there were seven Popes named Boniface. As you can see, the Papacy has a long history, stretching back 2000 years to its foundation by Jesus Christ, and, in between, there have been hundreds of Popes; the Rev Foster’s first name, Ivan, also called John, is well represented among them (St John XX111 was a much loved Pope in the 20th century); my first name, Micheal, hasn’t yet made the grade to the Papacy; however an Archangel is called Micheal who is defender of the Catholic Church.

A beautiful prayer to St. Micheal was brought into use by Pope Leo X111 in 1886.

 Micheal O’Cathail, Fermanagh

Read it online here.

Rev. Foster’s reply.

Sir,

Mr O’Cathail’s reply in today’s Newsletter, if I might endow it with such a term, is a clear indication of his inability to effectively respond to my assertion that the popes have wickedly claimed to be God on earth!!
His verbal waffle and floundering around but confirms the truth of what I say.

I might also say that his assertion that the papacy was founded by the Lord Jesus Christ is a lie, equal in its abomination as the claim of the popes to be God!
I would be more than happy to discuss with him that matter, starting with the questions: ‘Why did Paul, when writing to the saints at Rome, make no reference to pope nor offer his greetings, if such a personage existed then as Mr O’Cathail claims?’

I might warn him that is only one of many questions I would be asking if Mr. O’Cathail is inclined to take up a new subject.
Silence on his part might be more discreet since he has dismally failed in his attempt to refute the claims I made in my first letter.

Respectfully,

Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd). 30th May 2018.

Read it online here.


Ireland’s death sentence for the unborn is the inevitable consequence of secularisation

A letter by Rev Ian Brown, Minister, Martyrs Memorial Free Presbyterian Church, Belfast. Read the letter here.

Pro-choice campaigners take illegal abortion pills in Northern Ireland

Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

Pro-choice campaigners take illegal abortion pills during Bus4Choice protest

Read the Irish News report.

Video: Pro-choice campaigners take illegal abortion pills in Belfast

This was a public act in the presence of the police, by which there begins the evil process of ending a human life in the womb. And this was done as a publicity stunt!

This action is an indication of the inhumanity and lawlessness of the pro-abortion lobby!!!

Read the Irish News report.

Nelson McCausland: ‘Yes’ campaign’s dirty little secret is that hard-Left fellow travellers want abortion up to birth legalised

Read the Belfst Telegraph report.

UK’s highest court to rule on Northern Ireland’s strict abortion law

Read the Belfast Telegraph article here.

Nationalists object to council’s RAF freedom of borough award

Read the Newsletter article.

May 2018

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Jim Allister: practical as well as moral concerns in abortion rape cases

Read the Newsletter article.

Taking abortion pills distributed at Belfast pro-choice rally may lead to arrest, warn police

Knowing the political cowardice of our police chiefs, that is hardly likely!! Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

DUP peer: Theresa May would regret free vote on reform of NI abortion laws

We welcome very much such comments and hope that the DUP will remain stedfast in this matter. Read the Newsletter article.

C of I bishop shares view of ‘majority of electorate’ in abortion referendum

This is the voice of ‘Ecumenical Apostasy’ which encouraged the utter rejection of God’s Word on the matter of abortion in the south of Ireland and which would encourage people to engage in the same rebellion here in Northern Ireland. Read the Newsletter report.

Police won’t give same focus to my husband’s murder as that of backpacker Inga, says widow

Political interests have always dominated the activities of the police in Northern Ireland with a blind eye often being turned upon the activities of Sinn Fein/IRA over the many years of their murderous terrorism!!

The non-prosecution of leading terrorists such as Martin McGuinness clearly demonstrated that. Read the Belfast Telegraph article.


The mob howls for blood.

At Saturday’s Irish referendum results’ announcement in Dublin Castle, Sinn Féin’s Mary-Lou McDonald and Michelle O’Neill held up a sign saying: “The North is next”.

For many of us, there was a stirring of memories of a time when IRA men have muttered those words to their next intended ‘victim’. “You’re next”!

What McDonald and O’Neill, these two highly lacquered and varnished harpies, female exponents of murdering unwanted babies, are indicating is that the position on abortion that is law in Northern Ireland will be targeted by them and their allies in the “killing babies coalition.” Read more


NI should not be bullied into ‘accepting abortion on demand’, says Ian Paisley MP

Read the Newsletter report.

The abortion referendum in the republic of Ireland: ‘INFANTICIDE ENDORSED’

A ‘Belfast Newsletter’ editorial on May 26th, the day following the “YES” vote in the referendum on the repeal of the eighth amendment of the Irish Constitution which limits the circumstances under which an abortion may take place, contained the following statements.

“We are going to have to give the matter a lot of thought in Northern Ireland too. As with many issues, from hospital rationalisation to public sector reform to social matters, Stormont fears hard choices.

The limited push for abortion reform in the last assembly struck me as one that ducked the point: the emphasis was on victims of rape or families dealing with fatal foetal abnormality. But these tragic cases are a tiny fraction of abortions.

The real debate is over abortion on demand, which has barely been discussed at Stormont. Read more

Irish Referendum decision is a grave threat to the unborn child in Northern Ireland.

Statement from Jim Wells MLA.

‘The outcome of the referendum on the 8th Amendment in the Irish Republic is an extremely worrying development for the protection of the unborn child in Northern Ireland’.

‘Not only has the Republic voted to allow what will be effectively abortion on demand, the size of the Yes majority will give TDs and Senators a mandate to introduce wide ranging, liberal legislation’.

‘It is inevitable that the abortion industry based in Great Britain will set up clinics in border towns and promote their services to Northern Ireland women. It will be much easier to terminate a child’s life if this can be done at a clinic in Dundalk or Letterkenny rather than flying to London or Manchester’.

‘Verified research has shown that the impediment of the Irish Sea has encouraged pregnant women to think again and as a result 100,000 lives have been saved in Northern Ireland’.

‘The referendum decision will mean that Northern Ireland and Malta will remain the only parts of Europe where the unborn child will have a high level of protection’.

‘The ray of hope is that our neighbours in County Donegal voted to protect the unborn child’.

‘Whilst deeply disappointed by yesterday’s vote the Pro Life movement must now redouble its efforts to prevent any change in law in Northern Ireland. I remain totally pledged to all that I can to help them achieve this’.


Changed beyond recognition: Ireland witnesses a second uprising after abortion vote

Like the first uprising, it will result in bloodshed!!! Read the Sky News report.

Irish abortion referendum: Exit polls suggest landslide for repeal

A not very surprising decision by a people reacting against the vile and perverted activities of their ‘spiritual guardian’, the Roman Catholic Church.

Sadly, the people are not turning back to God’s Word, which had been supplanted by the deceits of Rome, but embracing modern secularism and its anti-God ideology.

Poor deluded Ireland! Read the BBC news report.

Nelson McCausland: Citizenship and rights belong to unionists more than republicans and it’s time we reclaimed them

Read the Belfast Telegraph article.

Pope to grant indulgences at Dublin World Meeting of Families

“To attain a plenary indulgence Catholics must also attend confession, receive Communion, pray for the Pope’s intentions and have a heart free of sin.”

The question must be asked: ‘Why would those whose hearts are free of sin require an indulgence?’

It is the height of arrogance for a man to claim he can bestow forgiveness of sin and the whole matter highlights the deceitfulness of Popery since there is no such place as purgatory.

Proffered deliverance from a place which does not exist is surely a fraud? Read the Irish News report.

Why was Germany’s £3.6 TRILLION war debt to Britain secretly written off in 1990? Asks MP

Read the Daily Express report.


Labour’s Corbyn in snub to IRA victims’ families on Northern Ireland visit

They could hardly have expected any sympathy from him anyway!!! Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

The (Roman) Catholic nationalist Irish state alienated Protestants

Read the Newsletter article.

Sinn Fein vigil for IRA man McCreesh ‘a slap in face for Kingsmill families’, says brother of victim

Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

Free Presbyterian Church unveils its new moderator

Read the Newsletter report.

SDLP leader’s backing for abortion Yes vote ‘is political suicide’

More than that, it is above all rebellion against God and His Law and the endorsing of the murder of the unborn child! Read more.

Claims of ‘illegal’ adoption at former Marianvale home in Newry

Eternity will will disclose the full panoply of Rome’s crimes. “For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double,” Revelation 18:5-6. Read more.

Pope Francis praised for telling gay man ‘God made you like this’

There is no praise from God for this abominable liar and this his latest monumental lie! “And he (the Lord Jesus) answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,” Matthew 19:4. “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination,” Leviticus 18:22.
To make God the author of such wickedness is the ultimate blasphemy! Read more.

Australian archbishop faces prison over sex abuse cover up

He faces something much more terrible than prison!!! Read more.

PROTEST AGAINST THE DESECRATION OF THE LORD’S DAY,

Report from Rev Paul Hanna

We had a mighty open-air service today at the Mt Merrion entrance of the Kingspan Ulster Rugby stadium.

We were joined by over 30 willing participants from many of our churches from near and far including Revs P. Foster, B. McClung, D. McLaughlin and myself from the Belfast Churches.

We assembled directly opposite the main entrance where we’d a great opportunity to present Christ to the multitudes of people as they passed by.

The couple of thousand special tracts (commissioned by the Government and morals committee for the occasion) were almost entirely used up, and it has to be said afterwards that not one was seen (by this preacher) discarded on the ground.

All four ministers took part, each bringing a short word in the Gospel with much bright singing as well (musical accompaniment provided by one of our very capable College students).

Many thanks to those who supported us in any way.

Some pictures from the protest are below.


Diocese of Dromore confirms PSNI investigate priest

Read the BBC news report.

Northern Ireland priest steps aside as police probe ‘historic safeguarding allegation’

Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

DUP’s William McCrea is ‘humbled and honoured’ to receive a peerage

Read the Belfast Telegraph report.


Sinister posters in Belfast tell Gerry Adams that ‘the IRA is going nowhere’

Read the Belfast Telegraph article

Letters to the Editor of the Belfast Newsletter regarding the proposed visit of the Pope to N. Ireland

The following is in response to Rev. Foster’s original letter.

Ben Lowry got a good roasting from the Rev Ivan Foster (Ret), along with His Holiness, Pope Francis, in the News Letter (‘Lowry saying NI should welcome Pope is example of ignorance of Rome’s teachings,’ May 7).

The Rev Foster writes: “…Ben Lowry believes we should all welcome to Northern Ireland (is) one who exceeds all other deceivers. He (Pope Francis) claims to be God on earth!” and “Mr Lowry’s stance is an indication of the gross ignorance that exists on the historic position of the Reformed Church on the teachings of Rome.”

Read more, including Rev. Foster’s follow up letter.


Daughter of top republican waives anonymity in abuse compensation bid

Read the Newsletter report.

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Whether naive, or arrogant, Varadkar and Coveney are crossing the line on Northern Ireland affairs

Read the Belfast Telegraph article

DUP provoke anger after accusing Irish government of ‘Brit-bashing’ over Brexit

Read the Irish News report.

Irish hotel cancels Harry and Meghan wedding event after complaints by republicans

With ‘neighbours’ like this who needs enemies!!! Read the Belfast Telegraph report

Jim Allister: It is time to stop pandering to SF and get on with direct rule

Read the Newsletter article.

(Sinn Feiner) Orfhlaith Begley: Reconciliation doesn’t mean having to give up your ideals

But it does mean that you have to cease admiring and celebrating the murderous deeds of your predecessors!!!! Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

Former Conservative Party chairman Lord Tebbit snubs Sunday services conducted by a gay dean the Tory peer has branded a ‘sodomite’

Lord Tebbit is boycotting the cathedral near him in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

His comments were condemned, with calls for him to be expelled from the party
The 87-year-old Tory grandee is adamant that the canon of St Edmundsbury Cathedral is a ‘sodomite’

Lord Tebbit has provoked outrage by vowing to boycott services conducted by a gay dean the Tory peer has branded a ‘sodomite’.

The former Conservative Party chairman has been attending the cathedral near his home in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, for nine years but has told The Mail on Sunday he will no longer go there when the recently appointed Rev Canon Joe Hawes is officiating. Read more

In this article, an opponent of Lord Tebbit has said that his Christianity was ‘skin deep’. If that is so, it is still a lot deeper than the ‘Christianity’ of the sodomites who now seem to dominate politics and the main denominations!!


Vineyard Church leader Alan Scott says Mary worship is fine and that he’s ‘all in’ with the Pope

The lead pastor of the Causeway Coast Vineyard church in Coleraine has declared his solidarity with the Pope, saying he is “all in” with that man of sin, and son of perdition.

Alan Scott (pictured, top) is the leader of the charismatic grouping and he has firmly nailed his colours to the Romanist mast with his shameful comments. Read more on the Protestant Revival website.


Affair claims leave DUP MP’s children ‘gutted’ – Simpson’s alleged lover refuses to talk

A tragic betrayal indeed and not just of his family, who are worthy of prayerful sympathy!

It is reported that David Simpson’s local Church Session has disciplined him. I understand that this discipline may have been exercised quite some time before the matter became public.

Read the news report.

DUP tight-lipped over ex-mayor Hogg on drink driving charge

It does not pay for a political party to profess allegiance to the moral standards of the Bible and then to surreptitiously seek to abandon that position! Read more.

Files detail cover-up of 1922 IRA murder of six Protestants

In light of the prevarications of Adams and McGuinness and Co, we can say that nothing has changed in 100 years!! Read the BBC report.

Ben Lowry: If legacy structures make IRA and state seem equally at fault it will be the final moral collapse

Well worth a read as it highlights the shame of the present campaign to prosecute soldiers while IRA murderers have been pardoned and released from prison!!! Read the Newsletter report.

DUP MP Sammy Wilson accuses Coveney of being ‘belligerent, interfering and a Brit basher’ after Brexit comments.

Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

Dublin using Brexit to break up UK: DUP MP

As they have sought to exploit every other political development to that end!!! Read the Newsletter report.

Trainee priests found in bed together sent back to Ireland from Rome

Oh do indeed. They are just what Ireland needs!!!! Read the report.


(Irish Republic’s foreign minister Simon) Coveney under fire for his comments on jailed dissident

Such comments reveal the true heart of Dublin’s government. Beneath the smarmy words of ‘peace and goodwill’ toward Northern Ireland is support for terrorists. It has always been so!

“The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords,” Psalm 55:21.

Read the Newsletter article.

No PSNI investigation into IRA bomber’s claims

What more do the police require of a murderer than a very public ‘confession’ of terrorism!!?? Read the Newsletter report.

Nelson McCausland: Tyrone-born republican Joe McGarrity was the IRA’s go-between with German regime

Only Irish Republicans would honour such a man!!! Read the Belfast Telegraph report.

IRAN FIRES BACK: Middle East chaos as rockets shots across Syria – Tehran takes on ISRAEL

Read the Daily Express report.

‘There’s clear justification’ Former Israeli General warns country READY for war with Iran

Read the Daily Express report.


LOUGHGALL: How the SAS wiped out ‘invincible’ IRA unit in just 10 minutes

London’s treachery toward Ulster’s Unionist people stopped this sort of effective action being taken early in the IRA campaign when hundreds of lives, the injuries of thousands and the sorrow and grief the terrorists caused could have been greatly avoided.

What an inquest, to which the traitors in London will be summoned, God will institute one day!! Read the Newsletter report.


1966 Imprisonment of three ministers – Its Cause, Circumstances and Consequences

(Lurgan Young People’s Fellowship, 4th May 2018)

Thank you for your invitation to speak on the events surrounding the 1966 jailing of three Free Presbyterian minsters. This is the first invitation to speak specifically on this topic that I have received in recent years.

Please note the words of Jeremiah 11:7.

“For I earnestly protested unto your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even unto this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice,” Jeremiah 11:7.

The Lord, through His servants, exercises a ministry of protest. Read more




Letter to the Deputy Editor, Belfast Newsletter

Sir,

Ben Lowry, Deputy Editor of the Belfast Newsletter, could not be more wrong when he argues that the so-called ‘Protestant’ church leaders are right in saying that the pope should come to Northern Ireland. (Newsletter, Saturday 5th May.)

How can such men be right when they deny the Bible and the historic doctrines of their respective denominations?

Mr Lowry further argues that because “almost everybody of note ultimately comes to Northern Ireland at some point in their life, from Chinese or American or European leaders, to sports and music stars and business and religious leaders, including the Dalai Lama.” Read more


Widow recalls murder of young binman 30 years ago

A sad but all too familiar story for those of who lived through the evil days of SF/IRA’s terrorism. Read the Newsletter report

Free Presbyterian church: We support Ireland’s 8th because abortion is a rebellion against God that can never be justified

A most welcome statement. Read the Newsletter article.

DUP MP Simpson forced to leave family home over affair claim

Read the Belfast Telegraph report


Protestant church leaders urge Pope Francis to come north

Such urgings by these men show just how far these three denominations have moved from the Bible and from the fundamentals of their own creeds. Just how do they explain this shift in their theological position in the light of the revelation of God’s immutability in such verses as: “But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end,” Psalm 102:27. “For I am the LORD, I change not,” Malachi 3:6.  “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever,” Hebrews 13:8. “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning,” James 1:17.

Modern, mainline denominations have removed themselves far from the unchanging and unchangeable TRUTH of God and are part of the end-time apostasy foretold in God’s Word.
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils,” 1 Timothy 4:1.

Read the Irish News report here.

Enniskillen bomb: (Roman Catholic) Church formally rejects memorial memorial plan for victims of IRA Enniskillen bomb

It is the words ‘murdered by the IRA’ that sticks in popery’s craw!!!

Read the Newsletter report.

Read the Belfast Telegraph report

Victims tell Spanish government: don’t repeat NI mistakes with ETA

Read the Newsletter report here.

West Tyrone by-election: Arrest after man ‘threatens unionists with handgun’ at Greencastle polling station

Read the Irish News report here.


The culture of death is on the march across Europe. Soon it will be here, too

An thought-provoking look at the tragic last days of baby Alfie Evans. Read the Fox news report here.

Vatican’s top man in Australia ordered to stand trial for child abuse

Cardinal George Pell pleads ‘not guilty’ to child sexual abuse charges but must stand trial, court rules Read more

Report: U.S. officials say Israel preparing for war with Iran in Syria

Read the Jerusalem Post report here.

Backlash against Varadkar as he ‘waltzes’ into NI

Such behaviour is in keeping with the arrogant claim of the Irish Republic of ‘owning’ Northern Ireland, a claim they supposedly relinquished back in 1999 in an effort to appease Unionists longstanding anger at such political arrogance.
The DUP may complain but what can they expect when they have surrendered all in order to enter power-sharing with Sinn Fein/IRA back in 2007 and, despite all that has happened since, would renew that coalition with the supporters of murder tomorrow if they could!!! Read more

Lord Kilclooney accused of racism after calling Taoiseach (Leo Varadkar) ‘typical Indian’

Read the Irish Times report here.

ROMISH HOODWINKING AND EPISCOPALIAN HYPOCRISY

“First ever beatification in Ireland to take place next month”. So ran the headline in ‘The Irish Times’ newspaper on Monday 17th April 2018.

The article not only highlighted the folly of Rome and her “saint-making’, but it revealed the Bible-denying apostasy of the Episcopalian Church of Ireland!

The article begins by stating: “The late Jesuit priest Fr John Sullivan, who was raised a Protestant, is to be declared “blessed” at a ceremony which will be attended by both the Church of Ireland and Catholic Archbishops of Dublin. In a year which also marks the Reformation’s 500th anniversary, it is the first ever beatification in Ireland – a major step on the path to sainthood – and will also involve Cardinal Angelo Amato, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Causes of Saints. The event will take place on May 13th at the Jesuit’s St Francis Xavier Church on Dublin’s Gardiner Street, a short distance from Eccles Street where Fr Sullivan was born in 1861.” Read more

Two wanted men beaten with iron bars by a gang in south Armagh before being covered in paint

‘Up to 100’ witnessed Mullaghbawn vigilante attack

Those attacked were paedophiles! Those involved in the attack were most likely Sinn Feiners for there are few else living in south Armagh! They were therefore supporters of same sex-marriage and the ongoing plan by the Irish Republic’s government to bring in much more liberal ‘abortion’ laws.
How two-faced are Ireland’s popish political and religious systems! They can put on the false face of so-called liberal socialism and call for an embracing of the community of the sodomite and then beat two of that community to a pulp when they fall into their hands.
They are just like the lawless men of Sodom long ago!

“And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door,” Genesis 19:9.

As evangelical Protestants, we have been campaigning for No in Republic’s 8th referendum

Read the Newsletter report.

Shocking account of Jean’s murder told by now-dead Dolours Price in new documentary

Read the Belfast Telegraph report

New royal baby named Louis in tribute to IRA victim Mountbatten

Read the Belfast Telegraph report

BREXIT WARNING: Theresa May to be OUSTED as PM if she surrenders on customs union, says MP

Read the Daily Express story.

‘Evil’ Mass claim defended

We offer our congratulations to Rev Peter McIntyre and trust that good will come of this extra publicity. Read the report here.