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This letter by Samuel Morrison, Press officer of the Traditional Unionist Voice party, appeared in yesterday’s ‘Belfast Newsletter’ (15th Dec 2022).

I commend it to you for it very concisely illustrates just how ‘glorifying and praising the IRA’ has become publicly acceptable to the nationalists of Ireland, North and South, despite the atrocities, carried out by that terrorist organisation, fronted by Sinn Fein, against Protestants and Roman Catholics.

How quickly murderers and terrorists become ‘paladins’ worthy of praise.

It is but Irish history repeating itself. Murderers from within the ranks of the ‘anti-treaty’ rebels of the 1922/3 Irish Civil War were soon elevated to ministerial status in the early years of the Dublin government.

Sincerely in Christ’s name,

Ivan Foster

Samuel Morrison: Troubling conclusions over how ‘up the Ra’ became acceptable

UEFA’s decision to fine the Football Association of Ireland €20,000 after their women’s team celebrated victory over Scotland by singing “up the Ra” should cause many to reflect.

When the controversy first broke the song from which the chant is derived, Celtic Symphony by the Wolfe Tones, rocketed to the top of the Irish charts. Before that, the chant was familiar to people well outside the confines of republican bars. The prominence of the song at the publicly-funded concert which rounds off the West Belfast Festival has angered those who suffered at the hands of the Provisional movement for years.

When the video of the Republic’s team singing the song emerged, Michelle O’Neill refused to offer an opinion saying that the FAI had issued a statement and “we should leave it at that”.

Recent polling suggests most of our nationalist neighbours share her nonchalant attitude to the offence caused. Seven out of 10 nationalists agree with Ms O’Neill’s contention that there was “no alternative” to the IRA’s 30-year campaign of terror. (more…)

This is welcome news though we believe that it does not indicate that such sentiments will not emerge again in the future when it is deemed by ‘the powers that be’ that the time for such a move against the Bible is apposite!

The Lord Jesus indicates clearly to us that the worldling has an undying hatred of His Word and will, when it is thought the time is right, ever seek to silence it.

He said to the  Pharisees: “I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you,” John 8:37. They hated the Living Word, the Lord Jesus and put Him to death and they and all of their ilk, would seek to silence the Written Word. “Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man’s blood upon us,” Acts 5:28.

It is the Christian’s duty to ever defy such interdicts by the enemies of the gospel, though it is only by the Lord’s grace that this can be done.

This latest development in this controversy is most welcome and we say in response to it: “This is the LORD’S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes,” Psalm 118:23.

I sincerely thank Baroness Hoey, an Ulster women who has sought to uphold the cause of Ulster time and again, for obtaining this response.

I am including a copy of an email I sent to Baroness Hoey, thanking her for her efforts. (more…)