IN the NEWS - Over 1,000,000 Leave United Methodist in one day

You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice. 

Exodus 23:2

"The United Methodist Church in the Ivory Coast voted on May 28 to exit the denomination in response to the church’s decision to approve gay pastors and same-sex marriage at its governing General Conference earlier this month.

In 2022, this conference reportedly had over 1.2 million members. So, its departure means over one tenth of United Methodism has—in one day—left the denomination.

“For reasons of conscience before God and His word, the supreme authority in matters of faith and life,” the annual conference of the United Methodist Church of Ivory Coast (EMUCI, Eglise Méthodiste Unie Côte d’Ivoire), gathered for an extraordinary session on May 28 in Abidjan, and decided “to leave the United Methodist Church denomination.”

The annual conference of EMUCI, through a statement from its president, Bishop Benjamin Boni, declared that “the United Methodist Church now rests on socio-cultural values that have consumed its doctrinal and disciplinary integrity.”

The decision follows the early May 3 vote at the United Methodist Church General Conference in the United States to lift the ban on ordaining gay pastors and officiating same-sex marriages. 

For EMUCI, which joined the United Methodist Church in 2002, this now apostate church “deviates from the Holy Scriptures” and prefers “to sacrifice its honor and integrity to honor the LGBTQ community.” 

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IN the NEWS - Prince of Persia still Haunting Africa & Asia

More Man Made Chaos--luciferian inspired--grips Africa & Asia. It never ends. The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9 ...humans, by choice, are responsible all through history for our pain and suffering on this planet...stop blaming God.

---the Lesson in Theodicy---

a] God didn't tell people in Birkina Faso to follow a false god named allah and go on holy jihad.

b] God didn't tell French speaking Africans to kill English speaking ones over---Language.

c] God didn't tell Islamist Jihadis to attack the Ivory Coast.

d] God didn't tell the Burmese government, that for racist reasons, destroyed the rice supply of others, to do it.

e] God didn't cause the volcanic eruption that was brought about by geological forces messed up below our crust thanks to the global flood brought upon the earth by the sins of pre-flood peoples.

 

"More than 7,000 people have fled Burkina Faso's volatile north following the bloodiest massacre in a six-year jihadist insurgency. At least 138 men, women and children were "executed" and nearly 40 were seriously wounded. 

Also, the US has brought in visa restrictions on those it believes are standing in the way of a peaceful resolution of Cameroon's Anglophone crisis. Worsening violence in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions is taking an increasingly heavy toll on civilians, with renewed attacks against schools and a spate of incidents involving improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and extrajudicial killings documented in recent months.These attacks are the latest escalation in the nearly five-year conflict between government security forces and armed separatists which has displaced more than 700,000 civilians...The Anglophone conflict began in late 2016 when government security forces used lethal force to put down peaceful marches by lawyers and teachers protesting against perceived marginalization by the country’s majority Francophone government.

In response, more than 30 armed separatist groups formed to fight for an independent nation they called Ambazonia. A self-declared Interim Government of Ambazonia also emerged and is run largely by Anglophone Cameroonians living in Europe and the United States.

Separatists are known locally as “the boys” and consider themselves “restorationists” or “freedom fighters”. Representatives from the Cameroonian government refer to them as “terrorists” in public statements.

 

A soldier was killed in an attack in northeastern Ivory Coast near the border with jihadist-hit Burkina Faso, the military said Tuesday.

“Armed individuals” late Monday attacked the village of Tougbo in the district of Bouna, the armed forces headquarters said in a statement.

An Ivorian soldier died of his wounds, it said, citing a provisional toll.

 

The Myanmar army (Tatmadaw) is destroying tons of sacks of rice that had been stored and preserved to feed the internally displaced

people in the village of Loi Ying Taungche, near the city of Moebye...the popular defense forces have been fighting the Burmese military since May..... a strong food crisis is expected, purposely induced by the armed forces to stop any popular resistance. The violence against the civilian population who suffer even leads to the destruction of stocks of medicines and small health dispensaries organized by the people of the villages. The Burmese army, notes the source of Fides, uses the "policy of the four cuts": cutting off all

 

 access to food, 

communications, 

transport 

and finances, 

to reduce the population to its limit, in a work of indiscriminate violation of human rights and ferocity perpetrated on innocent people.

 

Finally, evacuees from DR Congo's Goma have started returning to the volcano-hit city."

France24/AJ /Fides