George Washington played an integral part in our nation’s history and the people of his day recognized it. The first town to sponsor a public celebration of Washington’s birthday was in Richmond, Virginia in 1782. That was seven years before he even became President! George Washington died in 1799 and Congress then passed a resolution calling on the nation to observe February 22, 1800 “with appropriate activities.”
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AFA of PA encourages Christians, through education, to become involved in pro-family issues in their community, state and the nation. This is some of what has been going on in the Commonwealth and the nation.
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Since the Roman persecutions, Christianity has become the most persecuted faith in the world, with over 300 being martyred each day, or one every five minutes, mostly in communist and fundamentalist Islamic countries. The world right now is looking in the direction of China as the 2022 Winter Olympics are taking place. Much controversy surrounds the choice of Beijing for the Olympics and some are calling it the Genocide Games because of the Communist government’s human rights abuses, including the persecution of Christians.
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When a county election office does not remove the names of deceased voters in a timely fashion, that creates the opportunity for voter fraud to occur. A co-sponsorship memo is being circulated in the State Senate that would require the process to be sped up by requiring the Department of Health to notify the county within seven days rather than the current 60 days as stated in the current law.
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The word persecution is a word easily batted around here in the US, but do American Christians really know what persecution is? Christians in China do! As all eyes are on China during the Olympics, take time to pray for Christians in that repressive country.
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