![]() ![]() Or that they are backing a pro-Trump, anti-gay message. Most people packing up shoeboxes don’t know they are used for anti-Muslim proselytising. Every Muslim that comes into this country has the potential to be radicalised – and they do their killing to honour their religion and Muhammad.” We should stop all immigration of Muslims to the US until this threat with Islam has been settled. On Facebook he wrote, “We are under attack by Muslims at home and abroad. And I believe that at this election, God showed up.” He told the Washington Post that God had intervened to cause Trump’s election: “I could sense going across the country that God was going to do something this year. Strongly anti-gay and anti-same-sex marriage, Graham defended Russian president Vladimir Putin’s “gay propaganda” law, praising him for “protecting children from any homosexual agenda or propaganda”. In an interview with Newsmax, Graham claimed that Obama had “allowed the Muslim Brotherhood to become part of the US government and influence administration decisions”. He spoke at the inauguration of both George W Bush and Donald Trump. The man who runs the Samaritan’s Purse, which has a £16m annual income, is Rev Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. ‘The man who runs the Samaritan’s Purse, which has a £16m income, is the strongly anti-gay and anti same-sex marriage Rev Franklin Graham.’ Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Angella reads the gospel booklet to her family. That day their 12-year-old daughter Angella received an Operation Christmas Child shoebox gift from the local church. “Christmas is all about the unexpected: an angel appearing to shepherds, a virgin conceiving, God becoming man … Something unexpected and wonderful began among the Kulemba family of Malawi, a country in southern Africa. ![]() Since then she’s led her Muslim family to Christ. “157 million children in over 160 countries have experienced God’s love through the power of simple shoebox gifts from Operation Christmas Child.”Ī story from its website tells how a shoebox converted a Muslim family to Christianity: “Angella received an Operation Christmas Child shoebox filled with presents last year at this time. After the boxes are dispatched, they are then delivered along with a missionary book of bible stories, The Greatest Gift, with “the 12 Bible lessons offered by many of the churches distributing shoeboxes,” according to the Samaritan’s Purse website. It’s run by Samaritan’s Purse, fundamentalist American evangelical Christian missionaries. Many good-hearted packers of shoeboxes know little of the organisation behind this scheme. The sort of countries that, indeed, as in the awful song, do not know it’s Christmastime at all. Wales Online reports that Glamorgan cricket team and the Cardiff Blues rugby club are also supporters of the scheme, the former reporting last year that they had helped to load “over 10,000 gift boxes on to vehicles leaving the south Wales depot for a destination in Albania”.Īlbania? That’s the clue – a mainly Muslim country, the kind of place where most of these shoeboxes are destined.
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