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Satan & Beach Boys

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Infrequently, I will watch a documentary on a rock group. This time it was The Beach Boys: An American Band. Usually, the documentary will raise questions so I’ll spend a short amount of time investigating. When I saw the title of another movie called The Beach Boys and Satan, I had to take a detour and find out what that was all about. After learning about Jeffrey Epstein, the following will sound all too familiar. As far as I can tell, it is probably all true.

Perhaps the most condemning charges came from Spector’s two adopted sons, Donte and Gary Spector, who revealed horrors from the childhoods to the Mail in December 2003. ‘For years, we were just caged animals to be let out for Dad’s amusement,’ Donte Spector said. Their father’s abusive behavior toward them increased after his divorce from Ronnie Spector. Donte claimed that as a child, ‘he was forced to perform simulated intercourse with his father’s girlfriend.’ At the age of 9, he was blindfolded and handcuffed ‘for her amusement.’ Gary Spector said that he was also blindfolded and sexually molested, told by his father that it would be a ‘learning experience.’ The brothers concurred that they were held prisoner on Spector’s estate where the windows in the house were secured with bars and barbed wire. ‘We were locked in our separate rooms by our governess, let out for breakfast, then taken to school by guards,’ Gary said.” (emphasis added) From https://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Rock-n-Roll/beach_boys.htm

1 John 2:15-17 Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.

Learning about the Beach Boys certainly makes you want to stop the world and get off!

My Church, My Government

Five Family Members Among Eight Christians Arrested In Bushehr

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Jul 3, 2019
Source: Article18

Left to right: Pooriya Peyma, Fatemeh Talebi, Maryam Falahi, Sam Khosravi, Khatoon Fatolahzadeh, Sasan Khosravi, Marjan Falahi, and Habib Heydari

Eight converts to Christianity, including five members of one family, were arrested in the southwestern city of Bushehr on Monday, 1 July.

The arresting officers introduced themselves as agents from the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS).

They stormed the Christians’ homes in a coordinated operation at around 9am, confiscating Bibles, Christian literature, wooden crosses and pictures carrying Christian symbols, along with laptops, phones, all forms of identity cards, bank cards and other personal belongings.

Arresting agents also searched the work offices of at least two Christians and confiscated computer hard drives and security-camera recordings.

The officers are reported to have treated the Christians harshly, even though small children were present during the arrests.

Article18’s sources confirmed the names of the arrested Christians as Sam Khosravi, 36, and his wife Maryam Falahi, 35; Sam’s brother Sasan, 35, and his wife Marjan Falahi, 33; Sam and Sasan’s mother, Khatoon Fatolahzadeh, 61; Pooriya Peyma, 27, and his wife Fatemeh Talebi, 27; and Habib Heydari, 38.

Khatoon Fatolahzadeh, whose arrest came after six cars carrying security officials turned up outside her home, was released the same day due to her age.

Article18 understands that the rest of the Christians remain detained, with no access to lawyers, and are being held in solitary confinement in the MOIS office in Bushehr.

These latest arrests bring the number of Christians arrested in Iran this year to at least 34: eight in Bushehr, nine in Rasht, 12 in Amol, two in Ahvaz, and one each in Hamedan, Shiraz and Isfahan. For security reasons, it has not yet been possible for Article18 to report fully on each incident.

In May, Iran’s Intelligence Minister, Mahmoud Alavi, openly admitted to summoning Christian converts for questioning, saying mass conversions were “happening right before our eyes”.

Speaking in London yesterday, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, Javaid Rahman, branded the treatment of Christian converts in Iran as “very disturbing”, saying it was something he was “personally concerned about”, and pledging that in the coming years he will “look into the issue very seriously”.

This isn’t the first incident to have affected Christians in Bushehr. In April, Article18 reported that 16 other converts from Bushehr lost their appeals against prison sentences for “propaganda activities against the regime through the formation of house churches”.