March 2025

• Alliance Defending Freedom: Holy Sexuality vs. Asana; ADF Center for Free Speech files lawsuit on behalf of Holy Sexuality in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
• Pacific Justice Institute: Public Education Religious Rights (CA); free booklet access/download (Ex: CA public school students are allowed to distribute religious materials (tracts), witness their faith; bring Bibles to school; hold prayer meetings ...)

The Bible says: 'You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.' -Matthew 16:3

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PHOTOS: At least eight contrails (some say 'chemtrails') are visible in the southwestern Riverside County sky (L), March 9, 2025. The contrails spread -- clear, blue sky became overcast. As forecast, it rained for four days. -Photo InterChurch News

Contrails ...

-Photos InterChurch News

February 2025

• Intercessors for America: Daily morning prayer for America
• Decision Magazine: Anchor Stone Christian Church sues City of Santa Ana for prohibiting worship services -- after allegedly granting prior approval 
• Calif. Family Council; Vista HS required students to role play LGBT 'coming out,' failed to notify parents 

The Bible Says ... 'And the rib that the LORD GOD had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.' -Genesis 2:22

The Bible Says ... 'Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing ...' -Isaiah 43:18, 19

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COVER PHOTO: President Donald Trump (L) signs 'Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports' Executive Order, February 5th. - 'X" screenshot InterChurch News

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.Rediscovering

Trail Hikes .

Riverside County provides three public campgrounds in the San Jacinto Mountains: Idyllwild Regional Park, Hurkey Creek Park and McCall Memorial Park. .

Campsite nightly rates are $30-$35 and well worth it  -- they offer clean campsites and restrooms, water spickets throughout each park, fire pits, bench's and access to hiking trails. Each park offers Day Use only areas.

McCall Park offers equestrian accomodations at campsites. 

Hiking trails in San Jacinto Mountains beats working out on a treadmill -- by a mile. A Word of Caution: make sure cellphone is fully charged. Take food, water, headlamp, poncho and compass in daypack. Stick to your pre-planned turn-around time; hiking trails after sunset is high risk for novices. Call 911 if you've lost the trail. The RIVCO Sheriff's Department rescues hikers -- but if you've lost cellphone charge, you will be harder to locate.

.San Jacinto Mountains, President's Day weekend

.-Photo Essay InterChurch News 

PHOTOS: San Jacinto Mountain Range (top, L), Apache Peak area (Middle, L), Manzanita regrowth (Middle, R).

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January 2025

• CBN News-Israel: Israel October 7 War
• L.A. Fire Info: Airbnb partnering with 211 LA  to offer limited free temporary housing for residents displaced or forced to evacuate; free limited Lyft, Uber drives offered; temporary animal shelter
• Harvest Relief Fund: SoCal Fires, help provide emergency medical care, food, shelter -- assist first responders, support local churches
• CBN News: As 'Apocalptic' wildfires ravage L.A., pastors minister hope amidst devastation 
• California Family: Faith under Fire -- The purge of Calif. Christian foster parents 
• ACLJ: Our client didn't become a nurse to kill the unborn
• Decision: Billy Graham chaplains deploy to New Orleans after attack

The Bible Says ... 'By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.' -1 John 5:2

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Cover photo: La Jolla Sea Caves, Christmas 2024. -Photo InterChurch News

Remembering the 21 Christian martyrs

of February 15, 2015

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'Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus

and for the word of God,

and those who had not worshipped the beast

or its image and had not received its mark

on their foreheads or their hands.

They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.'

-Revelation 20:4-5

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'In 2015 21 Coptic Christians were beheaded by ISIS on a beach in Libya. ISIS released a video of the beheadings that was intended to terrorise Christians in the Middle East. Yet this very video is watched repeatedly by the families of the martyrs: they are inspired by the calmness and courage of their men. Why are Coptic Christians encouraged rather than terrorised by the video?

Martin Mosebach, an award-winning journalist, travelled to the village that was home to 16 of the martyrs, to interview their families, church leaders and others. His inspiring investigation describes the primitive faith of Egyptian Christians, who have been using the same creed and liturgy since AD42, and how they live in the face of persecution in a Muslim-majority country.'

For more information, refer to Release International ministry to order

'The 21 -- A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs'

by Martin Mosebach

Further references:

1. 'Do This For Love -- Free Burma Rangers in the Battle of Mosul' by David Eubank with Hosannah Valentine, 2020
2. 'The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East -- Prevention, Prohibition & Prosecution' Edited by Ronald J. Rychlak, Jane F. Adolphe, 2017
3. Wikipedia: 2015 kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya
4. 'The Global War on Christians -- Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution' by John L Allen Jr., 2013
5. 'Tortured for Christ' by Richard Wurmbrand, 1967. 'I tremble for Western Christians who don't help their persecuted brethren. In the depth of my heart, I would like to keep the beauty of my own vineyard and not be involved in such a huge fight. I would like so much to be somewhere in quietness and rest. But it is not possible ... the quietness and rest for which I long would be an escape from reality and dangerous for my soul ... the West sleeps and must be awakened to see the plight of the captive nations.' 

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