War on Christianity > The godless cancel Christian Music concerts in the Maritimes

 

Public Venues Cancel Christian US Musician’s Concerts in Maritimes, Citing ‘Safety Concerns’

Chandra Philip

7/23/2025|Updated: 7/23/2025

Christian musician Sean Feucht of California sings during a rally at the National Mall in Washington on Oct. 25, 2020. Jose Luis Magana/AP

Parks Canada, the City of Charlottetown, and Moncton have revoked permits for separate performances by a U.S. Christian artist, citing “safety and security” concerns at the concerts.

Sean Feucht was scheduled to perform at York Redoubt National Historic Site (Halifax, N.S.) on July 23, followed by events in Moncton and Charlottetown on July 24. Feucht is a Christian performer who describes himself as a missionary, musician, and author. He has spoken out against gender ideology and abortion.

Parks Canada said members of the public had “expressed concern” about the concert at the York Redoubt site, a British fort built in 1793.

“Due to evolving safety and security considerations based on confirmation of planned protests, input from law enforcement, and the security challenges with the configuration of York Redoubt, Parks Canada has reassessed the conditions of the permit and potential impacts to community members, visitors, concert attendees and event organizers,” Parks Canada told The Epoch Times in an email.

The safety and security concerns stem from the intolerance of LGBTQ people and the possibility of their bringing violence to the concerts. It's a shame Parks Canada and city councils have surrendered to that threat of violence. It would seem the rights of godless people exceed the rights of the godly.

Parks Canada noted that it did not organize the event, but had notified the organizer that the permit was revoked due to “heightened public safety concerns.”

The Epoch Times contacted Feucht for comment but did not hear back by publication time.

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The show will go on in a new venue, the performer said in a video posted on Facebook.

He noted Halifax recently celebrated Pride events in the city, “but now they’re not so tolerant when peaceful Christians want to come together.”

“This is not the hour to back down. This is not the hour to cower,” he said in the video.

The performance has been moved to a location in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, about 60 kilometres north of Halifax, according to Feucht’s Facebook page.

The concert is a kick off to Feucht’s “Revive in 25” tour in Canada.

Moncton, Charlottetown Cancellations

The City of Moncton and the City of Charlottetown have also both cancelled Feucht’s concerts scheduled in their respective cities.

A post from the City of Moncton said it had cancelled Feucht’s July 24 concert because the event was “non-compliant” with its code of conduct for city facilities.

“In addition, due to evolving safety and security considerations, including confirmation of planned protests, the City has determined that the event poses potential risks to the safety and security of community members, event attendees, and organizers,” the city said in a statement posted to Facebook on July 23.

It said the event organizer had been notified and the city was “committed to creating a respectful, positive, and safe environment” for those using municipal facilities. It also said it was the city’s responsibility to ensure its public spaces are “used in a manner consistent with community standards.”

The City of Charlottetown said it had also revoked a permit for a July 24 performance by Feucht.

“After consultation with Charlottetown Police Services, the City of Charlottetown has notified the organizer of an event scheduled for July 24 at Confederation Landing that their permit has been revoked due to evolving public safety and security concerns,” the city said in a social media post, adding that public safety is the city’s “top priority.”

It previously said concerns had been voiced about Feucht’s appearance by “members of the public.”

“This is not a City-sponsored event and while a permit was issued to the organizers, from a legal standpoint we are limited in restricting access to public spaces,” it said in a July 22 statement posted to its website.

The city said it supports the LGBT community and any statements expressed by Feucht to the contrary were “not the views of the City.”

Feucht has previously said the LGTB and trans community are “radicalizing” youth, leading to “senseless violence.”

He said there must be a “national reckoning.”

“We want God in control of government,” he told the audience at a 2023 performance in Wisconsin.

Feucht held worship concerts during COVID, in violation of lockdown orders. He also ran as a Republican candidate for Congress in 2020, but did not win the seat.

The Canadian Press contributed to this article. 

Why Two Easters when there is only One Christ? Both calendars are wrong! Here's the fix!

 

Two Easters, one Christ: The complex calendar politics of faith

Why Orthodox Christians and Catholics celebrate Easter on different days

By Dmitry Samoilov, journalist and literary critic

©  Gazeta.Ru / Dasha Zaitseva

It is Lent in the Christian world, but in reality, it only alters the lives of monks and Moscow restaurateurs, who rush to invent Lenten menus to profit from the public’s fear of living in sin. However, Lent inevitably leads to the most important Christian holiday: Easter.

This year, Orthodox Easter coincides with that of other denominations – a rare event, last seen in 2017. But why do they usually fall on different dates? The answer lies in history, astronomy, and religious identity.

The calculation of Easter’s date is famously complicated. For Orthodox Christians, Easter is determined by the Julian calendar. It must fall on the first Sunday after the full moon following the spring equinox – but only if it also occurs after Jewish Passover (Pesach). This rule is based on the Bible’s account of Christ’s crucifixion during the Passover season. Christianity, like Islam, is an Abrahamic religion deeply rooted in Judaism, even if it has often distanced itself from those origins.

Christianity departed from Judaism when Christ came to earth as Jesus. Islam departed from Judaism when it was invented by Mohammed and followed Ishmail who was cast out by Abraham with the approval of God. 

Muslims believe Allah is the God of Abraham and Ishmail, while Christians believe He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel).

Catholic Easter follows similar logic, but uses the Gregorian calendar. It too changes annually, but is calculated using rules introduced in the 16th century by Pope Gregory XIII. The result is that Orthodox and Catholic Easter only align once every few years.

There are four main reasons why the Russian Orthodox Church has held on to the Julian calendar:

First, it is a statement of independence. The Orthodox Church sees itself as distinct from Rome. While it may not always be stated directly, in Orthodox theological thought, Catholicism is often viewed as schismatic. Maintaining a separate calendar reinforces that divide.

Second, tradition has weight. Every day in the Orthodox calendar commemorates saints, texts, hymns, and rituals. With thousands of parishes following this system, shifting to a new calendar would cause logistical chaos.

Third, Church leaders fear that calendar reform could provoke unrest. A failed attempt to modernize the Church in the early 20th century, when the “Renovationists” tried to introduce reforms, remains a cautionary tale. The memory of that upheaval still lingers.

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Fourth, the Julian calendar is seen as part of ancient Church tradition – an expression of historical continuity and spiritual identity. To abandon it would be, for many, to break from something sacred.

Still, practical contradictions remain. Consider this: the modern world celebrates January 1 as New Year’s Day, but Russian Orthodox believers celebrate Christmas twelve days later than other denominations, on January 7. It means we ring in the “new year” before the birth of Christ—an odd inversion of the Christian calendar.

Some have suggested aligning Christmas with the Gregorian calendar, as the Greek Orthodox Church has done. In that model, fixed holidays match the modern calendar, but Easter continues to be calculated using Julian rules. Complicated? Absolutely. But theology is a complicated discipline. Liturgical studies, canon law, and Church history are all well-established academic fields. Surely, a Church department could study how to transition to the Gregorian calendar without losing liturgical continuity.

About a decade ago, there was a proposal to move Christmas to January 1. The logic was simple: New Year’s Day marks the start of a new era, and the festivities already exist. Why not combine the joy of the secular calendar with the birth of Christ? Those who wished could even treat the end of December as a fast before Christmas, making the celebration more meaningful.

Now, here is where we could actually make some progress. Christmas should not be January 1st, Easter should be January 1st. 
Why? Because the resurrection of Jesus is the most important day in the history of the world. The very center of all time and Eternity. More important than the birth of Jesus as glorious as that was.

Resurrection Sunday should not only be the first day of the year, it should be the first day of the calendar, Day 1, Year zero. 
If this correction was made to the calendar, year 2000 would actually occur about 2030. 

I realize this would be enormously complicated, but it is certainly still possible. 
If Jesus returns somewhere around 2030, will we start a new calendar?

Ultimately, the Church must remain a firm pillar of spiritual life. It cannot follow every passing whim. But pillars, too, are built by human hands. And perhaps, sometimes, they can be adjusted – not out of weakness, but for the sake of clarity and relevance.

In an era when Easter rarely brings all Christians together on the same day, it may be worth asking whether the spiritual world is being served by the division over dates. Or whether it’s time to think again about what unites us.

Did Pope Gregory XIII Get the Calendar Wrong?

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War on Christianity > Muslim attacks Christian parade with an axe in Iraq; Christian convert driven from her family in Somalia; Australia's largest mosque - Call to Prayer - Sydney; 'Queer Theologies' in Catholic U.

 

Iraq: Muslim goes on axe rampage at Assyrian Christian festival parade, injuring three people

Apr 4, 2025 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

We only ever see attacks of this kind from one religious group. Yet the blindness and denial over their ideological derivation remains near-universal.

ISIS axe rampage at Christian festival parade leaves three injured before attacker is overpowered

by Taryn Pedlar, Daily Mail, April 2, 2025:

Three people have been injured in Iraq after a man armed with an axe attacked a parade hosted by Assyrian Christians as they marked their new year, officials said.

The event in, held every year on April 1, drew thousands of Assyrians who marched through Dohuk in northern Iraq waving flags and wearing colourful traditional clothes.

But witnesses of Wednesday’s horror said an attacker, who has not been officially identified, ran towards the crowd chanting Islamic slogans before carrying out his stabbing spree.

He brutally struck three people with the axe before being overpowered by participants and security forces.

Videos circulating online show him pinned to the ground by a brave member of public, as he repeatedly shouted: ‘Islamic State, the Islamic State remains.’

A 17-year-old boy and a 75-year-old woman suffered skull fractures following the viscous attack at the annual parade.

A member of the local security forces, who was operating a surveillance drone, was also wounded. All three were taken to hospital, local security officials said….

Janet Aprem Odisho, whose 75-year-old mother Yoniyah Khoshaba was injured, said they had been shopping near the parade when the attack happened.

‘He was running at us with an axe,’ she said. ‘All I remember is that he hit my mother, and I ran away when she fell. He had already attacked a young man who was bleeding in the street, then he tried to attack more people.’

Her family, originally from Baghdad, was also displaced by past violence and now lives in Ain Baqre village near the town of Alqosh.

Assyrians faced a wave of hate speech and offensive comments on social media following the attack….

Of course they did! That's Islamic logic! Curse the victims of violent crimes; celebrate the criminals.

 

Mother of Three in Somalia Loses All Relatives for Receiving Christ

Morning Star News, March 28, 2025:

NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – The Muslim husband of a woman in Somalia sent her back to her parents for accepting Christ – without their three young children – and then her parents drove her away for sharing the gospel with her sister, sources said.

Fatuma Hussein, 30, was beaten and then ostracized by her birth family on Saturday (March 22) for sharing her new faith in Christ with her sister in Tabta village, Lower Juba Region, said the leader of a Christian team that first visited her on March 15.

They entered a house that day as her relatives were breaking the daily Ramadan fast at about 7:30 p.m., and Hussein’s husband was not present. The team found Hussein unwell and complaining of Jinn (supernatural beings from the unseen world in Islam) (ie demons) power menacing her; they prayed for her and left for another village, the leader said.

On March 17, Hussein phoned the team to let them know that that since the time of prayer, she had felt peace and comfort in her heart and invited them back to her house. When they arrived, she happily requested more prayer and said she would pay them $100 USD – which the team declined, telling her that salvation was a free gift of God through his Son, Issa (Jesus), the leader said.

Hussein told the team that she had heard the voice of God telling her, “Receive my power so that you can pray for others for healing as well,” he said.

“She needed some clarification on this, and we took time explaining to her that she is a vessel of God, and she was receiving salvation in Christ Jesus,” the leader told Morning Star News. “After her receiving Christ as her Savior, then we left the village to another area for mission outreach.”

On March 19, Hussein boldly shared her new faith with her husband, Ibrahim Suleiman. Angry with her for embracing a faith different from Islam, he informed her parents, and Hussein’s father told Suleiman to send her back to him so that he could “deal with the issue,” Hussein said.

On March 20, Hussein’s husband sent her back to relatives without their three children ages 7, 5 and 3, she said. Undaunted, she began sharing about the love of God with her sister, the Christian leader said.

On March 22, Hussein’s father learned about her sharing Christ with his other daughter and began mistreating her, the leader said, recalling that Hussein told him, “My father started beating me with sticks and threatening to kill me and immediately kicked me out of the family by chasing me away with a sharp sword. He even told my husband to beat and even kill me whenever I am seen around.”

Driven from both families, Hussein is lonely and praying for them to receive what she has received, the leader said. His team has connected her with a nearby underground Christian family, a stop-gap measure that he does not regard as safe in the long term.

Hussein said she was trusting God to take her to a safe place where she can have freedom to worship God.

“I have lost my children, but the peace of God will continue comforting my heart,” she told the leader. “Please tell Christian families wherever they are to continue praying for me and support me with money to buy food to sustain me wherever I will be staying, so that I do not become a burden, and more so that God will sustain and meet all my physical and spiritual needs. I am lonely, but Issa is with me.”…

Australia: Largest mosque in the country proposes broadcasting Islamic call to prayer from loudspeakers

Apr 10, 2025 3:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The adhan, prayed in Arabic, repeats “Allahu akbar” six times, “I testify that there is no god but Allah” three times, and “I testify that Muhammad is Allah’s prophet” twice.

Dr. Gavin Ashenden, former chaplain to the British queen, who resigned his position in protest against a Qur’an reading in a Scottish church, observed that “the Muslim call to prayer is a dramatic piece of Islamic triumphalism. It proclaims Islam’s superiority over all other religions, and in so doing casts Jesus in the role of a charlatan and a liar. The Muslim god, Allah, is unknowable and has no son. Jesus was, therefore, a fraud in claiming He and the Father are one.”

Is Sydney really wise to broadcast repeatedly a declaration of the superiority of Islam, a faith that directs its adherents to make war against Christians and other non-Muslims and subjugate them as inferiors under the hegemony of believers (cf. Qur’an 9:29)?

Is Sydney wise to broadcast the cry “Allahu akbar,” beloved of jihad terrorists the world over? Chief 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta wrote this in his letter to himself before carrying out his jihad mission: “When the confrontation begins, strike like champions who do not want to go back to this world. Shout, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.” This is why the Fort Hood jihad killer, Nidal Malik Hasan, shouted it as he shot thirteen Americans in November 2009, and why so many other jihadis have used it essentially as an announcement that non-Muslims are about to die.

Celebrate diversity!

Australia’s largest mosque unveils bold new plan to broadcast call to prayer through loudspeakers

by Nick Wilson, Daily Mail Australia, April 8, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

Australia’s largest mosque could begin broadcasting the Muslim call to prayer from loudspeakers every week under a proposal lodged with a Sydney council.

Lakemba Mosque, also known as the Masjid Ali Bin Abi Talib, has proposed to affix four loudspeakers to its minaret in a new bid to the Canterbury-Bankstown Council in Sydney’s west.

It would be the first mosque in Sydney to broadcast the call to prayer – known in Arabic as the adhan – regularly throughout the year.

According to planning documents, nearly two thirds of the Lakemba population identified as Islamic in 2021 while nearly one quarter spoke Arabic at home.

The proposed development would be permissible under zoning restrictions with council’s consent, according to the application.

The mosque is owned and operated by the Lebanese Muslim Association (LMA), a community-based non-profit organisation established in 1962.

A spokesperson for the LMA told Daily Mail Australia the proposal was ‘modest in nature but deeply meaningful to our community.’

‘If approved, it reflects the growing recognition of Australia’s multicultural identity and religious diversity,’ the spokesperson said.

Lakemba Mosque is a Sunni place of worship. It’s [sic] opening in 1977 was attended by former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and is widely considered to be Australia’s most significant mosque….

Progress: Theology Students in Oregon Can Take ‘Queer Theologies’ Instead of ‘Biblical Texts’

Apr 11, 2025 5:00 am By Robert Spencer

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The Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire taught the ancient Greek classics in its schools for the entire thousand years-plus of its existence, but come on, man! We are much smarter than that now, and know that we have to move and change with the times. Even in theological schools, where the naïve and untutored might think that special attention is given to timeless truths, the forward-thinking have better ideas. At the University of Portland, a private Catholic university in determinedly “progressive” Oregon, they have come up with the best idea of all, as far as the left is concerned: throw out all that old, musty theology and dive head-first into the deep end of theological wokeism.

There is more. Read the rest here.