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Actor’s plea to God while in a pit of failure changed everything: ‘Jesus, you’ve got to save me’

Bruce Marchiano, star of PureFlix.com’s “The Encounter” series, is known for his many on-screen portrayals of Jesus — an iconic role that has come to define his career. But Marchiano wasn’t always a Christian. In fact, his path to faith came after he found success in Hollywood and was soon faced with an essential question: who — or what — would be his “God”?

“My career was everything,” Marchiano said on a recent episode of “Pure Talk.”

(Read also: Columbine victim’s prophetic words will shock & inspire you)

His success, though eventually eroded during the 1988 writers’ strike and, with a lack of Hollywood projects to audition for, Marchiano suddenly found himself “with no career.”

Not long after, in 1989, the actor recognized that he was at a life-altering crossroads. Friends had told him about the love of Jesus, but, until that point, he hadn’t truly taken the gospel into consideration — but that all changed one fateful day atop a Hollywood hill.

“I realized in the pit of that failure that I needed Jesus … on a hill, overlooking Universal Studios,” he said. “It was like I looked up and I looked down and I had to make a decision — who my God was going to be? And I literally got down on the dirt by myself on that hill and said, ‘Jesus, you’ve got to save me.’”

Watch Marchiano describe finding God below:

The rest, of course, is history. In 1992, Marchiano was asked for the first time to portray Jesus — an opportunity that blew his mind. He had been a Christian for only a few years at the time but was suddenly tasked with taking on one of the most profound roles imaginable.

Over the years, Marchiano has repeatedly played Jesus in various projects, including “The Encounter” series, with the actor telling “Pure Talk” that he prepares for the role by relying on God’s guidance. Considering that portraying Christ is such a massive responsibility — one that can lead audiences to make decisions about God — his intentional preparation is admirable.

“You just pray your knees raw,” he said. “I don’t have the goods as a person or an actor to represent Him accurately. … What’s needed is Him working through me.”

Marchiano said that he’s hopeful Hollywood is waking up to the faith-based film audience that appears to be craving more well-made features with plotlines that matter.

“We just need to keep making great and better films and the audience needs to keep supporting these films,” he said.

You can watch Marchiano portray Jesus in his latest project, “The Encounter” series, an original PureFlix.com production.

This article was originally published on Pure Flix Insider. Visit Pure Flix for access to thousands of faith and family friendly movies and TV shows. You can get a free, one-month trial here.

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French Socialist Party Says 250 Million “Climate Refugees” Should Be Imported

French Socialist Party Says 250 Million “Climate Refugees” Should Be Imported


by Brock Simmons
June 8, 2018

Looking exactly like what you would picture a French socialist party official to look like, Antoine Léaument, “communications director” of La France Insoumise, advocates for importing 250 Million “climate change” refugees from third world sh*tholes.

Voice Of Europe reports:

Léaument, member of the socialist party “La France Insoumise”, was debating with Sébastien Chenu of Marine Le Pen’s Front National, on France’s CNEWS.

When Léaument spoke of the 250 million refugees, Chenu seemingly joked about European countries accepting them into their societies, but the far left party’s bigwig appeared to take the suggestion more seriously.

“This is the only solution (…) Else what are you going to do? Throw them into the sea? Build walls? Be serious,” he said.

Within La France Insoumise, Léaument’s views are shared by the party’s leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon. In the first round of France’s latest presidential election, Melenchon, a well-known advocate of open borders, won 19.6% of votes.

I wonder if soy boy will be inviting some of the refuge seekers to stay in his personal home.

This comes at a time when Giuseppe Conte and Matteo Salvini are getting to work Making Italy Great Again by giving “migrants” the boot.

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Just in time for Trump-Kim summit: DoJ inspector general to release Clinton email report

Department of Justice inspector general Michael Horowitz said in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley that his long awaited report on the way that DoJ and the FBI handled the Clinton email investigation will be released on June 14.  Horowitz agreed to testify on the report before Grassley’s committee on June 18.


The summit between Donald Trump and Kim Kong-un is scheduled to take place June 12.



Coincidence?


CNBC:


The DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General first announced its investigation of matters related to Clinton’s use of a private email server in January 2017, days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration.


The watchdog is specifically investigating former FBI Director James Comey’s disclosure of public information about the email probe before the November 2016 election, and “whether certain underlying investigative decisions were based on improper considerations.”


The full report will be nearly 500 pages long, sources familiar with the matter told The Washington Post. Comey’s public comments – such as when he said “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against Clinton for handling classified information on a private server – are expected to be the subject of harsh criticism in the report, according to the Post.


The report is already past due in the eyes of some Republicans.


In a letter sent on April 13 to Grassley, Horowitz said he expected “that we will issue our report in May, absent any additional new developments.”


Grassley responded accordingly, scheduling a hearing for Horowitz to testify about the report before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 5.


But May came and went without Horowitz’s report seeing the light of day, and Grassley rescheduled the meeting for June 11 – which has now been pushed back again, apparently for the last time.


For a year and a half, Horowitz has played this one close to his vest.  There have been a few leaks – most recently, that former FBI director Comey will come in for some harsh criticism – but otherwise, no one knows what’s in the report regarding the actions of several principals.


No doubt, Horowitz has been passing the report around to make sure no sensitive information is published.  But by holding on to it for so long, Horowitz has to know that questions are being raised about whether there has been selective scrubbing going on.


And how about the timing of the report’s release?  The media will be full of news about the summit (if it goes off as planned), raising further questions about whether Horowitz is trying to bury it. 


Republicans should demand access to the unsanitized version that Horowitz was apparently ready to release a month ago.  At least, the GOP could determine if the changes made were for valid security reasons or whether someone is trying to cover his rear.


Department of Justice inspector general Michael Horowitz said in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley that his long awaited report on the way that DoJ and the FBI handled the Clinton email investigation will be released on June 14.  Horowitz agreed to testify on the report before Grassley’s committee on June 18.


The summit between Donald Trump and Kim Kong-un is scheduled to take place June 12.


Coincidence?


CNBC:


The DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General first announced its investigation of matters related to Clinton’s use of a private email server in January 2017, days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration.


The watchdog is specifically investigating former FBI Director James Comey’s disclosure of public information about the email probe before the November 2016 election, and “whether certain underlying investigative decisions were based on improper considerations.”


The full report will be nearly 500 pages long, sources familiar with the matter told The Washington Post. Comey’s public comments – such as when he said “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against Clinton for handling classified information on a private server – are expected to be the subject of harsh criticism in the report, according to the Post.


The report is already past due in the eyes of some Republicans.


In a letter sent on April 13 to Grassley, Horowitz said he expected “that we will issue our report in May, absent any additional new developments.”


Grassley responded accordingly, scheduling a hearing for Horowitz to testify about the report before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 5.


But May came and went without Horowitz’s report seeing the light of day, and Grassley rescheduled the meeting for June 11 – which has now been pushed back again, apparently for the last time.


For a year and a half, Horowitz has played this one close to his vest.  There have been a few leaks – most recently, that former FBI director Comey will come in for some harsh criticism – but otherwise, no one knows what’s in the report regarding the actions of several principals.


No doubt, Horowitz has been passing the report around to make sure no sensitive information is published.  But by holding on to it for so long, Horowitz has to know that questions are being raised about whether there has been selective scrubbing going on.


And how about the timing of the report’s release?  The media will be full of news about the summit (if it goes off as planned), raising further questions about whether Horowitz is trying to bury it. 


Republicans should demand access to the unsanitized version that Horowitz was apparently ready to release a month ago.  At least, the GOP could determine if the changes made were for valid security reasons or whether someone is trying to cover his rear.




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450 Radical Islamic Extremists Will Be Released from French Prisons by End of 2019

France will release some 450 radical Islamic extremists from prison by the end of next year including 50 considered terror threats.

“We have about 500 detainees who are radicalised as Islamist terrorists, out of those 500 there will be about 20 of them coming out this year, and then about 30 next year,” France’s Minister of Justice Nicole Belloubet confirmed.

The minister added that around 30 per cent of the current radicalised prison population, some 450 people, were also set to be put back on the streets by the end of next year, Le Figaro reports.

“The government is bent on monitoring these people,” Ms. Belloubet said. “It starts in detention, these people are evaluated, they are then placed in places of detention that correspond to their level of dangerousness,” she said and added that security agencies aided by intelligence already gathered in prison will monitor the radicalised Islamic extremists once they are set free.

“We are following them step by step,” she said.

In 2016, a report estimated there to be at least 8,250 radical Islamic extremists across the country, a number that had doubled from the number of radicals in 2015.

A study, conducted by the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) and released in March of this year profiled the average radicalised Muslim claiming them to be most likely a young man in his 20s from a migrant background and having grown up in one of the country’s migrant-populated suburbs and involved in petty crime.

Radicalisation in prisons has become a major issue in France with some labelling them “terrorist universities”.

Prison has also not stopped some Islamists from communicating with terror groups like the Islamic State or plotting terror attacks to be carried out upon their release.

Last October, two inmates of Fresnes prison were caught using smuggled mobile phones to communicate with Islamic State and were plotting terror attacks from their cells.

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WATCH: Capitals’ T.J. Oshie Delivers Heartfelt Tribute to Father with Alzheimer’s After Stanley Cup Win

It’s hard to imagine winning a Stanley Cup for the first time in a franchise’s 44-year history, and then having that moment upstaged a only a few minutes later. However, that’s exactly what happened in Las Vegas Thursday night.

In a post-game interview following the Washington Capitals 4-3 victory over the Las Vegas Golden Knights, Caps winger T.J. Oshie tried to explain what the win meant for him, and his family. Specifically, what it meant for his father, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s:

Oshie relayed the same emotional story again, shortly after that:

Oshie and his father then followed up that incredible moment with another, as they both hoisted the Stanley Cup:

Predictably, fans were completely unmoved and stoic after Oshie’s emotional display. Just kidding, everyone was wrecked:

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MSNBC Hack Nicolle Wallace Questions if Melania and Ivanka Trump are ‘Dead Inside’ or ‘Paid Off’

MSNBC Hack Nicolle Wallace Questions if Melania and Ivanka Trump are ‘Dead Inside’ or ‘Paid Off’


by Cassandra Fairbanks
June 8, 2018

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace asked whether or not Ivanka Trump or First Lady Melania Trump are “dead inside” or “paid off” during a segment on Thursday.

The panel was discussing Rudy Giuliani speaking on Stormy Daniels and saying that he does not respect a woman “who sells her body for sexual exploitation.”

“He may not have shared these views about these specific women,” Fox said. “But the way that the president talks about women and behaves towards women, it’s not so out of line with what Rudy Giuliani said, and, what he said about Stormy Daniels was disgusting, gave me a pit in my stomach from the second I woke up this morning, but my first reaction was, this is so disrespectful to the first lady,” Vanity Fair reporter Emily Jane Fox said.

The fake concern about respecting our First Lady did not last long, however.

“What do they do on a day like today?” Wallace asked. “Are they just the most stoic human beings, are they numb, are they dead inside, are they paid off?”

“Yes, yes, and yes,” Fox replied. “Ivanka Trump is the most masterful compartmentalizer that America haas maybe ever seen. She is able to separate those things in a way that you and I probably can’t understand.”

Wallace recently raised eyebrows when she advocated for the strangling of Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.

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Dem Rep: Religious Adoption Agencies Akin to Jim Crow

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A Democratic congressman compared the Trump administration’s religious liberty protections to Jim Crow era laws.

Rep. Bobby Scott (D., Va.) asked Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar if religious foster care agencies had the right to discriminate under conscience protections implemented by the administration. Scott repeatedly asked Azar if those agencies had a free pass on requirements to abide by civil rights laws at a Wednesday hearing before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

“In the Loving v. Virginia case, the trial court justified the ban on interracial marriages by saying that ‘Almighty God created races and placed them on certain continents, but for the intervention of this arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages,'” Scott said. He went on to ask Azar if foster care agencies had the ability to deny interracial placements based on the trial court’s ruling from almost 60 years ago.

Azar responded by saying that Congress had already put in place antidiscrimination policies that would be strictly enforced. He indicated that faith-based adoption organizations had provided homes for poor and underprivileged children for decades. Preventing religious organizations from participating in adoption or foster care programs would punish children in poverty.

“We don’t believe this is an ‘either-or’ situation as you phrase it—of this discrimination versus that discrimination,” Azar said, adding that the agency would work to balance religious liberty to “allow states to have the ability to use a variety of organizations to ensure the safety of protecting children.”

The Trump administration implemented a “conscience and religious freedom” division within the Department of Health and Human Services in January. Pro-life and religious liberty groups have praised the administration’s efforts to protect religious freedom, while many LGBT advocates say their concerns are being ignored.

Azar’s testimony came on the heels of a decision by the city of Philadelphia to cut off Catholic Social Services from foster family placements because of its religious beliefs about marriage despite the city’s claim that it faces a massive shortage of available foster homes. The organization and several foster parents filed a lawsuit May 14 against the city alleging religious discrimination, pointing to the fact that no complaints had been lodged against the charity. Their lawyer, Becket Fund president Mark Rienzi, said Philadelphia mayor Jim Kenney and his administration were putting their political goals before the needs of children.

“The city is leaving homes empty, in order to pick this culture war for political reasons,”  Rienzi told the Washington Free Beacon at the time of the suit. “It’s really mind blowing to think they’d do this to kids. That’s just vindictive.”

Scott’s exchange also followed a major victory for religious liberty before the Supreme Court earlier this week. The court ruled 7-2 on Monday that Colorado regulators unconstitutionally discriminated against the religious beliefs of a Christian baker who declined to participate in a gay wedding. Hiram Sasser, general counsel for First Liberty Institute, said Scott’s attitude toward religious liberty mirrored that of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

“It’s a shame that Rep. Scott didn’t get the message that the Supreme Court sent to the nation earlier this week,” Sasser said. “The Constitution leaves no room for government hostility to religion.”

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WATCH: Mayor Jumps For Joy After Judge Protects Philadelphia’s Sanctuary City Status

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson protected Philadelphia’s status as a sanctuary city, asserting that the federal government cannot eliminate grants to the city of Philadelphia over policies that limit the city’s cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

That triggered this celebratory behavior from Philadelphia mayor James Kenney:

He also tweeted:

On Thursday, the White House fired back. White House spokesman Hogan Gidley told Fox News, “Many people in Philadelphia have been killed, raped or assaulted at the hands of criminal illegal aliens. It’s disgusting the mayor would dance in celebration of a lawless decision that allows these dangerous criminals to roam free in Philadelphia communities and prey on innocent families and children. Democrats’ Sanctuary City policy is reckless, dangerous and protects criminals, not law abiding American citizens.”

Rep. Lou Barletta of Hazleton, who formerly served as that city’s mayor, told Fox Business News, “That’s really a sad video to watch. Especially for me. I don’t think the families of the victims in Philadelphia who were victims of illegal immigrants… I don’t think they’re dancing.” He cited a recent case where an illegal immigrant has been accused of raping a child.

Philadelphia has asserted that it will only relinquish illegal immigrants to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if ICE obtains a warrant signed by a judge.

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Italian Populist Interior Minister Vows Deportations After Viral Police Migrant Attack Video

Italy’s populist deputy Prime Minister has rallied to the defence of police officers who were hospitalised by a migrant gang during an illegal goods seizure.

One Carabiniere officer received a broken nose and the other chest injuries as they retrieved counterfeit goods, including 160 fake designer bags, and were attacked by a group of Senegalese migrant street vendors.

Footage of the attack shocked Italy as it spread on social media, and highlighted worries that the country is overwhelmed by the number of illegal migrants trapped there thanks to European Union (EU) rules.

The attack occurred near the famous Piazza dei Miracoli, in Pisa, Tuscany, according to Corriere Della Sera.

After the officers were taken to the hospital, disturbances reportedly continued, with some of the Senegalese traders trying to calm down their more violent and disruptive counterparts.

Matteo Salvini, leader of the populist co-governing Lega party, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of the Interior, shared footage of the attack on Facebook, writing “sellers attack the carabinieri” and promising “solidarity and best wishes for a good recovery”.

He added that more “expulsions for illegal immigrants and restoring a climate of legality to our cities is my goal”.

Salvini spoke about the incident at a rally in support of a regional mayor, telling the crowd: “The Minister of the Interior and Italy is with you, the attackers will start to be afraid.”

Lorenzo Cardogna, the provincial secretary of a police union, told the newspaper Il Giornale that it was “yet another example of violence against the police, with a severely injured Carabiniere, whom we express all our solidarity and best wishes for a speedy recovery”.

He said the incident gave “a snapshot of a paradoxical situation in our city, with people who live constantly outside the law, practising an illegal trade, in the belief that the institutions can not do anything against them”.

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