A Third Temple? Ally Graduate Scouts in the Program
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metro kansas city VISIT US AT NEW FEATURES EDITION facebook/metrovoicenews or metrovoicenews.com THIS MONTH! What’s new on Netflix, MATTHEW expanded WEST music news, hymn history and more! EVENTS CALENDAR | Page 12 SEE PAGE 16 CELEBRATING FAITH, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY IN KANSAS CITY VOLUME 28 • NUMBER 6 June 2017 FREE–TAKE ONE! Faith, music and baseball come together Visiting Nigerian by Alan Goforth dent'. I said, 'No, I haven't heard pastor will share on that. Let me find out.' genocide and faith Dayton Moore has experienced "As soon as I hung up the phone, both highs and lows during his I got a phone call from Major by Dwight Widaman tenure as general manager of the League Baseball confirming that Kansas City Royals. However, an Yordano had been killed." Christians in Nigeria, Sudan unexpected phone call in January Moore's faith helped him deal and other African nations con- Kansas City reminded him again that some with the tragic loss of a young tinue to be targeted for systematic things are far more important than player. He realizes that God placed extermination at the hands of Archdiocese wins and losses. him in a prominent position not radical Muslims. Yet, because of a "I was heading to Atlanta to do a got a call from a national reporter simply to win baseball games but to virtual media blackout, most moves away fund-raiser for a high school base- who said, `Hey, Dayton, look, I just help others experience that same American Christians know little ball team in north Georgia," he have to confirm the news. Yordano faith. or nothing about the genocide from Girl Scouts said. "I left early that morning and Ventura was killed in a car acci- See FAITH FAMILYpage 22 See NIGERIA page 23 By Dwight Widaman The Wichita Eagle reports that the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas is moving to sever ties with the Girl Scouts. Saying Girl Scouts is “no longer a com- patible partner in helping us form young women with the virtues and values of the Gospel,” Archbishop Joseph Naumann is- sued a statement in late May saying he had asked parishes to either immediately stop hosting Girl Scout troops or eventu- A third Temple? ally graduate scouts in the program. The debate about Girl Scouts and the Catholic Church goes back many years, when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth began discussions See GIRL SCOUTS page 22 Destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D., what will a rebuilt Temple mean for Israel? by Chris Mitchell waited to hear for some 2,000 years. the foundation stone for a second temple that was "The Temple Mount is in our hands! The Temple later expanded by King Herod. That temple fell in 70 JERUSALEM, Israel – The capture of Jerusalem's Mount is in our hands!" he declared. AD at the hands of the Romans. Temple Mount 50 years ago this month sent shock- Retaking this ground was important for a number When Commander Gur declared the Temple waves throughout the Jewish world. It also raised of reasons. For one, it's where King Solomon built the Mount was back in Jewish hands, it rekindled hope hopes for the building of the third temple. first Jewish temple. After the Babylonians destroyed for a long-awaited Third Temple. On June 7, 1967, Israeli Brigade Commander Col. it, Zerubbabel (the head of the tribe of Judah when "The Six-Day War was a miracle of biblical propor- Motta Gur made an announcement that Jews had the Israelites returned from the Babylonian exile) laid See TEMPLE page 23 Metro Voice Voice Metro 1114 BOX PO 64063 MO Summit, Lee’s GET 50% OFF YOUR ADVERTISING! CALL 816-524-4522 OR EMAIL [email protected] 2 • June 2017 –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– metrovoicenews.com n facebook.com/metrovoicenews –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Metro Voice newsbriefs Officer goes the distance to tell Missouri Too young to cross a street but old enough for a sex change (WNS)--More than 200 children under the age of 14 died in the United States in 2014 after governor about Kansas City’s homicide rate being struck by a car. Another 8,000 suffered injuries, according to the National Center for Statistics and Analysis. A new research study conducted at the University of Iowa has deter- by Alisa Nelson mined children younger than 14 do not possess the cognitive skills and judgement to safely cross a street. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published Kansas City Police officer Kelly Sapp an excerpt of the study in its Daily Briefing, a nod some physicians has made a more than 100-mile journey found ironic, given the organization’s support for transgender treat- on foot to tell Governor Eric Greitens ment. “This same AAP, however, also frequently promotes the claim that the murder rate of young people in that children this age or younger are cognitively capable of deciding his city must be addressed. His battles that they are the wrong sex,” noted Michelle Cretella, president of the Amer- through the heat, rain, traffic, and night- ican College of Pediatricians, a conservative alternative to the AAP. fall have made a statement by walking to the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City. Fines for worship, prison for Bible study in China A comment from an inner city child (WNS)--Amid increasing attempts to suppress religious activities, Chinese authorities have whom Sapp mentors prompted Sapp to detained, fined, and imprisoned Christians for public worship, buying and selling devotionals, grab his hiking stick and walking shoes. and group Bible study. In late April, a court in Xinjiang convicted five “He goes ‘All inner city kids are going Protestants who attended a Bible study in 2016, charging them with to die soon, before we’re adults. We’re “gathering a crowd to disrupt social order,” Asia News reported. The ver- going to most likely die on the street by dict came with five-year prison sentences for two pastors, and four- and a bullet.’ You have to understand that a Sapp walks along a three-year sentences for three others. They plan to appeal. Earlier in 6-year-old told me this. I was just Missouri highway April, authorities raided a Christian concert and arrested those attending. dumbfounded,” says Sapp. “I’m not on his way to Taiwanese Pastor Xu Rongzhang was singing “Jesus Loves You” when going to accept that. I knew that if I did Jefferson City. the raid took place, China Aid reported. Before releasing them, officials a walk that was that long to meet the forced the Christians to say they would not organize large gatherings again and told Xu not to governor that I would absolutely get the these kids, you train up an entire gener- is getting so thin everywhere. There’s hold any meetings of more than 10 people. word out about violence and these kids.” ation to trust and admire the police, like lots of things that need done, a lot of A club by any other name According to TV station KMBC, I did when I was a kid and not be so vi- risk-averse policies being done that about 36 per- olent toward make us violate our oath and make us (WNS)--Some public school administrators still don’t get it: Students do not leave their con- “If cops had more time to spend cent of this police. There’s unable to be faithful to the officer on stitutional rights at the school door. For those who need reminding, like Parkland High School year’s homi- with these kids, you train up an a pretty vio- our left and our right.” in Allentown, Pa., the Thomas More Society stands ready to send a legal notice with remedial cide victims in entire generation to trust and lent genera- Sapp says police don’t have time to lessons on the First Amendment, the Federal Equal Access Act, and—for good measure—the Kansas City tion of kids answer all of the 911 calls. school’s own policy handbook. Parkland High School students jumped through the requisite admire the police,” –Sapp are 24 or coming up,” “We’ve been stripped of so many hoops last fall to launch a pro-life student group, only to have an assistant principal reject the younger. says Sapp. things for just different units or different club as “too political” and “controversial.” Those concerns apparently were not an issue for Sapp told Greitens that more officers He says officers walk a thin blue line new ways of fighting crime. The line is the Gay Straight Alliance Club and the Political Science Club. Thomas More attorneys sent ad- are needed and community policing between the innocent and chaos. getting very thin and we’re going to start ministrators a letter May 17 demanding a reversal of their decision. Other public schools that must increase. “Sometimes you just get folks who seeing officers getting hurt more often, have tried to censor pro-life groups reversed course after receiving their legal warning letters. “If cops had more time to spend with lose track of that,” says Sapp. “The line just like those kids are.” Metro Voice –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– metrovoicenews.com n facebook.com/metrovoicenews –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– June 2017 • 3 Advocates speculate Brownback headed to religious liberty post Kansas governor could be ambassador-at-large for international religious liberty vacant since January. of the Religious Freedom Institute. “He’s Some observers thought Vice Presi- highly competent, he’s passionate about Human rights advocates are heaping Senate before becoming continued efforts to dent Mike Pence—a close Brownback religious freedom, he knows the govern- praise on Kansas Gov.