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- Today, from the Global Lane,

a Chinese pastor leads atleast 1000 North Koreans

and Chinese to Christbefore he's assassinated.

His story and how one NorthKorean's life was transformed.

Free speech silenced.

Dennis Prager explains why.

Christ on the decline?

Why fewer than half ofAmerican millennials

identify as Christian.

And, IDOP Sunday, how we should

pray for the persecuted Church.

- And it's all righthere on the Global Lane.

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The first Sunday of November is the

International Day of Prayerfor the persecuted Church.

It's an annual day when people in churches

around the world prayfor Christians who suffer

for their faith in Christ.

So why should we pray?

I recently posed that question

to VOM Radio host, Todd Nettleton.

- Those who are in restrictedand hostile nations,

they know about this day.

This is a big deal to them to know

hey, the body of Christis remembering us today.

We're being prayed for today.

- Prayer can make a big difference,

not just for one day outof the year, but every day.

Just ask Sang-chul.

We see in this year's IDOP video

from the Voice of the Martyrs

how the North Korean's lifewas transformed by God,

prayer and the love of anevangelist named Pastor Han.

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(speaking in foreign language)

- [Interpreter] There was nofood and no work in my village.

Like some others, I snuck across

the mountain border into China.

I picked mushrooms inthe hopes of selling them

in the Changbai.

I don't speak Chinese at all.

But in the mountains I met a man.

(speaks in foreign language)

He said I can sell those for you.

And he didn't cheat me he gaveall the money from the sale.

At that time I didn'tknow he was Pastor Han.

(speaks in foreign language)

Over the next two years Iwent back several times,

each time Pastor Han helped me

and one day I asked why hewould do this for he himself

was in great danger forassisting a North Korean.

It is because I am a Christian he said,

that made me afraid, washe going to eat my liver?

(speaks in foreign language)

One day Pastor Han saidto me, God is real,

there is hope for every person.

I could not believe hewould say that word God,

nobody says that word, weknow it is an act of treason.

(car engine running)

To speak the name ofGod can lead to soldiers

coming in the night.

(heavy footsteps running)

(door slamming)

(screaming and yelling)

And there would be no trial, no journalist

will write about you andno one will ever dare ask

where you have gone.

One day I asked Pastor Han for a Bible.

He knew that if I was caught with a Bible,

my life would be in danger

but over time I persuaded him.

I showed the Bible to my wife.

(speaks in foreign language)

At first she refused to even look at it.

Why would you bring that here, she cried.

She know that if anyone reported

that you have even glanced at a Bible,

you would be arrested and not just you.

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You and all your relativessent to the concentration camps

for years and years and years.

(dog barking)

(yelling in foreign language)

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(speaks in foreign language)

All the time my wife toolearned that God is real.

She found hope.

And then I shared the wordof God with my best friend.

It was very dangerous for me to share.

(speaks in foreign language)

It was very dangerous for him to listen.

One day in the summer of 2016, we heard

that some North Korean assassins

were being honored by the government,

rewarded for their good work

for killing a terroristmissionary in Changbai.

We knew it was Pastor Han.

Who else could it be?

(speaks in foreign language)

We were frightened, didthey know he was my friend,

did they I had met with him many times?

(speaks in foreign language)

Pastor Han gave his lifebut he gave hope to me

and to many other North Koreans.

And despite of the ever present danger,

many of us will continueto share the message

that God is real.

(speaks in foreign language)

We hope that our sacrificewhen the day comes

will be worthwhile justlike it was for Pastor Han.

(speaks in foreign language)

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- Popular opinionreflects a growing threat

to free speech in America.

A new poll shows a majority of Americans

believe the First Amendmentshould be rewritten

to quote, "reflect thecultural norms of today."

The poll by the Campaign for Free Speech

reveals that nearly 60% of millennials,

those 21 to 38 years oldbelieve the Constitution

goes too far in allowinghate speech in America.

48% of Generation X and47% of baby boomers agreed.

A majority of millennialsalso said hate speech

should be a crime.

With more than half of those saying

it should carry jail time.

Well, Dennis Prager knowsthe free speech issue well,

his PragerU had over onebillion views last year

and I guess about 200videos were censored from

or restricted from YouTube.

- It's an amazing thing.

We put out a video eachweek, five minute video

and so there are 400some odd videos on there

and you have to understand, they're given

by former prime ministers,Pulitzer prize winners,

professors from Stanford, Harvard, MIT,

there's a pretty classy group of people.

We have liberals giving it,people of every background

and yet, well look Alan Dershowitz's video

is a liberal Democratprofessor at Harvard,

his video on five minuteson Israel's legal founding

which you would thinkwould put people to sleep

just on it's title alone andthat's put on the pornography

and violence list by YouTubewhich is owned by Google.

- How did that happen, why was that?

- Well, I don't know, I can only say

that if it defends Israel, they hate it,

if it defends America, they hate it.

If it defends God, they hate it.

I don't give all the videos, 90% are given

by different people.

But I do give the videoson the Ten Commandments.

And tens of billions, thankGod have watched them.

Five of the videos areon the restricted list.

The first one was do not murder.

So, I was at the U.S.Senate testifying on this.

Senator Ted Cruz looks at me, excuse me,

looks at the Google representative,

said sir, why did youput Mr. Prager's video

on the Ten Commandmentson the restricted list,

people could actually watch this dialogue

on YouTube ironically.

And the guy's answer wasbecause it mentions murder.

I'm quiet so that it sinksinto your viewers minds.

That's pretty good thing tomention you shouldn't murder.

- You shouldn't murder,

now don't murder.- Yes, don't you want kids

to hear that? (laughs)

So, it was a surreal moment.

When it was my turn tospeak and you could see this

as well in the Senate chamber and

or the Senate conference room

and I said you knowwhat, having heard that

we're going to issue a Googlefriendly Ten Commandments

the nine commandments.

- So you heard thestatistics on this new poll,

what do you make of this?

- This poll makes perfect sense.

The left, not liberals, Ialways draw a distinction,

I wish liberals drew a distinction.

But the left has never been for freedom,

never, never, never, sincethe French Revolution

to Lenin to the present Democratic party.

They do not supportthe idea of free speech

because they will always lose when ideas

can be debated.

50 years of indoctrination,it's had an effect.

Higher education now means, tragically,

higher indoctrination,that's what it means.

- [Gary] So that wasn'tjust instantaneous.

That just didn't happen recently.

- No, no, look you sawin your own statistics,

a baby boomer supported it.

This is not new at all.

And of course, hate speechwhat does that even mean?

It means speech that I don't like.

Well, then what is free speech about?

Free speech is onlyabout speech I do like,

then there's no such thing as free speech.

That is the greatest threat.

That's why the movie No Safe Spaces,

coming out this week is so important.

- One thing that you did concentrate on

or you spent considerabletime on in the film,

Evergreen State College from 2017,

tell us what happened there

and why we should be concerned about that?

- A very liberalprofessor, Bret Weinstein,

professor of biology,life-long Democrat, liberal,

activist in fact did something courageous.

He acted like a liberalnot like a leftist.

The campus announced one day all whites

should leave the campus for a day.

And he said no I'm not doing that.

That's absurd, that's racistand I'm not leaving the campus.

People will see 'cause that'sthe longest single story

in the film, it's riveting,it is just riveting

what this man went through at this college

to the point where hewas told by the police

don't come to the college,we cannot protect you.

You will see studentsscreaming curses at him,

and he says will you allow me to speak

and they're saying no.

- He leaves.

- He's no longer at EvergreenState, that's right.

- Well, the good news is he won a lawsuit.

- And the other good news is though

very few students areapplying to Evergreen State.

- So that was a bigmistake they made there.

- Yeah, but they don'tbelieve it's a mistake,

they're true believers.- You think they'd

do it again?

- They're true believers.

- Also in the film I know that you

went to a African Americanuniversity in Atlanta

and you talked to some AfricanAmericans students there.

Were you surprisedbecause you got into race

and white privilege and things like that.

- I wasn't surprised, Ihave zero issue with saying

to anyone I don't agree with you.

I unlike the left whichhas contempt for blacks,

I don't, I see them aszero different from me

and I differ with a white,I respectfully tell them why

and if I differ from a blackI respectively tell them why

and nobody has a problem with it.

- Well, you had a civildiscussion there, yes.

- Totally civil, totally civil.

I had a discussion with the head

of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee

that's not in this film and I said Islam

has not been a religion of peace.

He didn't walk away, hewasn't even offended.

He didn't agree with me but that's fine.

- Where did we get to this point?

How did that happen.- The left shuts people down.

Because they have contemptfor all non-whites.

- But it hasn't always been that way.

- Of course not.- Why now?

- Because the left has gained power.

It didn't have this power in the past.

- Finally on the film, No Safe Spaces,

what's the take away,what do you want people

to leave the theater thinking about?

- That's a very good question.

We conservatives have more in common

with liberals than liberalshave with leftists.

Liberals have to awaken hey, free speech

has been a fundamentalpillar of liberal thought.

It's being shattered by the left.

Join us in fighting that.

But this film is a wake up call.

You can't leave the theaterand think things are okay.

- And I enjoyed seeing youdirect the symphony there in LA.

- Oh, thank you that's my avocation

conducting the orchestras, it's that

and religion keep me sane.

- Dennis Prager, PragerU,and also the film,

you won't wanna miss it.

The film coming out- Nosafespaces.com.

in nosafespaces.com, check it out.

Dennis Prager, thank youagain for joining us.

- Thank you.

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- Fewer Americans are callingthemselves Christians.

A new poll from Pew found the percentage

has dropped sharply down12% from a decade ago.

In 2009, 77% of Americanssaid they're Christians.

Now it's down to only 65%.

And millennials are leading the way,

only 49% of that generationsay they're Christian.

Well, joining us withsome thoughts on this

is Dr. Bruce Hartman.

He's author of the book,Your Faith Has Made You Well,

A Radical New Way toCreate Peace and Hope.

Dr. Hartman, I wanna talkto you about your book

in a few minutes here but itseems like a lot of Americans

are kind of missing this peace and hope

that comes from faith in Christ.

Why the decline in thenumber of American Christians

in the past 10 years?

- Well, that's a good questionand you hit on a piece of it

in your introduction, the millennial group

which is the bubble that'sstarting to pass through

our demographics now is, it's very large,

it's 75 million people andto put it in perspective,

it's larger than the baby boomgeneration currently exists.

If they represent 40% of the workers

and 30% of the votersand 25% of the country,

it's also the most diverse generation

that America's ever had.

So when you take the statistic that

only 49% of that group attend church,

there's two pieces of that, oneit is it's reasonably normal

for younger folks and this group is now

in the 20 to 35 range, thatis usually the lowest point

of a person's life whenthey attend church.

So, that's one of thethings that's dragging

this overall percentage down.

So, obviously in the futureyou'll see that increase

and the comment that many churches made

about them is that they were the future.

Well, when they were 12 and 15 and 18

they weren't the future,they were part of the Church.

So they feel a little bit disenfranchised.

Second thing about this group is they're,

they've grown in a period where authority

hasn't been as highly respected as it was

in previous generations.

So, you see particularly inthe denominational church

an even bigger shrinkage ofmillennials attending church

however when you go to thenon-denominational churches

it's virtually the sameand some of that speaks

to this reluctance of authority.

- [Gary] And your latest book,Your Faith Has Made You Well,

A Radical New Way to Create Peace and Hope

despite all the miraclesof modern medicine,

you've discovered thatoften faith kicks in

bringing wellness, peace and hope

so tell us a little bit about that.

- Jesus said eight times in the gospels

your faith has made you well.

And particularly for those of us

who've gone to schoolparticularly recently

you know when the bossor the teacher tells you

something eight times it's on the test.

So, I look at it and Ilook and read each one

of the eight individualstories that related to that

and there's a what Ideveloped was this continuum,

there's so much of Godinvolved in our healing

whether it's physical,spiritual or it's just within

our lives and there's so much of ours

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it's either 50/50sometimes it's God 75/25,

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In each circumstance it's different

and so when I starteddoing research for the book

and started talking to folks,

one of the things Inoticed that in the periods

of miraculous healing whethersomebody overcoming alcoholism

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where things are changingon us that we don't want to.

So developing this faith in God as opposed

to seeing God as agenie so in other words,

don't ask God for somethingwithout your own willingness

to invest in it.

And I think that's whatthe point of the book is.

- Okay, Dr. Bruce Hartman,I hope we can talk some more

about this in the future.

We thank you for your time and insights.

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- Over the years, as I'vetraveled to many countries

where the gospel is restricted

and into hostile areas to Christ,

the first request mostChristians ask of me is to pray.

Not to give them money or help.

They long for and need our prayers.

So on this International Day of Prayer

for the persecuted Church and everyday,

how should we pray forour suffering brothers

and sisters in Christ?

Certainly they don't likethe persecution they face

but they don't pray that it will end.

Suffering Christians havenever asked me to pray that.

They want us to pray that Godwill give them stronger backs

to carry their crosses.

So pray that God willgive them the strength

and overcome their suffering.

Pray that they'll remain faithful to him

and pray they'll receive opportunities

to share Christ with others.

And if they're in prison, praythey'll have opportunities

to share the good newswith cellmates and guards.

Pray that God will visitthem and their families

in their darkest momentsbringing them comfort,

encouragement and hope.

Pray for God's provision for the families.

Then ask God what he wants you to do.

For some the Holy Spirit maylead you to pray everyday

for a specific country,individual, family or prisoner.

For others it may be towrite letters of concern

to government leadersand for others it may be

to give up your time or treasure.

But it starts with prayeron IDOP Sunday and everyday.

Yes, God will speak to us andmove for the persecuted Church

and for us.

All we have to do isknock on the door and ask.

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