However, after an initial massacre and execution of Christians , and turning Hagia Sophia and many other churches into mosques, they did allow the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch Archbishop of Constantinople to continue, with a small minority of second-class citizen “dhimmi” Christians, and under very strict conditions.

The Patriarchate still retains the old “Constantinople” name, which was just about tolerated by the Turkish authorities. They were, however, always ready to execute a troublesome Patriarch, or any Eastern Orthodox who went out of the bounds.

The problem, is however, that whether it is Western Latin Roman Catholicism, Eastern Catholicism (churches usually with Eastern Orthodox style liturgy, but who acknowledge the Pope), the now very ecumenical mainstream Eastern Orthodox Churches under Constantinople, or the now very separate and anti-Western and anti-Roman Catholic Russian Orthodox Church, they are all based on salvation by works and sacraments, scripture plus tradition, a central authority, either Pope and bishops, or patriarch and bishops, veneration of Mary and the saints, and ascetic works, rites, rituals and so on for salvation.

The disputes between the Russian Orthodox Church and the mainstream Eastern Orthodox Church based in Constantinople, is primarily a political matter, though also has some religious aspects.

The Russian Orthodox Church obviously supports Putin’s Russia, over its ambitions for Ukraine.

They do not care what the US Supreme Court, or even the basic rule of law says. They are just determined to push their agenda no matter what.

Let us pray that some good godly Turkish brothers will take on this work, and carry on the witness in Izmir.

However, this type of organised paedophilia, both priestly and episcopal, and the accompanying cover ups by the local diocesan bishops seems to have intensified since the Vatican 2 Council in the 1960’s.

It was from this time particularly that seminaries and monasteries were stuffed with young men who seemed to follow this kind of lifestyle, and were protected by bishops and religious superiors who just kept moving them around from parish to parish.

The official Burmese Army ran the country for decades as a socialistic and yet Buddhist military dictatorship for years, suppressing any opposition ruthlessly. They persecuted Christians and ethnic minorities, raping and pillaging as they went, and using slave labour under harsh conditions.

Aung Syun Ki, the democratic opposition leader, actually won an election as President some years ago, but was suppressed and placed under house arrest for a long time by the military.

Subsequently, under international pressure, they allowed her to take office, but it is an uneasy relationship, she cannot control them, and they still have an iron hand.

However, Mr Lincoln does not always listen or read carefully enough to the sermons and writings of Phil Johnson and the pastor he works with, John MacArthur.

I have a downloaded video sermon of John MacArthur, preached in the church about 2 years ago in the wake of the infamous US Supreme Court Obergefell decision, legalising “gay” marriage throughout the USA.

It is called “We Shall Not Bow”, and it is very clearly talking about this decision. Pastor MacArthur made it clear that both Roe v Wade, and Obergefell, were as bad as any terrorist outrage of Al Qaeda or ISIS, and these two terrorist style acts were carried out by the US Supreme Court!!!

If the politically correct rules now aggressively adopted for transgender people, and particularly children, had been applied to anorexics, this would have been absolutely disastrous.

My feeling is that this political correctness will get more and more widespread and aggressive, and unfortunately has the support of our liberal “Conservative” Government at National as well as local level, never mind the other parties who are even more leftward.

I think 2 principles are operating here. This President Nelson wishes to perpetuate the myth that Mormons are actually Christians, and therefore members of the Church of Jesus Christ, but I think also that a satirical musical theatrical presentation, called the “Book of Mormon”, which is successfully “treading the boards” in a London theatre, and I suspect probably Broadway in New York before that, has not gone down too well with the Mormon hierarchy.

We do have “Planned Parenthood” type clinics, like Marie Stopes, Brooks and National Family Planning Association, but these are usually used for the sudden and emergency type abortions. Most of the others are done on the NHS.

Even the school nurses who hand out birth control advice and medication, and refer girls for abortion with total confidentiality are employed by the NHS.

The pharmacist who takes a prescription for the two-stage abortion pill, after a brief consultation with the women is reimbursed by the NHS.

This woman, I believe, works for a scientific company that trades in aborted baby parts, and Planned Parenthood and other abortion organisations are not going to tolerate any judge in the US Supreme Court that might possibly stamp out their Molech, Chemosh, Baal and Astarte profitable trade of killing millions of babies in the womb.

This infamous body supported the old Soviet Union and former East European countries and the state approved propaganda churches they permitted, as against the real Christians in those countries that were persecuted, imprisoned and closed down.

This body is also a virulent supporter of a single sharia Islamic state of “Palestine” in the whole of Israel, not just the so called “Occupied Territories”, and the extirpation of the Jewish state, and is committed to environmentalism, interfaith and radical socialism and the “social justice” and “social gospel”.

Yet these activities, prayer, Bible study, Christmas and other activities in public squares, etc, had been going on in the USA for almost 200 years since the foundation of the state perfectly legally and in accord with the wishing of the Founding Fathers of the USA.