| Diogo Morgado,Roma Downey & Mark Burnett |
Roma Downey and her husband Mark Burnett are setting records
with their extraordinary Bible mini series. The series takes stories from the bible,
beginning with the book of Genesis and it will end in the book of Revelation finale Easter Sunday.
The series outperforms all other television shows on Sunday
nights, reaching close to 80 million viewers with its first three installments
alone. As interest grows worldwide, it is expected the audience will expand
exponentially.
"Roma and I continue to be grateful for the
overwhelming global enthusiasm for The Bible series,” says executive producer
Mark Burnett. Ireland native, Roma Downey
says "The audience reaction says so much about what people are looking for
these days, we are just thrilled that we were able to bring these stories to
life."
In April, the series will be released on Blu-ray and DVD
which should sweep the world…It will be an extraordinary commercial success…But
even more extraordinary, are the resounding testimonies for Christianity, whose
religious institutions and faith have been under fire around the world.
For the past several years, anti Christianity has
intensified as the Arab Spring was ushered into the Middle East and North Africa, ancient homelands to Christians. Alarming stories of murder and arson fill the
newswires as Christians are being persecuted and driven out of their
home country. If they choose to stay....live as second class citizens.
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It has also been fashionable to attack and ridicule
Christianity in the entertainment industry under the guise of being cutting
edge, as comedians and entertainers mock Christianity. Although it is painfully obvious these same
artists lack the courage to browbeat Islam, a religion that will actually fire
back at them.
Higher education got caught with its pants down last week,
when a college professor at Florida Atlantic University, assigned his students
to write the name of Jesus on a piece of paper, then put it on the ground and
stomp on it. See Fox News story.
Institutions of Christianity have gone astray over the millennium and that invites the criticism. Man lead institutions can always go
astray into evil and mischief and Christianity has suffered many a black eye
for those sins in the past.
But Jesus Christ is easily the most important figure that has
ever appeared in the history of mankind. However he is regarded, his teachings
have influenced the course of human history more than any other human who has
ever lived. From his Beatitudes, to his Sermon on the Mount, his teachings have
left mankind a blueprint to live by, unparalleled by any other and that’s what
is resonating with the public as the Bible Series comes to a conclusion this
Easter.