Rowland Croucher
The Grim Future for Women in Afghanistan
*Sightings* 10/28/2010 *Religious Language and Women ¢â‚¬â„¢s Rights in Afghanistan* – Helena Zeweri Taliban officials have been engaging in secret talks with the Karzai government to converge towards a prospective peace deal, according to a * Washington** Post *report. In another report in the *Toronto Star*, Jennifer Rowell, head of policy and advocacy for Care International […]
Christian Violence
*Sightings* 10/25/2010 *Christian Violence *- Martin E. Marty ¢â‚¬Å“Christians kill too! ¢â‚¬ is the topic this week as frightened and angry Americans keep raising the temperature of Islam-versus-Everyone-Else controversies. In his new book *Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda, *Timothy Longman writes that in three months in 1994 more than one-tenth of the population of Rwanda was […]
Pray for the World (November 1, 2010)
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER * THE TRAGEDY OF FORCED MARRIAGES AND CONVERSION OF CHRISTIAN GIRLS TO ISLAM * NEW BRITISH LABOUR LEADER CONFESSES HIS ATHEISM ———————————————– THE TRAGEDY OF FORCED MARRIAGES AND CONVERSION OF CHRISTIAN GIRLS TO ISLAM Shah Taj, a fourteen-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan, was on her way to school last year when […]
Disappearing public toilets :-)
Keep canning public toilets and there’ll be a mass movement November 1, 2010 Which genius thought to get rid of WCs while the population ages? I decided one night a couple of weeks ago to fill my car at a service station in Ringwood East. While the car’s tank was near empty, mine was full […]
Stan Davey: Tireless warrior for Aborigines
October 27, 2010 STANLEY FRASER DAVEY, AM ACTIVIST 20-7-1922 – 22-9-2010 By JO WAINER and JAN RICHARDSON STAN Davey, who campaigned and worked for Aboriginal communities across Australia for more than 50 years, has died of pneumonia at a nursing home in Frankston. He was 88. Stan co-founded five organisations and introduced community development practices […]
CONSPIRACY THEORIES
“Inside the Brain of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad” by Jonathan Kay — amounts to a useful brief on “the thinking that pervades much of the Muslim world,” thereby informing a more balanced appreciation of this oft-neglected topic within the field of Christian apologetics. Kay begins by acknowledging that it is not all that unusual for accomplished people […]
CENTRAL ASIA: CHRISTIANITY’S PAST AND PRESENT
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 078 | Wed 20 Oct 2010 By Anneta Vyssotskaia, a religious liberty advocate with a particular concern for and involvement in Russia and the former USSR. The Central Asian region is a vast territory including five countries which were once part of the former USSR: Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan […]
Minutes to Memories
By Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com “Days turn to minutes, and minutes to memories. Life sweeps away the dreams that we have planned” – John Mellencamp, Minutes to Memories There is a scene in the movie Up in the Air where George Clooney’s character is trying to convince his brother-in-law-to-be to not jilt his bride on […]
North Korea
*How will North Korean Succession affect Christians?* October 21, 2010 One of the world ¢â‚¬â„¢s most secretive, isolated and authoritarian regimes, North Korea, is expected to have a change in the leadership. Does this mean anything for the persecuted Christians in the communist nation? North Korea has never had democracy. Since its formation in 1948, the […]
God, Haiti and tectonic plates
by Nils von Kalm http://soulthoughts.com I recently came across a book called Creation Untamed by Terence Fretheim which puts forward a convincing argument about how we can reconcile natural disasters with a loving God. The book starts by suggesting what Genesis really says about the creation. The automatic assumption by the vast majority of Christians […]
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