Rowland Croucher
The Hazards of Citizen Journalism in China
Thursday, Jan. 24, 2008 By SIMON ELEGANT Zhou Shuguang’s brief but spectacular career as China’s first roving citizen reporter on the Internet ended abruptly last December after he was punched in the throat by an angry policeman in the northeastern city of Shenyang. Zhou’s offense: investigating a bizarre pyramid scheme involving ants and aphrodisiacs. The […]
Australian Prayer Network Newsletter
* TRIBAL ETHNIC CLEANSING BREAKS OUT IN KENYA * CHRISTIAN CHILDREN IN CHINA REFUSE TO DENY JESUS * INDONESIAN CHRISTIAN VILLAGE HAS ZERO CRIME RATE * EUROPEAN BISHOPS CRITICIZE EUROPEAN UNION FOR INTERFERING WITH MARRIAGE * JUDICIAL CORRUPTION IMPEDES JUSTICE FOR ALL * KENYAN WOMEN VOW TO WEAR SACKCLOTH TO SIGNIFY REPENTANCE AND MOURNING FOR […]
Pray for the World
FORUM 18 NEWS SERVICE, Oslo, Norway http://www.forum18.org/ The right to believe, to worship and witness The right to change one’s belief or religion The right to join together and express one’s belief ================================================= 30 January 2008 KAZAKHSTAN: SECRET POLICE OPERATION TO CLOSE DOWN ENTIRE DENOMINATION? http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1078 The KNB secret police subjected the Grace Presbyterian Church […]
The Persecution of American Christianity
By Harry T. Cook A number of our Founding Parents were undeniably religious . . . after a fashion. Many of those among the political elite were deists, which means they were not theists – not an unimportant distinction. Deists are by nature mostly agnostic, not so all-fired sure of the “truth” of their belief […]
The Eucharist
From a scientist-friend, who is a Christian: Remember that each time you take communion, there is a good chance that one of the atoms you consume was at some time present in Jesus actual body.
How’s this for insulting language?
Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable sodding rotters, the flaming sods, the snivelling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulseless lot that make up England today. They’ve got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it’s a marvel they can breed. They can nothing but frog-spawn – […]
The Roman in Roman Catholic
*Sightings* 1/7/08 — Martin E. Marty Friend and neighbor Father Andrew Greeley, sociologist, novelist, and columnist, reminded me in a recent e-mail that he liked to be called a “Catholic,” not a “Roman Catholic.” In his January 2nd *Chicago** Sun-Times * column, he elaborates: “My crowd has been calling themselves ‘Catholic’ for 17 centuries. The […]
Music in American Religious Experience
Sightings 1/17/08 — Philip V. Bohlman Sacred music sounds the landscapes of America, and it resounds American history. It marks place and time, and in so doing it realizes the very mobility with which Americans move across time and place. Sacred music is for many Americans the sound of the everyday, charting the intimate paths […]
Global Christian Statistics
*Sightings* 1/14/08 Statistics — Martin E. Marty Warning: This “Sightings” may induce boredom, especially among those unmoved by the reading of statistics. Maybe it will spell relief from the un-boring religion-and-politics stories of this winter. It relies upon the folks at WorldChristianDatabase.org , Christian encyclopedists and trend-watchers. So, I beg your patience and know that […]
For Tourists to Australia
These were posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the answers are the actual responses by the website officials, who obviously have a sense of humour __________________________________________________ Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia ? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? ( UK ). A: We import […]
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