Note from Rowland: This is a mix of truth and bigotry (the ‘red-neck’-type bigotry has to do with a lack of feeling for those less fortunate, who simply want to make a better life for themselves and their families – and what’s wrong with that? We or our ancestors – all of them – were […]
27 May 2010 03:29 This article was published in the National Observer. It is a condensation of Chapter 6 of The Third Choice, which discusses the theological and legal status of the dhimma pact, in the light of Sura 9:29 of the Quran. ============== National Observer, Australia, No. 82 (March – May 2010) Islam and […]
Christianity may be the world ¢â‚¬â„¢s most popular faith, with billions of believers in the afterlife, but to the mainstream secular world, it ¢â‚¬â„¢s also the number-one subject of ridicule. Not that much has changed over the centuries. Christians have long endured persecution for their beliefs. And instead of separating themselves from the world around them and […]
Bill McKibben ¢â‚¬â„¢s Brave New Eaarth (No, That ¢â‚¬â„¢s Not a Typo) by LaVonne Neff 05-25-2010 A couple of weeks ago I read Paul Greenberg ¢â‚¬â„¢s excellent review, ¢â‚¬Å“Hot Planet, Cold Facts, ¢â‚¬ of Bill McKibben ¢â‚¬â„¢s newest book, Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. I immediately put a hold on it at the public library. It […]
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 057 | Wed 26 May 2010 WELCOME to the intercessors who have joined the list this month. ————————————————– MAY 2010 UPDATE — During May we prayed concerning . . . IRAQ, where the indigenous Assyrian-Chaldean Christian population is besieged by escalating Muslim fundamentalism (that marginalises, discriminates against and persecutes) […]
. Apologia Report: Surveying New Resources in Christian Apologetics – a weekly e-mail briefing in worldview news and study designed to help bring understanding to an age-old arena of conflict Volume 15: Number 20 (1,025) May 26, 2010 In this issue: ORIGINS – Bruce Waltke resigns over evolution statement RELIGIOUS PLURALISM – Stephen Prothero exposes […]
Religion in the Classroom SBS Television Tuesday, 25 May 10 Transcript For many decades, children in our State primary schools have been given the option of attending a religion class – in most States, for up to an hour a week. The classes are taught by volunteers from the various religious groups. Children, whose parents […]
By ROD McGUIRK The Associated Press Monday, May 24, 2010; 6:53 AM CANBERRA, Australia — The Roman Catholic Church’s culture of discretion and focus on “sin and forgiveness rather than crime and punishment” were among ingrained factors that ultimately led to the child sex abuse scandal and cover-up surrounding the church today, a pre-eminent Australian […]
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 056 | Tue 18 May 2010 Christianity came to Ethiopia-Eritrea in the early 4th Century, brought into the court of King Ezana by two Syrian merchants, Frumentius and Aedesius. Today Eritrea is around 50 percent Christian, with more than 90 percent of all Eritrean Christians belonging to the Eritrean […]
A Melbourne-based international religious liberty advocate has warned that the religious freedom we have always enjoyed and taken for granted in the West, is under increasing attack and becoming exceedingly vulnerable, and that western Christians must have the courage to take a stand with and for their persecuted brothers and sisters around the world. Elizabeth […]