Apologetics
Gayness: another view
I have had gay friends in the past. Unfortunately, I did not try very hard to keep in contact with them, and at the time I did not understand that gayness was still sinful even though inborn. I thought, “Hey, if they are born with it, that automatically means it is non-sinful.” Boy was I […]
Muslims in the UK
A round-up of reports from the UK. July 10, 2007 http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56503 Across town from the site of the recent attempted car-bomb attacks, several thousand Muslims gathered in front of the London Central Mosque to applaud fiery preachers prophesying the overthrow of the British government – a future vision that encompasses an Islamic takeover of the […]
What Does the Bible Actually Say About Homosexuality (2) ?
(David wrote an article on the Bible and Homosexuality which always enjoys a high hit-count – see http://jmm.org.au/articles/13935.htm . Here’s more from him). Whether a person is gay or not and the extent to which a person is gay can be measured by doctors fairly accurately using testing. It’s a bit private but vitally important. […]
Suffering for faith
The British Secret Service reports that some 200 million Christians in 60 countries around the world are at risk of persecution – a scandal to which many in the West would like to turn a blind eye. The report was published in the Sunday Express in London, and carried by the Catholic News Agency According […]
Counting down (the Australian census)
Counting down There isn’t much good news for Christians in the 2006 Census figures released today, with a continued decline to 64 per cent of the Australian population. Nominally, they are still a large majority but the main churches lost ground. Catholics rose 6.8 per cent from 1996 but failed to keep pace with the […]
Islamic Youth at Risk in Australia
Herald Sun news report 3/7/07. Carly Crawford reporting. Up to 2000 Melbourne youths are at risk of being turned into radicals by Muslim extremists. Melbourne and Sydney are firming as Australia’s fundamentalist recruitment centres. Researcher Mustapha Kara-Ali says young people are being exposed to a warped view of Islam in mosques, Islamic centres and even […]
Egypt: Let The Apostasy/liberty Debate Begin
Subj: Egypt: Let the apostasy/liberty debate begin. In April 2007 a lower court ruled against 45 Copts who had converted to Islam or been deemed Muslim on account of the conversion of a parent, but who wanted to officially return to Christianity. The lower court ruled that Muslims, even if they are converts from Christianity, […]
Islamic recruiting in Australia (more)
Herald Sun news report 3/7/07. Carly Crawford reporting: UNIVERSITY students will be the key targets of a weekend recruitment drive by Muslim extremists espousing the teachings of Osama bin Laden. Firebrand Melbourne cleric Sheik Mohammed Omran will join other hardline clerics at a conference in Sydney devoted to bin Laden’s poisonous brand of Islam, Wahhabism. […]
Malaysia: Image and Substance
Subj: In the recent WEA Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin entitled “Malaysia: At the Crossroads” it was noted: “Elections are due in Malaysia before early 2008. Many people are disenchanted with the ruling party, UMNO, and PAS [Parti Islam Semalaysia] is hoping to capitalise. PAS is modernising and softening its image, replacing turbaned clerics with Western-educated, […]
Catholics up and down in census
The Australian Catholic population is up again according to 2006 Census figures with the total reaching 5.1 million but the proportion of Catholics has declined slightly, says the bishops’ Pastoral Projects Office. In an analysis of the latest census figures, Mr Dixon said that as the total population grew at a faster rate, 5.8 per […]
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