Apologetics
Iranian Dress Crackdown
By Frances Harrison BBC News, Tehran Iranian woman being arrested Hundreds of women have been arrested for “bad hijab” Thousands of Iranian women have been cautioned over their poor Islamic dress this week and several hundred arrested in the capital Tehran in the most fierce crackdown on what’s known as “bad hijab” for more than […]
Alleviating Poverty: a Case Study (Vellachery)
In July 1990, the Slum Clearance Board in the city of Madras (now Chennai) India decided to rid that city’s streets of the “untouchables” – the Dalit people who made their homes on the streets. Overnight, six thousand street-dwellers were rounded up, their makeshift thatched homes or lean-tos were burned to the ground, they were […]
American Shia
June 10, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Be careful what you pick up to read for diversion because it may take you down a difficult road to an unpleasant place. That was my experience with The March by E.L. Doctorow, the peerless American writer of historical fiction. I bought the book when it came out […]
What is ‘sexual orientation’?
From a friend: June 4, 2007 The U.S. Congress is considering three pieces of legislation that would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by adding “sexual orientation” as a new special rights protected class. This week Congress is hearing the second piece of legislation adding “sexual orientation” for federal employees to the Code in […]
Morality and Politics
ACNS 4279 | LAMBETH | 24 APRIL 2007 Archbishop of Canterbury – moral vision should be at the heart of politics In his lecture this evening in Hull, birthplace of William Wilberforce, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will urge politicians to rediscover the moral energy and vision which inspired Wilberforce; defend the right […]
The White-anting Of Christian Culture
AUSTRALIAN PRAYER NETWORK NEWSLETTER THE WHITE-ANTING OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE By Dr Patrick Sookhdeo International Director of Barnabas Fund The story is told of an Australian who came home one day to find his house had collapsed and little remained but a pile of dust and rubble. Unknown to him, white ants had been eating away […]
Earth, Inc. Sliding Into Bankruptcy
by Stephen Leahy June 02, 2007 BROOKLIN, Canada, May 29 (IPS) – Build a shrimp farm in Thailand by cutting down mangrove forests and you will net about 8,000 dollars per hectare. Meanwhile, the destruction of the forest and pollution from the farm will result in a loss of ecosystems worth 35,000 dollars/ha per year. […]
Nuns and monks as comic book heroes
Church tries a strip tease to make holy orders look cool Jonathan Wynne-Jones, London April 30, 2007 Nuns and monks as comic book heroes. THE Roman Catholic Church is launching a comic strip this week to attract teenagers into the priesthood. It is using the art form in an advertising campaign to combat the dramatic […]
Cluster Bombs
Soundings No. 58 – 5 June 2007 Cluster bombs and Australia’s national interest By Rod Benson At the same time as the Australian government is engaged in international talks aimed at securing a global treaty banning cluster bombs, the Defence Department has claimed that limitations on the Australian Defence Force’s capacity to acquire the weapons […]
Clean energy
From a netfriend: The Good Lord has blessed Australia with an abundance of sunlight and the good Lord has also seen fit to provide Australian researchers with the ability to create excellent and innovative technology relating to solar and other alternative power generation. The technology is also available to provide adequate power generation from the […]
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