Apologetics
Christians – The Most Persecuted People Group on Earth
5th August 2006 CHRISTIANS – THE MOST PERSECUTED PEOPLE GROUP ON EARTH By Anthony Browne, Europe correspondent of the Times. Rising nationalism and fundamentalism around the world have meant that Christianity is going back to its roots as the religion of the persecuted. There are now more than 300 million Christians who are either threatened […]
This Land Is MY Land …
By Harry T. Cook Deuteronomy 8: 1-10 The scene is an area of Gaza: Israel, or, depending on your point of view, Palestine. A rabbi says, paraphrasing our text from Deuteronomy, This land was promised on oath by God to our ancestors. It is therefore our land by the divine hand, and we may not […]
Life Is Sacred … Except When It’s Not
August 13, 2006 By Harry T. Cook It was actually possible to read on the same page of a single day’s newspaper these three articles: the first about why the President said he vetoed the stem-cell research bill, the second explaining why he resisted the call for an immediate cease-fire in the Hezbollah-Israeli war, and […]
Gay vote to split church
Gay vote to split church Paul Gray August 14, 2006 12:00am A FORMAL split within the Uniting Church looms because of growing divisions over the church leadership’s push to allow gay clergy. Through its governing body, the National Assembly, the Uniting Church has voted twice in three years to reject the debarring of practising homosexuals […]
Survey of British Muslims
ALMOST a quarter of British Muslims say the 7/7 bombings can be justified because of the Government’s support for the war on terror, according to an opinion poll. And nearly half of those polled, or 45 per cent, believe the 9/11 attacks on New York were a conspiracy between the United States and Israel. The […]
Sad reflections on Jewish morality
Al-Ahram Weekly – 10-16 August 2006 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/807/op113.htm By Haim Bresheeth A chorus of apologists among Jewish intellectuals matches Israel’s erasure of all distinctions between humanity and barbarism in war. by Haim Bresheeth One of the most determined, courageous and influential opposition groups in Israel, now and in the past, is called Yesh Gvul; it represents […]
Muslims and Jews – Nobel Prizes
The Global Islamic Muslim population is approximately 1,200,000,000, or 20% of the world population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes: Literature: 1988 – Najib Mahfooz. Peace: 1978 – Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat 1994 – Yaser Arafat Physics: 1990 – Elias James Corey 1999 – Ahmed Zewail Medicine: 1960 – Peter Brian Medawar 1998 – Ferid […]
Understanding the Jihad to Destroy Israel
by Andrew Bostom (Aug. 2006) As the conflagration in southern Lebanon rages on, open calls for an annihilationist jihad to eradicate the State of Israel are once again echoing across the Muslim world. There is no confusing the intent expressed in such brazen statements: [Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Commander] There is a need to topple the […]
Rejected asylum seekers killed
Rejected asylum seekers killed after being sent back to Afghanistan from Nauru and 3 children dead Edmund Rice Centre research team reports A delegation from the Edmund Rice Centre in Sydney recently visited Afghanistan and found that as many as 9 men returned from Nauru may have been killed, and 3 children of people sent […]
Hard Times Roll On
Dear pastoral friends, At the risk of seeming like a perpetual whinge-er, I want to tell you about the weather up here in the farming country. It is another unbelievable bleeding (literally! – life-sapping) bad season. Our irrigation farmers on the Murray system have been given their annual allocation of water for the season – […]
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