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Protocols of Zion: The Life of a Fraud & Its True Believers

Protocols of Zion’: The Life of a Fraud & Its True Believers By Philip Kennicott Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, April 22, 2006; C01 If you’re curious to read “The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” the century-old anti-Semitic tract that was beloved of Hitler, Henry Ford and King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, then […]

Evolution and the Australian Lungfish

From ABCTV’s Catalyst- http://www.abc.net/catalyst Narration: You’re looking into the eyes of an ancient ancestor. Dr Paul Willis, Reporter: This is the Queensland Lungfish – it’s a living fossil, these guys lived alongside the dinosaurs and members of this group have been around for 300 million years. Its got amazing stories to tell us about our […]

The Ways of Opus Dei

IT’S NOT THE VILLAIN THAT THE DA VINCI CODE SETS IT UP TO BE. BUT IT HAS BEEN A MYSTERY. AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL GROUP IN CATHOLICISM By DAVID VAN BIEMA Apr. 24, 2006 In early March, Elizabeth Heil, an arts-administration graduate student at Columbia University, was watching previews in a movie […]

Jensen tells of Islam-Christian split

SYDNEY: Jensen tells of Islam-Christian split THE AUSTRALIAN April 14, 2006 A SYDNEY church leader has used a Good Friday address to tell his congregation that Christianity and Islam cannot both lead to God. Anglican Dean of Sydney Phillip Jensen told a service at St Andrew’s Cathedral that Islam denies some of the Christian beliefs […]

Baptists and Discrimination: two stories

‘At the 1960 Assembly, I was appointed as the first General Superintendent of the Baptist Union of Victoria…. The idea of becoming a pastor to pastors… attracted me… in view of the number of men who were seeking my counsel. I said at my induction… that if the Lord had intended me to be an […]

The U.S. Racial Crisis and World Evangelism

Any understanding of world evangelism and racism in the USA must begin with an understanding of the history of racism. Read this article at: http://www.urbana.org/_articles.cfm?RecordId=185

White Supremacy in Australia

Even though Asian faces now account for about one in ten of the Australian population, there has NEVER been a presenter with Asian features on many of the commercial television networks in Australia in the 30 years since Equal Employment Legislation was introduced. There are no Asian journalists in the mainstream print media, and no […]

The Global Jihad – letting history speak

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22141 The Global Jihad By Andrew G. Bostom FrontPageMagazine.com | April 21, 2006 Defying the pervasive legacy of intellectual terrorism engendered by the late Edward Said’s Orientalism—a profoundly flawed work, which nevertheless, almost 30 years after its publication, continues to inspire, or intimidate, a distressingly dominant proportion of today’s Middle East Studies academics—Professor Efraim Karsh […]

Creation and Evolution

#1: The Omnipotent God Almighty created the Universe by the power of His word. Why then couldn’t the Omnipotent God Almighty create living things by the same power The fact that God used the dust of the ground to create Adam does not mean that He used millions of years of tooth and claw bloodshed […]

Converts From Islam – Free To Choose?

11 April 2006 CONVERTS FROM ISLAM – FREE TO CHOOSE? The case of Abdul Rahman, on trial last month in the Afghan capital Kabul for converting from Islam to Christianity, made the international headlines for some days. Both judge and prosecutor stated that, if found guilty, he would face the death sentence in line with […]