Apologetics
Algeria: severe new penalties for ‘proselytising’
———————————————— ALGERIA: SEVERE NEW PENALTIES FOR ‘PROSELYTISING’ ———————————————— A presidential order that establishes new conditions for the exercise of non-Muslim religious practice was passed in the Algerian Ummah council (Senate) on Monday 13 March, and in the Algerian National Assembly (Parliament) on 15 March. As a presidential order, the text would not have even been […]
Under the Scimitar of Damocles: the Trial of Abdul Rahman
Andew Bostom hits the mark again with an insightful and honest appraisal of the implications of Islam’s apostasy law. http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5359 Under the Scimitar of Damocles Andrew G. Bostom March 26th, 2006 Abdul Rahman faced death at the hands of our Afghan allies for the “crime” of converting to Christianity. This fate is no fluke, not […]
New Pentecostalism
27 March 2006 THE ‘NEW PENTECOSTALISM’ Australian Cricket Chaplain Dr Mark Tronson and Chairman of Well-Being Australia reveals that the responses to his May 2005 published paper “New Pentecostalism” has intellectually and emotionally helped free some Pentecostal pastors from their “predicaments of mandate”. “There continues to be an array of positive correspondence, but I’ve sensed […]
Afghanistan: Kabul apostasy trial update
—————————————- AFHGANISTAN: KABUL APOSTASY TRIAL UPDATE —————————————- I am forwarding the following Compass Direct News Flash in full as it has fresh and more extensive details than my posting of last Monday, including the news that two more Afghan Christians have been charged, one other young believer has been beaten, and several other Christians have […]
The Religious Right is Losing Control
The Religious Right is losing control by Jim Wallis For more than a decade, a series of environmental initiatives have been coming from an unexpected source – a new generation of young evangelical activists. Mostly under the public radar screen, they were covered in places such as Sojourners and Prism, the magazine of Evangelicals for […]
Afghan Christian Faces Death Sentence If He Will Not Return To Islam
21 March 2006 AFGHAN CHRISTIAN FACES DEATH SENTENCE IF HE WILL NOT RETURN TO ISLAM Abdul Rahman (41) converted from Islam to Christianity at least 14 years ago. He is now on trial in Kabul charged with rejecting Islam. The prosecutor says that if he returns to Islam the charges will be dropped, but if […]
Doctors and moral absolutes
A CALL TO DOCTORS CONCERNED WITH THE DRIFT OF ETHICS AWAY FROM MORAL ABSOLUTES March 2006 The RU486 debate and the Lockhart Review Committee Report have highlighted a drift of ethics from what we might call moral absolutes, effectively resulting in medicine without morality. The problem was highlighted in the RU486 debate by doctors arguing […]
Interview with Bono
ANDREW DENTON: Welcome to a very special edition of ENOUGH ROPE, Bono. BONO: Thanks very much, thanks for having me. ANDREW DENTON: Last week you had to announce the postponement of the ‘Vertigo’ tour, why was that? BONO: Well I can’t really get into the details of why. A family member was very ill and […]
Afghanistan: Kabul apostasy trial
The fact that leaving Islam attracts the death penalty is hardly news. Islam insists on the right of Muslims to proselytise freely without any opposition, and it is willing to back this with force, for to put obstacles in the way of Islamic da’wa constitutes lawful legal grounds for jihad to remove those obstacles. At […]
Rabbi calls for ‘UN of religions’
Rabbi calls for ‘UN of religions’ By Danny Wood BBC News, Seville The Chief Rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, has called for the creation of a world body with representatives from the major religious groups. Rabbi Metzger was addressing the International Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace in Seville, Spain. He called for the […]
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