[From aus.religion.christian newsgroup 29.9.01] Dear beloved Christians, We Muslims want to send our deepest gratitude and appreciation for your kindness in this time of despair. It fills our hearts, minds, and souls with warmth and compassion when we see and hear stories of Christians helping Muslims. A Christian group here is doing the shopping for […]
This is forwarded from EMU’s Conflict Transformation Program’s (CTP) list-serve. It contains an e-mail address for those interested in “analytical papers based on our [CTP] various areas of expertise and interest, including peacebuilding, responses to violence, trauma healing, work with victims of violence, restorative justice, worldview conflicts, and crisis management. These articles are intended to […]
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 02:27:08 +1000, A ‘Net friend wrote: >Brown Family wrote: > >> On 28 Sep 2001 17:30:36 GMT, (ConvertstoIslam) >> wrote: >> >> >Although some Jews have killed Jesus, Christians have risen above the racism of >> >condemning all Jews for His Murder, similarly, the followers of the Lord today >> […]
As I heard about and then watched with horror, those haunting images of the planes crashing into the two World Trade Center Towers and later the Pentagon, waves of various powerful feelings engulfed me. First there was shock, disbelief and numbness followed by grief, fear, vengeful rage and despair. Then as the potency of those […]
Paul Monk “Bull’s-eye!” exclaimed a Cairo taxi-driver as he watched United Airlines Flight 175 spear into the mid-section of the World Trade Centre south tower and explode in a fire-ball. That exclamation, half a world away from New York geographically and a whole world away in feeling, gives us our best clue as to how […]
-Pastor David Wilkerson. Tuesday, September 11, 2001, the twin towers of New York City were destroyed. Five days later right outside the door, you can still see the smoke pouring out of the ruins. I looked out my window because when I prepared this message in my study I overlook the whole scene and the […]
Paul Monk “Bull’s-eye!” exclaimed a Cairo taxi-driver as he watched United Airlines Flight 175 spear into the mid-section of the World Trade Centre south tower and explode in a fire-ball. That exclamation, half a world away from New York geographically and a whole world away in feeling, gives us our best clue as to how […]
Don’t turn tragedy into war AS PEOPLE around the world were still grappling with the enormity of the human losses in the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., George W. Bush and his government were beating the drum for even more death and destruction. They’re trying to use a horrific tragedy to advance their […]
hello folks, I have done a fair bit of research on this and can only arrive at a rough figure, I’m afraid. I have focussed on the most commonly used statistic of 19,000. The quotes, mostly originating from the Jubilee campaign, sometimes state that “19,000 children die as a result of money going to foreign […]
The Canberra Times September 15, 2001 Two wrongs are not right By Geoffrey Robertson IF THERE is any silver lining to the grotesque black cloud over New York, it can only come from a new commitment to global criminal justice. It is this system (which the Pentagon tried to strangle at birth) that alone offers […]