KESTON NEWS SERVICE: 20.00, 3 July 2002 Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. ______________________________________ AZERBAIJAN: “GET OUT BEFORE PRESIDENT ARRIVES!” ADVENTISTS TOLD. Adventist leaders in Azerbaijan are optimistic the decision by local police in the country’s exclave of Nakhichevan to expel an Adventist family just days before […]
Subj: India: Hindu Nationalism Returns to Politics Conference Dear Friends as this is my first posting as moderator of the WEA RLC e-mail conference, there may be a hic-up or two as learn the ropes of list administration. If there are any technical glitches over the next few postings, I would ask you just bare […]
——————————————————————————– DAY OF INFAMY 2001 Intelligence head says ‘ true character of the new war’ revealed that day ——————————————————————————– Posted: July 5, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com The head of Israel’s intelligence agency has stated in a speech to NATO that he believes World War III began on Sept. 11 when terrorists attacked […]
Religious Liberty Prayer List – No. 176 – Tues 9 July 2002 ———————————————— SUDAN: THE DESPERATE NEED FOR PEACE ———————————————— Ever since independence (1956) the efforts of the Arab Muslim Government of Sudan (GoS), to Islamise and Arabise all of Sudan, have produced conflict. A peace accord had been signed with the predominantly African and […]
The Barnabas Fund PAPUAN CHRISTIANS FEAR ONSLAUGHT INDONESIA 27 June 2002 Christians in the Indonesian province of Papua (Irian Jaya) are fearful that a violent campaign could be unleashed against them later this year as Laskar Jihad Islamic militants continue to flood into the province with the apparent collusion of the authorities. A recent report […]
CHRISTIANS FEAR IMPOSITION OF ISLAMIC LAW MALAYSIA 1 July 2002 Moderate Muslims, women’s groups, Christians and other non-Muslim minorities have all reacted with horror to plans by Muslim opposition party PAS to impose full Islamic Shari’ah law in Malaysia’s Terengganu State. PAS, the largest opposition party in Malaysia, wants to see the country (traditionally one […]
Dean Ross Jones St. George’s College Jerusalem UPDATE 2 July 2002 My last Update spoke of the growing tendency here to silence all dissent of the official policies of the State of Israel. That tendency is continuing. At 4:00pm yesterday a group of nineteen Americans (two of whom also had Israeli citizenship) from the Fellowship […]
Religious Liberty Prayer List – No. 175 – Tues 2 July 2002 ———————————————— BELARUS: THREATENING TO RETURN TO SOVIET ERA ———————————————— The government of Belarus (in Central Europe, west of Russia, north of Ukraine) is presently considering introducing a highly restrictive religion bill that would drive Belarus back into Soviet era oppression. If adopted as […]
Hamas Chat: How To Murder Americans Internet surfers looking to discuss how to murder American citizens, need only to log on to the official Hamas terror gang website. The site’s chat room has recently hosted a discussion, in which participants have described how they would go about murdering Americans. Here are some excerpts from the […]
KESTON NEWS SERVICE: 11.00, 3 July 2002 Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. ______________________________________ RUSSIA: NEW LAW OUTLAWS RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM. A presidential bill banning religious organisations found to have committed “extremist activity” passed its third and final reading in the lower house of the Russian parliament (Duma) […]