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April Is The Cruelest Month

By and others ⋅ July 2, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

— Donald E. Miller Every April I find myself grieving over the levels of violence of which humanity is capable. April 6, 1994, was the first day of the slaughter of 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis by their Hutu neighbors. April 24 is the day on which Armenians commemorate the genocide that claimed the lives of a […]

What Makes For Middle East Peace?

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Commentary Reaching Across the Barricades Tom Getman Jesus wept over Jerusalem, declaring, “If only you had known…what would make for peace.” When it comes to the Holy Land, odds are he still weeps in spite of the endless “peace” talks. South African playwright Athol Fugard asserted in the ’80s that “the central transaction of the […]

Breaking Down The Walls [Israel]

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Together Palestinian and Israeli activists fight ‘functional apartheid’ in the West Bank. Molly Marsh Sojourners 6/2000 A young Israeli soldier kicks a small rubber ball to two Palestinian boys in the West Bank city of Hebron, his machine gun slapping gently against his back as he moves. His fellow soldiers smoke and play cards nearby. […]

Indonesia: Violence Resurges In Ambon Massacre

By and others ⋅ July 2, 2003 ⋅ 2 comments

Religious Liberty Prayer List – No. 166 – Wed 01 May 2002 ———————————————- INDONESIA: VIOLENCE RESURGES IN AMBON MASSACRE ———————————————- The Maluku region of Eastern Indonesia (formerly the Spice Islands) was once predominantly Christian, as was the West Papua region. However, President Suharto’s transmigration policy greatly changed their demographics by encouraging Javanese Muslims to migrate […]

True Fascists Of The New Europe

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Patrick Buchanan Posted: April 30, 2002 When fascism comes to America, said Huey Long, it will come in the guise of anti-fascism. And since Vietnam, it has been so. Brownshirt tactics – shouting down speakers, disrupting opposition rallies, demonstrations that degenerate into riots – have all been used repeatedly by self-described fighters against racism and […]

Kyrgyzstan: Draft Religion Law – Orthodox Objections

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SOURCE: KESTON INSTITUTE http://www.keston.org KESTON INSTITUTE, OXFORD, UK ______________________________________ KESTON NEWS SERVICE: 11.00, 30 April 2002 Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. ______________________________________ KYRGYZSTAN: ORTHODOX STAND BY OBJECTIONS TO DRAFT RELIGION LAW. A senior priest of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek has strongly […]

Indonesia And Islam

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INDONESIA FOR CHRIST Mission to Ambon Jakarta, May 1, 2002 Love and greetings in Christ! In another 3 hours (Jeff & Annette Hammond) fly to Ambon. In the last week several more Christian villages have been attacked with some 15 Christians and scores of houses burned down. The Islamic propaganda machine is well oiled. As […]

Crash Course On Israel

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Here are some conveniently overlooked facts in the current Middle East situation. 1. Israel became a nation in 1312 B.C.E., two thousand years before the rise of Islam. 2. Arab refugees began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel. 3. Since […]

Why ‘Holy Land Tours’ Miss The Real Story

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Pilgrims’ Regress By Tom Getman Why don’t most Christian visitors to Israel and Palestine get it? How can so many tourists who see the painful impact of military occupation maintain an expansionist Israel “right or wrong” point of view? Four reasons are obvious: 1) Most visitors who come to the Holy Land for the primary […]

The Eurosnots Learn Nothing

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Mark Steyn National Post April 29, 2002 On Sunday, Jean-Marie Le Pen, the alleged extreme right-wing madman, managed to place second in the first round of the French Presidential election. Since then, many Europhile commentators in the English-speaking world have been attempting to reassure us that the significance of this event has been much overplayed […]

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