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Church Leaders Meet U. S. Secretary Of State

Title: Colin Powell Confers with Heads of Churches in Jerusalem For more information: Fr. Raed Abusahlia Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem P.O.Box 14152 – Jerusalem 97500 E-mail address: Patriarchate’s Homepage: http://www.lpj.org POWELL DISCUSSES GENERAL ISSUES AND NATIVITY CHURCH JERUSALEM, April 13, 2002—In an unprecedented meeting the U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, received a detailed memorandum […]

Statement Of Episcopal Concern For Israel

If you would like to sign this statement supporting Israel and the Jewish Please circulate this among your friends, family and congregation. Thank you. April 12, 2002 WE THE UNDERSIGNED members of the community of Episcopalians in America, both clergy and lay, protest the unbalanced condemnations of the Jewish State issuing from the headquarters of […]

Stop The Persecution In Sudan

National Council of Churches in Australia April 16, 2002 A delegation from Australia’s mainstream churches today called for an end to the racial, economic and religious persecution in southern Sudan. The delegation, which returned to Australia late yesterday (Monday, April 15), was led by Anglican, Archbishop Ian George, of Adelaide. There has been a civil […]

Jordanian Widow Ordered To Surrender Children To A Muslim

Muslim CHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY WORLDWIDE For Immediate Release 10 April 2002 JORDANIAN CHRISTIAN WIDOW ORDERED TO SURRENDER HER CHILDREN TO A MUSLIM An Arab Christian widow and mother of two has been told by Jordan’s Supreme Court that she must surrender custody of her children to a Muslim guardian. Siham Qandah, 36, from Husn, 50 miles […]

Moldova

SOURCE: KESTON INSTITUTE http://www.keston.org )” activist – concern KESTON INSTITUTE, OXFORD, UK ______________________________________ KESTON NEWS SERVICE: 20.00, 10 April 2002 Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. ______________________________________ I. MOLDOVA: GOVERNMENT FAILS IN BESSARABIAN CHURCH APPEAL. The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has rejected the Moldovan […]

European Anti-Semitism: Repeating The Past

Posted: April 12, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern  © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com This being Holocaust Remembrance Week, I thought it would be appropriate to do some reminiscing of my own. It’s a good week to get back to brass tacks, as they say. Somewhere in an old family photo album is a yellowing picture of my father’s […]

Jews

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 20:41:13 +1000, “Rowland Croucher” wrote: >> >know a Jew who’s read Elias Chacour? Know a militant Muslim who listens >> >carefully to an opposing point of view?) >> >> That’s an assumption to good to pass up, Rowland. You might want to read >the >> review of his book in […]

Kazakhstan And Azerbaijan

SOURCE: KESTON INSTITUTE http://www.keston.org “liquidated” KESTON INSTITUTE, OXFORD, UK ______________________________________ KESTON NEWS SERVICE: 20.00, 8 April 2002. Reporting on violations of religious liberty and on religion in communist and post-communist lands. ______________________________________ I. KAZAKHSTAN: CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL DEEMS RELIGION LAW CHANGES “UNCONSTITUTIONAL”. Kazakhstan’s Constitutional Council has ruled that some of the controversial amendments to the country’s […]

Colombia – April 2002

Religious Liberty Prayer List – No. 163 – Wed 10 Apr 2002 ——————————————————— COLOMBIA: CHRISTIAN WORKERS IN DANGER; plus PRAISE EXTRAS ——————————————————— The 38-year-old conflict in Colombia claims around 3,500 lives each year. Peace talks between the Government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) collapsed on 19 February 2002 after FARC hijacked a […]

Burma

CHRISTIAN SOLIDARITY WORLDWIDE For immediate release April 10 2002 BURMESE BAPTIST CONVENTION BANNED ON ORDERS OF JUNTA A three-day Baptist convention for 100,000 people, which was due to be held in Burma, has been cancelled on the orders of the junta. General Maung Aye, Commander-in-Chief of the Burmese army, ordered the Kachin Baptist Church (KBC) […]