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Religious Liberty: Sudan
Religious Liberty Prayer List – No. 152 – Thu 24 Jan 2002 ——————————————————— SUDAN AND TURKMENISTAN: GIVE THANKS AND PRAY PERSISTENTLY ——————————————————— SUDAN A six-month, renewable ceasefire agreement for the Nuba Mountains between the Government of Sudan (GoS) and the SPLM (the political wing of the main rebel group fighting in the south) was signed […]
India’s Religions (Rushdie)
Religion, as ever, is the poison in India’s blood Salman Rushdie on new horrors in the name of God Saturday March 9, 2002 The Guardian The defining image of the week is of a small child’s burned and blackened arm, its tiny fingers curled into a fist, protruding from the remains of a human bonfire […]
Gaps In The Middle East Mosaic
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-023 (General Interest) GAPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST MOSIAC by Terry Mattingly The monk had amazing news, so he wrote directly to the Orthodox Patriarch in Jerusalem. The year was 1884 and the ruins of a Byzantine church had surfaced near the north gate of the ancient village of Madaba, south of […]
India: Disinformation Evokes Hostility
Religious Liberty Prayer List – No. 154 – Wed 06 Feb 2002 [RSS: the militant Hindu body, Rastriya Swayamsevak Sangh. BJP: the Bharatiya Janata Party, the political wing of the RSS.] When the BJP won power in February 1998, they did so with a Hindu nationalist (Hindutva) platform under the banner ‘One Nation, One People, […]
Anti-Semitism Returns To Russia
Anti-Semitism Returns To Russia Anti-Semitism in Russia, which decreased during the late 1980’s and 1990’s with the fade-out of Communism, is on the upswing again – possibly a result of the country’s economic difficulties. The Jewish Agency’s Global Jewish Agenda reports that there have been assaults against Jews in towns throughout the country, and that […]
The Jews
Perhaps Leo Tolstoy (not a Jew) put it best when he said: “The Jew is that sacred being who has brought down from heaven the everlasting fire, and has illumined with it the entire world. He is the religious source, spring, and fountain out of which all the rest of the peoples have drawn their […]
China Update
Religious Liberty Prayer List – No. 156 – Wed 20 Feb 2002 ——————————————– CHINA: SECRET DOCUMENTS LEAKED AT GREAT RISK ——————————————– Top level, top secret documents have been leaked from China by a senior official in China’s National Security Ministry. Many of the Chinese who have copied and smuggled documents are at great personal risk […]
Christians Doing It Tough In Bali
Christians are doing it tough in Bali The air is crisp and fresh in the high mountains of central Bali while the scenery is truly magnificent. Villages huddle along the shores of the crater lake called Batur and Balinese communities dot the mountain slopes as this volcanic landscape falls dramatically into sea. While the region […]
So Who Goes To Heaven?
“bam” <> wrote in message . > > “Raul Goulden” <> wrote > > > Nuns, which presumably believe in false Romanist doctrine, > > (like the belief that through penance sinful man is able to pay > > for his own sins, which is a great error and dishonors the > > precious Son […]
Church: An Evangelising Community, The
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-006 (Expository Sermon) THE CHURCH: AN EVANGELISING COMMUNITY (Mt 5:13-16; Lk 5:27-32) by Rod Benson Media reports [May 1998] generally suggest that our world is getting darker and less hospitable every day. Take a look at last week’s news: 52 armed robberies per year at Rockdale, and several stabbings in Sydney during […]
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