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A Muslim vying with a Christian for a parcel of land here has accused the elderly man of “blaspheming” Islam’s prophet Muhammad, which is punishable by death or life imprisonment.
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Elena Kagan was not only to the left of President Bill Clinton on partial-birth abortion, but a fair reading of a memo she wrote in 1996 indicates she believed Clinton was a little squishy on the issue.
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Child Evangelism Fellowship is going to court to fight for the right to hold Good News Clubs at schools in Minneapolis.
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Members of a Louisiana church are selling fireworks to raise money.
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Montana State University’s lawyer says MSU-Northern officials don’t have to apologize for inviting a Christian pastor to give the invocation and benediction at the school’s graduation in May.
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In Pakistan, women have few rights; rape and other injustices committed against them mostly go unpunished. (The Muslim Woman photo)
Pakistan (MNN) — Today, 250 Christian families are being
evicted from their homes in the Khanewal District of Pakistan by their Muslim
landlords. The reason? They stood up against the landlords and their sons
raping their wives and daughters.
Sadly, when these Christian families spoke up, they went
against the norm for treatment of women in Pakistan. Greg Musselman of Voice of
the Martyrs, Canada said of women there: "They have virtually no rights,
and so these abuses go on all the time; to try to get justice is very
difficult."
Musselman shared an example. "In one case, I
remember a young lady we had met who was sexually assaulted by the owner
of the home [she worked in]. Before she could get to the police station, …
the family that she was working for went to the police station and had her
charged with theft. She was arrested and was raped again by this same young
man–and also a prison guard."
The protests by Christians have created a stir, and now they
are losing their homes because of it. Musselman said Muslims are using this to
intimidate Christians and to prevent them from speaking out again.
Without their homes, believers have little or no options.
"A lot of them are left homeless. They do go with families, and Christians in
other areas and churches will try to help them. But the Christian population is
pretty small in Pakistan, so it's very, very difficult for them,"
Musselman said.
While the Gospel is spreading throughout Pakistan, it is
slowed by reluctant and fearful hearers who know how they will be treated if they become a Christian: "There's an intimidation against the church, and
people there would think twice before they would maybe consider being a
Christian, because they would know what would lie ahead," Musselman said.
Pakistani believers and non-believers alike need your
diligent prayers. Musselman said, "We need to be asking the Lord that
justice would prevail in Pakistan. We know through church history that it
not always happening, but we need to continue to appeal to the Lord for
that."
In addition to prayer, "We also can be making our voice
heard to our embassies in Canada and the United States … to let them know that
we are concerned," Musselman said.
You can find contact information for the U.S. Embassy or the
Canadian Embassy in Pakistan on either of their Web sites.
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A senior Communist Party official in Tibet said the Chinese government would rely on a practice that culminated in approval by Beijing.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — A local group representing the national Episcopal Church has hit a legal snag in its attempt to take control of the property of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth. The 2nd Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the group’s attorneys, who filed a lawsuit on behalf of “The Corporation and The Fort Worth Diocese,” cannot represent those entities because the entities are also associated with Bishop Jack Iker, the defendant in the lawsuit. The appellate court noted that there is only one corporation and diocese, which both sides are staking claim to. The opinion, written by Justice Anne Gardner, says that “a corporation cannot sue itself” and that a judge would be “unnecessarily…
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A charismatic pastor says Muslims in Dearborn, Mich., a heavily Islamic Detroit suburb, are showing a surprising openness to the gospel, with more than a dozen coming to Christ during a recent evangelistic event, reports Charisma News Online.
Barbara J. Yoder, senior pastor of Shekinah Christian Church in Ann Arbor, Mich., said roughly 150 Muslim men and women packed into the Arab-American Friendship Center (AAFC) in Dearborn to hear her testimony recently. The crowd, including women wearing… >>
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Bhubaneswar, India – The arrest and conviction of a deputy from Orissa over the anti-Christian riots in Kandhamal district is a positive sign which shows the public that criminals can not escape punishment. The law pursues them, even if it takes time to get them". This is the reaction of Mgr.
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Lanyadoo believes he discovered the language secret, the codes* that reveal* a great library of knowledge; proof positive* that the Bible’s report of Gods/alien confounded language was a real event in our past. (PRWeb Jun 30, 2010)
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By Thaddeus M. BaklinskiKIGALI, Rwanda, June 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The tribal genocide of 1994 in Rwanda resulted in more than 800,000 Rwandan deaths and countless women suffering rape at the hands of the Hutu militia who were ordered to kill off the country's minority Tutsi tribe.Now,…
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Jefferson City, MO (LifeNews.com) — Last week, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon signed House Bill 2081 into law — making the Midwestern state the second in the nation to adopt a new kind of law. The measure ensures a pregnant woman can use deadly force to protect the life of her unborn child.
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Dubuque, IA (LifeNews.com) — Pro-abortion vandals have hit pro-life advocates in two states — Iowa and New Mexico. In the former, a member of Dubuque County Right to Life was victimized by having his property spray-painted with pro-abortion graffiti; in the latter, a pro-life group’s truck and the home of its driver were pelted with eggs.
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By Hilary WhiteROME, June 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – When a European Christian pro-family group applied to join the Fundamental Rights Platform (FRP) of the EU’s Human Rights Agency, they did not expect to be denounced as promoters of “hate.” The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights…
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By Kathleen GilbertUpdated 6:17pm ESTWASHINGTON, D.C., June 30, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Proponents of feminism within a religious tradition play a crucial role in subverting "religious fundamentalism" in Catholicism, according to a member of the pro-abortion group Catholics for the…
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The national body of British Quakers is facing controversy following the news that it has invested over half a million pounds in the oil company BP.
The national body of British Quakers is facing controversy following the news that it has invested over half a million pounds in BP.
The World Development Movement (WDM) has urged them to consider selling the shares, accusing BP of “fuelling climate change”.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), the national organisation of British Quakers, has a higher percentage of its investments in the oil giant than in any other company. While they published this fact in their accounts last month, it had not become widely noticed until reported yesterday (30 June) by the independent Quaker magazine The Friend.
Kate Blagojevic of WDM told The Friend that she welcomed the support that many Quakers have given to WDM campaigns. She urged Quakers to “put their money where their ethics are”.
BYM is likely to face pressure on the issue from amongst Quakers as well as externally. But while many may call for the shares to be ditched, BYM insist that they have used their shares to engage with BP and to achieve positive change.
They have highlighted their role at BP’s Annual General Meeting in April, when they joined with the Methodist Church and other funds to back a rebel motion on tar sands exploration, a form of obtaining oil thought to be around three times more carbon intensive than conventional oil extraction methods. The process is also alleged to have damaged the health of local communities due to toxic by-products leaking into water sources.
A spokesperson for fund managers Rathbone Greenbank, who manage the Quakers’ investments, said that the engagement was “successful, as the company was forced into making public disclosures on its plans for oil sands development”.
BYM’s Roger Morton told The Friend that their fund managers are issued with a “detailed ethical investment mandate”. He acknowledged that alternative energy makes up only a small proportion of BP’s business, but insisted that the company’s spending in this area “has not been matched by other companies in the sector, and is a key aspect in any balanced view of the company”. In contrast, Greenpeace insist that BP’s spending on alternative energy has recently gone down.
Fair Pensions, an ethical investment group involved in the resolution, welcomed the Quakers’ involvement. The Friend reports that they have urged BYM to keep up their scrutiny of the company and “use the power that they have as a shareholder” to “reduce environmental and social risk”.
WDM have gone further. Kate Blagojevic said that “unless BYM are prepared to use their shares for the strongest possible shareholder action, then divestment from BP is the only ethical stance available”.
Quakers, known more formally as the Religious Society of Friends, developed in England in the seventeenth century out of a distinctive interpretation of Christianity that emphasised the inward experience of Christ leading to outward action.
Quakers seek to testify to their experience of God in their daily lives and often in political activism. They are known for their commitment to peace, equality and sustainability. There are about 23,000 Quakers in Britain and over 300,000 worldwide.
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At a rally in Nairobi’s Uhuru Park on a Sunday afternoon last month,
Bishop Margaret Wanjiru, parliamentarian, assistant minister for housing
and one of the country’s foremost Pentecostal preachers, was passing
around a paper bag for contributions from the crowd.
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One cleric’s endorsement of breastfeeding for grown men and another’s saying music is not un-Islamic have opened up a pitched battle in Saudi Arabia over who can issue fatwas, or Islamic religious edicts.