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Kalli Biswokarma was tortured by neighbors in her village in Nepal for two days and forced to eat human waste before she finally gave in and confessed to practising witchcraft.
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The chaos of the Church of England's move towards consecrating women bishops is revealed in the statement the Bishop of Manchester will make to the General Synod tomorrow. Articles of Faith has obtained a copy of this statement. In it he says:
‘…proposals for a recognised society, some sort of transfer or
vesting, or for adopting the simplest possible legislative approach all got
initial amber lights, that is to say, we agreed to consider them further..
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How the church has figured in the lives of black women battling racism and sexism, from the days of slavery to the present.
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The groups responsible insist that they are not exaggerating, despite contrary federal data. The billboards, which show a close-up of a worried-looking African-American boy, are an effort to highlight data showing that black women get a disproportionate number of abortions, especially in Georgia, and that the number in Georgia is increasing.
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Pakistani Christian family murdered in bomb blasts
EnerPub In addition to a Christian family, Shia Muslims in a procession were also killed. by Aftab A. Mughal At least 27 men, women and children, among 5 members of … and more » |
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All Bulgarian Orthodox Christians honor Saturday All Souls Day by performing and attending memorial services for the Faithful Departed. According to the Bulgarian tradition, women boil and sweeten gr…
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When the Apostle Paul wrote of the “perversion” of men and women who committed “indecent acts” with those of the same sex, he was talking about people he understood to be heterosexuals engaging in same-sex acts, according to The Episcopal Church’s first actively-gay bishop.
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AP – Pope Benedict XVI says he is worried about support in Scotland for euthanasia as he prepares for a visit there later this year.
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Nairobi, Kenya (LifeNews.com) — The new draft constitution in Kenya, a southeastern African country, protects the life of unborn children from conception. The move came after Christian leaders threatened to oppose the new constitution if it did not explicitly prevent any expansion of abortion.
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Venice, Fla., Feb 5, 2010 / 07:24 am (CNA).- The group Roman Catholic Womenpriests recently announced that they are “ordaining” two female “priests” and one “deacon” in an upcoming ceremony in Sarasota, Florida. The Diocese of Venice issued a statement on Thursday denouncing the “ordinations” and saying that the group’s attempt “brings division and fractures unity in the Church.”
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Although the idea is to humanize the debate, none of the characters is especially sympathetic. Each of the three women ostensibly selected from a “pool” of 300 is pregnant under varying circumstances with which viewers are expected to relate. To be clear, no one is really pregnant. The actors are all young and white, despite the fact that blacks have abortions at five times the rate of whites. The doctor, however, is African American — a man who combines the reassuring manner of Marcus Welby with the ethereal wisdom of Bagger Vance.
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Harrisburg, PA (LifeNews.com) — Abortions in Pennsylvania rose sharply in 2008 as the nation’s economy began to head south. New figures from the Pennsylvania Department of Health reveal the total number of abortions in the state rose by nearly six percent in 2008 spurred on in part by increases in abortions on black and Hispanic women.
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Eleven Indian tribal Christians, including four women, who live in the Kodagu district of Karnataka State, were dragged out from their homes and arrested on alleged charges of “forceful conversion” by Karnataka State Police on February 1, 2010.
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Mexico City, Mexico, Feb 3, 2010 / 11:09 pm (CNA).- The government of Mexico City noted in a report this week that abortion has become a “plague” in the capital, as 7 out of every 10 women who inquire about the procedure end up choosing abortion.
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Reuters – Five of the 10 American Baptist missionaries accused of illegally trying to take children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti left their jail cells temporarily to plead their case to a judge on Tuesday.
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Two hot-button issues – abortion and free speech – are clashing in Washington state, as lawmakers attempt to regulate what is said in crisis pregnancy centers.
About 250 people packed the chambers of the state’s Senate Health and Long-Term Care Committee earlier this week for a hearing on Senate Bill 6452, a proposed law that requires crisis pregnancy center counselors to communicate only “medically and scientifically accurate” reproductive health information – even though what is “accurate” has been hotly contested, even in the committee’s chambers.
The bill’s sponsor, State Sen. Rodney Tom, D-Medina, for example, backed by a doctor from the University of Washington, claimed that in some cases, center volunteers have misled women to believe that abortion increases their risk of developing ovarian cancer.
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Abortion rights supporters, fearing more violence, want authorities to continue investigating Roeder’s killing of abortion provider George Tiller, while abortion opponents want to move on.
National Organization for Women president Terry O’Neill said she was relieved that Roeder was going to jail, probably for life. But she was concerned about District Judge Warren Wilbert’s decision to entertain the possibility of lesser
charges, even though he ultimately didn’t allow the jury to consider those charges.
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And all sorts of specialized Bibles are available, aimed at everyone from fwomen, men and teens to African-Americans.
Now two local authors, working independently, have put the Bible to poetry.
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The Eighth Circuit ruled the first time that South Dakota had a right to require abortionists to tell women that they were actually killing a human being. But this time, the Eighth Circuit will be ask…
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Love brought the middle-age couple together — they wed during California’s brief legal window for same-sex marriage. But they knew from the beginning that their bond would be forged on their own terms, including what they call “play” with other women.
As the trial phase of the constitutional battle to overturn the Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage concludes in federal court, gay nuptials are portrayed by opponents as an effort to rewrite the traditional rules of matrimony. Quietly, outside of the news media and courtroom spotlight, many gay couples are doing just that, according to groundbreaking new research.