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Archive for January, 2009

Silenced Christian soldiers: Sandhurst chaplain bans Creed ’so services won’t offend minority religions’

Saturday, January 31st, 2009 Posted in Political Correctness | Comments Off

From Mailonline Sandhurst military academy has dropped the Church of England Creed from services over fears that it may offend religious minorities. The move has outraged worshippers who say centuries of religious ... Read more..

Is The Renunciation of Orders Routine?

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

From ACI  The Reverend Canon Professor Christopher Seitz The Reverend Dr. Philip Turner The Reverend Dr. Ephraim Radner Mark McCall, Esq. Defenders of the Presiding Bishop are scrambling to re-interpret her extraordinary action of depriving ... Read more..

Canada: Bishops propose pastoral response to committed same-sex relationships

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church Of Canada | Comments Off

From Anglican Diocese of Toronto The bishops of the Diocese of Toronto are proposing to respond pastorally in the matter of committed same-sex relationships. In making their proposal, the bishops made it ... Read more..

A dangerous move by the Americans

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

By Andrew Carey, CEN The overreach of the Presiding Bishop of the USA in the current round of barring conservative clergy has now crossed the Atlantic. Bishop Henry Scriven, an assistant ... Read more..

Muslim population ‘rising 10 times faster than rest of society’

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

From Timesonline Click here to view the table The Muslim population in Britain has grown by more than 500,000 to 2.4 million in just four years, according to official research collated for ... Read more..

Free speech threatened by UK Government

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Freedom Of Speech, Homosexuality, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Toby Cohen, Religious Intelligence THE FREEDOM to say homosexuality is wrong is under threat, as the Government prepares to remove free speech protection from the homophobic hatred law, despite evidence ... Read more..

Debunking popular myths

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Apologetics | Comments Off

Frm Catholic Education Resource Center Debunking the Galileo Myth: DINESH D'SOUZA Many people have uncritically accepted the idea that there is a longstanding war between science and religion. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) We find this war ... Read more..

Obama’s commitment to his own ethics questioned

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Politics | Comments Off

A syndicated writer who heads a conservative African-American think tank in Washington is criticizing President Obama for making exceptions to his ethics policy and is accusing the commander-in-chief of "undermining" ... Read more..

To place children with two gay men when an adoptive mother and father are available, just to uphold a brutal dogma, is a sickening assault on family life

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Coercion, Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Melanie Phillips, Mailonline When homosexuality was legalised back in 1967 did anyone dream that some four decades on a British grandmother and grandfather wanting to adopt their own grandchildren would ... Read more..

Differences, divisions or diversity

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

Chris Sugden  From Church of England Newspaper January 30 The recent NEAC 5 consultation raised again the question of the unity of Evangelical Anglicans, and the 'divisions' which some see have ... Read more..

Benedict XVI is asking the Catholic bishops of Russia to make a renewed commitment to dialogue with the Orthodox Church

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Orthodoxy, Pope Benedict | Comments Off

From Zenit The Pope affirmed this today in an audience with prelates from the Russian episcopal conference in Rome for their five-yearly visit. "We know that this dialogue, despite the progress that ... Read more..

Lesbians File Human Rights Complaint against Canadian Physician

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Coercion, Homosexuality, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Thaddeus M Baklinski, LifeSite News Two lesbians, who are legally "married" in Canada, have filed a complaint against Dr. Kamelia Elias with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission and the College of ... Read more..

Children Can be Compelled to Receive Homosexual Indoctrination against Parents’ Wishes: Spanish Supreme Court

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Homosexuality, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, LifeSite News After three days of debate, the Spanish Supreme Court has declared that parents do not have the right to opt out of a national civics ... Read more..

GREENSBORO, NC: 1700 Jubilant Anglicans Pack Ballroom to Kick off AMIA Conference

Friday, January 30th, 2009 Posted in Anglican Mission in the Americas | Comments Off

By David Virtue, Virtueonline the exuberant sounds of a praise band, 12 bishops, three archbishops and nearly 140 clergy processed through a packed hotel ballroom of 1700 jubilant Anglicans to kick ... Read more..

Religion helps shape public policy says Government minister Stephen Timms

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Faith | Comments Off

By Ruth Gledhill, Timesonline Religion is important in shaping public policy and religious groups are helping build “a new politics based on hope” according to Government minister Stephen Timms. Mr Timms, financial ... Read more..

Traditional Anglicans to get ‘Opus Dei’ type prelature in Rome?

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Roman Catholicism | Comments Off

By Ruth Gledhill, Timesonline Traditional Anglicans could be on the verge of being admitted to Rome via 'personal prelature' similar to that enjoyed by Opus Dei, according to Australia's The Record. ... Read more..

The Future of the Anglican Communion Covenant: Stephen Noll

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

The Future of the Anglican Communion Covenant in Light of the Global Anglican Future Conference    The call for an Anglican Communion Covenant resulted directly from the Windsor Report (sec. 113-120), ... Read more..

Traditional Anglicans ‘to be offered personal prelature by Pope’

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Roman Catholicism | Comments Off

By Damian Thompson, Telegraph.co.uk The Pope is preparing to offer the Traditonal Anglican Communion, a group of half a million dissident Anglicans, its own personal prelature by Rome, according to reports ... Read more..

Vatican: Obama choice is ‘the worst’

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Gay Marriage, Medical Ethics, Politics, Roman Catholicism, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

From Cranmer's Blogspot Blessed are they who wish to harvest stem cells – they shall be exalted. Blessed are they who wish to abort their children – they shall be financed ... Read more..

When the West Sides With Its Enemies

Thursday, January 29th, 2009 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

By Bill Muehlenberg In times of universal crisis, there is a great need for great men and great women to stand up and be counted. For example, when the Cold War ... Read more..