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Archive for August, 2009

Iranian women on trial for their Christian faith

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Islam, News, Religious Liberty, suffering church | Comments Off

The case of two of them, Maryam Rustampoor, 27, and Marzieh Amirizadeh, 30, also suffering in Evin prison, has been taken up by the Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, ... Read more..

The Daughter Deficit

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, From Lisa's Lookout, Social justice, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

New York Times Magazine Tina Rosenberg August 19, 2009  Hat-tip: Maggie Gallagher In the late 1970s, a Ph.D. student named Monica Das Gupta was conducting anthropological fieldwork in Haryana, a state ... Read more..

The Public Duty Of Bishops – The Right to Life

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Medical Ethics, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By RC Archbishop Emeritus John R Quinn, America Magazine Editors’ note: Archbishop Quinn originally prepared these observations for consideration at the June meeting of the American bishops. Circumstances did not make that ... Read more..

A Gruesome Harvest – Aborted Fetuses and Their Organs

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Medical Ethics, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Chuck Colson, Christian Post For years, scientists and celebrities supporting embryo-destructive stem cell research have used two arguments. First-blind to the destruction of the embryo itself-they argue embryonic stem cell ... Read more..

Be Faithful! Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans South Africa

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 Posted in Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA) | Comments Off

SEPTEMBER 3 - ST JOHN’S CHURCH Cnr. Church Road & 8th Avenue Walmer Port Elizabeth Doors will open at 08.30. (Regitration will be available at the door). An exhibition with stands from a ... Read more..

Student numbers grow for sixth year running in Religious Studies A-Level

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in Education, Faith | Comments Off

From Christian Today Church educationalists point to the subject’s popularity as a vivid sign that young people are interested in exploring religious and spiritual perspectives of the world, and in studying ... Read more..

Anglicans address the challenge of Islam

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in Convocation of Anglicans in North America, Islam | Comments Off

From OneNewsNow A conservative Anglican organization is launching a campaign to teach others about the true nature of Islam. The Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA) calls the initiative the "Church and Islam ... Read more..

The Fictional World of New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

By David W Virtue, Virtueonline New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson told a large audience at St. Mark's Cathedral, Salt Lake City, Utah, recently that at the end of the day the ... Read more..

Europe’s Social Agenda: Why is the European Union Regulating Morality?

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in Politics | Comments Off

By Maciej Golubiewski  Hat-Tip: Gordon Wenham Starting much earlier, but especially since the inclusion of social policy chapters in the revised European Union (EU) treaties in the 1990s, bureaucracies within the ... Read more..

Officials Weigh Circumcision to Fight H.I.V. Risk

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in AIDS | Comments Off

From New York Times Public health officials are considering promoting routine circumcision for all baby boys born in the United States to reduce the spread of H.I.V., the virus that causes ... Read more..

Anaheim Statement Continues to Gain Supporters

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in General Convention, TEC | Comments Off

By George Conger, The Living Church The Anaheim Statement endorsed by 34 bishops at the close of the 76th General Convention in Anaheim, Calif., has added two more bishops to its ... Read more..

Wearing the Disguise of Faithfulness

Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality, Schism | Comments Off

By Albert Mohler Meeting barely a month after the Episcopal Church voted to end its ban on the consecration of openly homosexual bishops and the blessing of same-sex unions, the Evangelical ... Read more..

US Lutherans consider implications of gay clergy vote

Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Chris Herlinger, Anglican Journal Supporters and opponents of a decision by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to allow men and women in open and monogamous relationships with persons of ... Read more..

Christian nurses speak against assisted suicide

Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in Euthanasia | Comments Off

By Vanessa Thorpe, Guardian.co.uk The organisation representing Christian nurses has attacked the Royal College of Nursing's decision to drop its five-year opposition to allowing assisted suicide. Christian Nurses and Midwives said ... Read more..

New research finds 33% of Brighton’s LGBT population have used cannabis

Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in Culture, Homosexuality | Comments Off

From Pink News New research has revealed that gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans people in Brighton are much more likely to use illegal drugs than the general population. Brigton has one of ... Read more..

Scottish Episcopal Church: Senior cleric warns issue of gay clergy will ‘tear Church apart’

Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Craig Brown, Scotsman THE new Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church has said the issue of appointing openly gay clergy threatens to tear the Church apart and will not be ... Read more..

Cardinal criticises same-sex bill

Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Civil Partnerships, Marriage | Comments Off

From BBC News The leader of Ireland's Catholics has criticised civil partnership legislation in the Republic of Ireland. In a sermon, Cardinal Sean Brady said the measures would hugely change peoples' concepts ... Read more..

Muslims don’t murder apostates – and 9/11 had nothing to do with Islam

Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Pajamas Media Fathima Rifqa Bary, the Muslim teenager who converted to Christianity at least four years ago but who only recently ran away, has been taken away from the two ... Read more..

Open season on Christians in the Islamic world

Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in suffering church | Comments Off

From Pajamas Media For centuries, Muslims committed genocide against Hindus in India and what is now Pakistan. Today, in Sudan, Somalia [1], Nigeria [2], Kenya [3], Turkey [4], Pakistan [5], Gaza ... Read more..

Resolution of the Diocese of Cape Town on Ministry to Gays and Lesbians in Covenanted Partnerships

Monday, August 24th, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

The Anglican Diocese of Cape Town agreed on August 22 to a resolution asking the church’s bishops to provide pastoral guidelines for gay and lesbian members of the church living ... Read more..