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Archive for December, 2009

International community must not withdraw from Afghanistan, says Nazir-Ali

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Jenna Lyle, Christian Today The former Bishop of Rochester has warned the international community not to withdraw from Afghanistan. Writing in the latest edition of Standpoint magazine, Michael Nazir-Ali said any ... Read more..

MP: Equality Bill will lead to legal action against church

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   Churches should be “lining up” lawyers to defend themselves against secular legal challenges under the Equality Bill, a Government equalities minister has admitted.   Michael Foster MP, a minister in ... Read more..

Critics attack DPP assisted suicide interim guidance

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   A coalition of five disability groups has pleaded with Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, to reconsider his interim guidelines on assisted suicide.   The coalition, led by Baroness ... Read more..

Jewish school ruling looks like “tyranny”

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in News | Comments Off

`The Christian Institute'   A controversial UK Supreme Court ruling effectively says the Jewish faith’s definition of membership is “illegal”, a national newspaper columnist has warned.   Daily Telegraph writer Charles Moore was responding ... Read more..

Illegal immigrants ‘used loophole to create sham marriages’ for the right to live in Britain

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in Blasphemy, Marriage | Comments Off

By Chris Brooke, Mailonline Illegal immigrants used a 'loophole' to bypass a government crackdown on sham marriages and pay cash to wed European women with the right to live in Britain, ... Read more..

Christians in Britain Wondering Why “Equality and Diversity” Don’t Apply to Them

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in Faith, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Hilary White, LifeSite News Christians in the U.K. are continuing to warn that the government’s planned “equality” legislation will drive Christian believers out of public life. The Christian Institute, Britain’s ... Read more..

Abbreviating Christmas in Iraq

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in Conflict, Religious Liberty, suffering church | Comments Off

From New York Times (Hat Tip eChurchwebsites) BAGHDAD — As a priest led prayers for a few dozen worshipers inside St. Joseph Chaldean Church here on Sunday, Iraqi police officers stood ... Read more..

Catholic Voices: Four Responses to the Covenant

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in Anglican Covenant | Comments Off

From The Living Church Four Key Questions By Graham Kings   Interdependence and mutual accountability have always been the key features of the earlier drafts (Nassau, St Andrew’s, and Ridley) of the Covenant. It ... Read more..

Advent Meditations

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in Faith | Comments Off

Wed Dec  23 am: Ps 72 pm: 111, 113 Mal 3:1-4, 23-24 Hebrews 5:11-6:8  Luke 1:57-66 Advent IV –O Emmanuel and the Martyrs of Crete, 250 (Eastern Orthodox Calendar) Typically this is a day of last minute preparations. ... Read more..

Sen. Nelson ‘betrayed’ pro-lifers back home

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 Posted in News, Politics, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

Charlie Butts for OneNewsNow Some Nebraskans are upset with Senator Ben Nelson over his change of heart on healthcare reform. Senator Nelson (D-Nebraska) was considered the 60th vote Democrats needed to push ... Read more..

Anglican Church in North America 1000 Church Planting Summit: February 22-23 2010

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Posted in Anglican Church in North America, Evangelism | Comments Off

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN Anglican 1000 Church Planting Summit: Feb 22-23, 2010 December 4th, 2009   It was a hot summer evening in June at Christ Church in Plano, TX. The new Archbishop ... Read more..

The New Season: The Emerging Shape of Anglican Mission

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Posted in Anglican Covenant, TEC | Comments Off

By Ephraim Radner, ACI Advent now shifts into the manifestation of God’s good will in the Nativity feast.  So too the church takes its self-scrutiny and penitence, and turns in hope ... Read more..

Equality legislation means our very right to believe is under fire

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Posted in Political Correctness, Politics | Comments Off

By George Pitcher, Telegraph This Government has never learnt that you can't legislate for equality and freedom. You can pass laws that protect people from specific harm. You can make it ... Read more..

Faith academies fuel rise in school chaplains

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Posted in Children/Family, Education, Faith | Comments Off

By Polly Curtis, Guardian The number of dedicated school chaplains has increased by 25% in five years, fuelled by increasing numbers of faith schools in the state sector, figures released by ... Read more..

A donkey ride to Bethlehem

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Posted in Apologetics | Comments Off

By Carolyn Moynihan, Mercartornet The ass may be a lowly and laughable beast, but he has had his moments of glory. Among the Christmas cards that have been arriving in our mailbox ... Read more..

Killing For Organs Promoted in the New York Times Magazine

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Posted in Medical Ethics | Comments Off

By Wesley J Smith, First Things As I have often warned, the next big agenda item in organ transplant medicine is gaining license for transplant surgeons to kill the cognitively devastated ... Read more..

83% of Americans Support Christmas Displays in Public

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Posted in Apologetics, Evangelism, Faith | Comments Off

From Pew Research (Hat Tip: eChurchWebsites) Americans overwhelmingly support allowing public Christmas displays at least if they are part of a display that includes symbols of other faiths and holiday traditions -- ... Read more..

Christmas: When God Visited This Planet

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Posted in Apologetics, Faith | Comments Off

By Bill Muehlenberg Culture Watch When noted philosopher and atheist Bertrand Russell was asked how he would respond if he found himself standing before God asking him, ‘Why didn’t you believe ... Read more..

Sharia law tribunal in Britain is proposed

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Posted in Islam, Sharia | Comments Off

`BBC News'   Wales could get its first court based on Islamic law under proposals from a Muslim body, BBC Wales has learned.   A Sharia law tribunal in Cardiff will help community relations ... Read more..

Britain’s tolerance to Islam brings more than 1m Muslims into the country

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

`Daniel Martin'      `Daily Mail'   More than a million Muslims have migrated to Britain because it is more sympathetic towards Islam than other European countries, a study has found.   Latent Islamophobia in Europe ... Read more..