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Archive for March, 2010

RWANDA: Anglican Archbishop says approval of second gay US bishop is divisive

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in Homosexuality | Comments Off

By Fredrick Nzwili, Ecumenical News Service (Hat Tip VOL) Kigali - Anglican Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini of Rwanda has warned that the approval of a second openly homosexual bishop in the U.S. ... Read more..

Chill out, says radical humanist

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

By Michael Cook, Mercartornet Isn’t it odd that the most perceptive article on the media storm over clerical sex abuse comes from a British magazine staffed by ex-Trotskyite pro-abortion libertarians? Writing ... Read more..

Archbishop of Canterbury rebukes claims of ‘persecuted’ Christians in UK

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury | Comments Off

By Martin Beckford, Telegraph The Archbishop of Canterbury has rebuked clergy who claim Christians are being persecuted in Britain, pointing out that churchgoers suffer far worse treatment abroad. Dr Rowan Williams called ... Read more..

Media twittering about Pope Benedict and the sex abuse scandal

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in Pope Benedict | Comments Off

Michael Cook, Mercartornet The level of vituperation and uninformed comment has been extraordinary. Of course, the scandal is real and appalling. But Benedict is one of the few people in the ... Read more..

CCFON: Music ‘is replacing religion’ says academic

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

  `ccfon'     Listening to music and watching films and DVDs are becoming “spiritual disciplines” according to Dr Clive Marsh of Leicester University, who has just completed an on-line survey of the music ... Read more..

Muslim school ‘unlawful’ for giving priority to Sunni pupils over Shias

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Daily Mail'   A Muslim school in Britain has come under fire for giving priority to Sunni pupils over Shia ones.   Madani High School in Leicester says it is the first purpose-built Islamic ... Read more..

Using a child to catch a grandmother selling goldfish is a step towards Stalinism

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in Civil Liberty, Culture | Comments Off

By Ed West, Telegraph (Clip)   ..... the paradox is that, while they won’t punish you for beating someone unconscious, committing ABH against your girlfriend or threatening rowers with a Samurai sword, if ... Read more..

Too Much, Too Soon: The government’s plans for your child’s sex education

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Sex education | Comments Off

By Norman Wells, Family & Education Trust Sex education is an ideological battlefield on which a war is being waged for the hearts and minds of children. Behind the innocuous-sounding words ... Read more..

BBC’s Nicky Campbell: Christians feel persecuted by human rights law and councils

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in Media, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Martin Beckford, Telegraph Christians in Britain are feeling persecuted because of “paradoxical” human rights laws and the ignorance of local councils, according to a major BBC documentary to be broadcast ... Read more..

Guernsey homosexual age of consent lowered to 16

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`BBC News'   The homosexual age of sexual consent in Guernsey will be lowered to 16-years-old, politicians have agreed.   In an unanimous vote earlier, States members agreed to drop the gay age of ... Read more..

CCFON: Awake, Arise O Church- Conference Report

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`ccfon'   DVDs of the conference will be available soon. For details, please email kathryn.wakeling@ccfon.org   Read more:      http:// www.ccfon.org     Read more..

Death threats for Saudi woman who blasts Muslim clerics on live TV

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Fox News'   Dubai: United Arab Emirates -- It was a startling voice of protest at a startling venue. Covered head-to-toe in black, a Saudi woman lashed out at hard-line Muslim clerics' ... Read more..

Islamic social worker ‘told Muslim mother to move to Bangladesh or lose children to Christianity’

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Chris Irvine’                         `Daily Telegraph’   An Islamic social worker 'told a Muslim mother to move to Bangladesh or lose children to Christianity'   An Islamic social worker told a drug-addicted Muslim mother to move ... Read more..

How Public Policy Affects Social Action

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`ccfon'   CCFONtv, 25 Mar 2010 (5m 35s)   Watch video:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRvgjPtZN0Y   Read more:      http:// www.ccfon.org   Read more..

Marriage more stable than living together, Office for National Statistics finds

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Martin Beckford’                            `Daily Telegraph’   Analysis of Census results found that four-fifths of spouses who were married in 1991 were still together a decade later, compared with three-fifths of cohabiting couples. Older couples ... Read more..

UK’s Muslim TV: Wives must not refuse sex with spouse

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Martin Bentham’            `This is London’   Britain's leading Muslim TV channel was accused of encouraging “marital rape” and promoting other intolerant views of women in a report on extremism published today. The report ... Read more..

Homosexual soldiers attack US general who claimed homosexuals were to blame for Srebrenica

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Bruno Waterfield’                                     `Daily Telegraph’   Gay soldiers have threatened to take a US general to court over his claim that the presence of homosexual troops was responsible for the Dutch army's failure ... Read more..

Sydney Easter Show bans Jesus

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Bible Society NSW has received communication that it was not able to secure a 'Jesus. All About Life' stall at the Sydney Royal Easter Show this year due to it ... Read more..

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Reflections on Holy Week

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury | Comments Off

The Archbishop gives his thoughts on Holy Week in a special video message. Holy Week is 'a week when we discover in a way we don't at any other time just ... Read more..

Catholic voters told to ask election candidates about support for marriage

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010 Posted in Marriage, Politics | Comments Off

By Martin Beckford, Telegraph Church leaders do not tell the faithful which party to vote for in a new pre-election guide, and insist there are no single correct answers to their ... Read more..