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It is Now Illegal to Think in a Non-PC Manner
Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in Political Correctness | Comments Off
By Bill Muehlenberg We now live in an age in which not just wrong actions are punishable by the full force of the law, but so too are “wrong” thoughts. In ... Read more..Sharia in a First Amendment Society
Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in Islam | Comments Off
By William Kilpatrick, FrontPage Magazine Steve Chapman, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, has a piece in Human Events criticizing Sarah Palin for her opposition to building a mosque at Ground ... Read more..Protecting child ‘witches’ in Africa
Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off
By Joachim Theis, Guardian Beliefs in witchcraft and other occult forces are widespread in Africa, as they are in many other parts of the world. Animist beliefs consider death, disease, crop ... Read more..Axe hovers over world of academic theology
Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in Education, Theology | Comments Off
From Church Times UNIVERSITY theology departments are facing a turbulent autumn with rounds of staffing cuts and closures. The Student Christian Movement (SCM) said that it was “very concerned” over the plans ... Read more..UN Committee Attacks Motherhood, Demands New “Rights” for Women
Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off
By Terrence McKeegan, C-Fam A United Nations (UN) treaty committee notorious for its promotion of abortion and ideological positions not supported by UN treaties, concludes its session this week after launching ... Read more..World Population Report: ‘Aging Populations; Fewer Workers; Decline of Developed Countries’
Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in Demographics | Comments Off
By Thaddeus M Baklinski, LifeSite News The 2010 World Population Data Sheet, published by the Population Reference Bureau (PBR) on July 28, says that a shrinking pool of working-age populations is ... Read more..Episcopal Head Talks Conflict, Diversity, Immigration
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in TEC | Comments Off
By Lillian Kwon, Christian Post The existence of conflict in the church is a sign of health and vitality, the head of The Episcopal Church told a live Web audience Wednesday. "If ... Read more..White Christian Britons being unfairly targeted for hate crimes by CPS, Civitas claims
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off
`Christopher Hope’ `Daily Telegraph’ The study from think-tank Civitas argues that new hate crime legislation is restricting freedom of speech, and has effectively introduced a new blasphemy law into Britain by ... Read more..British girls undergo horror of genital mutilation despite tough laws: Female circumcision will be inflicted on up to 2,000 British schoolgirls during the summer holidays leaving brutal physical and emotional scars. Yet there have been no prosecutions against the practice
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off
`Tracy McVeigh’ `Observer’ Like any 12-year-old, Jamelia was excited at the prospect of a plane journey and a long summer holiday in the sun. An avid reader, she had filled her ... Read more..UK minister promotes homosexual ‘rights’ in Poland
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off
`BBC News’ Several thousand people have attended a European-wide gay rights parade in the Polish capital Warsaw. It was the first time the annual EuroPride march was being held in Central or ... Read more..If Richard Dawkins can set up a school free of religious dogma, can I set one up free of Marxist indoctrination?
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Education, Ethics | Comments Off
By Ed West, Telegraph Once again Michael Gove proves himself to be the best classical liberal in the Government by saying he would be interested in allowing atheist free schools. These “free-thinking ... Read more..My weird and wonderful family
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off
From Channel 4 Gay British millionaires Tony and Barrie Drewitt-Barlow hit the headlines when their two children, Saffron and Aspen, were born to a surrogate mother in the US, using donor ... Read more..Court Upholds Expulsion of Counseling Student Who Opposes Homosexuality
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off
From Fox News (H/T Stand Firm) A federal judge has ruled in favor of a public university that removed a Christian student from its graduate program in school counseling over her ... Read more..Hilary White, Catholic pro-life journalist, reflects on significance of Catholic Church in pro-life battle
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in Faith, Roman Catholicism, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off
By John Smeaton, SPUC When I was in Rome, earlier this month, I met Hilary White, the well-known writer for LifeSiteNews.com [.....] "There are things about being a Catholic that make it ... Read more..Joint statement from the Evangelical Alliance, Churches Together in England and the Churches Child Protection Advisory Service in response to the Dispatches programme ‘Britain’s Witch Children’
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Syncretism | Comments Off
From EA The Evangelical Alliance and Churches Together in England condemn churches abusing or encouraging the abuse of children, in particular any church that brands children as witches or demon-possessed. The Evangelical ... Read more..Spectator Debate – Taxpayers’ Money Should Not Fund Faith Schools
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in Education, Faith | Comments Off
From The Spectator Right now Britain is engaged in the single most dramatic schooling reform for half a century, freeing up teachers and empowering Britain’s faith schools. Against this backdrop The ... Read more..What kind of warped world do we live in when girls who don’t sleep around are mocked?
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in Culture, sex | Comments Off
By Rosie Boycott, Mailonline The very fact it was deemed newsworthy at all is a damning indictment of the changes within our society over the past few decades. When Girls Aloud's Kimberley ... Read more..Marriage equality for LGBT people is now firmly on the agenda, including marriage in church
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in Gay Marriage, Politics | Comments Off
By Colin Coward, Changing Attitude Reports of the meeting held on Tuesday afternoon in a House of Commons Committee room with Lynne Featherstone MP, Equalities Minister, and five civil servants have ... Read more..Atheists ‘could set up free schools’
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in Education | Comments Off
By Graeme Paton, Telegraph The Education Secretary said he would be "interested" to look at proposals for non-religious schools from figures such Professor Richard Dawkins. Prof Dawkins, author of The God ... Read more..London protest march for Pakistan as minorities pressure increases
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 Posted in suffering church | Comments Off
From Inspire Magazine Pakistani Christians in the UK are leading a multi-faith peace rally to call attention to increasing pressure on minorities in Pakistan, following recent killings and threats of violence. The ... Read more..