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Archive for July, 2010

Resistance Campaign

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`ccfon' The Resistance Campaign, run by ‘Not Dead Yet UK’, seeks to protect disabled and terminally ill people from the increasing calls to legalise assisted suicide and euthanasia. You can click ... Read more..

Pornography and women

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in News, Pornography | Comments Off

by Marcia Segelstein OneNewsNow columnist " Pornography is the drug of the millennium and more addictive than crack cocaine." So says Donna Rice Hughes, president of Enough is Enough, a nonprofit ... Read more..

US: Legislating immorality in schools

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in Sex education | Comments Off

`Bill Bumpas’                    `OneNewsNow’   An author and mother of five is alarmed at the recent news of school districts in Massachusetts and Montana that in her opinion are encouraging the sexuality of ... Read more..

Amnesty accuses Sudan of brutal suppression

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Xan Rice’                      `Guardian’ The Sudanese government is using a "brutal campaign" of torture, secret detentions and physical and mental intimidation to silence opponents and critics, according to Amnesty International. In a report, Amnesty ... Read more..

Nearly Half of European Council Countries Support Italy in Crucifix Case

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

`Hilary White’                 `LifeSiteNews’ ROME, July 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – To date, 20 European countries have declared their support for Italy’s religious freedom in the case of Lautsi v. Italy, known around ... Read more..

Further attacks on Christians in Nigeria

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`ccfon' This week there has been a further attack on Christians in Nigeria. Eight villagers from Mazah, Nigeria, were killed with machetes with one being burned alive after being attacked by ... Read more..

Unborn babies’ hearts may beat with same rhythm as mums’, doctors discover

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Lachlan Mackinnon’               `Daily Record’   THE hearts of pregnant women and their unborn babies sometimes beat in exactly the same rhythm, Scots scientists have revealed. The discovery of the incredible bond could help ... Read more..

LA Times accused of using skewed poll in showing support for same-sex ‘marriage

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in Gay Marriage | Comments Off

From CNA Los Angeles, Calif., Jul 27, 2010 / 03:05 am (CNA).- After the Los Angeles Times ran a piece citing a “nonpartisan” survey showing that the majority of Californians support ... Read more..

Do we know the nature of our children’s sex education?

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Sex education | Comments Off

An extract rom Family Education Trust newsletter Lincolnshire mother, Lisa Bullivant, spoke about the impact of the Channel 4 Living and Growing material on children in her local primary school. My story ... Read more..

Gove’s bill spells segregation and tax-funded madrasas

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Polly Toynbee’                           `Guardian’   The academies bill yesterday hurtled on a breakneck dash through the Commons. Already catapulted through the Lords, it will be law by next Monday. No party won the ... Read more..

Christians in Faisalabad on high alert after murder of two pastors

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

`Christian Today’    The Christian community in Faisalabad remains tense after the murder on Monday of two pastors accused of committing blasphemy. Brothers Rashid and Sajid Emmanuel were shot dead by masked ... Read more..

Is monogamy the root of all equality?

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in Marriage, Polygamy | Comments Off

By Andrew Brown, Guardian   An examination of the effects of polygamous marriage suggests it's bad for everyone in society, not just women   Does polygamy between consenting adults harm anyone else? The question ... Read more..

Be Fruitful and Multiply?

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

From Christianity Today Observers weigh in on whether Christians have a special responsibility to have children.   A church committee has asked the General Synod of Australia's Anglican Church to adopt a statement ... Read more..

Shifting the Deck Chairs: the ACC’s Standing Committee In-Action

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Consultative Council | Comments Off

By A S Haley In  the Anglican Communion Office's report of the second day of proceedings at the meeting of the ACC's "Standing Committee", we find this paragraph: A proposal from Dato' ... Read more..

Interview with Archbishop Duncan

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Communion, Anglican Consultative Council | Comments Off

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Lutherans Offer Warm Welcome to Gay Pastors

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

From New York Times With a laying on of hands, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Sunday welcomed into its fold seven openly gay pastors who had until recently been ... Read more..

Students support professor’s conservative stand

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Bill Bumpas, OneNewsNow Support is mounting for a University of Illinois professor who was fired for telling students in his Catholicism class that he agrees with the Catholic Church's teaching ... Read more..

Barna Group study reveals economic impact on family and faith

Monday, July 26th, 2010 Posted in Faith, News | Comments Off

Barna Group While many observers have suggested that the economy has caused people to become more focused on life’s essentials, the current study shows a drop in two life components that ... Read more..

Spanish Television Network Fined €100,000 for Criticizing Homosexuality

Monday, July 26th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, LifeSite News Spain's socialist government has fined the Intereconomia television network 100,000 euros (130,000 USD) for running a series of advertisements that it claims "attacks the dignity" ... Read more..

Anglican Catholic Church of Canada Votes Overwhelmingly to Unite with Rome

Monday, July 26th, 2010 Posted in Roman Catholicism | Comments Off

Hat Tip: Virtueonline ACCC will establish Canadian Anglican Catholic Ordinariate The Dean's Report on Synod 2010 The Eighth Provincial Synod and Thirteenth Diocesan Synod of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada were held ... Read more..