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Archive for August, 2010

UGANDA: CAPA Bishops Conference: From My Ear to Yours (2)

Friday, August 27th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Communion, Culture, Uganda | Comments Off

By David W Virtue in Entebbe [.....] Social issues are featured high on the agenda. The environment, poverty, HIV/ADIS and diseases of one sort or another are being addressed. However, one ... Read more..

RC Archbishop Chaput: “Systematic Discrimination Against Church Now Seems Inevitable”

Friday, August 27th, 2010 Posted in Religious Liberty, Secularism | Comments Off

From LifeSite News Today's secularizers have learned from the past.  They are more adroit in their bigotry; more elegant in their public relations; more intelligent in their work to exclude the ... Read more..

UGANDA: Understanding (or not) Rowan Williams

Friday, August 27th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Communion, Global South, Uganda | Comments Off

By David W Virtue in Entebbe In the heavily nuanced world of verbal gymnastics inhabited by Dr. Rowan Williams there lies a single truth: He is not on the same page ... Read more..

African bishops chide Anglican leader on homosexuality

Thursday, August 26th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

CNN Belief Blog Conservative Anglican bishops pressed the head of the worldwide church over homosexuality at a conference this week in Uganda, demanding he "sort out" the crisis facing the world's ... Read more..

Labour MP plans renewed assault on our children – contact your MP now

Thursday, August 26th, 2010 Posted in Sex education, Take Action!, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By John Smeaton, SPUC Chris Bryant (pictured), a Labour MP, plans to introduce a ten-minute rule bill to make sex education compulsory in schools. The proposal will be debated on 8 ... Read more..

Homosexual tax guide slammed by commentator

Thursday, August 26th, 2010 Posted in Political Correctness | Comments Off

From The Christian Institute A Government guide for homosexual and transgender taxpayers has received a stinging rebuke from a prominent national newspaper commentator. Richard Littlejohn’s comments were prompted by receiving a ... Read more..

“Ordain women,” London bus ads will urge Pope

Thursday, August 26th, 2010 Posted in Ordination Of Women, Pope Benedict | Comments Off

By Avril Ormsby, Reuters Pope Benedict will be confronted by posters on London's famous red buses during his trip to the British capital next month which will call for the ordination ... Read more..

FCA Southern Africa Annual Conference

Thursday, August 26th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Thursday, August 26, 2010 We are delighted to announce that the annual conference will take place at St Saviour’s Church Walmer , Port Elizabeth from 16h00 Wednesday 27th to midday Friday ... Read more..

Atheist doctors ‘more likely to hasten death’

Thursday, August 26th, 2010 Posted in Ethics, Euthanasia, Medical Ethics | Comments Off

By Sarah Boseley, Guardian Study finds medics' faith affects care of terminally ill, as hospital clinicians admit 'ethically controversial' decisions Terminally-ill patients would be well advised to find out the religious beliefs ... Read more..

Two Distinct Universes, Catholic and Anglican

Thursday, August 26th, 2010 Posted in Arcic, Ordination Of Women | Comments Off

By David Mills, First Things In Compromise Trumps Apostolic Tradition, George Weigel examines the collapse, through the Anglican insistence on innovating in ways contradictory to the Apostolic tradition, of the “once-promising ... Read more..

Conservative Lutherans Form New Church

Thursday, August 26th, 2010 Posted in Schism | Comments Off

From Huffington Post Conservative Lutherans are forming a new church body they say will "uphold confessional principles" after disagreements with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America over the ordination of gay ... Read more..

‘Papal cover-up’ critic wants lower ages of consent

Thursday, August 26th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet A high profile British homosexual activist wants the age of sexual consent lowered to 14. Peter Tatchell earlier called for Pope Benedict to be prosecuted for "covering ... Read more..

25 Very Frank Blog Posts by Women Who Have Had Abortions

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

Abortion exists as one of the most controversial sociopolitical issues in the world today, with so many different opinions bombarding the airwaves and the internet it frequently seems overwhelming. As ... Read more..

Made for children: why marriage has special status

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Marriage | Comments Off

From the Iona Institute The marriage of a man and a woman has a special position in Irish society and in the Irish Constitution. It is the  only form of human relationship ... Read more..

All African 2010: Archbishop Ernest

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 Posted in Anglican Communion, Uganda | Comments Off

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Canadian Paediatric Society Enabling Child Rape Says Pro-Life Leader

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Patrick B Craine, LifeSite News The Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) is urging doctors to counsel “preteens” and adolescents on the use of the abortifacient morning-after pill, while at the same ... Read more..

English Bishops Must Reject Homosexualist Agenda or Lose Ground on Life Issues: John Smeaton

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Hilary White, LifeSite News John Smeaton, the head of the UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and one of the most prominent pro-life advocates in the world, has ... Read more..

Judge says ‘remediation’ lawful, student appeals

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Bill Bumpas, OneNewsNow A federal judge has rejected a graduate student's lawsuit that claimed a university in Georgia was forcing her to abandon her Christian beliefs in order to receive ... Read more..

ENTEBBE: CAPA Bishops Wrestle with issues of family, poverty, HIV/AIDS and life of the Church

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

CAPA Bishops Wrestle with issues of poverty, HIV/AIDS and life of the Church By David W. Virtue in Entebbe www.virtueonline.org     August 25, 2010 The Archbishop of the Anglican Province of Nigeria, the Most ... Read more..

The Wind of Change: All Africa Bishops Conference, Uganda.

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Charles Raven, SPREAD In February 1960, British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan delivered his historic ‘wind of change’ speech in Cape Town, heralding the end of Great Britain’s colonial presence in Africa. ... Read more..