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Archive for September, 2010

Bakery displays morals, now faces eviction

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

By Charlie Butts and Jody Brown, OneNewsNow An Indianapolis cookie shop could be evicted from its longtime location for refusing a special order from a college homosexual group. The bakery "Just Cookies" ... Read more..

Continued Ban on Converting Others Proposed in Nepal

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

From Worldwide Religious News   New Delhi, India - A legislative panel in Nepal has proposed retaining a ban on converting others in the country’s new constitution.   Parliament has yet to decide on ... Read more..

Have More Children and Go Back to Church or Europe Will Become Islamicized: Senior Vatican Official

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Hilary White for Life Site News   ROME, September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Europe will grow more “Islamicized” if Christian Europeans do not start having more children, and going back to ... Read more..

Poll: 77 Percent of Evangelicals Believe Abortion is Morally Wrong

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Peter J. Smith for Life Site News   CARROLLTON, Texas, September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Association of Evangelicals has released a new poll showcasing Evangelicals’ overall commitment to traditional ... Read more..

School kids offered ‘GCSE style’ qualifications in sex

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

The Christian Institute   Teenagers are being offered a new GCSE-style qualification in sex, which teaches them how to use condoms and obtain the morning-after pill.   The course is a Level 1 qualification, ... Read more..

Communion report to the UN highlights Anglicans’ work towards hitting poverty targets

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

From ACNS   Anglicans from across the world have contributed to a report to the United Nations about church-supported projects that are working to meet the Millennium Development Goals.   Between the 20 and 22 September ... Read more..

Former detective reveals details of how outspoken Bishop Muge met his death

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Walter Menya for The Daily Nation   Had the Kiplagat team, which is supposed to dig out the truth from Kenya’s past, started off on the right footing, Kenyans would already have ... Read more..

U.S., EU Urged to Help Chinese Forced-Abortion Protester

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Kathleen Gilbert for Life Site News   WASHINGTON, D.C., September 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The leader of a Christian group has implored help from the executive and legislative branches of the ... Read more..

Ignoring the Evidence

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in Marriage | Comments Off

By Alan Sears, Breakpoint The reasons for upholding traditional marriage really are compelling - if you're open-minded enough to look. In the ongoing saga of the federal court battle over the California ... Read more..

Archbishop Accuses Pro-Abortion Government Officials of ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent for Life Site News   SAN JUAN DE CUYO, Argentina, September 23, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The leader of the Catholic archdiocese of San Juan de ... Read more..

Big British institutions serving up halal-only meat option

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

The Christian Institute   Thousands of customers at some of Britain’s biggest restaurant chains and sporting venues are being given ‘halal-only’ meat options.   The revelations, from a Mail on Sunday investigation, follow uproar ... Read more..

Children taking steroids in effort to look good

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

The Christian Institute   Children as young as eleven are taking potentially harmful steroids in an attempt to enhance their body image.   The shocking claim came from Prof Les Iversen, the chairman of ... Read more..

More Vintage Peter Tatchell!

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

From The New Humanist, Spring 2001 Beyond Equality - Whatever happened to the lofty ideals of gay liberation and sexual freedom?, asks Peter Tatchell Apart from die-hard homophobes, who could possibly ... Read more..

Frank Field: Children suffer when parents abandon ‘tough love’

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off

By Martin Beckford, Telegraph Children have suffered in recent decades as parents have abandoned the traditional “tough love” approach, according to a senior Government adviser. Writing in The Daily Telegraph, Frank Field ... Read more..

Divorce — The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in Divorce | Comments Off

By Albert Mohler Mark A. Smith, who teaches political science at the University of Washington, pays close attention to what is now commonly called the “culture war” in America. Thought the ... Read more..

Freedom of Conscience Under Attack by EU “Equalities” Initiatives

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 Posted in Civil Liberty, Freedom Of Speech, Political Correctness, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Hilary White, LifeSite News The European Union’s proposed Equal Treatment Directive overturns centuries of legal philosophy of justice and will restrict legally guaranteed rights of freedom of conscience, says Sophia ... Read more..

Divine dispatches: bonus edition

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

By Riazat Butt, Guardian [...]  The chatter started last Friday, when Anna Arco reported in the Catholic Herald that the UK could have an ordinariate by the end of the year. ... Read more..

Ordination Vows: Do Bishops Pledge to Conform to Unconstitutional Canons?

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

By Mark McCall, ACI It has become commonplace for those supporting the current majority in The Episcopal Church to claim that a bishop’s ordination vow, particularly what is called the “Declaration ... Read more..

Could the Pontiff’s values have a lasting impact on society?

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Catherine Pepinster for The Independent   As Pope Benedict flew back to Rome yesterday after a visit to Britain that saw tens of thousands of people turn out to greet him, the ... Read more..

Egyptian Coptic Church Accused of ‘Stockpiling Weapons’

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Dan Wooding for ANS A Middle East journalist is reporting that a “new wave of defamation by Islamists” against Coptic Pope Shenouda III and the Coptic Church is seen by many ... Read more..