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Archive for October, 2010

Robert Fisk: Exodus. The changing map of the Middle East

Friday, October 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Robert Fisk for The Independent   In the centre of the rebuilt Beirut, the massive old Maronite Cathedral of St George stands beside the even larger mass of the new Mohammad al-Amin ... Read more..

Quebec Relativism Course Going to Supreme Court

Friday, October 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Patrick B. Craine for LifeSiteNews   QUEBEC, October 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Supreme Court of Canada, in a case with implications for parental rights across the country, has agreed to ... Read more..

Government Implements Same-Sex Benefits, Furthering End-Run Around Marriage

Friday, October 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

From Citizen Link   Federal agencies are implementing a directive from President Obama that extends even more health care benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees – undermining the 1996 Defense of ... Read more..

Teach Christian history in our schools, says bishop

Friday, October 29th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

The Christian Institute   If school kids don’t learn more about Britain’s Judeo-Christian heritage we risk losing our national values, a bishop has warned.   The Rt Revd Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali said: “The Judaeo-Christian ... Read more..

Could liberalism be genetic?

Friday, October 29th, 2010 Posted in Nature/Nurture | Comments Off

By Ed West, Telegraph Liberals may owe their political outlook partly to their genetic make-up, according to new research from the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University. Ideology is ... Read more..

Real Christians Say ‘No’ to Bullying and Homosexual Behavior

Friday, October 29th, 2010 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off

From Christian Newswire A coalition of pro-family leaders today urges Christian families to be faithful to biblical morality and discerning in the face of false and irresponsible accusations. Christianity and traditional ... Read more..

The Truth in Love

Friday, October 29th, 2010 Posted in Doctrine, Orthodoxy | Comments Off

By Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk to the annual Nicean Club Dinner at Lambeth Palace [...]  At the time of the Council of Nicaea, the Church was united in East and West. ... Read more..

A Global Movement On The Rise

Friday, October 29th, 2010 Posted in Manhatten Declaration | Comments Off

By Amanda Pawloski, LifeSite News The authors penned their declaration a year ago not knowing it would spur an international movement. Now, nearly a half million backers have signed the Manhattan ... Read more..

Countries Slam Attempts to Create New “Right” to Sexual Education at UN

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 Posted in Sex education | Comments Off

By Samantha Singson, C-Fam New York, October 28 (C-FAM) - Angry delegates took to the UN floor this week to denounce a report that promotes a new human right to explicit sexual ... Read more..

Up to half of British laws come from Europe, House of Commons Library claims

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By Martin Beckford, Telegraph Up to half of all legislation passed by the British Government comes from the European Union, according to independent Westminster researchers. Parliament is enacting more than 3,000 ... Read more..

Montreal proposes ‘shared episcopal ministry’ plan for traditionalists

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 Posted in TEC | Comments Off

By George Conger, CEN Montreal will launch its own ‘flying bishop’ in 2011 to serve traditionalists opposed to the diocese’s introduction of same-sex unions. Speaking to the Oct 15 session of the ... Read more..

Don’t ban the burqa – but don’t celebrate it, either

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Brendan O'Neill, Spiked Both Europe’s burqa-banners and burqa-defenders are denigrating tolerance by inviting the state to police our beliefs and thoughts. [...]  the Enlightenment ideal of tolerance does not mean having ... Read more..

Church of England publishes latest statistics on web

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

The Church of England has today published its latest information about parish income and expenditure and trends in ministry numbers in Church Statistics 2008/9. The attendance statistics included were published ... Read more..

Grant-scheme cuts to hit church repairs

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Ed Beavan for The Church Times   THE Government has an­nounced cuts to the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme (LPWGS) as part of its raft of current cost-cutting measures, it was ... Read more..

Msgr. Philip Reilly’s Vision of 9/11’s Connection to Abortion

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

By John-Henry Westen for Life Site News   ROME, October 18, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Msgr. Philip Reilly, the founder of Helpers of God’s Precious Infants, delivered a fascinating address to attendees of ... Read more..

A Sexual Revolution – One woman’s journey from pro-choice atheist to pro-life Catholic

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 Posted in pro-life/abortion | Comments Off

By Jennifer Fulwiler, America Magazine [...]  His remark made me realize that my pro-choice viewpoints had put me in the position of deciding whose lives were worth living, and even who ... Read more..

Mohammed is now the most popular name for baby boys ahead of Jack and Harry

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Culture, Islam | Comments Off

By Jack Doyle, Mailonline Mohammed has become the most popular name for newborn boys in Britain. It shot up from third the previous year, overtaking Jack, which had topped the list for ... Read more..

Sharia Advancing in the West Like a Snake in the Sleeve

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Salah Uddin Choudhury for Hudson New York   While most people are still ignorant of the tremendous growth of Sharia Banking in the West, a recent report by International Financial Services London ... Read more..

Islam and the West: There need not be a basic conflict — but we should resist their aggressions

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

Conrad Black for The National Review   It is certainly time that the West considered systematically whether it has irreconcilable differences with Islam. The belligerence of many Islamic spokesmen and the unassimilable ... Read more..

Britain is losing its battle against Islamic extremists… says French MP who banned the burqa

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 Posted in Islam | Comments Off

Peter Allen for the Daily Mail   Britain is 'losing the battle against Islamic extremism' by failing to outlaw burqas, the architect of the French ban said today.   Jacques Myard, a senior member ... Read more..