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Archive for December, 2010

Online petition plan for Parliament to go ahead

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 Posted in Petitions, Politics | Comments Off

BBC News A plan to allow popular online petitions to be debated in Parliament within a year has been given the go ahead by the government. Ministers will seek agreement with the ... Read more..

Australia: Politicians won’t act on churches gay foster parent discrimination

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Politics, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

From Herald Sun BOTH the NSW government and opposition have ruled out any changes to the state's anti-discrimination laws in the wake of a ruling that charities could bar gay couples ... Read more..

Christian assemblies in schools face axe over claims they infringe children’s human rights

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 Posted in Education, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Neil Sears, Mailonline Christian assemblies in schools could be scrapped if campaigning atheists and teachers get their way. According to the National Secular Society, a legal requirement for pupils to take ... Read more..

The Coalition must protect the right to be true to our Christian faith

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 Posted in Persecuted church, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Cristina Odone, Telegraph However mild, intolerance of Christians by non-believers is unacceptable, argues Cristina Odone. It's quite a challenge, to make Polly Toynbee laugh. The Left-wing Guardian columnist does hysterical ... Read more..

The European Parliament on the situation of Christians in Iraq

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 Posted in Persecuted church | Comments Off

Following his meeting with bishops from Iraq, the President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek stated: "The European Parliament is aware of the terrible situation faced by Christians in Iraq. ... Read more..

Away in a Manger

Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 Posted in Persecuted church | Comments Off

By Paul Marshall, National Review For Christians, Christmas commemorates a time not only of joy, but also of threat. At Jesus’s birth, Herod conspired to kill him and murdered all the ... Read more..

Call to ban school assemblies by secularists who claim ‘Christian character’ infringes children’s human rights

Monday, December 27th, 2010 Posted in Atheism, Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Neil Sears, Mailonline Christian assemblies in schools could be scrapped it campaigning atheists and teachers get their way. According to the National Secular Society, a legal requirement for schoolchildren to take ... Read more..

Only half of Britons say UK is a Christian country

Monday, December 27th, 2010 Posted in Church of England | Comments Off

By Tim Ross, Telegraph Only half of British adults are confident that Britain can now be described as “a Christian country”, according to research. The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, ... Read more..

Clashes in Nigeria after deadly Christmas bombings

Monday, December 27th, 2010 Posted in News, Persecuted church | Comments Off

From AFP Soldiers were patrolling the streets of the central Nigerian city of Jos Monday, a day after ethnic clashes there left at least one person dead. The latest violence came just ... Read more..

King James’s Bible: perhaps the greatest work of translation ever

Monday, December 27th, 2010 Posted in Bible, Book Of Common Prayer, Church of England | Comments Off

By Daniel Hannan, Telegraph I can’t be the only English-speaker who suspects, deep down, that the Almighty expressed Himself in the language of the Authorised Version. Even now, I do a ... Read more..

Bombs in Jos on Christmas Eve – Report from Archbishop Kwashi

Monday, December 27th, 2010 Posted in News | Comments Off

[...]  For us in Jos this joyful celebration was interrupted on the evening on 24th December by at least six bomb blasts in two different locations, in Gada Biyu and ... Read more..

Anglican priests declare allegiance to Zanu PF

Monday, December 27th, 2010 Posted in Global South | Comments Off

By Moses Matenga, Newsday Senior priests in the Anglican Church faction led by excommunicated Archbishop Nolbert Kunonga have declared their church’s unwavering allegiance to Zanu PF and said the church prayed ... Read more..

Wisdom of an Archbishop

Monday, December 27th, 2010 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Sermons | Comments Off

From The Telegraph The Archbishop of Canterbury has spoken twice over Christmas: first in his Christmas Day sermon, in which he questioned whether the rich were bearing their fair share of ... Read more..

Bishop of Winchester: legal system discriminates against Christians

Monday, December 27th, 2010 Posted in Religious Liberty | Comments Off

By Rosa Prince, Telegraph The Human Rights Act is protecting the rights of minority groups while encouraging judges and politicians to discriminate against Christians, a senior bishop said yesterday. The Bishop of ... Read more..

Sorry, Archbishop, but there IS a big difference between the deserving and undeserving poor

Monday, December 27th, 2010 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Poverty | Comments Off

By Melanie Phillips, Mailoinline As predictable as the bells pealing out the ­arrival of Christmas, the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has once again managed to mark the festive ­season ... Read more..

Made in Hell

Sunday, December 26th, 2010 Posted in Gay Marriage, Marriage | Comments Off

By David Lindsay From the Prime Minister who wanted to give Peter Tatchell a peerage comes the proposal for "gay marriage". This proposal would be rejected by Barack Obama, and it ... Read more..

Christmas Hallelujah flash mob video gets huge reaction

Sunday, December 26th, 2010 Posted in Christmas | Comments Off

By Steve Jalsevac, LifeSite News A video of a flash mob performance of Handel’s Messiah Hallelujah chorus by an Ontario choral society in a local mall has taken the worldwide Internet ... Read more..

What Good King Wenceslas could teach the Coalition about poverty

Sunday, December 26th, 2010 Posted in Archbishop Of Canterbury, Politics, Poverty | Comments Off

By Dr Rowan Williams Mailonline Good King Wenceslas looked out on the Feast of Stephen. St Stephen’s Day is one of the very few references to Boxing Day in the Christmas ... Read more..

Multi-faith chaplains to make House of Commons more inclusive

Sunday, December 26th, 2010 Posted in Political Correctness, Politics | Comments Off

By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Telegraph Muslim, Bahá'í and Zoroastrian chaplains are to be recruited for the House of Commons under plans by the Speaker's office to be more inclusive of different faiths. ... Read more..

Worldwide Christmas celebrations overshadowed by violence

Sunday, December 26th, 2010 Posted in Persecuted church | Comments Off

By Bill Heenan, Examiner Despite Pope Benedict’s and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams’ Christmas Day calls for an end to religious persecution around the world, Christians face more violence than ever ... Read more..