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Sex-selection abortion in the US: the myth of choice
Saturday, December 24th, 2011 Posted in Demographics | Comments Off
By Chuck Colson, LifeSite News A few years ago, Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund of Columbia University were looking at data from the 2000 Census. They noticed that immigrants from China, ... Read more..“The Lepers Among Us: Homosexuality and the Life of the Church”
Saturday, December 24th, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off
Coming to Belfast and London : Friday 20 Saturday 21 January 2012 Dr Jim Reynolds The Lepers Among Us sends a call to the Evangelical Church to stop treating believers who ... Read more..Advent Meditations – Saturday 24 December
Saturday, December 24th, 2011 Posted in Advent | Comments Off
Sat Dec 24 am: 45, 46 pm: 89:1-29 Isa 59:15b-21 am: Gal 3:23-4:7 pm: Phil 2:5-11 Matt 1:18-25 ON THE CALENDAR: The Vigil for the Feast of the Nativity – (Also known as Christmas Eve) In the Eastern Orthodox ... Read more..Christmas services online
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in Christmas, Worship | Comments Off
Note: All times are London time - add 5 hours for Eastern Standard Time, 8 for Pacific and so on to know when recordings will be available: 1. Find a Christmas ... Read more..Tesco “fully committed” to gay staff, and “practical benefits rather than events”
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off
From Pink News Retail giant Tesco has said it is “fully committed” to supporting its gay staff after concerns were raised following an announcement that it would explore alternatives to funding ... Read more..Zambian churches unhappy with US stance to tie aid to homosexual rights
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in Global South | Comments Off
By Mwansa Pintu, CNS Church organizations are unhappy with the stance taken by the U.S. government to tie foreign aid to the assurance of homosexual rights. The Zambia Episcopal Conference, the Pentecostal ... Read more..Misleading claims about economic benefits of Equality Act are endangering jobs
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in Equality | Comments Off
From Civitas Contrary to government assurances, new equality rules will have no economic benefit and questionable impact on real inequality As unemployment continues to grow, a new Civitas report reveals that new ... Read more..News Bulletin 23 December 2011
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off
Read more..The War on Christmas is real, and the atheist barbarians are winning it
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in Atheism, Christmas | Comments Off
By Tim Stanley, Telegraph [...] More worrying is the insidious conversion of the religious festival of Christmas into a purely cultural phenomenon. Christians on both sides of the Atlantic have noticed ... Read more..Tesco rethinks its sponsorship of London gay pride festival
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off
From The Christian Institute Tesco is rethinking its decision to support homosexual pride festivals in the future following complaints from customers. Earlier this year Tesco dropped its support for Cancer Research’s ... Read more..How can we remain silent while Christians are being persecuted?
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in Persecuted church | Comments Off
By Fraser Nelson, Telegraph A new evil is sweeping the Middle East and the Foreign Office is failing to confront it. Father Immanuel Dabaghian, one of Baghdad’s last surviving priests, is ... Read more..Defending Religion in the Public Square
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in News | Comments Off
Tim Shah and Tom Farr New York Times December 22 Barack Obama, a former law professor, has argued that “What our deliberative, pluralistic democracy demands is that the religiously motivated translate ... Read more..All Ontario teachers will be forced to undergo ‘diversity’ training by 2013: minister
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off
by Patrick B Craine, LifeSite News By 2013 prospective teachers in Ontario will be required to undergo focused training in “sexual orientation” and “gender diversity,” says a cabinet minister in Premier ... Read more..How Population Control has Harmed National Security
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in Culture, Demographics | Comments Off
by Tom McFeely, C-Fam For decades, a basic tenet of the international population-control lobby has been that declining fertility rates will generate a more stable international order. But according to an ... Read more..Secular UK: Number of Christians is down 10% in just five years
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in Faith | Comments Off
By Steve Doughty, Mailonline Christianity is slowly, but surely losing ground in England and Wales, according to an official survey yesterday. The number who declare themselves to be Christian has dropped by ... Read more..Threats of anti-Christian attacks over Christmas amidst arrests, violence and murder
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in Persecuted church | Comments Off
From Barnabas Fund A sequence of threats, arrests and violence in India, Pakistan, Laos, China and Iran signal grave danger for Christians throughout the world over the Christmas period. The festive season ... Read more..February General Synod – women bishops legislation
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in Church of England, General Synod, Women Bishops | Comments Off
From Thinking Anglicans The Business Committee report on the reference to diocesan synods of the legislation to allow women bishops was emailed to synod members today. It is also available online ... Read more..Advent Meditations – Friday 23 December
Friday, December 23rd, 2011 Posted in Advent | Comments Off
Fri Dec 23 am: Ps 93, 96 pm: Ps 148, 150 Mal 3:1-4, 23-24 Gal 3:15-22 Luke 1:67-80 ON THE CALENDAR: the Martyrs of Crete, 250 (Eastern Orthodox Calendar) Advent IV –O Emmanuel Saints Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, ... Read more..UN Report Tries Unsuccessfully to Create New LBGT Rights
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 Posted in Gay Activism | Comments Off
By Stefano Gennarini, J.D., C-Fam A new UN report provides a window into the aspirations of LGBT rights advocates and sympathizers within the UN human rights machinery, aspirations that go well ... Read more..Lambeth Palace launches diocese child protection inquiry
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 Posted in Children/Family | Comments Off
From BBC News An inquiry into child protection policies in the Diocese of Chichester in West Sussex has been set up by the Archbishop of Canterbury's office. Lambeth Palace said it would ... Read more..