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Schools, sex #038; our children: AM conference 2 Oct. 2010
July 22nd, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Education, Sex education |
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Assisting churches bring relief to victims in Pakistan
August 19th, 2010 Posted in News |
Bishop Azad Marshall, the President of the National Council of Churches of Pakistan, is appealing for funds to assist in bringing relief to flood victims. He told AM today: ldquo;Christians want to play their part in helping people in the flood affected areas alongside Muslims, the Government and others.
TOTAL RAISED SO FAR FROM THIS APPEAL: pound;3,615
We cannot afford to shun Pakistan ndash; Michael Nazir-Ali
[.....] For these reasons Pakistan should not be isolated from the mainstream of the international community. It is important also to make sure that ordinary Pakistanis remain in contact with the outside world. The response by the international community to the earthquake in Kashmir in 2005 was hugely appreciated by ordinary people in Pakistan. A generous and timely response to the recent floods is yet another sign that the world has not abandoned Pakistan, whether to natural disaster or to extremists.
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More Human Embryo Experimentation Likely under EU Directive: Bishops
September 7th, 2010 Posted in News |
By Hilary White for Life Site News
BRUSSELS, September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) ndash; An EU proposal to restrict the use of animals in medical research has alarmed pro-life observers and the Catholic bishops rsquo; conference for the European Union.
The Commission of the Bishops #39; Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) has this week voiced its opposition to an article in the EU rsquo;s draft directive on animal experimentation that would require the use of ldquo;alternative rdquo; test subjects that could include living human embryos.
A statement from COMECE said that while it welcomes efforts to curb the use of animals for medical testing, which the bishops called ldquo;an ethical question, particularly for Christians, rdquo; they are ldquo;deeply concerned rdquo; by Article 4 of the directive.
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Keeping the faith: how bleak is the future for Catholicism?
September 7th, 2010 Posted in News |
John Hooper and others for The Guardian
Dorcas Gichane moved swiftly through the midday bustle of central Nairobi. High above her, a billboard advertising whisky suggested quot;Keep Walking quot;. But Gichane, like hundreds of other devout Kenyans on their lunch breaks, had reached her destination ndash; the Roman Catholic basilica of the Holy Family.
With a few minutes to spare before mass, some worshippers browsed in the bookshop. Others said a quick prayer in the stained-glass-and-brick quot;adoration room quot; where the notice board featured a poster depicting Jesus and his disciples ndash; all of them black.
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How the faithful went their own way
September 7th, 2010 Posted in News |
John Lloyd for The Financial Times
Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways, by Olivier Roy, Hurst and Co, RRP pound;20; Columbia University Press, RRP$27.50
Olivier Roy, the outstanding scholar of contemporary religions, has written a book of startling clarity and wisdom. Illuminating trends, issues and movements that had before appeared bizarre or simply antipathetic, he provides us with tools for the comprehension of matters as diverse as coverage of the war on terror to the common individual confusion over one rsquo;s own beliefs and scepticisms.
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The Catholic church is in crisis, but it is still able to influence and inspire
September 7th, 2010 Posted in News |
Madeleine Bunting for The Guardian
A wise priest advised me a long time ago never to go near the engine room ndash; the Vatican. Keep well away, he warned. I #39;ve always followed his advice. This priest was a man of immense humanity ndash; warm-hearted, gentle, humble and radical in his interpretation of the Catholic faith.
But he has long since died so I have no one to advise me what you do when all the papal panoply of pomp and authority comes to visit, as it will do next week. As someone who took the decision six months ago to withdraw from the Catholicism I was brought up with, I #39;m bracing myself for an uncomfortable few days. I suspect it will be rather like those excruciating moments when a rather loud elderly relative turns up at the wedding.
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DAILY MAIL COLUMNIST UPHOLDS CHRISTIAN VALUES AT GREENBELT
September 7th, 2010 Posted in Greenbelt 2010 |
By Julian Mann, Cranmer #39;s Curate
Cranmer #39;s Curate once attended the Greenbelt #39;Christian #39; rock festival as a youth in the mid-1980s. He remembers listening to Dr John Stott deliver a soundly Evangelical address in a flowery shirt and recalls a general ethos of orthodoxy on Christian faith and morals, albeit not one as carefully guarded as it needed to be.
But this once rather civilised and recognisably Evangelical youth event has now transmogrified 25 years later into a show-case for soul-destroying false teaching and politically-correct posturing. Reading the Church Times report of the 2010 Greenbelt, which took place at Cheltenham Race Course over the August Bank Holiday weekend, it is clear that Peter Tatchell was very far from being the most worrying speaker present #8211; from an orthodox Christian perspective.
At least in his address, in which he attacked orthodox Anglicans, Mr Tatchell made no claim to be a Christian himself, was pictured wearing a tie, and defended free speech.
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More about adults, less about kids
September 7th, 2010 Posted in Children/Family, Gay Activism |
By Susan Smithies, MercatorNet
An Australian parliamentary debate on same-sex adoption shows gay rights to the fore.
Heated debate and controversy swept across New South Wales last week when a bill granting same-sex couples the same rights under adoption laws as heterosexual couples was passed narrowly (45 votes to 43) in the Legislative Assembly (lower house) of the state Parliament.
The message that overwhelmingly permeated the media was this: that discrimination against same-sex couples has to stop, and that adoption is just one more frontier that needs to be conquered. Passionate letters condemning conservatives and religious beliefs reflected the same theme: one reader of the Sydney Morning Herald said that quot;[h]omosexuals are just as capable of, and entitled to, raising a child [sic]. The same-sex adoption bill goes some way towards the legitimate and continuing campaign to give same-sex couples the same legal and social rights #8230; as enjoyed by mixed gender parents. quot; While a campaign to stop discrimination against same-sex relationships clearly formed the underlying objective of this legislation and the undercurrent of debate, the justification for it was marketed by the slogan: quot;What matters is loving parents, not their sexuality. quot;
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The crimewave that shames the world
September 7th, 2010 Posted in Islam |
By Robert Fisk, The Independent
It #39;s one of the last great taboos: the murder of at least 20,000 women a year in the name of #39;honour #39;. Nor is the problem confined to the Middle East: the contagion is spreading rapidly
It is a tragedy, a horror, a crime against humanity. The details of the murders ndash; of the women beheaded, burned to death, stoned to death, stabbed, electrocuted, strangled and buried alive for the quot;honour quot; of their families ndash; are as barbaric as they are shameful. Many women #39;s groups in the Middle East and South-west Asia suspect the victims are at least four times the United Nations #39; latest world figure of around 5,000 deaths a year. Most of the victims are young, many are teenagers, slaughtered under a vile tradition that goes back hundreds of years but which now spans half the globe.
A 10-month investigation by The Independent in Jordan, Pakistan, Egypt, Gaza and the West Bank has unearthed terrifying details of murder most foul. Men are also killed for quot;honour quot; and, despite its identification by journalists as a largely Muslim practice, Christian and Hindu communities have stooped to the same crimes. Indeed, the quot;honour quot; (or ird) of families, communities and tribes transcends religion and human mercy. But voluntary women #39;s groups, human rights organisations, Amnesty International and news archives suggest that the slaughter of the innocent for quot;dishonouring quot; their families is increasing by the year.
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40 Days For Life Starting September 22 in Cities across Canada
September 7th, 2010 Posted in News |
By Thaddeus M. Baklinski for Life Site News
September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) #8211; Pro-lifers in a record 238 locations in the U.S., Canada, Australia, England, Northern Ireland and Denmark are now preparing for 40 Days for Life campaigns from September 22 to October 31.
This year, nine Canadian cities are gearing up to mobilize people of faith and conscience for the seventh coordinated 40 Days for Life campaign.
These unified efforts have seen more than 350,000 people joined together in an historic display of unity to pray and fast for an end to abortion. The campaigns have resulted in at least 35 abortion workers quitting their jobs and walking away from the abortion industry, six abortion facilities completely shutting down following local 40 Days for Life campaigns, and documented reports of at least 2,811 lives that have been spared from abortion.
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The fruits of adversity
September 7th, 2010 Posted in News |
The Economist
TO SEE two faces of Catholic Britain, you need only walk a short way from Parliament. The train and bus stations of Victoria, where many migrants arrive to seek their fortunes, are even closer.
First there is the squat red brick of Westminster cathedral, home of England rsquo;s Catholic hierarchy; its Byzantine mosaics, glinting in candlelight, are a splendid setting for one of the country rsquo;s finest choirs. Round the corner things are more down-to-earth at a hostel and day-centre for the homeless (the largest in London, it is claimed) set up by a religious order, the Daughters of Charity. Among the duties of the priests and nuns who work at The Passage is liaison with police, hospitals mdash;and undertakers, in the fairly common event that homeless people, often young, succumb to addiction or despair.
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Papal visit: Bad tripper, good trip
September 7th, 2010 Posted in News |
The Guardian
The Vatican is no ordinary state, and the pope #39;s trip to Britain this month will be no ordinary state visit. No other leader who comes to these shores takes time out between the official meetings and dinners to conduct a beatification, as Benedict XVI plans to do. None, probably not even the president of the United States, would expect to draw the same crowds, attract the same adulation ndash; or stir the same resentment. It will be a big deal. The gathering storm over the cost of pound;10m or so to the taxpayer needs to be placed in that context. Proselytising atheists are encouraging public resentment against the expense of policing the pope #39;s visit, and yet the same gang are inflaming these costs by suggesting that they will try to arrest him. The financial argument is a distraction, a mere veil for deeply held feelings about whether or not it is right for Whitehall to roll out the red carpet for the world #39;s greatest theocrat.
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Tough lessons: How teachers are seeking answers at Auschwitz
September 7th, 2010 Posted in News |
Paul Vallely for The Independent
For me, it is the suitcases. The ancient brown leather is battered and crumpled. But the letters are clear enough. Each bears only the name and date of birth of its owner.
Some belonged to adults. But many belonged to children. It is not hard to imagine how the child #39;s mother selected the bare essentials to pack ndash; the Nazis often provided lists, reminding mothers not to forget their child #39;s favourite toys ndash; while their father lettered the outside of the case in white paint ndash; to make sure that things went as right as they could for their little one.
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HLI Denounces Eugenicist Professor #8217;s Call to Sterilize the #8216;Unfit #8217;
September 7th, 2010 Posted in News |
Life Site News
FRONT ROYAL, Virginia, September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro-Carambula, Interim President of Human Life International (HLI), yesterday denounced comments made recently by British Professor David Marsland in which Marsland called for certain quot;unfit quot; members of society to be forcibly sterilized.
quot;Professor Marsland #39;s comments only go to show that no evil is ever fully buried in the past, quot; said Monsignor Barreiro. quot;Every time we think we #39;ve seen the last of the Sangerian calls to forcibly sterilize and otherwise do away with the disabled, we are aghast at their return. quot; Monsignor Barreiro was referring to Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, and a noted racist eugenicist who, along with Adolf Hitler and many progressive intellectuals, openly called for such programs to be used against racial minorities and other quot;unfit quot; persons in the early 20th century.
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Mexico City Official Investigated for #8216;Human Rights #8217; Violation for Criticizing Miss Universe Pageant
September 7th, 2010 Posted in News |
By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman, Latin America Correspondent for Life Site News
MEXICO CITY, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) #8211; A Mexico City official is being investigated for quot;human rights quot; violations following a statement she made on national radio criticizing the Miss Universe contest.
Martha Luc iacute;a Micher, chief of Mexico City #39;s Institute of Women (INMUJERES-DF), told an interviewer with MVS Radio that quot;really I don #39;t love [the Miss Universe pageant] and there are many women who don #39;t love to see how they exhibit us like cows. quot;
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BBC attacked for biased mosque documentary
September 7th, 2010 Posted in Islam, Media |
From The Christian Institute
A national journalist has slammed the BBC for screening a pro-Islamic documentary about a controversial mosque which has previously been linked to Muslim supremacists.
Andrew Gilligan, in a comment piece for The Daily Telegraph, accused the broadcaster of airing a ldquo;licence-fee-funded, half-hour advertorial rdquo; for the East London Mosque which has been linked to the Islamic Forum of Europe.
Mr Milligan rsquo;s comments follow last week rsquo;s admission by Mark Thompson, the Director General of the BBC, that the corporation had previously been massively biased towards the left.
Mr Gilligan said: ldquo;Six months ago I, too, made a TV programme ndash; for Channel 4 rsquo;s Dispatches ndash; about the East London mosque.
ldquo;We obtained undisputed evidence that the mosque is controlled by a Muslim supremacist group called the Islamic Forum of Europe ndash; which seeks, in the words of one of its leaflets, to change the lsquo;very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its cultures, its political order and its creed hellip; from ignorance to Islam. rsquo;
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Marin Responds to Critique with Character Attack and Circle-the-Wagons Approach; Followers “Share the Love”
September 6th, 2010 Posted in Homosexuality |
By Robert A J Gagnon
Little did I know when I wrote ldquo;Truncated Love: A Response to Andrew Marin rsquo;s Love Is an Orientation, Part 1 rdquo; that the reaction of Marin and his followers would itself become something to assess.
Marin has responded to my critique with a character attack and a circle-the-wagons approach. He and many of his supporters give the impression that strong criticism of his misinterpretation and misapplication of Scripture must be traceable not to any problem with Marin rsquo;s own reasoning but rather to a deep character flaw on the part of the critic. Marin reduces substantive critique of his work to a question of whether he is ldquo;liked rdquo; or not. He expresses a strong disinclination to engage anyone who does not first bend the knee a bit to his accomplishments in ministry. And he asks, ldquo;Who are they to critique me?
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The Pope
September 6th, 2010 Posted in News |
Bryan Appleyard for The Sunday Times
Ralph Sherwin was stretched on the rack then hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn. Sir Walter Raleigh took pity on Polydore Plasden and ordered that he be allowed to die on the scaffold before being drawn and quartered. Edward Oldcorne rsquo;s eye flew out of its socket when he was decapitated.
There are 44 martyrs remembered on a plaque in the Venerable English College in Rome. English priests were trained here, but they had to swear an oath that they would return to England to defend the Old Faith and thereby subvert the anti-Catholic government of Elizabeth I.
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USAID Pushes Social Marketing of Contraceptives in Philippines
September 6th, 2010 Posted in News |
By Thaddeus M. Baklinski for Life Site News
MANILA, September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) #8211; The Philippine government is implementing a new marketing scheme developed by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to push contraceptives on the largely Catholic population of the country.
The ldquo;May Plano Ako (I Have Plans) quot; program was put together by USAID #39;s Health Promotion and Communication Project Health (PRO) and endorsed by the Department of Health (DoH) and Health Secretary Enrique Ona, according to Dr. Ivanhoe Escartin, head of the Philippine National Center for Health Promotion (NCHP).
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Canadian Gvmt Funding Group that Performs Illegal Abortions
September 6th, 2010 Posted in News |
Patrick Craine for Life Site News
OTTAWA, Ontario, September 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) ndash; A major international abortion provider that is receiving funding from the Canadian International Development Agency has in the past admitted to performing illegal abortions in its facilities.
In a 2007 video recorded by the Population Research Institute, Paul Cornellisson, the South African Program Director for Marie Stopes International, admitted, quot;We do illegal abortions all over the world. rdquo;
ldquo;In a way we could help people you know. We are just over the border from Johannesburg and Pretoria. quot;
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Conservative Minister Bev Oda Reopens G8 Abortion Debate
September 6th, 2010 Posted in News |
Patrick Craine for Life Site News
OTTAWA, Ontario, September 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) ndash; In a shocking about-face, pro-abortion activist and Minister of International Cooperation Bev Oda has said that the Canadian government is now open to funding abortion under its G8 maternal health plan. The announcement comes despite a previous vote in Parliament not to fund abortion as part of the Harper government rsquo;s $1.1 billion health initiative.
The surprise announcement was made in an interview today with the Ottawa Citizen rsquo;s Elizabeth Payne. quot;As long as it is legal within the country and it #39;s a legal procedure, rdquo; Oda said. ldquo;If we were asked to help in that way, we would do that. quot;
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Broadcasting a warm Back to Church welcome to 1.3 million people – radio adverts on Classic FM and Heart FM to reach and invite back the ‘missing’
September 6th, 2010 Posted in News |
From the Church of England website
The Church of England is advertising Back to Church Sunday 2010 (September 26th) on the radio stations Classic FM and Heart FM, to deliver a message of welcome over the airwaves straight into the homes of 1.3 million people.
The adverts will support 400,000 personal invitations that members of over 4,000 churches will send to their friends, when the friend-inviting-a-friend initiative enters its seventh successful year of giving people returning to, rediscovering and exploring churchgoing, a very warm welcome.
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