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  • WORLD: Canada is harvesting the organs of euthanasia patients
    March 24th, 2017

    A recent push in Canada to encourage euthanasia patients to donate their organs is working.

    In Ontario, the first province to report data, 26 people who died by lethal injection decided to donate tissue or organs since the Medical Aid in Dying Act (MAID) came into effect last June, according to the National Post. A total of 388 people have chosen to die by lethal injection in Ontario, over half of the 744 total Canadians who have been euthanized.

    Proponents of linking organ harvesting to euthanasia point to the shortage of organ transplants readily available and the lower cost associated with euthanasia than with end-of-life care.

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  • NY Times: The Jihadi Who Turned to Jesus
    March 24th, 2017

    When 22 Christian refugees gathered in the basement of an apartment in Istanbul early on a recent Sunday afternoon, it was quickly clear that this was no ordinary prayer meeting. Several of them had Islamic names. There was an Abdelrahman and even a couple of Mohammads. Strangest of all, they jokingly referred to their host — one of the two Mohammads — as an irhabi. A terrorist.

    If Bashir Mohammad took the joke well, it was because there was once some truth to it. Today, Mr. Mohammad, 25, has a cross on his wall and invites other recent converts to weekly Bible readings in his purple-walled living room. Less than four years ago, however, he says he fought on the front lines of the Syrian civil war for the Nusra Front, an offshoot of Al Qaeda. He is, he says, a jihadi who turned to Jesus.

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  • Telegraph: Britain's top family judge attacks 'hypocrisy' of law that forces unhappy partners to prove bad behaviour
    March 24th, 2017

    Britain's most senior family judge has attacked laws which force unhappy partners seeking a divorce to prove that their husband or wife has behaved unreasonably.

    In a scathing judgment Sir James Munby, president of the Family Division of the High Court, said that divorce law was based on "hypocrisy and lack of intellectual honesty" and that couples must engage in "consensual, collusive, manipulation" of the law.

    He added that because the law says a "wretchedly unhappy" marriage is not a good enough reason to grant a divorce, he has no choice but to force a woman to stay married against her will. 

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  • Church Times (£): MPs join row over Llandaff election
    March 24th, 2017

    WELSH MPs have joined a growing campaign to challenge the method of appointing the next Bishop of Llandaff, in the wake of the rejection of the Dean of St Albans, the Very Revd Dr Jeffrey John, despite unanimous support from Llandaff representatives in the electoral college.

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  • Inquirer: Canada lawmakers pass
    March 24th, 2017

    Lawmakers in Canada's House of Commons, with strong encouragement from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government, passed a motion Thursday paving the way for future measures to combat Islamophobia.

    The motion, which passed easily, asks the government to "recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear” and “condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination."

    In the wake of the January attack on a Quebec mosque that left six Muslim men dead, Trudeau's government has come under pressure to denounce all forms of religious discrimination.

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  • Christian Today: Muslim-turned-Christian apologist Nabeel Qureshi says he asked Jesus to reveal Himself in a dream - and He did!
    March 24th, 2017

    Christian apologist Nabeel Qureshi is fighting hard against stage IV stomach cancer, but even in the face of such a challenge, he is still finding the strength to share his faith.

    In a recent vlog, the former Muslim shared an amazing story of how he asked Jesus to reveal Himself in a dream and he got an answer he wasn't quite expecting.

    "A lot of people who are leaving Islam and become Christian do so because they have seen Jesus in a dream or a vision. I did receive dreams and visions when I was seeking the truth about Christianity and Islam but I never actually saw Jesus in a dream or a vision. I saw things that led me to the Gospel. I was thrilled to have seen Jesus in a dream. I had been praying for it. I had been asking for guidance and I think I got some," he shared. 

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  • BBC: Taiwan top court hears landmark gay marriage case
    March 24th, 2017

    A panel of judges at Taiwan's top court are hearing a case that could make the island the first place in Asia to introduce gay marriage.

    The case has been brought by a gay activist as well as municipal authorities from the capital, Taipei.

    Taiwan's parliament has also been debating whether to pass laws that would allow same-sex marriage.

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  • Telegraph: Monty Python and the Holy Grail fell foul of the censors for repeated use of the words Jesus Christ, documents reveal
    March 23rd, 2017

    Think of a Monty Python film with blasphemous content, and Life of Brian springs to mind.

    Yet previously unseen files from the British Board of Film Classification show that the comedy team’s earlier offering, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, fell foul of the censors for repeated use of the words 'Jesus Christ!'

    A scene in which King Arthur encounters a taunting Frenchman played by John Cleese - "I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries" - is followed by the French catapulting cows over the ramparts at the king and his men.

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  • Spectator: Pray for London, for Antwerp, for Nice: this is Europe's new normal
    March 23rd, 2017

    The hashtag 'PrayForLondon' is trending on social media. But so is 'Antwerp'. Because no sooner were we invited to pray for London than a man of 'North African descent' was narrowly prevented from doing something similar in the Belgian city. This is life as usual in Europe now, of course. But among the endless replays to date – and the endless replays yet to come – there are several things worth noting about Wednesday's attack in London.

    The first is that the perpetrator – now identified as one Khalid Masood – was in one sense unusual. A recent comprehensive analysis published by my colleague Hannah Stuart found that among Islamist-related offences in the UK the most common age of the offender was 22. So at 52 years old Khalid Masood was some decades older than the average attacker. Although this is wholly speculative, that is a possible reason why he avoided being regarded as an imminent threat by MI5. There has only been one other individual in the UK who has sought to participate in remotely similar acts at Masood’s age.

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  • Christian Today: Archbishop of Canterbury: Paramedics treating Westminster attacker show UK's deep Christian values
    March 23rd, 2017

    The Archbishop of Canterbury has spoken of how yesterday's Westminster attack and the reaction to it illustrate the foundational values of British society.

    Speaking in the House of Lords this morning in response to the Prime Minister's earlier statement, he offered three 'pictures'.

    'The first is of a vehicle being driven across Westminster Bridge by someone who had a perverted, nihilistic, despairing view of objectives of what life is about, of what society is about, that could only be fulfilled by death and destruction.'

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