The beginning of the New Year saw only an increase in the oppression of Christians under Islam, from Nigeria, where an all-out jihad has been declared in an effort to eradicate the Muslim north of all Christians, to Europe, where Muslim converts to Christianity are still hounded and attacked as apostates. According to the Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, "The flight of Christians out of the region is unprecedented and it's increasing year by year"; in our life time alone, he predicts "Christians might disappear altogether from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt."
In the News
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February 9th, 2012
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February 8th, 2012Around 1,000 Christians gathered in Westminster last night to celebrate marriage and reaffirm their support for couples considering a lifelong commitment to one another.
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February 8th, 2012A British counselor who was censured by the UK’s top professional psychotherapy association for agreeing to help a man leave the homosexual lifestyle has received the backing of high-ranking officials from one of the nation’s most venerable institutions: the Church of England.
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February 8th, 2012AN extremist inspired by al-Qaida called on British Muslims to claim benefits to raise funds for a terrorist training camp, a court has been told. Usman Khan, 20, was secretly recorded talking about plans to recruit UK radicals to attend the camp in Kashmir, London’s Woolwich Crown Court heard yesterday.
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February 8th, 2012As Islamic groups gain power throughout the Middle East, Christians here fear for their safety and are concerned about their role with regard to the future of the volatile region.
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February 8th, 2012The political furor over President Obama's birth-control mandate continues to grow, even among those for whom contraception poses no moral qualms, and one needn't be a theologian to understand why. The country is being exposed to the raw political control that is the core of the Obama health-care plan, and Americans are seeing clearly for the first time how this will violate pluralism and liberty.
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February 8th, 2012
In his 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus, Pope John Paul II delivered a scathing critique of socialism, declaring that “the fundamental error of socialism is anthropological in nature. Socialism considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good of the individual is completely subordinated. . . . Socialism likewise maintains that the good of the individual can be realized without reference to his free choice, to the unique and exclusive responsibility which he exercises in the face of good or evil.”
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February 8th, 2012The archbishops of Canterbury and York has avoided humiliation in the Church of England's law-making body, the General Synod, by putting off a split over the ordination of women bishops.
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February 8th, 2012In Saudi Arabia — where religious persecution is a virtue and tolerance, a vice — praying as a Christian, even in the privacy of a home, is treated as a felony offence. And, notwithstanding the Koranic injunction against compulsion in Islam, Christians held in Saudi prisons for practicing their faith can be pressured to convert to Islam. These religious-freedom violations are playing out right now in the Saudi Kingdom.
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February 8th, 2012The fight over whether states can prohibit gay marriage moved one step closer to the Supreme Court on Tuesday when a federal appeals court struck down California's ban, declaring that it served "no purpose … other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California."