TEHRAN, IRAN (BosNewsLife)-- Iran's feared security service is pressuring an Iranian pastor to covert back to Islam ahead of an expected ruling by the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini on whether the Christian can be executed by hanging for "apostasy", trial observers said Monday, October 24.
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October 24th, 2011
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October 24th, 2011The eight-year-old and I have been working through H E Marshall’s Our Island Story. A little snippet from chapter 75 caught my eye: “The Puritans felt that in England they could not worship God in what seemed to them the right way. So although they loved their country they resolved to leave it and sail away.” An apt story, given the latest row over religious freedom. Adrian Smith, a Christian, has been found guilty of “gross misconduct” for expressing the view that gay weddings in churches was an “equality too far”. Mr Smith’s employers, a housing association funded with taxpayers’ money, has demoted him, and slashed his salary — even though he expressed his religious beliefs on a private Facebook page that the general public cannot access. Tolerance, once again, provides the tension in our island story.
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October 24th, 2011Christians are being unfairly treated for expressing their beliefs, campaigners have complained, after a housing manager was demoted for speaking out on gay marriage on his own Facebook page.
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October 23rd, 2011Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its "basic source".
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October 23rd, 2011A housing manager has been demoted, and his salary slashed, after he criticised a controversial new gay rights law.
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October 23rd, 2011New developments in laws regulating assisted suicide show there is a movement, especially in Europe, in favor of legalizing euthanasia.
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October 23rd, 2011
Three horrific stories involving the abuse of women and children abroad have featured in our newspapers in the last couple of weeks.
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October 23rd, 2011A housing association manager faces losing his home because of his Christian views about gay weddings in churches.
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October 23rd, 2011How is it that intelligent people cannot see the lesson of history when sharia enters a non-Islamic society, step by step? Yale Assistant Professor of religious studies Eliyahu Stern's 9/2/11 NY Times op-ed ("Don't Fear Islamic Law in America") vilifies those who seek fair, rational legislative remedies to the encroachment of Islamic law (Sharia) in America as "stigmatizing Islamic life"1. Stern's vitriol is directed specifically at SB 1028, a bill which was recently passed by the Tennessee General Assembly, and includes this straightforward language regarding sharia2:
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October 22nd, 2011The football star, who is known for his spirituality, explained that at his former club a group of players would get together to pray, and said he hoped he could bring this experience over to Queens Park Rangers.