CAIRO, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of Egyptian Christian Copts staged a sit-in on the road in front of the state TV building in downtown Cairo on Tuesday evening, demanding Aswan provincial governor Moustafa el-Sayed step down and a church be rebuilt in Marinap village in Aswan province.
In the News
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October 5th, 2011
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October 5th, 2011Last Saturday, the state of Florida finally banned sex with animals. It’s hard to believe that it’s taken so long, but it wasn't a big issue before now. A rash of cases heavily reported in local tabloids convinced the state legislature that something needed to be done. A 54-year-old was arrested in June after his grandson walked into a bedroom and discovered him attempting to mate with the family bulldog. In 2009, a Panhandle man asphyxiated a goat while trying to have sex with it (protestors at his trial wore t-shirts that read “Baaa means no!”) and in 2005 a lonely blind man was caught in flagrante with his guide dog.
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October 5th, 2011A Church of Scotland minister has resigned in protest at the Kirk’s policy of tolerating same-sex partnerships among clergy.
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October 5th, 2011Lord Falconer’s Commission on Assisted Dying is due to report this autumn and, given its composition, is likely to recommend that a bill be brought forward to legalise assisted suicide for mentally competent adults who are terminally ill with so-called 'robust safeguards'. Dignity in Dying, the former Voluntary Euthanasia Society, is planning fresh assaults on the Parliaments of Westminster, Scotland and the Isle of Man and hopes to build on any momentum the Commssion report might provide.
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October 5th, 2011The Prime Minister said “commitment” in relationships should be valued regardless of whether it involved “a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, or a man and another man”.
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October 4th, 2011(ANSAmed) - PARIS, OCTOBER 4 - In the suburbs just a few dozen kilometres from Paris which seem as though they were a thousand miles away from the French capital, amid traffic, high-rise buildings and neglect, the rules of Islam dominate over the laws of the Republique, and whoever continues to live there feels as if they were in exile, forgotten by the state. This is the desolate picture painted by a study carried out by five French researchers in several small towns in the Parisian suburbs. In Clichy-sous-Bois and Montefermeil, the Republique is "a concept that is far away. Islam is present, first and foremost," Le Monde wrote today, reporting the results of the study, headed by political affairs expert Gilles Kepel.
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October 4th, 2011Not so long ago I accepted a post for teaching law at one of Britain’s prestigious Universities. On my first hour of arriving I was taken in to meet the Head of Department.
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October 4th, 2011During the Rugby World cup in New Zealand I have been using the alternative branding of ‘Kiwi, Christian and Medical’ for this blog.
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October 4th, 2011
The former chief inspector of schools, Chris Woodhead, has told how he has considered ending his life at Dignitas, the Swiss suicide facility, after being confined to a wheelchair by motor neurone disease.
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October 4th, 2011Yesterday in the district of Muthana, an armed group assassinated the 30 year old Catholic Bassam Isho. October 1, Emmanuel Polos Hanna, was found at the edge of the road to Baghdad shot to death. Christian sources in Kirkuk: "The attacks continue, in the total silence of the world."