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  • Spectator: Full-length interview with IDS
    August 17th, 2011
    Most politicians who hang pictures of battle scenes in their office do so from a sense of nostalgia. For Iain Duncan Smith, it is about militaristic feng shui. Since becoming Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, the former soldier has approached his job as he would a battle. The abstract pictures he inherited from his predecessor, Yvette Cooper, have been replaced with scenes of the Duke of Malborough’s victories. When a group of officials came to visit him just after he changed the decor, they told him it felt like the Ministry of Defence. "That’s right," he replied. "I want you to know that from now on, this is the war room."
  • Townhall: America's Judeo-Christian Roots are Bigger Than Texas
    August 16th, 2011
    The hysterical reaction to Republican presidential hopeful Governor Rick Perry's faith is about as overblown as his home state of Texas is big. Perry is facing a federal lawsuit filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) - purportedly because Perry prayed publicly for our nation.
  • Life News: Direct Conversion Making Nerve From Skin, Without Stem Cells
    August 16th, 2011
    A passel of scientific papers have recently reported the direct conversion of skin cells to nerve cells, without going through an intervening stem cell step.
  • Christian Post: Christians Assulted for Watching 'Jesus' Film Near Bin Laden's Compound
    August 16th, 2011
    A group of Christians have been attacked by a mob of Muslims in a park near where Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan.
  • Catholic Review: 2010 law protects British docs, nurses against helping with abortion
    August 16th, 2011
    MANCHESTER, England – A 2010 law is providing conscience protections for health care professionals in England who believe in “the sanctity of life from conception onward,” regardless of their religious beliefs.
  • Barnabas Fund: Over 60 violent attacks against Christians in India this year
    August 16th, 2011
    Over 60 violent anti-Christian attacks were recorded in India during the first half of 2011 as Hindu extremists continue to target churches, pastors and Christian families.
  • Life Site News: Academic conference seeks to normalize pedophilia
    August 16th, 2011
    BALTIMORE, MD, August 16, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Researchers from several prominent U.S. universities will participate tomorrow in a Baltimore conference reportedly aiming to normalize pedophilia. According to the sponsoring organization’s website, the event will examine ways in which “minor-attracted persons” can be involved in a revision of the American Psychological Association (APA) classification of pedophilia.
  • Anglican Communion: As eviction of Anglican priests begins, Harare bishop prays "God help us"
    August 16th, 2011
    An Anglican priest in Zimbabwe and his family have been evicted from their home by priests loyal to excommunicated bishop Dr Nolbert Kunonga. Others across the diocese have also been ordered to leave.
  • Christian Today: Evangelical school gets the go ahead in Nottingham
    August 16th, 2011
    A school that will teach that God created the world has been given approval to open in Nottinghamshire.
  • Daily Telegraph: UK riots: Tariq Jahan's inspiring faith makes me wonder if atheists have got it wrong
    August 16th, 2011
    I’m sitting in the Green Room waiting for some media thing and I meet these two young black men. They are reformed gang members and yet they can’t be more than 20 years old. One of them has a child and is doing his best now to be a proper father. I’m impressed. I ask him what has changed his life and he points to his mentor on the other side of the room and speaks highly of the organisation that has supported him through the transformation. He then explains that he has changed his life because he has “found God”.