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In the News
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May 20th, 2011
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May 20th, 2011Religious freedom should be at the heart of U.S. diplomacy in the Middle East. Both history and modern scholarship make it clear that highly religious societies cannot attain stable, lasting democracy without religious freedom in full — the set of institutions and habits that guarantee equality under the law for all religious actors and a sustainable balance between religion and state.
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May 20th, 2011
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May 19th, 2011A Christian couple, Eunice and Owen Johns, made headlines in UK, showing how Christians are becoming increasingly marginalized in that part of the world. The couple applied to be foster parents for children between the ages of five and ten, but their application required them to sign a document which would force them to promote homosexuality, which they refused to sign. This is only one example of the kind of discrimination that Christians in the UK are facing.
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May 19th, 2011
Couples are being allowed to ‘buy’ babies from surrogate mothers even though they are breaking the law, a High Court judge has revealed.
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May 19th, 2011
A serving High Court judge has told the BBC that he is approving commercial surrogacy agreements made by British couples abroad.
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May 19th, 2011BBC1 drama will focus on events prior to the flood and is likely to be filmed in Morocco
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May 19th, 2011An east London church has been refused permission to convert a cinema frequented by Alfred Hitchcock into a place of worship.
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May 19th, 2011The Muslim Brotherhood has appointed a Christian vice president for its new political party ahead of Egypt’s parliamentary elections in September.
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May 19th, 2011The European Union is emerging as a major center of Islamic finance, based on Islamic Shariah law, and which critics say amounts to "financial Jihad" by Islamists intent on Islamifying the West.