Google recently came out against Proposition 8, the marriage amendment that preserves traditional marriage in California. Here are some of the comments by Sergey Brin, the Co-founder & President of Google, posted on their official blog: "While we respect the strongly-held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this [...]
JBS Swift & Company plant in Grand Island, Nebraska, had worked out an agreement with the union to allow Muslim workers special breaks to pray, especially at sunset during Ramadan. However, they found that the agreement was not working with too much work time being lost and non-Muslims being alienated to the point that they [...]
leaders of the Christian India community in greater Chicago held a press conference and announced that today (Sunday) they will hold a peace rally in support of the persecuted Christians in India’s state of Orissa. The following appeal was sent by Bishop Rt. Rev. Dr. Mar Jacob Angadiath of St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese [...]
Found this over at the Persecution Blog a new U.S. State Department 2008 Report on International Religious Freedom. Here is the current list of offending nations that are the worst at restricting the freedom of religion—and the ‘winners’ for 2008 are: Burma, China, North Korea, Iran, Sudan, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan. There are really [...]
This is the ultimate story of conflict between faith and culture. On one hand, we have Indians in the Amazon with their own culture and religion which justifies killing babies with disabilities. On the other side, are evangelical missionaries ( Youth With a Mission) who are trying to provide western medicine and save the [...]
Many in our culture have become accustom to ‘putting down’ pets when they are in constant pain, disability, or have a diminished quality of life. UK’s Baroness Mary Warnock, a specialist in British medical ethics, suggests that we do the same for people. I found this on Dr. Albert Mohler’s Blog. Ms. Warnock contends that [...]
The new media and the World Wide Web has truly made the world a smaller place. Here is the latest example of school violence—‘a student kills 10 classmates’— but this time it is not in the good ol’ USA but on the borders of the arctic in Finland. Chalk this one up to the new [...]
