ISeal of the State of Orissa via Wikipedia

Catholic bishops from the state of Orissa warned this week that Hindu extremists apparently have a “master plan” to drive Christianity out of the eastern Indian state. So far, some 50,000 Christians have been displaced from their homes in the last couple of months of anti-Christian violence in [...]

(Video length- 4:45) I found this video on Michelle Malkin’s blog. It shows the San Francisco police department  protecting and escorting a group of Christians out of the Castro District in San Francisco, CA. It’s only 4 minutes and 45 seconds long but it seems to last forever–actually viewing it for a minute is probably [...]

Map (Orissa -darkened area) via Wikipedia

 
This has been a very bad year for Christians in India, particularly those living in the state of Orissa. Here is a summary of the unbelievable persecution and violence against Christians so far this year:
-In Orissa State, 65 identified people have been killed and 85 are still unaccounted for. Among [...]

Photo: American Humanist Association
 
Washington D.C.: The American Humanist Association announced plans this week to plaster ads over 200 buses bearing its “godless holiday” message:
“Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake”

The atheist group plans to run the ads through December. The move comes one month after the British Humanist Association [...]

 
According to the news reports, there were 33,000 at Qualcomm. Also, according to some, we were all bigoted anti-homosexuals there to spew out hate and to rant and rave for an entire day against same-sex marriage.
I guess that reporter must have been there between noon and 1 pm when were praying over Prop.8 [...]

I am headed out today to go to TheCall in San Diego. It starts at 10 am and goes to 10 pm. It will be a 12 hour day of prayer, fasting, and worship among thousands of Christians from all over California. I’ll blog on it later.

Picture of Pope Benedict via Wikipedia

Pope Benedict XVI made the following comments as he prepared to receive Bishops from all around the world arriving for a conference on the relevance of the Bible in the modern contemporary church:
“Today, nations once rich in faith and vocations are losing their own identity, under the harmful and destructive [...]

There is a new law that was preliminarily passed by the Iran’s parliament, which would mandate the death penalty for anybody convicted of apostasy. Currently, apostasy is punishable by death in Iran, but the final decision rests with a judge. Very few have been executed under the current law.
If this new law is implemented, [...]

  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 [...]

In celebration of the 200 birthday of Charles Darwin, the Church of England plans to issue an apology for their initial reactions to his theories:
"200 years from your birth, the Church of England owes you an apology for misunderstanding you and, by getting our first reaction wrong, encouraging others to misunderstand you still. We [...]