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Archive for the 'Culture & Religion' Category

-China: House Church Leader Speaks Out

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

In an interview with Baptist Press, Yu Jie a leader in the Ark Church in Beijing spoke out about the Olympics and the continuation of persecution of Christians in China. He was placed under house arrest just before and during the Olympic games in Beijing.
He talks about his own conversion to Christianity and the [...]

-Barack Obama’s Religion: How Muslims View It

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Here’s an article by Daniel Pipes:  "Barack Obama through Muslim Eyes". Daniel Pipes documents here how the Muslim press has responded to the religious background and Christian affiliation of Presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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-McCain: ‘Freedom of Religion’-A Key Foreign Policy Issue?

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

In a speech on Friday at Oakland University in Michigan, Sen. John McCain proclaimed that ‘Freedom of Religion’ would be a key component of his foreign policy if elected as President of the United States:
“There is no right more fundamental to a free society than the free practice of religion. Behind walls of prisons [...]

-California: Homosexual Rights vs. Religious Freedom–Guess Who Won!

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

The California Supreme Court has now ruled that the state can force healthcare professionals to provide services that may be against their religion. In an unanimous decision on Monday, California’s Supreme Court ruled that Christian doctors may not refuse to perform services like artificial insemination for homosexual patients.
This was a case where Christian doctors [...]

-Saudi Arabia: No More Dogs & Cats in Public?

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Here’s another one of those fascinating stories that seem almost surreal to most Westerners–stories that can’t possibly be true! Saudi Arabia has given us a lot of them lately.
Like the American lady executive who was arrested and went to jail for being at ‘Starbucks’ with a business associate–or the Saudi woman who was [...]

-California: Home-Schooling Ok’d by Judge

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

A state appellate court ruled Friday that parents in California could continue to legally home school their children even if they don’t have teaching credentials.
The ruling reverses an earlier court decision in February by the 2nd District Court of Appeal which had ruled that those teaching in home schools needed to be credentialed. This [...]

-Memorial Cross is Constitutional

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

A federal judge has ruled that a 43-foot-tall cross, part of a memorial to fallen American veterans, does not violate the constitution.  The site was originally erected on Mt. Soledad in 1954 as a memorial to those who died in the Korean War.
It has become a point of controversy in the San Diego [...]

-Evangelists Cleared of ‘Hate Crime’ Against Homosexuals

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Christian missionaries who were evangelizing a "gay pride" event in Philadelphia in 2004, were arrested and charged in 2004 for "ethnic intimidation" at the parade. The state legislature had added homosexuals to a Pennsylvania law protecting minorities from so-called ‘hate crimes’. The evangelists attending the event were charged under that law for preaching against [...]

-NYC Subway Ads: "Islam is Peace !!!" ?

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

  A number of different ads supporting Islam are being paid for by the Islamic Circle of North America who ironically is one of the organizations listed in the infamous 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memo which called for a "Grand Jihad" for:
"eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by [...]

-Cultural Clash: Muslims Outraged by Cute Police Puppy?

Friday, July 4th, 2008

This cute picture of a police puppy in training outraged Muslims in Scotland who consider dogs to be religiously ‘unclean’. Cards with the picture of the puppy were sent out to publicize the new ‘non-emergency’ police phone number. A Tayside Police spokesman said about the promotion:
"Trainee police dog Rebel has proved extremely popular with [...]