Archive for the '-Freedom of Religion' Category
Friday, November 21st, 2008
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 [...]
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
(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 [...]
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Sunday Nov. 9 is The International Day of Prayer (IDOP) for the persecuted church. Please join hundreds of thousands of Christians all around the world praying for those who are being persecuted for their religious beliefs.
Here are some specific prayer requests from the VOM Persecution Blog:
Please pray: The Lord will give courage to His [...]
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
(Protest signs in Salt Lake by Getty Images via Daylife)
In the last post, I reported that over 1,000 gay activists were loudly protesting the passage of Prop. 8 out in front of the LDS Church Temple in Westwood. The protesters are angry with the leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [...]
Filed under: -Freedom of Religion, -Marriage, -Persecution, -Politics & Religion, -Religious Persecution, -Same-sex Union, Culture & Religion, Culture Clash, Election, Homosexual Marriage, News Commentary | | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
NYPD car via Wikipedia
The story begins with the tragic death of 22 year old Shafayet Reja on September 10 due to injuries suffered in an automobile accident.
He had been brought up attending both Hindu temples and Muslim mosques, honoring the religion of both of his parents—his mother was Hindu and his father a Muslim. [...]
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Picture- Wikipedia
Two sisters are facing 3 years in jail for professing to be Christians. Apparently their father converted to Islam, so legally the sisters became Muslim whether they wanted to or not under Egypt’s unequal religious laws.
It is illegal for Muslims to convert to Christianity, however Christians are encouraged to convert to Islam. When a [...]
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Apparently praying on campus at the College of Alameda in California will earn you an expulsion from the school.
The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI), which has a different take on the issue, is filing a lawsuit in support of two students currently facing expulsion from the school for exercising their 1st amendment rights. According [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
The Federal government of India has sent national police into the State of Orissa, but the persecution of Christians by Hindu radicals continues unabated.
One of the major issues behind the persecution is the traditional caste system. The lowest castes are converting to Christianity, particularly the Dalits or so-called ‘untouchables’, who used to live [...]
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
The radical group, Islam4TheUK, is sponsoring several extremist speakers who are touring the UK and inciting Muslims to raise up against Britain.
Abu Waleed recently spoke in Birmingham, Derby, and Leicester, and told Muslim audiences that they should reject the laws of the UK. Waleed contends that the British intelligence services have severely underestimated the [...]
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Saturday, October 4th, 2008
Three Christians were killed and over 400 Christian homes were burned by extremist mobs as the violence continues this week in Orissa. Read the entire Compass Direst report if you have the stomach for it, the details are rather brutal. *Top
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