According to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s longtime pastor, media criticisms of his fiery sermons are really misunderstandings and attacks upon the whole Black American church. He is hoping that all the controversy will have a positive outcome and bring about a dialogue about race and religion in America.
Response: It is really hard to [...]

Jordan is supposed to be a moderate Muslim country yet lately they have been kicking Christian ministries out and now there is an ex-Muslim man on trial for converting to Christianity. He is said to be in danger of losing his family in the process. Also, read about all the persecution that the man [...]

Pope Benedict personally talked and prayed with a small group of victims of clergy sex abuse his first day in the US. This set a needed tone of reconciliation and humility.
  It is very well that He directly addressed this issue at the beginning of his visit since it has caused the Catholic Church [...]

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, known to be a ‘holocaust’ denier, has now joined the ranks of the crazies who question the terrorist destruction of the Twin Towers in New York on September 11, 2001.
On Wednesday, in the speech to the Iranian people broadcast live from the city of Qom, he said:
Four or [...]

An exhibition of Austrian artist Alfred Hrdlicka’s version of the Last Supper as a homosexual orgy deservedly brought with it a deluge of protests. What is really surprising is that the display was sponsored by a Roman Catholic museum–Dommuseum in Vienna. Another group of protests were raised when  Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the archbishop of Vienna, [...]

In an advertising campaign hoping to reach Latinos in the USA, Absolut Vodka has reached new heights and become the new standard for failed ad disasters. What were these folks thinking of anyway!
The Absolut ad geniuses have placed their product smack dab in the midst of the illegal immigration controversy and seemingly joined [...]

The Chinese authorities have long sought to exert greater control over the Tibetan Buddhist religion. First they chose the current Panchen Lama. Now they are demanding that he be recognized as the top Tibetan religious leader rather than the Dalai Lama who is in exile.
 Now China’s security chief,  Meng Jianzhu, is calling for “patriotic education” [...]

Pope Benedict baptized a 55-year-old, Egyptian-born -Magdi Allam at an Easter eve service that was broadcast around the world.
Now the new Christian convert is in danger of being under a death sentence?  Also, Muslims are said to be upset with the Pope over the event.
Response: Christians are free to become Muslims, however if Muslims [...]

From J. Lee Grady, Fire in My Bones, Charisma Online, Wednesday 19, 2008:
  An Urgent Cry From Nigeria’s Christians–Nigerian Christians have asked the world to pray for them on Good Friday as they face the growing threat of Muslim violence. A quote from the article by Grady:
“I am linking arms with my Nigerian brothers, [...]

In a new audiotape posted late Wednesday, Osama Bin Laden threatened Europe over the Danish Cartoons depicting Muhammad:
“The response will be what you see and not what you hear and let our mothers bereave us if we do not make victorious our messenger of God,”…”You went overboard in your unbelief and freed yourselves of [...]