Archive for May, 2011
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
A 19 year old Muslim girl, Katya Koren, was stoned to death under ‘Sharia law’ after taking part in a beauty contest in Ukraine. Her battered body was buried in a forest near her home in the Crimea region of Ukraine. According to the police investigation, three Muslim youths killed her claiming her death was […]
Filed under: Culture & Religion, Honor Killings, Islamist Radicals, Middle East, Muslim Culture, Sharia Law
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Saturday, May 28th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs originally demanded that all Memorial Day prayers at Houston National Cemetery on Monday be as non-denominational as possible and required them to be submitted and okayed a head of time. The Rev. Scott Rainey was told by Veterans Affairs officials that his prayer needed to be […]
Filed under: Church and State, Court Decisions, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Memorial Day
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Friday, May 27th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the city of Dearborn, Michigan violated the free-speech rights of a Christian evangelist by barring him from handing out leaflets at the Muslim dominated Arab-American street festival last year. The Dearborn police refused to allow George Saieg of Anaheim, Calif. and […]
Filed under: Court Decisions, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Islam
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Thursday, May 26th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) In San Francisco, California a measure is on the November ballot that would outlaw circumcision, even for religious reasons, on a boy under age 18. If passed, the ballot measure would make it a misdemeanor to circumcise a male child in the city with a maximum penalty of a year in […]
Filed under: Anti-Semitism, Church and State, Freedom of Religion
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Wednesday, May 25th, 2011
(Image by SS&SS via Flickr) Iran’s President Ahmadinejad and his closest supporters are expecting the Shia 12th Imam to arrive secretly in Medina, Saudi Arabia on June 5. Since Ahmadinejad believes that the emergence of the 12th Imam is about to happen, he has been acting lately like he no longer needs to obey […]
Filed under: 12th Imam, Ahmadinejad, Iran, Islamist Radicals, Middle East, New Islamic Caliphate
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
(Getty Images via @daylife) May 21 came and went without any announcement by Harold Camping. We are still here but now he is claiming that the real date was October 21 all along and May21 was just the beginning of the end: “We’ve always said October 21 was the day. The only thing we […]
Filed under: Bible Issues, End Times, Eschatology
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Monday, May 23rd, 2011
(Christian Population via Wikipedia) NETHERLANDS (BosNewsLife)– Translators of U.S.-based Wycliffe Associates have launched two Bible translation projects in countries where evangelism, or even reading a Bible, is forbidden. Over the weekend, Wycliffe’s Chief Executive Officer Bruce Smith announced that his organization is launching two projects that are among the most difficult in Wycliffe’s history. […]
Filed under: Christianity, Culture & Religion, Outreach, The Bible
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Saturday, May 21st, 2011
(Getty Images via @daylife) Today while I was at my grandson’s little league game I over heard several parents talking about Camping’s unfortunate prediction of the end of days. They were laughing about it and were putting together plans for a ‘Rapture party’ tonight. Then this evening I turned on the TV just in […]
Filed under: Bible Issues, End Times, Eschatology
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Friday, May 20th, 2011
(Harold Camping via Wikipedia) This is like watching an accident about to happen and not being able to do anything to stop it. You may have seen a billboard or read the entire back page ad in USA Today like I did, or listened to the frantic radio warning that I just listened to […]
Filed under: Bible Issues, End Times, Eschatology
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Thursday, May 19th, 2011
There is popular notion that more marriages in America end in divorce than stay together. This has never been true when it comes to first marriages. It is those who are repeatedly in and out of marital commitments that bring down the percentages and create a perception that more marriages fail than not in the […]
Filed under: Marriage, USA
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