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| NIGERIA: Jos archbishop asks 'Where is government?' | ||
| Published: | Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:40:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | NIGERIA: Jos archbishop asks 'Where is government?' http://tinyurl.com/ylbe8tf March 9, 2010  Following the murder of more than 500 people in the latest shocking violence in the Jos area, we reproduce here in its entirety an open letter from the Rt Rev Benjamin Kwashi, Archbishop of Jos. He describes local peace moves and rails against lack of government actionJanuary 17th was a Sunday morning and as usual Christians left their homes to congregate in churches to worship. That day has since become a remarkable day in history with sad memories for Christian and Muslim communities in Jos and its environs. A few days after that, leaders began to gather to see how to resolve what the perceived problems, or real problems, or even imaginary problems were. I myself became a part of a group with industrialists, businessmen and women, academics and religious leaders, both Christian and Muslim, to discuss these matters. We even spent a day at a forum listening to elders and religious leaders in Jos and spent another day listening to the youth. In all the conversations the Christians and Muslims spoke up frankly and aired their understanding of the grievances they have. We are in the process of putting together ideas as to how to move forward. more... |
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| Orlando deliberations focused on the Petition | ||
| Published: | Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:10:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | Orlando deliberations focused on the Petition By Daren K. Williams http://www.anglicanwest.org/ March 5, 2010 Dear People of the Diocese of the West  Many of you may have read the press release issued from the House of Bishops of the ACA in connection with our meetings March 1-3 in Orlando, Florida. I reprint it here:We, the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America of the Traditional Anglican Communion have met in Orlando, Florida, together with our Primate and the Reverend Christopher Phillips of the "Anglican Use" Parish of Our Lady of the Atonement (San Antonio, Texas) and others. At this meeting, the decision was made formally to request the implementation of the provisions of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus in the United States of America by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. more... |
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| ORLANDO, Fla: 100 Anglican parishes to join Catholic church | ||
| Published: | Tue, 9 Mar 2010 13:10:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | ORLANDO, Fla: 100 Anglican parishes to join Catholic church By Catholic News Service http://ncronline.org March 8, 2010 About 100 traditionalist Anglican parishes in the United States have decided to join the Catholic Church as a group. Meeting in Orlando, the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America voted to seek entry into the Catholic Church under the guidelines established in Pope Benedict XVI's apostolic constitution "Anglicanorum Coetibus" ("Groups of Anglicans"), said a March 3 statement. The Anglican Church in America is part of the Traditional Anglican Communion, a group of churches which separated from the worldwide Anglican Communion in 1991. The Traditional Anglican Communion claims 400,000 members worldwide. more... |
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| Is there any such thing as a "Catholic-minded Anglican?" | ||
| Published: | Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:40:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | Is there any such thing as a "Catholic-minded Anglican?" Lord Harries of Pentregarth's description of himself is a contradiction in terms, argues an ex-Anglican vicar who is now a Catholic priest by Fr. Dwight Longenecker Times Online http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7049515.ece March 4, 2010 In an article for this newspaper, and in the Spectator debate this week Lord Harries of Pentregarth informs us that he is a 'Catholic minded Anglican' and has sometimes thought of becoming a Catholic but has resisted the temptation because the "Anglican Church is the part of the Catholic Church which is open to the future." He then goes on to refer to Cardinal Newman's famous essay on the Development of Doctrine to justify Anglican innovations such as women's ordination, same sex marriages, in vitro fertilization and by implication abortion. more... |
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| AUSTRALIA: Ballarat's Anglican diocese divides and empties | ||
| Published: | Mon, 8 Mar 2010 21:50:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | AUSTRALIA: Ballarat's Anglican diocese divides and empties BY KIM QUINLAN http://tinyurl.com/yeye7ka March 4, 2010 A SPLIT in the Anglican diocese in Ballarat is being blamed for more than 20 clergymen leaving the region and a substantial drop in church attendances. The division is thought to be the result of an ongoing investigation by the Episcopal Standards Commission into allegations of misconducted against Ballarat Bishop Michael Hough. However, in a statement released yesterday, the Ballarat diocese has disputed the claims. more... |
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| Bishop James Jones and the challenge to unity | ||
| Published: | Mon, 8 Mar 2010 21:40:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | Bishop James Jones and the challenge to unity by John P Richardson http://ugleyvicar.blogspot.com/2010/03/bishop-james-jones-and-challenge-to.html March 7, 2010 " ... it is rather the force of custom, whereby the Church having so long found it good to continue under the regiment of her virtuous bishops, doth still uphold, maintain, and honour them in that respect, than that any such true and heavenly law can be shewed, by the evidence whereof it may of a truth appear that the Lord himself hath appointed presbyters for ever to be under the regiment of bishops, in what sort soever they behave themselves. Let this consideration be a bridle unto them, let it teach them not to disdain the advice of their presbyters ..." Before he composed his recent address to the Liverpool Diocesan Synod, Bishop James Jones would have done well to have considered the above words of Richard Hooker, found in his Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (VII.v.8). One wonders, for example, from how many of his presbyters Bishop Jones sought advice before advancing the opinions he has presented in his speech. One wonders also how his presbyters now feel, given that Bishop Jones has clearly decided that 'his' diocese will henceforth adopt a more liberal position on the question of homosexuality. Earlier signs more... |
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| UK: Bishop James Jones muddies the waters again | ||
| Published: | Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:00:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | UK: Bishop James Jones muddies the waters again Issued on behalf of Anglican Mainstream www.anglican-mainstream.net March 8, 2010 Dr Philip Giddings - Convenor Bishop Wallace Benn Rev David Banting Rev Paul Perkin Canon Dr Chris Sugden - Secretary Bishop James Jones muddies the waters again In a controversial Address to the Liverpool Diocesan Synod, Bishop James Jones has argued that the Church of England and the Anglican Communion should embrace 'diversity' and accept that those who believe homosexual relationships are morally wrong and those who believe that, within a 'stable and faithful relationship', they are right can enjoy a peaceful co-existence. [The full text of Bishop Jones' address can be found at http://www.liverpool.anglican.org/index.php?p=1126 ] more... |
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| 'One has to speak the truth regardless' - Michael Nazir-Ali | ||
| Published: | Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:20:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | 'One has to speak the truth regardless' - Michael Nazir-Ali Rory Fitzgerald meets the controversial former Bishop of Rochester and unofficial leader of conservative Anglicans http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/features/f0000536.shtml March 5, 2010  In the August heat of Karachi in 1949 a little boy was born in to a Shia Muslim family. Pakistan was only two years old, a fledgling and chaotic nation, trying to find its way in the world without British rule. Michael Nazir-Ali's mother cannot then have imagined that her baby boy would one day sit in that most British of chambers, the House of Lords. Nor that he would become a prominent Anglican bishop and an eminent Christian thinker.Nine years before Michael Nazir-Ali was born, London was under attack by the Luftwaffe and Britain was fighting for its life. In 1940, Churchill spoke these immortal words:"I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation... Hitler knows he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all of Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science." more... |
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| DALLAS, TX: "We Have A Gospel to Proclaim" | ||
| Published: | Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:40:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | DALLAS, TX: "We Have A Gospel to Proclaim" by the Rt. Rev. James Tengatenga The following sermon was preached at the Diocese of Dallas Special Convention March 6, 2010 Scriptures: Romans 11:33-36; Psalm 29; Matt 28:18-20  Thank you very much to y'all (I'm learning to speak Texan) and especially to Bishop Stanton for inviting me to preach at your Special Diocesan Convention. It is such an honour. I bring you greetings from your brothers and sisters from Malawi and indeed from the Anglican Communion.What a task it is to preach on such a well known passage and talk about the Anglican Communion at the same time. I hope to go one better and talk about Jesus while doing it. Talking about the Anglican Communion. Isn't it a wonder that we still have a Gospel to preach? Many a time I have wondered what this is about and where it is we are headed. "Fighting within and fighting without." Thinking about that hymn (Just as I Am); it has the refrain "O lamb of God I come, I come". "We have a Gospel to proclaim...." We have also sung this hymn at times, but somehow, we aren't so sure anymore. In fact one is confronted with "Which Gospel?" as if there is more than one. more... |
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| WORLDWIDE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS BY MUSLIMS AND HINDUS INTENSIFIES | ||
| Published: | Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:20:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | WORLDWIDE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS BY MUSLIMS AND HINDUS INTENSIFIES by David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org March 8, 2010  There is a growing and intensifying attack on Christians around the world.It is not just confined to the Middle East and Islamic countries. Christians from Egypt to Iraq, from Pakistan to Nigeria are being attacked and killed by Muslims and Hindus. For all its vaunted advances in technology, there is a growing hatred and intolerance of Christians by Hindus in India, a country whose laws, civil service, roads and military were established by Christians over a century ago. Hindu hatred of Christians is growing around the country and you can witness this in the state of Orissa. more... |
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| Pope Affirms Right to Convert Non-Believers to Christianity | ||
| Published: | Mon, 8 Mar 2010 10:30:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | Pope Affirms Right to Convert Non-Believers to Christianity By Ethan Cole Christian Post Reporter http://www.christianpost.com/ March 6, 2010 Pope Benedict XVI said Saturday that the Roman Catholic Church has the indisputable right and duty to convert anyone to Christianity. The Church's central mission is evangelism, the pope firmly told a Vatican body responsible for encouraging Catholic missionary activity, according to Agence France-Presse. Jesus Christ, as recorded in the Gospels, called on the conversion of "all nations," Benedict said," and this commission remains "an obligatory mandate for the entire Church and for every believer in Christ." more... |
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| LONDON: Anglican Head Defends Uniqueness of Christ | ||
| Published: | Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:40:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | LONDON: Anglican Head Defends Uniqueness of Christ By Christian Today http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100304/anglican-head-defends-uniqueness-of-christ/index.html March 04 2010 The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged Christians to approach interfaith dialogue with confidence in their own beliefs about the uniqueness of Christ while retaining a desire to learn from others. In an address exploring the finality of Christ in a pluralist world on Tuesday, Dr. Rowan Williams said people who believed in absolute truth were liable to be branded bigots or intolerant by those who felt that what was right for some was not necessarily right for others. "Belief in the uniqueness or finality of Christ is something that sits very badly indeed, not just with a plural society but with a society that regards itself as liberal or democratic," he said. more... |
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| Bishop James Jones: Liverpool's Muddy Waters flow towards Africa | ||
| Published: | Sat, 6 Mar 2010 22:50:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | Bishop James Jones: Liverpool's Muddy Waters flow towards Africa By Charles Raven http://www.anglicanspread.org/?p=284 6th March 2010 The Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Revd James Jones, has today shown just what a liability the Church of England is becoming to the rest of the Anglican Communion. Liverpool stands to the north of the estuary of the great Mersey River, now cleansed and restored to life after the pollution of the industrial age, but its spiritual waters are being sadly muddied. In his Presidential Address to the Liverpool Diocesan Synod, Bishop Jones argues that the Church of England and the Anglican Communion should embrace diversity and accept that those who believe homosexual relationships are morally wrong and those who believe that, within a 'stable and faithful relationship', they are right can enjoy a peaceful co-existence. more... |
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| DALLAS: Diocesan Special Convention affirms Covenant; rejects D025 and C056 | ||
| Published: | Sat, 6 Mar 2010 20:40:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | DALLAS: Diocesan Special Convention affirms Covenant; rejects D025 and C056 By Cheryl M. Wetzel in Dallas The Anglican Voice March 6, 2010 This morning, the Diocese of Dallas, meet in special convention, continued from the October, 2009 diocesan convention, in the nave of St. Michael and All Angels in Dallas. An excellent sermon by the Rt. Rev. James Tengatenga, bishop of Southern Malawi, encouraged the congregation to think internationally about the spread of the Gospel. Specifically, the Church is about the business of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. "It's not about a person, it's about God," Bishop Tengatenga repeated three times in his homily. I will have the full transcript of this excellent homily later this evening. more... |
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| Why Liverpool Bishop James Jones is Wrong | ||
| Published: | Sat, 6 Mar 2010 17:40:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | Why Liverpool Bishop James Jones is Wrong By Revd Peter Ould http://www.peter-ould.net/2010/03/06/why-james-jones-is-wrong March 6, 2010  In his speech to Liverpool Diocesan Synod today, Bishop James Jones has argued that the Church should view the debate over human sexuality in the same way that in the past we have agreed to disagree over Just War. He says,A cursory glance at the history of the just war theory and the ethics of pacifism show that for the last two thousand years the church has been exercised about whether or not it is ever right for a Christian to take up arms and to take the life of another human being. Although it has been agreed that the early church (from the period of persecution within the Roman Empire until the conversion of Constantine) was the age of pacifism, since then the church has not only allowed but embraced a breadth of ethical opinion on the taking of life. Augustine made the point that Jesus ruled out Malatia (hatred) not Militia (military service) and the church, without compromising the principle of the sanctity of human life, has made space within the Body of Christ for a variety of ethical positions. more... |
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| UK: Gay church blessings and a crisis of faith | ||
| Published: | Sat, 6 Mar 2010 13:10:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | UK: Gay church blessings and a crisis of faith As clergymen are warned they could be sued if they refuse to carry out homosexual "marriages" in church, what will the Equality Bill mean for religious doctrine? by Damian Thompson The Telegraph http://tinyurl.com/yl633xr March 6, 2010 Eighty years ago a Scottish shepherd's boy won a place at St Andrew's University. A graduate of Divinity, John Ebenezer Brown went on to become a minister in Kirkcaldy, Fife. He was much loved by his flock - not least because he never let himself get angry. "I keep thinking of my father and how he never raised his voice," said the Prime Minister, in an interview with this newspaper a week ago. more... |
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| AUSTRALIA: Primate Aspinall Clarifies Ordinariate, TAC and Anglican Church | ||
| Published: | Sat, 6 Mar 2010 10:50:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | AUSTRALIA: Primate Aspinall Clarifies Ordinariate, TAC and Anglican Church of Australia www.anglican.org.au March 5, 2010 The Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia, Dr Phillip Aspinall, has moved to correct recent news reports regarding the Anglican Ordinariate in the Roman Catholic Church. "The Traditional Anglican Communion TAC is a group of people that are not part of the Anglican Church of Australia nor in communion with the global Anglican Communion." The Primate also moved to clarify any misunderstanding that people could accept Pope Benedict's offer while retaining their membership of the Anglican Church. more... |
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| RIO GRANDE:El Paso Judge changes mind, decides on trial in property dispute case | ||
| Published: | Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:20:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | RIO GRANDE: El Paso Judge changes mind, decides on trial in property dispute case By Pat McCaughan, March 05, 2010 Episcopal News Service The Diocese of Rio Grande and the Episcopal Church thought they'd received a favorable court ruling in a property dispute involving a breakaway congregation. Then the judge changed his mind and ordered both parties to appear in 210th District Court in El Paso County, Texas, on March 3. "He basically said he wants to make a decision based on findings of fact, that he wants this to go to trial, either a bench trial or a jury trial," said diocesan associate chancellor Bill Juvrud in a March 3 telephone interview from his office. No trial date has been set. more... |
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| THE SECRET OF PROGRESS | ||
| Published: | Fri, 5 Mar 2010 18:00:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | THE SECRET OF PROGRESS by Ted Schroder March 7, 2010 "Jesus said, I am the Way, The Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6) The aim of the great religions of the world is to make progress in the spiritual life, to come to fullness of life, to know God. Lilias Trotter, in her attempt to reach the Sufi mystics acknowledged that three of the great aims of the Sufis were to follow the Way, and to know the Truth, and to live the Life of God; and the question before them was how to progress from step to step in reaching these aims. God who understood the love of progress that He had created in us, had met our desire in Christ, and had given Him the power to draw us upward to the place where He had gone. These three titles are joined together like the links of a chain: more... |
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| MODERN DAY IMPLICATIONS OF SHARI'A LAW | ||
| Published: | Fri, 5 Mar 2010 17:20:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | MODERN DAY IMPLICATIONS OF SHARI'A LAW by The Rev'd Canon Julian Dobbs March 4, 2010 Since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the global community has been saturated with carefully nuanced descriptions that explain the Muslim faith to a world that had previously given little attention to this 7th century religion. Unfamiliar words such as jihad and shari'a have become familiar concepts that are presented by world leaders and others to describe, and in many cases, defend Islam's restlessness with western culture and civilization. Many Muslim leaders have become skilled operators at negating adverse information about Islam by presenting the Islamic faith as a peace-loving, peace-promoting way of living with nothing the western world needs to fear. Furthermore, in an attempt to appease Islam, which exerts an over-proportionate influence on foreign policy, global financial markets and the media, western governments have shaped their agendas to ensure, in some cases through legislation, that Islam and the prophet Mohammed are protected from any critique that might dishonor the Islamic faith. more... |
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| Changing Attitude's goals and bishop's changing attitudes | ||
| Published: | Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:50:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | Changing Attitude's goals and bishop's changing attitudes Friday, 5 March 2010 (VOL note: Changing Attitude is the official pansexual Church of England organization, much like the American Episcopal organization Integrity that is pushing for changes in sexual ethics in the CofE. They are a powerful, well-funded lobby and have been extremely able in getting their message across to the church as British society changes its attitude towards sodomy.) Changing Attitude's goals are: "The day when the Anglican Ccommunion fully accepts, welcomes and offers equality of opportunity to LGBT people, including the blessing of same-sex relationships in church and the training, ordination and preferment of LGBT clergy and lay ministers." more... |
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| SC Diocese in Play*Dioceses Ok SS Blessings*ACA Accepts Rome's Offer*Money/Haiti | ||
| Published: | Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:40:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | "The real problem is this: the Episcopal Church is now on record as declaring moral what the Church, from the beginning, has taught is immoral. ... A Church that claims to follow Christ as Savior and Lord cannot succeed if it endorses and adopts secular values because it will then have turned its back on the fundamental mission of calling people to holiness through repentance and forgiveness. No one needs a Church that aligns itself with worldly values at the expense of eternal biblical principles." --- Bishop Peter H. Beckwith The declining attendance numbers are only one outwardly visible sign of ECUSA's sickness; its budgets and its desperate financial measures are another. Maybe it can continue for a while longer -- perhaps even for quite a while longer, given its assets. But those currently in charge are bringing it down -- make no mistake. The longer that no one holds them accountable, the more the downward slide becomes difficult to halt. ECUSA is already living on borrowed time. --- A.S. Haley, Attorney at Law, San Joaquin more... |
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| Episcopal Urban Caucus Marks 30th Anniversary | ||
| Published: | Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:30:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | Episcopal Urban Caucus Marks 30th Anniversary by Jeff Walton http://www.theird.org/Page.aspx?pid=1394 March 3, 2010 (This is a three-part series of articles about the 2010 Episcopal Urban Caucus Assembly meeting in Chicago. The three articles can be read sequentially and form some of the best coverage of this event. VOL is grateful to IRD for sharing these articles with us. They reflect much of the ongoing controversy at the Episcopal Church Center about recent employee layoffs of union employees for non-union church contract and other events surrounding the theme of anti-violence.) BACKGROUND Concerned about decline in their churches and neighborhoods but hopeful about the future, a small but influential caucus of clergy and laity from urban Episcopal parishes met in Chicago February 24-27. more... |
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| NEW YORK: New face of evangelism: One church, multiple sites | ||
| Published: | Fri, 5 Mar 2010 09:10:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | NEW YORK: New face of evangelism: One church, multiple sites By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA TODAY http://www.usatoday.com/NEWS/usaedition/2009-12-17-1Amultichurches17_CV_U.htm?csp=34 Susan Hong stops Pastor Tim Keller as he dashes up the steps of a Baptist church on a hectic corner of Broadway and West 79th Street. She heard him preach at 10:30 a.m. on the Upper East Side. Now she has brought friends to hear him at the West Side 5 p.m. service. He briefly greets her, then slips into the service just before his sermon. In 45 minutes, before the final hymn, Keller's gone - off to deliver the same sermon, "The Gospel Changes Everything," on the East Side. more... |
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| UK: Church Society Condemns Religious Ceremonies for Civil Partnerships | ||
| Published: | Fri, 5 Mar 2010 07:50:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | Church Society Condemns Religious Ceremonies for Civil Partnerships News Release March 5, 2010 Earlier this week parliament voted to lift a ban on religious ceremonies being conducted for civil partnerships. Because of other legislation in recent years, purporting to be about equality, this latest change will create an even more difficult environment for Christians. Clergy of the established Church will be under particular pressure to conduct services which they in conscience believe to be wrong. They may face the threat of legal action if they insist on following their conscience. Parliament has increasingly sought to interfere in religious affairs. more... |
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| ORLANDO, FL: U.S. Traditionalist Anglican Group Votes to Enter Catholic Church | ||
| Published: | Fri, 5 Mar 2010 07:10:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | ORLANDO, FL: U.S. Traditionalist Anglican Group Votes to Enter Catholic Church By Patrick B. Craine LifeSiteNews.com March 4, 2010 (VOL Note: A source in the Church of England in London told VOL that the figures in this story about the UK are exaggerated) The Anglican Church in America (ACA), the U.S. branch of the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), announced yesterday that they will seek communion with the Roman Catholic Church under new Vatican guidelines released in the fall. The TAC and Forward in Faith are part of a movement of Anglicans seeking a more Biblical and traditional Christianity than what has come to be espoused within the Global Anglican Communion. They have reacted in particular against the Communion's decision to ordain women as priests and bishops, as well as the approval of homosexual activity, such as the ordination of practicing homosexuals and the blessing of homosexual unions. more... |
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| FREEDOM TO BELIEVE: Challenging Islam's Apostasy Law | ||
| Published: | Fri, 5 Mar 2010 07:00:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | FREEDOM TO BELIEVE: Challenging Islam's Apostasy Law By converting to Christianity President Obama is an "apostate" in the eyes of Islam By Dr. Patrick Sookhdeo Foreword by Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali Reviewed by David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org March 5, 2010  Islam is a one-way street. Non-Muslims can convert to Islam, but Muslims are not allowed to convert from Islam. All schools of Islamic law specify the death sentence for an adult male Muslim who chooses to leave his faith. Although this is rarely carried out, the law imposes many other penalties on apostates, and provokes powerful hostility towards them amongst Muslims.President Barack Obama's late father and grandfather were Muslims, but the president himself is a professing Christian. According to Islamic shari'a law, the child of a Muslim parent is to be regarded as a Muslim, regardless of the other parent's faith. By embracing Christianity Obama has made himself an "apostate" in the eyes of of Islam, that is, he is someone who has abandoned Islam, and as such under Shari'a he deserves the death penalty Islam, the second largest religion in the world with around 1.4 billion adherents stands alone among world religions in officially prescribing a range of severe punishments for any of its adherents who choose to leave their faith, punishments that include the death sentence, writes Sookhdeo, International Director of Barnabas Fund, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity. more... |
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| Money, Money, Money, Litigation, the Episcopal Church and Haiti | ||
| Published: | Fri, 5 Mar 2010 02:20:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | Money, Money, Money, Litigation, the Episcopal Church and Haiti News Analysis By David W. Virtue www.virtueonline.org March 5, 2010  Mrs. Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop, would like to give $10 million to resurrect the Episcopal Diocese in Haiti devastated recently by an earthquake. The Episcopal Church's Executive Council actually issued the challenge recently as the church continues to minister to earthquake survivors and plan its long-term rebuilding efforts.The Haitian diocese is The Episcopal Church's largest, a point that is made frequently and with a straight face. You would think that church officials might be just a tad embarrassed when they tout a diocese in one of the poorest nations on earth (certainly the poorest in the Caribbean) with a denomination known for its blue blood origins, extreme wealth, billions in real estate and a genealogy of presidents and other politicians. With not so much as hint of embarrassment that TEC could not simply write out a check for ten (very) large to the Rt. Rev. Zaché Duracin, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Haiti, from church coffers, the Executive Council has resorted to begging for the money to give the ailing diocese. more... |
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| SOUTH CAROLINA: Episcopal Bishop Writes to his Diocese About Upcoming Convention | ||
| Published: | Thu, 4 Mar 2010 16:30:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | SOUTH CAROLINA: Episcopal Bishop Writes to his Diocese About Upcoming Convention My dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Greetings in the strong name of Jesus Christ whose word calls us to conduct ourselves becoming as in the day. I write to announce a change in the date of our upcoming Diocesan Convention which was scheduled for March 4-5th at St. Paul's, Summerville. According to our Diocesan Constitution and Canons the Ecclesiastical Authority may "for sufficient cause" change the date of the Convention. I, with the unanimous concurrence of the Standing Committee, have so done. The 219th Convention of the Diocese of South Carolina will now be held at St. Paul's Summerville on March 26, 2010. more... |
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| Progressive liberalism's obscene obsession with sex: its sinister purposes | ||
| Published: | Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:40:00 -0500 | |
| Description: | Progressive liberalism's obscene obsession with sex: its sinister purposes By Linda Kimball http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/kimball/100228 March 3, 2010 In an article titled, "Survey Asks Students When They Lost Virginity," writer Bob Unruh reported, "A team of lawyers who advocate for parental rights is working with parents whose children attend Ventura High School in Southern California to raise a formal objection after teachers had students fill out a survey on sex with questions such as "Are you sexually active" and "If not, why not?" ( http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=126030 ) Many prophetic voices have tried to warn Americans that they and their society are quickly falling into the abyss of human and satanic decadence, madness, mayhem, and murder that engulfed Russia after the atheist-Gnostic Bolsheviks seized control of that civilization and transformed it into a flaming hell controlled by psychopaths. Later, Germany burned in a variation of the same hell. more... |
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