“The most meaningful thing that has ever happened.” — CBN News, 4 November
h/t: Christianity Today Politics Blog
Telegraph cartoonist Matt Pritchett offers his take:

This great photo of Ezra Levant, taken at last Saturday’s Joseph Howe Symposium in Halifax, was posted at the Halifax Commoner.

I wonder if the photo was taken when Ezra found over 100 online references, including some in Harper’s magazine, to an Ayatollah Khomeini quotation that Mark Steyn had cited, after John Miller said he could [...]

A nine-year-old girl in Yemen named Arwa has gone to court asking for a divorce, claiming she was forced to marry against her will. Two other Yemeni child brides are also seeking legal divorces.
The nine year old child lives with her parents and six brothers and sisters in a humble, two-roomed house overlooking the [...]

Celebrations marking the 500th anniversary of the birth of the great Protestant reformer John Calvin have begun in Geneva, and will last throughout 2009. For his contribution to Calvin09, master Swiss chocolatier Blaise Poyet (at right) has created a unique chocolate representing the Reformer’s thought.
Swiss chocolatier Blaise Poyet believes he has captured the essence [...]

Last month, Nigerian-born US-based blogger Jonathan Elendu was detained by Nigeria’s State Security Service (SSS) and held incommunicado for eleven days before being released without charge.  Now comes news that SSS have arrested another US-based Nigerian blogger Emmanuel Emeka Asiwe, who runs HuHuOnline. Mr Asiwe is still in custody and has been held without charge [...]

Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer has been in custody since November 2006 when he was arrested for “insulting Islam” and “insulting the president” over articles he posted online.  In February 2007, he was sentenced to a total of four years’ imprisonment.
Today marks the half-way point of his sentence, and Reporters Without Borders is calling for his [...]