The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
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Rumours lead to Muslim attacks against Christians. That happens in so many places around the world that it’s hard to keep up. So, where is it this time? Indonesia. An angry mob burned a church and more than 40 houses in Indonesia’s Moluccas islands, injuring five people, after allegations that a local Christian teacher offended [...]
Check out this headline from this morning’s AsiaNews. Beijing admits “unsatisfactory” progress on human rights Actions speak louder than words. A Chinese government bureaucrat says that his country could improve its human rights record but, in fact, it’s not actually doing anything about it. AsiaNews lists several important issues that the government persists in ignoring. [...]
Three Turkish academics and one writer have violated Turkey’s biggest taboo by issuing a public apology for the mass killings suffered by Armenians beginning in 1915. In the recent past, Turkey has prosecuted public figures who dare even to admit that the genocide happened. It reads: “My conscience does not accept the insensitivity showed to [...]
This is said to be the “the second feat of hanky-panky”. I don’t know what the first is, and I don’ t think I want to know. ‘The second feat of hanky-panky consists of knocking your head against the edge of a door with such apparent force as to break your skull, provided it be [...]
Last week, the BC “human rights” tribunal found that companies involved in building Vancouver’s Skytrain had discriminated against Latin American workers and ordered payment of compensation. After slogging through the 177-page decision, the Vancouver Sun’s Ian Mulgrew smells a rat. The Latin American workers were paid the same wage scale as Canadian workers on the [...]
