National Post columnist Colby Cosh stated last July that Christians did not consider abortion murder “before the 1960s”. McGill University religious studies professor Douglas Farrow immediately pointed out his egregious error and cited early church fathers condemning abortion. Mr Cosh initially replied to Dr Farrow’s rejoinder with defiance, but when Farrow responded with [...]

Since last June, two internationally renowned doctors have been held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison on charges of communicating with an “enemy government”. At trial yesterday, the prosecutor levied additional charges that he refused to specify, making a cogent defence impossible.
The Iranian government’s December 31 trial of Dr. Arash Alaei and Dr. Kamiar Alaei [...]

The Maldives’ Islamic Affairs Ministry gets results. Check out these two items:

Islamic Affairs Ministry asks police to ban discos for New Year’s Eve — 31 December
Low turnout at New Year Discos — 1 January

The Islamic Affairs Ministry wishes all Maldivians a joy-free New Year.
h/t: Dhimmi Watch

So says the National Society for Human Rights, an independent human rights organisation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The organisation is seeking to establish a minimum age of 15 years for girls to be married in the kingdom, the Saudi Gazette reported on Thursday.
Dr Saleh al-Khathlan, deputy chairman of the NSHR, told the paper the [...]

The collect for today, the Circumcision of Christ, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
Almighty God, who madest thy blessed Son to be circumcised, and obedient to the law for man; Grant us the true circumcision of the Spirit; that, our hearts, and all our members, being mortified from all worldly and carnal lusts, [...]