Archive for January 12th, 2009
January 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment
South African blogger Justin Hartman looks at his country’s leaders condemning Israel for attacking Gaza and sees hypocrisy. I am extremely upset with the ANC and SACP who have outright condemned the attacks by Israel. They’ve setup meetings with Israeli ministers to try and get them to stop and just yesterday former Congress of South [...]
Tags: Gaza, Hypocrisy, Israel, South Africa
Posted in Africa, International | 1 Comment »
January 12th, 2009 | 2 Comments
It’s a good day to be Canadian. Canada was the sole member of the United Nations Human Rights Council to vote against a resolution condemning Israel. Strangely, the council’s own press release does not name the no-voter. The Human Rights Council concluded its ninth Special Session today by adopting a resolution on the grave violations [...]
Tags: Anti-Semitism, Gaza, Israel, United Nations
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government, International | 2 Comments »
January 12th, 2009 | 2 Comments
A columnist at USA Today notices that Christians are fighting human trafficking and spins it as “a new face of the ‘pro-life’ movement”. It’s really an old face, of course, but publicity for the cause is always welcome. Now that he knows the name of a young enslaved prostitute in Indonesia — it’s Eka, pronounced [...]
Tags: Abortion, Culture of life, Human trafficking, Media bias
Posted in Life Issues, Media and Journalism | 2 Comments »
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Relatives of homicide victim Amandeep Kaur Dhillon believe she was killed for financial reasons. She was stabbed to death in the family-run grocery store near Mississauga on New Years’ Day. Her father-in-law Kamikar Singh Dhillon has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder. In Punjab, relatives of Amandeep, who hailed from Isru village in Ludhiana [...]
Tags: Amandeep Kaur Dhillon, Ontario
Posted in Canada, Law Crime and Legal Issues | Comments Off
January 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment
A Pakistani-born Christian minister hosted a radio show in Glasgow for six years, but was fired after an on-air religion discussion between a Muslim and a Christian. The director of Awaz FM stated that Rev Mahboob Masih allowed the Christian speaker to make offensive remarks but failed to specify any allegedly offensive content. Rev Masih [...]
Tags: Christian thought, Islamic teaching, Mahboob Masih, Political correctness
Posted in Christianity, Islam, Media and Journalism, Religious Liberty/Persecution, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
January 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Our human rights commissions have obviously done a smashing job of leading Canada down to the road to utopia. Here’s a video taken at a peace rally in Toronto last Saturday. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h4GC_kby9s[/youtube] Kathy Shaidle was there. I guess Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress, and his best friend the Lying Jackal, and The Guy [...]
Tags: Anti-Semitism, Chutzpah, Gaza, Human Rights Commissions, Israel
Posted in Canada, Canadian Politics and Government, International | 1 Comment »
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The collect for today, the commemoration of the Right Rev John Horden (1828-1893), first Bishop of Moosonee, Missionary to the First Nations of Canada: O God, the Desire of all the nations, you chose your servant John Horden to open the treasury of your Word among the native peoples of Canada. Grant us, after his [...]
Tags: Christian history, Christian saints, Evangelism
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