Attacks against women by the Hindu militant group Sri Rama Sene in Karnataka state, India, have caused a “complete breakdown of law and order”, says Women and Child Development Minister Renuka Chowdhury,
“We are taking a serious note of repeated attacks against women in Karnataka. The fascist elements are trying to create a communal divide in [...]

A church in Batticola, Orissa, India, was burned to the ground last year during intense anti-Christian violence. A Hindu temple is now under construction on the site.
The church in Batticola was rased to the ground and burned last August, at the beginning of the violence against Christians. Now, a foundation about one meter high has [...]

Source: Shortpacked! by David Willis
h/t: Christian Adams at Telegraph Blogs

Dr Andrew Wakefield sparked a major international scare with his 1998 article purporting to find a link between autism and the triple vaccine against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR). An in-depth investigation by The Sunday Times of London has discovered that his results were based on falsified data.
The research was published in February 1998 [...]

Another outrageous act of official discrimination against Christians in the United Kingdom.
A council in the north of England has removed a Christian woman from the roster of approved foster parents after a 16-year-old Muslim girl in her care converted to Christianity. The woman has taken care of more than 80 children in ten years [...]

A small group of pro-abortion militants disrupted a presentation by a pro-life speaker at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax.  They did not attempt to engage the speaker in debate or, indeed, to discuss any issues at all.  They just yelled and chanted so that no one else could discuss or debate anything.
Here’s a video clip of [...]

The collect for today, Septuagesima, or the Third Sunday Before Lent, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
O Lord, we beseech thee favourably to hear the prayers of thy people; that we, who are justly punished for our offences, may be mercifully delivered by thy goodness, for the glory of thy Name; through Jesus [...]