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"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, 'You are mad, you are not like us'." --- St Antony of Egypt

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Archive for February 22nd, 2009

Return of 14-year-old Copt kidnapped by two imams

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Egyptian Muslims seem to make a habit of abducting Christian children and trying to pressure them to convert to Islam.
Kirollos Refat Ibrahim, 14-year-old Coptic boy, was returned after being kidnapped for nine months. He was forcible [sic] detained by two Imams (Muslim spiritual leaders) on the roof top of a mosque, in Manshiet Nasr, [...]

US feds seize 50,000 pounds of Canadian pot

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Marijuana worth millions of dollars was carefully cultivated and harvested inside British Columbia homes and shipped into the United States via the St Regis Mohawk Reservation on the New York state border, only to be grabbed by cops in Queens, New York. An official attributed the bust to sloppiness: One of the drug runners [...]

“Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no”

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

Dead Aid, the title of the book by Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo, is an obvious slap in the face of Bob Geldof, Bono, and the other jet-setting celebrities who performed at Live Aid. Her recent interview in The New York Times is headlined “The Anti-Bono” and the first question asks if she has ever [...]

Mother sues to invalidate daughter’s “Islamisation”

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

In March 2007, a 17-year-old girl who had been raised a Christian disappeared from her family home in Egypt. After a long search, she was found married to a Muslim neighbour who had induced her to convert to Islam.
Because the girl’s change of religion was recognised on official documents, her mother has sued the [...]

The Cyber Hymnal has a new home

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

The Cyber Hymnal, probably the best online source of Christian hymns and sacred music, has moved to a new address:
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/
Spread the word.
h/t: Lent & Beyond

Quinquagesima

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

The collect for today, Quinquagesima, being the Fiftieth Day Before Easter, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
O Lord, who hast taught us that all our doings without charity are nothing worth: Send thy Holy Ghost, and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of [...]