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Cartoon: Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle-Herald

The Anglican theologian and scholar E.B. Pusey wrote this prayer for Lent: God, give us grace, this coming Lent, so to lay to heart our ways, that we may weary of all which is not His, from Him, to Him: and may, through Him, the Living Way, by new love and obedience, attain to Him, [...]

This example of anti-Semitism at its most lunatic comes courtesy of Egyptian cleric Ahmad Abd Al-Salam, who spoke on Al-Nas TV on 28 January. Translation from the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Ahmad Abd Al-Salam: The Jews “will not fail to corrupt” the believers. What does it mean? The Jews are never remiss – [...]

Free speech champions Harvey Silverglate and Robert Freedman are seeking election to Harvard University’s Board of Overseers. They want to Harvard to re-dedicate itself to cultivating a culture of free speech and free inquiry on campus. Mr Silverglate says the university has adopted an agenda of narrow-minded political correctness to the detriment of academic freedom. [...]

Growing anti-Semitism has brought “a grave and serious sadness” upon Jews in Canada and abroad. Canadian historian Ken Coates says that, while the Jews are very good at standing up for themselves, they should not be left to do so alone. Non-Jewish people need to speak up against their hate-filled enemies. Standing with the Jewish [...]

Just in time for Lent, France’s Department of Health has recommended that everyone stop drinking wine in order to reduce the risk of cancer. “The consumption of alcohol, and especially wine, is discouraged,” say guidelines that are drawn from the findings of the National Cancer Institute (INCA). A single glass of wine per day will [...]

The collect for today, the first day of Lent, commonly called Ash Wednesday, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer: Almighty and everlasting God, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all them that are penitent; Create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we worthily [...]

The collect for today, the Feast of Saint Matthias the Apostle, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer: O almighty God, who into the place of the traitor Judas didst choose thy faithful servant Matthias to be of the number of the twelve Apostles; Grant that thy Church, being alway preserved from false Apostles, [...]

Leaders of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP, or World Hindu Council) dispatched a letter to several Muslim groups asking them to issue a fatwa declaring India a friend of Islam against which jihad should not be waged.  They also included another, even more bizarre, request. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has sent a letter to 13 prominent [...]

This video was recorded as Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, spoke to the European Parliament in Brussels last Thursday. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnaLc42nFrw[/youtube] Some of those MEPs sure didn’t like what Mr Klaus had to say, did they? So, what did he say, anyway? Fortunately, Czech ex-pat blogger Tanja has summarised his main points: “The EU [...]

Straight talk from Yakin Erturk, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women: MUSLIM women around the world are facing a “growing crisis” as Islamic governments fail to honour commitments to end inequality and violence against them, a senior UN official has warned. […] “There is no time left to lose any more as this is [...]

Yemen’s parliament recently agreed to legislate a minimum age of 17 for marriage, but now the legislation is reported to be in jeopardy because a few MPs maintain that it contravenes Sharia law. Horiah Mashour, deputy head of the National Women’s Committee (NWC), a government body, said there was still some resistance to the amendments [...]

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, [...]

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 was [...]

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 met [...]