Good news! Hamoud Bin Saleh, who was arrested in January after announcing on his blog that he had converted from Islam to Christianity, has been released from detention. Although he was freed in late March, the news was only reported today by Middle East Concern.
Hamoud was arrested on 13th January 2009 and detained [...]

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference, a bloc of 57 Muslim states, has announced plans to establish its own “independent” human tights commission. This is the same bunch of tyrants that wants to outlaw criticism of Islam around the world.
Eklemeddin İhsanoğlu, the OIC Secretary-General, stressed in a statement Monday that “human rights and man’s [...]

The Association of Protestant Churches in Turkey has called for a day of prayer for Turkey to be held this Saturday, 18 April. The hope is that this will become an annual event in honour of the three Christians who were martyred in Malatya by Muslims.
“On 18 April 2007, Necati Aydin, Tillman Geske and [...]

As a pop music producer, he was a genius; but, as a human being, not so much.  His worldly success and wealth made him a self-obsessed recluse and a pitiful and dangerous old man.
An evil Spector: Record producer guilty of murder
Second jury convicts producer in actress’s death
LOS ANGELES — Phil Spector, the rock music impresario [...]

The collect for today, Tuesday in Easter Week, from The Book of Common Prayer (Canadian, 1962):
Almighty God, who through thine only-begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life; We humbly beseech thee, that, as by thy special grace preventing us thou dost put into our minds good [...]