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• John Stott Retires

  Published: July 25, 2007, 8:36 am

  Tags: Church Issues, Human Rights Persecution

  increasingly relevant as persecution increases in many cultures." Words I found especially convicting (in fact, painfully convicting) relate to why "our evangelistic efforts are often fraught with failure." Stott says, "One main reason is that we don't look like the Christ we are proclaiming." The article also

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• Indulge yourself -- for a good cause

  Published: July 27, 2007, 12:57 pm

  Tags: Business Economics, Human Rights Persecution, Trends

  My turn to suggest how you can use your baser instincts to help the poor! :-) In all honesty, the last place I expected to find a way to reach out to suffering Ugandans was in the pages of my September issue of BeadStyle magazine. More often, that's where I go when I'm looking to indulge myself. But here we have an intriguing blurb on how you

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• The nuisance diplomat

  Published: August 1, 2007, 1:08 pm

  Tags: Human Rights Persecution, Life Issues

  I love the last sentence in this piece about Peter Bergson, who pressured the American government to rescue European Jews from the Holocaust and whose work saved 200,000 lives: "Around Washington, Bergson earned the nickname 'the nuisance diplomat.'" What a great nickname. May we all be nuisances for the sake of those stumbling to the

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• The hostage crisis you haven't heard of

  Published: August 1, 2007, 3:58 pm

  Tags: Human Rights Persecution, Religion Society

  The subtitle of this piece says it all: "Missionary blood spills, the world yawns." (Michelle Malkin doesn't convincingly make the case here that the underreporting of the subject is based partially on "blame-the-victim apathy" -- "no doubt" isn't really proof -- but she gives food for thought.) There's more here at

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• Gaza Christian forced to convert to Islam

  Published: August 7, 2007, 12:19 am

  Tags: Islam, Persecution, Religion, Christianity

  Not much of a religion if you are forced to convert to it: Hamas-aligned officials at Gaza City's Palestine International University have been accused of forcibly converting one of their female Christian colleagues to Islam. Sana al-Sayegh, head of the university's Science and Technology Department, disappeared in late June, reported

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• Youre Not Paranoid -- Youre Awake

  Published: August 10, 2007, 11:57 am

  Tags: Foreign Policy, Health Science, Human Rights Persecution

  At Mercatornet, Martin Drakard tells us that "many Africans regard Western medicine in general with deep suspicion." You sometimes hear this, usually conveyed in a tone that says, "No wonder Africa is in such bad shape, its people are stupid." And to be honest, some of the examples Drakard cites strike me as outlandish. For

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• Guantanamo in Germany

  Published: August 22, 2007, 10:01 pm

  Tags: Persecution, East Germany, Matthias B, Sociologists, War On Terror, Andrej Holm

  But, as in Guant namo, persecution seems to have taken the place of prosecution. Richard Sennett is a sociologist at the London School of Economics; Saskia Sassen is a sociologist at Columbia UniversityHere is a site for people wishing to express solidarity with the two

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• Reliving the horrifying past

  Published: August 23, 2007, 3:55 pm

  Tags: Human Rights Persecution

  Recently, I wrote about the need to remember the Armenian genocide for BreakPoint WorldView magazine. An article in today's Los Angeles Times describes the renewed trauma that elderly survivors of the Jewish Holocaust face as old age and dementia bring their long-buried memories of brutality to the surface. It's not uncommon for Alzheimer's and

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• Betrayal

  Published: August 28, 2007, 12:23 pm

  Tags: Foreign Policy, Human Rights Persecution, Religion Society

  As some of you know, I just returned from a two-week interviewing trip to Rwanda. While there, one of the places I visited is a church in Nyamata where thousands of Tutsis were slaughtered while seeking refuge during the '94 genocide. Our guide, a woman who lost all her children and her husband in that church, seemed to be among the walking dead,

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• Different does not mean bad

  Published: August 28, 2007, 5:41 pm

  Tags: Human Rights Persecution, Inspiration, Life Issues

  Over at Wittingshire, Amanda Witt shares two very different stories of children with Down syndrome: Olivia and Daniel. Both stories make clear that it's the people who think these children have nothing to offer, who would rather dispose of them than make the time and effort to care about them, who are the losers. Sadly, as Amanda writes, "For

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• Re: Betrayal

  Published: August 28, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Human Rights Persecution, Religion Society

  I, too, returned with Catherine from Rwanda. And, I, too, saw the blood-stained altar, the bullet-pierced ceiling, the crypt of skulls and femurs, and the stacks of family coffins. As I climbed the steps from the dark corridor containing the remains of thousands who had died in that church, I glanced up and saw a purple blossom on a leafy

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• A Modest Proposal

  Published: August 30, 2007, 4:39 pm

  Tags: Church Issues, Human Rights Persecution, Life Issues

  Anyone else read Jonathan Swift's satirical pamphlet A Modest Proposal in high school? For me it was just about exhilarating as The Scarlet Letter. Now I'm realizing that every boring reading assignment had a purpose. In his Proposal, Swift criticizes 18th-century Irish nobility for their harsh treatment of the poor, by suggesting that instead of

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• Army Major disrupts Atheist meeting in Iraq - threatens court martial

  Published: August 5, 2007, 5:58 pm

  Tags: Entanglement, Politics, Religious Intolerance, Atheist Persecution, Church State, Iraq, Military Association Of Atheists Freethinkers, Us Army

  Kathleen Johnson, Military Director, American Atheists, who is deployed right now in Iraq, sent this note talking about a disturbing incident that took place at Forward Operating Base in Iraq recently. Here is her report: Thought you'd be interested in this report of the first-ever meeting of... [[Click on the title to visit Secular Left for

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• How the biased liberal-dominated legal system conspires against innocent motorists

  Published: August 30, 2007, 1:00 am

  Tags: Cyclists, Video, Immigrant Violence, Christian Persecution, Fiasco, Highways, Cyclist, Fault, License, Biased, Fund, Fined

  Friends, Not so long ago, I told you the story of how a deranged, violent cyclist caused over $600 worth of damage to my truck. Later I told you how I, as an innocent victim attempted to make peace with the cycle-maniac, even though the accident was entirely his stupid fault.

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• Rwanda Rising

  Published: September 5, 2007, 1:03 pm

  Tags: Human Rights Persecution, Life Issues, Religion Society

  This weekend I was privileged to view the Tennessee premiere of Rwanda Rising. This is a film by Ambassador Andrew Young that showcases some of the positive things going on in that war-torn country since the 1994 genocide. Although the film gave much to be optimistic about regarding the country's future--the industrious and entrepreneurial spirit

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