Humanity First USA Responds to Oklahoma Disaster
Source: Humanity First The Situation On May 20, 2013, the city of Moore, Oklahoma was ravaged by a tornado with wind speed up to 200 miles an hour, falling into the category of […]
Bernanke expected to stay the course on Fed policy
(Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is not expected to hint at a pending policy change when he testifies before the U.S. Congress on Wednesday despite some speculation among investors that the central bank could soon reduce its massive bond buying program. Bernanke’s close ally, New York Fed President […]
The Pope and the Devil
Source: ABC News via Wasim Sr Pope Francis’ fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped “liberate” a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican’s insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old […]
Religious Freedom On The Decline Worldwide
Radio Free Europe WASHINGTON — Religious freedom is on the decline in many parts of the world, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department, which calls the trend “worrying.” The 2012 International Religious Freedom Report alsodocuments what it calls “a continued global increase in anti-Semitism.” Secretary of State […]
Voices in Danger, State Brutality in Pakistan
The Independent: When Umar Cheema was being dragged off to be tortured after investigating Pakistan’s ISI secret services, it was his son and unborn child that he worried about most. Umar, a 32-year-old reporter for the Pakistani paper The News, had been on his way home in Islamabad at 3am […]
Run for Your Life: Over 100 activists of banned outfits released in Punjab
Pakistan Today: ISLAMABAD: Over a hundred activists of banned sectarian organizations, who were arrested by the former PML-N government as a part of crackdown against these outfits after deadly bombing in Quetta that killed over 180 members of Hazara community in first two months of this year, have been released. […]
Jewish Group Gives Tolerance Award to Indonesian Leader Blamed for Crackdown
Forward.com: Indonesian human rights activists are protesting an American Jewish organization’s plans to give Indonesia’s president an award for religious freedom — a freedom that human rights monitors say has […]
A False Gospel of Reconciliation
Huff Post: by Zach J. Hoag: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world […]
Why Christians Were Denied Access to Their Bible for 1,000 Years
By Bernard Starr: Psychologist; Journalist; College Professor Huff Post: The Council of Nicaea called by the Emperor Constantine met in 325 C.E. to establish a unified Catholic Church. At that point no […]
Protecting youth from alcohol abuse
Epigraph: They ask thee concerning wine and the game of hazard. Say: ‘In both there is great sin and also some advantages for men; but their sin is greater than their advantage.’ And they ask thee what they should spend. Say: ‘What you can spare.’ Thus does Allah make His commandments clear […]
Syria: Outside Patronage and a New Offensive for the Regime
Summary The battle for the Syrian city of Al-Qusayr, which came under regime artillery fire May 19, is actually part of a larger battle for the highly coveted Homs governorate. […]
Lebanese farmland firm to invest up to $800m in Sudan
Reuters | May 21, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES KHARTOUM — Lebanese farmland investor GLB Invest plans to invest up to $800 million in Sudan to produce animal feed to be sold to Saudi Arabia, its president said on Tuesday. Arab investors have launched farmland and livestock projects in the vast […]
Switzerland: Alcohol abuse linked to domestic violence
Epigraph: O ye who believe! wine and the game of hazard and idols and divining arrows are only an abomination of Satan’s handiwork. So shun each one of them that you may […]
Kerry in Muscat to help ink $ 2.1 bn defense deal (scare them first, then take their money)
BY JO BIDDLE ARABNEWS Wednesday 22 May 2013 MUSCAT: US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Oman yesterday aiming to help finalize an estimated $ 2.1 billion deal to […]
New Palestinian City Caught in Land Spat : Backers Say Rawabi Needs Access to Some Israeli-Held Areas
By JOSHUA MITNICK WALL STREET JOURNAL RAWABI, West Bank—A project to build what would be the first modern Palestinian city here has stumbled over an issue that has become an […]
Christianity, history and liberty: Constantine’s Cross
Economist: TODAY IS the date when many Christians commemorate Emperor Constantine the Great and his mother Helen, central figures in the late Roman empire’s conversion to Christianity. Historians still argue […]
Germany’s collective blame phobia
Source: The Local People don’t always make the best choices, even if their aims are honest. Realizing this can be painful but it doesn’t debase our common morality. We have to try to do what’s right without presuming that our choice would automatically be so. The Germans collectively made themselves […]
Assad talks, Russia walks
Source: Asiatimes. THE ROVING EYE Assad talks, Russia walks Syrian President Bashar al-Assad wasted a golden opportunity in an interview to explain to the Western public, even briefly, why petro-monarchies Saudi Arabia and Qatar, plus Turkey, have the hots for setting Syria on fire. While he was talking, Russia was […]
Myanmar needs a new nationalism
Source:Asia Times. By Matthew J Walton Many outside observers have been shocked to see Buddhists in Myanmar leading recent violent actions against Muslims. Our recollections of tens of thousands of Buddhist monks chanting loving-kindness while demonstrating peacefully against the former military government in 2007 clash with recent images of monks […]
The Answer to the ‘Christian Right’
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com In a country that is increasingly polarized politically and religiously, it’s always a breath of fresh air to encounter a group or a movement that strays from the social […]