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• Strong public support for faith-based services

  
  HALFWAY TO CONCORD — Authority: 430
  T he Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released on November 16th a report on its most recent survey (conducted with the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press) on faith-based organizations and their partnerships with government. A large proportion of the public continues to favor government ...
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• Russia attacks the religious liberty of Jehovah’s Witnesses

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 522
  Story here from CBS News . (H/T Andrew) Excerpt: Russia’s highest court on Tuesday upheld a ruling halting the activities of a regional branch of Jehovah’s Witnesses and banning dozens of its publications in what the group deplored as an unfair move. Russian Supreme Court spokesman Pavel Odintsov said it ...
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• Chai Feldblum and freedom of religion

  
  The Recliner Commentaries — Authority: 138
  Barack Obama recently nominated Chai Feldblum to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). She represents what must surely be one of the most serious threats to freedom of religion in the history of the nation. Under Miss Feldblum’s view, a Christian person running a daycare could not refuse to hire a man ...
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• All I want for Christmas is a silver bullet

  
  The Reaction — Authority: 563
  By Capt. Fogg Christmas in these new dark ages is like a full moon to werewolves and lunatics, and the USA is the new Transylvania. You can almost hear them howling at night. In the dark, ruined castle of the House of Representatives, the latest time wasting assault on truth, the Constitution, freedom of religion ...
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• All I want for Christmas is a silver bullet

  
  THE SWASH ZONE — Authority: 471
  Christmas in these new dark ages is like a full moon to werewolves and lunatics and the USA is the new Transylvania. You can almost hear them howling at night. In the dark, ruined castle of the House of Representatives, the latest time wasting assault on truth, the Constitution, freedom of religion and the Founding ...
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• All I want for Christmas is a silver bullet

  
  Human Voices — Authority: 463
  Christmas in these new dark ages is like a full moon to werewolves and lunatics and the USA is the new Transylvania. You can almost hear them howling at night. In the dark, ruined castle of the House of Representatives, the latest time wasting assault on truth, the Constitution, freedom of religion and the Founding ...
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• «Respecter ceux qui arrivent, respecter ceux qui accueillent»

  
  WOMEN'S LENS - Un coup d'oeil fminin — Authority: 142
  Dans une tribune à paraitre dans Le Monde du 9 décembre 2009, le président de la République Nicolas Sarkozy, sexprime pour la première fois publiquement après le référendum en Suisse sur les minarets. Le président de la République rappelle les valeurs de tolérance et douverture de la France et appelle au ...
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• Why Stop at Condemning Swiss Religious Discrimination?

  
  BUUUUURRRRNING HOT — Authority: 126
  Many have criticized the Swiss move to ban the building of new minarets. I applaud the just, fair and open-minded attitude of those who condemn discrimination against religion and the majority bullying of a minority. That is why I heartily look forward to these same critics enthusiastically raising the issue of other ...
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• -UPDATE: Case Against Christian Hotel Couple Dismissed

  
  ANSWERS For The Faith — Authority: 492
    The Case against Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang has been dismissed . The trial began yesterday but was dismissed this afternoon by the magistrate-District judge Richard Clancy- who ruled that the evidence against the hoteliers was “inconsistent”. The couple had been charged by authorities with a religiously ...
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• EVANGELISM TO BE MADE NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE IN RUSSIA

  
  Catch The Fire Ministries — Authority: 494
  Source: Intercessors Network Legislation introduced this month threatens to make evangelism nearly impossible in Russia. “Only religious groups registered for at least 15 years will be allowed to engage in evangelistic or missionary activity,” says Bob Provost of Slavic Gospel Association. “If an overseas ...
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• -British Parliament Passes Amendment Supporting Free Speech over Homosexuality

  
  ANSWERS For The Faith — Authority: 492
  Pastors and Christians in the UK are now free to criticize homosexuality without the fear of being arrested for “hate” speech. The Parliament passed an amendment this week allowing for free speech and criticism of sexual conduct and practice. A number of Christians had been in legal trouble over statements made ...
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• Christian man fired after gay rights group contacts his employer to complain

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 522
  Story from the magazine Down East . Excerpt: Larry Grard admits he had “a lapse in judgment.” But Grard – who’s been a reporter for thirty-five years, the last eighteen of them at the Morning Sentinel in Waterville – says the e-mail he sent from his personal account to a national gay rights group ...
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• -UK: Trial Begins for Christian Couple Who Criticized Islam

  
  ANSWERS For The Faith — Authority: 492
  The trial begins today for the Christian couple who were arrested after a female Muslim guest at their hotel complained that she was offended by negative comments that they had made about Islam. The incident started as a friendly religious discussion over breakfast between Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang, who run the ...
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• Outright discrimination

  
  No Right Turn — Authority: 586
  Campbell Live last night had a disturbing story about religious discrimination at Rangiora New Life School . One student was kicked out and several more punished for having sex or starting a family without being married. This is clearly unlawful discrimination on the basis of marital status and family status, in ...
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• Guest asked whether her hijab meant she was a terrorist, court told

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Hotel owners deny threatening, abusive and insulting tirade against Muslim convert, 60, who wore traditional Islamic dress A Muslim convert was asked by the owners of a hotel she was staying in if she was a terrorist because she was wearing a hijab, a court heard today. Ericka Tazi, 60, told Liverpool magistrates ...
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• Rights and Religion Clash in Court

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  The Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from a Christian group that had been denied recognition by a public law school for excluding homosexuals and nonbelievers.
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• Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas and the December Culture Wars

  
  Windows & Doors — Authority: 521
  I love Chanukah (also spelled Hanukkah), which begins on December 11 this year, and yet I will not greet everyone I meet for the succeeding eight days, from doormen and cashiers to cab drivers and train conductors with a big Happy Chanukah!, nor do expect such a greeting from them. I also expect that many of those ...
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• ASSEMBLIES OF GOD CHURCH PRESSURED TO CLOSE SERVICES IN TEHRAN

  
  Catch The Fire Ministries — Authority: 494
  The leaders of the Central Assemblies of God Church in Tehran, have announced that Friday worship services will no longer take place and only two Sunday services will be conducted in future. The Church has been conducting 2 worship services each Friday afternoon in what represented the largest formal public gathering ...
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• Life is not a Rolex - a Rolex is not alive

  
  THE SWASH ZONE — Authority: 471
  "Comprehensible to the intelligent, to the world at large, needing interpretation" -Pindar- ___________________________ Ah, Pastor Rick Warren -- not quite smart enough to realize that his arguments have long since been steamrollered by better minds or just smart enough to realize that enough people are ignorant of ...
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• My open letter on same-sex ‘marriage’

  
  Alice's Restaurant — Authority: 111
  I am against the redefining of  “marriage”.   Passing such a bill ( S1967 ) during the lame duck session will only result in more divisive conflict in New Jersey. Marriage, as an institution, provides a ‘nest’ for the birth and nurturing of children.  A place where the children generally receive greater ...
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