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Home: Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Pakistani and Other Islamic Martyrs - Robert RoyalPakistan’s relatively small Christian community of 2 million, about 3 percent of the population (two-thirds of them Catholic), has been subjected to systematic repression and death. Read more... Palestinian Christians live in constant fear - Father Raymond J. de SouzaHere with an item from last week’s news that you might not have heard about: Unidentified gunmen blew up the YMCA library in the Gaza Strip on Friday morning. Read more... Papal Sin is Palpable Nonsense - ROBERT P. LOCKWOODIt is a sad phenomenon of modern America that too often self-identified Catholics display anti-Catholicism or anti-Catholic rhetoric in the public arena. Read more... Peddling pagan temptations - Father Raymond J. de SouzaA confessor of mine once delivered himself of this sage aphorism: If there is not enough time to read the good books, there cannot be any time to waste reading the bad ones. I doubt he has read The Da Vinci Code. Read more... Persecuted in Pakistan - John PontifexAs I picked my way along a narrow walkway, I had to cup my hand over my mouth to block the stench. Read more... Persecution in Burma - Charles ColsonGiven the recent coverage, people might be surprised to learn that Burma not only has a substantial Christian population, but that these Christians have long been the junta's preferred target. Read more... Persecution of Catholics in China - ZENITOver the last few months, dozens of priests belonging to the underground Catholic Church have been arrested by police in mainland China. Read more... Pharmacies and Our Religious Freedom - Mark EarlySince 1991, BreakPoint has been telling you about the steady erosion of our religious freedom. That freedom is increasingly being limited to what goes on even inside our churches or inside our heads. Well, earlier this month, another chunk was taken out of our religious freedom, and then, as before, Christians have been all too quiet. Read more... Philip Pullman and the Seduction of Children - Pete VereMeet Philip Pullman, the man whom English author Peter Hitchens refers to as “the most dangerous author in Britain.” Read more... Pius XII and the Jews - David G. DalinThe Talmud teaches that “whosoever preserves one life, it is accounted to him by Scripture as if he had preserved a whole world.” More than any other twentieth-century leader, Pius fulfilled this Talmudic dictum, when the fate of European Jewry was at stake. No other pope had been so widely praised by Jews — and they were not mistaken. Their gratitude, as well as that of the entire generation of Holocaust survivors, testifies that Pius XII was, genuinely and profoundly, a righteous gentile. Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 ... [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 19-Aug-2008 - 00:06:16
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