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Home: Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Anti-Semitism’s latest refuge - Barbara KayA new strain of the old cancer of anti-Semitism is metastasizing throughout Western countries. Read more... Archbishop Romero and Latin American Martyrs - Robert RoyalOn Monday, March 24, 1980, at 6:25 p.m. in the chapel of the Divina Providencia Cancer Hospital, where he lived in a small house, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, the capital of the Central American nation El Salvador, was killed during his homily by a gunman who fired one, well-placed bullet through his heart. Read more... Ash Wednesday - David WarrenToday is an international day of mourning, and it is because we are fully human that we need to wear the ashes on our brow. Read more... Atheist campaign against Mother Teresa postage stamp is silly, outrageous - Colleen Carroll CampbellSuccess is not all it’s cracked up to be. Just ask America’s minuscule-but-mouthy atheist minority. Read more... Attacks on Miss California reveal intolerance of gay-rights activists - Colleen Carroll Campbell"I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that's how I was raised." Read more... Austrian Farmer Franz Jagerstatter - Robert RoyalA Father Jochmann was the prison chaplain in Berlin and spent some time with Jägerstätter that day. Read more... Back to the Beginning: A Brief Introduction to the Ancient Catholic Church - George Sim JohnstonThe culture is now flooded with bogus scholarship whose main purpose is to put Christianity — and especially orthodox Catholicism — on the defensive. But most Catholics have no idea how to respond, and more than a few take these books and documentaries at face value. After all, they have the imprimatur of the History Channel or a large publishing house like Doubleday. Read more... Beijing’s war on Christianity - Father Raymond J. de SouzaFour Catholic bishops in China have been abducted this past week, forcibly taken to unknown locations by the Chinese regime. Read more... Benedict faces a bitter Britain - Father Raymond J. de SouzaIn the lead-up to the papal visit to the UK there has been remarkable hostility and unspeakable rudeness in wide sectors of British opinion. Read more... Beyond cheerleading - Marvin OlaskyMany liberals and conservatives are pushing for elections in Egypt and elsewhere, but democracy without religious liberty will merely lead to a different tyranny. Read more... Beyond the Dictatorship of Relativism - Robert RoyalAlmost everyone who pays attention to religion and public affairs knows of Joseph Ratzinger’s famous homily shortly before he was elected pope denouncing the modern “dictatorship of relativism.” Read more... Beyond tolerance - Michael CorenWhen the same-sex marriage issue was being debated before parliament and the courts, many of us argued that the entire issue had ceased being about toleration long ago but was now about affirmation. Read more... Blasphemy - Dinesh D'SouzaAll this fuss over blasphemy got us thinking. We riot in the West, but not over religion. Racism, economic inequality, and environmental concerns can all whip a crowd into discontent — even violence. But blasphemy? Read more... Blessed Jakob Gapp - Robert RoyalThe Nazis gave various reasons for imprisoning these clergymen: stirring up the masses, spying, aiding prisoners, suspicion of treason, behavior unfriendly to Germany, support of Jews, insulting the Fuhrer or National Socialism, or sometimes no reason at all. Read more... Bloodbath in the Making - Gregory StantonToday 800,000 Africans from Darfur, Sudan, have been driven from their homes by Arab militias, supported by Sudanese government air strikes, in the worst case of ethnic cleansing since Kosovo. Read more... Bluster masquerading as reason - Rex MurphyIf we are to have an adjudication on the Pontiff ’s complicity or innocence in the matter of coverups or evasion by the Catholic Church in the sexual-abuse scandals that have rocked it, I’m not sure I’d go to Christopher Hitchens to get it. Read more... C.S. Lewis in the Dock - Joe SobranIn the November issue of The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik, often an interesting and intelligent writer, belittles Lewis's work in a way I can describe only as catty. Read more... Can We Talk? - Daniel HenningerWho says the world lacks leaders? After again expressing his "respect" for Islam, Pope Benedict XVI at his weekly Vatican audience two days ago moved one of his knights forward on the global chessboard of Islamic politics. Read more... Catholic Martyrs of the Holocaust - Matthew BunsenBy 1939, more than 10,000 Catholic schools had been closed and the Catholic boys and girls sent to Nazi public schools for indoctrination. Read more... China and Sudan Lead Nations Cited for Religious Persecution - NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTERChina and the Sudan topped a list of seven nations the State Department said are of “particular concern” because of their poor treatment of religious believers. Read more... China’s nemesis - Fr. Raymond de SouzaHaving never met the Dalai Lama, I am not sure why he appears to be giggling so often. Read more... Christian in a Muslim World - Julia Duin“I pray that the Christians in Muslim lands get the same freedom as Muslims get in Christian lands,” Shehadeh told us at the press conference. “There are Muslim centers all over the United States but no churches in Saudi Arabia or many of the Gulf states.” Read more... Christian Martyrs of the 21st Century: The Reckoning Continues - Sandro MagisterThanks to John Paul II, the Catholic Church has become aware of the fact that the experience of martyrdom is still extremely relevant. The "brief century," marked by totalitarianism, has left behind itself a long trail of Christian blood. But the third millennium also opens with the sign of martyrdom: a martyrdom with many faces that shows itself increasingly as a "global" experience. Read more... Christianity Dying in Its Birthplace - Daniel PipesWhat some observers are calling a pogrom took place near Ramallah, West Bank, on the night of September 3-4. Read more... Christians in Indonesia: Allowing persecution to happen - Julia DuinChristians who refused to convert to Islam were killed; those who did convert were then separated from their families, given Muslim names, and forcibly circumcised — without anaesthetic, and with dirty instruments. Why, I wondered, weren't journalists reporting on this tragedy? Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Thu Feb 09 2012 - 20:02:46
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