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Home: Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGEArticles:None So Blind: How Secularists Ignore the Value of Religion - Thomas E. Woods, Jr.It’s the same argument we’ve heard so many times before, except now with increasing frequency and intensity: the world’s troubles are caused by religion. If only people would at last abandon these silly superstitions and get with the times! Read more... Obama alienates Catholics - Colleen Carroll CampbellCatholics make up about a quarter of the American electorate and have backed the popular-vote winner in every presidential election since 1972. Read more... Oh God, Another Prayer Fight - David ShiflettA student senate tries to imitate the one in Washington. The ACLU is outraged. Read more... Olympic Fallacies - Anne ApplebaumNo wonder that everyone who hates or fears China, whether in Burma, Darfur, Tibet or Beijing, is calling for a boycott. Read more... On our list of rights, religion comes last - Robert FulfordCanada has become rather impatient with public manifestations of religious belief. Having decided we are a secular society, we assume that all institutions should follow secular rules, even if those rules keep changing. When religious beliefs collide with individual rights, we tend to come down on the non-religious side, if necessary using the courts to impose our vision of Canadian life. Read more... Ontario Court intrudes into an "Authentically Catholic Position" - CCRLThe Catholic Civil Rights League is astounded and fearful of the decision of Mr. Justice Robert McKinnon to grant an injunction to allow Marc Hall to bring his boyfriend to his Catholic school prom. Read more... Open season on Benedict - Michael CorenThe attacks upon the Roman Catholic Church following the Pope’s comments about the dangers of condom use in Africa in the attempt to prevent AIDS have been an extraordinary lesson in applied ignorance and the survival of prejudice. Read more... Opening a window on closed campus minds - Barbara KayA new documentary shows how repressive university political correctness has become. Read more... Our silly gods and American idols - Rod DreherNot that he cares, but the Almighty surely deserves our thanks for arranging to deny celebrity atheist Bill Maher, the Iron Man Nightlife Decathlete, an Academy Award nomination for his anti-religion documentary. Read more... Out of the Cold - Charles ColsonFor nearly thirty years, the phrase killing fields was synonymous with Cambodia. Between 1975 and 1979, the communist Khmer Rouge killed at least one million Cambodians in their attempt to reinvent their society. Read more... 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... Pakistan’s true Christian martyr - Father Raymond J. de SouzaThe jihadist war against Christians, religious liberty, democracy, the rule of law and human decency continues. 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... Pope packs his own ‘four Rs' - Father Raymond J. de SouzaRespect, religious liberty, resistance to secularization, and reason -- these are the “four R’s” of Benedict’s message to Muslims. He devoted three days to that argument in Jordan, before his focus turns toward the Jews today in Jerusalem. Read more... Pope Pius IX - ROBERT P. LOCKWOODBeatification and canonization in the Church involve judgments of sanctity on the merits and holiness of an individual’s life. Read more... Pope Pius XII - Father George W. RutlerAs a child, Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli was moved when an uncle told him of a missionary who been crucified. He said that he wanted to be a martyr but "without the nails." Read more... Pope Pius XII’s Good Fight - Michael CorenVatican officials threatened last week to boycott a Holocaust Remembrance Service at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem because of what they claim to be a profoundly misleading account of Pope Pius XII’s response to Nazi anti-Semitism. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Thu Feb 09 2012 - 20:02:47
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