China 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.
Over the last few months, dozens of priests belonging to the underground Catholic Church have been arrested by police in mainland China.
In this Los Angeles Times editorial Eric Reeves outlines how the destructive war effort raging in the Sudan, in which casualties are estimated at 2 millionmore than 90% of which may be civilianis being fueled by a singular North American corporate presenceTalisman Energy, Inc. (Calgary, Alberta).
In the diversified Dominion, we must be sensitive toward persons of colour, persons of orientation and persons of gender, but we can be sneeringly contemptuous of persons of faith.
What these Visigoths did was to vandalize and desecrate a holy place.
It is a sad phenomenon of modern America that too often self-identified Catholics display anti-Catholicism or anti-Catholic rhetoric in the public arena.
The assumption of most intellectuals and their media echo chamber is that believers, particularly Christians, are a danger to society and to liberty.
Beatification and canonization in the Church involve judgments of sanctity on the merits and holiness of an individuals life.
The American Constitution embodies, and is only comprehensible, in light of Christian and (pre-modern) natural law assumptions.
