Word: christiane
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...Whatever the reasons behind them, though, there is little doubt that the jailings and other measures are having a chilling impact. "Of course it makes us scared," says one Christian who witnessed the clash at Hangzhou. "We call it killing the chicken to scare the monkey. They are using us as an example so that other Christians in the rest of the country are obedient...
...surprised to learn that there is no definitive manuscript of Marco Polo's book about his travels, and that all existing versions have been embellished, doctored or censored by the Christian establishment over the years. I thank you for revealing the truth without prejudice against the civilization of the East. Yoshitsugu Kato Gifu City, Japan...
...since the (lra) began its infamous terror campaign - shortly after current President Yoweri Museveni took power in 1986 - cutting off the lips and noses of civilians to breed fear, and abducting tens of thousands of children and teens to populate the fighting forces. Today residents at Anaka, although predominantly Christian, are skeptical that the cause of their roof fires could be anything but tangu - supernatural. While scientists might look for an explanation in the heat build-up from oxidation in the huts' thick straw thatch, camp residents claim other things have caught fire, too: articles of clothing, for example...
...works, at least in sustaining itself and suppressing any challenges to its monopoly. Led for 37 years by Jack Valenti, the former Lyndon Johnson aide who maintained many friends in Washington, the MPAA is one of America's most effective lobbies. Consider this: With all the agitation from conservative Christian groups about the perilous state of popular culture, there have been few concrete attacks on the way the movie industry polices its content, and no consistent demand to hand the ratings job over to the federal government. The MPAA's success since the mid-'60s, when it established its ratings...
...latest headlines revolve around Harris's comments to a Florida Baptist journal that the separation of church and state is "a lie" and that if Christians are not elected, politicians will "legislate sin." She has since backtracked, claiming that she "had been speaking to a Christian audience, addressing a common misperception that people of faith should not be actively involved in government" and that her comments reflected "her deep grounding in Judeo-Christian values". Nonetheless, major newspapers around the state are endorsing 71-year-old LeRoy Collins Jr. whose biggest selling points are that he is the son of Florida...