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...that I have followed over the years is the plight of the country's refugees, who escape by the thousands to neighboring China, hoping desperately for a better life, and for a chance to get into South Korea. Only a very lucky few do. At safe houses run by Christian missionaries in northeastern China, in refugee camps in Thailand and in the jungles of Vietnam and Laos, I have heard tales of bloodcurdling anguish - stories that defy belief, except that there's simply no way in hell these people could be making them up. A young woman who became pregnant...
...been appropriated for the purposes of inspiring resistance to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. She puts the treatment of women as described in the Koran into context, demonstrating how, at the time of Islam's founding, such policies were revolutionary and far more progressive than those practiced by Christian and Jewish societies. Islam's problems, she contends, only began with the calcification of its progressive traditions in the 15th century, when the religion was reduced to a tool to consolidate the power of the Ottoman Empire...
...student input for a class survey. “They stopped me and asked if I had heard of the gospel that mentioned God the Mother. They asked if I read the Bible, and if I believed in it. When I said no, that I’m not Christian, they started trying to make a case for why I should believe in the Bible,” she recalls. SIMPLY NOT PROFESSIONALReligion professor Peter J. Gomes believes that solicitation is not the way to interest students in various religious practices. “Most students don?...
...country's divorce rate one of the highest in the European Union. For the Catholic Church, the dramatic increase in divorces underlines the threat posed by the Socialist government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. At a December rally in Madrid to "defend the Christian family," Cardinal Augustín García-Gasco lambasted Socialist initiatives, saying, "The culture of radical laicism... leads to nothing but despair along the road of abortion and 'express divorce.'" Benigno Blanco, president of the Spanish Forum for the Family, agrees. "The reform has transformed the marriage contract into trash...
...never say never. While Rice justifies her decision by saying the book will have a definite Christian framework and a focus on the theme of redemption, she admits that the future chronicle will once again involve the character Lestat and a fictional organization known as the Talamaska that is responsible for investigating the supernatural. Much like the author herself, Lestat will be wrestling with the existence of God throughout the story. "I don't see it as a violation of my promise, because I won't be writing about vampires in the same way," Rice maintains...