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After years of government repression, activists like el-Erian have a lot to cheer about. The final round of balloting gave the Brotherhood, whose candidates ran as independents, 88 seats in the 454-member parliament, making it the main opposition to President Hosni Mubarak's secular, military-backed regime, which has ruled Egypt for 24 years. The result, a sixfold increase over the group's 15 seats in the current national assembly, came despite clashes between Brotherhood supporters and government police who tried to prevent them from voting. The violence left 12 dead and hundreds injured. And the election raised...
...about what is happening in France. One cause of the disturbances is that people of different religions and backgrounds have not learned to coexist even though they are citizens of the same country. All segments of French society should make a peaceful effort to come together under the secular ideals of the French Republic. C?sar Requejo C?ceres, Spain...
...impact on what is supposed to be Evangelicalism's core mission worries many believers, and raises concerns that should, some say, be discussed long past Christmas Sunday. "This is a terrible witness and a tacit admission that church is not important to us," says Witherington. "To Joe Secular, we might as well have put a white flag up on the church's front lawn...
...observations that there is an untapped market out there of Christian consumers and non-Christian spiritually attuned persons,” Churness writes in an e-mail. This market is only growing and becoming more important.“The public spirit in America has never been completely secular,” Stevens said. No longer, it seems, will its public culture be secular, either...
...Christian Music group issued an additional disc of “music inspired by” the film. That album proudly featured pious acts like Jars of Clay and Steven Curtis Chapman—virtual unknowns outside of the contemporary Christian music scene.But when members of the secular press raise the subject of religion, the interviewees steer clear.Asked by a pesky reporter about the risk of alienating non-Christians, Johnson allows himself to be distracted by the entrance of Adamson’s toddling child.“The movie means so much to so many people...