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Russian Chess Master Signs 'Letter of 5000' Against Jewish Influence in Russia
Post Date: 2005-04-16 19:19:19 by 1776
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Imagine if 5,000 leading American personalities signed a similiar letter calling for the banning of groups such as the criminal organization known as the ADL. Russians still consider themselves masters of their own house-JCRussian chess master believes in RussiaBoris Spassky, the former chess world champion, has caused uproar in Russia by signing a petition that demands the country's state prosecutor bans a number of Jewish organisations. Spassky was among 5,000 Russians who put their name to a letter calling for a ban on all religious and national groups acting on the principles of the Shulchan Aruch, a repository of Jewish law originally written in the 1560s. Letter of 5,000 engrages ...
African Catholics Seek a Voice to Match Their Growing Strength
Post Date: 2005-04-16 18:59:48 by robin
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AT MASS: Schoolchildren in Soweto, South Africa, pray for the pope. The continent has more than 130 million Catholics. IN NIGERIA: A woman stands outside a Catholic church in Lagos. With 25 millions Catholics, the nation’s clerics are thinly spread and face evangelicals who freely incorporate local customs. LAGOS, Nigeria — A fierce competition for souls is on in Lagos. In this sprawling capital that seems glued together out of scraps of rusted iron, plywood and torn posters, the immortal combat is being waged on faded billboards so closely planted along the highway that it's difficult to make them out as they flash by: Divine Harvest! Holy Fire! Winners Chapel! Victorious ...
Cardinals Align as Time Nears to Select Pope
Post Date: 2005-04-16 18:47:01 by robin
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ROME, April 16 - There was never doubt that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's hard-line defender of the faith, would have a strong hand in selecting the next pope. But in the days of prayer and politics before the conclave, which begins on Monday, he has emerged as perhaps the surprise central figure: the man who could become the 265th pope, choose him or be the one other cardinals knock from the running. Any talk of who will become the next pope is guesswork, echoes from cardinals and their staffs sworn to silence about one of the world's most elite and secretive gatherings. But one bit of wisdom has emerged in the Italian press as conventional: that Cardinal Ratzinger, a German ...
Cardinal Bernard Law: From Glory to Glory
Post Date: 2005-04-16 18:45:13 by robin
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"M. Compte’s philosophy in practice might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus christianity." Thomas Huxley, On the Physical Basis of Life He just goes from glory to glory. The only question is why? He first came to the attention of much of the public back in 2002 when news of the sex scandals in the Roman Catholic Church were making headlines around the world causing considerable consternation everywhere but in the Vatican. In January of that year the defrocked Boston priest, John J. Geoghan was convicted of indecent assault and battery in a case of sexual abuse of a young boy in 1991. Although that was the only conviction of Mr. Geoghan, he was accused of ...
Realities and Roots of Pro-Israeli Harassment at Coumbia law school
Post Date: 2005-04-16 13:53:29 by tom007
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Realities and Roots of Pro-Israeli Harassment at Columbia University ......... by Mark Roberts April 16, 2005 ......... and M. Junaid Alam Printer Friendly Version EMail Article to a Friend Introduction by M. Junaid Alam Readers who have been following the attacks on Arab professors at Columbia University may have read my recent investigative article on the subject. The piece elicited many positive responses, including from Columbia staff and students. One such respondent was a recent European graduate who shared some startling revelations about the university's real atmosphere. Relating his experience below, and using the pseudonym "Mark Roberts" to avoid the kind of vicious ...
Radio Host Fired For Wondering If Pope Went To Heaven
Post Date: 2005-04-15 17:14:57 by 2Trievers
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PITTSBURGH -- An evangelical Christian talk show host who questioned the beliefs of the Catholic church and entertained a caller's question about whether the late Pope John Paul II would go to heaven has been fired. Marty Minto, 39, a senior pastor at a New Castle church, was fired Friday after three years as a host on WORD-FM in Pittsburgh. He said he was told that he was alienating listeners. "As far as I'm concerned, I was doing what I've always done on the radio -- look at events around the world from a biblical perspective. I've always been willing to talk about controversial subjects," said Minto, who has had shows in Albany, N.Y., Denver and Phoenix. Last week, Minto ...
Religious Man Wants to Rename Mt. Diablo
Post Date: 2005-04-15 13:44:53 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Religious Man Wants to Rename Mt. Diablo OAKLEY, Calif. (AP) -- An Oakley man has asked the federal government to rename Mount Diablo, saying the current name, which means devil in Spanish, is offensive to his religious sensibilities. Art Mijares applied to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names for the change and suggests naming the mountain Mount Kawukum, which he believes has American Indian roots. "Words have power, and when you start mentioning words that come from the dark side, evil thrives," Mijares told the Contra Costa Times. "When I take boys camping on the mountain, I don't even like to say its name. I have to explain what the name means. Why should we have a main ...
Rehearsals for the Rapture
Post Date: 2005-04-15 09:08:49 by Zipporah
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Will Christian Zionists and radical right wing Jewish groups head to Israel to disrupt the dismantling of Gaza settlements? President Bush cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday [April 11] against West Bank settlement growth but Sharon gave no commitments... Sharon pledged his commitment to a U.S.-backed peace "road map" but sent conflicting signals about abiding by its call for a halt to Israeli "settlement activity." -- Reuters, April 11, 2005 In mid-February, Israel's parliament backed Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements. On March 15, Ha'aretz, a daily Israeli newspaper, reported that ...
Radio Host Fired For Wondering If Pope Went To Heaven
Post Date: 2005-04-14 11:21:45 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Radio Host Fired For Wondering If Pope Went To Heaven POSTED: 7:44 am EDT April 14, 2005 PITTSBURGH -- An evangelical Christian talk show host who questioned the beliefs of the Catholic church and entertained a caller's question about whether the late Pope John Paul II would go to heaven has been fired. Marty Minto, 39, a senior pastor at a New Castle church, was fired Friday after three years as a host on WORD-FM in Pittsburgh. He said he was told that he was alienating listeners. "As far as I'm concerned, I was doing what I've always done on the radio -- look at events around the world from a biblical perspective. I've always been willing to talk about controversial ...
Manitoba chief claims Ahenakew coverage increasing hatred of Jews
Post Date: 2005-04-12 23:57:48 by 1776
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WINNIPEG – A First Nations chief in Manitoba says media coverage of David Ahenakew's hate trial will increase aboriginals' hatred of Jews and make the former leader of the Assembly of First Nations a martyr. Ahenakew, 71, was on trial in Saskatoon last week for promoting hatred against an identifiable group over comments he made at a conference in December 2002, when he praised Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust and referred to Jews as "a disease." Roseau River Reserve Chief Terrance Nelson released a statement to the media saying he doesn't agree with Ahenakew's views – but he says he will not condemn Ahenakew, calling him a "frustrated [and] angry" old man ...
EXTRATERRESTRIALS? THE VATICAN SAID 'YES'
Post Date: 2005-04-12 22:46:43 by gengis gandhi
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EXTRATERRESTRIALS? THE VATICAN SAID 'YES' The death of Pope John Paul II has occasioned widespread discussions about his own stand and the Vatican's position regarding a variety of subjects, from purely theological to social issues. Completely lacking has been any reference to an issue of concern to many, and especially to those interested in the subjects of UFO's, Life on other planets, and Extraterrestrials in general, and in Zecharia Sitchin's writings in particular. As it happened, it was exactly five years ago, in April 2000, that Zecharia engaged in a public discussion of those very issues with a leading theologian of the Vatican, Monsignor Corrado Balducci, during an international ...
U.N. Calls For Combating "Defamation" Of Islam
Post Date: 2005-04-12 22:00:12 by Brian S
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GENEVA, April 12 (Reuters) - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights called on Tuesday for combating defamation of religions, especially Islam, and condemned discrimination against Muslims in the West's war on terrorism. The 53-member state forum adopted a resolution, presented by Pakistan on behalf of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), deploring the intensification of a "campaign of defamation" against Muslims following the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States. Western countries, including the United States and European Union (EU), voted against the text, calling it unbalanced for failing to address problems suffered by other religious groups. The OIC ...
Americans are finally quizzing religious right's influence
Post Date: 2005-04-12 15:45:57 by hfrancis
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It was about 25 years ago that a magazine article first called to my attention something called the Christian right. The story depicted a movement of religious fundamentalists who sought to restructure radically American life — mandating school prayer, creationism, censorship. I remember thinking the article was a little alarmist. ADVERTISEMENT Actually, it was prescient. That realization crept over me much as Christian fundamentalism has crept over American life: steadily. The movement — well-organized, well-funded and with true believer zeal — has made itself the primary ideological engine of the Republican Party, climbing to power from school boards to state ...
?God's invisible hand? saved Indonesia?s mosques
Post Date: 2005-04-12 15:13:57 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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?God's invisible hand? saved Indonesia?s mosques Indonesia's indestructible mosques defy colossal forces of tsunami under ?God's invisible hand?. By Victor Tjahjadi - BANDA ACEH, Indonesia In Indonesia's tsunami wastelands on the northern tip of Sumatra island, little remains of whole towns lost to the colossal forces that came thundering in from the ocean. But across these battered shores, dozens of mosques still stand, their minarets glinting defiantly in the sun - a phenomenon survivors in the deeply Islamic region credit as much to divine intervention as robust architecture. "God's invisible hands prevents the mosque's destruction," said Mukhlis Khaeran, who saw the sea ...
Gospel of Judas back in spotlight after 20 centuries
Post Date: 2005-04-12 15:07:52 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
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Gospel of Judas back in spotlight after 20 centuries Swiss foundation seeks to shed light on controversial Christian text named after apostle said to have betrayed Jesus. By Patrick Baert - GENEVA About 2,000 years after the Gospel according to Judas sowed discord among early Christians, a Swiss foundation says it is translating for the first time the controversial text named after the apostle said to have betrayed Jesus Christ. The 62-page papyrus manuscript of the text was uncovered in Egypt during the 1950s or 1960s, but its owners did not fully comprehend its significance until recently, according to the Maecenas Foundation in Basel. The manuscript written in the ancient dialect ...
Was Jesus a libertarian?
Post Date: 2005-04-12 09:15:16 by Continental Op
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If Jesus were alive in America today, would He be a Republican or a Democrat? Would He be a socialist, a pacifist, and promote every sort of social deviance? Or would He establish a police state in order to eradicate all social ills? To hear it from the mainstream media, as well as from many churches, Jesus would favor one or the other of these scenarios. Indeed, many preachers are almost as eager as politicians to tell us that how we vote is a barometer of our religious faith. Or, would Jesus be a libertarian? He just may be, if you spell it with a small "l". Just as a chaplain leading a team in pre-game locker room prayer asks for more important things than a victory in the ...
Lutherans Propose Possible Gay Clergy Path
Post Date: 2005-04-11 19:14:34 by Don
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Lutherans Propose Possible Gay Clergy Path 1 hour, 5 minutes ago U.S. National - AP By TARA BURGHART, Associated Press Writer CHICAGO - Lutheran bishops could allow gay and lesbian clergy in committed relationships to become pastors of congregations under a proposal advanced Monday by a council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Church policy currently bans gay and lesbian clergy who are involved with partners but allows those who are celibate. The proposal — which would require that the bishop of a synod, or district, seek an exception to the ban for a particular candidate — will be voted on by the church's assembly at its annual meeting in August. With ...
The Crusaders(Christian evangelicals are plotting to remake America in their own image)(Badeye Snaps) [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2005-04-11 14:33:30 by hfrancis
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World News See other World News Articles Title: The Crusaders(Christian evangelicals are plotting to remake America in their own image) Source: rollingstone URL Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7235393 Published: Apr 11, 2005 Author: Bob Moser Post Date: 2005-04-11 13:58:56 by hfrancis 12 Comments It's February, and 900 of America's staunchest Christian fundamentalists have gathered in Fort Lauderdale to look back on what they accomplished in last year's election -- and to plan what's next. As they assemble in the vast sanctuary of Coral Ridge Presbyterian, with all fifty state flags dangling from the rafters, three stadium-size video screens flash the name of the ...
An open letter to Christians of this country about death and taxes:
Post Date: 2005-04-11 12:29:33 by Itisa1mosttoolate
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An open letter to Christians of this country about death and taxes: If you received this letter in plain text format and would like to view with all visible links please visit: http://www.taxfreedom101.com/ezines/openlettertochristians.htm The wise old Patriot Benjamin Franklin who implored the Continental Congress to seek God's divine direction in making better the articles of Confederacy, once uttered this: "There are only two things certain in life, death and taxes." It is interesting that Franklin used the word "death" in conjunction with "taxes" to make a point, as the thought of either is not particularly appealing. We have all experienced ...
Pope front-runner
Post Date: 2005-04-10 11:56:51 by TommyTheMadArtist
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Pope front-runner Why Italian, 71, may get top job By HELEN KENNEDY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Oddsmakers have Dionigi Cardinal Tettamanzi of Milan, a favorite of John Paul II, as favorite to succeed the late pontiff. Some say the charming moral theologian is campaigning too hard. Dionigi Cardinal Tettamanzi kisses the hand of Pope John Paul II. Dionigi Cardinal Tettamanzi of Milan is the odds-on favorite of every bookmaker taking wagers on the next Pope. He would just hate that. A moral theologian who looks like Pope John XXIII and thinks like Pope John Paul II, Tettamanzi has fulminated against gambling, which he says is immoral because it enslaves people. "Man is not made for ...
Jay Sekulow: How a Jewish Lawyer from Brooklyn Came to Believe in Jesus
Post Date: 2005-04-09 22:11:10 by Continental Op
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Jay Sekulow: How a Jewish Lawyer from Brooklyn Came to Believe in Jesus by Jay Sekulow January 1, 2005 I came to the courtroom early, before the proceedings began. The podium was adjustable, right? I lowered it. I'm five feet, seven and a half inches tall and the last thing I needed was to be standing up on the tips of my toes to reach the podium! When I came back later, for the proceedings, I looked in the back row and there, sitting all together, were my good friends, Moishe Rosen (founder of Jews for Jesus, and at the time, executive director), Tuvya Zaretsky, Susan Perlman and Russ Reed (three of Jews for Jesus' board members), plus my wife, my parents, and a lady from the Los Angeles ...
Nefertiti's 'love affair' with Moses to hit the silver screen
Post Date: 2005-04-09 15:28:58 by tom007
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Entertainment - AFP Nefertiti's 'love affair' with Moses to hit the silver screen Fri Apr 8, 9:31 AM ET Entertainment - AFP CAIRO (AFP) - A Hollywood flick on an alleged love affair between pharaonic Queen Nefertiti and the Biblical Prophet Moses is soon to begin shooting in Egypt, renowned British producer John Heyman has revealed to AFP. AFP Photo "Nefertiti married perhaps one of the first monotheists in history and the film will tell their story, which logically enough should be set in Egypt" said Heyman on a brief visit to Cairo. "One can find in the Old Testament that Moses and Nefertiti had a relationship," he added. The movie will also deal ...
Pope Dead, Give Israel And The Jews Back Their Property
Post Date: 2005-04-08 13:48:16 by 1776
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Karol Wojtyla, better known as Pope John Paul II, it is said, had good relations with Jews back in his native Poland, in the "old days". And although I might not be the most favorable to interreligious dialogue (I believe religions exist because of their differences and blurring those differences is an untruth), this Pope had done much to further good Catholic-Jewish relations. That's why I'm calling on the Catholic Church to open up the Vatican vaults and return all the stolen Jewish property that they have confiscated over the centuries, to honor the memory of those "good" relations he fostered. Vast libraries of rare stolen Jewish books (and often unique manuscripts) ...
Prophecy on Pope Fulfilled by Eclipses?
Post Date: 2005-04-07 15:54:45 by Red Jones
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Prophecy on Pope Fulfilled by Eclipses? A 10th Century Irish bishop - St. Malachy - predicted every pope that would preside over the Catholic Church. Almost ten centuries ago, Malachy predicted this pope would be noted by an eclipse of the sun. In an eerie coincidence, John Paul II was the only known pope to be born on the day of a solar eclipse. But the prophetic link doesn't end there. Pope John Paul II will be buried this Friday during another solar eclipse. Astronomers say that on Friday, the day of the Pope's funeral, a partial solar eclipse will blot out most of the sun and darken a wide area of the world, from the South Pacific to the Western Hemisphere. Solar eclipses are not ...
Are you Going to Hell?
Post Date: 2005-04-06 20:50:00 by crack monkey
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The following is a link to a scientifically designed test that determines if you will go to hell or not: Are you Going to Hell?
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