Posted on May 5th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Jeremy Scahill has the full scoop on the HuffPo. Also read Steve’s post at Newshoggers. Reuters reports the U.S. Military has denied “it has allowed soldiers to try to convert Afghans to Christianity.”
Reuters also notes that “Trying to convert Muslims to any other faith is a crime in Afghanistan.”
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Posted on May 4th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Last week, I drove down to Massachusetts so that I could attend the inaugural event at MIT’s Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values.
My interest in attending the event was two fold:
First – To hear the Dalai Lama speak because I feel he is one of the great spiritual leaders of our times.
Second – Because I feel [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
I’m heading to the Boston area later today for a 3 days so that I can attend the inaugural event at The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT on Thursday, April 30.
I’ve been granted a press pass from The Center, so I will have a substantial piece on the event when I return from [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2009 by Walter Brasch
The fanatic right-wing, after taking a few days off to catch their breath, is back again with vengeance.
Name anything that President Obama is doing, and this broken wing will try to slap it down, unmindful that more than two-thirds of Americans support the President, with his popularity rising each week, according to several independent polls.
During [...]
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Posted on March 10th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Via Michael Spencer in The Christian Science Monitor:
We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West.
And why exactly is the collapse of Evangelic [...]
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Posted on March 9th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Today, President Barack Obama lifted the strict limits on Stem Cell research imposed during the Bush administration. In a ceremony in the White House’s East Room, “before an audience that included lawmakers, scientists and patients, several of them in wheelchairs, Mr. Obama announced that he was issuing an executive order intended to advance the research.”
Obama said [...]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by Hart Williams
The Supreme Court roared back into session yesterday. I was profoundly troubled. But what bothered me wasn’t in this news story:
Supreme Court Back in Session
By Robert Barnes
WASHINGTON POST
Article Launched: 10/02/2007 03:05:53 AM PDT
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court convened its new term Monday, and the justices immediately immersed themselves in the first of several election-law [...]
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Posted on July 22nd, 2007 by Rebel Reaper
The following is a dual post by The Reaper and Donnie.
Ave Maria is a town in Florida, that is built around a “1,100-seat Roman Catholic church and a traditional Catholic university.” Ave Maria is claimed to be a “refuge of sorts for Christian values in a secular age.” In the continued push for theocracy, [...]
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Posted on July 12th, 2007 by Hart Williams
The NRO’s “The Corner” reports:
Let Us Pray [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Harry Reid had a Hindu chaplain say the opening prayer in the Senate this morning, a first — it didn’t go over well with some monotheism fans. What ensued this morning was very unfortunate — he got heckled from the balcony.
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Posted on July 11th, 2007 by Virginia Cotts
Pope Benedict XVI approved a declaration yesterday maintaining a 2000 document that Protestants cannot have churches. Saturday the man had reinstated the abolished Latin mass which includes a Good Friday prayer describing Jews as blind to the Christian truth.
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