United Church Releases Report on Israel/Palestine
TORONTO, May 1, 2012 /CNW/ – The United Church of Canada today released the report of its Working Group on Israel/Palestine Policy. The report will be considered by the denomination’s 41st General Council, which meets in Ottawa, August 11-18, 2012. Until that time the working group’s report is not policy of the church, and its [...]
Richard Dawkins Evolutionary biologist and zoologist Richard Dawkins is renowned as one of the world’s leading public atheists. Religionists often call him arrogant, shrill, intolerant and aggressive in his defense of atheism. Many religionists claim that Richard Dawkins’ atheism is nothing but another form of religion, that he is an ignorant clown who doesn’t know [...]
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William Lane Craig [04] In case you are not familiar with him, William Lane Craig [01] is an individual who works as a Jesus shill for Biola University [02], an institution of questionable academic integrity that requires all its staff to accept an intellectually untenable doctrinal statement [03]. This is a text, full of unproven [...]
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Bart B. Van Bockstaele-Toronto: First, let’s be clear: I am not all that fond of Bill Maher [01]. Anybody who suggests that headaches are not caused by Aspirin deficiency [02] and that Aspirin should therefore not be taken when one has a headache, is a bit of a loon and a crank, and almost certainly [...]
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Sacrifice of Isaac (1635) Most Americans claim they are, but are they? There are numberless Christian sects in the US, and all over the world for that matter. They all differ in what they consider Christian and what not except for one major point: they almost all agree that they are right, and that all [...]
Continue reading …Pope Benedict XVI elevates Archbishop Thomas Collins to the College of Cardinals
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TORONTO, Jan. 6, 2012 /CNW/ – This morning following Mass at the Vatican, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, announced that His Grace, Thomas Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, will be elevated to the College of Cardinals, an international group of principal advisors to the Pontiff. Archbishop Collins commented on his appointment: “I am deeply honoured [...]
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The oldest Roman Catholic newspaper in the United States has retracted an opinion column suggesting the devil may be responsible for gay attraction. The Friday column in the Boston archdiocese’s The Pilot newspaper was titled “Some fundamental questions on same-sex attraction.” It was written by an associate director for policy and research at the U.S. [...]
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At least 25 people have died during assaults by Egyptian military forces on Christian Copts who have gathered in Cairo. This uprising is the latest and most deadly since the violence in February that took Hosni Mubarak out of power. As clashes between Christians and the military escalate a death toll is rising in Egypt. [...]
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Yoram Kaniuk, born 2 May 1930, an important author of mainly Hebrew fiction, and winner of numerous literary awards, both national and international, has won an important victory in Israel.
Continue reading …TORONTO, Sept. 19, 2011 /CNW/ – On the morning of Thursday, September 22nd, Bishops from the Anglican and Evangelical Lutheran Churches, dressed in their ecclesiastical vestments and mitres, will reach out to thousands of commuters across the greater Toronto area to invite them ‘Back to Church’. The outreach is part of an international Christian initiative, [...]
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