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An Anglican News and Commentary Site from South Africa

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The gathering storm

Michael Cook is editor of MercatorNet. Media coverage of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Europe is being formatted according to the Watergate template: sensational crimes, decades-long cover-ups, dogged reporters, denials from official hacks, half-apologies from quivering bureaucrats, threads leading to the dark lair of lies and obstruction.

Second Wave of Attacks Near Jos, Nigeria Leaves 13 Christians Dea

Left: villagers try to console a mother who lost family to the Muslim Fulani attack in Byei.Muslim Fulani herdsmen strike two more villages, slaughtering women and children.Less than two weeks after a massive attack in Nigeria that killed 500 Christians, Muslim Fulani herdsmen today unleashed more horrific violence on

Preachers Who Don’t Believe — The Scandal of Apostate Pastors

Dr Albert Mohler writes:Are there clergy who don't believe in God? That is the question posed by a new report that is certain to receive considerable attention -- and rightly so. Few church members are likely to be disinterested in whether their pastor believes in God. The

SA Graduating doctor numbers decline

This is indeed grim if an accurate report, given the sad state of many hospitals and clinics.The Democratic Alliance on Wednesday lamented the decline in the number of doctors graduating in South Africa from 1394 in 2004 to 1306 in 2009.This emerged from a written reply to a parliamentary question

Third of people believe religious freedoms are being restricted i

Nearly a third of people believe that religious freedoms have been restricted in this country over the past decade, a new survey shows.Matthew Moore reports:High-profile cases of believers being "persecuted" because of their Christian faith – such as the British Airways worker banned from wearing a cross around her neck

Archbishop Peter Jensen on the American Episcopal Election

The American Episcopal Election Media Statement 18/3/10 With the election of the Reverend Mary Glasspool, a partnered lesbian,as a Bishop in Los Angeles in The Episcopal Church, the AnglicanCommunion reaches another decisive moment. It is now absolutely clear to all that the national Church itself

UK High Court reverses ban on Catholic Care’s anti-gay adoption

Ruth Gledhill and Rosemary Bennett reports:A Roman Catholic child-adoption society has won a landmark High Court battle that could allow it and other Catholic agencies to discriminate legally against gay couples.Catholic Care, which serves the dioceses of Leeds, Middlesbrough, and Hallam, South Yorkshire, launched the legal action in an

AAC Statement on TEC Approval of Partnered Lesbian Bishop

Source: American Anglican CouncilMarch 17, 2010The Episcopal Church announced today that it will consecrate its second non-celibate homosexual bishop on May 15. The Presiding Bishop's office announced that a majority of bishops and diocesan Standing Committees consented to the consecration of Bishop-elect Mary Douglas Glasspool as a suffragan bishop

Dawkins preaches to the deluded against the divine

Melanie Phillips writes: LIKE revivalists from an alternative universe, 2500 hardcore believers in the absence of religion packed into the Global Atheists Convention in Melbourne last weekend to give a hero's welcome to the high priest of belief in unbelief, Richard Dawkins.The bestselling author of The God Delusion was similarly

News at Ten presenter warns of anti-Christian media bias

The Christian Institute reports that ITV News at Ten presenter Julie Etchingham has warned that Christians are suffering discrimination at the hands of a secular media.Mrs Etchingham, who is a Roman Catholic, is the latest public figure to warn about the anti-Christian bias in the nation’s

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