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Written by The Economist print edition
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
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 IS INDONESIA, the most populous Muslim-majority country, undergoing creeping Islamisation? It is not hard to assemble enough recent evidence to give Western Islamophobes goosebumps. In late December a mob attacked and burned a prayer house in West Java belonging to Ahmadiyah, a sect deemed heretical by some mainstream Islamic scholars. Earlier in the month the country's Christian leaders complained that Muslim radicals, helped by local officials, had carried out a string of attacks on churches. Ten Muslim militants were jailed for attacks on Christians on Sulawesi island, including the beheading of three schoolgirls. In late November the religious-affairs ministry barred a liberal Egyptian scholar, Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (who calls the Koran a “cultural product”), from public speaking in Indonesia.
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Written by By Ethan Cole- Christian Post
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 |
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By Ethan Cole - Christian Post Reporter Islamic Saudi Arabia and communist North Korea are expected to be the world’s worst persecutors of Christians in 2008, a church persecution advocacy group predicted. In both countries, Christianity is illegal and practice of the religion is strictly forbidden and results in severe punishments.
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Written by Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester
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Monday, 07 January 2008 |
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Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester
In fewer than 50 years, Britain has changed from being a society with an acknowledged Christian basis to one which is increasingly described by politicians and the media as "multifaith".
One reason for this is the arrival of large numbers of people of other faiths to these shores. Their arrival has coincided with the end of the Empire which brought about a widespread questioning of Britain's role.
On the one hand, the British were losing confidence in the Christian vision which underlay most of the achievements and values of the culture and, on the other, they sought to accommodate the newer arrivals on the basis of a novel philosophy of "multiculturalism".
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Written by Ed Rizkalla
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Sunday, 06 January 2008 |
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“I am the way, the truth, and the life”  by Ed Rizkalla
As one reflects on the birth of Christ, one needs to consider, what did the birth of Jesus Christ mean to humanity? This of course is a very basic question to both believers and non-believers, and I do not presume to attempt a full answer for it in a short posting. I‘ll even admit my inadequate spiritual knowledge to provide a full and in depth answer.
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Written by MIRET EL NAGGAR - Mcclatchy-tribune
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Sunday, 02 December 2007 |
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Self-appointed morality police urge strangers to follow rigid code
CAIRO, EGYPT — The self-styled enforcers of religious law issued frequent reprimands to Rasha el Kholy for not wearing a head scarf.
Sometimes her co-workers spoke to her as "concerned friends," and one colleague at the Cairo clothing factory where she worked gave her a CD of a sermon that emphasized the virtues of wearing the veil.
When that failed, the de facto morality squad lectured her on how to stand during prayers, on the need to pray more than the required five times a day and how she should limit her contact with Christian co-workers, Kholy said.
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