Is Judeo-Christian ethics passé or the backbone of society?
Britain’s Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks has made a brilliant analysis in the Wall Street Journal of the riots in the UK recently. He writes: “It took everyone by surprise. It should not have. … Britain is...
View Article9/11 ten years later
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is a global network of churches and international organizations in 128 countries. WEA is serving a constituency of 600 million people. WEA has asked me to make a...
View ArticleGlobal Shortfall: 1.8 Billion Jobs
There is a global shortfall of about 1.8 billion good formal jobs, according to Jim Clifton, CEO of Gallup.* That is nearly a quarter of the world’s population. Many people live in the insecure...
View Article“Remove the cross from the Swiss flag!”
Second@s Plus, a lobby group in Switzerland consisting of mostly Muslim immigrants, demand that Switzerland removes the cross from the nation’s flag. They will run a campaign in October against this...
View ArticleChristians massacred in Egypt: what won’t happen next…
The Arab spring has turned into a chilly winter, especially for the Christians. The Egypt security forces killed at least 24 Christians who were demonstrating against the discrimination of Christians,...
View ArticleCalifornia bans tanning beds for teens, abortions still ‘harmless’
Underlying values often surface in legislation. The value of life is secondary or tertiary in California, while skin health seemingly is of primary value. In California minors can have an abortion...
View ArticleThe European Anti-Trafficking Day: New Website & Prayer Guide
Tuesday October 18 is the European day highlighting the issue of human trafficking – modern day slavery. It is a global tragedy and it affects millions of people. A few facts: An estimated 120,000...
View ArticleRwanda: The Death and Resurrection of a Nation
Unfortunately Africa is often associated with words with negative connotations: corruption, aids, donor fatigue, genocide, bad governance, colonialism, malaria, slavery, famine, poverty, civil wars,...
View ArticleInspiration for the New Year from Benedict XVI, Rwanda & the UK
Pope Benedict XVI spoke in October 2011 on “The History of God’s Goodness from Creation to Salvation”. He makes a brilliant exposition of Psalm 136. One excerpt will serve as a New Year’s greeting. We...
View Article“Wrong” opinion censored. In China? No, in London!
The attacks on free speech continue in Western democracies. Here’s one more story: There was a pro-homosexual ad campaign in London that said, “Some people are gay. Get over it”. It was sponsored by...
View ArticleThe State of Europe
There are different opinions, and rightly so, about the European Union. But it has been instrumental in achieving an unprecedented time of relative peace on a continent that has a long and tragic...
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