Date: Friday 27 June 2008

Subj: Zimbabwe: "We are being persecuted."

To: World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty News & Analysis

From: WEA RLC Principal Researcher and Writer, Elizabeth Kendal

ZIMBABWE: "WE ARE BEING PERSECUTED"

"Religious freedom" that is conditional on being a member of the State
religion is clearly not religious freedom. "Religious freedom" that does
not permit conversion is not religious freedom. Likewise, "religious
freedom" that is conditional on political allegiance is not religious
freedom.

What began in 2001 as government interference in Anglican affairs has
developed into religious liberty abuse so severe and violent that
"dissident" Anglicans -- that is most Anglicans -- in the capital,
Harare, now risk death to meet together. And there is no reason to
believe that Mugabe's religious repression and persecution will end with
the Anglicans of Harare. If Mugabe manages to steal the election and
take control of the Anglican churches of Harare he will doubtless move
to control all churches of all denominations nationwide.

June 17, 2008

Kingdom come
The public meaning of the Gospels

by N. T. Wright

In his new book, The Great Awakening, Jim Wallis describes how as a
young man growing up in an evangelical church, he never heard a sermon
on the Sermon on the Mount. That telling personal observation reflects a
phenomenon about which I have been increasingly concerned: that much
evangelical Christianity on both sides of the Atlantic has based itself
on the epistles rather than the Gospels, though often misunderstanding
the epistles themselves.

Indeed, in this respect evangelicalism has simply mirrored a much larger
problem: the entire Western church, both Catholic and Protestant,
evangelical and liberal, charismatic and social activist, has not
actually known what the Gospels are there for.

Christian preachers face arrest in Birmingham
By David Harrison

Last Updated: 7:56AM BST 02/06/2008

A police community support officer ordered two Christian preachers to
stop handing out gospel leaflets in a predominantly Muslim area of
Birmingham.

The evangelists say they were threatened with arrest for committing a
"hate crime" and were told they risked being beaten up if they returned.
The incident will fuel fears that "no-go areas" for Christians are
emerging in British towns and cities, as the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali,
the Bishop of Rochester, claimed in The Sunday Telegraph this year.

Arthur Cunningham, 48, and Joseph Abraham, 65, both full-time
evangelical ministers, have launched legal action against West Midlands
Police, claiming the officer infringed their right to profess their
religion.

Eight Responses:

http://sites.google.com/site/johnmarkministries/suffering

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Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher

http://jmm.aaa.net.au/ (20,000 articles 4000 humor)

Blogs - http://rowlandsblogs.blogspot.com/

Justice for Dawn Rowan - http://dawnrowansaga.blogspot.com/

Funny Jokes and Pics - http://funnyjokesnpics.blogspot.com/

More on the various types of sinners: Antinomians – those ‘against the
law’ – are sinners who do not want to change; Pharisees do not know
they’re sinners – and also do not want to change; Saints know they’re
sinners and do want to change. I see vestiges of all three attitudes in
myself...

Remember saints are not proud of what they’ve ‘achieved’ – they are/have
nothing not already given. Pharisees tend towards hubris: their
cleverness (they think) is mainly of their own making...

Saints sincerely believe ‘God hasn’t finished with me yet’. Pharisees
are stuck where they were: they find it difficult to say (of an idea,
for example): ‘Hey, that’s interesting... I must do more thinking about
that. Maybe God is in this new thought.’

Law enforcement is now intercepting text messages,
as proven by Operation Sudden Fall in San Diego.

http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/sd050608.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20080506-1338-bn06sdsu2.html

Don't let your personal SMS/text messages fall into
the wrong hands. Encrypt your messages with one
of these:

http://www.Xecure.net
http://www.CryptoSMS.org
http://www.CryptoSMS.com
http://www.CryptoGraf.com
http://www.Cop2p.com/encrypted_sms.html
http://www.FortressMail.net/fortress_sms.htm
http://groups.google.com/group/sms-salama/web/introduction
http://home.xtra.co.nz/hosts/sveltdesign/mindwarrior/pages.html?MobeCode

Be Safe, Be Encrypted, Fuck the Police!!

Law enforcement is now intercepting text messages,
as proven by Operation Sudden Fall in San Diego.

http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/newsrel/sd050608.html
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20080506-1338-bn06sdsu2.html

Don't let your personal SMS/text messages fall into
the wrong hands. Encrypt your messages with one
of these:

http://www.CryptoSMS.org
http://www.CryptoSMS.com
http://www.FortressMail.net/fortress_sms.htm
http://www.Cop2p.com/encrypted_sms.html

Be Safe, Be Encrypted, Fuck the Police!!

The War against Iraqi women

By Zeina Zaatari

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Iraqi women's organizations and international observers point to an
escalating war against women in Iraq, aided by the widespread chaos and
lawlessness under United States occupation. In addition to violence by
American troops inside and outside of prisons, women in Iraq face daily
violence from militants under the guise of religion and "liberation."

In Iraq's second largest city, Basra, a stronghold of conservative Shiite
groups, as many as 133 women were killed last year for violating "Islamic
teachings" and in so-called "honor killings," according to the United
Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The methods
are brutal evidence of a backlash by previously subdued tribal forces
that have
been unleashed by the occupation: women strangled and beheaded, and their
hands, arms and legs chopped off.

I've just tossed off this little list... Anyone else want to try/comment?

THE BEST BOOKS I’VE EVER READ

My journey as a Christian, lover/husband, father, and pastor/teacher/
evangelist has covered different terrains during threescore and ten
years. Here’s a rough chronological journey listing books that...

Here's an imaginary interview with Jesus about homosexuality, posted
sporadically on these newsgroups over the past dozen years. Some of the
statistics/aetiology issues need updating, but generally I'd still
affirm this general stance. (Expect in response 'corrective' - that's
the softest word - opinions from others either to my ideological/
theological left or right :-)

Rowland Croucher

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Interviewer: Jesus, you had a reputation for hanging around with those
on the edges/margins of society. But some of my homosexual friends and
clients wonder why you said nothing about homosexuality, even though it
was rife back then. We're in a 'bi' bar in San Francisco... why are you
here?

# Jesus: Hi! I was invited by a friend. Remember when Matthew threw a
party for his mafia-type mates? I was enjoying myself before the
religious leaders gate-crashed it.

More... http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/12135.htm

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Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher