UN officials underline religions' role in promoting global harmony United Nations | General Assembly President Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser. UN Photo/Evan Schneider7 February 2012 – The President of the General Assembly Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser today stressed the potential of all of the world's religions to promote global peace and stability, saying that faiths have common princi...
Will the London conference change Somalia's future? Al Jazeera | - The upcoming London Conference on Somalia is, potentially, a promising occasion to finally put the country on the road to peace, stability and democracy. Whether this opportunity is realised will be largely contingent upon the willingness and ability of the participants to chart a new cours...
ObamaCare's Great Awakening Wall Street Journal | The political furor over President Obama's birth-control mandate continues to grow, even among those for whom contraception poses no moral qualms, and one needn't be a theologian to understand why. The country is being exposed to the raw political ...
Nasrallah praises Tehran support for Hezballah, Palestine Irna Beirut, Feb 8, IRNA -- Lebanese Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallh said Iran expects nothing in return for the support it gives to Hezballah and Palestine and sees the help as a religious duty which is truly praisworthy. | Seyyed Hassan Nasrall...
The law's great mysteries The Star | A breathtaking variety of approaches to the law light up the legal firmament in so many spectacular ways that one cannot fail but be impressed. | EVERY judge, lawyer and law teacher has to grapple with some central and eternal riddles that surround...
Food from the heart The Star | One man is continuing the family tradition of giving food to devotees during religious occasions. | IN 1959, V. Seenivasagam, then 49, began serving free food to those who had gathered at Batu Caves in Gombak, Selangor, to celebrate Thaipusam. Twen...
Why the president is wrong Tampabay.com | By Bishop Robert N. Lynch | Bishop Robert N. LynchTampa Bay Times In Print: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 | In all Roman Catholic churches in the Diocese of St. Petersburg last weekend, this letter from Bishop Robert N. Lynch was either read by the p...
Why the bishop is wrong Tampabay.com | By Roy Peter Clark, special to the Times | Roy Peter ClarkTampa Bay Times In Print: Wednesday, February 8, 2012 | The Most Rev. Robert N. Lynch is my shepherd. But I am no sheep. | His Sunday letter to area Catholics became a bully's pulpit to infl...
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Romney Should be Concerned about Poverty, Especially His Own WorldNews.com Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?", asked Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Jesus answered, "You...
Syrian army 'steps up Homs offensive' Al Jazeera | The Syrian army has stepped up its attacks on opposition fighters in Homs, activists and witnesses have said, a day after a UN Security Council resolution aimed at endi...
Mormons need not be such a mystery Cincinnati | Spencer Daems, 9, spends three hours every Sunday morning in Sunday School classes and worship services. | He spends 10 minutes every day studying scripture. | He sets aside 10 p...
Obama’s lack of conscience The Washington Times Story TopicsFollow Us OnFacebookFollow @washtimes | During Thursday’s national prayer breakfast, President Obama said, “I am my brother’s keeper, and I am my sister’s keeper.” The problem is that he actually believes it....
Reaction to the ruling on Calif's gay marriage ban The Charlotte Observer | A look at reaction to the ruling by a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel declaring California's same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional: | - "When Proposition 8 doesn't allow parents like mine to marry, it isn't just defining their love as tabo...
The compelling case against Ed Davey The Daily Mail | True to my in the Daily Mail, the new Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey has dashed the naive hope that he would end the Coalition’s suicidal green fanaticism and return Britain to Planet Reality over man-made global warming. ...
Russia's Lavrov says al-Assad committed to halting violence m&c | Beirut/Damascus - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held Tuesday what he described as 'very useful' talks with embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and said that Damascus was committed to halting the bloodbath in the country. | Russia, along with China, vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution on Syria at the weekend. | Lavr...
Greeks to brief eurozone on tentative debt deal The Wichita Eagle | BRUSSELS — A spokesman for Greece's private creditors says Greek Premier Lucas Papademos will soon tell eurozone finance ministers the contents of a deal to reduce the country's massive debt. | Frank Vogl said representatives of the Institute of International Finance, which has been leading the talks for private bondholders, had a "construc...
