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Prominent western missiologists joined their Asian counterparts for the first international conference of the Asian Society of Missiology on Tuesday.
Dozens of world renowned missiologists, including Dr. Ralph D. Winter of the U.S. Center for World Mission and Dr. David J. Cho of DavidCho Missiological Institute, have convened to participate in the ASM international [...]
In a post on “War on terror” failing: fueling terrorism, Michael Westmoreland-White makes several recommendations:
Close the Prison at Guantanemo Bay, which has become almost as infamous a symbol as the prison at Abu Ghraib.
Close all secret prisons run by the CIA.
Ban all cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of prisoners, whether prisoners of war or “enemy [...]
One of the new items I seem to have missed over the last few days was the one about the Korean captives held by the Taliban being freed. Or perhaps freeing prisoners doesn’t get as much publicity as taking them.
Hat-tip to Regeneration for drawing it to my attention, and also for drawing attention to [...]
In a new sign of hope, the Taliban released their first two hostages yesterday. The attention and persuasion is beginning to work–but 19 young people, mostly women, still face execution and the nightmare of captivity.
Over 90,000 of us from 187 countries have rushed to help, and added our voices to an emergency petition, calling on [...]
I received this notice of a campaign to free the South Korean hostages being held by the Taliban in Afghanistan. It could be worth a try.
23 South Korean aid workers, most of them young women, have just been taken hostage by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, who are threatening to execute them this week. Not only [...]
First it was the Taliban using Buddha statues for artillery target practice, and now the Chinese are wanting to destroy a 100-year-old Catholic shrine.
In Vanity of Vanities the Imugi dismisses Samuel Huntington’s thesis of the Clash of civilizations as Platonism in politics, but I think there is more to it than that, as these examples [...]
A couple of months ago batches of pet food were withdr from sale in various countries, including South Africa, because one of the ingredients, imported from China, was found to be contaminated with poisonous substances. that caused kidney failure.
Now, it seems, other products made from ingredients manufactured in China have been found to be [...]
The oldest Orthodox priest in the world, Fr Elias Wen, fell asleep in the Lord at the age of 110.
You can read more about him here.
After the Taliban used historic Buddha statues for artillery practice, the Western media castigated them as vandals, and when Afghanistan was invaded it was difficult to feel sorry for them.
But the Taliban’s vandalism is small change compared to the Bush/Blair “Coalition of the willing”.
Fly into the American air base of Tallil outside Nasiriya in central [...]
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