Posts Tagged as ‘China’

17 March 2008

The worms crawl in and the worms crawl out

The Kosovo UDI has reopened the can of worms in the Balkans, with Serbs demonstrating and occupying a UN building, police being withdrawn and Albanian speakers in FYROM making separatist noises again. The low-intensity civil war has quietly continued, while the attention of the Western media has been directed elsewhere.
And now Tibet is stirring, [...]

5 December 2007

Nevius, Allen, Kasatkin

There is much talk today of the “missional church“, though from all I have read about it (mainly in the blogosphere) people seem to have difficulty in defining it. Most of the definitions, however, seem to differ very little from those of what, a few years ago, was called “the missionary church”. The main difference [...]

23 June 2007

Chinese Taliban

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 [...]

18 June 2007

First pet food, now cough medicine and toothpaste

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 [...]

14 June 2007

Oldest Orthodox priest dies - Memory eternal!

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.