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	<description>I am not out of my mind, most excellent Festus, but I utter words of sober truth.</description>
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		<title>Lesley Pilkington and the gay conversion controversy</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/30/lesley-pilkington-gay-conversion-controversy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just received an email from Christian Concern entitled: Lesley Pilkington Appeal. I originally blogged about this a year ago, but if you don&#8217;t know the details, it revolves around Lesley Pilkington, a Christian psychotherapist, who currently faces being stripped of her accreditation to the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) after treating a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caroline Farrow (Catholic Voices) Radio Kerry Interview about Denum Ellarby</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/20/caroline-farrow-catholic-voices-radio-kerry-interview-denum-ellarby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caroline &#8211; Who represents Catholic Voices &#8211; blogged yesterday on the controversy generated by a Daily Mail article, which revealed that a Catholic Priest had postponed Holy Communion preparation classes for a seven-year-old boy with Downs Syndrome. I won&#8217;t re-hash all of the intricacies surrounding this case, as you can hop over to the Daily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Makeshift churches used as Haiti quietly marks 2 years since the devastating earthquake that killed 316,000</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/13/makeshift-churches-haiti-quietly-marks-2-years-devastating-earthquake-killed-316000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s easy to forget isn&#8217;t it&#8230;&#8230; PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitians gathered in makeshift churches and even a United Nations supply base Thursday to mark the second anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake, holding ceremonies that mixed remembrance with hope for a new beginning. The disaster killed 316,000 people and displaced 1.5 million in this impoverished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US: Marriage and Religious Freedom &#8211; An Open Letter from Religious Leaders</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/12/marriage-religious-freedom-open-letter-religious-leaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interestingly, I&#8217;ve just learned from CyberBrethren that a large number of American religious organisations have published an open letter on the subject of &#8216;gay marriage&#8217;: MARRIAGE AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together An Open Letter from Religious Leaders in the United States to All Americans Released January 12, 2012 Open letter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Criminal David Catalano can&#8217;t hack doing time with monks, begs for prison.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2012/01/04/criminal-david-catalano-hack-time-monks-begs-prison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know this is trivial but I can&#8217;t resist it and I have blogged on convicted prisoners being sent to monasteries in the past. A convicted criminal who was serving out his sentence in a monastery has escaped for the second time and asked to be sent back to prison because life was too tough. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Apologises For Deleting DIY Abortion Posts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our brave new world&#8230;.. Facebook quelled a public relations flap over abortion last week when the social networking site pulled instructions for a do-it-yourself abortion from the page of the Dutch group Women on Waves. The women’s rights organization posted a graphic detailing how to terminate a pregnancy using the drug misoprostol, commonly prescribed to treat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Pledge to Help Protect Churches During Christmas Celebrations</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/29/egypt-muslim-brotherhood-pledge-protect-churches-christmas-celebrations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just as a quick reminder the Egyptian Christian Copts will not be celebrating Christmas unti the 7th Jan and it was on that same night last year, that a drive-by gunman blew away 6 Copts leaving the midnight Mass service. The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) said in its Wednesday statement that it will send a high-profile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clergymen fight with brooms at Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/28/clergymen-fight-brooms-church-nativity-bethlehem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This embarrassing episode is in the news: Riot police were forced to restore order inside the basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem after rival groups of Orthodox and Armenian clerics clashed in a dispute over the boundaries of their respective jurisdictions inside the church. About 100 clergymen from the Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic churches, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five bombs exploded on Christmas Day at churches in Nigeria, one killing at least 27 people</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/25/bombs-exploded-christmas-day-churches-nigeria-killing-27-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boko Haram, which wants to impose Islamic sharia law across a country of 160 million split roughly between Christians and Muslims, has increased the sophistication of the explosives it uses this year and has increased the number of its attacks. St Theresa&#8217;s Catholic Church in Madala, an Abuja satellite town about 40 km from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN moves to protect believers, not belief, as they drop call for banning “defamation of religions.”</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/21/moves-protect-believers-belief-drop-call-banning-defamation-religions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is super news folks. On Monday, for the first time in more than a decade, the U.N. General Assembly condemned religious intolerance without urging states to outlaw “defamation of religion”. The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) – comprising 57 Islamic nations – have been trying for years to introduce a ‘Defemation of Religion” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The tyrant is dead, long live the tyrant!</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/19/tyrant-dead-long-live-tyrant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably know by now that North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died of a massive heart attack whilst travelling on a train. His son Kim Jong-un will ascend the throne and it&#8217;s great to hear they&#8217;re cracking on with testing mid range weapons. If you feel &#8220;engulfed in indescribable sadness&#8221; then may I suggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Cameron says UK is Christian in speech in Oxford for King James Bible 400th anniversary</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/17/david-cameron-uk-christian-speech-oxford-king-james-bible-400th-anniversary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not going to say anything about David Cameron&#8217;s speech as so much has been said already. I think the general consensus in the Twitterati world seems to be that he&#8217;s a hypocrite, with a few folk suggesting he has no real faith, but more a belief in belief. Anyway, you can be the judge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens is dead. So I&#8217;m going to say what some other Christians are thinking, but won&#8217;t say.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/16/christopher-hitchens-dead-christians-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens has died. There is no doubt that he was brilliant man in many respects and perhaps this explains why the Christian Interweb is ablaze with tributes and &#8220;RIP&#8221; sentiments for him. The irony is that Hitchens was himself no fan of the polite obituary. The fact of the matter is that Hitchens detested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Carol: Starring The Rev Dr Peter Mullen as Ebenezer Scrooge</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/13/christmas-carol-starring-rev-dr-peter-mullen-ebenezer-scrooge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ChurchAds have revealed their new Christmas 2011 poster: ChurchAds had this to say about their new campaign: We are asking individual Christians and church fellowships to donate towards a National Christmas Advertising Fund. Every penny of this will be spent on advertising in national newspapers, on posters in major shopping centres and on radio. Research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/05/good-links-45/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Thirsty Gargoyle: L&#8217;esprit de l&#8217;escalier: Third Thoughts on Redefining Marriage Daydreamer: The truth about depression Church Mag: The 5 best toys of all time Countercultural Father: Mass on Saturday Evening or Sunday Morning? The Atlantic: Is Iran already under attack? BioLogos: The miracle of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prayers banned from Gloucestershire County Council meetings</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/12/02/prayers-banned-gloucestershire-county-council-meetings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually highlight these all too frequent prayer bans and controversies at council meetings, but as I live in Gloucestershire, I will make an exception: PRAYERS have been banned from full council meetings at Shire Hall – causing fury from Gloucester&#8217;s Sheriff. For years, Gloucestershire County Council has observed a one-minute prayer at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Nohad Halawi sacked from Heathrow Airport suing for unfair dismissal alleging bullying by Muslim colleagues</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/27/christian-nohad-halawi-sacked-heathrow-airport-suing-unfair-dismissal-alleging-bullying-muslim-colleagues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I&#8217;d put this new &#8216;Christian sues employer&#8217; article on, as it differs from most in that it brings Islam / Muslims into the mix. Nohad Halawi was sacked from her job based in Heathrow Airport as a result of five Muslim colleagues complaining she was being anti-Islamic following a heated conversation in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six patients have died after being told by various churches to stop taking HIV medication.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/25/patients-died-told-churches-stop-hiv-medication/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh Lord! Sky News have a disturbing report on the deaths of HIV positive patients which can be directly attributed to churches declaring them healed and telling them not to continue with their medication. Gordon notified me of this and sent me a link to one of the churches mentioned in the article, to which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Representation of Islam and Muslims in the UK Press</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/20/representation-islam-muslims-uk-press/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been some new &#8211; and extensive &#8211; research conducted looking at the representation of Muslims and Islam within the UK press. The researchers analysed over 200,000 media articles written over an eleven year period: 1998 &#8211; 2009. Engage have the details, but I was particularly drawn to this quote: The study, conducted by Dr [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Exeter Protesters Set Up Camp at Cathedral &#8211; Why? #occupylsx</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/11/14/occupy-exeter-protesters-set-camp-cathedral-occupylsx/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously why? Why are the Occupy protesters setting up camp outside another bloomin&#8217; Cathedral? Can anyone enlighten me? The group calling themselves &#8220;Occupy Exeter&#8221;, in tribute to similar movements which began in New York and spread around the world, staged a protest march from the High Street in Exeter to the Cathedral on Saturday. Video [...]]]></description>
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		<title>France: Catholic Muslim tensions rise as Catholics attacked with stones and websites hacked</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Initially I was in two minds whether to post on this as my sources are &#8211; shall we say &#8211; not friendly towards Islam. However, having read earlier today of the petrol bombing of a French satirical paper (Charlie Hedbo) following their decision to appoint Mohammed as its ‘guest editor’ in order to mark the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s NewsCorp consolidates control of Christian literature publishing through HarperCollins acquisition of Thomas Nelson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the recent hacking scandals that beset Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s NewsCorp, and more specifically the &#8216;News of the World&#8216;, it came to light that Rupert Murdoch publishes and controls great swathes of Christian literature, through HarperCollins Publishing -  a division of NewsCorp – who bought out Zondervan in 1988. As an example, the New International Version [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr Giles Fraser Canon of St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral resigns over #occupylsx</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/10/27/dr-giles-fraser-canon-st-pauls-cathedral-resigns-occupylsx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the left-leaning Canon of St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral, Dr Giles Fraser, has martyred himself resigned over the Occupy St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral Occupy the London Stock Exchange protests. Apparently he is upset at plans to forcibly remove protesters from St Paul&#8217;s steps, saying he could not support the possibility of &#8220;violence in the name of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>St Paul’s Cathedral closes over #occupylsx</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/10/21/st-pauls-cathedral-closes-occupylsx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll have to forgive me for the tone of the blog post; but the radical left really does get under my skin at times. News has broken that St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral will be closing its doors for the first time since the second world war, due to the protesters camped outside. Twitter is ablaze with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gadaffi&#8217;s death and a modern day snuff spectacle</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/10/21/gadaffis-death-modern-day-snuff-spectacle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m on my own with this one, but I find it impossible very difficult to celebrate the death of another human being, irrespective of their form. Don&#8217;t get me wrong, it&#8217;s probably better that Gadaffi is dead; it saves everybody the trouble of a messy trial and perhaps paves the way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barnabas Fund vindicated as Charity Commission complaint dismissed</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/10/20/barnabas-aid-vindicated-charity-commission-complaint-dismissed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been awaiting an update on a complaint made to the Charity Commission against Barnabas Aid, relating to a booklet they produced entitled: Slippery Slope: the Islamisation of the UK. I received the following email from Barnabas Aid earlier today: A couple of months ago you featured an article on a complaint to the Charity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Birrell jailed for 8 months for anti-Catholic anti-Celtic Internet comments</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/10/18/stephen-birrell-jailed-8-months-anticatholic-anticeltic-internet-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC informs us that &#8216;Internet Bigot&#8217; Stephen Birrell has been spouting anti-Catholic bile on a Neil Lennon (Manager Celtic Football Club) hate page on Facebook. He&#8217;s been jailed for 8 months for these comments. I&#8217;ve done a little background reading on this chap and there&#8217;s no doubt that he&#8217;s a thoroughly unpleasant character, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ekklesia attack St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral clergy for not joining with the &#8216;Occupy the London Stock Exchange&#8217; protests.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/10/16/ekklesia-attack-st-pauls-cathedral-clergy-joining-occupy-london-stock-exchange-protests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 10:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8216;Occupy Wall Street&#8217; protests have gone global and yesterday in London came the: &#8216;Occupy the London Stock Exchange&#8217; protest. It would seem that police prevented protesters from setting up camp outside the London Stock Exchange, and so they moved to St Paul&#8217;s Cathedral Churchyard. Ekklesia&#8217;s Associate Director Jill Segger appears to have been on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archbishop of Canterbury set to meet Robert Mugabe &#8211; Credit where credit&#8217;s due</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC is reporting that Archbishop Dr Williams is due to meet President Mugabe later today. The ABC has &#8211; in my opinion &#8211; been ballsy and forthright; here&#8217;s a snippet from his sermon: Because this is part of our problem. It is not only that some refuse the invitation of God to share his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC AD BC CE BCE Total bunkum and tosh. A paranoia fueled moral panic.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure nobody could have failed to notice the furore surrounding the &#8216;news&#8216; that the BBC will be replacing the terms &#8216;AD&#8217; and &#8216;BC&#8217; with &#8216;CE&#8217; and &#8216;BCE&#8217; so as not to offend non-Christians. This all began with an article written by prominent Christian, Peter Hitchens: The BBC’s Chief Commissar for Political Correctness (whom I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police tell Salt &amp; Light Coffee House owner Jamie Murray to stop displaying Bible texts in his cafe</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police have requested that a cafe owner in Blackpool  &#8211; Jamie Murray, Salt &#38; Light Coffee House &#8211; stop displaying Bible texts on a video screen, because it breaches public order laws. Apparently the police told him that displaying offensive or insulting words is a breach of Section 5 of the Public Order Act, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paris: Public prayer banned to combat Muslims taking over streets</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been an ongoing problem in Paris with Muslims shutting down entire major streets to perform their prayers, as a result, legislation has been passed banning ALL street prayer. This law may be extended to other Mediterranean cities. This from the Mail caught my attention: Public funding of places of worship has been banned in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gateshead: Les Liddle &#8211; New Christian murdered as he waits for Church to open</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/12/gateshead-les-liddle-christian-murdered-waits-church-open/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in the middle of writing something on this, but it was so negative and depressing, I&#8217;ve decided to spare you: A man has been charged with the murder of a father-of-four who was killed as he waited for a church to open. Les Liddle, 41, received serious head injuries in the attack near [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams might resign next year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And who could blame him? It&#8217;s an impossible job, in which one ends up derided and disparaged by both the evangelical and liberal wings of the church; or at least, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve witnessed happen to Williams. He seems to please nobody with the via media approach. I reckon Williams watched his good friend, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jersey Post refuses to deliver Bible CDs as deemed offensive material</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/09/10/jersey-post-refuses-deliver-bible-cds-deemed-offensive-material/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It really is a world gone mad at times: Postal workers refused to deliver CDs of Bible readings after deciding they were ‘offensive material’. Several churches had paid for discs with recordings of St Mark’s Gospel to be produced to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. They were due to be delivered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World record attempt fails as reader loses consciousness reading Jeremiah.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry, I know it&#8217;s a trivial story, but who in their right mind could resist a headline like this?]]></description>
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		<title>Life after Assad looks ominous for Syria&#8217;s Christian minority</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The security situation for Christian minority groups in North Africa and the Middle East has always been precarious at best; however, I know I&#8217;m not alone in fearing a deterioration as a result of the Arab Spring uprisings. As despotic as these regimes were, they often kept the extremist element of Islam in check for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mourners for traditional Greek Orthodox funeral service surprised when served cocaine-coated biscuits.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/31/mourners-traditional-greek-orthodox-funeral-service-surprised-served-cocainecoated-biscuits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I simply have to pop this one on the Blog as it has the wow factor: Hundreds of mourners who gathered for a traditional Greek Orthodox funeral service near Athens were in for a surprise when they were served cocaine-coated biscuits. Relatives of the deceased had ordered the traditional biscuits or “kouramiedes” for the reception [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey: Historic decree for the restitution of 1000 properties to the Greek-orthodox Christians</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/29/turkey-historic-decree-restitution-1000-properties-greekorthodox-christians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following hot on the heels of the superb news yesterday that the Czech government commission has agreed to return 56% of church property and compensate them $3.49 billion for property seized by the former Communist regime, we now have this from Turkey: In a sudden twist, the Prime Minister Tayip Erdogan has decided to return [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Doors Reports Tripoli Christians Currently Safe and Praying</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/24/open-doors-reports-tripoli-christians-safe-praying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While a defiant Moammar Gadhafi assured &#8220;martyrdom or victory&#8221; today in the battle against the &#8220;aggressors&#8221; in Libya, Christians in Tripoli met in prayer for the country and the future of Christians throughout the northern African nation. The Open Doors country coordinator for Libya, who asked to remain anonymous, said: &#8220;Every day around noon, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq: A bomb exploded last night near the St Ephraim Syrian Orthodox Church in Kirkuk</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/15/iraq-bomb-exploded-night-st-ephraim-syrian-orthodox-church-kirkuk/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another day, another bomb: A bomb exploded last night near the St Ephraim Syrian Orthodox Church in Kirkuk, which is just a few hundreds of metres from the Chaldean cathedral, in central part of the city. The device blew up at 1.30 am and there were no victims. The damages to the church were however [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riots hit my tranquil city of Gloucester &#8211; #gloucesterriots</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it would seem that the looting, burning and violence has reached as far as my quiet city of Gloucester. It was a modest affair compared with the large cities, with about 50 rampaging youths, ten of whom were arrested. For anyone in or around Gloucester who&#8217;s on Twitter, you can follow the discussion on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NATIONWIDE CHRISTIAN TRUST, owners of Living Oasis, go into insolvency</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/08/04/nationwide-christian-trust-owners-living-oasis-insolvency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phil Groom has the details.]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Handl arrested for attempting to split atoms at home and creating small nuclear meltdown on his stove</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m putting this one on as for me it simply has the WOW factor: A Swedish man who was arrested after trying to split atoms in his kitchen said Wednesday he was only doing it as a hobby. Richard Handl told The Associated Press that he had the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Religion nightclub in Wakefield evokes Christian ire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays I don&#8217;t normally post on &#8216;Christians outraged&#8217; type stories, but I will in this instance, as I found the contentions and counter-contentions rather entertaining intriguing. The story revolves around a newly opened nightclub in Wakefield named, &#8216;Religion&#8217;. Apparently they have themed nights like &#8216;Ressurection&#8217;, &#8216;Salvation&#8217;, &#8216;Mass&#8217;, and so on, with similarly themed cocktails. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oslo bombing suspect Anders Behring Breivik thought to be an extremist right wing Christian fundamentalist</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/07/23/oslo-bombing-suspect-anders-behring-breivik-thought-extremist-wing-christian-fundamentalist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, Lord No: At least 84 people died when a gunman opened fire at an island youth camp in Norway, hours after a deadly bombing in the capital, Oslo, police say. Police have charged a 32-year-old Norwegian man over both attacks. The man dressed as a police officer was arrested on tiny Utoeya island after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The “Mosque of Jesus Christ” opens in Madaba, Jordan</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/07/20/mosque-jesus-christ-opens-madaba-jordan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you make of this development? “The mosque of Jesus Christ” is the exact name given to the mosque in the city of Madaba, south of the Jordanian capital Amman. It is the first to ever be named after the central figure of Christianity in the modern Arab world, a name which in Islam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Church of England will cease to exist in 20 years</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/07/13/church-england-cease-exist-20-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the headline in the Telegraph today: Ageing Church of England &#8216;will be dead in 20 years&#8217; Normally headlines are alarmist, but sadly I think this one&#8217;s spot on. Here&#8217;s an interesting snippet from the article: The Church was compared to a company “impeccably” managing itself into failure, during exchanges at the General Synod [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/06/07/quote-day-32/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given the current state of the economy, it comes as no surprise that many Egyptians are doing all that they can to revive international interest in their country. What is surprising, though, is that one man has somehow managed to convince himself &#8211; and a few others &#8211; that he can single-handedly “boost tourism in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIBYA &#8211; Bishop of Tripoli: Nato bombs damage Coptic church, many civilian casualties</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/06/02/libya-bishop-tripoli-nato-bombs-damage-coptic-church-civilian-casualties/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tell me again, why are we bombing the crap out of Libya? &#8220;NATO has intensified bombings and continues to create victims. The missiles are falling everywhere and, unfortunately, not only affect military zones, but also civilian areas. The people in Tripoli are suffering, even if nobody talks about it. &#8221; So says Mgr Giovanni Innocenzo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government appoints LIFE to new Sexual Health Forum in the stead of British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/05/25/government-announces-appointed-life-sexual-health-forum-stead-british-pregnancy-advisory-service-bpas/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The announcement that the government has appointed Life &#8211; opposed to abortion &#8211; to their new sexual health forum, replacing BPAS &#8211; abortion provider &#8211; is really positive news folks. Peter has all the details, including the controversy this has kicked up. UPDATE: The Christian Medical Fellowship have also picked up on this.]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Dr Richard Scott reported to the General Medical Council (GMC) for sharing his faith with a patient.</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/05/22/christian-dr-richard-scott-reported-general-medical-council-gmc-sharing-faith-patient/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m always in two minds whether to blog on cases picked up by the Christian Legal Centre, for various reasons. I often opt not to as there seems to be so many cases nowadays. Sometimes I simply don&#8217;t agree with the legal premise. Other times I feel these cases are overly combative, exhibiting an unwillingness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rejoicing at the death of Osama Bin Laden</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/05/02/rejoicing-death-osama-bin-laden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 09:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry I just can&#8217;t do it. Dr Jim West sums it all up succinctly for me: Justice may require the death of evil men, but it never requires our joy at their passing. Indeed. UPDATE: Here is the Vatican statement by the Director of the Holy See Press Office, P. Federico Lombardi: Osama Bin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian electrician Colin Atkinson in hot water for the small palm cross on the dashboard of his company van.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK folks, tin hat time. Colin Atkinson, 64, from Wakefield, has been called to a disciplinary hearing at the housing association where he has worked for 15 years. His bosses at the publicly funded Wakefield and District Housing (WDH) have demanded he remove the eight inch long cross made from woven palm leaves that sits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Bhatti, brother of slain Pakistani minister Shahbaz Bhatti, forgives assassins</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now this is what I&#8217;d call &#8216;walking the walk&#8217;. Background information on the assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti, here. Paul Bhatti, brother of the former Pakistani minister for minorities who was murdered by Islamic extremists, said he and his family forgive his brother&#8217;s assassins. Shahbaz Bhatti, who spoke out against Pakistan&#8217;s anti-blasphemy laws and encouraged religious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Discovery of Biblical scrolls and 70 lead codices in Jordan &#8211; possibly first century</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/29/discovery-biblical-scrolls-70-lead-codices-jordan-possibly-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s quite a buzz of excitement on the Interweb over news of a discovery of Biblical scrolls and lead codices, purported to be of first century origin. The BBC has furnished us with some images. There&#8217;s some quite fantastical claims doing the rounds such as: This represents the greatest ever archaeological find, this is more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN Security Council authorizes no-fly zone over Libya</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh great, another bloody war.]]></description>
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		<title>Japan earthquake: State of emergency at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve deleted all previous entries to begin this update afresh, with the first from: The International Atomic Energy Agency as of 13:40 (CET) &#8211; 12th March Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) has informed the IAEA’s Incident and Emergency Centre (IEC) that there has been an explosion at the Unit 1 reactor at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assassination Attempt on Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I by Islamic Extremists Foiled</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/09/assassination-attempt-ecumenical-patriarch-constantinople-bartholomew-islamic-extremists-foiled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 22:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Turkish police have prevented another assassination attempt on Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, according to the Austrian catholic news agency. The Turkish police have arrested two suspects aged 17-18. The assassination attempt was planned in the Fanar district, where the residence of the Patriarch is located. According to representative of the department for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti Assassinated</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2011/03/02/catholic-pakistan-minorities-minister-shahbaz-bhatti-assassinated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 09:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And yet another Pakistani politician seeking reform of the blasphemy law is murdered. The blasphemy laws carry a death sentence for anyone who insults Islam and is used to subjugate and terrify religious minorities. Mr Bhatti was Pakistan&#8217;s first and only Christian cabinet member. Pakistan’s leading Catholic politician has been murdered in the capital Islamabad. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian foster carers Eunice and Owen Johns lose high court judgement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previous post here. A Christian couple morally opposed to homosexuality because of their faith have lost a landmark High Court battle over the right to become foster carers. Eunice and Owen Johns, aged 62 and 65, from Oakwood, Derby, went to court after a social worker expressed concerns when they said they could not tell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Hostages on yacht Hijacked by Somali Pirates have been murdered</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a sad update to a story I posted yesterday: All four hostages, which included a Fuller Theological Seminary graduate, aboard a yacht were shot dead early Tuesday after they were held captive by Somali pirates. [.....] Gen James N. Mattis, U.S. Central Command Commander, stated, &#8220;We express our deepest condolences for the innocent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Zealand Earthquake &#8211; Christchurch Cathedral before and after</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 09:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do remember New Zealand and her people in your prayers at this time. New Zealand&#8217;s prime minister is saying at least 65 people have died after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch. The following depressing images are of Christchurch Anglican Cathedral before and after the quake: Father Stephen Smuts has an image of the damage to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Somali Pirates Capture Boat on &#8216;Bible Mission&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US military is tracking a 58-foot yacht, which Somali pirates reportedly hijacked three days ago, whose owners have spent the better part of a decade sailing the world on a mission to distribute Bibles. [.....] &#8220;The Fuller community is urgently praying for Scott and his wife and their friends, and we obviously encourage others [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media reporting military aircraft firing on protesters in Tripoli today.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My good friend Joseph has a disturbing post up on Harry&#8217;s Place, which I&#8217;m cross-posting below. There are rumours afoot that Qadaffi is on his way to Venezuela, I can&#8217;t confirm that at the moment: Updates on Libya by Joseph W Reuters repeats Al Jazeera’s claim that military aircraft have been firing on protesters in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vigilante hacktivist group &#8216;Anonymous&#8217; have Westboro Baptist Church in their hacking crosshairs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Westboro Baptist Church &#8211; of the God hates fags fame &#8211; are firmly in the cross-hairs of the online collective hacking group known as ANONYMOUS. For a little background on the Westboro mob, I recently wrote of their wicked plans to protest at the funerals of those murdered in the attempted assassination of Rep. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colin Powell&#8217;s Curveball to attack Iraq</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this back in early 2010: I still shudder when I remember back to the speech Colin Powell gave to the UN in order to make the case for Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. I was sitting in a hotel room in Egypt watching CNN and Colin Powell looked like a broken man. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pregnant mother who held off cancer treatment rather than abort baby celebrates daughter&#8217;s birth</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I simply found this uplifting&#8230;.do remember this family in your prayers. A mother who refused to abort her unborn baby after discovering she had leukaemia, has stunned doctors by giving birth to a healthy baby girl. Victoria Webster, 33, was diagnosed with cancer during a routine blood test when she was 21 weeks pregnant. Medics [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mubarak resigns, Egypt&#8217;s Christian Copts hesitant to celebrate just yet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m simply going to link to the following article, which best expresses my apprehensive feelings right now on the announcement of Mubarak&#8217;s resignation: Persecution.org &#8211; Mubarak resigns, Egyptian Christians Hesitant to Celebrate]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic Church gives blessing to iPhone App for confession &#8211; or has it?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following my recent rather brief post on the new &#8220;Catholic iPhone Confession App&#8221;, this &#8216;news&#8217; has gone worldwide with typical headlines such as: Catholic Church Officially Approves New iPhone App For Confession These headlines and poor reporting have given rise to some misconceptions and so I wrote a more detailed post for Theology in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t mess with an angry Granny wielding a handbag</title>
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		<title>Dr Hans-Christian Raabe dismissed from Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs due to views on homosexuality</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was so obvious that Dr Raabe was not going to last five minutes after the announcement of his appointment to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) last month. The sheer volume of aggressive vitriol levelled against him after the announcement was stunning. The ACMD hit the headlines back in 2009 when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Copts join Egptian protests against Mubarak</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s desperately difficult to get a true handle on the current situation in Egypt, as it&#8217;s ongoing, fluid and the authorities have severed Egypt from the Internet and disrupted telecommunications. I&#8217;ve noted Christian bloggers urging support of the uprising and Jim laments the silence of theologians and Biblical scholars. Personally, I am concerned that any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snooker dispute sparks deadly clashes between Christian and Muslim youths in Nigeria</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nope, you haven&#8217;t misread the headline. Due to a refusal to pay for a snooker game, four people are dead and houses, mosques and churches burnt the ground. Reuters &#8211; Snooker dispute sparks deadly clashes in Nigeria This world beggars belief at times, it really does&#8230;.]]></description>
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		<title>Christian mental health worker Margaret Forrester reinstated and promoted</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, this is an unusally happy ending. I reported back in December: Margaret Forester passed the booklet to family planning staff at the health centre where she works because she felt that the NHS was not offering patients enough information about the risks associated with terminating a pregnancy. But Ms Forester, 39, said she was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Pastor Terry Jones – of the burn a Qur’an fame – banned from entering Britain by the Home Office</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the controversial US Pastor Terry Jones – of the burn a Qur’an fame – has been banned from entering the UK by the government. I&#8217;m no fan of Terry Jones and I object to his shenanigans on many fronts. I&#8217;ve previously noted my concern of a backlash meted out against our Christian brothers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian psychotherapist Lesley Pilkington who tried to cure a gay man faces being struck off</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telegraph: The case will expose the growing use of hugely controversial therapies, from the United States, which attempt to make homosexual men heterosexual. The therapy has been described by the leading professional psychotherapy body as “absurd”, while the Royal College of Psychiatrists said “so-called treatments of homosexuality” allow prejudice to flourish. A small group of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ophiuchus: 13th sign of the zodiac becomes internet sensation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The [non] news that there is a 13th Zodiac sign &#8211; Ophiuchus &#8211; coupled with the [non] new revelation that the Earth’s “wobble” has shifted the zodiac signs, has caused an Internet earthquake. Both &#8220;zodiac&#8221; and &#8220;Ophiuchus&#8221; were trending on Twitter and folk appeared to be genuinely dismayed, angry and fretting. Of course, the fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New report published by the think-tank Faith Matters, entitled: A Minority within a Minority: A Report on Converts to Islam in the United Kingdom</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was planning to blog on the rather alarmist headlines&#8230;.. The Independent &#8211; The Islamification of Britain: record numbers embrace Muslim faith &#8230;..being generated in the mainstream media  &#8211; and on some blogs &#8211; following a new report published by the think-tank Faith Matters, entitled: A Minority within a Minority: A Report on Converts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The assassination of Salman Taseer and Pakistan&#8217;s descent into chaos</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harry&#8217;s Place: The Governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer, was assassinated earlier today for supporting reforms to Pakistan’s arcane blasphemy laws. [.....] Taseer incurred the wrath of religious extremists after taking up the case of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian sentenced to death for blasphemy. He promised to reform Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and is known to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC: Coptic churches in Europe (Including UK) report attack threats by Islamic Extremists</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coptic Church leaders across Europe have revealed they have been the target of Islamic threats in the wake of the New Year&#8217;s Day bomb attack in Egypt. BBC &#8211; Coptic churches in Europe report attack threats]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt&#8217;s top Muslim cleric Ahmed al-Tayeb criticized the Pope for calling on the world nations to defend Christians</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firstly we had a bomb &#8211; complete with metal fragments &#8211; rip through a crowd of Christian Copt worshippers as they emerged from their New Year&#8217;s mass at an Egyptian church in the northern port city of Alexandria. The blast left 21 people dead and 79 others wounded. Then we had Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A car bomb explosion outside a Coptic Christian church in Egyptian City of Alexandria has killed at least 21 people and injured 43</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islamic extremists starting the year as they intend to continue. I&#8217;m too depressed to post details of this atrocity, and so you can read about it here, here or here. I will however mention this quote: &#8220;We sacrifice our souls and blood for the cross,&#8221; shouted protesting Christians near the Coptic Orthodox church where the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al Jazeera &#8211; Muted Christmas in Iraq</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lest we forget. Do be sure to check out Lisa&#8217;s update on Adam of Baghdad &#8211; the extraordinarily brave three-year-old boy.]]></description>
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		<title>More than 100 Canadian-Arab Christians targeted on an Al Qaeda-affiliated website</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is nowhere safe for our Arab Christian brothers and sisters? This comes courtesy of Canadian blogger David of Anglican Samizdat: The Star: VANCOUVER—More than 100 Canadian-Arab Christians are listed on an Al Qaeda-affiliated website, apparently targeted because of their alleged role in attempting to convert Muslims. Some of those named say concerned Canadian intelligence officials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian mental health worker Margaret Forester faces sack over anti-abortion booklet</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again folks&#8230;..grab the tin hats. Telegraph: Margaret Forester passed the booklet to family planning staff at the health centre where she works because she felt that the NHS was not offering patients enough information about the risks associated with terminating a pregnancy. But Ms Forester, 39, said she was suspended from her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meadhowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield say no to Christian &#8216;flash mob&#8217; choir as it would compromise impartiality</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-post by Cranmer&#8217;s Curate: Sheffield Station last week allowed a flash mob choir to sing Christmas carols in its main concourse. Last month Seaway Mall in Welland, Ontario, Canada, famously allowed a flash mob choir to sing the Hallelujah chorus from Handel’s Messiah in its food court. But the Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joshua&#8217;s Tomb vandalized with Arabic graffiti</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice. Jerusalem Post: Palestinians vandalized Joshua&#8217;s Tomb in Samaria&#8217;s Timnat Heres with Arabic graffiti overnight Thursday. Hundreds of Jewish worshippers, escorted by the IDF, arrived at the site which is located between Barak and Ariel, and discovered graffiti on surrounding walls which advocated martyrdom. [.....] &#8220;If Jews were to desecrate a Muslim holy tomb in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ireland’s ban on abortion has been upheld today by the European Court of Human Rights</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2010/12/16/irelands-ban-abortion-upheld-today-european-court-human-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See here: The Christian Institute &#8211; Ireland’s abortion laws upheld by European court And here: Religion Law Blog &#8211; The European Court of Human Rights has just delivered a Grand Chamber judgment in the case of A. B. and C. v. Ireland. I&#8217;ll post links to any further interesting analysis, if and when it rolls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Winterval Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harry&#8217;s Place alert us of an essay by Kevin Arscott of The Disinformed, which seeks to debunk the myth of ‘Winterval’, which is the narrative that posits Christmas is under attack and being secularised for &#8216;politically correct&#8217; reasons. If you&#8217;re interested you can download the essay here. It&#8217;s a fairly comprehensive essay (47 pages), however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor Terry Jones, English Defense League (EDL) and Hope not Hate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US Pastor Terry Jones &#8211; of the burn a Qur&#8217;an fame &#8211; is back in the news today as he has been invited by the English Defense League to attend their rally in Luton next year. Richard Bartholomew provides us all of the details and rightly notes that despite Jones&#8217; controversial and potentially embarrassing views, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WikiLeaks: Orthodox Church pervades all aspects of Russian society</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote on the phenomenon that is the Russian Orthodox Church and its fantastical phoenix like rise to immense power and influence within Russian society, in a very short period of time. In view of this, I was rather heartened to read of the Wikileak cable concerning the Russian Orthodox Church which affirms my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2010/12/10/good-links-18/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: Lisa Graas &#8211; Riding the Roller Coaster with Jesus Clayboy &#8211; Does God love ET? Cranmer &#8211; England’s shame Protect the Pope &#8211; Anti-Christian vandals have cut down St Joseph of Arimathea’s Holy Thorn Tree Bad Vestments &#8211; COCK-A-DOODLE-DON&#8217;T]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Street Preacher Anthony Rollins Wins Police Payout</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blimey don&#8217;t often see a Christian win a payout in these sort of cases. MailOnline: Police have been ordered to pay compensation to a Christian street preacher who was hauled off in handcuffs for saying that gays will go to hell. A judge condemned the arrest of Anthony Rollins, who quoted the King James Bible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A quick Chrsitian roundup on Wikileaks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In gerneral I&#8217;m quite surprised at the muted response to the Wikileaks documents from the Christian blogosphere, however, this may change with the revelation there will be further Vatican related cabals over the next few weeks. Here&#8217;s a few Wikileaks related links from the Christian world which may be of interest: Fr Z &#8211; Wikileak-ed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkish government forced to recognise Orthodox Church by European Court of Human Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yay, finally. The Turkish government has been ordered by the European Court of Human Rights to return to the Orthodox Church the Buyukada orphanage. This has wider significance, in that the Turkish government must now formally recognise the Patriarchate as a legal entity. This is a huge step forward. You can read about it here.]]></description>
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		<title>Almost half of all Britons believe in aliens</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2010/11/30/britons-aliens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I linked earlier to a Telegraph piece which reports that 44 per cent of UK adults are convinced of the existence of extra-terrestrial life. In response, Simian made this comment: Almost half of Britons believe in aliens… Given what we know about the size, composition and age of the Universe, it is arguably extremely unlikely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blair, Hitchens Debate: Religion Force for Good? Two fine blog posts</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2010/11/27/blair-hitchens-debate-religion-force-good-fine-blog-posts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First from Clayboy: Clayboy &#8211; Hitch, Blair, and the non-event debate on “religion” And second from Cranmer: Cranmer &#8211; The Blair-Hitchens religion debate Enough said&#8230;.]]></description>
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		<title>A few good links</title>
		<link>http://blog.echurchwebsites.org.uk/2010/11/25/good-links-17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few links I found interesting for one reason or another: A Grain of Sand &#8211; On Your Knees Exploring our Matrix &#8211; The Blogging Revolution: New Technologies and their Impact on How we do Scholarship Significant Truths &#8211; Proclaiming liberty BBC &#8211; Girl, 15, arrested over &#8216;Facebook Koran burning video&#8217;]]></description>
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		<title>The Pope, The Vatican, Condoms, L’Osservatore Romano and that book</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The interwb is awash with the Pope&#8217;s &#8216;new&#8217; stance on condoms which has hit the headlines thanks to the L’Osservatore Romano leaking excerpts from a book due to be published next week. Headlines such as: Has Pope Benedict XVI changed Church teaching on condoms? or Pope Changes view on condom use And The Pope drops [...]]]></description>
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