Anglicanorum Coetibus is Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Constitution to allow a special section of the Roman Catholic Church to admit a small number of Anglicans who do not wish to follow current Anglican Church trends, most notably in not wishing to ordain women as bishops.
It is likely to cover up to 1500 Church of England clergy who have [...]
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Anglicanorum Coetibus
Posted in Beliefs, Current events, Religion, tagged Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, Church of England on December 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Simon Wiesenthal Centre
Posted in Current events, Film, History, Organisations, tagged Jewish history, Moriah Films, Simon Wiesenthal Centre on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The international Simon Wiesenthal Centre organisation seeks justice for victims of the WWII Jewish genocide and promotes global tolerance and anti-semitism.
Simon Wiesenthal was an Austrian-Jewish Holocaust survivor famous for his work pursuing Nazi war criminals. He helped capture Karl Silberbauer, the Gestapo officer responsible for the arrest of Anne Frank.
Moriah Films is the movie-making branch of the organisation [...]
Plan Internation and Universal Birth Registration
Posted in Current events, Human relationships, Organisations, tagged Identity, Plan International, Universal Birth Registration on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Plan International is an international children’s charity working for children in poverty. They have just completed a four year campaign to register over 40 million people who did not previously have birth certificates or documentation:
A birth certificate protects children and gives them access to:
education
healthcare
property, and more
Plan’s campaign is ensuring more children receive birth certificates for:
easier [...]
Patriarch Pavle 1914-2009
Posted in Current events, People, tagged Serbian Orthodox Church on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The spiritual head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in former Yugoslavia died yesterday age 95; he was ordained as Patriarch in 1990 after a lifetime of service but had been in declining health for some time.
He was known as a man of simplicity and humility, refusing to purchase a car saying he did not wish to own [...]
Text: The Charter for Compassion
Posted in Conviction, Current events, Ethics, Human relationships, Organisations, People, Religion, tagged Charter for Compassion, Karen Armstrong on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A call to bring the world together…
The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre [...]
Angela Montez
Posted in Current events, tagged Angela Montez on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On Monday an Indianapolis loan store clerk was robbed by 23 year old Gregory Smith; victim Angela Montez, who admits she was terrified, responded by talking and listening to the gun-wielding desperate man, praying with him and hugging him.
He gave Ms Montez the bullet from his gun, left with just $20, and later handed himself in to police.
The [...]
The Charter for Compassion
Posted in Beliefs, Current events, tagged Charter for Compassion, Karen Armstrong on October 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
On November 12 2009 The Charter for Compassion which has been drawn up by a multi-faith, multi-national group of thinkers will be revealed:
Like the Charter of Human Rights, this Charter for Compassion is a yardstick against which the laity as well as religious and secular leaders can measure their behaviour; it can empower congregations to demand [...]
Swastikas & Social Reform
Posted in Current events, Imagery, tagged Swastika, Symbolism on October 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The swastika both left and right-facing has been used as a religious symbol from ancient times, it is a universal shape comparable to the sun cross or Chinese yin-yang.
It was adopted as a propaganda symbol for Nazi Germany in the 1930s after Hitler incorporated it into a new German flag in his political blueprint Mein Kampf.
The left-facing swastika is sometimes called [...]
ICANN
Posted in Current events, tagged ICANN, The internet on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a not-for-profit corporation organised by the US government to oversee regulation of the internet.
Today the government signed an affirmation of commitments document giving the body autonomy and international accountability.
The world wide web is meant as a global utility where information and ideas are exchanged freely, ICANN will [...]
Republican Party, Hamas – don’t rewrite history!
Posted in Current events, Ethics, History, People on September 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In a week when Hamas refused to allow the Nazi Jewish Holocaust to be taught as part of WW2 history in Palestinian schools because to do so might ‘grant a big favour’ to Israel, some members of the US Republican Party have been indignant about the US President’s plan to deliver a speech to the nation’s [...]
