tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32362681027585267172011-11-27T16:35:15.503-08:00An Academic-Theological & Christian Blog and Newsarchive.This blog is dedicated to the personal as well as collective inspiration of my friends and family. Please read through the articles, comments and inspirational writings. All comments directed at the betterment of this webpage will be appreciated. This blog was created to the glory of God and is a personal tribute to my mother whose selfless love sustains me across the oceans, hills and valleys of this earthly life.Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12347710863209694895noreply@blogger.comBlogger1541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3236268102758526717.post-431204812144847362009-09-24T00:56:00.001-07:002009-09-24T00:58:17.196-07:00

Psalm 117Praise the Lord, alll nations!Praise him, all peoples!His love for us is strongand his faithfulness is eternal.Praise the Lord!English TEV

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Bread, the (subsidized) staff of life in Egypt By Michael SlackmanWednesday, January 16, 2008 CAIRO: "Get out! Get back! Get back! I am not selling to you!" Ibrahim Ali Muhammad, a bread seller, is shouting at his customers. His teeth are brown and misshapen from decay, and he says the stress of his 20 years on the job has given him diabetes. He is standing behind bars, jail-like bars, shouting

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In South Carolina, a bid for black women's votes By Katharine Q. SeelyeTuesday, January 15, 2008 CHARLESTON, South Carolina: Juanita Ramsey, a retired administrative assistant, was standing by her front door in her largely black neighborhood here. As she pointed to the homes of her neighbors, she identified them by political preference:"Obama, Obama, Hillary, Hillary, Hillary," she said. "And my

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The news from India on Benazir's death! by Miriam @ MCM Dec 28,2007.------------------------------------------------------------------------ Security has been beefed up in Delhi. The Prime Minister called an emergency meeting to discuss the issue. The borders are being monitored, and the bus service between Delhi & Lahore has been suspended for security reasons. The ordinary man is shocked at

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Waves of migrants increase pressure on Greece By Caroline BrothersThursday, December 27, 2007 KIPI, Greece: Nowhere is the pressure on the European Union's borders mounting as insistently as in this northernmost corner of the Aegean Sea across the river from Turkey.With the help of smugglers, dozens of migrants breach this frontier daily on foot, in plastic boats, by swimming, or crouched inside

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THE MIDDLE EAST: SPIRITUAL BATTLEFIELD? [Egypt] Under a woolen canopy, wisps of smoke from an outdoor fireplace mix with the scent of tobacco and rose tea. Magdi, an Egyptian Copt, nimbly rolls himself a cigarette. Sitting cross-legged on the cushioned floor, he ponders out loud how it came to be that all of his peers are happily married, while he is 32, good looking, intelligent, well-off-- and

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Iranian in India encourages dialogue By Somini SenguptaThursday, December 27, 2007 NEW DELHI: Ramin Jahanbegloo, a philosopher granted bail by Tehran, sees lessons for Mideast."I've lived here on and off for two years, with imprisonment in between."Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian philosopher, described his Indian sojourn this way, and even as he agreed to an interview this month on the condition

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Roger Cohen: Beyond conspiracy, progress By Roger CohenWednesday, December 26, 2007 On the outskirts of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan there's a modest junkyard of the Soviet empire. It's filled with the hulls of T-55 and T-62 tanks and the tubes of multiple rocket launchers. Some of the tanks are intact. I guess high-explosive anti-tank missiles penetrated the turrets and coated the interior

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A global trek to poor nations, from poorer ones By Jason DeparleThursday, December 27, 2007 JUAN GÓMEZ, Dominican Republic: The scrap-wood shanties on a muddy hillside are a poor man's promised land.They have leaky roofs and dirt floors, with no lights or running water. But hundreds of Haitian migrants have risked their lives to come here and work the surrounding fields, and they are part of a

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Church leader's 'recycle' message A church leader has called on people to think of the environment this festive season by recycling leftover food and unwanted Christmas presents. The Reverend John Owen, leader of the Presbyterian Church of Wales, said "the nativity had a minimal effect on the environment". He added that everyone should remember their "duty to the planet". Meanwhile, the head of

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As Cuba's economy withers, its ecology thrives By Cornelia DeanTuesday, December 25, 2007 Through accidents of geography and history, Cuba is a priceless ecological resource. That is why many scientists are so worried about what will become of it after Fidel Castro and his associates leave power and, as is widely anticipated, the American government relaxes or ends its trade embargo.Cuba, by far

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Pope calls for end to conflicts Pope Benedict XVI has appealed for just solutions to the conflicts in the Middle East, Iraq, Africa and elsewhere in his annual Christmas message. He denounced terrorism and violence that victimised children and women. His address came as millions of Christians around the world celebrated the traditional day of Christ's birth. In Bethlehem, biblical place of Jesus

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Keeping the faith in China By James Reynolds BBC News, Beijing At an underground church service in China, you pray as quickly as you can - and hope the police do not come running in. At the end of an alleyway in the north of Beijing, 40 Chinese Christians gather in a small classroom. At the beginning of the service, they bow their heads and pray. Their priest, Zhang Minxuan, stands in front of

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In full: Archbishop's Christmas sermon Dr Williams has said Western modernity 'eats away at the soul' In his Christmas morning sermon the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, warned that if people threaten the planet there will be repercussions. Here is the sermon in full: Eleven days ago, the Church celebrated the memory of the sixteenth century Spanish saint, John of the Cross, Juan

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Archbishop warns over environment The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned that human greed is threatening the environmental balance of the Earth. In his Christmas sermon, Dr Rowan Williams called on Christians to do more to protect the environment. The planet should not be used to "serve humanity's selfishness", he told worshippers at Canterbury Cathedral. Meanwhile, the leader of England and

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Cardinal makes plea on immigrants People should do more to welcome immigrants, the leader of Roman Catholics in England and Wales says. In his Christmas address at Midnight Mass, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor said he understood the need for immigration to be controlled. However, immigrants feel "simply excluded because they are outsiders", the Archbishop of Westminster said. Meanwhile, the

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Archbishop of Canterbury warns greed could wreck the Earth2 hours agoLONDON (AFP) — The leader of the world's Anglicans slammed "human greed" in his Christmas sermon, saying it threatened the Earth's fragile environmental balance.Doctor Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, told worshippers at Canterbury Cathedral in south-east England, that humanity needed to protect the world created by

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Pope makes appeal on the environment at midnight Mass By Ian FisherTuesday, December 25, 2007 ROME: Pope Benedict XVI reinforced the Vatican's growing concern with protecting the environment in the traditional midnight Christmas Mass on Tuesday, bemoaning an "ill-treated world" in a homily given to thousands of pilgrims here in the seat of the world's billion Roman Catholics.On the day Christians

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Text of Pope Benedict XVI's Midnight Mass homily The Associated Press Tuesday, December 25, 2007 The Vatican's official English-language translation of Pope Benedict XVI's homily, delivered in Italian, during Christmas Eve Midnight Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.___Dear Brothers and Sisters,The time came for Mary to be delivered. And she gave birth to her first-born son and wrapped him in swaddling

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Three years after tsunami, through the lenses of children By Seth MydansTuesday, December 25, 2007 This month the Indonesian government dedicated the 100,000th new home in Aceh Province, three years after the towering waves of a tsunami crashed ashore in one of the deadliest natural disasters in history.Roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, seaports and airstrips have also been built in Aceh, and

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Georgia school melds a world of differences By Warren St. JohnTuesday, December 25, 2007 DECATUR, Georgia: Parents at an elementary school here gathered last Thursday afternoon with a holiday mission: to prepare boxes of food for needy families fleeing some of the world's horrific civil wars.The community effort to help refugees resembled countless others at this time of year, with an exception.

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1 Tuesday, 25th December 2007By Bob Gass Mary said… let it be to me according to Your Word. Luke 1:37-38When God told Mary she was going to give birth to the Christ-child, she asked how it could be possible. Perhaps God's been telling you things He wants to do through you, but you're looking at your own limitations and asking, "How will this be?" (Luke 1:34 NIV). You're telling God, "I don't have

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"Bethlehem celebrates Christmas" by Dalia Nammari (AP, December 24, 2007) Bethlehem, West Bank - Gloom was banished from Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem for the first time in years on Monday as Christian pilgrims from all over the world flocked here to celebrate Jesus' birth in an atmosphere of renewed tranquility. After Israeli-Palestinian fighting erupted in 2000, most of the people milling

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1 Wednesday, 26th December 2007By Bob Gass The baby leaped in her womb. Luke 1:41 NIVAfter telling the Virgin Mary: "The Holy Spirit will come upon you," the Angel of the Lord announces: "Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age… for nothing is impossible with God" (Luke 1:36-37 NIV). Next we read "Mary got ready and hurried… she entered Zechariah's home and greeted

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In the age of Noah By Thomas L. FriedmanSunday, December 23, 2007 JAKARTA, Indonesia: A couple of weeks ago, The New York Times's Jim Yardley reported from China that the world's last known female Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle was living in one Chinese zoo, while the planet's only undisputed, known giant soft-shell male turtle was living in another - and together this aging pair were the last

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MATTHEW 7: 1- 6This is one of the most important verses concerning our relationships with other people. Too often we feel tempted to judge others for their actions. A critical spirit usually governs our thoughts, and it is often all-too-easy to condemn others, based on how we perceive their actions and deeds. God reminds us that we will not be judged, only if we show mercy to others by not

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New wave of Poles bolsters 'Catholic Britain' By Jonathan Brown Published: 24 December 2007 A fierce debate over the growing influence of the Catholic Church was sparked yesterday when research revealed that churchgoing Catholics now outstrip the number of practising Anglicans. The findings were revealed the day after it was confirmed that Tony Blair had been received into the Catholic Church

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Independent Appeal: The unluckiest baby in the world Sierra Leone, only six hours from London, has the world's worst infant mortality rate. And for this new-born child and her young mother, the fight is only just beginning Published: 24 December 2007 Bintu Koroma is the only midwife at Kroo Bay clinic In the dark of a one-room shack, a new-born baby sleeps in the arms of a young mother. It could

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All beds booked in Bethlehem for first time in seven years By Eric Silver in Bethlehem Published: 24 December 2007 After seven lean, intifada years, Joseph Canavati, owner of the modern Alexander Hotel on Manger Street, the snaking main road leading to the Church of the Nativity, is dusting off his "No vacancies" sign. The pilgrims are coming back."This is the best year we've had since the

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Article published December 22, 2007Sister Sujita's motto: Be more and have lessNotre Dame sisters' leader takes fight against poverty to slumsBy DAVID YONKEBLADE RELIGION EDITORThe global leader of the Sisters of Notre Dame, the religious community of 2,400 nuns serving in 17 nations, was born into a middle-class Catholic family in southern India, earned degrees in social work and communications

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My Jesus walked the roads of ancient Israel-Roman Palestine for 33 years in all weathers. He had none of the comforts we have today. To depict him as white complexioned and pale-skinned, with blonde hair and blue eyes as a Caucasian is to make a travesty of the fact that Christ came to save all men, black and white!

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In 2004, Jesus was voted greatest black icon of all time by the New Nation newspaper, which prompted a debate about Jesus' skin colour. "Despite the common depictions in Western cultures of Jesus as a blond, blue-eyed hippy looking man, all reasonable evidence points to the fact that Jesus could not have been of Scandinavian extraction and certainly was a brotha of colour," said the paper.The

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Our dear friends,We wish you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year. We want to thank each and every one of you for being a part of our lives, because each of you have played a specific part in our lives. We keep each of you so close to our hearts, and we thank you for your love and support this year.We pray this Christmas, that you will grow deeper in the revelation of who Jesus Christ is, how

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Posted on Fri, Dec. 21, 2007 Reality in Bethlehem mars Christmas traditionBy DION NISSENBAUM and CLIFF CHURGINMcClatchy Newspapers BETHLEHEM, West Bank | For generations, the Holy Land Arts Museum has been selling olivewood manger scenes to thousands of pilgrims wanting souvenirs from the biblical birthplace of Jesus.This year, the small Bethlehem shop decided that it was time to update the

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Kenya's presidential race signals democratic growth By Jeffrey GettlemanFriday, December 21, 2007 SUSWA, Kenya: At the sound of the chopper blades, a thousand Maasai tribesmen crane their necks upward.It is as if their savior is dropping down from the sky."Railaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" they yell.The tribesmen turn into a stampede, whooping and hollering and poking their gnarled wooden clubs in the air.

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Controversial theologian to give lecture at Aquinas Institute By Tim Townsend Saturday, Dec. 22 2007 In a document issued earlier this month, the Roman Catholic bishops in the U.S. publicly called into question the orthodoxy of a book written by prominent Asian-American theologian the Rev. Peter Phan.The bishops were acting at the behest of the Vatican, which also is investigating Phan's 2004

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LRB 3 January 2008 Adam Shatz Short CutsAdam Shatz Condoleezza Rice, like everyone else, is ‘worn down and discouraged by the war’, the New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller writes in her new biography (Random House, $27.95). Early morning work-outs on her ‘elliptical trainer’, shopping at expensive boutiques and American Idol provide some relief. But Rice has found her greatest ‘escape from

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Bad for the Jews By Eric AltermanFriday, December 21, 2007 Today's topic is the paradox - or one of them, anyway - of American Jewish political behavior. No, it's not that hoary old cliché that they "earn like Episcopalians but vote like Puerto Ricans." Rather, it's that they think like enlightened liberals yet allow belligerent right-wingers and neocons who frequently demonize, distort and

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Article from Christian Today:http://www.christiantoday.com/article/a.journey.to.the.holy.land/15722.htmCopyright © 2006 Christian Today. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. A journey to the Holy Landby William DovePosted: Friday, December 21, 2007, 7:27 (GMT)In the final approach to Christmas, many people will be bustling about

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Friday, 21 December 2007 TEHELKA INITIATIVES: Critical Futures | Tehelka Foundation From Tehelka Magazine, Vol 4, Issue 50, Dated Dec 29 , 2007 CULTURE & SOCIETY history ‘The elite today are the ones who supported the British in 1857’Amaresh Misra’s book on 1857 offers startling hypotheses. LAKSHMI INDRASIMHAN talks to him about his findings FOTOCORP Your book is massive. What new

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How Jewish was Jesus?Tony CampoloThere is a consensus among biblical scholars that Jesus and the New Testament can only be understood in the context of the ancient Jewish socio-cultural system. However, Christian theologies over the centuries have largely developed in synthesis with Greek philosophy. This synthesis has led to many distortions of the teachings of Jesus and the practices of the

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Stephen Zunes The overbearing power and McCarthyite tactics wielded by the American Jewish establishment against critics of Israeli government policies—particularly against prominent Jewish progressives like Michael Lerner—has made critical discourse about U.S. support for the Israeli government extremely difficult. As a result, it is all too easy to buy into the arguments put forward by John

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Iran, the Christian Zionists, and the American PeopleMichael LernerI had the honor to be a guest on a very exciting PBS television show, Bill Moyers Journal, which aired October 5th. Please take time to listen to it. I was invited to comment on a TV segment that his staff had put together about the Christian Zionist movement. What was particularly striking was how explicit and adamant the

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The ICB in the International Spotlight Please click on the links below to view video clips. "That's 40 years of ongoing conflict. Will my grand-child have to live through another war?"Rev. Dr. Raheb speaks to Social Edge’s “Global X” on the continuing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, and his hopes for the future: http://www.socialedge.org/blogs/global-x/archive/2007/11/27/

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In India, a letter writer signs off on the new economy By Anand GiridharadasFriday, December 21, 2007 MUMBAI: G.P. Sawant never charged the prostitutes for his letter-writing services.Not long after the women would descend on this swarming, chaotic city, they would find him at his stall near the post office, this letter writer for the unlettered. They often came hungry, battered and lonely,

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Bethlehem Christians flee tensions By Matthew Price BBC News, Bethlehem The little town of Bethlehem is perhaps more associated with Christianity than any other place in the world. But now there are fears that soon it could be home to hardly any Christians at all. To get into Bethlehem from Jerusalem you have to go through a checkpoint. Actually nowadays it looks more like a border crossing.

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Bethlehem's Christians cling to hope As part of the BBC News website's series on Christians in the Middle East, Heather Sharp talks to Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem about the economic hardships they endure and the political uncertainty they face in the future. There will be no Christmas presents in Nasim Bannoura's house this year. The Palestinian Christian lives minutes from a site where,

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Christmas in BethlehemMiriam WardWhile Christians in the United States are trying to keep Christ in Christmas, Christians in Bethlehem are trying to keep Christians in the land of Christ's birth. This was a common concern expressed by the many Palestinian Christians I spoke with in the past few weeks.Yes, Palestinian Christians are concerned about providing children the joy of waking up to gifts

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Jerusalem Letter / Viewpoints No. 490 27 Tevet - 12 Shvat 5763 / 1-15 January 2003 THE BELEAGUERED CHRISTIANS OF THE PALESTINIAN-CONTROLLED AREAS David Raab A Second-Class People / Regional Repression of Christians / Official PA Domination of Christians / PA Disrespect for Christian Holy Sites / The PA Takeover of the Church of the Nativity / The PA and Jerusalem Christians / Reduction of

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Where Does He Come From?Sanjay Subrahmanyam A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling by V.S. Naipaul In a wonderful short story called ‘Haha Huhu’, written in Telugu in the early 1930s, Vishvanatha Satyanarayana (1893-1976) describes an accidental traveller to England: a gandharva, a flying half-man half-horse from classical India, who loses his wings and crash-lands in Trafalgar Square.

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Blackberry ApocalypseNicholas Guyatt American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges Only a year ago, American evangelical Christians seemed more powerful than they had ever been. They had helped to re-elect George W. Bush in 2004, in spite of a rickety economy and the disastrous invasion of Iraq. They had waged a successful campaign in Washington to restrict access

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At the British MuseumCraig Clunas There are few enough points of continuity between the official state ideology of Maoist China and the ideology espoused by the country’s leaders today. But the significance of Qin Shi Huangdi, First August and Divine Emperor and subject of the outstandingly popular BM exhibition, The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army, might be one of them.* In the mid-1970s

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DiaryBen Anderson19 June. After two years of negotiations with the Ministry of Defence in their new, fortified Whitehall headquarters, I was finally on a plane, in my eye-catching blue body armour and helmet, on my way to Kandahar airbase en route to Helmand province. I was travelling with my producer-cum-cameraman to make a film for Panorama about what we were doing in Afghanistan, almost six

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Patriarchs call for peace and end to occupation Thursday, 20th December 2007. 5:57pmBy: Matt Cresswell.A JOINT Christmas message from the Patriarchs and heads of Christian churches in Jerusalem calls for freedom and the end of the Israeli occupation.Signed by the three Patriarchs, their message talks of the gospel of peace and instructs politicians in the Holy Land to examine their conduct and

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Thursday, Dec. 20, 2007Postcard: BethlehemBy Jamil HamadChristmas in Bethlehem makes me feel lonely. Walking around Manger Square, past the shops selling olive-wood kings and shepherds to busloads of Christian tourists, I realize how many of my old friends have emigrated, how much the city has changed beyond recognition. Today in Bethlehem, the sound of the Muslim call to prayer, ringing from

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A Primer on Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology CenterDavid Project Center for Jewish LeadershipDexter Van Zile (dvz@davidproject.org)October 2005 Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center headquartered in Jerusalem is one of the primary forces behind the anti-Israel divestment campaign embraced by mainline Protestant churches in the U.S. The group, which has chapters throughout Europe,

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Beijing's dictatorship diplomacyBy Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt and Andrew SmallThursday, December 20, 2007China is often accused of supporting a string of despots, nuclear proliferators and genocidal regimes, shielding them from international pressure and thus reversing progress on human rights and humanitarian principles. But over the last two years, Beijing has been quietly overhauling its

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As West's industry moves East, China now the world's smokestackBy Joseph Kahn and Mark LandlerFriday, December 21, 2007HANDAN, China: When residents of this northern Chinese city hang their clothes out to dry, the black fallout from nearby Handan Iron and Steel often sends them back to the wash.Half a world away, neighbors of ThyssenKrupp's former steel mill in the Ruhr Valley of Germany once had

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The spirit of Eid al-AdhaBy Nasser WeddadyThursday, December 20, 2007The Muslim new year has come in with a bang. On the eve of the high holiday of Eid al-Adha, explosions abound. Outside Beirut a car bomb kills four. A double-blast in Quetta, Pakistan, destroys eight lives. Twin suicide bombings in Iraq's Diyala Province murder 26, including six women and children. Two bombers in Algiers, one a

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H-Genocide Book Review (April, 2006)Dan Rabinowitz and Khawla Abu-Baker _Coffins on our shoulders: The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel_ London, University of California Press, 2005. xi+ 221pp. Notes, references, index. $50.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-520-24441-9; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0-520-24557-1.Reviewed for H-Genocide by: Samuel Jacob Kuruvilla, Department of Politics, University of

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I REMEMBER EVERY NAILDo not be weary for in good season you shall reap, if you do not quit. I have nailed your spiritual house in a sure, strong place. Line by line, precept upon precept, I have built your faith to stand. Though fierce winds howl, all that I have built in your life shall stand firmly without falling. Each and every layer, where I have fortified you through tests and trials, is

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The First Gift of ChristmasThe first Christmas gift ever givenWasn't bought in a mart or a shop,And it wasn't encased in gay wrappingsWith a bright ribbon bow on the top.The first Gift of Christmas was givenIn a manger lowly and bare,And a blanket was the lone wrappingOf this gift so priceless and fair.God gave the First Gift of Christmas,A most Holy and Wonderful One, When He looked down in

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Speaking Truth To PowerA Time to Break SilenceBy Rev. Martin Luther KingBy 1967, King had become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech delivered at New York's Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 -- a year to the day before he was murdered -- King called the United

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Archbishop Oscar RomeroThe Last Sermon (1980)Let no one be offended because we use the divine words read at our mass to shed light on the social, political and economic situation of our people. Not to do so would be unchristian. Christ desires to unite himself with humanity, so that the light he brings from God might become life for nations and individuals.I know many are shocked by this

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THEOLOGYJon Sobrino and the Vatican judgmentAndrew Hamilton 10-Sep-2007It is too early to explore the justice of the Vatican criticism of Jon Sobrino’s theology. But such judgments also affect human lives. So it may be useful to set this event in the context of the relationship between the Basque born theologian and the El Salvador to which he has committed his working life.I first met Jon

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March 28, 2007 Reflections on the Sobrino Notification by Michael O'Sullivan SJMichael O’Sullivan has taught liberation theology at third level and with community groups for over 20 years and has lived and worked with the economically poor in El Salvador and elsewhere for almost as many years. He was the co-organiser and the chairperson of the first conference in Ireland on Liberation theology in

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Quodlibet Journal: Volume 7 Number 2, April - June 2005 http://www.Quodlibet.netPraxis and the Content of Theology in Gustavo Gutiérrez’s Theological Methodology: A Comparative Critique.© Richard GillinghamSince its inception liberation theology has been a powerful voice for the liberation of oppressed peoples. As one of a plethora of avowedly contextual theologies, Latin American theology has

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BELIEFS AND PRACTICESLiberation theology: a challenge to the churchAs an influential cardinal, Pope Benedict XVI stifled liberation theology, which called on the church to help the poor and oppressed by challenging political power, particularly in Latin America. While liberation theology has faded as a movement, it is still practiced in some areas and studied widely. Some say it has influenced

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CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITHINSTRUCTION ON CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE "THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION"The Gospel of Jesus Christ is a message of freedom and a force for liberation. In recent years, this essential truth has become the object of reflection for theologians, with a new kind of attention which is itself full of promise.Liberation is first and foremost liberation from the radical

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MUSIC: A young musician in 2006 sings a forty-year-old song of gratitude for the civil rights protestors of the 1960s. "Thirsty Boots," by Eric Anderson, performed by Kirobaito on YouTube.Lyrics:You've long been on the open road,you've been sleepin' in the rain.From dirty words, and muddy cellsyour clothes are soiled and stained.But the dirty words, and the mud of cells,will soon be judged

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Whatever happened to liberation theology? New directions for theological reflection in latin AmericaKater, John L JrThirty years ago, Christians around the world were introduced to Latin American liberation theology, a powerful theological movement emerging among Christians in that part of the world but with links to currents stirring in many other places. A generation later, the context in which

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1. Gustavo Gutierrez: Theological Writings 2. Jon Sobrino: Theological Writings 3. Latin American Liberation Theology: Surveys & Studies 4. Black Liberation Theology: Texts & Studies 5. Feminist Theologies: Texts & Studies 1. GUSTAVO GUTIERREZ: THEOLOGICAL WRITINGSGustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation (Teología de la liberación: perspectivas,

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http://servicioskoinonia.org/LibrosDigitales/LDK/EATWOTGettingThePoorDownFull.pdf

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Download Paper: LiberationTheology.pdf Published in Humanism and Social Issues. Anthology of Essays. M. Hillar and H.R. Leuchtag, eds., American Humanist Association, Houston, 1993, pp. 35-52. Marian Hillar INTRODUCTIONIn the late 60s a new social and intellectual movement appeared on the Latin American continent. The movement is rooted in the Christian faith and Scriptures and seeks its

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The Debate Over Feminist Theology:Which View Is Biblical?Part Three in a Three-Part Series on Liberation Theologyby Ron RhodesThe woman is "in all things inferior to the man," said first century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus.[1] Rabbi Judah, a contemporary of Josephus, said "a man must pronounce three blessings each day: 'Blessed be the Lord who did not make me a heathen; blessed be he who

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"Black Theology, Black Power,and the Black Experience"Part Two in a Three-Part Series on Liberation Theologyby Ron RhodesBetween 1517 and 1840 it is estimated that twenty million blacks were captured in Africa, transported to America, and brutally enslaved. The experience of these blacks - and their descendants - serves as the backdrop for understanding contemporary black liberation

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"Christian Revolution in Latin America:The Changing Face of Liberation Theology"Part One in a Three-Part Serieson Liberation Theologyby Ron RhodesIn 1985, a leader of the conservative wing of the Roman Catholic church in Latin America, Bishop Hoyos, denounced liberation theologians, saying: "When I see a church with a machine gun, I cannot see the crucified Christ in that church. We can never use

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Liberation theologyBy BBC TeamLiberation theologyLove for the poor must be preferential, but not exclusive.Liberation theology was a radical movement that grew up in South America as a response to the poverty and the ill-treatment of ordinary people. The movement was caricatured in the phrase If Jesus Christ were on Earth today, he would be a Marxist revolutionary, but it's more accurately

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...the greater part of the world is still suffering from so much poverty that it is as if Christ Himself were crying out in these poor to beg the charity of the disciples. - Gaudium et Spes, proclaimed by Paul VIMy brothers, they are part of our very own people. You are killing your own fellow peasants. God's law, "Thou shalt not kill!" takes precedence over a human being's order to kill. No

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Annette Meuthrath Theology from Asian Women's View-pointFrom: Stimmen der Zeit, 2006/4, p. 253-265webmaster's own, not authorized translationAsia is a continent which ranges from Turkey - east of Bosporus - to Japan. Behind the five letters, which serve as name for a western geographical definition, a multitude of different cultures is hidden. It could not come to the fore more expressively as at

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Magnus Striet * Benedikt XVI, Modern Times, and FaithNotes on the Pope's Regensburg LectureFrom Herder-Korrespondenz, 2006/11, P. 551-554webmaster's own, not authorized translationThe Regensburg University lecture of Benedict XVI at first led to massive irritations in the Islamic world. But the at present politically explosive situation must not tempt us to hush up questions in the interreligious

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Christoph Albrecht SJComment on the Reprimandof the Salvadorian Liberation Theologian Jon Sobrino SJUnfortunately under wrong conditionsWith the notification {1} on Jon Sobrino's two books about Christ at last the Roman church authorities bring once again the liberation-theological discussion into the limelight and so to the attention of the world church - unfortunately under the wrong conditions

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Marco Moerschbacher * When Black Priests Bring Themselves to NoticeWhere does African Theology Stand Today?From: Herder Korrespondenz, 5/2007, P. 262-264webmaster's own, not authorized translationA book, published fifty years ago by black seminarists and religious, is considered as something like the birth of African theology. In Abidjan (the Ivory Coast) now 50 years after the publication of "

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Stefan Silber * Complex and AliveRecent Developments of the Theology of LiberationFrom: Herder-Korrespondenz, 10/2006, P. 523-528The times, when over here the Latin American "Theology of Liberation" was common talk are long past. But the way of pursuing theology, summarized under this heading, is still alive in the churches of Latin America. Today liberation theology turns out to be a manifold

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May 7, 2007As Pope Heads to Brazil, a Rival Theology PersistsBy LARRY ROHTERSÃO PAULO, Brazil, May 2 — In the early 1980s, when Pope John Paul II wanted to clamp down on what he considered a dangerous, Marxist-inspired movement in the Roman Catholic Church, liberation theology, he turned to a trusted aide: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.Now Cardinal Ratzinger is Pope Benedict XVI, and when he arrives

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Liberation TheologyGeneral InformationLiberation theology, a term first used in 1973 by Gustavo Gutierrez, a Peruvian Roman Catholic priest, is a school of thought among Latin American Catholics according to which the Gospel of Christ demands that the church concentrate its efforts on liberating the people of the world from poverty and oppression.The liberation-theology movement was partly

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A Concise History of Liberation TheologyBy Leonardo and Clodovis Boff. From the book Introducing Liberation Theology published by Orbis Books. Reprinted by permission.Antecedentshe historical roots of liberation theology are to be found in the prophetic tradition of evangelists and missionaries from the earliest colonial days in Latin America -- churchmen who questioned the type of presence

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Liberation TheologybyJoseph Cardinal Ratzinger The following is to a "private" document which preceded the Instruction of Fall 1984.Preliminary Notes1. Liberation theology is a phenomenon with an extraordinary number of layers. There is a whole spectrum from radically marxist positions, on the one hand, to the efforts which are being made within the framework of a

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BACKGROUNDEATWOT was born in Dar-es Salaam, Tanzania, in 1976. Twenty-two representatives from Africa, Asia and Latin America, and one Black theologian from the U.S.A. met in Dar-es Salaam for an "Ecumenical Dialogue of Third World Theologians" to share with one another theological efforts in their denominations - Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox. The decades before its birth were a time of

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ASSEMBLIES AND CONFERENCES HELD ConferencesDate / Year Theme1977 -Accra, GhanaThe Christian Commitment in Africa Today: Concerns of Emerging ChristianThelogies1979 -Wennapperwa, Sri LankaAsia's Struggle for Full Humanity: Towards a Relevant Theology1980 -Sao Paulo, BrazilEclesiology of Basic Christian Communities1983 -Geneva, SwitzerlandIntercontinental Dialogue General Assemblies1981 -New Delhi,

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Thursday, December 20, 2007Getting to Know Jon Sobrino (by Michelle García)When I first landed in El Salvador, all I knew about the tiny Central American country was its war. What I found was lush mountain ranges, volcanoes, and air heavy with grief. It was 2003, and I was there to produce a documentary for a public radio series titled Despues de las Guerras/Centra America: After the Wars about

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EATWOT PUBLICATIONS VOICES from the Third World is a bi-annual theological journal. Papers prepared for the different Commissions and essayes written by individual EATWOT members form the principal contents of this journal.EATWOT Newsletter, a quarterly paper to facilitate excahge of information among members and its partners.Voices From the Third WorldDecember 1989 – Vol. XII No. 2 – A Voice in

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Goodness RevealedAn interview with liberation theologian Jon Sobrino.by Michelle GarciaOne Sunday morning an all-too-familiar scene unfolded in the sacristy at Iglesia El Carmen in Santa Tecla, outside San Salvador. Giggling children blessed with the blood of the coffee gods surrounded an elderly Spanish priest, showering him with warmth and adoration. It was an image of an encounter—European and

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REFLECTIONAt-Tuwani: Clearing the LandBy Jan Benvie18 December 2007 The landscapes of the Southern Hebron Hills remind me of my own Scottish Highlands. They both share the same poignant, barren beauty. Here the ragged, rocky hillsides are more sparsely covered, but both landscapes are littered with the sad ruins of forsaken homes and villages. . The Scottish ruins date from a shameful period of

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In visit to California, Melkite archbishop from Holy Land says his mission is for peace in IsraelBy Julie Sly12/20/2007Catholic Herald (www.diocese-sacramento.org/herald)SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Catholic Herald) - Archbishop Elias Chacour speaks with the hope that after decades of violence there will someday be peace with justice in the troubled Holy Land." hspace=5 src="http://www.catholic.org/images

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High on festive apiritsChristmas is a time of grand celebrations, good cheer, Santa Claus, gifts, yummy delicacies, carols and so much more... Coordinators fill in the details The Evergreen StoryAs soon as one hears the word Christmas what is the first image that comes to mind? Isn’t it of a Christmas tree adorned with little bells and streamers, standing gaily in white snow? Similarly, as soon

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Orient Express Hotels of Britain battles largest shareholderBy Heather TimmonsThursday, December 20, 2007NEW DELHI: A war of words is heating up between a British-run hotel company and its largest shareholder, Indian Hotels.Orient Express Hotels of Britain, parent company of the 21 Club in New York and Venice's Hotel Cipriani, has been ignoring overtures by Indian Hotels for cooperation since it

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Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan sign Caspian gas pipeline dealThursday, December 20, 2007MOSCOW: Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan signed an agreement Thursday to build a natural gas pipeline along the Caspian Sea coast that would strengthen Moscow's monopoly on energy exports from the resource-rich region.But the plan also delivers a strong blow to Western hopes of securing alternate

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Where and How They LiveCovered from head to toe in human waste, a bare-chested man climbs from the sewer in the center of a crowded street. As people cringe at the stench, he walks through the streets looking for water to clean his body. This is a day in the life of a Dalit. A small girl walks barefoot around a half-starved dog lying in her path. She picks her way over garbage and sewer-sodden

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AssamThe name "Assam" is the anglicized version of "Asom," the name given to the region by the conquering Ahom tribe in the 13th century. Assam lies at the foot of the Himalayas in northeast India. This state has an area of 30,294 square miles (slightly smaller than South Carolina) and a population of 26.6 million. Of this, less than 13 percent live in the urban areas. Main languages include

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