Month: May 2010

Greece Shows What America Would Be Without More Borrowing

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AOL Daily Finance By Peter Cohan

On May 2, Greece announced a deal to get a bailout from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. But as part of the agreement, Greece needs to cut government spending in ways that are causing social unrest. That chaos could get so bad that Greece might decide it’s better simply to forget about the bailout and “restructure” its debt.

Greece will make budget cuts ranging from $40 billion to $53 billion each year so that by 2014 its budget deficit falls from the current 13.6% to below 3% of GDP. And this will mean recession in Greece for years: A 4% GDP contraction in 2010, a 2.6% decline in 2011, followed by anemic 1.1% growth in 2012.
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Preacher Arrested in England for Saying Homosexuality is a Sin

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London Telegraph

Frank Lockwood, religion editor for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: “It’s ironic, isn’t it, that the nation that gave us the King James Bible is now criminalizing the very kind of speech contained within the Scriptures.”

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A Christian street preacher was arrested and locked in a cell for telling a passer-by that homosexuality is a sin in the eyes of God.

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The 42-year-old Baptist, who has preached Christianity in Wokington, Cumbria for years, said he did not mention homosexuality while delivering a sermon from the top of a stepladder, but admitted telling a passing shopper that he believed it went against the word of God.

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Mr McAlpine, who was taken to the police station in the back of a marked van and locked in a cell for seven hours on April 20, said the incident was among the worst experiences of his life.
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Russian Orthodox leader says church will not interfere in politics

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Ecumenical News International / 30 April 2010 By Jonathan Luxmoore

Metropolitan Hilarion

Warsaw, 30 April (ENI)–A leader in the Russian Orthodox Church has insisted his church has no wish to be an official State denomination and will never side with any single political force.

“The threat that the church will be used by government doesn’t exist today,” said Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev, chairperson of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, Russia’s Interfax news agency has reported.

“Far from giving precedence to any political party or political power, the Russian church upholds the principle of equidistance. It cannot interfere in politics, support one party against another or identify itself with any political power,” said Hilarion, speaking at a Moscow meeting with young Orthodox Christians, on 21 April.

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Italian Baby Aborted at 22 Weeks for Cleft Palate–Born Alive, Left to Die

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From: Second Hand Smoke (Wesley J. Smith)

This is what Western Civilization is becoming. From the story:

A baby found alive nearly a day after a failed abortion in Italy had been rejected by his mother because he had a cleft lip and palate, according to reports. The 22-week infant was found breathing a day after the operation. He died one day later in intensive care at a hospital in the mother’s home town of Rossano, in southern Italy. The mother, pregnant for the first time, had opted for an abortion after prenatal scans revealed that the foetus had a cleft lip and palate, according to reports in the Italian media. The condition is treatable with surgery. The baby – weighing just 11oz – survived the procedure, carried out on Saturday in the Rossano Calabro hospital, but was left by doctors to die.

Culture of death? What culture of death?

Also see Wesley J. Smith’s latest: Ecocide: A Crime Against Peace?

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