Tag: terrorism
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ROC: Bin Laden Killing Reason to Step up Fight Against Terrorism, No Cause for Joy
Source: Interfax | May 3, 2011 The elimination of the ‘number one terrorist’ does not solve the terror problem, said Archpriest Georgy Roschin, deputy head of the Russian Orthodox Church Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations. “The Russian Orthodox Church will not welcome the jubilation that we have seen in some countries. Whoever is…
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‘South Park’ and the Informal Fatwa
Wall Street Journal by: Ayann Hirsi Ali The veiled threats against the Comedy Central show’s creators should be taken very seriously. ‘South Park” is hilarious, right? Not any more. Last week, Zachary Adam Chesser—a 20-year-old Muslim convert who now goes by the name Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee—posted a warning on the Web site RevolutionMuslim.com following the…
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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill’s statement on terrorist acts at the Moscow Metro
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia made the following statement on the terrorist acts at the Moscow Metro on 29 March 2010. My heart pains over the terrorist acts at the Moscow Metro this morning. I am praying for the rest of the victims’ souls, for consolation of their near and dear,…
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Reynolds on the Minarets and Fr. Sysoyev
Writing on the Washington Post’s On Faith blog, John Mark Reynolds wonders at the umbrage taken against the Swiss for voting a ban on new minarets — and the silence about the murder of a Russian priest in his church. Father Sysoyev is dead in Moscow, but by all means let us condemn the Swiss…