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How the Pentagon Helped Make Afghanistan the Most Corrupt Country on Earth (Hiro)
Dilip Hiro writes at Tomdispatch.com Washington has vociferously denounced Afghan corruption as a major obstacle to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. This has been widely reported. Only one crucial element is missing from this routine censure: a credible explanation of why American nation-building Continue reading
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Facilitating conflict
A few years ago, when I was working in the Editorial Department at the University of South Africa, the university administration arranged for all the staff in the department to attend a workshop on “facilitating conflict”. The workshop was run by a “task group” whose task Continue reading
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The Crisis of Urdu (Farouqi)
Open letter from Ather Farouqui in New Delhi on the Crisis of Urdu Dear Friends, I am writing this note as the General Secretary of the Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hind) to all allies who can help rescue Urdu from the grave… Continue reading
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New Pope has Opportunity to Improve Christian-Muslim Relations
Pope Benedict XVI’s suprise announcement on Monday that he plans to resign at the end of this month marks a potential generational change in the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church. His successor has an opportunity to revive the breakthroughs of the Second Vatican Continue reading
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Nigerian Christian Literature Award – Call for Entries
The Nigerian Christian Literature Awards are administered by the Association of Nigerian Christian Authors and Publishers. An activity of the Association for promoting Christian Knowledge, discovering and nurturing … Continue reading
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[GHHF] Proselytization on the Hills of Balaji Temple; Letter to the …
g) Where did they get the Christian literature to distribute on the Hill? Name of the individual who gave them the literature? h) How many people they have converted through the literature distributed on the TTD premises? Continue reading
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The Three Lies Michele Bachmann Tells about American Muslims (Saunders)
Doug Saunders writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: The Three Myths About Muslims That Have Poisoned American Politics The attacks on two of the most prominent Muslims in American public life last week seemed to have come out of the… Continue reading
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New book on Orthodox political theology « Khanya
Dr Kalaitzidis offered his spirited critique of Orthodox Christians’ approaches to political life and political theology at a book launch at the World Council of Churches (WCC) offices in Geneva, where a joint publishing series … Continue reading
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Morsi Reaffirms Israel Peace Treaty to Clinton
The establishment press in Egypt, al-Ahram (“The Pyramids”), reported cautiously on the meeting between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi (from the Muslim Brotherhood party). 1. It noted that Clinton affirmed the US desire that the Egyptian military go to its b … Continue reading
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Orthodox Christianity and fantasy literature « Khanya
An interesting discussion seems to be developing in the Orthodox blogosphere about whether Orthodox Christians should write, or even read, fantasy literature . They are referring Continue reading
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The Encyclopedia of Christian Literature (2 Vol Set) – Rodriguez's …
The written word is one of the defining elements of Christian experience. As vigorous in the 1st century as it is in the 21st, Christian literature has had Continue reading
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