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Posted on 11/01/2005 6:57:01 PM PST by nwctwx
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/282005b.asp
"Texas-Like Commandments Monument Under Attack in Sooner State"
By Allie Martin
November 28, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(AgapePress) - The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against another city over a public display of the Ten Commandments as part of a historical exhibit.
Last November officials in Haskell County, Oklahoma, erected a marble monument depicting the Ten Commandments on one side, with the Mayflower Compact on the other. The monument sits in Stigler, Oklahoma, the seat of Haskell County. Now the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit seeking removal of the monument."
ON THE NET...
PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org
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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s05110140.htm
ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA
Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net -- E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com
Monday, November 28, 2005
CHRISTIAN FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL URGES IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF WRONGLY ACCUSED INDONESIAN SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHERS AFTER THEY LOSE APPEAL
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
INDRAMAYU, INDONESIA (ANS) -- An international Christian human rights organization is urging the immediate release of three wrongly-accused Indonesian Christian Sunday School teachers who have lost their appeal to overturn charges that mean a three-year prison-term.
The women -- Dr. Rebekka Zakaria, Eti Pangesti and Ratna Bangun -- are currently serving a three year prison sentence in the Indramayu district of West Java, having been wrongly convicted of "attempting to coerce children to change their religion" under the Indonesian "Child Protection Act."
Christian Freedom International (CFI), reports that on November 22, 2005, the three Sunday school teachers lost an important appeal to have their sentences reduced or overturned by a higher court. They have one appeal left.
A local Islamic group brought charges against the three for violating the "Child Protection Act."
A local pastor who visits the three women weekly told Christian Freedom International, "I regret to inform you, after the second phase court level -- in Indonesia's law process system, we have a three phase law court level -- the second court judge agreed with the decision of the first court judge. This means Dr. Rebekka, Etty, and Ratna face a punishment of three years in prison."
The pastor said, "That's why we still need support from all of our brothers and sisters to continue with the legal process until the highest level-the third level is complete-the last action for our law process system."
The pastor thanked Christian Freedom International and other organizations for publicizing the case. "Brothers and sisters, thanks so much for sending information about Dr. Rebekka, Etty and Ratna case to all over the world," said the unnamed pastor.
The pastor further urged concerned people to continue writing to the imprisoned Sunday school teachers. "They received letters from our brother/sister, who encourage them with the words and prayer support, sympathies and also spiritual warfare prayer. They really appreciated it, and believe that our God in Christ will bless you all!"
Christian Freedom International president Jim Jacobson recently visited the three women in the Indramayu prison.
For information on how to write to Rebekka, Eti, and Ratna, (they request that letters not be sent directly to the prison) or help them with financial support please contact Christian Freedom International.
Christian Freedom International (CFI) is an interdenominational human rights organization for religious liberty. For more information or interviews, contact Christian Freedom International at 540-636-8907 or visit online at www.christianfreedom.org.
Photographs of the prison and Rebekka, Eti, and Ratna are available online at Christian Freedom International.
CHRISTIAN FREEDOM INTERNATIONAL
CONTACT: Vickie Koth, 540-636-8907
** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Garden Grove, California. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in September, 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station.
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http://www.dailyfreepress.com/media/paper87/news/2005/11/28/News/U.Considers.Research.Restrictions-1114189.shtml
There is a plan being made to limit the acess of foreign born college students to our labs for study and research.
right or wrong, thats friggin hilarious!!
What this really boils down to is that the group everybody loves to HATE, the JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY...was dead on.... 100% correct all these years. What else are they on target about? Whom else among the left are they making very nervous??? The Council on Foreign Relations, of course. Here is the problem: CFR has done such a superb job at deception that 99.999% of TEACHERS with whom I have associated for the last seventeen years have no clue as to it's existence or agenda. Of course this critical knowledge is passed onto future generations of children. Oh wait...
Actually that only works on a personal level. But if you really want to keep an issue in the background and eventually bury it, then focus the eyes of the world elsewhere.....the next BIG thing. Before you know it, the critical last "thing" is simply gone....
If the religious immigrants are mostly non-Christian, then the answer is yes.
I'd be interested in the breakdown as well.
I can't seem to get to that URL, Granny.
Hi there, Slowboat! :-)
Oh, there's the link, thank you.
I should have read further down the thread.
The links with all the xxxxxx's makes me nervous.
>>>A spokesman for the mosque blamed volunteers for stocking the mosque bookstore with the cassettes.
Must be hard to find reliable volunteers these days.
No doubt...they will keep trying until they get it right.
5,286 people killed in Chinese mining accidents in 11 months
>>>>That is so sad, MamaDearest.
Hi, V! Every time I think things are going to slow down for me, something else comes along. I'm still lurking, though, and if I see something I can contribute, I certainly will.
I know the feeling.
Glad you're still lurking though.
Clinton praises Sri Lanka's post-tsunami efforts, urges peace with Tamil rebels
Former President Clinton visited Sri Lanka's tsunami-battered northeast on Tuesday, praising reconstruction efforts and urging the government to seek peace with Tamil rebels.
(snip)
Washington considers the rebels terrorists.(snip)
http://www.tkb.org/NewsStory.jsp?storyID=95959
HOTEL PROBE KO'D QAEDA
November 28, 2005 -- WASHINGTON — Intelligence gathered in the Amman hotel bombings probe led to the recent U.S. raid on an al Qaeda safe house in Mosul where eight followers of terror master Abu Musab al-Zarqawi blew themselves up to avoid arrest, The Post has learned.
Officials said U.S. commanders in Iraq learned that the safe house in the northern section of the city was considered an "important location," and was being used by the group for meetings — sometimes by Zarqawi himself.
Sources said the improved understanding of al Qaeda in Iraq's structure has emerged in recent weeks from...
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/58222.htm
CIA chief defends agency over bin Laden hunt
Goss: 'We know more than we can say'
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/29/cia.alqaeda.ap/index.html
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