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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
“Israel’s Missing Children”
25 years of faith, hope, and love
By Patrick Reilly
Special to ASSIST News Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (ANS) — Zachary Baumel, Zvi Feldman and Yehuda Katz, three members of the Israeli Defence Force, were remembered with special prayers on Monday, June 11th, by their families in Israel and by family and friends around the world who were praying for their safe return.
The three young Israeli soldiers have been missing in action (MIA) for 25 years and two weeks from when they were taken captive during the 1982 Lebanon war, just hours before an agreed ceasefire ended the bloody battle.
Their capture followed a night of fierce fighting against Syrian and Palestinian forces during the first war with Lebanon on June 11th 1982, near the village of Sultan Yakoub, when their tanks were hit with anti-tank missiles.”
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
German Anti-Abortionist Sentenced to Jail
Lutheran Theologian Compares Abortion with Holocaust
By Wolfgang Polzer
Special to ASSIST News Service
ERLANGEN (ANS) — A German theologian has been sentenced to one year in jail for drawing a comparison between abortion and the Holocaust.
A court in Erlangen near Nuremberg found Johannes Lerle, 55, guilty of “incitement of the people” by denying the Holocaust. Lerle has launched an appeal against the verdict.
The Lutheran theologian and anti-abortionist claims that the “infanticide” in the womb is comparable to the Nazis’ systematic mass murder of Jews in concentration camps, for instance Auschwitz.
Lerle has six previous convictions for slander because he labeled physicians, who perform abortions, as “professional killers”. He has already spent eight months in jail.
The current case concerned a pamphlet published on the Internet. Lerle called the murder of Jews by the Nazis as “supposed injustice”. As a consequence he was accused of disturbing the public peace by denying the Holocaust.
Lerle rejected the accusation on the grounds that he had only quoted the Federal Constitutional Court. The court had refused to accept Lerle’s application for a verdict against the abortion practice in Germany. The court used the term “supposed injustice” with regard to the killing of unborn children.
In judicial terms all abortions are illegal in Germany. But they will not be punished if they are performed within the first three months of pregnancy and if the mother has undergone a certified consultation.
These abortions are often falsely referred to as legal. Approximately 120,000 non-punishable abortions are officially recorded in Germany each year. But Pro Life advocates estimate that up to 200,000 babies are killed in their mother’s womb, if one takes the unregistered cases into account.
Wolfgang Polzer (57), is senior news editor of the Evangelical News Agency idea, Wetzlar (Germany), which he joined in 1981. In all, he has spent 30 years in Christian media. Wolfgang can be contacted by e-mail at: Wolfgang.Polzer@idea.de.
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