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Christians Compared to ‘Moderate Muslims’ for Not Speaking Out Against Planned Parenthood Shooting

In an article being shuttled around the social media, James Schlarmann compares the alleged silence of “white Christians” regarding the recent attacks on a Planned Parenthood center in Colorado Springs to the silence of “moderate Muslims” concerning the atrocities perpetrated by the Islamic State and its allies in different countries around the globe.

This picture taken on December 14, 2014 shows a worker installing decorations at a local catholic church for Christmas celebrations in Ho Chi Minh city. Vietnam is a Buddhist-dominated country with only about 7 percent of its 90 million inhabitants being Roman Catholics. AFP PHOTO / HOANG DINH NAM (Photo credit should read

Christians Beaten by Police as Part of New Crackdown in Vietnam

As Vietnam prepares to enact new legislation that will seriously curb religious freedom, police have begun cracking down on Christians, especially those most vocal about their faith. In a period of just ten days, police twice assaulted Christian student activist Chu Manh Son and Catholic journalist Tran Minh Nhat, each of whom had previously served prison terms for denouncing Vietnam’s human rights violations.

Pope Francis (R) greets people of different religions at the end a weekly general audience for interfaith relations at St Peter's square on October 28, 2015 at the Vatican. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Church's 'Nostra Aetate' declaration which challenged religious prejudices and urged bridge building with other faiths. A special papal audience for interfaith relations was celebrated in Saint Peter's Square to remember the moment on October 28, 1965, when Paul VI adopted what was a ground-breaking declaration lambasting anti-Semitism in particular. AFP PHOTO / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE (Photo credit should read

Islam, Christianity Are Fundamentally the Same, Prof Writes

In the wake of the extraordinarily brutal jihadist attacks perpetrated on innocent civilians in Paris Friday, Yale Professor Miroslav Volf suggests in an article in the Washington Post that we look at religion as a single reality rather than making distinctions between different religions, including Islam and Christianity.

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Pope Benedict Was Right in Warning About Radical Islam

Pope Benedict was universally pilloried by the media for his famous 2006 Regensburg address, in which he commented on the historical relationship between Islam and violence. But now even the mainstream media are finding themselves forced to ask whether Benedict was right, and perhaps even prophetic in his statements.