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May 23, 2006
Amnesty International annual report released
The annual report, totalling some 300 pages, contains detailed country-by-country assessments of human rights violations and advances.
It singles out some regional and national issues as particular areas of concern, including:
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* The "hypocrisy" of G8 nations, who espouse eradication of poverty in Africa while continuing to be major suppliers of arms to African nations
BBC NEWS | Europe | West's 'terror deceptions' rapped
Posted by thdyck at May 23, 2006 | Comments (0)
May 11, 2006
Hutterites able to avoid driver license photos for religious reasons
Members of an Alberta Hutterite colony have won the right to carry driver's licences that don't carry their photographs.
The Wilson Colony, near Coaldale, 12 kilometres east of Lethbridge, took the province to court after the government introduced a new licence that must have a driver's photo on it.
The colony argued in a Lethbridge court that the government's rule violated its charter right to freedom of religion. Members believe the second commandment in the Bible prohibits them from willingly having their picture taken. The province argued the photos were necessary to prevent fraud or identity theft. But a judge determined the Crown had failed to prove that this would likely be the case.
CBC News - Viewpoint: Your Space
Posted by thdyck at May 11, 2006 | Comments (0)
May 9, 2006
Anabaptist historical position on the Old Testament
Anabaptists stressed the utter discontinuity rather than continuity of the Old Testament and the New Testament. Hodge says, “The Anabaptists not only spoke in very disparaging terms of the old economy and of the state of the Jews under that dispensation, but it was necessary to their peculiar system, that they should deny that the covenant made with Abraham included the covenant of grace.”[41] In this position the Anabaptists had a strong affinity with the Socinians who dictated the same view of the Old Testament in order to remove the doctrine that a gospel Church, substantially identical with that of the New Testament, existed in the Old Testament with its infant church members.[42] Thus, the Anabaptists had little use for the Old Testament. VanGemeren says, “They judged it to be inferior to the Gospel.”[43] This shaped both their conceptions of the church and their conceptions of membership in the church.
The Rise of the� Radical Anabaptists
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