Anti-Semitism on rise at British universities
Britain’s Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, has charged several of the UK’s most prestigious universities of ‘turning a blind eye and a deaf ear’ to the increasing number of speeches defaming and delegitimizing Israel being made on campuses all over Britain. He contrasted the conduct of universities with government officials of all political parties who take ‘an unequivocal and a firm stand against anti-Semitism.’ ‘Let me be blunt,’ Sacks said. ‘I believe that the inflammatory public speeches being allowed to take place on university campuses would, in any other context and directed against any other group, be prosecuted under the law forbidding incitement to racial and possibly religious hatred.’
Pray: against this trend in our education establishments by those whose values are distorted. (Pr.16:13)
More: http://www.icej.org/article/anti_semitism_on_rise_at_british_universities
Rome: Pope denounces attacks in Nigeria, Philippines
Pope Benedict XVI deplored on Sunday the ‘absurd violence’ against Christians after attacks on churches in Nigeria and the Philippines over the Christmas holiday. ‘It was with great sadness that I learnt about the attack on a Catholic Church in the Philippines during the celebrations for Christmas and also against Christian churches in Nigeria,’ the Pope said. ‘The earth is once again stained with blood as we have seen in other parts of the world,’ Benedict added in his Angelus address at The Vatican, as he offered his condolences to the victims of the ‘absurd violence’.
Pray:for the protection of believers across the world as they face violence and attacks on their faith. (2Tim.4:18)
Rome: Pope denounces attacks in Nigeria, Philippines
Pope Benedict XVI deplored on Sunday the ‘absurd violence’ against Christians after attacks on churches in Nigeria and the Philippines over the Christmas holiday. ‘It was with great sadness that I learnt about the attack on a Catholic Church in the Philippines during the celebrations for Christmas and also against Christian churches in Nigeria,’ the Pope said. ‘The earth is once again stained with blood as we have seen in other parts of the world,’ Benedict added in his Angelus address at The Vatican, as he offered his condolences to the victims of the ‘absurd violence’.
Pray:for the protection of believers across the world as they face violence and attacks on their faith. (2Tim.4:18)
Denmark: 'Muhammad cartoon plotters' held
Five men have been arrested in Denmark and Sweden for planning to attack a newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, police say. Security officials said four suspects - including three Swedish residents - were held in Denmark, and another was detained in Sweden. Danish media reported that a pistol fitted with a silencer was found on the group held in Denmark. Publication of the Muhammad cartoons in 2005 outraged Muslims worldwide. Security officials said the four men held in Denmark had been planning to enter the building housing the Jyllands-Posten - the newspaper that originally published the cartoons. They had wanted ‘to kill as many of the people present as possible’, according to Jakob Scharf, the head of Denmark's intelligence and security agency, Pet. He said an ‘imminent Mumbai-type terror attack’ had been foiled and described some of the suspects as ‘militant Islamists’.
Pray: against militant activists everywhere that continue to promote their evil ideas at every opportunity. (Ps.36:3-4)
