Snippets From South Africa: August 2007

In this article:
*Jacob Zuma Tells the “Church” to Speak Out on Morality!
*South Africa Shows Its True Colours at the UN, Supporting Dictatorships All Over the World
*Increasing Media Freedom Violations in South Africa
*SA Broadcasting Corporation Must Not Give the Perception that It is a Government Mouthpiece, Says the ANC
*Nurses and Teachers Go on Strike: Massive Intimidation [...]

The Crime Epidemic Continues

In this article:
*The Latest Crime Statistics Released by the South African Police
*Torture Being Increasingly Used by Criminals in South Africa
*Hijackers Blockade Freeway to Rob Motorists
*Baby Shot in Highway Attack
*Black Youth Kills His Grandmother and Mutilates the Corpse - and Gets a Mere 13 Year Sentence!
*Brave Boy (12) Saves His Family During an Armed Robbery
*Boy (12) [...]

Smacking Of Children To Be Banned

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For years now, South Africa has refused to allow corporal punishment in schools. This was bad enough. But now, if a new bill is signed into law by President Mbeki, as it looks almost certain to [...]

Rocky Balboa: A “Christian Boxer”?

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It’s getting ridiculous. Mel Gibson’s Roman Catholic splatter-movie, The Passion of the Christ, set the ball rolling in recent times, and now we are seeing one movie after another being churned out with a supposedly “Christian” theme, or at the [...]

Sinn Fein/IRA Triumphant in Northern Ireland

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In a move that shocked Protestants across Northern Ireland and around the world, Free Presbyterian minister and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Ian Paisley, agreed to his party forming a power-sharing government with Sinn Fein, the Roman [...]

Babies Left in Limbo?

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Not Anymore, Says the Pope of Rome
In early October 2006, the Roman pope cast aside centuries of Roman Catholic belief by formally abolishing the concept of “limbo”.
What exactly is “limbo”, in Roman Catholic teaching? There are two aspects to it. There [...]

Faith Like Potatoes

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In September 2006 a new religious movie premiered in South Africa, called Faith Like Potatoes. I say a religious movie rather than a Christian movie, because although it claims to be based on the life story of South African farmer and Charismatic evangelist Angus [...]

The Pope of Rome vs. The Ayatollahs and Sheikhs of Islam

The Pope of Rome

vs.

The Ayatollahs and
Sheikhs of Islam
 
The World’s Two Largest
Religions Square Off
 
On September 12, 2006, the Roman pope, Benedict XVI, giving a lecture to university professors and students in Regensburg, Germany, quoted a mediaeval text on Islam which portrayed the Islamic religion as a religion of violence. The text [...]

The Truth About The Iraq War

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(Note: this article was first published in The Bible Based Ministries Magazine, No. 102, September 2004 - March 2005. It has been slightly revised for the present publication.)
I love America. I have spent some of the happiest [...]

Exposing the Da Vinci Code

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The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, was first published in 2003. By April 2005, 17 million copies had been sold worldwide, in 44 languages; and sales show no signs of slowing down, but have reached 36 million copies according [...]