Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the daily archives:
Michael Cromartie, Chair of the US Commission on International Freedom (USCIRF), has just written to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rize urging her to advocate a strong mandate for the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief. The mandate is currently under consideration by the UN Human Rights Council.
USCIRF is gravely concerned that the [...]
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Ahmadinejad meets Christian leaders in New York. Photo ©New York Times
According to this story in the New York Times, Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held
a friendly, even warm, exchange yesterday with Christian leaders from the United States and Canada convinced that dialogue is the only way to prevent war.
The meeting on 26 September was organized by [...]
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A Voice of America journalist questioned President Ahmadinejad of Iran about his country’s persecution of the Baha’is at a recent press conference at the UN headquarters in New York.
In his question the journalist refers to the respect that Ahmadinejad shows to the divine prophets in his speeches and then says: “one of the Divine [...]
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So there we were, standing around our dining table, Mary, Bev, Lindsay, Valerie, Erica and I, laughing and relaxed. On the table, a large sheet of paper, covered in scribbles. Our scribbles. Each of us had picked up a coloured marker pen, made a mark at the edge of the paper and then we’d taken [...]
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