Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the daily archives:
There’s dining, and then there’s banqueting.
Every two years or so, the Lord Mayor of the City of London (not to be confused with the London Mayor – two different offices and two different people) holds a dinner for the Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of England. He also invites the dignitaries of other churches [...]
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Today’s edition of The Economist has a story about what may be a modest increase in religious freedom in Egypt.
Last year Ali Gomaa, the Grand Mufti, who is the government’s highest religious adviser, declared that nowhere in Islam’s sacred texts did it say that apostasy need be punished in the present rather than by God [...]
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Another great new Baha’i website has just come over the horizon. The Baha’i International Community United Nations Office (BIC UNO) has put up a wonderful new site with loads of information about the work of the BIC at the UN. There’s news about BIC activities, some history of Baha’i involvement with the UN, access to [...]
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