Posted in International Affairs on Oct 13th, 2011
Underlying values often surface in legislation. The value of life is secondary or tertiary in California, while skin health seemingly is of primary value. In California minors can have an abortion without the knowledge or consent of parents. California has rejected three times efforts to allow parents to be notified when a minor girl is […]
Posted in International Affairs, Religious Liberty on Oct 10th, 2011
The Arab spring has turned into a chilly winter, especially for the Christians. The Egypt security forces killed at least 24 Christians who were demonstrating against the discrimination of Christians, against the burning of churches, against the slandering of Christians on state television, et cetera. Now let me guess what will not happen next: There […]
Posted in International Affairs on Sep 27th, 2011
Second@s Plus, a lobby group in Switzerland consisting of mostly Muslim immigrants, demand that Switzerland removes the cross from the nation’s flag. They will run a campaign in October against this Christian symbol which they consider unfit in today’s multicultural Switzerland. They consider the flag offensive to Muslims. This has caused a heated debate. But […]
Posted in Business as Mission, International Affairs on Sep 13th, 2011
There is a global shortfall of about 1.8 billion good formal jobs, according to Jim Clifton, CEO of Gallup.* That is nearly a quarter of the world’s population. Many people live in the insecure informal job sector, which often is filled with survival activities in the form a subsistence business. Most people hope for a […]
Posted in International Affairs on Sep 6th, 2011
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is a global network of churches and international organizations in 128 countries. WEA is serving a constituency of 600 million people. WEA has asked me to make a statement and a video on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The destructive act of 9/11 is outnumbered daily by small […]