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		<title>The state of religious freedom in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remarks on the Release of the International Religious Freedom Report Michael H. Posner, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Suzan Johnson Cook, Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom  Washington, D.C., September 13, 2011 [for the Annual Reports see http://www.state.gov/g/drl/irf/] ASSISTANT SECRETARY POSNER: Thank you. Good morning, everybody. As you know, the State Department is mandated by law [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1619&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Islam a threat to Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently in London, a public debate was held on the claim that “Secularism is a greater threat to Christianity than Islam.” Dr Patrick Sookdheo, of the Barnabas Fund, led the opposition, arguing that Christians have nothing to fear from either Islam or secularism, but that Christianity can be threatened, even eradicated, by external threats.  Never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1536&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christians cannot accept Malaysia solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first group of asylum seekers to be deported from Australia to Malaysia has arrived on Christmas Island, awaiting the next leg of their journey in search of safety and security. The federal government’s so-called “Malaysia solution” looks like decisive action, but it’s abhorrent from a human rights perspective, and at odds with a balanced [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1491&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No place for legal pluralism in Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years Christian leaders have warned state and federal political leaders that some Australian Muslims, in defiance of Australian law and custom, practice polygamous marriage, underage marriage, and allegedly commit social security fraud in situations where a man has multiple wives who receive family welfare payments. New research by legal academics Ann Black and Kerrie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1468&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BWA Commission on Baptist-Muslim Relations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rod Benson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I attended the first two formal meetings of the new (Special) Commission on Baptist-Muslim Relations established last year by the Baptist World Alliance.  Tomorrow the BWA Executive Committee is expected to approve the Commission as a permanent body within the Freedom and Justice (F&#38;J) Division (one of two study and research divisions of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=rodbenson.com&amp;blog=6661900&amp;post=1405&amp;subd=rodbenson&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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