Posts tagged The Guardian
Religious persecution: Why not cover all groups feeling Beijing's wrath, not just Protestants?
Religious persecution: Why not cover all groups feeling Beijing's wrath, not just Protestants?

(COMMENTARY) China is also quashing the religious freedom of Tibetan Buddhists, Muslims and Roman Catholics.

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Asia, Religion, OpinionIra RifkinMao Zedong, Tibet, Chinese Catholics, Chinese Muslims, President Donald Trump, Early Rain Covenant Church, The Guardian, Christian Post, Muslim Uighurs, Cultural Revolution, Wang Li, Chinese Christians, Ira Rifkin, Christianity, Religious Persecution, Buddhists, Muslims, Roman Catholics
Vatican-China agreement: As misguided as Rome's attempt to work with Nazi Germany?
Vatican-China agreement: As misguided as Rome's attempt to work with Nazi Germany?

(OPINION) How will the recent Vatican-Beijing development — ostensibly designed to unite the much persecuted, Vatican-loyal, underground Chinese Catholic church with the government recognized, and controlled, official Chinese Catholic church — survive should Vatican officials decide to criticize one or another Chinese human rights violation? Or does China believe that this agreement is just another Chinese attempt to control religious expression?

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Asia, Opinion, ReligionIra RifkinPrimary Feature, New York Times, National Review, Muslim Uighurs, National Catholic Reporter, Der Spiegel, The Guardian, Religious Freedom, George Weigel, Rod Dreher, The American Conservative, Ira Rifkin, Nazi Germany, Catholic bishops, Vatican-Beijing, Chinese Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Uighur Muslims, Vatican, Catholicism, Christianity
Australia's new Pentecostal prime minister
Australia's new Pentecostal prime minister

Australia has a new prime minister, which is certainly news. The new prime minister, Scott Morrison, is an outspoken, politically conservative Pentecostal Christian. This mixing of religion and politics may be old-hat at this point for Americans. But it's an entirely new experience for Australians.

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Anti-Catholic bias in the Guardian?
Anti-Catholic bias in the Guardian?

(COMMENTARY) An article in the Guardian about Catholic resistance to relaxing a Good Friday drinks ban has no Catholic voices. What this piece does have is assumptions. It assumes what the stance of the Catholic Church might be and that all right thinking people will agree with the author’s worldview. George Conger argues that readers are left an example of agitprop, which fails the basic tests of sound journalism.

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