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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Pakistani Christian TV News Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali welcomes very much the news that Maryam Rustampoor and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad have been released from Evin prison in Teheran, where they have been detained on charges of propagating the Christian faith. Although they have been released without bail, they are still due to stand trial, and other Christians have [...]
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eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Pakistani Christian TV News (Hat-tip Anglican Mainstream) Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali welcomes very much the news that Maryam Rustampoor and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad have been released from Evin prison in Teheran, where they have been detained on charges of propagating the Christian faith. Although they have been released without bail, they are still due to stand trial, and [...]
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... that is what the liturgy of the C of E Marriage Service is exclusively intended for.” The Rt Revd Michael Nazir-Ali, who at the time was Bishop of Rochester, said: “Of course all citizens must have equal rights without discrimination. But marriage is the basis of the family, and the stability of the family is grounded in the sameness in difference between men and women.” In May Tony...
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Christian quoter (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... non-Muslims also calling for repeal of the law. Below you will find an important article by Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, which explains how Christians should respond to the issue of apostasy (and blasphemy) in Islam. In response to this, we invite you to sign our petition against the apostasy law, and to encourage your church and Christian friends to sign it too. The more signatures...
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Bishop of Rochester Michael Nazir-Ali warns there are now 'no-go areas' in Britain for non-Muslims because of Islamic extremists. Photo from The Daily Mail Hidden Threat From al-Qaeda Sleeper Cells -- The Telegraph Al-Qaeda terrorists are exploiting loose visa and immigration rules to enter Britain, the security services fear. Counter-terrorism police and Whitehall officials believe dozens...
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... non-Muslims also calling for repeal of the law. Below you will find an important article by Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, which explains how Christians should respond to the issue of apostasy (and blasphemy) in Islam. In response to this, we invite you to sign our petition against the apostasy law, and to encourage your church and Christian friends to sign it too. The more signatures...
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eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Cross posted from the brilliant Virtue Online with kind permission (Thanks David) The Qur’an is fierce in its condemnation of apostasy (ridda) and of the apostate (murtadd). Theirs, according to it, will be a dreadful penalty (’adhbun ‘azmun). This sentiment, which occurs in Sura 16:106, is re-expressed in other ways in other suras (chapters of the [...]
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VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Apostasy and Blasphemy in Islam: What should Christians Do? By Michael Nazir-Ali November 20, 2009 The Qur'an is fierce in its condemnation of apostasy (ridda) and of the apostate (murtadd). Theirs, according to it, will be a dreadful penalty ('adhbun 'azmun). This sentiment, which occurs in Sura 16:106, is re-expressed in other ways in other suras (chapters of the Qur'an). The interesting...
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... in early November 2010. The synod is planned to coincide with the visit by the Right Reverend Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, recently retired Bishop of Rochester, to ANiC’s St George’s Anglican Church for their 125th anniversary celebration. Messages of greeting, support and encouragement were sent to synod from a number of bishops from the Church of England and from Primates (Church leaders)...
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
... and strengthen you for the work to which he has called you. Revd Paul Perkin – Chair Bishop Michael Nazir Ali Bishop Wallace Benn President of Church of England Evangelical Council and Bishop of Lewes, England Revd Eddie Coulter, Church of Ireland Mrs Sarah Finch, Member of General Synod CofE Revd Francis Gardom Anglican Association Chancellor Dr Tudor Griffiths Church in Wales Revd...
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VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... game has changed forever. ARCIC may well be dead. At least that's the view of Rochester Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali. He may well be right. The Church of England's toleration of gay clerics, ordained women and the future prospect of women bishops and The Episcopal Church's further and further drift from the historic Christian Faith while preferring to engage the culture by merging with...
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... of Chester, Birkenhead and Winchester. Bishop Benn of Lewes and president of the CEEC, and Bishop Michael Nazir Ali sent greetings with others from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales from the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans in the UK and Ireland. ANiC has grown in the last year from 18 parishes, two plants and one project to forty two parishes, six plants and ten projects. It...
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
By Michael Nazir Ali, Guardian The Judeo-Christian tradition that informs so much of our national life is deeply inimical to the BNP’s narrow, racist vision Nick Griffin of the BNP used the terms "Christian" and "Britain" three times in his recent appearance on Question Time. In none of those references did he give "Christian" or "Christianity"...
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The Christian Institute (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
The values held by the British National Party are not Christian, the former Bishop of Rochester has asserted. Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali has warned that the BNP’s “narrow, racist vision” is not in line with Christian traditions. He said: “We must not allow the BNP to hijack the association of ‘Christian’ with ‘Britain’ for its own quite [...]...
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... “I can’t really predict how everyone is going to respond.” The former Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, a long-term member of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC) and the International Anglican- Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission (IARCCUM), who was the subject of press speculation that he could accept the offer, said on Tuesday that...
