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The Apocalypse Is Upon Us, Ted Cruz Endorsement Edition

By Sarah Posner

…e endorsement of a single, influential leader: Mike Bickle, founder of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City. “Through prayer, the Lord has changed my life and altered my family’s story,” Cruz’s statement reads. “I am grateful for Mike’s dedication to call a generation of young people to prayer and spiritual commitment. Heidi and I are grateful to have his prayers and support. With the support of Mike and many other people of faith, we…

Promise Keepers Launches Effort to Support Messianic Jews in Israel

By Sarah Posner

…anic Jews; Rick Ridings of Succat Hallel, a house of prayer modeled on the International House of Prayer in Kansas City; and Tom Hess, who operates the Jerusalem House of Prayer for All Nations on the Mount of Olives. “We have a list that keeps growing,” said Jesse. He said that Dan Juster, the director of Tikkun Ministries International who also oversees the activities of the Messianic Jewish Bible Institute in Israel, was trying to make the meet…

UPDATE: An Abrupt End to Quebec Separatist Plan to Ban “Ostentatious Signs” of Religion

By Jeremy Stolow

…sted that the bill was crafted to avoid ruffling the feathers of the large numbers of practicing Christians currently working in Quebec’s public sector—a less than insignificant number of which do happen to wear (typically small) crucifixes—and thus the visual code aimed its sights more narrowly on undesirable religious minorities, while at the same time allowing the government to proclaim the even-handedness of its approach. But whatever the act…

Vatican OKs Exorcist Group: Can It Reconcile Spiritual Warfare and Social Justice?

By Joseph Laycock

…flected the experience of many modern Catholics. When the film inspired an international sensation (including feinting and vomiting in theaters), the Church’s response was mixed. Jesuit reviewers in America magazine dubbed the film “sordid and sensationalistic.” However, the conservative Catholic journal Triumph and the official journal of the Vatican, Civilita Cattolica, praised the film’s spiritual message. For outsiders, the film revived critiq…

First They Came for the Brotherhood . . . Egyptian Gov Seeks to Criminalize NGOs

By Austin Dacey

…order or morals.” Under the proposed legislation, the operation of foreign international organizations in Egypt and the cooperation of domestic organizations with intergovernmental bodies such as the United Nations would be severely restricted. The NGO coalition statement points out that these provisions “will be used against any rights organization that seeks to acquire consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council, or with any orga…

Israel’s Chief Rabbis Say No to Christian Zionist Event

By Sarah Posner

…ndemning an upcoming event sponsored by the Christian Zionist organization International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, finding that it “hinders Israel’s true redemption.” The event, a prayer vigil marking the end of ICEJ’s annual five-day commemoration of the Feast of the Tabernacles, or Sukkot, is scheduled to take place October 15 at the southern wall of the Temple Mount. Other portions of the ICEJ’s program will take place at the new Jerusalem P…

Jewishness Per Square Inch, Medieval Edition

By Sara Lipton

…thinking of writing a memoir about a year I spent teaching in a Christian international high school in Jerusalem. It was during the first intifada, when West Bank schools were closed, so in addition to the international students (children of clergy, diplomats, and United Nations employees), there were many Palestinian students. It was a fascinating microcosm of Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations. These young people faced unthinkable challenges, pr…

Equality Opponents Try to Reverse UN Progress; Anti-Gay Pentecostal Pastor Elected Mayor of Rio; Indonesian University Official Tells LGBT Students To ‘Normalize’ Or Be Punished; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n rights advocacy by the Vatican.” Shine noted a recent statement from the international Network of Reform Movements, which said that “the dignity of the human person is clearly expressed in the Gospels and the social justice teachings of our Church” and that human dignity “should be the foundation of a truly Catholic response” to LGBT people and their families. Brazil: Anti-gay Pentecostal pastor elected mayor of Rio Evangelical pastor Marcelo Cr…

Are We Living Through World War III?

By Haroon Moghul

…stand that the last few decades has seen a mess made of the Middle East by international actors of vastly disproportionate capacity, then is it any wonder many Americans experience the rise of international terrorism as an event without material causes? To point this out is not intended to say one part of the world has greater blame than another, but to insist on the origins of the present conflict, so that we might actually end it. Various actors…

Did the Church Create or Co-Opt Human Rights?

By Austin Dacey

…otions. But we can still ask which of those notions were widely adopted in international politics and law and which were not. Consider the inclusion of personal dignity in the U.N. Charter and Declaration of Human Rights. The preamble to the Charter begins WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to regain faith in f…