Preacher: GOP Delaying Second Coming http://www.beliefnet.com/story/201/story_20108_1.html
Voters should oust congressional Republican leaders because U.S. foreign policy is delaying the second coming of Jesus Christ, according to a evangelical Houston-based preacher.
K.A. Paul railed against the war in Iraq on Sunday (Oct. 8) before a crowd of 1,000 at the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, his first stop on what he hopes is a 30-city campaign.
Paul said he believes the Bush administration has delayed the second coming because U.S. foreign policy has blocked Christian missionaries from working in Iraq, Iran and Syria.
Paul, who claimed to support conservative political leaders in the past, is launching "a crusade to save America from the wrath of God and Republicans abusing their power," according to his press materials.
But his own tactics have also drawn criticism. Paul runs a group called Global Peace Initiative, based in Houston, and a ministry outgrowth called Gospel to the Unreached Millions.
Critics accuse the group of sinking cash into refurbishing and operating a Boeing 747 he calls Global Peace One.
"Paul flies around the globe using Jesus to pull in worldwide donations-- unfortunately spending more money on jet fuel than orphans," according to a June article in the weekly Houston Press.
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UN Body Condemns Cameroon Imprisonment Of Gay Men http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/10/101106cameroon.htm
International pressure is mounting on the government of Cameroon to release nearly a dozen men sentenced to prison earlier this year on charges of being gay.
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on Wednesday declared that the detentions on the basis of their presumed sexual orientation constitutes an arbitrary deprivation of liberty contrary to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The UN human rights body further called on the government of Cameroon to adopt necessary measures to remedy the situation, including the possible repeal of the offending law.
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Församlingsvalets kandidater på webben http://evl.fi/EVLUutiset.nsf/Documents/F10A3C3B37A3C710C225720400319B12?OpenDocument&lang=SV
Församlingsvalets kandidater går nu att hitta på Internet. Information om kandidatuppställningen har samlats på valets riksomfattande webbplats på adressen evl.fi/valet. Församlingsvalets nätsidor har också uppgifter om var man kan rösta på förhand och för de egentliga valdagarnas del listas vallokalerna.
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Dödsstraff oförenligt med demokrati http://www.kyrkanstidning.com/ArticlePages/200610/11/20061011100623_Headline346/20061011100623_Headline346.dbp.asp
Europarådets president, René van der Linden uppmanade igår Ryssland, Japan och USA att avskaffa dödsstraffet.
– Dödsstraff måste avskaffas i alla länder som strävar efter att upprätthålla demokrati. Det har avskaffats i alla våra medlemsstater förutom Ryssland, sa René van der Linden.
