Bishop Angaelos: Egypt's Christians don't want special treatment, just equality
Bishop Angaelos is General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Britain. He speaks to Christian Today here about what the political unrest signifies for the country's Copts and the ongoing struggle to achieve equality. .
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Best of 2010 No 26 - Waikiki Beach Chaplaincy - Tourism Ministry
Tourism Ministry is alive and well in Hawaii at its famous Waikiki Beach with advertising along the street scape promoting the Sunday services.
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A new stolen generation
While many adults applaud the new reproductive technologies, many children conceived by these means are far from thrilled with them. Many are left not knowing who their actual mother or father is. And many go though lifelong agony and grief as a result. They have become the new stolen generation, deprived of the most important people in their lives.
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Holiday with a Difference
While millions of other people were attending parties and gatherings with family and friends to welcome in 2011, 40 young people from Qld and NSW were doing something completely unlike most others their own age. It was not your average New Year's Eve celebrations, however this group of mainly teenagers would not have replaced their week-long experience for anything.
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Best of 2010 No 25 - How do 'faith financed missionaries' get their money
Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson, a Baptist minister and his wife Delma have lived by \'faith financial support\' for 28 years, and they along with many other \'faith financed based\' mission people are constantly asked, \'Where does the money come from?\'
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I'm a stutterer – speaking of The King's Speech
For whatever reason, I\'ve been a painful stutterer all my life and was therefore fascinated by the movie, "The King\'s Speech" starring Colin Firth, as King George V1 (who stammered woefully) and Geoffrey Rush as the Australian Speech Defects therapist Lionel Logue.
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Best of 2010 No 24 - Darwin's master plan in wartime 1942
Since I had recently visited Darwin and taken the bus tour which highlighted the bombing of Darwin during February 1942, I was most interested in an article that appeared in the Darwin News recently. One side of politics was castigating the other side of politics regarding the issue of a master plan for the city.
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Best of 2010 No 23 - Addressing those with a 'title' - a message for Australia Day 2011
This article from August last year is a very applicable article for Australia Day 2011. In Australia the nature of addressing or referring to someone with a title has taken a significant change from several decades ago and it\'s most obvious, in the media.
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Best of 2010 No 22 - The Saxophone, an instrument of passion
Well-Being Australia chairman Mark Tronson is one of thousands upon thousands of Australians who plays the saxophone. To his knowledge, every school band throughout Australia has had at least one saxophonist, as have the multiplicity of town or community bands. This is a tradition that has gone on for generation after generation
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Best of 2010 No 21 - Next war may not be about oil, water or religion
The Weekend Australian magazine April 10-11 edition in the Heads Up column under Society has a fascinating article titled "Rise of Gendercide."
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Best of 2010 - No 20 - Peter George seeks the Lord in cricket
Australia\'s cricket 'quick', Peter George, who was rushed to the Australian team in New Zealand in April to cover for fellow fast bowler Ryan Harris, was interviewed by the Australian Missionary News IPTV.
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Best of 2010 No 18 - Flight etiquette for Evangelicals
The Sydney Morning Herald recently ran a travel story on the 'dos' and 'don\'ts' of airline travel. Etiquette expert Anna Post wrote a set of rules one should follow to ensure a pleasant flight for yourself and your fellow passengers.