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ARTICLE The following considerations are based on the Pew Forum’s 2010 “Global Restrictions on Religion” results. The report comprises 198 countries and territories which make up more than 99% of the world population, and it investigates the two-year period from July 2006 to June 2008.
Over the course of my research on the glorification of soldiers, revolutionaries, and terrorists as saints or martyrs in various religions, I have visited the Yasukuni Shrine in the heart of the city.
LECTURE at the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Padernborn end of 2010 on internet pornography.
EDITORIAL We dedicate this issue to the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.
EDITORIAL ‘We must be converted from the world, so that our identity, values, beliefs and priorities are not those of this world. We must be converted back to the world, knowing that God has called and sent us to serve the Word in the world.’
ARTICLE The diversity among people groups and cultures is, according to the biblical witness, not principally a consequence of sin. Rather, it is desired by God.
ARTICLE Despite much ambivalence in the relationship between Christianity and democracy, there are reasons why determined Christians and minority churches have called for secular democracy, have advanced it, and have helped to stabilize it.