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Watchdog orders publication of former prime minister’s payment by oil firm that was kept secret for 20 months Tony Blair has received cash from a South Korean oil firm in a deal kept secret until the business appointments watchdog intervened, the Guardian has learned. After 20 months of secrecy, the former prime minister has now been overruled by the chairman of the advisory committee on business [Continue reading ...] Details of Pope Benedict’s first UK visit confirmed (Tuesday, March 16) by Buckingham Palace Pope Benedict XVI will travel to Scotland, hold two public masses and meet the Queen in the Vatican’s first official papal visit to Britain. Buckingham Palace confirmed details today of the first official visit to Britain of a pope, which will see Benedict XVI celebrate two public masses, meet the Queen and move [Continue reading ...] Senior staff running a faith charity set up by Tony Blair are being rewarded with salaries of up to £120,000. The salary details are included in the annual report and accounts lodged with Companies House last week. The accounts show two members of staff earned between £110,000 and £120,000, another earned between £100,000 and £110,000 and a fourth received between £70,000 and £80,000. In all, the Tony [Continue reading ...] Former prime minister explains his role in allowing the first Catholic to serve as British envoy to the Holy See Tony Blair met Pope Benedict XVI in June 2006 after lifting a ban preventing Catholics serving as British ambassador to the Vatican. Tony Blair has given a fascinating interview to the BBC about two subjects dear to his heart. One of these is well known: the Catholic [Continue reading ...] The Land of Israel : Palestine and Syria The name “Palestine” flies around a great deal nowadays in the press and political discussion. Syria too is much in the news. Yet neither Palestine nor Syria is an indigenous name for the country either is nowadays supposed to represent. These were originally names given by outsiders, sailors and merchants coming from the west, to loosely defined regions along [Continue reading ...] September 15, 2008, heralded the UK’s First Official Sharia Courts, despite the government having said it would not happen! Thus, Islamic Sharia law was officially adopted in Britain with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases. The government had quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence. Sheikh Faiz-ul-Aqtab Siddiqi, whose [Continue reading ...] Thursday, October 8, 2009 (1:47 pm) By Stefan J. Bos, Worthy News Chief International Correspondent TEHRAN, IRAN (Worthy News)– Two young women who converted from Islam to Christianity may face execution or at least life imprisonment after an Iranian court officially charged them with “apostasy” and “propagation of the Christian faith”, trial observers and Iranian Christians confirmed Thursday, October 8. Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad, 30, and Maryam Rustampoor, 27, were [Continue reading ...] With thanks and acknowledgement to David Shayesteh and Moriel Ministries for the following article highlighting the truth according to the Quran (Koran) of which I have an edition, for research and reference, in my study library. On September 25, 2009, Muslims gathered in front of the Capitol Building in Washington DC to pray for peace. This is what they said in their website prior to their [Continue reading ...] Tony Blair Faith Foundation news update courtesy of Ruth Gledhill of Times Online … ‘Each was made to feel an outsider. Each stood out against the conventional teaching of the time. Each believed in the universal appeal of God to humanity. Each was a change-maker.’ Who is Tony Blair talking about here? Answer below. Tony Blair has challenged the “entrenched” attitudes of the Pope on homosexuality, and argued that it is time for him to “rethink” his views. Speaking to the gay magazine Attitude, the former Prime Minister, himself now a Roman Catholic, said that he wanted to urge religious figures everywhere to reinterpret their religious texts to see them as metaphorical, not literal, and suggested that in time this would [Continue reading ...] |
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