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		<title>DUMC raid: it&#8217;s about what&#8217;s right for the marginalized</title>
		<link>http://www.blogpastor.net/2011/08/dumc-raid-its-about-whats-right-for-the-marginalized/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shock at DUMC raid by Jais
Already there had been issues that had risen in the recent decade with rights of Muslim converts to Christianity to change their designation on their ID, the Alkitab issue, and the accompanying bomb blast at a Kuala Lumpur church. Last week, with shock I read that the Damansara Utama Methodist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Megachurches: authorities curbing the giants&#8217; growth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
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Grey area
Religious usage of facilities approved for commercial use was a grey area. The previous guidelines were not clear. Can a church use a cinema hall? Or a hall in an office complex, hotel, industrial building or conference centre? No one knew. If no one complained, the authorities would let things be. The public concerns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor Rony Tan: what if he were Richard Dawkins?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buddhism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
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What if Richard Dawkins, in a public lecture in Singapore, had said exactly what Pastor Rony Tan had said about reincarnation, karma, and Buddhism? What if it made its rounds in cyberspace and YouTube? Would the Internal Security Department have given him a phone call? Would he have transgressed the The Maintenance of Religious Harmony [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pastor Rony Tan: towards a loving and respectful witness</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Home Affairs issued the following statement to the press:
&#8220;The Internal Security Department (ISD) has called up Pastor Rony Tan of Lighthouse Evangelism (LE) today in connection with his comments and insinuations about Buddhism and Taoism at LE sessions. These sessions were video-recorded and made available on LE’s website; video clips of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church bombings show intention and pattern</title>
		<link>http://www.blogpastor.net/2010/01/church-bombings-show-intention-and-pattern/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fire bomb attacks on churches were not spontaneous expressions of outrage and violence of common folk, but deliberate, intentional, strategic acts of violence to damage religious harmony that have largely prevailed since the federation was formed. The avoidance of death seemed to be deliberately calibrated to make all parties open to concessions without triggering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Allah&#8217; should stay in the Bahasa Bible</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Tony Siew, New Testament lecturer in Trinity Theological College, has written a coherent case for keeping Allah in the Bahasa bible, and an impassionate plea for reason, calmness and humility to prevail in the wake of the high court decision to uphold the use of &#8216;Allah&#8217; in the Bahasa bible. His blogpost is titled, [...]]]></description>
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