town in pakistanafter gunmen killed 2 christian brothers. they clashed and some businessman destroyed. the 2 men murdered in faisalabad where they were on trial for blasphemy. >>> president christina fernandez signed a law permitting gay marriages. leaders attended the ceremony. earlier this year the british government lifted the ban on same sex partnerships in churches. they are introducing religious aspects causing increasing concern among evangelical christians. uk correspondent peter wooding has the story. >> rerter: it has provoked outrage amongst conservative evangelicals in the uk. they are considering allowing homosexuals to include religioureadings. parliament removed the ban on same sex unions and churches and other worship places. no church should be obliged to perform these ceremoni. >> we would insist no church would be required by law to do something they didn't want to do. >> there is move of oppositi from church of england that doesn't want to carry out these services. >> churches take the unpopular stanof teaching clearly fr

. >> reporter: what that will that mean for the numbers of christians in iraq?l there be any christians left? >> no of course, maybe, maybe a very little. those who are far from politics. >> reporter: hani adds that the disappearance of iraq's christians would not be unprecedented. he points to neighboring turkey, where a once flourishing christian community is now virtually non-existent. he says christians in places like egypt and palestine, are also leaving due to political pressures. >> if this superpowers will stay ignoring what happening in the middle east i think maybe in the next 50 or 70 years, the middle east will be empty from christianity. >> reporter: for iraq's christian community, which traces its roots as far back as ancient mesopotamia, it's a bitter prospect. but the only real guarantee for its safety is a secure, stable and democratic iraq. with baghdad's politicians still fighting over forming a new government and american troops soon scheduled to leave, a stable iraq seems to many christians like a dream. "for religion and ethics newsweekly,"

language bibles and christian literatu are taken. christian religious education is prohibited. felix of the news service regularly monitors religious freedom violatns. >> the senior officials inherited is in their genes they don't believe in religious freedom d remember the heritage of the suspicion of religious and propaganda they lived through in the soviet union when the communist party was in control. >> because more are accepting christ government officials fear christians will lead an up rising. most are cing from mosques like this 99 percent filli the evangelical churches are former muslims. we talked to a musli background believer withhol share his experience if we agreed to cover his face and change his name. >> h and his pastor were jailed after police raids their house church meeting they were surprised when they were told to sing chrisan songs the peace of of god filled the hearts of the poliman and everyone hearing us. later 2 policeman opened the jail and they called us and said can you tell us mor about your faith and e lord you are singing about. >> guards and i

strengthen our relationship with god every day through the christian faith. every day now you can preach diversity all you want but you know republicans would never ever elect anybody of the muslim faith into office they like to use that as attack as an attack on obama even though he isn't even a muslim but that is one of the things that's wrong with this picture and this country the policy and religion are so closely tied together that that's supposedly land of freedom where everyone is accepted as long as they pull themselves up by their bootstraps and work hard where anyone can achieve the american dream you see that dream politically is reserved only for christians so let's stop preaching about acceptance and diversity until we actually see it that's all i got to say about that all right before we go tonight our tweet of the day earlier we discussed the politico story about how d.c. is an elite city and one not affected by the recession like the rest of the country so this would be the elite tweet of d.c. responding to that article they'd say damn politic

the whole christianization process took several more centuries but still key it is considered to be the crowd a lot of orthodox christianity in this part of europe now now ukraine now key it is the capital of sovereign ukraine and here this day is being marked as an official state holiday but for the first time it is being marked in russia as well as present in the data in june and now it's to this date to become an official state hold in russia as well for so for millions of worshippers on both sides of the russian ukrainian border this is now an official state holiday but they are acutely ill of the russian orthodox church is on a weeklong visit now to ukraine which is commentated today with a celebration of the baptism of the key of bruce but despite what seems to be a purely religious visit it has received somewhat a political connotation the relations between moscow and kiev have finally improved the five years of being very strained under the usual good ministration now with victory unequivocal in office they're moving towards each other and the fact that millions of worshippe

. -- the christian halleluja. >> missing all these songs with joy.t should be an example for the whole world. >> it is our greatest goal to send this message to the world. >> the town on the border with syria has a long history of the jewish, christian, and muslim fakes. there has been a jewish community here since the town was founded 300 years ago. it is the site of one of the oldest churches in christianity, the church of st. peter. 2000 christians live in the city today after a total population of 200,000 residents. >> there are other cities with these three world religions, but there the weapons are never silent. people kill each other. we live here without having to change the way we live. we live together. we are friendly, brotherly, and tolerant. >> just a few hundred meters away is one of the oldest mosques in anatolia. in june, the regional catholic bishop was murdered and regional tolerance was called into question. it was a difficult time in antakia. >> the fact that a murder like this could happen is very alarming. we later learned it wa

school here i don't think you would say they are christian but they think they are christian so this is that's probably where this discrimination it's obviously frustrating for many of us in the muslim community who try to work hard and do what they can to progress and grow in this country that's been good to us that you come here and want to burn the koran when i think you that what you do is for the extremists you're very supportive of that agenda because that's what they're doing and yes the united states is at war two wars with more same country so they're not safe in a tone just chilling and hanging out so that they lament what you're doing i think in the enjoys a lot of the american troops who are you know practically trying to protect freedom so that's another aspect you ought to think about that dr johns what do you say to the a lot of people i mean for example burning a koran isn't exactly the most peaceful and rather it's kind of violent and so don't you think that in some ways that creates more of a religious war that that and then makes pits more people muslims versus ame

evangelical christians busting heads prove brutal mixed martial arts fighting. love thy neighbor, it is not. so what is the biblical justification for the vice? >>> and chelsea's list. it's the society event of the decade and on the eve of chelsea clinton's wedding. the guest list begins to emerge. it turns out president obama wasn't the only one left out in the code. >>> good evening. 7-year-old kyron horman has been missing for two months. disappearing from a most unlikely place, his elementary school in portland, oregon. since then the investigation has focused on a most unlikely person. kyron's own stepmother who faces allegation she plotted to kill her husband. this afternoon, kyron's parent as dressed those allegations and other details of the case in an exclusive interview with my colleague andrea canning. >> reporter: in a rare interview the parents of 7-year-old kyron horman sat down in afternoon once again begging for the public's help to bring their son home. >> there shouldn't be any fear from anyone to get in the middle. we need that information. >>

think it's very important for our nation because based on the foundational truths of this day a christian believes that. for three consecutive days the washington convention center was transformed into a house of gone and hundreds of churchgoers and members of the pro israel jewish community came to represent christians united for israel their annual summit professes the word of god and god quote favorite countries the united states and israel and. who find like other religious groups linked america's expansion in power. to israel's coming and this is bound by the old scriptures confined represents a small portion depicting a larger religious following in this country and their faith connection amplifies the belief that the us and israel are both protected by god as divine countries during the american revolution the outmatched columnist colonists affirm the righteousness of their cause by likening gene george the third to pharaoh and the atlantic ocean to the red sea and george washington to moses comparing the colonization of the united states to israel the participants and attendees of

christian weller is a senior fellow at the center for american progress. welcome. >> thank you. >> tom: let's begin what the department of labor says about the purpose of these unemployment checks. the benefits, quote, are intended to provide temporary financial assistance to unemployed workers. jeff, let's begin with you. should there be a limit to unemployment benefits? >> i think there should be a limit. we need to have a balance between compassion which is the temporary word in the department of labor's language and productivity in giving people an incentive to go out and find jobs and particular to be willing to lower their wage demands, to accept jobs that are not exactly what they had before. they're not necessarily as good as they had before. but have to take some responsibility themselves for the fact that economic conditions are worse and therefore take a broader set of jobs and have some limit to how long people can collect unemployment insurance. >> tom: that presumes there's jobs out there and there are job demands not being fulfilled. christi

the credible orthodox christianity in this part of europe now. now ukraine now key it is the capital of silver in ukraine and here this is being marked as an official state holiday but for the first time since june this year it is being marked in russia as well president even today if in june and this date to become an official state hold in russia as well for so for millions of worshippers on both sides of the russian ukrainian border this is now the. holaday. what we know that the head of the russian orthodox church paid her career as they are to market this holiday so how important is it. indeed as we know about the archaeal of the russian orthodox church is on a weeklong visit now to ukraine which is commentated today with the celebration of the baptism of the key of bruce but despite what seems to be a purely religious visit it has received somewhat a political connotation here in ukraine some nationalist forces believe that the deal coming here is threatening the autonomy of the ukrainian church i'd like to remind to our viewers that a cert

this case was brought by a christian legal group, the christian legal society that believed that that opened membership requirement infringed its free-speech and ercise rights. i will now turn it over to our next panelist. [applause] thank you] >> thank you so much for that. thank you, walter, for your peanut gallery remarks. [laughter] i woold talk about less of the demographics of the court but the substantive issues of the court. what gregg said about the new roberts dissension between judicial restraint on one step -- and one hand and judicial advocation sws conservative jurisprudence between judicial activism and judicial restraint pretty difficult it turns out to be that there is no way you can maintain fidelity to two principal simultaneously. you can't do that at the same time that we see no evil and hear no evil because of institutional limitations thaa we cannot possibly intervene in these situations. justice roberts essentially took the old distinction and gave new terrs for it and now judicial restrain is judicial activism and judicial abdication turns out to be judicial r

what exactly does the christian science monitor do? guest: it is an international daily newspaper started in 1908. what distinguished it when it started out was a rigorous sense of balance. it was there at the time of yellow journalism when the newspapers started wars. she thought the members of the church needed to understand what the real issues so they could pray about them. most of our readers are not members of the church. they want a balanced view. when people think of us, they think of our balanced coverage and our international coverage. host: matt, a follow-up? >> real quick. please don't cut me off, it taken a while for me to get through. i just -- first of all, how do you feel about people maybe that you know, will read your paper, how do you diaw feel in these times where -- i mean this country is falling apart. it is very scary what is going on in our country. how do you feel about people that come out and vote bible and not politician? really fangly i believe that -- an organization like yours should be illegal. guest: we

david muir will be back tomorrow night, and christiane amanpour on sunday. have a great weekend.arch center being built by bp. tonight how the university is defending its $500 million alliance with the gulf oil. >> wildfires tear through desert hills of southern dal cal. tonight the danger forcing hundreds out of their hems. >> to dental hmo claims to have a 99.9% satisfaction rate y has this woman been left with a lifetime of pain? an i team follow up. >> and a south bay area where police and firefighters are one and the same. a model of efficiency for cities pondering layoffs. >> good evening, protestors angry with bp about the gulf oil spill at uc berkeley tonight. >> demonstrating against a joint project between uc and bp to build a new research site. abc 7 joins us now. this is part of a nationwide protest. >> that is right this, is one of many going on around country tonight and has two to remind people that the leak in the gulf has been capped damage and they

the population, christians are now a tiny minority. end of quote. this is perhaps no more true than in iraq, with the exception of israel, the bible contains more references to the cities, regions and nations of ancient iraq than any other country. abraham came from iraq. fradgically iraq's ancient christian community is facing extinction. the u.n. high commission for refugees estimated that some 250,000 to 500,000 christians have left the country since 2003 and about half the population and a large number also have been killed. while i've appreciated and very grateful for ambassador chris hill's commitment to this issue during his time as u.s. ambassador, and while i believe that michael corbin, the deputy assistance secretary state who is in charge with working on iraqi minorities issues cares deeply about the issue, and both are good men, i see a continuing unwillingness, unwillingness at the highest levels in the state department to acknowledge and ultimately address the challenges facing these ancient faith communities. in 2009 co

we do appreciate your time here talking to us from vienna dr christian. dmitri medvedev is spending a couple of days in finland where alongside a bit of official business there's also a bit of time for some scandinavian sightseeing to start with the finnish president toddy helen and gave me a bit of a tour of her official summer residence known as the golden bank it's the second time the leaders have enjoyed a stroll in the sun the two last met in the russian resort of sochi last august present that is next year to soak up some baltic history but then it's down to business leaders are set to talk about energy deals and environmental issues and the details are in our business update later for you this hour on r.t. . london's christie's auction house is insisting the painting it sold to a russian billionaire is authentic it's been reportedly sued by a businessman victim who claims the artwork he bought is a fake burger allegedly splashed on nearly three million dollars when this painting caught his eye in two thousand and five it's called or at least suppos

islam with nine eleven when after the oklahoma city bombing happened we don't equate you know christianity with that i think it's over the qur'an teaches peace and nonviolence. if the mosque up holds the traditions of the qur'an i don't have any problem with it i have a problem with anybody blowing up buildings i'm all for it so why do you think some people get so emotional and say it's the wrong thing to do because i think this is frustrated with their ignorance so they need somebody to blame something to blame so. that's like one way to go about it people who are afraid of the unknown they don't understand. that maybe building a mosque would help people understand the idea that the way i understand it is actually not just a mosque it's a center for interactivity it's a center for people to i believe it's been supported by some rabbis actually i think is all politics and i think they use in the media to make it an excuse to do what they want to do for the best interests of the politicians though it doesn't matter all of the emotions that they're pulling out of people it's all about politi

the first big day for orthodox christians the anniversary of the baptism of russia have been mauled by a church explosion in the ukrainian city of one woman was killed and at least eight other people were wounded. as the details. it is really hard to say what exactly happened in the central ukrainian city. but according to eyewitnesses a certain package exploded at the very doorstep one of the churches in central part of the city during a holy day mass which was celebrating at thousand and twenty two years since russia was baptized since russia drop that christianity authorities are now investigating what exactly caused this loss but few have any had any doubts that this is a terrorist attack this is not an accident because i witnesses say that this was a package which exploded so. ruling out the possibility of any accident or a gas leak or anything all that sort this incident happened amid celebrations of thousand and twenty two years since russia adopted orthodox christianity and the head of the russian orthodox church they have to deal was on his weeklong visit to ukraine that churc

the christian science monitor report says when they sell the new cabin operation he thought it looked quite similar to the design he had received from the end of its slumber. bp officials say there is no way to find out if any of the plumbers ideas forces actually use or if they were the same ideas were already under consideration. >> now that we do not cut the identity of the plumber and he does not either. it is pretty amazing as they play a part of the fix. >> apple ceo steve jobs say he is sorry. he addressed complaints about the reception and dropped called on the new of four. they have more on that and now they're just appearedz steve jobs say they wanted to make it right and accused took on what date call the 10 gates. >> we have been working our butts off. we want to understand what the real issues of peace here. >> data widely publicized by critics including consumer reports which say they do not recommend the following 'til apple comes a of the 36 reception problem. the mega it they suggested that is covering it up with duct soon. but take was a better solution. >> we're get

christian kaplan spoke about the recent shootings in his live. >> reporter: is severely taxed the limited resources. >> reporter: the pilot weekend got off to a violent morning when police shot a man following up with a freeway shooting and then a robbery homicide and has been a challenging weekend for oakland police. >> i had been with the department 12 years and is probably one of our busiest weekends. >> be rash of violence comes less than a week after the oakland police department laid off 80 officers and spare homicide in major investigators but the support officers who used to work with those investigators are in control cars instead meaning that investigation will likely take longer. >> anytime you have the instance that that happens other investigations are going to suffer. >> some natives say this weekend at: of violence as a symptom of a much bigger problem in the city. >> i feel like and outlet here sometime. >> reporter: others say the violence is random and isolated. >> i want to keep a positive spin as much as possible and it's not all of oakland just a few people going thro

first, each christian is bound by a high moral imperative. love the lord with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind and love your neighbor as yourself. these cornerstone precepts instruct believers personally to love your enemies, to bless those who curse you, to care for these the least of my brothers. it's unreasonable though to try to require civil authority to display the same kind of mercy or capacity individual christians are called to show. the god-given role of sishl governments is to restain evil within their jurisdictions. protect the innocent and punish law breakers. the things that are concentrated on justice. public acts of government differ fundamentally from individual acts and individual showing mercy decideslingly to bear an injustice. it's merciful when a private person turns the o'cheek, goes the extra mile or gives up second we must consider the impact of comprehensive immigration reformn our fellow americans. more than welfare of the imglakts is at stake. >> it's the welfare of the american citizens. the american peopl

christian fraser, bbc news, villiers-au-tertre. >> u.s. senators say as many as 6.5000 graves at arlington national cemetery in virginia were mislabeled or unmarked. the former head of the cemetery says he accepts full responsibility for the mix up of grapes. >> arlington national cemetery, final resting place for army privates and american presidents. this is where fallen soldiers are honored from the revolutionary war to the conflict in iraq and afghanistan. as many as 33 funerals take place each day, burying the dead of past and present battles. the unthinkable has happened. graves have been mixed up, remains misplaced. the two officials who used to run arlington were summoned by irate senators. >> gross mismanagement of the sanctified ground has tarnished the sacred trust and shaken up many military families. >> how did this happen at america's hallowed ground, where the eternal flame burns in memory of john f. kennedy? staff cuts, lack of money, and an antiquated system for keeping track of the graves, said the contract former boss. >

. >> and christian women, christian women. >> perry: and christian women with guns. ( laughs ) >> i meanian women. >> perry: and the people wonder where madea came from. >> pitts: we crossed the street to where he used to live. the pain of his past came back. >> perry: this is where i grew up. and i have not been in this house in years. >> pitts: in this house, perry says his father emmett repeatedly beat him and his mother maxine. he describes one time when his father whipped him with a cord until the skin came off his back, and told us, when his father wasn't beating him, he was belittling him. your father used to warn your mother about you? >> perry: yeah. "one day, i would make her cry." because she would try to protect me from him. "what the [no audio] are you protecting him for? what are you... when... what are you protecting him for?" like, "this boy is [no audio]. he ain't going to be [no audio]. one day, he going to make you cry." >> pitts: he brought us out back, showed us the cubbie hole where he would escape from his father's abuse. >> perry: this was my hideout, my safe plac

clearly this is advice to christians to follow the laws of their nation's and to respect the laws of other nations. although we respect acts of charity, we cannot both be charitable and lawbreakers. when a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. some claim that this passage mandate we welcome any and all foreigners, even those in our country illegally. but this and other passages do not imply the foreigners should disregard civil laws to enter or that we should overlook it when they do. for instance, the law for israel allows legal distinctions to be drawn between native jews and resident aliens. the legal term for sojourn ended the dictionary definition means "temporary stay." this passage offers no scriptural sanction for allowing millions of illegal immigrants to remain permanently in the united states. furthermore, in the new testament, the word stranger denotes one who is simply a noun, not necessarily a foreigner. there is a passage about the treatment of the least of these my brethren. matthew clearly vacuu indicates individual treatment, not a cor

what's the role of christianity? what's the role of religion in looking at this? and what is government's role? >> the gentlelady's time has expired. by unanimous consent, we'll grant the gentleman 30 seconds to respond. >> whereo i start? in general, i'd say that there's a distinction between those who knowingly broke a law and took a chance and would be separated by their family if they were caught and held tocertain -- whatever consequences, be it imprisonment or whatever. i mean, it's the same story as an embezzler or any other person who breaks the law, would be separated from their family members. the person who comes heres a lawful permanent resident played by the rules and is separated because of the quota of waiting the turn of his spouse and minor children because the citizens who came here before him are joined more quickly with their -- their more extended family members. to me, that's a family separation issue of greater import to the government. and it would be more compassionate to join the spouses and minor children than to prioritize more distant

. >> there is one notable thing about our christianity. it is bad, bloody, merciless, money grabbing and predatory. the invention of hell measured by our christianity of today bad, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity or his son is a christian nor qualified for that moderately high place. ours is a terrible religion, the fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled." that would have been considered very shocking in the day. >> reporter: editor ben griffin- - who joined the twain project five years ago -- relates another jolting passage, where twain took out his anger on an entrepreueur named james paige, who lost him money. this is the end of the piece he wrote about paige. "paige and i always meet on effusively affectionate terms and yet he knows perfectly well that if i had his nuts in a steel trap, i would shut out all human suffer and watch that trap till he died." >> reporter: very vicious. >> he used the autobiography as a chance to disburden hims

it can be absolutely horrible. >> i think the christian right -- we have it in the film. we have people there that did protest this "a moral" situation. as helen was saying, brothels are so much more civilized than the nature of a pimp in the street that is abusive to women, steals from them. the brothel is a society of women. you are never going to have a brothel run by a man. joe was the overall promoter. but the woman is the tough mother. that is what helen is playing. tough mother. mother confessor at times. when she needs to apply discipline, she applies it very strongly. she keeps those girls in line and says, "this is a business. this is how it is run." when i look at society as a whole, with a health official there all the time to make sure everything is clean, these girls are not exploited and they are making money -- i think in reality it is something i support in our society. we come from a long puritan ethic of being uptight about sex. why not regulate it? it would be a better draw, especially for women. tavis: might spark that conversation again in america, n

middle between muslims and christians, 92% said religion is very important.hat ramallah, a still overwhelmingly christian nation though not overwhelmingly catholic, there were 97% catholic and today it is it the first majority protestant state. almost all of that movement has been in the direction of the pentecostal. in guatemala, 80% said religion is very important. the u.s. clocks in at a still respectable 59% of our population says the religion is very important. look what happens when you get to europe. poland -- poland, ladies and gentlemen, is 36%. italy, the headquarters of roman catholicism is 36%. germany 21%. russia 14%. france, the oldest daughter of the church, 11%. the czech republic, 11%. contemporary europe is on the opposite end of the spectrum from the rest of the world in terms of the vitality of religious faith and practice. if that is the social climate i+ which policy makers are of living, moving and having the caribbean, it is no surprise that the attempt to defend catholic identity, resist assimilation to this culture secular -- to this

i don't believe our country was founded on christianity or any religion. >> reporter: jennifer lovejoys a mother of two and wife of a disabled policeman. >> i'm not taking away anyone else's belief in a god. many of our fore fathers feared god. but i think they feared political correctness more. >> it's silliness. >> reporter: evangelicals are fighting back. over the last weekend, pastor ralph sexton and his followers put up new billboards that say, one nation under god. >> we are a people of faith. we have a nation built on christian principles. >> reporter: the atheists, thrilled with all the attention, are considering more billboards, to continue to add fuel to the raging debate over the role of god in america's past and present. dan harris, abc news, asheville, north carolina. >>> hundreds of people already weighed in on the hot-button issue. you can post your comment at abcnews.com. >>> new york mayor, michael bloomberg, says he couldn't disagree more with sarah palin, when it comes to a planned mosque near ground zero. bloomberg says building the mosque sends a great message abou

good afternoon, christian. >> reporter: well, good afternoon. this is the gas station where this whole car theft and kidnapping investigation got underway. take a look right here. you can see if you take a look here through the window that there are a pair of police officers in there. they are bringing back tape. they had those this morning, trying to dub them over looking for clues about their suspect. police say the victim and his daughter pulled into this gas station this morning. the father got out of the car to pay, left his five-year-old daughter in a car and that is when a mini van pulled up alongside and the unthinkable happened. one of the suspects from that vehicle gets out and gets into his cadillac. our victim had left his keys in the car and the suspect takes his car and then was last seen driving on to carlton boulevard. >> investigators say the father immediately called 911 but he was so distraught it took a while for dispatchers to figure out exactly what had happened. by 6:05 neighbors a few miles away were calling police to rep

you know, when this earthquake comes, everyone who says they're a christian will be investigated as to whether they were one. and that's going to be a big, big earthquake. president chiu: are there any other members of the public that wish to speak on the topic of the amendments to the proposed resolution and ordinance referring to the ret yoe fit seismic grant? colleagues, i understand this is an item likely to be continued to the later part of the meeting but do you have any initial comments you want to make? i wanted to say thank you for the task force for all the work they have a dime. i do feel compelled to speak a little bit to this simply because i'm the supervisor that represents the marina. we all remember what happened back in 1989. one thing that i do want to say in support of doing anything we can, during the earthquake, we had it eleven thousand first responders that were in the marina and about four hours coming out of the army division at the presidio and coming out of the air station that is also still active. both of those bases have been closed down. we have residents

she's a christian soldier for justice. why? because in the face of terror, in the face of trauma, in the face of being stigmatized, what does she do? like martin king-- "i will love my way through this darkness by promoting justice not revenge." that's a great legacy of black people that we see brown people trying to do the same thing in arizona in the face of america turning away. now, we have made great progress. barack obama is one example of that. but he's caught in the middle. brother dyson is right about this. he has a p.r. operation on the one hand; not wanting to engage in the other. i would say to my dear brother barack obama, if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything. >> schieffer: i want to get back to this case, but before we go too far here, i want to get into this controversy over the administration's decision to drop most of the charges against this fringe group called the new black panther party. the charge is that they intimidated voters in philadelphia. it all got back in the news a couple of