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Australian Rudd and the Indonesian President agree

Friday, June 13th, 2008
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ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the Indonesian President have agreed to push for greater dialogue between Muslims and Christians.

Both leaders say they disagree with the theory that a clash of civilisations is inevitable.

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Solidarity with nature, an Easter message

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
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Solidarity with nature, an Easter message | The Jakarta Post

Indonesian Christians will be thinking green this week — this year’s Easter theme is the environment. Our environmental problems have contributed to various humanitarian problems as well. Examples of environmental destruction in various parts of our country should make us seriously question what is really going on and why.Easter is a time of renewal when we should not plunge into old sins. We should therefore show love amid the elite, who are the main driving force in the destruction of nature. Many of the elite have turned to greed and have destroyed nature in pursuit of their own interests.

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Business? Kiss of Judas?

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
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Manila Bulletin Online
Kiss of Judas recalled today, Holy Wednesday

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Lessons from Jesus via the Phillipines

Monday, March 17th, 2008
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full story here:  Manila Bulletin Online

Church scholars describe the events of Holy Tuesday in ancient times as the calm before the storm after Jesus revealed to His shrinking ranks of followers the impending betrayal by two of His trusted apostles while rumors of His impending arrest swirled over Jerusalem within days of His triumphant return to the city.Biblical accounts look up to the Mount of Olives, a mountain draped with olive trees and nestled in the eastern part of Jerusalem, as the sacred place where Jesus spent most of His devotional life as man.

The Mount of Olives is said to be the exact location where the Son of God made known to His disciples on Holy Tuesday the treachery about to be carried out by Simon Peter and Judas Iscariot, head and treasurer, respectively, of the 12 apostles.

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