Great to see this press statement by CCM youth . Good sign for the very near future! ----------- Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Press Release March 10, 2009: Usage of the word "Allah" * Translated Copy of the Bahasa Malaysia Press Release * COUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF MALAYSIA YOUTH STATEMENT OF CCM YOUTH ON THE USAGE OF ‘ALLAH’ MARCH 10, 2009 CCM Youth is disappointed and deeply regrets the Home Ministry’s lack of order and clarity in its handling of the restriction over the usage of “Allah”, which involves the Bahasa Malaysia edition of the R oman Catholic Church's publication The Herald-The Catholic Weekly . The lack of order and clarity is obvious from the earlier prohibition by the Home Ministry of the use of Bahasa Malaysia in The Herald-The Catholic Weekly , which the Home Ministry later categorically denied issuing. Most recently, the Home Ministry gazetted an order allowing the conditional use of the word “Allah” by the Christian community only to resci...
:):) a friend and former mentor at cornell just wrote me yesterday, telling me that she's praying that god will grant me the desires of my heart. well, my first response when i read that was "oh, i just spent most of sunday worship time praying that God will give me the desires of his heart!"
ReplyDeleteIt takes courage to be wholly human before God, even if that is what he created us to be. :)
What would be ideal is when the desires of our heart are the same as the desire of God's heart for us. *sigh* can this ever be achieved in this plane of existence?
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