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"It is bizarre that Prime Minister Abe only speaks of whether or not the ¡®comfort women¡¯ were taken forcefully by the Japanese military. Wasn¡¯t the very system of ¡®comfort women¡¯ one based upon sexual slavery?"
"Abe said that there were no violent abductions of women, but in fact there were. The 1994 report released by the Netherlands found such actions took place in at least eight s...
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Deseret Morning News Every 39 minutes a new pornographic video is being produced in the United States. Every second, 28,258 Internet users view pornography worldwide and 372 Internet users are typing search keywords looking for adult-oriented material.
Deseret Morning News graphic These are just a few of the statistics featured in a study conducted by Ogden-based TopTen Reviews. The compa...
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has denied that the military was involved in coercing thousands of women to serve as sex slaves during World War II. This is another sad example of Japanese denial over the country's wartime savagery.
Abe seemed to suggest that since the Imperia...
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Angelina Jolie adopted a Vietnamese boy this week in what may be the first of what many officials expect to be a surge of single-parent adoptions in that country.
While national governments such as China are strengthening requirements for foreign adoptions and accepting only married couples, prospective parents like Ms. Jolie are forced to turn to smaller countries with more lenient regul...
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HONG KONG (Reuters Life!) - Novelist Jan Morris, author of an acclaimed portrait of Hong Kong, hopes the former British colony will remain a bastion of freedom and an example to mainland China.
A former journalist, Morris rose to fame writing travel literature, from her Pax Britannica trilogy to portraits of Manhattan and Trieste.
She has also courted controversy. Morris, born Jame...
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Institute on Religion and Democracy slams 'leftist' National Council of Churches
New report from conservative IRD charges NCC with being a surrogate for MoveOn, People for the American Way and other liberal groups
If you prefer your religious battles sprinkled with demagogue...
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My desire to write this article stems from the challenge that most pro-gay theology has been pretty shoddy, amounting to nothing more than Scripture evasion. In all seriousness, Scripture evasion was a fair first-response defense of homosexuality because it was precisely decontextualized Scripture that was being shoved down the gay community’s throat.
I also wanted something controv...
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A Tibetan girl carries her baby brother as their father works on their wheatfield in Tsethang, south of Lhasa. Forced abortion and sterilization is common in both Tibet and China. China's growing shortage of women can lead to social instability, researchers warn. (Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images)
Boy or girl? Pink or blue? Gender selection has historically existed in some form or anothe...
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