Mass will again be celebrated in Afghanistan, after officially banned for years. A Mass will be celebrated Sunday afternoon in the Italian Embassy in Kabul. The celebrant will be Franciscan friar Father Ivan Lai, military chaplain of the Italian contingent of the force for the stabilization of Afghanistan. The Mass will be open to all, including the military of the multinational force and Christians and Weterners in Kabul.

I read this article and was happy about it. So I wanted to share with friends on forum.

David S.

Note Glenn. The Mass was officially benned for nine years in Afghanistan.

-- David S (asdzxc8176@aol.com), January 24, 2002

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-- David S (asdzxc8176@aol.com), January 24, 2002.

I also read a news article that abortion is coming to Afghanistan also, as the new government is going to allow it. I knew that would happen! Once the western world gets it's greedy paws into another culture, they bring the culture of death with them.

-- G Vink (gordonvink@bigfoot.com), January 24, 2002.

Glenn, I spelled banned wrong in note. Sorry!

-- David S (asdzxc8176@aol.com), January 24, 2002.

David S.,

You are driving me crazy :).

-- Glenn (glenn@excite.com), January 24, 2002.

Gordon,

Once the western world gets it's greedy paws into another culture

If you get a chance, check out the front page of today's Wall Street Journal. On the mid right of the page there was a very interesting article where some anthropologists were performing an experiment, that of giving the equivalent of a day's wages to one person, and telling him to share it with another any way he chose. If the other person agreed to it, they would both get the wage, if he didn't, they'd both get nothing.

The interesting part was that industrialized people gave ~48% to the other person, whereas bushmen tended to give around 30%. They noted that our society might cause us to be more equitable to strangers, whereas the bush people might be less open to strangers, but OTOH it definitely goes AGAINST the notion that capialism causes *greed*, in that theoretically a greedy capitalist could have offered the other guy 10% and told him that was better than nothing.

Standing up for the good ol' US of A!

Frank

P.S. the other interesting thing was that college students, regardless of where they came from (U.S., India, Japan, etc.) gave about the same amount (near 50%ish).

-- Someone (ChimingIn@twocents.cam), January 24, 2002.

I was not talking about greed of money, but just that the western world cannot stand cultures that do not allow access to abortion, and it is one of the reasons why the western media constantly cutdown the Taliban regime.

Communist regimes like the one in Cuba, hardly ever get cut down by the western media, and you have to ask yourself why. The media where I live here in Canada, has even praised Castro a number of times.

-- G Vink (gordonvink@bigfoot.com), January 24, 2002.

Gordon,
You must agree that opening up a country like Afghanistan is a job that has to be done. The way abortion is to be allowed is a serious problem. Any restriction there on this evil is sure to seem as repression, along ''rightist'' lines. But realistically, I doubt the women of Islamic faith in Afghanistan are about to leap at the chance now, to do something so inherently and patently evil, just because the west would like to ''educate'' them. These women are sure to harbor a healthy disgust for western ideas during at least their own generation-span. They may have been oppressed, but face it, they're all Muslims in their hearts. The foes of anti-abortion in the middle east now have an immense responsibility to confront the evil at once, for the sake of the women soon to be indoctrinated. There's still time over there.

What is much more loathesome is the way we in the west have been simply overwhelmed by the ''choice'' lobby, especially the U.S. We have more than enough to lament here, for now.

-- eugene c. chavez (chavezec@pacbell.net), January 24, 2002.

Thank you, David S, for the good news about the Mass being celebrated in Afghanistan!
JFG

-- (jfgecik@hotmail.com), January 26, 2002.