The links below are to articles reporting on the deaths of over 900 Christians in 2012 at the hands of Islamists in Nigeria.
For more visit:
– http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/5/more-900-christians-killed-nigeria-last-year/
– http://www.bosnewslife.com/28131-over-1000-christians-killed-in-nigeria
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 13,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 3 Film Festivals
The link below is to a listing of incidents of persecution against Christians by Muslims throughout the world during August 2012.
For more visit:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3382/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2012
What a great day for Australian Cricket, with Australia wrapping up the test series against India 4 – 0 and the hugely successful 1st season of the Twenty20 Big Bash being completed tonight, with the Sydney Sixers defeating the Perth Scorchers.
It has been a massive day of cricket, with Michael Clarke, Ricky Ponting, David Warner, Peter Siddle and Co, playing great cricket in the series win against India. Who will forget the massive triple century of Michael Clarke, the partnerships of Clarke and Ponting, the dominance of Australia’s bowling attack and the capitulation of the Indian team under relentless pressure from Australia. Both Shaun Marsh and Brad Haddin should be concerned about their immediate future in the team, with poor performances by them both throughout the series. Both Ponting and Michael Hussey silenced their critics with very solid performances in the series and David Warner has cemented his place in the team for the time being.
India however were very disappointing and several big name players should be looking at retirement – if not, they should perhaps be replaced. All the big names struggled, none more than Dravid and Laxman. Even Sachin Tendulkar struggled and at no time did it seem likely he would make his 100th international hundred.
The Big Bash Final win for the Sydney Sixers was set up right from the beginning with a brilliant first over by Brett Lee. It was a brilliant opening partnership between Moses Henriques and Steve O’Keefe that ensured the Sixers could chase down the total set by the Scorchers comfortably.
For more visit:
http://www.cricket.com.au/news-list/2012/1/28/australia-seal-whitewash
http://www.bigbash.com.au/
http://www.espncricinfo.com/big-bash-league-2011/content/story/551379.html
Persecution in China was terrible in 2011, but many expect 2012 to be even worse.
For more visit:
http://global.christianpost.com/news/church-raids-in-china-to-intensify-in-2012-67863/
Last year I only had a car for limited periods of time. Lord-willing, this year I’ll have a car for the entire year. So apart from the obvious point of having a car, I’ll have the ability to get around to many more places more regularly. So a lot should be different this year. All that has to happen now is for all of those differences to materialize.
Note: The car in the image is not mine.
Sydney has again welcomed the New Year with a fireworks spectacular. The following video is a brief look at the fireworks display.
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