A look around

"Let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance." - Proverbs 1:5 (NIV)

 

Here's what popping up around the Internet today:

• Reading books can be a great thing, but is it done at the expense of reading the "big book?"
• The state of Washington may have overtaken its neighbor Oregon in the number of physician-assisted suicides this past year.
• A former employee of shipping giant FedEx recently won a religious discrimination lawsuit against his former employer. The lawsuit had claimed he wasn't allowed to discuss his faith with his co-workers, even when asked.
• Coptic Christians in Egypt are left with bad choices in their nation's first free elections - Islamist versus the old regime.
• The world's wealthiest nations apparently are falling behind in their 3-year-old commitment to help feed the poorest nations.
• Actor Andy Garcia will star in an upcoming movie about Mexican religious freedom fighter Enrique Gorostieta Velarde, who led a rebellion against secularist president Plutarco Elias Calles during the 1920s. Calles had been enforcing new laws against the Catholic Church in a brutal fashion.

Today's links

• Recently the Kony 2012 campaign spread around the virus, promoting the cause of fighting the recruitment of children as soldiers in Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony's army. The only problem, the information in the video that spread is horribly outdated. Among other actual facts, Kony has not been in Uganda for at least six years. 
• Members of Campus Crusade in Japan are giving survivors of last year's earthquake and tsunami manga or comics with a story of hope to help curb a high suicide rate in that country.
• Coptic Orthodox Pope and Patriarch Shenouda III, one of the world's most revered Christian leaders and an advocate for Christians in Muslim-dominated Egypt, has passed away at the age of 88.
• A riveting and sad story of a former slave in the African nation of Mauritania, where slavery continues despite its official abolishment in 1981.