CNN.com, 4/29/09….The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new survey.
The Washington Region Religious Campaign Against Torture rallied on Capitol Hill in March 2008.
More than half of people who attend services at least once a week — 54 percent — said [...]
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May 1, 2009
Church Going Americans More Likely To Support Torture
April 3, 2009
Israel: Women Photoshopped from cabinet picture.
JERUSALEM — Two women serve in Israel’s new Cabinet, but some Israelis would rather not see them.
Ultra-Orthodox newspapers consider it immodest to print images of women.
The daily Yated Neeman digitally changed the photo, moving two male ministers into the places formerly occupied by the women.
The weekly Shaa Tova simply blacked the women out, in [...]
March 17, 2009
Inappropriate costume jewelry?
Ahead of Pope Benedict XVI’s May visit to Israel, the rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovitch, has said that it is not proper to come to the site wearing a cross.
Before 1967, when the Western Wall was under Jordanian rule, Jews were forbidden to pray there. In the Six Day War, Israel conquered [...]
March 9, 2009
Vatican Defends Excommunicating Mother, Doctors Of 9-Year-Old Girl Who Had Abortion After Being Raped
Australian Associated Press: March 8, 2009
A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being raped.
Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, head of the Catholic church’s Congregation for Bishops, told the daily La Stampa on Saturday that the twins the girl had [...]
November 13, 2008
The Saudis’ dubious interfaith agenda at the UN
The country’s lack of religious freedom betrays its lofty rhetoric. The real aim of its ‘dialogue’ is to promote a global blasphemy law.
By Donald H. Argue and Leonard A. Leo
from the November 13, 2008 edition
Washington – World leaders gathering at the United Nations this week for a special session of the General Assembly to advance [...]
November 13, 2008
Devotees Say Teen Is Buddha Reborn
By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA, AP RATANPUR, Nepal (Nov. 12) -
The teenage boy revered by many as a reincarnation of Buddha sat silently in the jungle as he blessed his devotees Wednesday with a light tap on the head, which they consider the touch of the divine.
His face was still, his long hair spilled over his white [...]
November 13, 2008
Holiday Ads Ask, ‘Why Believe in a God’?
(Nov. 11) By ERIC GORSKI, AP -
You better watch out. There is a new combatant in the Christmas wars.
Ads proclaiming, “Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness’ sake,” will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running through December. The American Humanist Association unveiled the provocative $40,000 holiday ad campaign Tuesday.
American [...]
November 11, 2008
“God will show the way to the White House” – Sarah Palin
November 10, 2008
Sarah Palin sat down with Fox News’ Greta van Susteren to discuss the 2008 campaign and her political future. The wide-ranging interview covered such familiar topics as the $150,000 spent on Palin’s wardrobe for the campaign, as well as the report that she was unable to name all the countries in North America [...]
November 11, 2008
Monks brawl at Jerusalem shrine
BBC News, Sunday, 9 November 2008
Israeli police have had to restore order at one of Christianity’s holiest sites after a mass brawl broke out between monks in Jerusalem’s Old City.
Fighting erupted between Greek Orthodox and Armenian monks at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the traditional site of Christ’s crucifixion.
Two monks from each side were [...]
October 9, 2008
New Living Goddess Appointed In Nepal
(AP Photo/Binod Joshi) AP, Oct 7, 2008
KATMANDU, Nepal — Hindu and Buddhist priests chanted sacred hymns and cascaded flowers and grains of rice over a 3-year-old girl who was appointed a living goddess in Nepal on Tuesday.
Wrapped in red silk and adorned with red flowers in her hair, Matani Shakya received approval from the priests [...]
October 6, 2008
Religulous
Bill Maher’s movie is very funny while also being a wake up call to the very real global dangers of religion.
A must see!
-JSNTR
September 29, 2008
Ministers to Defy I.R.S. by Endorsing Candidates
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN, September 26, 2008, NYT.com
Defying a federal tax law they consider unjust, 33 ministers across the country will take to their pulpits this Sunday and publicly endorse a candidate for president.
They plan to then send copies of their sermons to the Internal Revenue Service, hoping to provoke a challenge to a law that [...]
September 12, 2008
A Palin Theocracy
Thursday 11 September 2008, by: Marjorie Cohn, t r u t h o u t | Perspective
John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate has invigorated a lackluster campaign. The media can’t stop talking about her. Given McCain’s age and state of health (his medical file was nearly 1,200 pages long), Palin [...]
July 11, 2008
Man Sues Church Over Spiritual Fall
July 10, 2008 01:45 PM EST | AP: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A man says he was so consumed by the spirit of God that he fell and hit his head while worshipping.
Now he wants Lakewind Church to pay $2.5 million for medical bills, lost income, and pain and suffering.
Matt Lincoln says he is suing after [...]
July 6, 2008
Ancient Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection
JERUSALEM — A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days.
If such a messianic description really [...]
