For the first time in almost 1,000 years, many of the legendary Byzantine treasures of Mount Athos in Greece are on view to women.
Almost 200 works of art from the male-only Orthodox enclave in northern Greece are on show at the Petit Palais in Paris until July. Most of the works have never previously left [...]
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May 7, 2009
Women “allowed” to see treasures for first time in 1000 years.
May 1, 2009
Church Going Americans More Likely To Support Torture
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 [...]
April 14, 2009
Taliban executes eloping Afgan couple
HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP) – Afghanistan’s extremist Taliban publicly executed a young couple who had tried to elope, a provincial governor said Tuesday.
The pair were shot dead on Monday in front of a mosque in the southwestern province of Nimroz, an area where the Islamists have influence.
It followed a decree by local religious leaders that they [...]
April 13, 2009
Afgan Official Gunned Down for Women’s Rights Efforts
AP, 4/13/09, Noor Kaan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A female provincial official known for fighting for women’s rights was gunned down in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, following a day of fighting in the region that left 22 militants dead, officials said.
A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmedi, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Gunmen killed Sitara Achakzai outside her home [...]
March 9, 2009
Saudis order 40 lashes for elderly woman for mingling
By Mohammed Jamjoom and Saad Abedine
(CNN) — A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two unrelated men in her house, according to local media reports.
According to the Saudi daily newspaper Al-Watan, troubles for the woman, Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, began [...]
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 [...]
February 18, 2009
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The crime drips with brutal irony: a woman decapitated, allegedly by her estranged husband, in the offices of the television network the couple founded with the hope of countering Muslim stereotypes.
CAROLYN THOMPSON | February 17, 2009 09:17 PM EST | AP |
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — The crime drips with brutal irony: a woman decapitated, allegedly by her estranged husband, in the offices of the television network the couple founded with the hope of countering Muslim stereotypes.
Muzzammil “Mo” Hassan is accused of beheading his wife last [...]
December 8, 2008
Judge allows charges in prayer death case
by Robert Imrie
The Associated Press, Dec. ‘08
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) – A judge Monday refused to dismiss reckless homicide charges against parents accused of praying instead of seeking a doctor’s care as their 11-year-old daughter died of untreated diabetes.
Marathon County Circuit Judge Vincent Howard rejected arguments that prosecuting Dale and Leilani Neumann violated their constitutional rights [...]
December 8, 2008
‘Winter solstice’ sign brings hundreds of protesters to Capitol
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OLYMPIA, WA — Several hundred people rallied Sunday at the state Capitol to protest a holiday display inside that provoked a national outcry by disparaging religion and declaring there is no God.
The “winter solstice” sign sponsored by the atheistic Freedom from Religion Foundation calls religion “myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves [...]
December 8, 2008
Rights vs. Rights
A recent statement approved by U.S. Roman Catholic bishops warned President-elect Barack Obama that “aggressively pro-abortion policies, legislation and executive orders will permanently alienate tens of millions of Americans, and would be seen by many as an attack on the free exercise of their religion.” -pewforum.com, title by JSNTR
December 8, 2008
Albinos Hunted For Body Parts In Africa
Telegraph.co.uk, Dec. 8, 2008
White-skinned albinos are being killed by their own people in Tanzania, who believe their body parts will add potency to black magic rituals.
In the past week, two Tanzanian albinos have been murdered for their limbs.
Elizabeth Hussein, 13, was attacked by men with machetes and Ezekiel John, 47, had his arms and [...]
July 8, 2008
Full-Quiver Theology
Christine Wicker, Huffington Post……Last week, I told you about a sermon given by Bruce Ware, a professor of Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He used the Bible to back up his notion that God means for women to be submissive to men and that men because of their sinful nature beat women who [...]
July 4, 2007
On this day, the fourth of July, 2007….
the single greatest threat to church-state separation in America is the movement known as the Religious Right. Organizations and leaders representing this religio-political crusade seek to impose a fundamentalist Christian viewpoint on all Americans through government action.Americans United, as part of our educational responsibility, regularly monitors the agenda and activities of the Religious Right. We [...]
