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Polygamy: Muslim peer says issue has been avoided because of ‘cultural sensitivity’
None
February 20, 2009
Telegraph.co.uk
The issue of polygamy has been avoided by politicians because of cultural sensitivity a Baroness Warsi has said.
Indian nun claims sex is rife within Catholic Church
February 19, 2009
Telegraph, UK
An Indian nun has stunned the Catholic Church with a confessional autobiography claiming widespread sexual abuse and bullying within its cloisters.
Hand-copying the Bible, one person per verse
Joanna Lin
February 16, 2009
Los Angeles Times
Bible Across America tour invites people nationwide to participate. The Smithsonian Institution will get an original; prints will sell as ‘America’s NIV.’ Next stop: Rolling Hills Estates.
Extremist Muslim preachers targeted in new counterterrorism strategy
Duncan Gardham
February 16, 2009
The Telegraph
Extremist Muslim preachers who claim that Western society is incompatible with their religion are to be targeted by the Government.
Bible, yoga and YouTube: all part of Jewish identity
By Ari B. Bloomekatz
February 15, 2009
LA Times
At LimmudLA conference in Costa Mesa, Jews gather to teach one another about the personal ways they relate to their faith.
Peace or Jihad? Abrogation in Islam Muslims, Democracy, and the American Experience War and Peace -
Raymond Ibrahim
February 15, 2009
Pajamas Media
The Biology Of Belief
Jeffrey Kluger
February 14, 2009
Time
Most folks probably couldn’t locate their parietal lobe with a map and a compass. For the record, it’s at the top of your head — aft of the frontal lobe, fore of the occipital lobe, north of the temporal lobe. What makes the parietal lobe special is not where it lives but what it does — particularly concerning matters of faith.
Britain Refuses Entry to Dutch Lawmaker Whose Remarks and Film Have Angered Muslims
John F. Burns
February 14, 2009
The New York Times
A Dutch member of Parliament who has compared the Koran to “Mein Kampf” and blamed Islamic texts for inciting the 9/11 attacks was detained by immigration officials at Heathrow Airport on Thursday and forced to board the next flight back to the Netherlands. His deportation had been ordered by Britain’s home secretary on the grounds that his presence in Britain endangered public safety.
Celebrating Valentine’s Day at Jerry Falwell’s College
Kevin Roose
February 14, 2009
The Huffington Post
At most American colleges, young lovers are spending Valentine’s Day doling out Whitman’s samplers, stuffed animals, and long-stemmed roses to their crushes and significant others, hoping to get lucky in the process. Not so at Liberty University, the late Reverend Jerry Falwell’s “Bible Boot Camp” for young evangelicals.
Christians face discrimination in workplace say church leaders
Jonathan Wynne-Jones
February 14, 2009
Telegraph.co.uk
Almost two thirds of the Church of England General Synod believe Christians are the victims of discrimination in the workplace.
Indian extremist group targets Valentine’s Day
Mark Magnier and Pavitra Ramaswamy
February 13, 2009
Los Angeles Times
Police are on alert after Hindu radicals who earlier attacked women at a pub vow to round up any young couples celebrating the holiday, which they say is offensive to Indian culture.
Despite these riots, I stand by what I wrote
Johann Hari
February 13, 2009
The Independent
Last week, I wrote an article defending free speech for everyone – and in response there have been riots, death threats, and the arrest of an editor who published the article.
Christian school receptionist row: More bishops speak out in support of Jennie Cain
Martin Beckford and Caroline Gammell
February 13, 2009
Telegraph.co.uk
Christianity is not just something that happens between consenting adults behind closed doors a bishop has said as support grows for the receptionist who faces the sack in a row with her school over religion.
Science v superstition, not religion
Andrew Brown
February 13, 2009
Guardian.co.uk
We are not going to understand the growth of creationism in modern England so long as we think of it as a primarily Christian phenomenon, or even a religious one.
Dawkins takes on the ex-bishop
Adam Rutherford
February 13, 2009
Guardian.co.uk
Battle of the Oxford heavyweights over evolution turns into a bit of a love-up. Adam Rutherford keeps score
Egyptian Christian’s recognition struggle
Christopher Landau
February 13, 2009
BBC News
Maher al-Gohary has converted from Islam to Christianity. In spite of facing death threats, he’s engaged in a legal battle to have his changed religion recognised on his official Egyptian documents.
Darwin was right. Up to a point
Simon Conway Morris
February 12, 2009
Guardian.co.uk
When physicists speak of not only a strange universe, but one even stranger than we can possibly imagine, they articulate a sense of unfinished business that most neo-Darwinians don’t even want to think about, says Simon Conway Morris
Belfast battle over Darwin exhibition
Henry MacDonald
February 11, 2009
guardian.co.uk
DUP assembly member Mervyn Storey calls for creationist display to challenge evolution theory
Darwin and the Darwinists
Steven Rose
February 10, 2009
Guardian.co.uk
As a Darwinian I take it for granted that human psychology has been shaped by our evolutionary past – but EP’s claims go way beyond this
Search on for graves of unbaptized babies
Associated Press
February 10, 2009
msnbc
Unmarked site expected to contain hundreds buried by Catholic Church







