Pontiff prays for healing for victims, families in sex abuse scandal

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Evidence from seal fossils adds yet more weight to evolutionary theory. Those still sceptical about it have nothing to fear

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Two months after the local atheist organization here put up a billboard saying “Don’t Believe in God? You Are Not Alone,” the group’s 13 board members met in Laura and Alex Kasman’s living room to grapple with the fallout.

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A referendum in Germany has failed to give children a choice between classes in secular ethics or religion.

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Supporters, opponents expect the issue to be revisited in the future

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Atheists are targeting schools in a campaign designed to challenge Christian societies, collective worship and religious education.

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33 houses of worship defied ban on political campaign activity

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New baptisms fall to lowest level in more than two decades

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Voters in Berlin are preparing to go to the polls to decide whether children should have a choice between classes in secular ethics or religion.

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Voters in Berlin are preparing to go to the polls to decide whether children should have a choice between classes in secular ethics or religion.

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Malaysia bans the religious conversion of children without both parents’ consent, in a major step to ease ethnic tensions. /// religious conversion

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QUANTUM mechanics is remarkably weird: even though it is well understood mathematically and can produce accurate, ultra-precise predictions, nobody really knows what it means. This leaves lots of room for people in search of the spiritual - and who are not burdened by any knowledge of mathematics - to impose on it whatever quasi-religious beliefs or interpretations they like.

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Plaintiff alleges that priest in La Habra molested him repeatedly in the church rectory and sometimes gave him muscle relaxants and sleeping pills beforehand.

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After Reaching Deal in North, Islamists Aim to Install Religious Law Nationwide

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V. Gene Robinson feels ‘like a walking, talking Rorschach.’ Some Anglicans cast him out; others see him as the church’s future. Obama, Elton John, Ian McKellen and GLAAD like him, too.

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The Obama administration announced Friday that it planned to lift some but not all federal financing restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research, drawing criticism both from abortion opponents and from scientists who had expected a more liberal policy.

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A leader of a radical Muslim group which Tony Blair promised to ban four years ago has called on followers to support jihad against Israel at a rally in London.

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Atheists must turn down the volume and have a real conversation - or lose out to the fluffy brigade

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The program, created by a leader of the L.A.-based Kabbalah Centre International, is promoted as a way to teach children how to make wise choices. Critics say it brings religion into public schools.

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For years, the Western world has listened aghast to stories out of Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern nations of citizens being imprisoned or executed for questioning or offending Islam. But now an equally troubling trend is developing in the West.

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