St. Luke’s Anglican Church in La Crescenta broke away from the Episcopal Church in 2006 in a dispute over biblical authority and interpretation, including consecration of an openly gay bishop.

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Thousands of people are expected to attend York Minster later as the relics of a 19th Century French nun arrive in the city.

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Atheists are shaking off their joyless image and trying to put forward a positive face. But most of all they just want to have fun

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Kentucky church ordains sex offender as minister
Some object, saying 41-year-old is still a threat to children

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Four years ago the Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, a monk who popularised Buddhism in the West, was invited by the Vietnamese government to return home after 39 years in exile.

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A suspect who claimed he was Jesus Christ in a mosque is currently being questioned by the Public Prosecution for offending a religion.

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Ignore the bells and the smells and the lovely Raphaels, the Pope’s visit to Britain is nothing to celebrate

Gordon Brown is ‘delighted’, David Cameron is ‘delighted’. I am ‘repelled’.

In his actions on child abuse and Aids, Joseph Ratzinger has colluded in the protection of paedophiles and the deaths of millions of Africans. As Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (Pope John Paul II’s chief enforcer), it was Ratzinger’s job to investigate the child abuse scandal that plagued the Catholic church for decades. And how did he do it? In May 2001 he wrote a confidential letter to Catholic bishops, ordering them not to notify the police – or anyone else – about the allegations, on pain of excommunication. He referred to a previous (confidential) Vatican document that ordered that investigations should be handled “in the most secretive way . . . restrained by a perpetual silence”. Excommunication is a joke to me, perhaps to you, but to a Catholic it means exclusion and perhaps hellfire – for trying to protect a child. Well, God is love.

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Subversive US cartoonist Robert Crumb, whose take on the Bible is about to be released worldwide, says people are “totally nuts” for taking the book so seriously for so long.

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The Roman Catholic church has hit back at criticisms of its record on paedophilia suggesting that child abuse could be rife in other religious groups it was reported.

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Joseph Infranco says it would be ludicrous to infer an endorsement of religion from a cross-shaped memorial. Erwin Chemerinsky says religious symbols belong in homes and places of worship, not on publicly owned property.

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Congregations shrink, faith schools close due to financial woes

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The provocative 1966 cover story set a record for sales and elicited more than 3,500 letters.

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Scientists are making progress in an activity traditionally reserved for religious miracle-men: making the blind see.  Recent advances in technology, genetics, brain science and biology are making the goal more feasible.

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Members to decide within 12 months on whether to split from church

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CreationCharles Darwin’s inner turmoil is laid bare in a subtle and persuasive biopic, says Philip French

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Israel is teetering toward theocracy, with the rise of the Haredim.

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India’s genes uncovered
Genetic exploration of the subcontinent has been slow to get going – but the latest findings offer some amazing insights

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Jewish dentist puts a clause in his will to disinherit any of his descendants who marry a non-Jew.

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Thousands of Muslims, prostrating themselves in prayer, gathered just feet from the Capitol on Friday for “A Day of Islamic Unity,” an event intended to showcase what organizers called the “peace, beauty and solidarity” of Islam.

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The worlds of economics and religion may seem far apart - but a meeting in South Korea has been attempting to narrow the gap between the two.

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