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42% of people think religion is harmful, but more than half believe in God - new YouGov poll
Top Pentagon officials/4 generals face disciplinary action for promoting Christianity
Christian denominations outside Roman Catholicism are either defective or are not full churches of Jesus Christ, the new report from the Vatican has reaffirmed.
Inscription on
clay tablet is dramatic proof of the accuracy of the Old Testament.
A former mosque leader has warned that extremists are aiming to establish Muslim Sharia law in the UK, and that Britain has become the world's 'number-one targe't for Islamic strategists.
Episcopal Church in Cuba ordains first woman bishop
Church of England at war with Sony over violent computer game set in 'Manchester Cathedral'
US Survey: 50% of Christian men and 20% of Christian women admit they are 'addicted to porn' - demonstrating a "dynamic paradigm shift in the behavior of Christians over the last four years".
Post-communist churches face 'post-Christian' challenges
Is there a God? To believe or not to believe - Economist article
Got £50k? Village church for sale - see video.
Religion is 'violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children,' says Hitchens in his new book. Meanwhile, angry atheists top best-seller lists.
Anglicans are 'obsessed' by gay issue - Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Canada Catholics ordain women - see BBC News website
40 years on: what is the legacy of the Six-Day War? Read Economist article.
Witchcraft is on the rise among young women in the UK, according to the CEN, because of its feminist values.
Popular TV shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed are believed to be influential.
The Religious Education (RE) Council says a national strategy is needed because of ‘the urgent need for renewal of Religious Education' in schools, colleges and universities - they claim there is ‘widespread ignorance' about religion and beliefs.
Cambs vicar faces tribunal. His crime? Wanting to instal toilets, move the day of the harvest festival, and remove a few pews.
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Meanwhile a heavily tattooed vicar fills an Angelesy post vacant for 20 years.
China's Television and Licensing Authority (TELA) refused to submit the Bible to the Obscene Articles Tribunal for reclassification as an indecent publication despite receiving some 2,041 complaints by Hong Kong citizens this week, according to Reuters.
Alpha will advertise on TV in September, coinciding with Big Brother
A new book says America has turned Jesus into just another branded commodity
Moves away from Catholicism to Pentecostalism in South America (The Economist May 2007)
See CNN clip on the man who claims he is the Second Coming - and whose 'ministry' is large and growing. See also promo video made by his 'church' (translated from Spanish). Read Miami Herald article about him.
The debate over creation and evolution, once most conspicuous in America, is fast going global. From the Economist, 19 April.
We're not in heaven yet: where was God in the Virginia Tech shootings? And why are American politicians still refusing to address gun control?
Major Tearfund survey on churchgoing finds that nearly 3 million more people would attend church if only they were asked.
Religion is back: Independent article says the media has fallen in love with religious programming all over again
Then again, "Religion is created... by a species half a chromosome away from a chimpanzee," according to author and journalist Christopher Hitchens (read Guardian Online article)
University of Chicago survey discovers that most doctors believe that religion & spirituality have positive effects on illness.
A new BBC survey has revealed that 33% of Christians in the UK think that the way they are portrayed in the media amounts to discrimination.
Parenting approach affects depth of children's faith.
The Easter Bunny is too Christian and has been renamed Peter rabbit.
Meanwhile, Somerfield celebrates Easter... and 'the birth of Christ'
US churches struggle with having known sex offenders in the congregation
12 students suspended for 10 days for praying before 7am at school in the 'land of the free'; complainant is an alleged satanist.
US biology teacher sacked for referring to the bible in class on evolution
Exposing Faith Through the XXX Church - dealing with pornography
Archbishop Sentamu provides powerful & thought-provoking answers to questions from the public (The Independent, Dec 2006)
"Postmodernism has taken tolerance to the extremes..." read excellent Guardian article
"Jews around the world are gradually ceasing to regard Israel as a focal point.." article in the Economist, Jan 2007 |
