Blogs Posts in Religious category; 17 blog posts

Still on PDP SEC dissolution controversy

In this report, Alphonsus Agborh examines the intrigues trailing the Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC)’s role on the dissolution of some state PDP executives committee. The issue of the dissolution of th [...]

Posted On : Oct, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

Religious Nuts Pray For Lightning

A former military lawyer who worked in the Reagan administration is filing an unusual lawsuit Mikey Weinstein, who has aroused the ire of religious extremists. In his capacity as head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation has sued G [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2009 | Comments : 0

Religious illiteracy alarms educators

Half of American high-school seniors surveyed recently thought Sodom and Gomorrah were a married couple. A McGill University professor's reference to the patience of Job drew blank stares from students in his religion course. An art histo [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

Religion remains sensitive topic

Breckenridge County in Northwest Kentucky, just west of Elizabethtown, played host to a controversial scene that included a mixture of public education, sports and religion. With Kentucky firmly entrenched in the Bible Belt, it is no [...]

Posted On : Sep, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

Spencer's second 'religious liberty' draft policy released

Spencer Superintendent Greg Ebeling admits that portions of the district's second "religious liberty" draft policy have been taken from other sources and sample policies. The second draft's author also acknowledges it still needs [...]

Posted On : Sep, 04 2009 | Comments : 0

Religious harmony can defeat anti state elements

We will make Pakistan a peaceful place to live with interfaith harmony and it should be a compulsory subject. Scholars can play an important role in this regard, it was stated by the Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti w [...]

Posted On : Aug, 31 2009 | Comments : 0

Three more religious outfits banned

The government has banned as many as 25 organizations while placing one on watch list under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997, Federal Minster for Interior Rehman Malik told the National Assembly on Wednesday. In written reply to a questio [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

Israel - pope to urge universal religious freedom

Look for Pope Benedict XVI to emphasize interreligious cooperation when he visits the Holy Land, May 8-15, says Reverend James Massa, director of the U.S. Bishops’ Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. Father Massa h [...]

Posted On : May, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

Religious minorities condemn NAR in Swat

“No matter how much blood religious extremists shed, we will not migrate from our homeland Pakistan. We are citizens of this country first and a religious minority later,” vowed Sardar Ramesh Singh, Chairman Sikh Naujawan Sabah, [...]

Posted On : Apr, 28 2009 | Comments : 0

Religion, modernity co-exist in harmony

Lighting up a ghee lamp devoutly, turning a prayer wheel slowly and spending a day walking around colored Mani stone mounds -- traveling hundreds of miles from a pasture more than 4,300 m above sea level to the Jiana Mani Stone Mound in X [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2009 | Comments : 0

The Religious Right Worships the State

In 1912 a researcher named Émile Durkheim published a work which he called “The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life”. To simplify a lot of what he said, it basically boiled down to, the images of religion and God withi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

C11: Reporters get some religions

It would be hard to pick up the big newspapers right now and try to argue that the major, elite media are not trying to “get religion” right now. It’s like the editors have all walked the aisle at the President Barack Obam [...]

Posted On : Jan, 20 2009 | Comments : 0

Roadside bomb takes American death toll in Iraq to 4,000

The number of US troops to die in Iraq since the invasion began five years ago hit 4,000 last night after a roadside bomb in Baghdad killed four soldiers. The morbid milestone will likely strengthen calls for US forces to be withdrawn f [...]

Posted On : Mar, 24 2008 | Comments : 0

Bush to hail prospect of Iraq "strategic victory"

President George W. Bush will acknowledge on Wednesday the Iraq war has been fought at a high cost but will insist a U.S. troop buildup has opened the door to a "major strategic victory" against Islamic militants. "The succe [...]