Indy Channel News today reports that in response to an ACLU lawsuit filed earlier this month, the Fairfield, Indiana school district board voted unanimously yesterday to end a Bible class that was offered in the district’s New Paris Elementary School.
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School Board Drops Bible Class In Response To Lawsuit
The government is urging councils across the country to stop giving hundreds of thousands of pounds in tax breaks to the Church of Scientology . The communities secretary, Eric Pickles, said a majority of the public did not want the “controversial organisation” to be given the kind of favourable treatment usually reserved for charities and questioned this use of public money.
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UK Government urges councils to stop giving tax breaks to Scientology
“Allahu Akbar!” For anyone who paid attention to the news last year, the words shouted by the gunman responsible for a rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 32 at Food Hood, Texas, come as no surprise. In widespread news accounts, witnesses reported that Maj. Nidal Hasan, an American-born Muslim, shouted the Arabic phrase for “God is great!” before opening fire.
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Do all readers speak Arabic?
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom this week sent a letter ( full text ) to President Obama urging him to highlight the importance of religious freedom during his upcoming visits to Indonesia and India. On Indonesia, the letter said: In our visit earlier this year, USCIRF was impressed by the commitments made by officials from different levels of government to advance religious freedom and related human rights as essential to Indonesia’s democratic future.
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USCIRF Urges Obama To Raise Religious Freedom Issues On His Trip To Indonesia, India
Islamic banking is growing fast in Malaysia which is promoting itself as the world’s center for Shariah compliant financial products. Bloomberg Business Week reports today that Malaysian banking assets that comply with the Islamic ban on interest rose to the equivalent of $109 billion (US)– 20% of Malaysia’s total banking assets. Also Islamic insurance (takaful) now accounts for 9% of Malaysia’s insurance industry.
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Malaysia Promotes Islamic Finance
Before we discuss a new story about problems at President Obama’s faith-based office, a bit of context. While funding of religious non-profits did not begin with President Bush, he really took that ball and ran with it. he created the first White House office of Faith-based Initiatives.
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Obama’s faith-based office criticized
Oneindia Divine Mother Everywhere-Recall During Durga Puja Oneindia Universal oneness is the essence of Hinduism .
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Divine Mother Everywhere-Recall During Durga Puja – Oneindia
A massive global evangelical gathering known as the Lausanne Congress will begin Oct. 16 in Cape Town, South Africa. But it looks likely to take place without the participation of 230 Chinese delegates.
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Beijing Blocks Travelers To Christian Conference
The occult has always focused on gory images of violence, death and destruction. We see it in today’s media, music, and movies. As people become desensitized to occult violence and horror, the images in popular entertainment grow increasingly and indescribably evil.
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Death Makes a Holiday: Halloween
Peshawar, Oct 13 (PTI) A delegation of the minority Sikh community has travelled to the restive Orakzai tribal region of northwest Pakistan to assess the security situation in the area and condition of their homes which they had abandoned after the military launched an operation against the local Taliban. The delegation, which was escorted to Orakzai by officials of the local administration, comprised elders of 58 Sikh families. with thanks : MSN News : link in headline above for detailed news
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Delegation of displaced Sikhs travels to Orakzai