NGO asks Malaysian Government to promote Hinduism – New Kerala

Kuala Lumpur, May 4 : The Malaysian Government has been urged by an NGO, the Malaysia Hindu Sangam, to give more importance to the growth of Hinduism under the Tenth Malaysia Plan. NGO president Mohan Shan said that a memorandum on the matter had …

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A Gift for Your Preacher

Perhaps you’ve stumbled across this post.  Perhaps your pastor or a regular preacher in your church has “accidentally” linked to it (if so, forgive them, they must have linked here unawares!) What can you give a pastor, minister, elder, preacher?  I want to make one suggestion with various options built-in.  You can give them time . 1. Freedom from guilt as they guard their day-off and time with their family.

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Hindu prayer to open Bakersfield City Council in California – South Asia Mail

Hindu prayer to open Bakersfield City Council in California South Asia Mail Sanskrit is considered a sacred language in Hinduism and root language of Indo-European languages. Zed, who is the president of Universal Society of ..

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Friendship with God: Come Just As You Are

Hello everyone! Welcome to our May series, Friendship with God. As you probably know Lynn, Angela and I have been praying about this series

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Promote growth of Hinduism, says Malaysian NGO

Malaysia Hindu Sangam, an NGO, has asked the government to promote the growth of Hinduism, a media report said Tuesday.

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The Black Church in the New Republic, the New York Times, and NPR

Paul Harvey In a recent posting on The New Republic ‘s online The Book , Christine Stansell reviews a book that we’ve noted on the blog before: Bettye Collier-Thomas, Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion , a hefty 695 pp. work published by Knopf (almost, not quite, as long as Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age , see the post and comments on that book below!).

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Suppose This Machine Kills Fascists

I had already applied a ‘like’ flag to the video posted below, as I almost always do with videos uploaded by Thunderf00t , but this one highlights an idea I had been toying with myself before he expressed it more clearly and cogently — the idea that the free-wheeling, open nature of the internets makes it a terrible place for religious ideas.

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Suppose This Machine Kills Fascists

 
Palestinians’ Emotions Run High After a Fire Destroys a Mosque in the West Bank

A fire swept through a mosque in this Palestinian village early Tuesday, angering Palestinians who blamed extremist Israeli settlers although there was no proof yet.

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Ilani sheds light on Cabinets inter-faith panel

By Debra Chong KUALA LUMPUR, May 4 Inter-faith dialogue in Malaysia has for years ended in a shallow cul-de-sac, until last month, when the Najib administration set up a Cabinet committee to firmly address growing religious conflicts. The inclusion of senior bureaucrats from the powerful Department of Islamic Development (Jakim) and the influential national Institute of Islamic Understanding …

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Atheism – That's for ME!: Why Evolution is True – part 5

Atheism – That’s for ME! Here’s my little reasonable place in cyberspace to ask all the difficult questions about religion that I can’t help asking. The Main Rant link below outlines my questions and observations on religion from which …

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