A French sect leader wanted in his home country over kidnapping, torture and extortion charges will be extradited from Malta, after a case at the Constitutional Court was thrown out on Friday morning. Alain Schmitt headed the Minh Vacma sect.
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Minh Vacma cult leader Alain Schmitt to be extradited from Malta
In Council on American-Islamic Relations v. Callahan , (ED MI, April 29, 2010), a Michigan federal district court dismissed a case in which a Muslim woman, Raneen Albaghdady, sued a state court judge who requested that she remove her hijab in his court room.
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Muslim Woman Loses Suit Against Judge Who Banned Hijab In Courtroom
According to reports from RTT News and CNN , yesterday Belgium’s Chamber of Deputies– the lower house of the Belgian Parliament– passed a bill that would ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa in public places. More precisely, the legislation bans clothing that would hide the identity of the wearer in any place that provides services to the public or is meant for public use. This includes public transportation, streets, parks and sports grounds, though authorities could grant exceptions for special events such as carnivals.
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Lower House of Belgian Parliament Passes Burqa Ban
In Church of Christ in Hollywood v. Cage-Barile , (CA App., April 27, 2010), a California appellate court upheld against constitutional attack an injunction issued barring an expelled Church member from entering Church property.
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Court Can Enjoin Expelled Member From Entering Church Property
Yesterday in Britain’s Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Laws sharply rejected charges that the regular judges of the court do not understand Christianity or other relgious faiths. He reiterated an earlier decision of the court to refuse to allow an appeal of a controversial employment discrimination case. Last November, the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld the right of a counseling service to require employees to serve all clients.
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British Appeals Court Rejects Plea For Special Panel To Adjudicate Religious Rights Cases
In today’s Gospel from John, Jesus tells his disciples that “there are many dwelling places” in his father’s house. We typically think of Jesus as referring to heaven when speaking of his father’s house, which doubtless explains why this is a passage sometimes chosen as the Gospel reading for funerals
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Dwelling Places
HINDUS, WHO have vehemently protested against his 2008 release “The Love Guru”, have wished good luck to Mike Myers on his upcoming venture “Austin Powers 4” as long as he assured not to denigrate Hinduism in his future movies. Acclaimed …
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Hindus, who protested ‘Love Guru’, wish Mike Myers good luck – Meri News
Broadly speaking, there wasn’t much difference between atheist and fundamentalist. Atheist and agnostic women fantasize more and more widely, and strong religions belief seems to have a mild suppressing effect on sexuality …
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Atheism vs. Religion in the Latest Sex Survey | Unreasonable Faith
Most young adults today don’t pray, don’t worship and don’t read the Bible , a major survey by a Christian research firm shows. Among the 65% who call themselves Christian , “many are either mushy Christians or Christians in name only,” Rainer says. “Most are just indifferent
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Survey: 72% of Millennials ‘more spiritual than religious’
It’s estimated that more than a thousand young men and women — mostly men — have escaped or been thrown out of the community known as “The Crick,” the towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., dominated by the polygamous Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints sect. Getting those young adults to talk about their lives in and out of “The Crick” was difficult, say the filmmakers who have profiled some of those exiled teens for the documentary “Sons of Perdition.”
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‘Sons of Perdition’ profiles FLDS cult exiles