JALANDHAR: Taking a leaf out of Sikh religion, the followers of Bhagat Ravidass have declared ‘Ravidassia’, a separate religion and affirmed Guru Ravidass their sole master. They have also released a separate religious granth ‘Amrit Bani Guru Ravidass’ which will replace Guru Granth Sahib in all Ravidass temples
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Ravidass followers declare separate religion, released separate religious granth
On Thursday, a Miller County, Arkansas trial judge terminated the parental rights of six members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. Thirteen children from four families are involved. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the children were taken into protective custody by the state in 2008 in an investigation of physical and sexual abuse at the Ministries’ compound.
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Parental Rights Terminated For 13 Children From Alamo Ministries Compound
According to AP , last week the Tennessee State Board of Education approved guidelines for elective high school social studies courses teaching about the Bible and its historical content. The guidelines implement legislation passed in 2008 authorizing creation of a course focusing on “nonsectarian nonreligious academic study of the Bible and its influence on literature, art, music, culture and politics.” (See prior posting .) A Tennessee ACLU spokesperson said the new guidelines appear sensitive to concerns that the classes not be used to try to covert students. The legislation did not require districts with existing Bible courses to move to the state curriculum
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Tennessee Adopts Curriculum Guidelines For High School Bible Courses
LUCKNOW: The Sikh community of Lucknow has strongly condemned Samajwadi Party (SP) member Amar Singh for comparing the SP leaders with `Panj Piyare’. Under the aegis of the Lucknow Gurudwara Prabandhak Committee (LGPC), a notice has also been served on Amar Singh. “We want Amar Singh to apologise in public within 24 hours of the receiving the notice or else we will lodge an FIR against him for hurting the sentiments of the Sikh community,” said RS Bagga, president of LGPC
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Sikh community seeks apology from Amar
Americans hold a hodgepodge of religious beliefs and practices. Most (82 percent) of American adults believe in God, according to a recent Harris Poll. And large numbers believe in miracles (76 percent); heaven (75 percent); that Jesus is God or the Son of God (73 percent); in angels (72 percent); the survival of the soul after death (71 percent); and that Jesus was resurrected (70 percent).
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Americans often blend faiths
About 100 clergy and community members, teachers, administrators, board members and candidates gathered Saturday to reflect and pray about the future of the Kansas City School District. The prayer breakfast, at Zion Grove Missionary Baptist Church with the Concerned Clergy Coalition as host, did not feature political talk, but rather appeals for reconciliation and understanding.
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Prayer breakfast focuses on KC schools
The Council on American-Islamic Relations plans to file a complaint with the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division over the State of the City speech given this week by Lancaster, California’s mayor, R.
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Muslim Organization Objects To Remarks In Speech By California Mayor
Last week, it seemed like the case of Rifqa Bary was finally over. Her Muslim parents agreed that the 17-year old girl who fled, fearing her life was in danger because of her conversion to Christianity, could stay with her Ohio foster family, and that everyone would get counseling. (See prior posting .) According to today’s Columbus Dispatch , however, that agreement has been short-lived.
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Rifqa Bary’s Parents Seek to Withdraw Settlement Consent Entered Last Week
If only PD James had been on the Chilcot committee. After six hours of watching Tony Blair effortlessly deflect and disarm his interrogators at the Queen Elizabeth II centre on Friday, how could one not be struck by the contrast with the courteous evisceration that James recently performed on the BBC’s director-general?
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Why Blair can never admit to regrets
It is bad enough getting old. What makes it worse is the constant pressure, these days, to deny it or disguise it
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The insidious triumph of the facelifting classes