Editor's Note: This is the last entry in a short, occasional series of guest columns by two local constitutional law experts exploring pertinent issues of the day.
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Proposition 8: Values War in play
It remains one of the non-Muslims’ gravamina that they find it increasingly difficult to build their places of worship. But recently, the Johor state government not only approved the building of a church, it also contributed RM200,000 to its cons…
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19. Leading with an open heart
More closures of non-Muslim religious clubs in Malaysian schools, including Christian fellowships, have surfaced since the first incident was reported on July 12.
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Religious Club Closures in Schools Touch Nerve in Malaysia
A Muslim woman who claimed to have converted to Hinduism failed to secure divorce and a maintenance order from the Delhi High Court under the Hindu Marriage Act after she failed to prove that she had changed her religion.
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No divorce as Woman fails to prove conversion
Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits, one of the country’s leading elders in contemporary Paganism , died on Thursday. Bonewits was an expert on ancient and modern Druidism as well as an author, lecturer and songwriter.
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Longtime Paganism Leader And Lecturer Isaac Bonewits Dies
I came to this conclusion after watching Edwin Kagin, national legal director of American Atheists Inc recently on ABC’s Nightline. Apparently he is offering “de-baptisms” at the annual American Atheists Convention in Newark, …
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Former atheist: one of the many problems with atheism is atheists …
A group of Canadian imams on Friday denounced radical Islam in a joint statement that promotes peace and calls for equality between men and women. The seven point declaration, signed by 38 influential clerics belonging to the Canadian Council of Imams, is designed to be read in hundreds of mosques across Canada at the start of the holy month of Ramadan.
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Canadian imams condemn radical Islam
People often ask me what Islam says about this or what Islam says about that.
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William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: Which ‘Islam’? Exploring the Word’s Many Meanings
Today the Catholic Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, a Franciscan priest who was a missionary in Japan. During World War II, by which time he had returned to Poland, he was imprisoned in Auschwitz
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Maximilian Kolbe on the Origin of Existence
A doorman protects the entrance to your home, but four deities take care of that job for the city of Hanoi.
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Protective gods worshipped at temples on capital’s four corners