A Protestant pastor in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana, Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev, was arrested on criminal charges of harming health on 17 May, Forum 18 News Service has learned. On 19 May he was ordered to be held for two months’ detention pre-trial detent…
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Chavie Lieber (“Tablet,” May 14, 2013)
While Jews study a number of religious books—from the Talmud to the Shulchan Aruch—the text that provides the religion’s very foundation is the Torah. And the version of the Torah most commonly studied by Jews is known as the Masoretic text, the most authoritative Hebrew version of the Torah.
But it is not the only one.
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Sarah Posner (“The National Memo,” May 20, 2013)
Even before the ink was dry on the Treasury Department Inspector General’s report on the IRS, Franklin Graham, son of evangelical icon Billy Graham, wrote a letter to President Obama, demanding that the president “take some immediate action to reassure Americans we are not in a new chapter of America’s history—repressive government rule.
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(Reuters, May 20, 2013)
Officials reported that claim 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a military operation to try to crush the insurgency in the northeast.
In their biggest offensive since the insurgency began in 2009, Nigerian forces a…
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John Blake (“CNN,” May 19, 2013)
“God, help me!”
Eben Alexander shouted and flailed as hospital orderlies tried to hold him in place. But no one could stop his violent seizures, and the 54-year-old neurosurgeon went limp as his horrified wife looked on.
That moment could have been the end. But Alexander says it was just the beginning.
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(AFP, May 20, 2013)
Indonesian religious minorities on Monday slammed a decision by a US interfaith group to honor President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at a time when attacks against minority faiths are on the increase.
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Miriam Arghandiwal & Ibrahimi Aziz (Reuters, May 18, 2013)
Afghanistan’s parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women’s rights in the conservative Muslim country since the Islam…
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Sinan Salaheddin (AP, May 20, 2013)
Baghdad – A wave of attacks killed at least 79 people in Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, officials said, pushing the death toll over the past week to more than 200 and extending one of the most sustained bo…
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John Bingham (“The Telegraph,” May 19, 2013)
Leaders representing tens of thousands of worshippers at mosques across the country, have signed a joint letter to The Sunday Telegraph accusing the Government of attacking “the cornerstone of family life”
It is the first time that Muslim leaders have made a collective intervention on the issue and underlines the strength of feeling among ethnic minority voters.
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Philip Pullella (Reuters, May 18, 2013)
Pope Francis shared personal moments with 200,000 people on Saturday, telling them he sometimes nods off while praying at the end of a long day and that it “breaks my heart” that the death of a homeless person is…
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Chick-fil-A continues to be the fast-food of choice for gay marriage haters. The latest indication: An advertisement in a Dayton, Ohio newspaper offering $25 Chick-fil-A…
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The Dalai Lama showed he was ready to dance at the Tulane University graduation on Saturday, May 18th at the Superdome in New Orleans. As…
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Snakes appear in almost every one of the museum’s exhibits, perhaps as a reminder of Satan’s lone virtue: persistence.
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By Bill Mears, CNN Supreme Court Producer Washington (CNN) – A dispute over public prayers at town board meetings will be taken up by the Supreme Court in coming months, another contentious case over the intersection of faith and the public arena. The justices announced Monday it will decide whether a New York community may […]
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers…
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