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US religious freedom report points to rise in anti-Semitism

By   /  May 21, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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The US Department of State has released a report that points to the rise of discrimination against Jewish and Muslim people around the world.

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Biden Wants Pastors, Rabbis & Nuns to Tell Their Flocks: More Gun Control Is Moral Thing to Do

By   /  May 8, 2013  /  News, Politics, World  /  No Comments

Secretary Of State John Kerry And VP Biden Attend American Foreign Service Association Memorial Plague Ceremony

By Billy Hallowell | The Blaze Vice President Joe Biden has a commandment for pastors, rabbis and nuns: He wants them to tell their flocks that enacting gun control is the moral thing to do. But another vote may have to wait until Congress wraps up work on an immigration overhaul. Biden met for two-and-a-half hours [...]

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Fox News guest sparks outrage by saying ‘Muslims are evil. Let’s kill them all’ after Boston bombing

By   /  April 17, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

ANI A Fox News guest commentator Erik Rush has provoked a furious reaction after seemingly advocating the killing of Muslims in response to the Boston Marathon attack. With no information about the attackers yet made public, Rush appeared to imply in a tweet that the culprit was from Saudi Arabia. “@erikrush Everybody do the National [...]

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US priests removed over child rape

By   /  April 8, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia

Three American priests have been permanently removed from public ministry over allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct involving minors.

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Time: Your child’s religion may be ‘mental illness’

By   /  March 30, 2013  /  Health  /  No Comments

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According to an article published this week on Time magazine’s website, your child’s “fastidiousness to religious practices” may be a sign of mental illness.

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Mapping: Surveillance and its impact on American Muslims

By   /  March 14, 2013  /  Police State, World  /  No Comments

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The fear of surveillance suppresses religious practice, speech and political expression in America

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Islamization of Europe: Germany beats crosses into crescents

By   /  February 19, 2013  /  Europe, In Other News  /  No Comments

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By Nikita Sorokin | VOR The next German Unity Day on October 3, 2013, will see a grand namaz prayer in the former Lutheran church of Kapernaumkirche in Hamburg as a further sign of integration of local Muslims into the German and European society. It’s not the first instance of Hamburg’s surprising religious tolerance. Earlier, many eyebrows [...]

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Pope has immunity in abuse trials: Vatican

By   /  February 15, 2013  /  Europe, In Other News  /  No Comments

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By Mark Trevelyan | Reuters Pope Benedict, accused by victims’ lawyers of being ultimately responsible for an alleged cover-up of sexual abuse of children by priests, cannot be called to testify at any trial because he has immunity as a head of state, a top Vatican legal official said on Thursday. The interview with Giuseppe dalla [...]

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Benedict XVI’s successor predicted to become last pope before apocalypse

By   /  February 14, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

Pope Benedict XVI waves as he leads his weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican

ANI Doomsday fanatics have claimed that a 12th century prophecy states the successor to Benedict XVI will be the last pope before the end of the world. After the Mayan 2012 prophecies failed to materialise, apocalypse aficionados have turned their attention to the purported writings of St Malachy, an Irish saint and Archbishop of Armagh, [...]

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John Brennan, CIA nominee, may have converted to Islam

By   /  February 12, 2013  /  News, Politics, World  /  No Comments

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Al Arabiya A former FBI agent said on Saturday that there were indications that President Barack Obama’s CIA nominee John Brennan converted to Islam between 1996 and 1999 when he was the CIA station chief in Riyadh. Agent John Guandolo, who retired from the FBI in 2008, told the U.S. Trento Radio Show that Brennan [...]

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Saudi cleric calls for babies to wear burkas

By   /  February 5, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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JN1 A cleric in Saudi Arabia has issued a religious edict stating that baby girls should be forced to wear burkas, a full body covering typically worn by adult women in the country, to protect them from sexual assault. The edict has sparked outcry on social media platform Twitter with some people calling the move [...]

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Saudi order shops employing men and women to build segregation walls to keep them apart

By   /  January 30, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  1 Comment

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ANI Shops in Saudi Arabia have been ordered to construct walls to separate male and female employees in accordance with the country’s strict vice laws. The wall needs to be at least 5ft 3in high and will keep staff from seeing and communicating with workers of the opposite sex. According to the Daily Mail, the [...]

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