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From Tiger to Tebow: Secular Left Doesn't Get Religion in Sports NewsBusters (blog) You may be OK that "coaches use religion to build character and cohesion," and maybe "a majority of players don't mind their football mixed with Christian … Few Rooms In Media's Inn For ReligionThe Jewish Week Opinion: Brit Hume, Buddhism, and graceAssociated Baptist Press Does the media hate Christians?The Week Magazine The Hill (blog) -Toledo Blade all 132 news articles »

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'My God is bigger, badder than your God' USA Today The current drum major is Brit Hume, appearing at microphones daily to repeat his call to Tiger to turn to Jesus and Hume's own religion. … Brit Hume: Christians can be adulterers, tooBoston Globe Shales on TV Live: Brit Hume's advice for Tiger Woods, moreWashington Post Analyst: Tiger Woods should become a ChristianWTOP The North Star National -Raw Story -NPR (blog) all 198 news articles »

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Tiger, forget Buddhism, find Christ: Brit Hume on Fox USA Today I don't think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redeption that is offered by the Christian faith. So my message to Tiger would be, "Tiger, … The Right Rev. Brit Hume points the way to Tiger's redemptionAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog) Brit Hume: Tiger Woods must become Christian to be forgivenRaw Story Hume to Tiger: Choose ChristianityPolitico St. Louis Post-Dispatch (blog) all 37 news articles »

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Secular campaigners publish series of anti-religious quotes and say they will challenge law if charged with blasphemy Henry McDonald , Ireland correspondent Björk’s comment on Buddhism has been included in the series of anti-religious quotes published

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Christ and his India connection as the world celebrates Christmas Friday. Some historians believe he spent 17 years of early life – from the age of 13 to 30 – in India learning Buddhism and the Vedas. ‘There are references that Christ’s family (parents)

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The Elijah Interfaith Institute will be hosting the Fourth Meeting of the Elijah Board of World Religious Leaders in Israel from October 18-22. Over 50 religious leaders from around the world will be participating, representing Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and Sikh, reports Elijah Interfaith Institute in its press release. Representatives from the Vatican and of the Dalai Lama will be in attendance. Previous meetings were held in Spain, Taiwan and India, and this year’s event is be… >>

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” ‘That book was really hard!’ readers have told me reproachfully, shaking their heads in faint reproof. ‘Of course it was!’ I want to reply; ‘It was about God.’ ” Karen Armstrong, a former Catholic nun and the author of books about Islam and Buddhism as well as Christianity, has no intention of making the idea of God comfortable. In fact, she thinks that a significant…

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Buddhism is the fastestgrowing religion in England’s jails with the number of followers rising eightfold over the past decade.

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Buddhism is the fastestgrowing religion in England’s jails with the number of followers rising eightfold over the past decade.

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Religion scholar stresses events over emotions Boston Globe Throughout his life, Smith remained a Christian, although he eventually embraced and serially practiced Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, each for a decade …

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Laos (MNN) — Meanwhile, plain-clothes police in Laos have arrested 13 Christians, Voice of the Martyrs-Canada reports. The believers had been on a daily visit to work in a Christian village when the police questioned them. Officials have not yet given a reason for the arrest, or for the ongoing detention of the believers at a provincial police station. Laos places heavy restrictions on Christians, and openly promotes Buddhism and Buddhist organizations. Pray for the spread of the Gospel in Laos.

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DHAKA, Bangladesh, May 21 (Compass Direct News) – Buddhist villagers in southeastern Bangladesh forced Christians to participate in a Buddhist cremation rite for a deceased family member last weekend and demanded money for a post-funeral ceremony. Uttam Lal Chakma, 55, died last Friday (May 15) after a long illness in Dighinala sub-district of Khagrachari hill district, some 400 kilometers (250 miles) southeast of Dhaka. He had converted from Buddhism to Christianity two years ago. Pastor Vubon Chakma and Christian villagers sought to give him a Christian burial the next day, but a hostile group of local Buddhists forcibly stopped them from doing so, according to a local Christian source. The source told Compass that a member of the Buddhist group told family members, “He was born as a Buddhist, and he will be buried as a Buddhist.” The source said that the Buddhists demanded 12,000 taka ($US177) to hold a post-funeral ceremony today, to which they planned to invite more than 250 Buddhists, including their local monk. At press time the amount had not been given, but the area Buddhists had taken no action, the source said.

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An Anglican clergyman elected as a bishop has defended his right to use the practices of Zen Buddhism to deepen his Christian faith. Conservatives in The Episcopal Church of the US are demanding that Rev Kevin Thew Forrester, a priest in the diocese of Northern Michigan, be barred from the episcopate because he received a “lay ordination” from a Buddhist group. For his election to be ratified, Dr Forrester will need the consent of a majority of bishops in The Episcopal Church as well as of diocesan standing committees. Conservatives in the US, who have so far failed to unseat the openly gay…

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"Buddhism is not merely a series of practices, saying so devalues it. Buddhism is an entire worldview." — James Tonkowich, IRD President

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 /Christian Newswire/ — An Episcopal priest who has received a Buddhist lay ordination has been elected bishop in the Diocese of Northern Michigan. The Rev. Kevin Thew Forrester, who has served in the diocese since 2001, Source: The Institute on Religion & Democracy

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London: A leading scholar has come up with a remarkable new theory that Charles Darwin’s views on human compassion and morality were strikingly similar to those held by Buddhists. According to a report in The Independent, Professor Paul Ekman, a leading

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Buddhist clerics and local council officials are holding 13 newly converted Christians captive in a pagoda in a southeastern mountainous district of Bangladesh in an attempt to forcibly return them to Buddhism. –

Compass Direct News reports A spokesman for the Parbatta Adivasi (Hill Tract) Christian Church
told Compass on condition of anonymity that “the plight of the
Christians is horrifying.”

Local government council officials in Jorachuri sub-district in
Rangamati district, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) southeast of Dhaka,
are helping the Buddhist monks to hold the Christians against their
will, he said.

“The 13 tribal Christians were taken forcefully to a pagoda on
Dec. 10 to accept Buddhism against their will,” he said. “They will be
kept in a pagoda for 10 days to perform the rituals to be Buddhists –
their heads were shaved, and they were given yellow saffron robes to
dress in.”

All the captive Christians are men between 28 and 52 years old,
he said. They became Christians around four months ago at various times
in the country, which has a Buddhist population of 0.7 percent. Muslims
make up nearly 90 percent of the Bangladeshi population, with Hindus
accounting for about 9 percent, according to government figures.

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A prominent religious leader recently said that sex, however pleasurable it might be in the short run, leads to long-term trouble. He argued that celibacy is the way that leads to “more freedom.” –

Chuck Colson at the Christian Post comments For example, Christianity also commends celibacy. The apostle Paul
wrote that whereas a married man is anxious about “how to please his
wife,” the “unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord.”
The avoidance of what Paul called “division of interest” is why
Catholic priests are celibate.

But while both religions have a place for celibacy, their
reasons are very different. For starters, in Christianity, celibacy
isn’t chosen for the sake of the individual’s peace of mind. Nor to be
detached from the world. Instead, it is something a person chooses to
do for the sake of the Kingdom of God as a way to better serve God and
his neighbor.

In addition, while Christianity acknowledges that marriage and
family are full of “complications” and “ups and downs” that can cause
suffering, it proclaims their goodness and sanctity.

Whereas in Buddhism, salvation consists of “becoming
indifferent to the world, which is the source of evil,” in
Christianity, “the world is God’s good creation, redeemed by Christ.”

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Samurai warriors, housewives and children were crucified, thrown into hot springs and tortured, but refused to renounce their religion. Japan’s extraordinary but relatively unknown history of Christian persecution is finally receiving recognition in a beatification of 188 martyrs. –

The International Herald Tribune reports The upcoming ceremony on Monday bestows honors from the Roman
Catholic Church that are one step short of sainthood for Japanese
killed from 1603 to 1639. The ceremony is expected to draw 30,000
people to a baseball stadium in the southwestern city of Nagasaki.

The event highlights a tragic page of history for Japan, which shut
itself to the outside world during the 17th century, when the shogun
rulers, seeking to control people's lives, banned contact with the
West, including Christians.

It is also designed to be a celebration of the strength of
Christianity in a culture dominated by Buddhism and Shintoism,
organizers say. Christians make up only 1 percent of the Japanese
population, but Japan now has its first Catholic prime minister —
Taro Aso.

The beatification follows a 27-year effort, including research and
documentation of the martyrs' lives, which began with a visit by Pope
John Paul to Japan in 1981, Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins said Friday.

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A former Prudential Insurance manager is preparing legal action against the company, claiming she was fired after blowing the whistle on mandatory Eastern religious exercises that included chanting the Hindu mantra “om” in darkened rooms. –

WND reports that Prudential Insurance Co.’s southern
California real estate division
also required managers to read a Buddhist book, charges the Christian
ex-employee, whose name has been withheld pending formal action.

The former manager’s lawyer, Richard Ackerman of
Ackerman Cowles & Associates,
has written a letter to Prudential demanding the company stop requiring
participation in the religous practices and warning he has been
retained to pursue claims of religious discrimination, “hostile
environment” and harassment against his client that led to her
termination.

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I’ve misspoken before. I’ve misspoken before on national television. I’ve mixed up words, reversed orders, but I have never once misspoken concerning my faith and the God in whom I trust. Even in the most heated debate on Islam, never did I ever utter the words “my Muslim faith.” Nor, even when talking about Buddhism, have I ever slipped up and referred to “my Buddhist faith.” Ever. Why? Because my Christianity is so ingrained in me, so a part of who I am, that the thought of adhering to a false religion is so foreign, so blasphemous, that the words would never cross my lips. –

Janet Folger at WND comments (with video) Not the case for Mr. Obama. On ABC’s “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos, Obama said:

“Let’s not play games, what I was suggesting – you’re absolutely
right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith. And you’re
absolutely right that that has not come.”

Notice that Obama didn’t correct himself. He was “corrected” by George Stephanopoulos who interrupted Obama, with the words: “Christian faith.”

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