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Zenit.org ).- The Italian government is appealing a November ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that crucifixes in public school classrooms are a violation of freedom. The Italian appeal def…
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RALEIGH — At a Thursday meeting with a group of mostly downtown ministers, the head of the state’s NAACP urged them to get behind what is fast-becoming his signature issue: opposition to the Wake County school board’s attempt to end its diversity policy. “There’s got to be a sense of urgency coming out of the church,” said the Rev. William Barber to a gathering of a dozen ministers and other church leaders. The immediate purpose of the meeting was to rally ministers to…
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As a young black girl growing up in the Deep South in the 1930s and ’40s, Alzina Booker learned many lessons on the importance of family, faith and standing up to racism. Her father, Elmo, was a Baptist pastor who opened an elementary school for black children who otherwise wouldn’t have received an education in Hammond, La. The family was poor, but Elmo put together enough money to buy a bus for the older children so they could get to a high school 5 miles away without having to walk. Alzina and her siblings would see the white kids’ bus pass them by. Sometimes, the white children would spit and utter slurs. She clung to her family, and her parents taught her to cling to her church. Even…
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By Hilary WhiteFebruary 3, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Boys who see pornography regularly are more likely to have sexual relations and harass girls in school, a new study has found. Michael Flood, a researcher with the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, said…
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A western Oklahoma Democrat has filed a proposal he says will give school districts guidelines in teaching elective classes on the Bible. Related content Links Ongoing Coverage: Politics Senate Bill 1338 would allow districts to offer students in grades nine or higher an elective class on the Bible and its historical significance. The bill passed a Senate subcommittee on Wednesday….
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CHRIS OBERHOLTZ/Kansas City Star In celebration of Catholic Schools Week, Bishop Robert W. Finn (left) received artwork and other gifts from children from St. Patrick School in Kansas City, North, including Jeffrey Nolan, (from back to front) Nick Rumbo and Anna Cernich. The children visited Finn on Monday. More News…
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Clearly, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” is having a moment: in December Syfy broadcast the mini-series “Alice,” a reworking of Lewis Carroll’s classic; Tim Burton’s cinematic take arrives in March; and in Midtown Manhattan, Firecat Productions is offering an adult twist. In Fort Greene, Brooklyn, the Irondale Ensemble Project is presenting “alice … Alice … ALICE!,” a modest production capitalizing on the troupe’s home, a former Sunday school space in the magnificent Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church.
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A Roman Catholic archdiocese is suing Poland’s top-selling daily newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza after it reported that the church demanded exorbitant rents from a local State school, reports Ecumenical News International.
“These commentaries have violated the archdiocese’s good name,” the Catholic Metropolitan Curia in Poznan said in its summons. Extracts of the summons were published on 26 January by Poland’s Catholic information agency, KAI, which said the city’s Curia office had demanded an ap… >>
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(AP) – BERLIN – The Jesuit order of Germany says a third priest was involved in the serial sexual abuse of students at one of the country’s most prestigious high schools. In a statement posted on the Jesuits’ Web site late Tuesday the order wrote that the priest, who was not identified by name, also taught at Berlin’s private Catholic Canisius Kolleg in the…
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RAWALPINDI (UCAN) — A Catholic school teacher is working on the world’s first audio Bible in the Urdu language on the Internet.
Riaz Masih Gill, 31, a software developer says he was inspired when installing a digital version of the Qur’an
on his computer three years ago.
“My Muslim friend used to listen to the Qur’an in Arabic. [...]
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BANGKOK (UCAN) — Four unemployed Muslim men aged 18-29 were charged on Feb. 2 for arson attacks on two churches and a school in Taiping, local media reported.
Earlier, on Jan. 29, three other Muslim men aged 22-24 were charged for burning the Metro Tabernacle Church belonging to the Assemblies of God in Kuala Lumpur. The [...]
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(AP) – DES MOINES, Iowa – Davenport’s Roman Catholic bishop says cutting and capping a tax credit for donations to private school tuition funds would be a mistake. A tax credit review panel created by Iowa Gov. Chet Culver has recommended lowering the Educational Opportunity Act tax credit from 65 percent of a donation to a school’s tuition assistance fund to 40 percent. It…
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(AP) – KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – A Malaysian court charged four more Muslims on Tuesday with attacking churches in a row over the use of the word “Allah” by Christians. Three men and a teenager were charged in northern Perak state with throwing firebombs at two churches and a convent school on Jan. 10, prosecutor Hamdan Hamzah said. They face a maximum prison term of 20 years. The three men, aged 19, 21 and 28, pleaded not guilty, while the 17-year-old, charged in a juvenile court,…
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TAIPING, Feb 2 — Four jobless men were today charged today in the magistrate’s court with mischief by fire at two churches and a school here, part of a wave of attacks against places of worship in the wake of the controversial “Allah” ruling. Court
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AP – The Air Force Academy has set aside an outdoor worship area for Pagans, Wiccans, Druids and other Earth-centered believers, school officials said Monday.
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A priest last week admitted in a statement to SPIEGEL he had abused a number of pupils at an elite Berlin high school run by Jesuit priests. In recent days, around 20 former students have come forward…
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With 4.1million members in England and Wales, a quarter of whom attend Mass
each Sunday, the Roman Catholic Church has proved a vocal and effective
opposition to Labour in recent years.
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Just as normalcy is returning to Jos and environs after religious crisis in Plateau State, the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) and a mosque at the Government Science Secondary School in Gombe were yesterday torched by youths.
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Lithuania has come out in support of Italy in its efforts to revise a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights that recommends State schools throughout Italy to remove crucifixes from classrooms.
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Lithuania has come out in support of Italy in its efforts to revise a ruling of the European Court of Human Rights that obliges State schools throughout Italy to remove crucifixes from classrooms, reports Ecumenical News International.
The online news daily www.delfi.lt, on 13 January reported that the Committee for Foreign Relations of the Lithuanian Parliament had decided to join the dispute with the European court, and to defend the right of believers to the public display of religious sym… >>