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Posted by Google News 5 hours 42 mins ago

GUEST COLUMN: Atheists act in love, toward human growthColorado Springs GazetteI agree with you that a constructive agenda for the humanist, the agnostic, the atheist, the liberal theist and all people of good will should be the focus ......
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Posted by FaithWorld Blog 11 hours 48 mins ago

Headlines are supposed to highlight the news, but sometimes the news is uncomfortable. Like the sexual abuse cases for the Roman Catholic Church. Avvenire, the daily newspaper of the Italian Catholic bishops’ conference, played down the big ne...
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Posted by Religion News Blog 20 hours 35 mins ago

A former Scientologist who says she was a "child slave" and alleges she saw a six-year-old boy chained up in a ship's hold is disappointed the Senate has blocked a full inquiry into the religious organisation. Keryn's decision to speak openly about...
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Atheist Group Challenges Commission Over PrayerThe LedgerAccording to the 2008 US Religious Landscape Survey, people who identify themselves as atheists or agnostics are about 4 percent of the population, ......
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Posted by Religion News Blog 22 hours 56 mins ago

Addressing a conference of cult survivors in Brisbane today, Senator Nick Xenophon said a new motion for a new parliamentary inquiry might include a push for police to take criminal action against cults. He was also attracted to using the Trade Prac...
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Posted by FaithWorld Blog 1 day 11 hours ago

Partisan politics and America’s culture wars have been on full display again in Austin at the Texas State Board of Education. According to a Friday report in  The Dallas Morning News, Republicans on the board defeated a Democratic-backed propo...
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Posted by FaithWorld Blog 1 day 7 hours ago

Pope Benedictat his weekly audience in the Vatican March 10, 2010/Alessia Pierdomenico Irish bookmaker Paddy Power said Friday it had cut the odds on Pope Benedict resigning after allegations of child abuse by priests in Germany gripped the Roman C...
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Posted by Google News 1 day 6 hours ago

Community Calendar for March 14 to 21Santa Maria TimesBrunch for humanists, atheists, agnostics, skeptics, freethinkers, singles, couples and families without religion. Membership and reservations are suggested ...and more »...
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Posted by FaithWorld Blog 1 day 10 hours ago

Drancy on a map of greater Paris A French mosque, whose imam says he has received death threats over his promotion of dialogue with Jews, reopened for Friday prayers after it was forced to close down this week due to disruptive protests.  The mos...
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Posted by FaithWorld Blog 1 day 8 hours ago

Cardinal Christoph Schönborn addresses a news conference in Vienna November 7, 2008S/Heinz-Peter Bader Vienna’s Cardinal Christoph Schönborn set off a storm in a teacup this week when he said the Roman Catholic Church had to ask tough questi...
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Moore: Is America a Christian nation?The Palmetto ScoopSponsored by the Pastafarians, a University of South Carolina student organization for atheists and agnostics, the event drew Christians and non-Christians ......
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Unitarian Universalists to install new ministerAkron Beacon Journal... includes a variety of religious and philosophical traditions, including atheism, agnosticism, Buddhism, Christianity, humanism, Judaism and paganism. ......
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Posted by Religion News Blog 1 day 14 hours ago

Independent South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon will address a conference in Brisbane which claims to be the first specifically organised to help people who have left cults. Senator Xenophon has been campaigning for an inquiry into the Church of ...
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Posted by FaithWorld Blog 2 days 5 hours ago

Protest against the clergy child sex abuse scandal in Boston outside Cardinal Bernard Law's Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, on Mother's Day, May 12, 2002/Jim Bourg The Vatican daily L’Osservatore Romano has published an...
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Posted by Google News 2 days 4 hours ago

A victory for historical and religious heritageCumberland Times-NewsSounds counterintuitive; but Catholic News Agency reports the council's aim is “to create a network of agnostic or atheistic people who accept dialogue” to ......
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Posted by Religion News Blog 2 days 9 hours ago

Germany's state broadcaster is locked in a row with the Church of Scientology which wants to block an upcoming feature film that depicts the controversial organisation as totalitarian and unethical. According to the makers of Until Nothing Remains,...
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Posted by National Center for Science Education 2 days 13 hours ago

NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview (PDF) of Evidence of Evolution (Abrams, 2009), featuring the photography of Susan Middleton and the text of Mary Ellen Hannibal.read more...
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Posted by Religion News Blog 2 days 20 hours ago

He added that the assault on Pope Benedict XVI on Christmas Eve by a mentally unstable woman and the sex abuse scandals which have engulfed the Church in the US, Ireland, Germany and other countries, were proof that the Anti-Christ was waging a war ...
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