A Pakistani cleric is offering a nearly $6,000 bounty for the killing of a Christian woman whose death sentence for blasphemy is being challenged by Pakistan's government.
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December 5th, 2010
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December 5th, 2010
On the fifth anniversary of the legalisation of same-sex weddings, gay and lesbian civil partnerships are in much the same unhappy place as straight marriages: divorces are up and nuptials are down – drastically.
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December 5th, 2010
A radical US-based Islamic website shut down last month after allegedly helping to inspire the stabbing of a Labour MP has resurfaced with a new name.
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December 5th, 2010
The 200 robed and bearded men gathered at dusk on the market square, rolled out their prayer rugs and intoned Allah's praises as dismayed townspeople looked on.
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December 5th, 2010
There is no other topic that divides public opinion like the matter of abortion. Claire Tully argues that it's not an issue that only women need to deal with.
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December 5th, 2010
The married couple who used an Internet poll to supposedly decide if they should have an abortion have revealed the final results - with the public telling them not to abort the baby.
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December 5th, 2010
Arguments are scheduled Monday before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the federal court challenge to the decision (made twice) by voters in California to define marriage in their state constitution as being between one man and one woman, only.
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December 5th, 2010
The much-loved children’s stories have an unapologetic Christian message. C. S. Lewis was clear that the character of Aslan in his Chronicles of Narnia is based on Christ. But actor Liam Neeson, who voices the lion in the latest Narnia film, has prompted a row after claiming his character is also based on other religious leaders such as Mohammed and Buddha.
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December 5th, 2010
A new report from the theology think tank Theos has criticised attempts to restrict the influence of religious beliefs on education.
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December 5th, 2010
As a European Union commissioner is raising serious questions about the Polish ban on homosexual teachers in religious schools, a conservative attorney thinks the union is trying to bully the country into breaking the law.