An Old Testament scholar in the Netherlands claims that the first verse in the Bible declaring that God created the Heaven and the Earth is a mistranslation.
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October 12th, 2009
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October 12th, 2009
Plans to build a Christian gospel hall on a field at the city boundary have again been thrown out.
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October 12th, 2009
A 78-year-old Irish priest has been abducted by heavily armed men from the garden of his house in the Phillipines.
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October 12th, 2009
Pope Benedict XVI has appointed two prominent scientists to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences: Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Edward M. De Robertis, a chemical biology professor at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles.
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October 12th, 2009
President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission.
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October 12th, 2009
On July 4, 1995, Myrna Lebov, age 52, committed suicide in her Manhattan apartment. The case generated national headlines when her husband, George Delury, announced that he had assisted Lebov's suicide at her request because she was suffering the debilitations of progressive multiple sclerosis.
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October 11th, 2009
A church has been banned from singing hymns that are too noisy, after its neighbours complained to a council.
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October 11th, 2009
The Archbishop of York has condemned the glamourisation of prostitution as a 'middle-class trade'.
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October 11th, 2009
Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, has helped secure a ?1.5m donation to a mosque in his constituency from the Emir of Qatar.
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October 11th, 2009
The atheists might have got the buses, but the Christians are being urged to take over the bus stops in the run-up to Christmas.