A New York City pastor is conducting a 40-day fast as some churches in the Big Apple have been ousted from schools. Meanwhile, the effort to change that edict continues in court.
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February 14th, 2012
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February 14th, 2012The U.S. Senate may vote this afternoon on an amendment that would stop the mandate President Barack Obama put in place to force religious groups to pay for insurance coverage that includes birth control and abortion-causing drugs.
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February 14th, 2012
Recently, Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos' "message" on "nondiscrimination" announced the end of any meaningful religious freedom at Vanderbilt. Now, religious student organizations must accept any student – no matter how hostile to the organization's beliefs – as a member, and allow any student to seek leadership positions.
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February 14th, 2012A Massachusetts judge has thrown out charges against a peaceful pro-life activist who was arrested after distributing literature at a Catholic Church. Now the police may be facing a civil rights lawsuit of their own.
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February 14th, 2012The Republican-led Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill today, by a vote of 66 to 32, which states that unborn children “at every stage of development,” that is, from the moment of conception, are considered persons – although the sponsor of the bill says it will not directly affect abortion access in the state.
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February 14th, 2012
Much ink has already been spilt on Richard Dawkins' reaction to Baroness Warsi’s warning about the rising tide of ‘militant secularization’ and his forgetting the name of Darwin’s classic work on evolution in a radio four debate.
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February 14th, 2012He's been described by a Spanish judge as Osama bin Laden's right-hand man in Europe. Videos of his sermons littered the Hamburg apartment of Mohamed Atta, the Egyptian terrorist who crashed a jetliner into the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Yet on Monday night, Abu Qatada walked free from a high security prison in Britain after a European court blocked the U.K. from deporting him to Jordan, where he is wanted on terrorism charges.
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February 14th, 2012A bomb disposal officer was killed trying to defuse a bomb just minutes after another blast in a flashpoint central Nigeria city previously hit by a feared Islamist sect, police said Tuesday.
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February 14th, 2012Fifteen months ago Gay Rights activist group Stonewall did not have a position on same sex marriage but this week they have published a bill calling for its full legalisation just weeks before the government issues a consultation paper on how it should be done.
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February 14th, 2012
Growing up, I was a fan of the sitcom Dad's Army. Set amongst the hapless volunteers of the Home Guard during World War Two, one of my favourite characters was Private Frazer. A depressed undertaker who had grown up on the "wild and lonely" Isle of Barra, Fraser responded to every sticky situation with the catchphrase 'We're doomed!'