http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:59:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26081/murdoch-connection-%e2%80%98does-not-present-an-ethical-dilemma%e2%80%99-for-bible-publisher http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26081/murdoch-connection-%e2%80%98does-not-present-an-ethical-dilemma%e2%80%99-for-bible-publisher#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:21:16 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26081 As Rupert Murdoch presides over the News Corp media empire and is a desperate fight for his reputation after being forced to close his scandal-laden British newspaper News of the World, the most widely read English tabloid in the world, it has been revealed that Murdoch also owns Zondervan, the world’s largest publisher of Bibles.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26081/murdoch-connection-%e2%80%98does-not-present-an-ethical-dilemma%e2%80%99-for-bible-publisher/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24835/where-does-our-sense-of-morality-come-from http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24835/where-does-our-sense-of-morality-come-from#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:25:02 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24835 Where does our sense of right and wrong come from? Most people think it is a gift from God, who revealed His laws and elevates us with His love. A smaller number think that we figure the rules out for ourselves, using our capacity to reason and choosing a philosophical system to live by.

Moral naturalists, on the other hand, believe that we have moral sentiments that have emerged from a long history of relationships. To learn about morality, you don’t rely upon revelation or metaphysics; you observe people as they live. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24835/where-does-our-sense-of-morality-come-from/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23601/unethical-investments http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23601/unethical-investments#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:53:23 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23601 BBC Northern Ireland presenter William Crawley has a blog post about "Hardcore Profits, a BBC documentary about the pornography industry, has been looking into those organisations who have investments, directly or indirectly, with in the adult entertainment business."

Crawley says following a change in ethical policy guidelines the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops in 2003, Christian Brothers Investment Services now have investments of tens of millions of dollars in companies that make sizeable profits from commercial pornography. The Bishops' guidelines permit these investments because the new rules allow the church to do business with a company as long as income from pornography does not represent "a significant portion of its revenues".]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23601/unethical-investments/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23591/a-pastor-on-health-care-what-would-jesus-do http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23591/a-pastor-on-health-care-what-would-jesus-do#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:50:57 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23591
In that day's Gospel, Jesus healed a deaf and mute man (Mark 7: 31-37), and in that day's paper, how to best heal the sick was a headline issue."]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23591/a-pastor-on-health-care-what-would-jesus-do/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23342/us-human-rights-violations-8 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23342/us-human-rights-violations-8#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:32:16 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23342 The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration's treatment of al-Qaeda captives "constituted torture," a finding that strongly implied that CIA interrogation methods violated international law, according to newly published excerpts from the long-concealed 2007 document.

The report, an account alleging physical and psychological brutality inside CIA "black site" prisons, also states that some U.S. practices amounted to "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment." Such maltreatment of detainees is expressly prohibited by the Geneva Conventions.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23342/us-human-rights-violations-8/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22714/right-refuse-medical-care-ireland http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22714/right-refuse-medical-care-ireland#comments Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:57:11 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22714 People should be able to refuse in advance medical treatment in the event of their becoming incapacitated by serious accident or illness, according to the Law Reform Commission in Ireland.

The commission also provisionally recommends that refusal of treatment on religious grounds in advance care directives be permitted. This issue has been explored by the courts recently in relation to Jehovah's Witnesses, who, on religious grounds, do not accept blood transfusions.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22714/right-refuse-medical-care-ireland/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22410/google-agrees-to-carry-anti-abortion-ads-by-religious-bodie http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22410/google-agrees-to-carry-anti-abortion-ads-by-religious-bodie#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:51:01 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22410 Religious organizations can now place anti-abortion advertisements on Google after a lawsuit by a British pro-life charity forced it to lift the ban.

Google settled out of court Wednesday with The Christian Institute, a UK-based charity, and will now allow religious groups to place factual and campaigning ads about abortion. [video]]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22410/google-agrees-to-carry-anti-abortion-ads-by-religious-bodie/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20863/us-hypocrisy http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20863/us-hypocrisy#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:43:29 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20863/us-hypocrisy http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20863/us-hypocrisy/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20833/george-bush-war-criminal http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20833/george-bush-war-criminal#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:30:37 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20833/george-bush-war-criminal http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20833/george-bush-war-criminal/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20831/george-bush-torturer http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20831/george-bush-torturer#comments Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:01:17 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20831/george-bush-torturer http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20831/george-bush-torturer/feed 0