http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:15:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23308/richard-williamson-holocaust-denier-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23308/richard-williamson-holocaust-denier-2#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 15:14:44 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23308 The Vatican said Friday it is not satisfied by the apology issued by a Catholic bishop who denied the Holocaust, saying the cleric must still clearly "distance himself" from the controversial comments.

Bishop Richard Williamson, who is now in England, issued a statement Thursday saying he regretted making the remarks. But he did not retract them or say he had changed his mind about the Holocaust.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23308/richard-williamson-holocaust-denier-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23306/richard-williamson-holocaust-denier http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23306/richard-williamson-holocaust-denier#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:58:39 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23306 A bishop whose recent rehabilitation by Pope Benedict XVI provoked global outrage has apologized for remarks in which he denied the Holocaust, a Catholic news agency reported on Thursday.

Some outside observers were not convinced by Bishop Williamson’s statement. “He does everything except confront the central issue of this whole crisis,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. “Has he changed his mind about the Holocaust, and does he believe that the Holocaust is a historic fact?”]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23306/richard-williamson-holocaust-denier/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23296/holocaust-denier-richard-williamson-3 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23296/holocaust-denier-richard-williamson-3#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:55:17 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23296 A country in which many Nazi criminals sought refuge has expelled a Roman Catholic bishop who denies the scale of the Holocaust.

The Argentine government last week gave the bishop 10 days to leave the country or be expelled.

The government cited irregularities in his immigration application and condemned his remarks as 'deeply offensive to Argentine society, the Jewish people and humanity.' ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23296/holocaust-denier-richard-williamson-3/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23243/holocaust-denier-richard-williamson-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23243/holocaust-denier-richard-williamson-2#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:38:00 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23243 The Vatican demanded Wednesday that a bishop who denied the Holocaust recant his positions before being fully admitted into the Roman Catholic Church.

The Vatican also said in a statement that Pope Benedict XVI didn't know about Bishop Richard Williamson's views when he agreed to lift his excommunication and that of three other ultraconservative bishops Jan. 21.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23243/holocaust-denier-richard-williamson-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23237/holocaust-denier-richard-williamson http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23237/holocaust-denier-richard-williamson#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:12:58 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23237 A Vatican cardinal has said that the decision to rehabilitate an ultra-conservative bishop who denies that any Jews were killed in the Holocaust was "badly mishandled", amid an escalating internal row over the decision.

The remarks by Cardinal Kasper, head of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity, follow dismay expressed by German bishops over a "loss of faith in the Pope" because of the row over the lifting of Bishop Williamson and three other ultra-traditionalists.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23237/holocaust-denier-richard-williamson/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22918/baptism-for-the-dead http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22918/baptism-for-the-dead#comments Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:58:38 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22918 Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice.

‘Baptism for the dead’ is one of many un-biblical practices of the Mormon Church -- which, theologicaly, is a cult of Christianity. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22918/baptism-for-the-dead/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18962/marcel-woell http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18962/marcel-woell#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:53:17 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18962/marcel-woell http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18962/marcel-woell/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18292/robert-faurisson-nutcase http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18292/robert-faurisson-nutcase#comments Fri, 18 May 2007 13:16:40 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18292/robert-faurisson-nutcase http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18292/robert-faurisson-nutcase/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18001/holocaust http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18001/holocaust#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:50:45 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18001/holocaust http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18001/holocaust/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17864/teachers-drop-the-holocaust-to-avoid-offending-muslims http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17864/teachers-drop-the-holocaust-to-avoid-offending-muslims#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:04:37 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17864/teachers-drop-the-holocaust-to-avoid-offending-muslims http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17864/teachers-drop-the-holocaust-to-avoid-offending-muslims/feed 0