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Monday July 16, 2007

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Tinseltown’s famously faithful

From Christianity to Kabbalah, there’s no shortage of religious fervour in Hollywood.
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Monday January 1, 2007

No religion and an end to war: how thinkers see the future

People’s fascination for religion and superstition will disappear within a few decades as television and the internet make it easier to get information, and scientists get closer to discovering a final theory of everything, leading thinkers argue today.
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Saturday December 30, 2006

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The top religion stories of 2006

Danish cartoons, a pope’s ill-chosen words, and the worldwide Muslim reaction to both topped the list of 2006’s biggest religion stories, according to the Religion Newswriters Association.
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Thursday March 23, 2006

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So a Buddhist, a Mormon and a Jew walk into a diner …

Guide to which faiths won't eat which foods
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Thursday September 29, 2005

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Societies worse off ‘when they have God on their side’

Religious belief can cause damage to a society, contributing towards high murder rates, abortion, sexual promiscuity and suicide, according to research published today.
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Sunday January 30, 2005

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MinistryWatch.com Releases ‘F’ List Ministries

Refusal to release financial information is reason for donors to find other ministries to support – whether for tsunami relief or other purposes
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Friday January 14, 2005

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A battle to save survivors’ souls, too

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Muslims are handing out Qurans with the bags of rice and sugar they distribute to tsunami victims. Christian aid groups have also rushed in, quietly promising salvation in this predominantly Islamic region but fearful their presence could spark sectarian violence.
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Wednesday January 12, 2005

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Scientologists, Jews, Quakers, flock to give tsunami aid

JAKARTA: The Church of Scientology is applying its mind-over-matter healing techniques to injured tsunami survivors in Aceh. Jews and Quakers are sending humanitarian aid. Radical Islamic groups are providing "spiritual guidance".
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Monday January 3, 2005

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Religions are different, but grief is same

Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims approach death in own ways
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Sunday January 2, 2005

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Archbishop of Canterbury admits: This makes me doubt the existence of God

The Asian tsunami disaster should make all Christians question the existence of God, Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, writes in The Telegraph today.
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Of course this makes us doubt God’s existence

The photographs that stay with us, haunt us, are always those of particular faces: one mother's grief, one child's nightmare bewilderment and loneliness. Last week, we learned in Canterbury of the death in the Asian disaster of a 14 -year old from the King's School, with her mother and grandmother. And because of that, people here experienced what had happened in a different way. The number of deaths horrifies us – but what most painfully reaches our feelings is the individual face of loss and terror.
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Saturday January 1, 2005

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Heavens! That was a wacky ‘04

Summing up the year in religion isn't easy when one of the stories involved the eBay auction of a 10-year-old grilled-cheese sandwich bearing what the seller described as an image of the Virgin Mary. The news was that it sold for $28,000.
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Friday December 31, 2004

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Faiths Ask of Quake: ‘Why Did You Do This, God?’

LONDON (Reuters) - It is one of the oldest, most profound questions, posed by some of the most learned minds of every faith throughout the course of human history.
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Friday September 19, 2003

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Religion Helps Shape Wealth of Americans, Study Finds

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 17 (AScribe News) -- A new national study shows that religious affiliation plays a powerful role in how much wealth Americans accumulate, with Jews amassing the most wealth and conservative Protestants the least.
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Wednesday August 28, 2002

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Over

Source: BBC Monitoring Central Asia
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Monday August 5, 2002

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Why We Need Hell, Too

Churchgoers take comfort: hell has all but disappeared from modern Christian theology. But this comes at a price, in moral purpose and seriousness
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Why We Need Heaven

In troubled times, the afterlife beckons with visions of dark-eyed virgins, gardens and palaces, the bliss of God’s eternal presence and the joy of uniting with loved ones. How can the promise of paradise inspire so many to goodness, and few to murder?
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