http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23419/house-church-vietnam http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23419/house-church-vietnam#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:55:41 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23419 In what religious freedom advocates regarded as a breakthrough in Vietnam, authorities granted rare permission to unregistered house church groups to hold a large, public Easter-related service here last night.

More than 15,000 people gathered at Tao Dan Stadium.

Leaders of the celebration and religious freedom advocates in Vietnam said the event was significant in that unregistered house churches were allowed to hold a large public celebration. They added that authorities must have felt enough pressure to consider the event less harmful than possible negative publicity from denying permission. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23419/house-church-vietnam/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23412/saudi-arabia-authorities-release-christian-blogger http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23412/saudi-arabia-authorities-release-christian-blogger#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:04:15 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23412 In a surprise move, a Saudi Christian arrested in January for describing his conversion from Islam and criticizing the kingdom’s judiciary on his blog site was released on March 28 with the stipulation that he not travel outside of Saudi Arabia or appear on media.

The country’s penalty for “apostasy,” or leaving Islam, is death, although in recent years there have been no known cases of kingdom citizens formally convicted and sentenced with capital punishment for the offense.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23412/saudi-arabia-authorities-release-christian-blogger/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23124/monkey-meat http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23124/monkey-meat#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:36:11 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23124 A Liberian woman accused of smuggling endangered monkey meat from Africa to New York has failed to persuade a judge that she shouldn't be prosecuted because she needed the butchered carcasses for religious reasons.

The judge also noted that her claim didn't address the main point of the criminal charge: That she hadn't applied for the permits needed to import such exotic foodstuffs and had misled border officials about what she was shipping into the country.

Nothing in her religion, Dearie wrote, "required her to abstain from truthful completion of paperwork." ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23124/monkey-meat/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21717/pentagon-asked-to-block-christian-broadcast http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21717/pentagon-asked-to-block-christian-broadcast#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:22:57 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21717 A foundation that has sued the military alleging widespread violations of religious freedom is asking the Pentagon to block a Christian cable TV broadcast featuring officers in uniform.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has raised objections to 20 minutes of the two-hour broadcast of "Carman's Red, White and Blue Spectacular," saying the program may violate a prohibition against uniformed officers endorsing a particular religion.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21717/pentagon-asked-to-block-christian-broadcast/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20167/military-religious-freedom-foundation http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20167/military-religious-freedom-foundation#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:09:50 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20167/military-religious-freedom-foundation http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20167/military-religious-freedom-foundation/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19263/freedom-of-religion http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19263/freedom-of-religion#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:33:40 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19263/freedom-of-religion http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19263/freedom-of-religion/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18124/religious-freedom http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18124/religious-freedom#comments Tue, 01 May 2007 13:52:32 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18124/religious-freedom http://www.religionnewsblog.com/18124/religious-freedom/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17583/sacred-meat http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17583/sacred-meat#comments Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:01:10 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17583/sacred-meat http://www.religionnewsblog.com/17583/sacred-meat/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16966/judges-uphold-law-on-inmate-religion http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16966/judges-uphold-law-on-inmate-religion#comments Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:26:05 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16966/judges-uphold-law-on-inmate-religion http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16966/judges-uphold-law-on-inmate-religion/feed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16967/texas-supreme-court-to-tackle-religious-freedom-law http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16967/texas-supreme-court-to-tackle-religious-freedom-law#comments Wed, 27 Dec 2006 01:31:44 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16967/texas-supreme-court-to-tackle-religious-freedom-law http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16967/texas-supreme-court-to-tackle-religious-freedom-law/feed