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/26130/catholic-schools-in-kenya-prohibit-muslim-head-covering http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26130/catholic-schools-in-kenya-prohibit-muslim-head-covering#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:54:44 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26130 Muslim leaders in Kenya say they will continue to oppose a decision by Roman Catholic bishops, announced on 19 August, that students in Catholic schools may not wear the hijab, or head covering, worn by many devout Muslim girls and women.

The bishops cited long-existing church tradition, discipline and philosophies when announcing the rule.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26130/catholic-schools-in-kenya-prohibit-muslim-head-covering/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25588/life-in-jail-for-two-pakistani-muslim-blasphemers http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25588/life-in-jail-for-two-pakistani-muslim-blasphemers#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:37:19 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25588 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25588/life-in-jail-for-two-pakistani-muslim-blasphemers/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25581/a-good-man-who-did-something http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25581/a-good-man-who-did-something#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:05:18 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25581 ’s death provides a parable of why Pakistan, which promised so much, has slipped so far.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25581/a-good-man-who-did-something/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25579/thousands-of-muslims-rally-over-blasphemy-law-in-pakistan http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25579/thousands-of-muslims-rally-over-blasphemy-law-in-pakistan#comments Mon, 10 Jan 2011 07:55:53 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25579 rallied in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi on Sunday, police said, against the controversial reform of a blasphemy law that was behind the killing of a senior politician.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25579/thousands-of-muslims-rally-over-blasphemy-law-in-pakistan/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25541/police-arrest-5-muslims-in-danish-terror-plot http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25541/police-arrest-5-muslims-in-danish-terror-plot#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2010 07:55:09 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25541 A group of men arrested in Denmark on Wednesday were about to mount a “Mumbai style” attack on the Danish newspaper that ignited Muslim fury around the world by publishing satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005, the head of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service said.

The men had been under surveillance for months, and were among 200 radicals identified in a recent Swedish intelligence report, according to intelligence sources in Scandinavia.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25541/police-arrest-5-muslims-in-danish-terror-plot/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25519/muslim-%e2%80%98radicalization%e2%80%99-is-focus-of-planned-congressional-inquiry http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25519/muslim-%e2%80%98radicalization%e2%80%99-is-focus-of-planned-congressional-inquiry#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:03:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25519 Congressional inquiry into what he calls “the radicalization” of the Muslim community when his party takes over the House next year.

Representative Peter T. King of New York, who will become the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he was responding to what he has described as frequent concerns raised by law enforcement officials that Muslim leaders have been uncooperative in terror investigations.

He cited the case of Najibullah Zazi, an Afghan man and a legal resident of the United States, who was arrested last year for plotting to bomb the New York subway system. Mr. King said that Ahmad Wais Afzali, an imam in Queens who had been a police informant, had warned Mr. Zazi before his arrest that he was the target of a terror investigation.

“When I meet with law enforcement, they are constantly telling me how little cooperation they get from Muslim leaders,” Mr. King said. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25519/muslim-%e2%80%98radicalization%e2%80%99-is-focus-of-planned-congressional-inquiry/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25518/about-200-islamic-extremists-in-sweden-intel http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25518/about-200-islamic-extremists-in-sweden-intel#comments Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:30:40 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25518 said Wednesday there were around 200 violence-promoting Islamic extremists in Sweden, days after the country's first ever suicide bombing missed wreaking havoc among Christmas shoppers.

Some "80 percent of the 200 can be linked to each other," Malena Rembe, the chief analyst at Saepo's Counter-Terrorism Unit told reporters, adding they were not part of one big network.

"The radicalisation happens in Sweden," but "the concrete threat is mainly directed at people in other countries," Rembe said.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25518/about-200-islamic-extremists-in-sweden-intel/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25507/christians-in-karachi-comes-under-attack-from-islamists http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25507/christians-in-karachi-comes-under-attack-from-islamists#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:26:55 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25507 Local Pakistani Christians and the family of a Christian youth are facing potential death threats and the terrorization of “dire consequences” following the elopement and marriage of a Christian young man who has converted to Islam and his young Muslim bride.

A Christian lawyer and minority rights advocate has revealed that homes of local Christians were attacked, women were abused and household items vandalized by Muslim fanatics searching for the youth.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25507/christians-in-karachi-comes-under-attack-from-islamists/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25506/muslims-in-pakistan-burn-beat-evangelist-unconscious http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25506/muslims-in-pakistan-burn-beat-evangelist-unconscious#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:16:07 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25506 An evangelist is still recovering from burns after six young Muslim men beat him with clubs and belts and set him on fire last month in a village near this Punjab Province city.

Aamir Masih, a Christian elder of the same village, said that the young Muslim men mistakenly regarded verses in the pamphlet describing the resurrection of Jesus as derogatory to Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.

“This angered the Muslim men, and they ordered Augustine to leave the village at once and stop preaching the gospel in Village 96-NB immediately or face the consequences,” Masih said.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25506/muslims-in-pakistan-burn-beat-evangelist-unconscious/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25483/man-arrested-in-afghan-womans-mutilation http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25483/man-arrested-in-afghan-womans-mutilation#comments Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:36:28 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25483 helped mutilate his young daughter-in-law after she tried to flee her marriage has been arrested for abetting the crime.

The father-in-law, named Suliman, is being held in an Afghanistan jail, according to Women for Afghan Women, and has confessed to holding a gun to the young girl's head while her nose and ears were cut off.

Ayesha, the young woman, is safely in the United States where she is undergoing a series of reconstructive surgeries.

Police are still searching for her husband and her brother-in-law, who performed the mutilation.

Once known only as "Bibi," Ayesha's story has become an example of the brutality of the Taliban and also the resilience of a young woman. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25483/man-arrested-in-afghan-womans-mutilation/feed 0