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/26177/muslims-helping-to-rebuild-christian-school-in-kashmir http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26177/muslims-helping-to-rebuild-christian-school-in-kashmir#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:38:02 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26177 Muslims in Kashmir, in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, are supporting the re-building of a Christian school that was destroyed by fire during anti-Christian violence one year ago.

On 13 September, 2010, the Tyndale Biscoe School was the target of Muslims protesting a reported desecration of the Quran in the U.S. that marked the ninth anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terror attacks.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26177/muslims-helping-to-rebuild-christian-school-in-kashmir/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26162/praying-in-paris-streets-outlawed http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26162/praying-in-paris-streets-outlawed#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:52:34 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26162 Praying in the streets of Paris is against the law starting Friday, after the interior minister warned that police will use force if Muslims, and those of any other faith, disobey the new rule to keep the French capital's public spaces secular.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26162/praying-in-paris-streets-outlawed/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25743/polygamous-muslims-carefully-watching-b-c-polygamy-case http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25743/polygamous-muslims-carefully-watching-b-c-polygamy-case#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:37:20 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25743 The women of the FLDS sect in Bountiful, British Columbia, are not the only ones watching for the outcome of the landmark court case challenging Canada's polygamy law.

Leaders in the Canada's Muslim community say the decision will have wide implications.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25743/polygamous-muslims-carefully-watching-b-c-polygamy-case/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