http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:48:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24054/pakistani-christian-sentenced-to-life-under-%e2%80%98blasphemy%e2%80%99-law http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24054/pakistani-christian-sentenced-to-life-under-%e2%80%98blasphemy%e2%80%99-law#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:11:26 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24054 A young Christian shopkeeper was sentenced to a life term in prison and fined more than $1,000 last week following a dubious conviction of desecrating the Quran, according to Pakistan’s National Commission for Justice and Peace.

A conviction for blaspheming Muhammad (Section 295-C) is punishable by death under Pakistani’s notorious blasphemy laws. Widely condemned by the international community as easily invoked to settle personal enmities, Pakistan’s blasphemy laws have come under review in recent months, but to no avail.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24054/pakistani-christian-sentenced-to-life-under-%e2%80%98blasphemy%e2%80%99-law/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24045/islam-critic-geert-wilders-goes-on-trial-in-netherlands http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24045/islam-critic-geert-wilders-goes-on-trial-in-netherlands#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:18:49 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24045 Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders is due to appear in an Amsterdam court on Wednesday on charges of religious insult and anti-Islam incitement.

The prosecution claims his 2008 short film "Fitna", as well as statements made in interviews and speeches, incite hatred against Muslims. Wilders has called Islam a "backward" culture and the Koran a "fascist book that incites people to violence."]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24045/islam-critic-geert-wilders-goes-on-trial-in-netherlands/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23816/baby-quran-hoax http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23816/baby-quran-hoax#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:36:03 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23816 A "miracle" baby has brought a kind of mystical hope to people in Russia's mostly Muslim southern fringe who are increasingly desperate in the face of Islamist violence.

From hunchbacked grandmas to schoolboys, hundreds of pilgrims lined up this week in blazing sunshine to get a glimpse of 9-month-old baby Ali Yakubov, on whose body they say verses from the Koran appear and fade every few days. [video]]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23816/baby-quran-hoax/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23182/geert-wilders-charged http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23182/geert-wilders-charged#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:10:18 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23182 The Amsterdam court has ruled that the Public Prosecutor's Office should after all prosecute the populist politician Geert Wilders for anti-Islamic remarks.

"In a democratic system, hate speech is considered so serious that it is in the general interest to... draw a clear line," the court in Amsterdam said.

Among other things, Wilders has compared the Quran to Hitler's book Mein Kampf.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23182/geert-wilders-charged/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21605/gaelic-koran http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21605/gaelic-koran#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:21:27 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21605 The move drew a frosty response from the main Gaelic church in the Western Isles.

Rev Iver Martin, the minister of Stornoway Free Church, said: "I wouldn't have thought there would be much of a market for this. I'm not sure that a lot of Gaelic-speaking people would be inclined to read it. Of course, Muslims have the freedom to do what they want, but it's worth pointing out that in many Muslim countries, Christians do not have the freedom to freely read the Bible."]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21605/gaelic-koran/feed 0