http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:05:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23316/religion-news-6 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23316/religion-news-6#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:59:36 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23316 In Today's RNB Roundup, • Inmate says jailers interfered with his Satanic religious practices. • Rastafarians tells an Italian judge their pound of marijuana was for religious purposes. • Quick, sell your TV: The PTL Club may soon be back on the screen • A look at Scandinavia's kinder, gentler atheists.

Also: • Leonard Cohen returns to the road, for reasons practical and spiritual, • Transcendental Meditation taught in American schools. And more...]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23316/religion-news-6/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21746/rastafarian-marijuana http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21746/rastafarian-marijuana#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:07:45 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21746 Italy's highest criminal court has ruled that the fact Rastafarians consider marijuana use a religious sacrament should be taken into account if they are tried on trafficking charges, lawyers in a recent case and news reports said Friday.

The Court of Cassation threw out the drug trafficking conviction of a 44-year-old Italian Rastafarian, ruling that the amount he possessed was in line with the heavy use that comes with his religious beliefs.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21746/rastafarian-marijuana/feed 0