http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24175/religion-online http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24175/religion-online#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:22:27 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24175 The premise of the conference had been laid out earlier in the evening by Philip Clayton, a professor at Claremont School of Theology who talked about the role of Gutenberg's printing press in the 15th century. By making the Bible more widely available, he said, it democratized religion and led directly to the Protestant Reformation.

"Ladies and gentlemen," Clayton said, "we are talking today about a transition equally as great."]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24175/religion-online/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23462/muslim-bbc-head-religion http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23462/muslim-bbc-head-religion#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 11:23:12 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23462 The BBC has appointed its first Muslim head of religion.

Aaqil Ahmed will move to the corporation from Channel Four, where he upset Roman Catholic priests by commissioning documentaries that appeared to contain a pro-Islam bias.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23462/muslim-bbc-head-religion/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22768/rnb-roundup http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22768/rnb-roundup#comments Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:54:37 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22768 Today's RNB Roundup includes stories about: religion in politics; Islamic hate criminal Omar Bakri's hypocrisy; religion in the workplace; Christians split over homosexuality; waterboarding paper trail, and battling the Scientology cult]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22768/rnb-roundup/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22076/olympic-games-religion http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22076/olympic-games-religion#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:25:34 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22076 The Olympic Village's religious center has become the target of a quiet protest by athletes, coaches and other delegates who say its staffing and services fall woefully short of the promises made by Chinese organizers.

Previous Olympic hosts welcomed foreign chaplains, but China has banned them from living with the athletes.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22076/olympic-games-religion/feed 0