Tag: News reports

People like to give. Example: At the Starbucks on 116th Street NE in Marysville, Washington, a chain of more than 350 people bought coffee for

Time Magazine has released its list of the top ten religion stories in 2007. Topping the list is Mother Teresa’s crisis of faith. The Anglican Communion’s conflict comes in at a solid
number 5.

If you turn to the Bible — Isaiah Chapter 35, Verse 8 — you will see a passage that in part says, “A highway shall

The most recent entry in this niche is Spiritual Water. The Virgin Mary bottle, for example, has the Hail Mary prayer printed on the back in English and Spanish. Spiritual Water helps people to “stay focused, believe in yourself and believe in God,” says Elicko Taieb, the Florida-based company’s founder who was formerly in the pest-control business.

She stopped answering the door shortly after her estranged husband died in 1990. She turned away from her friends and neighbors in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, ignoring their hellos. So when Ms. Copeman dropped out of sight altogether, people were not immediately suspicious.

Dr, Francis Collins, author of “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief”, will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work as “director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is being honored for his leadership of the Human Genome Project and for greatly expanding the understanding of the human DNA.”

The Economist surveys the impact of religion and modern culture, and finds that modernism and religion are uneasy bedfellows. Many secular intellectuals think that the

Westboro Baptist Church, known for its website “GodHatesFags”, has been fined for demonstrating at the funeral of a US soldier killed in Iraq. The complainant won on every count against the congregation.

A priest in the diocese of Ontario has been disciplined and had his licence to marry cancelled after officiating at the wedding of a same-sex couple last August in a church in rural Ontario, where he is the incumbent.