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Masturbation causes pregnant hands in afterlife: Turkish preacher
Turkish Televangelist Mücahid Cihad Han claims masturbation is prohibited in Islam and leads to pregnant hands in the afterlife.
Religion | 207924 hits | 12:13 PM on Thursday | posted by Alta_redneck
Turkish Televangelist Mücahid Cihad Han claims masturbation is prohibited in Islam and leads to pregnant hands in the afterlife.
Sweden's tiny Jewish community is facing increasingly blatant anti-Semitism. In Malmö, the Jewish community centre has been under armed guard, a rabbi has been attacked on the street, and few want to talk about it, writes Karin Wells.Church of England to consider transgender naming ceremony
Vicar of Lancaster Priory proposes motion for General Synod to consider ceremony to mark a person’s gender transition
Religion | 207679 hits | 2:22 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Vicar of Lancaster Priory proposes motion for General Synod to consider ceremony to mark a person’s gender transition
Peel police say hate crime under investigation after Mississauga church vandalizedReligion | 207220 hits | 12:23 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Peel Regional Police say they are investigating a hate crime after a Mississauga church was vandalized earlier this week. Muslim files complaint after Kamloops jail told him to use a towel as a prayer matReligion | 207842 hits | 9:27 PM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
KAMLOOPS - A Muslim man has filed a human rights complaint alleging the staff at the Kamloops jail refused to allow him to practise his religion while he was behind bars. Pagan fire ritual gone wrong killed Kamloops woman, says husband
Kamloops, B.C. woman Heather Arlene Carr, who died after setting a fire in a local park, was participating in a pagan ritual that went wrong, according to her husband.Televangelist Robert Schuller, founder of Crystal Cathedral, has died
The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, the Southern California televangelist and author who beamed his upbeat messages on faith and redemption to millions from his landmark Crystal Cathedral only to see his empire crumble in his waning years, has died. He was 88.
The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, the Southern California televangelist and author who beamed his upbeat messages on faith and redemption to millions from his landmark Crystal Cathedral only to see his empire crumble in his waning years, has died. He was 88. Canadians feel rift growing between Western and Muslim societies: pollReligion | 207959 hits | 10:51 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Leger Marketing polls found 63 per cent of Canadian Protestants, 62 per cent of Jews, 60 per cent of Catholics and 46 per cent of the non-religious believe Western and Islamic societies are “irreconcilable.” Even 42 per cent of Canadian Muslims believ Supreme Court rules Quebec infringed on Loyola High School's religious freedom
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Quebec infringed on the religious freedom of a Catholic high school in Montreal by requiring it to teach the province's ethics and religious culture program. Canadian imams issue fatwa on ISIS supporters, calling them non-Muslim | CTV News
A group of Canadian imams is condemning followers of the Islamic State as non-Muslims and "outsiders" to the faith. 'Meet a Muslim Family' aims to dispel fears of the religionReligion | 207375 hits | 10:12 AM on Monday | posted by BeaverFever
Saudi Arabia court gives death penalty to man who renounced his Muslim faith
Death sentence for apostasy marks a new test case for Saudi Arabia's human
rights record as its most powerful rising prince visits Downing Street
Religion | 208027 hits | 12:41 PM on Friday | posted by ShepherdsDog
Death sentence for apostasy marks a new test case for Saudi Arabia's human
rights record as its most powerful rising prince visits Downing StreetAtheist blogger hacked to death with machetes in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Machete-wielding assailants hack to death a blogger in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support freethinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.
Machete-wielding assailants hack to death a blogger in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka in the latest of a series of attacks on writers who support freethinking values in the Muslim-majority nation.Chicago-area imam charged with sex abuse at Islamic school
The longtime head of a suburban Chicago Islamic school has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman who worked there, and a civil suit filed Tuesday accuses him of abusing that employee and three teenage students. The legal actions shed light on an i
Religion | 206985 hits | 12:18 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The longtime head of a suburban Chicago Islamic school has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman who worked there, and a civil suit filed Tuesday accuses him of abusing that employee and three teenage students. The legal actions shed light on an i World Sikh Organization to spread Valentine's cheer across the Lower MainlandReligion | 207138 hits | 9:54 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Although the community doesn’t recognize Valentine’s Day, the World Sikh Organization (WSO) will be spreading some festive cheer at local shelters on Saturday.A polite vote to vanquish the Devil
Church of England makes Satan optional as new pacifist baptism service also removes words such as fight, because of violent overtones
Religion | 207292 hits | 1:50 PM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Church of England makes Satan optional as new pacifist baptism service also removes words such as fight, because of violent overtonesNiqab ban at citizenship ceremony struck down by court
The Federal Court of Canada has ruled it is “unlawful” for Ottawa to order new citizens to remove their face-covering veil when taking the oath of citizenship
Religion | 207101 hits | 11:20 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Federal Court of Canada has ruled it is “unlawful” for Ottawa to order new citizens to remove their face-covering veil when taking the oath of citizenship Pastor arrested after woman sexually assaulted during exorcismsReligion | 207299 hits | 12:01 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A Scarborough church pastor has been charged after a woman was sexually assaulted while she had exorcisms performed on her, Toronto police say. Religion grounds for vaccination refusal: Province OntarioReligion | 207388 hits | 12:36 PM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Ontario only allows parents to opt out of mandatory measles vaccination for their children in very limited circumstances, Health Minister Eric Hoskins says.Escaped Islamic State fighters caught between death if found and jail if they go home | CTV News
While foreigners from across the world have joined the Islamic State militant group, some find day-to-day life in Iraq or Syria much more austere and violent than they had expected. These disillusioned new recruits also soon discover that it is a lot hard
While foreigners from across the world have joined the Islamic State militant group, some find day-to-day life in Iraq or Syria much more austere and violent than they had expected. These disillusioned new recruits also soon discover that it is a lot hardHalal abattoir staff 'hacked and taunted sheep' in Thirsk
GRAPHIC CONTENT: A worker at a halal abattoir in Thirsk, North Yorkshire has been sacked and three others suspended after being filmed carrying out ‘horrifying abuse’ on sheep.
Religion | 207278 hits | 12:19 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
GRAPHIC CONTENT: A worker at a halal abattoir in Thirsk, North Yorkshire has been sacked and three others suspended after being filmed carrying out ‘horrifying abuse’ on sheep. 'Invisible' skullcap made from hair made to protect from anti-SemitismReligion | 207331 hits | 11:34 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Israeli barber Shalom Koresh fashioned the skullcaps from hair samples to obscure wearers' identities as Jews following a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe.Religion | 207180 hits | 4:08 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The excavation of a jail in Jerusalem yielded signs of a palace where Jesus may have gone before Pontius Pilate.Bishop Heather Elizabeth Cook exposed as hit-and-run driver in fatal crash was confronted
Bishop Heather Cook smashed into bicycle maker Tom Palermo, 41, on Saturday afternoon in Baltimore causing his death. She left the scene but a bicyclist followed and confronted her.
Religion | 208475 hits | 12:30 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Bishop Heather Cook smashed into bicycle maker Tom Palermo, 41, on Saturday afternoon in Baltimore causing his death. She left the scene but a bicyclist followed and confronted her.Pope Francis issues sharp critique of Vatican bureaucracy
Pope Francis issued a blistering critique Monday of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him, denouncing how some people lust for power at all costs, live hypocritical double lives and suffer from "spiritual Alzheimer's" that has made them forget they're s
Pope Francis issued a blistering critique Monday of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him, denouncing how some people lust for power at all costs, live hypocritical double lives and suffer from "spiritual Alzheimer's" that has made them forget they're s ISIS in Iraq: Yazidis freed from Mount Sinjar after being trapped since August
Kurdish peshmerga fighters have reportedly fought their way to Iraq's Sinjar mountain and freed hundreds of people trapped there by ISIS fighters since August, though evacuations of the hundreds of minority Yazidis have not yet been confirmed.Saudi rulers reconsider ties to Wahhabi clergy
Saudi Arabia's ruling Al Saud royal family are trying to adjust their relationship with the country's strict Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam as they increasingly view the teachings as a domestic security threat.
Religion | 207080 hits | 10:12 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Saudi Arabia's ruling Al Saud royal family are trying to adjust their relationship with the country's strict Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam as they increasingly view the teachings as a domestic security threat.Isil terrorists throw man off roof 'for being gay'
Pictures of the murder posted on jihadist website provide further evidence of Islamic State's reign of terror in Syria and northern Iraq
Religion | 207357 hits | 1:01 PM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Pictures of the murder posted on jihadist website provide further evidence of Islamic State's reign of terror in Syria and northern IraqStatues of Mary, Joseph vandalized at church in Chicago suburb
Police in a Chicago suburb were investigating on Tuesday an act of vandalism at a Catholic church in which the heads were removed from statues of Mary and Joseph in a convent garden. The destruction was discovered on Sunday
Religion | 207251 hits | 12:05 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Police in a Chicago suburb were investigating on Tuesday an act of vandalism at a Catholic church in which the heads were removed from statues of Mary and Joseph in a convent garden. The destruction was discovered on Sunday 
Father Claude Thibault was molested by a priest when he was a teen. He joined the church cover-up, but then changed his mind and agreed to testify Ottawa mother says Islamic extremists radicalized her son
An Ottawa mother is speaking out against Islamic extremists for the radicalization of her son, who allegedly praised the killing of a Canadian soldier. Michelle Walrond’s son allegedly stood up in a mosque and hailed the killing of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo as Religion | 207446 hits | 12:28 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The interfaith message by the nation’s most prominent Episcopal church sparked some criticism.Saudi teenager calls police after father arranges marriage with man in his 90s
The 17-year-old had initially accepted her father's wish for her to marry a man in his 20s after meeting the groom-to-be at her house in the southern area of Jazan.
Religion | 207458 hits | 12:11 PM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The 17-year-old had initially accepted her father's wish for her to marry a man in his 20s after meeting the groom-to-be at her house in the southern area of Jazan.Montgomery Co. ed board strips religious holiday references from new calendar
Montgomery County Board of Education voted Tuesday to remove religious labels off school holidays. But members of the Islamic community say the adjustments to the school calendar do nothing to gain parity and a day off for the Muslim holiday of Eid.
Religion | 207336 hits | 11:55 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Montgomery County Board of Education voted Tuesday to remove religious labels off school holidays. But members of the Islamic community say the adjustments to the school calendar do nothing to gain parity and a day off for the Muslim holiday of Eid.Eight men jailed in Egypt for featuring in same-sex wedding video
Although homosexuality is not illegal in Egypt, the men, who appeared in a clip purporting to show a same-sex wedding, were sentenced to three years in prison each for the crime of debauchery.
Religion | 207373 hits | 1:23 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Although homosexuality is not illegal in Egypt, the men, who appeared in a clip purporting to show a same-sex wedding, were sentenced to three years in prison each for the crime of debauchery.Children of 8 are 'racist' if they miss Islam trip
Parents were ordered to send their children to a workshop on Islam or have them labelled as racist for the rest of their school career.
Religion | 208053 hits | 12:22 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Parents were ordered to send their children to a workshop on Islam or have them labelled as racist for the rest of their school career. Luqmann Abdunnur praised Parliament Hill attack day before Ottawa arrest
The violent arrest in Ottawa of a man who was the target of a national security investigation came a day after he allegedly caused a furor in an Ottawa mosque by publicly praising Parliament Hill shooter Michael Zehaf-Bibeau as a hero, sources told CBC NePope Francis declares evolution and Big Bang theory are real and God isn't 'a magician with a magic wand'
The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not “a magician with a magic wand”, Pope Francis has declared. Speaking at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pope made comments which experts said put an end to the “pseudo theories” of
The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not “a magician with a magic wand”, Pope Francis has declared. Speaking at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pope made comments which experts said put an end to the “pseudo theories” of Muslim pupils must study two religions under government plans after Trojan Horse plot
Changes to religious studies qualifications are expected to be set out by ministers next week when the subject criteria for GCSEs is published. Faith schools are likely to see the biggest impact as they can currently choose to teach their own religion and
Religion | 208015 hits | 9:15 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Changes to religious studies qualifications are expected to be set out by ministers next week when the subject criteria for GCSEs is published. Faith schools are likely to see the biggest impact as they can currently choose to teach their own religion and Ottawa and Quebec Terror Attackers Followed Britain's Hate Preacher Anjem ChoudaryReligion | 207816 hits | 10:10 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Ottawa and Quebec Muslim converts followed several radical preachers on Twitter, including Choudary.West Midlands Police report reveals 75 per cent of known on-street child sex groomers are Asian
A bombshell police report has revealed 75 per cent of known on-street child sex groomers in the West Midlands are Asian – with 82 per cent of victims, aged 14 to 16, being white.
Religion | 207369 hits | 1:07 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A bombshell police report has revealed 75 per cent of known on-street child sex groomers in the West Midlands are Asian – with 82 per cent of victims, aged 14 to 16, being white.Muslim women's centre reports rise in number of patients claiming to be possessed
Smina Akhtar, director of Amina MWRC, revealed that 70% of her counsellor's workload since 2012 involves dealing with issues related to the paranormal.
Religion | 207246 hits | 12:40 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Smina Akhtar, director of Amina MWRC, revealed that 70% of her counsellor's workload since 2012 involves dealing with issues related to the paranormal.Catholic bishops scrap plans to 'welcome' gay members
At the end of the two-week Vatican synod led by famously progressive Pope Francis, bishops failed to approve even watered-down proposals on ministering to gay Catholics.
Religion | 207192 hits | 12:01 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
At the end of the two-week Vatican synod led by famously progressive Pope Francis, bishops failed to approve even watered-down proposals on ministering to gay Catholics.Subpoenas for Sermons in Houston Draw Outrage
A lawsuit between the city of Houston and religious leaders boiled over into a national debate this week about religious liberty and freedom of speech, even as Mayor Annise Parker argued the controversy was based on a misunderstanding.
Religion | 207248 hits | 7:43 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A lawsuit between the city of Houston and religious leaders boiled over into a national debate this week about religious liberty and freedom of speech, even as Mayor Annise Parker argued the controversy was based on a misunderstanding. Edmonton church pastor charged with child pornography offences
Richard John Docekal, 58, was arrested and charged on Oct. 9. He is a pastor at All Saints Lutheran Church in Edmonton.Pakistani Christian loses appeal against death sentence for blasphemy
(Reuters) - A Pakistani court upheld the death penalty on Thursday against a Christian woman accused of blasphemy, her lawyer said, in a case that drew global headlines after two prominent politicians who tried to help her were assassinated.
Religion | 207003 hits | 1:28 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
(Reuters) - A Pakistani court upheld the death penalty on Thursday against a Christian woman accused of blasphemy, her lawyer said, in a case that drew global headlines after two prominent politicians who tried to help her were assassinated.Religion | 207216 hits | 12:54 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Church of the Almighty God claims to have a million followers and believes that Jesus Christ has returned — as a Chinese womanCity of Houston demands pastors turn over sermons
The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise Parker, the city’s first openly lesbian mayor.
Religion | 207029 hits | 12:32 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise Parker, the city’s first openly lesbian mayor.French Jewish girl, 17, 'planned terror attack on parents' store, was set to join IS'
Expert describes how loving family of 'self-radicalized' Paris teenager turned to her center for help
Religion | 207017 hits | 12:07 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
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