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Christians Attacked in Egypt Police intervene and detain scores of suspects

Charge of ridiculing religion brought.

Melt Down the FED and do it NOW.

You can give Americans an alternative to the FED that will be adopted across the world like wild fire. it costs ten million dollars but you will never again pay interest of be charged fees. Fractional Reserve Banking will be a thing of the past. You get what you pay for.

Bullfighting is tried by the International Court of Justice for Animal Rights in Geneva. - swissinfo

The bullfight: a traditional, spectacular ballet of death that pits man against beast, or a ritualised sadistic slaughter?

Are evangelicals abandoning their political agenda?

...In other words, the non-abortion and non-gay-rights issues have now become the elephant in the room for evangelicals. So what to do?

Gunmen Ambush On Archbishop's Home in Nigeria Injures 3

"Unknown gunmen stormed the residence of Catholic Archbishop Alaba Job of Ibadan on Wednesday night and injured his private secretary, Fr Victor Amole, and two security guards." - Catholic Information Service for Africa (Nairobi)

Reports concern Muslims

A report that mosques in Los Angeles and San Diego are under federal surveillance has resurrected fears in the Muslim community about government monitoring and led two civil rights groups Wednesday to call for congressional hearings. The request for public hearings followed a newspaper article last week that cited FBI and Defense Department files pertaining to surveillance of mosques and Muslims in Southern California.

The Pope's Holy War Against Liberation Theology

The recent election of former Bishop Fernando Lugo as President of Paraguay poses a sticky dilemma for the Vatican and underscores the hostile political environment facing incoming Pope Benedict XVI in South America. Lugo, who was known to his constituents as the "Bishop of the Poor" for his support of landless peasants, advocates so-called Liberation Theology, a school of thought which took shape in Latin America in the 1960s.

John Cleese visits Laughing Club in India - Boing Boing

Actor John Cleese went to India to visit a doctor who has started a laughing club. The people meet each morning and do silly things to make each other laugh. Laughter has many health benefits, says the doctor.

The pope's US visit: Media, White House, Congress embrace spokesman for religious obscurantism

It is a measure of the profound decay of American democracy that when the president of the United States welcomed the Roman Catholic pontiff to Washington last week, a major concern was that the representative of a 2,000-year-old religious institution, steeped in reaction and hostility to science and human progress, might seem to criticize the US government from the left.

China Said to Arrest 100 Protesting Monks

As many as 100 Tibetans were arrested in northwest China on Thursday after they demonstrated against the earlier detention of monks from a nearby monastery, witnesses and a Tibetan human rights group said Friday. Local residents reached by telephone on Friday said that the police beat and arrested people at an open-air market in Tongren, a town in Qinghai, a western province bordering Tibet, after they refused orders to leave.

Bring on Lama-Palooza

Lama-Palooza's man behind the curtain is a driven entrepreneur named Dan Kranzler, a Charles Foster Kane for children and early learning (better that than, say, politics or yellow journalism). Kranzler is a Bellevue-based wireless executive who founded Mforma, a mobile-entertainment company, in 2001.

Church of Scientology\\\\\\'s \\\\\\'Operating Thetan\\\\\\' documents leaked online - Wikinews,

Wikinews has obtained \\\\\\'Operating Thetan\\\\\\' (OT) documents of the Church of Scientology which were leaked via Wikileaks. Although some portions of the manual have been leaked previously, this is believed to be the first time the full unedited version has been leaked.

Prophets Don't Speak the Language of Politics

Pastors who preach in the prophetic tradition aren't speaking as political figures who must find accomodation and compromise to achieve attainable goals. They're speaking about a different and more exacting standard, God's expectations. And parishioners know the difference.

YouTube - Top 10 Moments in the Race for

As the presidential primary season winds down, The Interfaith Alliance has compiled a list of the 10 worst abuses of religion during the campaign so far.

Myths Dispelled, Dreams Broken

While in Berlin for the release of a new documentary he helped produce, music legend Neil Young shocked reporters Friday with the revelation that music cannot change the world.