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'No Religion' Billboard Taken Down After Complaints

Source: The Morning News (Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:00:09 GMT)
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A Roman Catholic priest urged his parishioners to confess if they voted for Barack Obama with knowledge of the president-elect's support for abortion rights, drawing a dissenting view from his bishop and further stirring a debate about Catholic political responsibility.

Source: AP via Yahoo! News (Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:55:53 GMT)
Newseum hosts all the news that fits ...
Washington, D.C., is home to more than 40 museums. But when one more museum opened in the nation's capital earlier this year, it was still pretty big news.

Source: The Pantagraph (Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:34:31 GMT)
Gregoire Deluged With Calls On Atheist Sign ...
      An anti-religion billboard in the Washington state Capitol has started a firestorm on national television.       Fox News' Bill O'Reilly had an eight-minute segment on his show Tuesday night decrying the inclusion of the atheistic billboard along with a holiday tree and a Christian nativity scene.       Conservative TV personality O'Reilly called the display "political correctness gone ...

Source: Q13 FOX Seattle (Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:14:26 GMT)
Bill O'Reilly slams Gregoire, atheist sign ...
An anti-religion billboard in the Washington state Capitol has started a firestorm on national television. Fox News' Bill O'Reilly had an eight-minute segment on his show Tuesday night decrying the inclusion of the atheistic billboard along with the traditional holiday display.

Source: KATU Portland (Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:26:13 GMT)
Kazakhstan under fire over new religion law ...
Christian Solidarity Worldwide has hit out at a harsh new law passed by Kazakhstans parliament which it warns seriously restricts freedom of religion or belief

Source: Christian Today (Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:55:51 GMT)
The Hudson Institute to Host Lunchtime Discussion of Blind Spot: When...
The Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom, in partnership with The Media Project of The Oxford Centre for Religion & Public Life, will host a panel discussion of the new book Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion.

Source: PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance (Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:00:00 GMT)
Al Jazeera English - News ...
India believes the men who attacked its commercial hub of Mumbai are Pakistani Muslims. Islam is the second-biggest religion in Mumbai and the past six days have been troubling ones for the city's Muslims.

Source: Aljazeera (Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:34:21 GMT)
On Religion: New Orthodox Bishop Takes Hot Seat ...
When an Orthodox bishop enters a sanctuary, he is traditionally greeted with the following words chanted in Greek: "Eis polla eti, despota."

Source: The Morning News (Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:00:48 GMT)
Losing My Religion ...
It was a ?Ben Franklin-inspired? protest. A group of parents at Julie A. Duncan ?09?s all-girls Catholic school in Kentucky pushed for a ban on several English books containing objectionable material like child abuse and pre-marital sex.

Source: The Harvard Crimson (Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:27:08 GMT)
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