- Muslim and Jewish groups denounce German circumcision ruling--Calling it a 'shameful farce'.
- Norway Centre Party: Ban ritual circumcision of boys
- Why Don't Christians Have To Get Circumcised?
- Vatican offers special solution for conservative splinter group, SSPX
- Feeling Under Siege, Catholic Leadership Shifts Right
- Vatican gets Fox media adviser
- Catholic Church Fears Growing Vatican Bank Scandal--"A new scandal threatens to engulf the Catholic Church and this time the focus is money. Senior Vatican officials are battling over the future of the Vatican bank. While some would like total transparency, dubious transactions from the past and present could harm the Church's image."
- Abuses surface at Legion School--"Dozens of women who attended a high school run by the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order have urged the Vatican to close the program, saying the psychological abuse they endured trying to live like teenage nuns led to multiple cases of anorexia, stress-induced migraines, depression and even suicidal thoughts."
- The Catholic Church's Fading Influence in Poland
- Vatican posts $19 million deficit, worst in years
- Jury convicts Lynn of one count, deadlocks on Brennan
- A Troubled Silence NYT
- Sex Abuse Statutes of Limitation Stir Battle NYT
- Pope tells 75,000 at Dublin stadium Mass that child abuse by priests 'remains a mystery'
- Catholic Church loses child sex abuse liability appeal
- Alabama Public Television executives fired abruptly after pressure to change programming--"In recent months, APTV has been pressured by members of the commission to air programing produced by David Barton, a Texas evangelist. Barton's organization, Wall Builders, has produced a series of videos promoting a religious conservative view of American History."
- Florida Allows Schools To Offer''Inspirational Messages'
- How close is too close? The bishop of Orlando encourages Catholics to vote 'yes' on two amendments. Over the line?
- Fearless Republican Governor bravely saves his state from a Law that doesn’t exist
- 'Ten Commandments' Judge Roy Moore: Secularism leads to Sharia law
- Louisiana Republican: When I Voted for State Funds to go to Religious Schools, I Didn’t Mean Muslim Ones
- Islam Is a Religion, and Therefore Protected by the Constitution--"Plaintiffs in a Tennessee lawsuit want to deny local Muslims the right to build a mosque. Why? They claim it's not a legitimate faith and shouldn't be allowed First Amendment rights."
- Police now issue statement on Boston pensioner's 'religions are fairy stories' poster
- Feds Sue Two Polygamous Towns--"The Justice Department alleges that local leaders engaged in an intimidation campaign against the unfaithful."
- Netherlands rejects bill banning kosher slaughter; Jewish groups claim victory
- Jesus thumbs-up ad 'disrespectful'
- Catholics outraged over German cartoon
- Urine trouble, Pope tells mag in legal threat
- Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history--"Discoveries will accelerate to the point that 'even the skeptics can accept it.'"
- How American fundamentalist schools are using Nessie to disprove evolution--That's not all the claptrap they're teaching.
- Science Defeats Creationism In Oklahoma In Flawless Victory
- Sneak Play Foiled: Ala.legislator's Creationism scheme fails to score
- South Korea surrenders to creationist demands--"Publishers set to remove examples of evolution from high-school textbooks."
- Murdoch attacks Scientologists over Katie Holmes 'harassment'--What will they do to ensure her silence after her divorce from Tom Cruise?
- Scientology abandoned by L. Ron Hubbard's granddaughter and David Miscavige's Father
- Scientology church tries to destroy families, say ex-members
- Scientology group asks followers to censor Web comments--"The Katie Holmes-Tom Cruise split apparently has had a negative effect on the Church of Scientology, and a faction of the church is calling for members to take action and silence naysayers."
- Church of Scientology launching TV station--"The Church of Scientology [...] plans to start a religious broadcasting centre to promote its teachings over TV, radio and the internet."
