Religion

An Islamic reality TV show that made its contestants counsel promiscuous teenagers and bury corpses has named a 26-year-old mosque prayer leader as Malaysia’s top role model for young Muslims. Producers voiced hopes of launching […] […]

Reverend Michael Land told his congregation at the St Mary the Virgin church in the village of Burghill, in western England, they should adopt bad language because it is how Jesus would have spoken, London’s […] […]

A FLORIDA church was yesterday promoting an event where it will burn copies of the Koran to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the U.S. In the announcement on its Facebook […] […]

THE Pope is at the centre of a new controversy after church campaigners accused him of demeaning the role of women in Jesus’s life in a children’s book, The Friends of Jesus. Pope Benedict XVI […] […]

By Sandrea:- MY GRIPE Following Phillip Hollobone’s, Member of Parliament Kettering, decision to refusal to meet with members of his constituency who wear the burka to his constituent surgery and the subsequent letter of warning […] […]

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—A popular Saudi cleric said Saturday it is permissible for Muslim women to reveal their faces in countries where the Islamic veil is banned to avoid harassment, while deploring the effort to outlaw […] […]

A LEADING Saudi cleric has condemned France for moving to ban Muslim face veils, but approved of Muslim women foregoing veils when visiting a country which outlaws them. “It is illogical and unreasonable that the […] […]

ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu says he is withdrawing from public life after decades at the forefront of the struggle against apartheid and injustice around the world. “I have done as much as I can and need […] […]

St. Peter’s Anglican Church has long been known as an open and inclusive place. So open, it seems, they won’t turn anyone away. Not even a dog. That’s how a blessed canine ended up receiving […] […]

Syria has forbidden the country’s students and teachers from wearing the niqab – the full Islamic veil that reveals only a woman’s eyes – taking aim at a garment many see as political. The ban […] […]