Religion

VATICAN CITY—Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sent a letter to the pope thanking him for opposing a Florida pastor’s threat to burn the Quran and calling for cooperation against secularism, the Vatican and the Iranian […] […]

A ban on the burqa and other full-face veils will take effect in France from next northern spring after an unexpected ruling by the country’s highest legal authority yesterday. In a decision that will divide […] […]

ARCHBISHOP Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Laureate and constant thorn in the side of white and black governments alike, sails off into retirement today pledging to keep out of the spotlight from now on – […] […]

IRAN President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has written a letter to Pope Benedict XVI thanking him for condemning an American pastor’s threat to burn the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. “I thank you […] […]

THE Vatican has criticised the decision to award the Nobel Prize for Medicine to IVF pioneer Robert Edwards. “I find the choice of Robert Edwards completely out of order,” Monsignor Ignacio Carrasco de Paula, head […] […]

PALESTINIAN leaders have blamed Jewish extremists for an arson attack on a West Bank mosque yesterday. The fourth such attack in a year, the pre-dawn blaze charred holy books and damaged the interior of the […] […]

BRITAIN has recognised druidry as an official religion for the first time, thousands of years after the Celtic pagan faith emerged in Europe. The Druid Network, an organisation representing the religion in Britain, was granted […] […]

IN the biblical version, “Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all night”. In reality, wind, hydrodynamics and the unique […] […]