SENDING a package of prophylactics signifies a lot less in terms of self-giving in comparison to someone who has left their country and dedicates their lives to caring for people sick with AIDS. These are the words of the Rev John Wauck, Professor of Literature at the Pontifical Santa Croce University in Rome. His comment [...]
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POSING as a penitent, Australia’s John Safran – infamous for his radical attempts at religious satire – talked villagers in the Phillippines into nailing him to a cross on Good Friday. After discovering that the comedian was in fact an atheist carrying out a stunt for a satirical TV show, devout Christians in the rural [...]
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TAHA Abdul-Basser, Muslim chaplain at Harvard University, is at the centre of a row over the leaked contents of a private e-mail to a student. In reply to a question about the Islamic death sentence for apostasy, the chaplain wrote that there was: Great wisdom (hikma) associated with the established and preserved position (capital punishment [...]
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BUNS of steel kabbalahist and kiddie-collector Madonna must clean up her act for a performance in St Petersburg later this year. Hermitage Museum director Mikhail Piotrovsky insisted: We want guarantees that there will be no blasphemy at Dvortsovaya Square. The square is where Madonna’s Sweet and Sticky performance is due to be held on August [...]
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A REPORT this morning on BBC Radio 4 says that hymns at funerals in England and Wales are fast giving way to far perkier pop songs. However, Scottish mourners are bucking the trend by choosing traditional hymns. The report was based on a study by Co-operative Funeralcare. Its survey of 242 funeral homes and 30,000 [...]
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AN ANGRY bunch of Coronation Street fans choked on their chocolate bunnies when a key character in this popular TV soap said unflattering things about Christianity – on the very day the “Lord” Jesus is said to have risen from the dead. ITV said it had received 100 complaints from Christians about remarks made by [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
