THERE are fewer than 3,000 Sikhs in Austria -but even among this tiny number there are bitter sectarian differences that led to the killing yesterday of a preacher in a temple in Vienna. Guru Sant Rama Nand, 57, died from gunshot wounds after an emergency operation. A second, Guru Sant Niranjan Dass, 68, is in [...]
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MEMBERS of a despicable little alliance of Christian bigots called Forward Together is licking its wounds after its spectacular failure to prevent the Church of Scotland voting for a gay priest at the weekend. The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland voted in support of the Reverend Scott Rennie whose appointment earlier this year [...]
A TRIALÂ is set to begin in France next week that could result in the Church of Scientology being shut down in the country. The case against the cult has been brought by barrister Olivier Morice on behalf of a 43-year-old housewife who claims to have been duped into spending 25,000 euros on medicines, tapes, [...]
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A RELIGIOUS zealot – from a family of fanatical Christians who describe themselves as “Bible-believing, God-believing, Holy Ghost-filled people” – was convicted yesterday of killing her 11-year-old daughter. A Wisconsin jury found Leilani Neumann, 41, guilty of killing Madeline Kara Neumann by praying for her to heal instead of rushing her to the doctor. According [...]
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AN Afghan man, enraged over the alleged desecration of a Koran in Greece, was severely burned when he tried to firebomb an Athens police station yesterday. His reaction to the perceived insult was followed today by full-scale riot, in which police fired tear gas and stun grenades at hundreds of Muslims in central Athens, according [...]
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TAKE a deep breathe … you are about to be annoyed. Very annoyed indeed. IN THE same week in which the unremitting cruelty of Catholic institutions towards vulnerable youngsters in Ireland was exposed, the outgoing Archbishop of Westminster had the sheer gall to identify “lack of faith” as “the greatest of all evils.” According to [...]
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