A NEW survey in the US has found that, while  Americans are by all measures a deeply religious people, they are also lamentably ignorant about the faiths they profess. According to this report, researchers from the independent Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life phoned more than 3,400 Americans and asked them 32 questions about [...]
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THE Catholic Church was hoping, no doubt, that its planned canonisation of an Australian nun would serve to divert attention from all the bad press it’s been attracting in recent years over clerical child abuse. No such luck. Oz’s National Broadcaster ABC, according to this report, intends screening a documentary on October 10 which reveals [...]
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THE bishop at the center of allegations of a gay sex plans to step down as the pastor of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Georgia after he delivers a sermon tomorrow. As many as 30 young men may now be considering suing Bishop Eddie Long. The pastor at the centre of a slew [...]
ERIC MacLeish, a US lawyer whose work for abuse victims helped secure the resignation of Boston’s Cardinal Bernard Law in 2002, later suffered a breakdown, stopped practicing law and got divorced. For MacLeish, the clergy abuse cases reawakened memories of being sexually abused as a child. MacLeish and other lawyers won an $85 million settlement [...]
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TWO more girls’ schools in Peshawar were bombed this week by lunatic Taliban insurgents, bringing the total of schools attacked over the past five years in Pakistan to over 1,000. The recent devastating floods, on the other hand, damaged 900 schools, 226 of which were totally destroyed, according to this report. In the space of [...]
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THE six, all from Gateshead, were arrested after filming themselves apparently burning copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. According to the BBC, police said the men were detained after this video appeared on the internet: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPvvMBTOQuo[/youtube] They were arrested on suspicion of inciting racial hatred and released on bail pending [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
