A CONSERVATIVE Muslim government minister admits he shook hands yesterday with US first lady Michelle Obama in welcoming her to Indonesia – but says he really didn’t want to as it was against his religion. According to this report, which has a video of the “aggressive” Obama handshake, Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring told tens of [...]
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THE row over female clergy in the Anglican Church just got more bitter, with the Bishop of Lewes warning that there was: Real serious warfare just around the corner. Speaking at the Reform conference of conservative Anglicans in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the Rt Rev Wallace Benn declared: I’m about to use an analogy, and I use [...]
IN July of this year – following the suicide of Todd Ransom, a 28-year-old gay man from Orem, Utah, who was reportedly struggling to reconcile his sexual orientation with his Mormon upbringing – horrifying statistics emerged regarding suicide, particularly among teenagers, in Utah. Deseret News, a newspaper owned by the Church of Latter Day Saints [...]
POPE Ratzinger has criticised an “aggressive” anti-church sentiment that he said is flourishing in Spain when he arrived on a two-day visit to the country this weekend. According to this report, he said the anti-clericalism being felt today in Spain harks back to the 1930s when the church suffered a wave of violence and ill [...]
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YOU’D think that with all the pressing problems it currently has on its plate – its global sex abuse scandal being just one – the Vatican just wouldn’t have the time to investigate the activities of a tiny number of a renegade Catholics who hold conversations with angels. Wrong! According to this report, the Vatican [...]
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I FEEL as if I’m being dogged by the Pope. I was in the UK when the old bigot made an expensive state visit to the country, and now that I am in Spain I learned this week that he due here this weekend. I am delighted to report, though, that all is not well [...]
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