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Senegal to Celebrate Eid Al-Adha on 28 November
The Eid al-Adha (Arab word) most known in Africa as Tabaski (Muslim feast of the sacrifice) will be celebrated in Senegal on Saturday 28 November. This event commemorates the submission of Abraham to God. Abraham had accepted to immolate his son Ishmael...
What Constitutes a Religious Community?
Much of my skepticism (cynicism?) directed towards the rising adoption of online churches arises from my detached (which is to say atheist) perception of religion as a major exemplar of the concept of community. I find that most of those who evangelize...This is My Body; This is My Blood; This is My URL
It had to happen sooner or later. A culture that has had such firm determination in industrializing education, health care, and even the food we eat would obviously find a way to industrialize religious practices. All it needed was the right supporting...
Spanish Media Claim 1 Million People Participated in Madrid’s Anti-abortion Rally
Spanish media has claimed around a million people are estimated to have participated in an anti-abortion rally in Madrid on Saturday. Protesters were demonstrating against Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero’s plans to relax the Catholic...Morality Or Authority?
Having suggested yesterday that the G20 is both irrelevant and incompetent (the latter not being a major problem because of the former), at least where facilitating recovery from the current economic crisis is concerned, I took great interest in a...
Nigerian Police Chief Replaced After Killing of Islamic Sect Leader
The Police Commissioner accused of the extra-judicial killing of leaders of the violent Islamic religious sect, Boko Haram in Borno State of Nigeria, Mr Chris Dega, has been replaced. The religious sect, in June embarked on violent riots in Borno, Kano,...
Catholic Church in Nigeria Attributes Latest Religious Violence to Growing Levels of Poverty
The Catholic Church in Nigeria has attributed the latest religious violence in which an Islamic sect caused mayhem in some states in northern Nigeria to the growing poverty in the country. A statement by Catholic Secretariat and signed by Rev. Father...
Nallur Kandasamy Kovil Ready for the First Free Festival in Decades
While Catholics in Sri Lanka are expected to flock to the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu in thousands next month for the annual Feast, thousands of Hindus’ in the Jaffna peninsula who were thwarted by the LTTE in exercising their religous right for...
