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'Saiful?s swearing on the Quran is valid'
8/21/2008 1:29:09 AM by adeal
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FEDERAL Territory mufti Datuk Wan Zahidi Wan Teh disagreed that Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan's swearing on the Quran was an imitation of the Christian faith, Sinar Harian reported. Wan Zahidi defended the validity of the swearing because it was an oath taken outside of a trial or alyamin qhairul qadhai ....(ReligionInsight)
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INPs find cache in Al Samari Mosque
8/21/2008 1:27:08 AM by adeal
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Iraqi National Police seized a munitions cache in the Al Samari mosque in the Karadah district in eastern Baghdad Aug. 18. Police assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st National Police Division, and Soldiers from the 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 66th Armor Regiment, conducted the combined o ....(ReligionInsight)
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FOR OBAMA, UNITY STOPS SHORT OF MUSLIMS
8/21/2008 1:26:04 AM by adeal
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As Sen. Barack Obama courted voters in Iowa last December, Rep. Keith Ellison, America’s first Muslim congressman, stepped forward eagerly to help. Ellison believed that Obama’s message of unity resonated deeply with American Muslims. He volunteered to speak on Obama’s behalf at a mosque in Cedar Ra ....(ReligionInsight)
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Rabbis give New York elite private lessons in Judaism
8/21/2008 1:24:25 AM by adeal
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The Bible says there is a time for every purpose under heaven. But for one group of rabbis, whose purpose is teaching some of New York’s wealthiest and busiest people about Judaism, their teaching sessions have to be regarded as a kind of standby ticket. Financial crises occur. Personal trainers nee ....(ReligionInsight)
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Korean Buddhist Temple holds grand opening ceremony
8/21/2008 1:21:37 AM by adeal
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For 19 years, the congregation of a Korean Buddhist Temple named Sam Bul Sa has met in two different homes. Now, they have a facility that give them more space to worship. Sam Bul Sa was founded in 1989 by Myong Prescott. For the first year or two, the congregation met in a room in Prescott’s home o ....(ReligionInsight)
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The marvels of Buddhism in Niagara Falls
8/21/2008 1:20:30 AM by adeal
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One Sunday morning recently, we had the opportunity to visit two interesting sites that many Niagarans aren't aware of. The first was the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sarira Stupa on River Road, just by the Whirlpool Bridge in Niagara Falls. This spectacular building was begun in 1995 and completed in July ....(ReligionInsight)
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Pope names new Swiss Guard commandant
8/21/2008 1:19:30 AM by adeal
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Daniel Anrig, who has a law degree, is currently head of police in canton Glarus in central Switzerland. He will take over from Commandant Elmar Mäder in December.The Swiss Guards with their colourful antiquated uniforms have been serving pontiffs for more than 500 years. The 1998 killing of a guard ....(ReligionInsight)
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Pope appears to back fascism warning
8/21/2008 1:18:27 AM by adeal
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SILVIO Berlusconi's Government has engaged in a vigorous damage-limitation exercise after Pope Benedict appeared to lend his moral authority to concern that Italy was in danger of returning to fascism under the tycoon's hardline right-wing leadership.(ReligionInsight)
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Hindu extremists suspected in murder of priest
8/21/2008 1:17:16 AM by adeal
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Christian leaders in Andhra Pradesh suspect the grisly murder of a Catholic priest was the work of Hindu extremists and that police have prematurely ruled out that possibility. The battered body of Father Thomas Pandipally was found lying on a roadside in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh early o ....(ReligionInsight)
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The World Council of Churches is celebrating six decades of service...
8/21/2008 1:15:45 AM by adeal
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Sixty years is a short time in the church calendar, but the six decades since the founding Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in August 1948, have marked incalculable changes, the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches said today.(ReligionInsight)
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