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2013-07
2013-07-15	Boko Haram leader calls for more schools attacks after dorm killings "Teachers who teach western education? We will kill them! We will kill them in front of their students, and tell the students to henceforth study the Qur'an,"
2013-07-13	Egypt's Christians Face Violence After Morsi Ouster They smashed the windows and doors of Christian homes, ransacked Christian-owned stores and set them ablaze – damaging about 30 homes and stores in all. Muslim residents who tried to stop them were brushed aside, sometimes threatened with violence as well. At least a dozen Christian families took refuge in the local Church of St. John The Baptist
2013-07-12	Pakistani Taliban bans men from wearing tight clothing in Ramadan “They said it was un-Islamic to wear clothes that don't properly cover the human body,”
2013-07-11	THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION AND THE POISONS OF ETHNICITY AND RELIGION The development in Egypt should be a serious lesson to those who because of their religious convictions believe that there is a place for religion in politics, or that using political power to enforce religious morality delivers a better society
2013-07-10	Scientist claims religious extremism is a mental illness that can be ‘cured’ There is a fine line between believing in something or someone, be it a football team or a religion, and being mentally unfit. Sometimes people will push this to the limit, however can you justifiably label bad judgement and poor execution of actions an illness?
2013-07-09	'Friendly atheist' speaks to thousands at Oak Hills On Sunday, a few members of the congregation at Oak Hills didn't want to listen to a nonbeliever and they left before Mehta was introduced, Frazee said. But most of the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. “I think it was healthy,” said church member Jim Robbins. Mehta's words struck a chord with him because one of Robbins' sons had been an atheist for many years. “I don't have a problem with people asking questions.”
2013-07-09	The Top 10: Facebook 'vomit' button for gays and other Pat Robertson quotes "I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household, and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period."
2013-07-07	Video shows anti-Mursi protesters thrown off building in Alexandria One of the young men was killed; he was identified as Hamada Badr and activists say he was celebrating Mursi’s ouster when he came into encounter with Muslim Brotherhood supporters.
2013-07-07	Florida pastor urges men to destroy computers in quest to live ‘porn free’ “almost 100 percent chance that your son will be exposed to some type of pornography” and that “their cell phone could be a tool used by Satan to gain a stronghold into your child’s mind.”
2013-07-07	Cross' removed from Busch Stadium mound “It’s just not club policy to be putting religious symbols on the playing field or throughout the ballpark. I didn’t ask for the reason behind it. I just asked for it to stop.”
2013-07-05	Islamist rebel vows 'maximum force' to stop Sochi Olympics "I call on you, every mujahid, either in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan or on the territory of the Caucasus to use maximum force on the path of Allah to disrupt this Satanic dancing on the bones of our ancestors,"
2013-07-03	Gay men can marry lesbians, say Catholic church Archbishop Oscar Cruz, judicial vicar of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines-National Appellate Matrimonial Tribunal (try saying that three times fast) just announced that it’s totally acceptable for a gay man to marry a lesbian.
2013-07-03	Hindu Nationalists Attack Peaceful Prayer Meeting Under 'Forceful Conversion' Pretense Members of the Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh struck with fury, uttering obscenities as they denigrated the pastors' faith and low-caste status. Hindu nationalists assert that people in India are Hindu by birth, and that conversion to another faith amounts to national betrayal.
2013-07-03	CNN exclusive: Catholic monk not beheaded by Syrian rebels, friar says Father Franҫois Mourad, a Syrian, was shot eight times and killed June 23 at a Catholic monastery in Gassanieh, said Friar Pierbattista Pizzaballa, head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land.
2013-07-03	Vatican's Top American: DOMA Decision Will Lead to Deaths Burke warned against "virulent strains of secularism," but also argued that millions of Christians are rising up in response to a "culture of death."
2013-07-01	Saudi Arabian Women's Conference... With Not A Female In Sight (PICTURE) The conference was reportedly held at the University of Qassim and was apparently attended by representatives of 15 countries.
2013-07-01	Rape victim and 'black virgin' Kainat Soomro condemned to die in Pakistan over rape The village declared her "kari", or a black virgin, and ordered her family to carry out an honor killing to end the shame a rape victim brings to a family
2013-07-01	Francois Murad, Catholic Priest 'Beheaded By Jihadist Fighters In Syria' "The world must know that the support of gunmen by the west is helping extremists in killing Syrians.
2013-07-01	Carter: World religions perpetuate women's plight Across the world, he said, prosecutions for rape are either rare or too often become a referendum on the victim.

2013-06
2013-06-30	Atheists Unveil Monument by Ten Commandments Group leaders say they believe it's the first such atheist monument on government property.
2013-06-26	Courageous Christianity will combat the 'fairy tale' of atheism David Cameron, said: "It is encouraging that Christianity still plays such a vital role in our national life. We are a country with a Christian heritage and we should not be afraid to say so."
2013-06-25	Far-Right Touches Nerve With Demands for Jewish Prayer on Temple Mount Visitors are closely watched by both the police and the Muslim religious officials of the Waqf who administer the compound and keep an eye out to make sure no Jewish worship takes place. Anyone wearing Jewish religious garb is generally kept away from the Islamic holy tract.
2013-06-24	Sunni vs Shia... in Gerrard's Cross: New mosque highlights growing tensions among British Muslims He has in the past accused Shias of being responsible for kidnapping, cooking and skinning children before placing their remains outside the family home for their parents to find, and recently called for Muslim women to travel to Syria to offer their bodies to fighters seeking to overthrow Bashar al Assad’s regime.
2013-06-24	Female genital mutilation victim was 'aged just seven' Some communities from parts of Africa and the Middle East, from both Muslim and Christian traditions, believe it is a necessary part of becoming a woman, that it reduces female sex drive and therefore the chances of sex outside marriage.
2013-06-24	N Indiana bishop says accused priest admitted sexual abuse of boy in Africa 20 years ago "No one wants to believe someone as beloved as Father Ryan is capable of committing sexual abuse," O'Hara wrote, "but we also must face what now is fact, and move toward comforting and reconciling with the victim of the abuse who needs our pastoral support and prayers.
2013-06-24	Hatred between Sunnis, Shiites abounds in Mideast "Fourteen centuries after the death of the prophet, in a region full of destruction, killing, occupation, ignorance and disease, you are telling me about Sunnis and Shiites?" scoffs Ismail al-Hamami, a 67-year-old Sunni Palestinian refugee in Gaza. "We are all Muslims. ... You can't ignore the fact that (Shiites) are Muslims."
2013-06-24	In the Bible Belt, Offering Atheists a Spiritual Home Mr. DeWitt counts himself among the hard-line atheists, but he believes that something may be lost when someone leaves the church — not just the parts about God, but also a sense of community and a connection to emotion.
2013-06-24	Religion: Not Just Parishioners Are Running Away… it’s not just a Catholic problem. Statistics compiled among churches in the Southern Baptist Convention have revealed disturbing losses in several key areas, including membership, average attendance, baptisms and total monetary giving.
2013-06-23	Photos: Famous atheists and their beliefs "I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it," he said. "I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do."
2013-06-23	Gunmen Kill Climbers in Northern Pakistan the Taliban sought to ‘'awaken'’ international opinion about the drone campaign, although it was unclear how attacks on Chinese and Ukrainian nationals was a response to an American action
2013-06-21	Syria: 'I saw rebels execute my boy for no more than a joke’ He has become a symbol of the fears many Syrians have for the future of a country where jihadists are vying with the regime for control.
2013-06-21	Afghan woman accused of adultery shot dead in public "This is happening under a government that claims to have made so much progress in women's rights, claims to have changed women's lives, and this is unacceptable.
2013-06-21	Creation Museum. Dragon Legends Were dinosaurs dragons? Find out at the Creation Museum's new Dragon Legends exhibit, and prepare to believe.
2013-06-20	Spanking for Jesus: Inside the Unholy World of ‘Christian Domestic Discipline’ Foremost, that the Bible commands a husband to be the head of the household, and the wife must submit to him, in every way, or face painful chastisement.
2013-06-20	U.S. Immigration Services Believes An Atheist Can’t Be An Conscientious Objector? Either the officers in Houston are inept, or they are deliberately discriminating against nonreligious applicants for naturalization.”
2013-06-20	Canadian Mennonites accused of beating kids with cattle prods, leather straps many Mennonites believe in traditional corporal punishment for children but follow a rule that says children should not be injured or hit out of anger.
2013-06-19	US Senator Rand Paul: 'There Is A War On Christianity' As Christians, we understand that the right to life, and freedom of religion, pre-exist all government. These rights are not granted to man by other men, these rights are granted to us by our Creator.
2013-06-18	In defence of prayer Recently in Arizona, an atheist politician used his prayer slot to offer some thoughts that one of his fellow lawmakers took issue with. Having so many faith traditions exist side by side has brought plenty of friction over the years in American society.
2013-06-17	Thailand cracks down on monks living it up with luxuries Buddhist monks are supposed to adhere to Buddha's teachings of simplicity and self restraint, and not own any objects at all.
2013-06-15	Religious Views Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender People Revealed In New Survey About half -- 48 percent -- say they don't have any religion, more than double the percentage of the general public that says the same.
2013-06-13	Muslim Imam Claims Women Who Don’t Wear Hijabs are “Asking to be Raped”, Arrested for Trying to Rape Woman Unlike a lot of other Muslim clergy who say that women who don’t wear hijabs or burkas or who leave the house deserve to be raped, but then don’t follow up on it, Shahid Mehdi stayed true to his belief that Islamic morality justifies sex crimes by trying to commit a sex crime.
2013-06-12	Ireland will have no Catholic priests in twenty years predicts a senior cleric In 1990, he stated, “There were 525 students studying for the diocesan priesthood in Ireland; in 2013 there are 70.”
2013-06-12	Atheists have no right to decide what is, or what is not offensive to believers The student atheist society at UCL have my complete support. I am full of admiration for the firm and principled stance they are taking against religious censorship. My primary reason for drawing the cartoons is to make atheists laugh.
2013-06-11	THE PALESTINIAN JESUS “The portrayal of the Lord Jesus Christ as a Palestinian refugee who lived under military occupation has, in recent years, been used as a powerful propaganda weapon against Israel by an increasing number of pro-Palestinian Evangelicals.
2013-06-10	Syrian teenager Mohammad Qataa 'executed by Islamists for blasphemy' "He then fired two bullets from an automatic rifle in view of the crowd and in front of the boy's mother and father, and got into a car and left."
2013-06-09	‘Kill Harry’ nut in Jesus porn film He caused his family financial ruin and ended up with 32 convictions for scams in which he ripped off everyone from charities and sports clubs to aspiring models and ex-soldiers who wanted to work as bodyguards.
2013-06-09	Making The Switch: An American Woman's Journey To Islam Her experience is not as unusual as it may seem; some 20 percent of American Muslims are converts
2013-06-08	Jihadist terror group planned attack on EDL rally out of boredom The plot was only narrowly averted by the group’s own incompetence and sheer luck.
2013-06-07	'Your culture is no defence,' Damian Green tells men from ethnic minorities linked to sex crimes “If you come and live in 21st-century Britain then you obey the laws and observe the conventions of 21st-century Britain.
2013-06-07	American female converts to Islam facing growing scrutiny "There will always be those who judge based upon ignorance. They are of no concern to me," said MacDonald Rushdan. "I will keep on doing what I've always done. I will not apologize for being a God-fearing woman whose faith provides her with inner peace and contentment."

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