Topic: Religion
PARIS (Reuters) - Dissident Austrian priests defying their Catholic Church with calls for married clergy, women priests and other reforms enjoy wide public support, according to a new poll on a dispute that could lead to their dismissal.Three-quarters of people polled in ...
The son of former Pakistan governor Salman Taseer who was killed in January for opposing blasphemy laws was abducted by gunmen from Lahore on Friday, police said."Four men in a car intercepted Shahbaz Taseer's car in Lahore's upmarket Gulberg area," police emergency ...
Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Saturday he was "optimistic" about the course of humanity after a "century of violence". "I'm optimistic humanity becomes more mature," the 76-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate said while speaking at a conference on ...
EL ESCORIAL, Spain (Reuters) - Pope Benedict warned on Friday that education was more than training for work and said it ought to also lead the young to "love, reason and faith."On the second day of his trip to Spain for the ...
Saint Peter's Square will be restored to its 17th-century Baroque glory with a major renovation project due to be completed in 30 months, the Vatican's official daily said on Friday.Work has already begun on part of the famous colonnade designed by Gian ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly a third of the world's population lives in countries where it is becoming more difficult to freely practice religion, a private U.S. research group reported on Tuesday.The Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion and Public Life said government ...
A religious court official in Indonesia has blamed social networking site Facebook for a rise in teenage pregnancies and under-age marriages, a report said Thursday.Siti Haryanti, a secretary at the religious court in Mount Kidul, a town in Central Java, said young ...
Tajikistan on Wednesday banned all children and teenagers from worshipping in mosques as the volatile Central Asian republic pressed ahead with its battle against rising Islamic fundamentalism.President Emomali Rakhmon signed the measure into law after it was unanimously adopted by the upper ...
Vietnam on Wednesday faced calls from the United States and international rights groups to free a frail dissident priest who was re-arrested after being released from jail for medical treatment.Nguyen Van Ly, who prosecutors say was a founding member of a banned ...
The United States has called for the immediate release of a frail dissident priest who was rearrested in Vietnam after being released for medical treatment.Nguyen Van Ly -- who prosecutors say was a founding member of a banned pro-democracy group -- was ...
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