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Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — As Christmas season went into full swing this year, Glen Fullmer’s 7-year-old son came home from school with an assignment: Make a poster illustrating his family holiday traditions.
The boy wasn’t sure how to proceed because he and his family are Baha’is, not Christians, and they have no holidays during the [...]
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The Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) have issued a Statement of Faith for the upcoming Copenhagen climate summit on behalf of nine of the world’s major religions, which together reach out to 85 per cent of the world’s population.
The eyes of the world are on Copenhagen [...]
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Well, last week was an interesting one. Monday I drove over to Windsor (yes, Windsor where the Castle is) to follow the “Many Heavens, One Earth” celebration of environmental commitments by major faith communities.
I had been asked to provide material for the story about the event that appeared on the Baha’i World News Service.
Who was [...]
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Human dignity is indivisible
By David Kilgour, Citizen SpecialNovember 6, 2009Be the first to post a comment
One dismaying estimate of the number of people who died violently because of their religion between 1900 and 2000 includes 70 million Muslims; 35 million Christians; 11 million Hindus; nine million Jews; four million Buddhists; two million Sikhs and one [...]
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It is rare that religion and science find agreement, but that is what happened when Britain’s Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks spoke at a meeting on saving the earth from climate change.
“The great Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson published a book in 2007 called “Creation”, subtitled An Appeal to Save Life on Earth,” Sacks told leaders of [...]
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Frank Furedi
Getting God to do their dirty work
In seeking to use religion to force people to change their eco-unfriendly behaviour, greens are debasing both religious belief and scientific truth.
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We live in world where the cynical manipulation of people’s fears and anxieties often overrides informed public debate. Principles and beliefs seem to have become negotiable [...]
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Jim Al-Khalili
Published: 12:01AM GMT 29 Jan 2008
For 700 years, the international language of science was Arabic
The untold story of Arabic brilliance should be a timely reminder of a proud heritage, says Jim Al-Khalili
Next year, we will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, and the 150th of the publication of his On The [...]
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Posted on August 2nd, 2009 by G Cameron
A new working paper published by the National Bureau for Economic Research in the US produces some interesting findings about religiosity and university education, among which is this:
Being a humanities or a social science major has a statistically significant negative effect on religiosity — measured by either religious [...]
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More on the story I posted yesterday about the Ministerial decree that allows Egyptian citizens who are neither Muslims, Christians nor Jews, to put a dash in the religion space on official documents. This brings relief to the Egyptian Baha’is who have been struggling for years to obtain the ID cards they are legally required [...]
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This story on Opticianonline highlights the risk for glaucoma patients of interpreting their religious fasting practices strictly.
It seems that some patients stop using their eye drops during periods of religious fasting, such as Ramadan.
A team led by Dr Nishant Kumar of University Hospital, Liverpool studied patient compliance in relation to fasting by analysing 350 surveys [...]
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