Bloomberg Meets With Muslim Cab Driver Stabbed in Hate Crime Attack NEW YORK (WPIX) — The Muslim taxi cab driver brutally attacked this week by a college student met with Mayor Michael Bloomberg at City Hall Thursday. Both men called for tolerance and for calm over the debate that has reached feverish pitch over the [...]

Family Asks Doctors To Wait For Prayers To Work FORT WORTH — A North Texas family is racing to stop a hospital from amputating a patient’s foot, saying the procedure violates their religious rights. The situation is now so tense that Angela Wright’s husband has been barred from the hospital where she is being treated. [...]

Horray for pointlessly dangerous rituals! Baby Drowns During Baptism A priest in eastern Europe has been accused of drowning a baby boy as he baptised him. Police are investigating Father Valentin for accidential homicide after witnesses at the ceremony said the priest did not cover the baby’s mouth during the ritual, The Sun newspaper reports. Father [...]

Faith healing in Oregon: A picture worth a thousand words We’ve talked long enough about faith healing in Oregon. We’ve shared countless earnest conversations about religious liberty and parental rights. The time for words is over. Now it’s time for pictures. Another couple from the Followers of Christ church in Oregon City stand accused of [...]

Intelligent design to be taught in Queensland schools under national curriculum CREATIONISM and intelligent design will be taught in Queensland state schools for the first time as part of the new national curriculum. Creationists dismiss the science of evolution, instead believing that living things are best explained by an intelligent being or God, rather than [...]

Links to Spirituality Found in the Brain Scientists have identified areas of the brain that, when damaged, lead to greater spirituality. The findings hint at the roots of spiritual and religious attitudes, the researchers say. The study, published in the Feb. 11 issue of the journal Neuron, involves a personality trait called self-transcendence, which is [...]

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