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Pope's visit could be overshadowed by exile of Birmingham priests | Print |  Email
Sunday, 22 August 2010
The Pope’s historic visit to Britain is in danger of being overshadowed by a growing row over the exiling of three members of a religious community he is due to visit, reports Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent of The Telegraph
 
Pakistan flood aid from Islamic extremists | Print |  Email
Sunday, 22 August 2010
The queue stretches silently into the darkness, as dozens of families wait patiently for a plate of rice and chicken curry to break their Ramadan fast, reports Rob Crilly in Nowshera in The Sunday Telegraph
 
I'm an atheist but this anti-Catholic rhetoric is making me nervous | Print |  Email
Sunday, 22 August 2010
The church's critics have been mobilised by the Pope's visit but the rhetoric is tipping over into the extreme, writes former New Hunanist Editor Padraig Reidy in The Observer
 
Scores of Gypsies sent back to Romania | Print |  Email
Friday, 20 August 2010
France expelled nearly 100 Gypsies, or Roma, to their native Romania on Thursday as part of an effort by conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy to dismantle Roma camps and sweep them out of the country. Those repatriated Thursday left "on a voluntary basis" and were given small sums of money -- 300 euros ($386) for each adult and 100 euros for children, officials said. Roma advocates countered that those who refused the deal would eventually be sent home without funds, reports The Washington Post
 
Thousands turn out to pay tribute at funeral of union great Jimmy Reid | Print |  Email
Friday, 20 August 2010
His widow Joan and daughters Eileen, Shona and Julie were joined by friends and family, as well as leading figures from politics, arts and entertainment at the humanist service at Govan Old Parish Church. Among the mourners were former PM Gordon Brown, Labour leadership contender Ed Balls, Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray, Solidarity leader Tommy Sheridan, writer William McIllvany, actress Elaine C Smith, entertainer Johnny Beattie and musician Aly Bain, reports The Daily Record.
 
Dawkins is wrong: faith schools don't blinker children | Print |  Email
Friday, 20 August 2010
Kids are bright. We owe it to them to teach all the alternatives of man's origins and let them work it out for themselves, writes Erfana Bora in The Guardian
 
'Faith Schools Menace?' was a revelation | Print |  Email
Friday, 20 August 2010
Do children have the right to an open mind? Richard Dawkins, never a man afraid to speak his, certainly believes so. He made a persuasive case in Faith Schools Menace? (More4), a rational account of the potential dangers of religious education that would have had parents who have abseiled down their local cathedral in a bid to get little Johnny into St Xavier’s fuming in the pews, writes Keith Watson in Metro
 
Amulet advert banned over claim of 'divine protection' | Print |  Email
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
An advert for an amulet which promised 'divine protection' has been banned by advertising bosses because the firm behind it could not prove that angels will protect those who wear it, reports The Daily Telegraph
 
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