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Pope Mass briefs are returned | Print |  Email
Tuesday, 03 August 2010
Sources say that in some  parishes, only one-sixth of  pilgrims have taken tickets and in many cases parishes are returning more than half of their allocations. Last night there were fears the uptake would fall short of the 100,000 pilgrims expected to turn out for the historic mass at Bellahouston Park, reports DEBORAH ANDERSON in The Herald
 
BBC STRIKE TO BLACK OUT POPE | Print |  Email
Monday, 02 August 2010
The proposed action during Pope Benedict XVl’s tour will be a huge embarrassment to the corporation. It is his first state visit to Britain and the country’s 7.5 million Catholics will be infuriated if the historic occasion is caught up in the BBC’s latest controversy, reports The Daily Express
 
Milk from offspring of cloned cow 'sold in Britain' | Print |  Email
Monday, 02 August 2010
The farmer, who wanted to remain anonymous because he feared that consumers would stop buying his milk, made the claim to the International Herald Tribune. He also said he was selling embryos from the same cow to breeders in Canada, reports The Daily Telegraph .
 
Shimon Peres denies calling British 'anti-Semites' | Print |  Email
Monday, 02 August 2010
President Shimon Peres has been forced to deny he had branded the British people “anti-Semites” during an interview in which he attacked Britain for being consistently pro-Arab and against Israel, reports The Daily Telegraph
 
Maldives atheist who felt persecuted 'hangs himself' | Print |  Email
Monday, 02 August 2010
Ismail Mohamed Didi, 25, had admitted being an atheist and had sought political asylum abroad. He was found on Tuesday hanging at his workplace - the air traffic control tower at the international airport in the capital, Male. It is compulsory for citizens of the Maldives to be Sunni Muslims. Despite the rigidity of its religious laws, the Maldives was recently elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council, reports Charles Haviland for BBC News
 
BBC ‘Thought for the Day’ row misses the point, says new report | Print |  Email
Sunday, 01 August 2010
It says that Thought for the Day can play an important role in encouraging ethical and spiritual reflection in society, and that minority religions and secular humanists could make a positive contribution – the key for all concerned is quality and effective communication, reports Ekklesia
 
God gave rock'n'roll to you: Will heavy metal be a religion on the next census? | Print |  Email
Sunday, 01 August 2010
"At the moment the census undercounts the non-religious population," says Naomi Phillips of the BHA, "which for non-religious people is very damaging. We are going to do a big public campaign on this – we'll be saying: 'If you're not religious, for God's sake say so.' Don't say you're Jedi or heavy metal; it's extremely important we get a realistic response – especially because this may well be the last census, which means the data could be used for even longer than the 10 years it's used for now," reports The Independent on Sunday
 
Rescuing the Enlightenment from its exploiters | Print |  Email
Sunday, 01 August 2010
Many of today’s self-styled ‘Enlightened thinkers’ actually have little regard for the freedom of conscience and principle of autonomy that underpinned Enlightenment thought. Tzvetan Todorov gives them their comeuppance, writes Tim Black in Spiked
 
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