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Georgia freemasons at loggerheads over admission of black man to lodge | Print |  Email
There is much about Freemasonry that remains shrouded in mystery to the outside world. But a group of members in the US state of Georgia appear to have clarified one thing - the supreme being in which all Masons are required to believe is not likely to be black. Freemasonry lodges in Georgia are at loggerheads over the admission of a "non-white" member to an organisation that was founded on the principles of the Enlightenment but which is apparently still struggling to catch up with the latter part of the 20th century, writes Chris McGreal in Washington for The Guardian

 
Doctors reject faith right call | Print |  Email
The British Medical Association conference in Liverpool debated a motion saying medics should be free to discuss spiritual issues.But delegates at the union's annual meeting refused to back the proposal.The government always opposed relaxing the rules, saying spiritual care was for the NHS Chaplaincy Service, reports BBC News
 
Faith school's admissions policy discriminatory, says appeal court | Print |  Email
A Jewish school that prioritised applications from children with Jewish mothers discriminated on grounds of race, the Court of Appeal ruled today, in a landmark decision on the admissions criteria used by faith schools, report Afua Hirsch and Riazat Butt in The Guardian
 
For so many, religion is already redundant | Print |  Email
Some of the non-religious ardently desire the warmth of human solidarity and the regularity of fixed ritual. Others can't think of anything worse, writes Caspar Melville, editor of New Humanist in The Guardian
 
Climate change makes sheep shrink | Print |  Email
Survival of the fittest and natural selection usually means that species grow bigger as they evolve but milder weather on the uninhabited islands of the Scottish Outer Hebrides has pushed this process into reverse. Despite a greater abundance of food, milder winters and longer summers means that the wild Soay sheep of the St Kilda archipelago are shrinking by 3.5 ounces (100g) a year, reports Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent of The Daily Telegraph
 
BBC bows to viewers and curbs swearing after 9pm watershed | Print |  Email
The BBC is to tone down the amount of sex and swearing screened following the 9pm watershed, because viewers were dismayed by the moral decline in programme standards, report Anita Singh and Urmee Khan in The Daily Telegraph
 
A fight for the Amazon that should inspire the world | Print |  Email
While the world nervously watches the uprising in Iran, an even more important uprising has been passing unnoticed – yet its outcome will shape your fate, and mine, writes Johann Hari in The Independent.

 
 
The Koran does not put women in burkas | Print |  Email
For too long a foreign-inspired Muslim clergy that defends female inferiority and gender discrimination has subjected Muslims in the West to virulent indoctrination. This brainwashing stems from the Middle East and South Asia but has no Koranic foundation, writes Dr T. Hargey, Chairman of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford in The Times
 
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