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Man vows to continue work despite hundreds of 'hate' messages

Christopher Greenough was forced to set up a folder in his email for the deluge of messages he received

Liverpool Echo

The Meeting House: Inside a Megachurch Scandal

It was massively popular. It billed itself as a new kind of church. Then sexual abuse and misconduct allegations surfaced against its leaders

The Walrus

Man Booked In Bhopal For Befriending, Molesting Woman By Hiding His Religion

A man has been booked for allegedly molesting a 22-year-old woman and for forcing her to get married to him. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Census data suggests UK faces ‘non-religious future’, say campaigners

Figures for England and Wales show under-40s more likely to declare ‘no religion’ than Christianity for first time

The Guardian - UK

Average age of Christians in Wales and England rises above 50 as majority of young adults say they have no religion

The proportion of those aged 21 to 25 identifying as Christian has fallen from 5.1% to 3.9%

Wales Online

Average age of people identifying as Christian climbs above 50, census shows

The proportion of those aged 21-25 identifying as Christian has dropped from 5.1% to 3.9%.

The Independent UK

Concerns over prayer breakfast lead Congress to take it over

The National Prayer Breakfast is one of the most visible and long-standing events that brings religion and politics together in Washington

The Independent UK

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Shiromani Akali Dal fumes over Uttar Pradesh CM's Sanatani remarks

AMRITSAR: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has censured Uttar Pradesh (UP) chief minister Yogi Adityanath for allegedly stating "Sanatan Dharma" as the national religion of India and warned him to not try to impress upon the people of other religions about the superiority of Sanatan Dharam.

The Times of India

Rightwing Spanish leaders under fire over anti-Islam comments after attack on churches

Politicians accused of stigmatising Muslims and migrants after man with machete entered two churches in Algeciras

The Guardian - UK

Rich diamond tycoons slammed for letting daughter become nun at just eight-years-old

Devanshi Sanghvi, 8, gave up her position as heiress to her father's $61million diamond fortune so she could become a nun of the ancient Jain religion in India - she will sleep on a hard floor and rely on alms-seeking to feed herself

Daily Mirror

Ukraine sanctions 22 associated with Russian Orthodox Church

Ukraine has imposed sanctions on 22 Russians associated with the Russian Orthodox Church for what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said was their support of genocide under the cloak of religion.

Reuters

Losing their religion: why US churches are on the decline

As the US adjusts to an increasingly non-religious population, thousands of churches are closing each year – probably accelerated by Covid

The Guardian - US

Inside strict religion girl, 8, gave up £50million diamond inheritance to become nun for

In her new life as a nun, eight-year-old Devanshi Sanghvi, who sacrificed her £49.3million diamond inheritance, will have to pledge to never harm anything alive and dedicate herself to asceticism

Daily Mirror

Trump is killing the Christian right

Nothing has exposed the moral bankruptcy of the Christian Right more than its ecstatic embrace of a lying libertine

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Commentary: Abortion bans undermine church-state separation

Abortion bans impose on everyone the narrow religious doctrine of a few. These bans violate the separation of church and state.

Sports Illustrated

Flyers Defenseman Makes Controversial Pride Night Decision

Philadelphia’s Ivan Provorov: “My choice is to stay true to myself and my religion.”

The Independent UK

Flyers D Provorov cites religion for boycott on Pride night

Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov cited his Russian Orthodox religion as the reason he did not participate in pregame warmups when the team wore Pride-themed jerseys and used warmup sticks wrapped in rainbow Pride tape

Salon

Groups to Biden: Drop prayer breakfast

Freedom From Religion Foundation rallies opposition to participation in right-wing evangelical networking event

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Zenger

U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Case On Sabbath Observance

The appellant, a postal worker, says he was forced from his job because he refused to work on Sundays for religious reasons.

France 24

India: Mob attacks church in a wave of anti-Christian violence

On January 2, a crowd wielding batons descended on a Catholic church in a village in central India. They destroyed the church and even struck police officers who tried to control the enraged mob. The incident was just one of the most recent examples of violence perpetrated against India’s minority…

Tribune News Service

Japan indicts suspected killer of former premier Abe

Japanese prosecutors indicted a man in his 40s on charges of fatally shooting former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last year in a crime that horrified the country and triggered a scandal over the ruling party’s links with a fringe religion.

Texas Observer

A Question with No Easy Answers

Brian McLaren's book "Do I Stay Christian?" challenges the faithful to examine the harm caused by modern religion.

The Conversation

How can the law account for the value of natural places?

In November 2022, the Australian government made a commitment to legislate new protections of Indigenous heritage sites. The decision was made in response to recommendations passed down by a joint parliamentary committee investigation into Rio Tinto’s destruction of an Aboriginal sacred site at Juukan Gorge in 2020.

ABC News

In the small West African nation of Benin the government is calling on voodoo to attract tourism

For some voodoo conjures images of dolls but in the West African nation of Benin they are using the religion to help drive tourism and dispel myths.

Reason

Court Reverses Order That Father "Shall Not Discuss Religion with" Child

Easterday v. Everhart, decided Thursday by the Indiana Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Judge Melissa May, joined by Judges Terry Crone and Leanna Weissmann, involved the custody of the parties' 12-year-old daughter. The parties' original agreement was for joint legal custody but for mother to have primary physical…

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