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The Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC) calls climate change an ethical and spiritual issue but the mass bell ringing, endorsed by Switzerland’s national church federations, has been rejected by the largest Protestant groups over questions of...
Tags: climate change, Switzerland, Copenhagen, Protestant, Thomas Gehrig, WCC, Bern, Environment, Interfaith, Solothurn, Christian ecumenism, Bell, World Council of Churches, Church bell, Religion Belief
In the last 50 years, religious conservatives have scored few victories in Hawaii. They did manage to oust a half-dozen pro-gay marriage lawmakers and lead a successful drive for a constitutional amendment to reject same-sex marriages a decade ago.
Tags: Hawaii Catholic Conference, Hawaii Christian Coalition, University of Hawaii, civil union, gay marriage, Protestant, evangelicals protestant, moral principles, Aiona, Legislature, Honolulu, Conservatism in the United States, Evangelicalism, Christian right, Politics, Republican Party, LGBT social movements, Social Issues, Hawaii, Marriage, Religion Belief
I used to be bound by a religious addiction, that is, until the Lord delivered me. Looking back, I had no mind of my own where all things spiritual were concerned. I was subservient to whatever denomination I was affiliated with, bowing to manmade...
Tags: religion, addiction, Protestant, Catholic, Islam, Muslim, Jew, religious addiction, truth, pharisees, spirits, demons
J. Grant Swank, Jr.Barack Hussein Obama's stance as a Protestant--theologically liberal in keeping with the United Church of Christ (Congregational)--is a cover for the facts.The facts are that he is indeed a Muslim by his own words.He states that he...
Tags: Islam, Koran, Allah, United Church of Christ, UCC, Protestant, shadow government, czar
Protestant Bishop has accused the Education Minister of making Ireland a hostile place for the children of the Protestant minority. Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork, Paul Colton also contradicted Batt O’Keeffe’s version of the dispute over funding for...
Tags: Ireland Bishop of Cork, Protestant, protestant schools
McGuinness the deputy first minister of British rule in Ireland and the British police, chief constable Baggot( see Urban Dictionary) both refer to republicans in Ireland as Dissidents. Dissidents as defined by the Oxford English dictionary of the Queen's...
Tags: British, dissident, Fenian, Henry Joy McCracken, Ireland, Irish, Protestant, PSNI, Unrepentant, Wikipedia, YouTube
My father passed away four weeks ago last Thursday. He was a chronic alcoholic and had moved back to his parents home in Belfast after our family had become disillusioned and disheartened by years of failed attempts to help save him from this horrible...
Tags: Religion, Death, Alcoholic, Grief, Catholic, Protestant, Mourning
(Related: Cory Aquino Tributes & the Edsa 2 Denial Syndrome) TIME Magazine featured the late Philippine President Corazon Aquino in its August 1, 2009 issue, describing her as a "saint" of People Power revolution. Entitled "People Power's Philippine...
Tags: world-news, death, democracy, philippines, time, catholic, hawaii, funeral, arroyo, coup, estrada, protestant, marcos, ramos, people-power, corazon-aquino, woman-of-the-year
A Tibetan Buddhist view on Gay Marriage, how it doesn’t Represent the Majority of Buddhists Worldwide. According to a recent article in the Huffington Report, the Dalai Lama rejected same-sex relationships in a published interview...
Tags: Buddhism, Golden Rule, 14th Dalai Lama, Jesus, orthodox, rabbi, Tibetan Buddhism, minister, priest, Catholic, Tibet, Thomas Aquinas, homosexuality, sexual misconduct, gay, Pali Canon, Tripitaka, Five Precepts, heterosexuality, Theravadan, Mahayanan, lay Buddhists, Leviticus, Protestant, Shakyamuni, Thanissaro Bhikkhu, Metta Forest Monastery, California, Gelug sect, Lhamo Döndrub, American politics and culture, Huffington Report, San Francisco, religionfacts.com
Two Loyalist paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland have announced they have decommissioned their weapons and a third has said it will follow suit. Both the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and its splinter group the Red Hand Commando (RHC) declared their...
Tags: Northern Ireland, Ulster Volunteer Force, paramilitaries group, Ulster Defence Association, loyalists paramilitaries, UVF, Protestant, red handed, UDA, Red Hand Commando