Arizona Supreme Court Should Rule Against School Voucher Subsidies For Religious Schools, Says Americans United

The Arizona Supreme Court should strike down two voucher programs that direct tax dollars into religious and other private schools, according to Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

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Shame On The Cincinnati Zoo

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and the Creation Museum have made a joint marketing agreement and are selling "combo tickets" to get into both attractions for one price.

The Cincinnati Zoo is promoting an anti-science, anti-education con job run by ignorant creationists.

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Conservative Anglicans Split From US Church

Washington - A group of conservative Anglican churches in the United States split Wednesday from the Episcopal Church - as the US branch of the Anglican Communion is known - by forming their own rival province.

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6 More Kids Seized In Evangelist Investigation

(CNN) -- Six more children connected to the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries were taken into protective custody Wednesday to determine if they have been physically or sexually abused, child welfare officials said.

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Poll: Calif. Gay Marriage Ban Driven By Religion

The ban drew its strongest support from both evangelical Christians and voters who didn't attend college, according to results released Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of California.

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Mormon Homophobia: Up Close And Personal

An ex-Mormon explains how a church with mostly good values can promote hatred and intolerance.

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Gay Bible Angers Christians

A gay version of the Bible, in which God says it is better to be gay than straight, is to be published by an American film producer.

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Win Ben Stein's Mind

I've been accused of refusing to review Ben Stein's documentary "Expelled," a defense of Creationism, because of my belief in the theory of evolution. Here is my response.

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This film is cheerfully ignorant, manipulative, slanted, cherry-picks quotations, draws unwarranted conclusions, makes outrageous juxtapositions (Soviet marching troops representing opponents of ID), pussy-foots around religion (not a single identified believer among the ID people), segues between quotes that are not about the same thing, tells bald-faced lies, and makes a completely baseless association between freedom of speech and freedom to teach religion in a university class that is not about religion.

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Children Of God?

There's no real evidence to suggest that religion is hardwired -- it's just wishful thinking on the part of religious academics.

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Atheist Students Want God Out Of Speech

EDMONTON, Alberta (UPI) -- A move is afoot by Canadian student atheists and agnostics to have references to God removed from the University of Alberta's convocation ceremony.

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Find God On The No.19 Tram To Damascus

AT the 1901 census less than 1 per cent of Australia's non-indigenous population said they had no religion.

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But just over a century later at the 2006 census about a fifth of Australians said they had "no religion".

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Vatican Thanks Muslims For Returning God To Europe

PARIS (Reuters) - A senior Vatican cardinal has thanked Muslims for bringing God back into the public sphere in Europe and said believers of different faiths had no option but to engage in interreligious dialogue.

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'War Of Crucifix' Questions Catholic Predominance In Spain

Madrid - A decades-old row over whether crucifixes should be displayed in public buildings in a non-confessional state has erupted again in Spain. The recurrence of the "war of the crucifix" was seen by many analysts as partly reflecting a certain indecisiveness of the authorities caught between Spain's traditionally Catholic identity and an increasingly secular society.

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Jewish Settlers Riot After Forced Removal

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Jewish settlers were rioting near the West Bank city of Hebron Thursday in protest of the Israeli military's seizure of a disputed home and the forced removal of settlers inside it.

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Pakistani Links To Terror Raise Tensions In Region

The militants who brought death and chaos to Mumbai had received months of commando training in Pakistan before launching their attacks, a revelation that will further heighten tension between the two countries.

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U.S. Wants Pakistan Crackdown On Militants

Gunmen Storm Afghan Security Buildings

(CBS) Two suicide bombers simultaneous attacked the headquarters of Afghanistan's Intelligence Agency (NDS) and its counternarcotics building in the eastern city of Khost Thursday morning.

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School Destroyed As Suicide Bombers Hit Iraqi Police Posts

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Two suicide bombers on Thursday simultaneously struck the Iraqi city of Falluja, destroying a school and killing at least 15 people -- including some of the students -- an Interior Ministry official said.

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Two Killed, 30 Hurt In India Bomb Blast

(AP) A bomb exploded in a train coach in India's insurgency-hit northeast on Tuesday, killing at least two people and injuring another 30, a state government official said.

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Hundreds Die As Christians And Muslims Clash Over Poll

MORE bodies were delivered to the main mosque in the central Nigerian city of Jos yesterday, as the death toll from two days of clashes between Christian and Muslim gangs rose to about 400.

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Hundreds killed in second day of sectarian rioting

Nigerian 'Witch Doctor' Claims To Have Killed 110 Children 'Possessed By Evil Spirits'

A man in Nigeria who claimed in a television documentary that he had killed 110 children he believed to be possessed by evil spirits has been arrested, officials said on Wednesday.

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