Shoes, clothes and a carpet in a mosque in Bath were urinated on during prayers, police have said.
Avon and Somerset Police are treating the incident at the mosque on Pierrepont Street as a hate crime.

Younus Alzaabi, who was in the mosque when the crime took place, said: "We were praying at the time and heard shouting. It was distracting."

Ch Supt Olivia Pinkney, of Avon and Somerset Police, added: "This was a disgusting and mindless crime."

Police have released CCTV images of two men they want to speak to in connection with the incident.....

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The latest Indian priest to join what has become a trend of Indians taking over parishes to meet shortage of priests in Britain is Reverend Kesari Godfrey, who has been appointed curate at the Priory Church in Bridlington, Yorkshire.

For some years now, Indian priests are not only meeting the shortage of priests in churches in Britain, but Christian migrants from India, particularly from Kerala, are helping boost dwindling church congregations.Read the rest of this entry »

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With more and more Indian pilgrims visiting Pakistan, the authorities are now focusing on promoting religious tourism and have identified 32 temples, gurdwaras and Sufi shrines for improvement.

'The Tourism and Resorts Development Department (TRDD) has planned to build hotels to promote religious tourism across Punjab. This is because of the increasing number of religious pilgrims visiting the Sufi shrines, gurdwaras and Hindu temples,' Daily Times Tuesday quoted an official of the department as saying.Read the rest of this entry »

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I mean to say he being God is powerful, loving,
wise, and just. Yet the world we live in, is so
full of hatred and injustice.The bible, Gods word
teaches that "he cares for us, and that God hates
wickedness and the suffering it causes far more
than any, who has the gift of life through gods
loving kindness.(Isaiah 55:8,9)
Common responses, I am sure many have heard is
"Its Gods will", that everything that would happen
including tragic events, have all been
predetermined by him long before we existed.How
about "God works in mysterious ways" or "He
brings death upon people - even children - so as
to have them in heaven with him."Read the rest of this entry »

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IF I could give you ten simple but all encompassing rules that would, if applied, guarantee worldwide peace and happiness would you be interested? Of course you would. Doesn't everyone want a safe and joy filled world?

Yet there are ten clear and simple rules that have existed since the creation of mankind that could give us what we allRead the rest of this entry »

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America secular forces are actively trying to give Christianity the boot. Day by day trusted biblical precepts are being scoffed at, openly ignored and actively fought against. America chooses to ignore its foundations in the bible while Europe is rising on the world’s stage as Read the rest of this entry »

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This week, I am in the United States speaking at various conferences about the relationship between media, religion and culture — in particular, the way mass communication affects, for the good or the bad, our personal and communal hierarchy of values. In preparation for this trip, I have poured over every scientific study and academic analysis I have been able to get my hands on regarding how media — movies, print, radio, television and Internet — act as a catalyst for societal change.....

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The words Sunni and Shia appear regularly in stories about the Muslim world but few people know what they really mean. Religion permeates every aspect of life in Muslim countries and understanding Sunni and Shia beliefs is important in understanding the modern Muslim world....

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As the world grows smaller, and it does so every day, we find "the neighborhood" overrun with new and different people expressing unfamiliar ideas about which we understand little and care not at all.

It's a little bit scary, maybe even threatening, and most of us don't know what to do about it.....

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Hyderabad: Muslim protesters assaulted the exiled Bangladeshi author and feminist Taslima Nasreen at a book launch in south India on Thursday, incensed by her repeated criticism of Islam and religion in general.

Some radical Muslims hate Nasreen for saying Islam and other religions oppress women....

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As historians tell it, during India's first election in 1952, Jawaharlal Nehru was already worrying about the feeble representation of Muslims in the country's positions of authority.

Many more Muslims had stayed back in India than the millions who migrated to newly-born Pakistan after the partition just five years ago.

India's first prime minister's concerns about the country's second largest religious group and the largest religious minority were eminently justified....

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Americans have been asking this question for nearly six years now, and for six years President Bush and his accomplices have been offering the same tired response: "They hate us for our freedoms." With every passing year, that answer becomes less convincing.

Part of the problem has to do with the question itself. Who exactly are they? Are we referring to al-Qaida and its cohorts? Are we talking about Iran, Syria, and the other nation-states whose interests in the Middle East do not properly align with America's? Or perhaps we mean Hamas, Hezbollah, or the myriad religious nationalist organizations across the Muslim world that share neither the ideology nor the aspirations of global, transnational groups like al-Qaida, but that have nevertheless been dumped into the same category: them.

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Named as a danger to young minds, but never banned in the UK - what is the message of Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir?
This coming weekend the global "political party" which campaigns for a single Islamic state across the Muslim world says it will be holding one of its largest-ever conferences in Indonesia......

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