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14th February

1076

Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor

14.02.07 - Judge rules rights of SF Falun Gong practitioners not violated

14.02.07 - New Year's show denounced by China is opening in NYC

14.02.07 - Norwegian group denied visa to present prize for Buddhist monk

14.02.07 - Lebanon bomb attacks bring destruction to Christian area

14.02.07 - Lebanon's deepest fault line is between rival Christian groups

14.02.07 - U.S. religious leaders promote peace dialogue in Iran

14.02.07 - Religious leaders urge U.S. Senate probe into Philippine violence

14.02.07 - Washington biased in its assessment of religious freedom in Belarus

14.02.07 - U.S. Evangelist, a critic of Islam, reaches out to Sudan's president

14.02.07 - France: Religious leaders sign statement defending traditional marriage

14.02.07 - Pentecostal growth in Asia challenges Catholic Church

14.02.07 - Religious groups feel cut off from Cuba

14.02.07 - Faki puts the mysteries of Islam and numerology to work

14.02.07 - Nation of Islam announces Saviours' Day 2007 convention

14.02.07 - Australian cult leader faces child sex charges

13th February

1633

Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition

13.02.07 - Romney sets sights on becoming the first Mormon president of America

13.02.07 - Indian inmates claim right to practice religion is denied

13.02.07 - Al-Qaida's No. 2 calls for Muslim unity

13.02.07 - Freed Egyptian cleric could testify against CIA in Milan

13.02.07 - Thai monks urge charter drafters to name Buddhism national religion

13.02.07 - Lanka Buddhist monks demand abrogation of Oslo truce

13.02.07 - San Francisco judge to decide on Falun Gong lawsuit

13.02.07 - Human evolution exhibit to butt heads with Creation Museum

13.02.07 - Moonies pay $500,000 to avoid shark prosecution

13.02.07 - Scientology receives LA Business Journal's Real Estate Award

13.02.07 - Parents sue Sovereign Mother of God sect, demand compensation

12th February

1804

Immanuel Kant dies

12.02.07 - World-wide Anglican leaders gather in Tanzania

12.02.07 - Gay churchgoers more likely to quit mainstream religion

12.02.07 - Is environmentalism the new religion?

12.02.07 - YouTube censors religion criticism?

12.02.07 - Christianity, Islam battle for souls of Iranians

12.02.07 - Police search for Jesus-beheading vandals

12.02.07 - Israel approves work at religious site, scene of clashes

12.02.07 - Romney criticized by Jewish group for honoring Henry Ford

12.02.07 - Extremists storm Mormons' headquarters in Samara

12.02.07 - Crackdown on religion intensifies in China (Epoch Times)

12.02.07 - Chinese ordinations called "acts of war" against Church

12.02.07 - China offers to develop Buddhist spots in Bihar

11th February

1929

Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty

11.02.07 - Orissa Buddhist sites to get a facelift

11.02.07 - Chinese foreign minister in Nalanda for Xuan Zang memorial opening

11.02.07 - Chief rabbis to meet Muslim leaders on Mughrabi conflict

11.02.07 - The politics of 'Moderate Islam'

11.02.07 - Obama: I take Christian faith seriously

11.02.07 - Creationism, science clash in the cradle of mankind

11.02.07 - Israel's A.G. backs Jehovah's Witnesses' equal rights demand

11.02.07 - Maharishi Veda Park in Germany to be ready in one month

11.02.07 - 'Mother Ganges' river, sacred to Indians, awash in filth

11.02.07 - Hindu hardliners to renew call for Ayodhya temple

11.02.07 - US Hindu reform group condemns rituals by Bachchan

11.02.07 - Book details contribution of Freemasonry to formation of U.S.

11.02.07 - Religious tension in workplace on the rise

11.02.07 - Religion shunned in modern art world

10th February

1846

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints begin an exodus west

10.02.07 - Japanese Aum cult leader Shoko Asahara slated for execution

10.02.07 - Arab League accuses Israel of altering Jerusalem features with dig

10.02.07 - Iraq war could be end of small Mandaean religious group

10.02.07 - More Hispanic Americans are converting to Islam

10.02.07 - Bill expanding religious vaccine exemptions sparks debate

10.02.07 - Senate bill would allow oaths using non-Christian texts

10.02.07 - Judge ends parole visits for ex-cult leader with cancer

10.02.07 - Australian PM spreads the word: no help from Exclusive Brethren

10.02.07 - Italy's Jewish community slams blood libel book

10.02.07 - A return to the devils they know: Papua New Guinea and sorcery

9th February

1621

Gregory XV becomes pope, he is to be the last pope elected by acclamation

09.02.07 - Muslim protesters leave al-Aksa Mosque

09.02.07 - London police arrest radical Muslim suspected of encouraging terrorism

09.02.07 - China executes ethnic Muslim for alleged separatist activities

09.02.07 - Freedom of religion in Christian, Buddhist, Sunni, Shia jurisprudence

09.02.07 - Homosexuals praise Evangelical Lutheran jury decision

09.02.07 - Romney, a Mormon, tries to find a way around issue of religion

09.02.07 - Ancient Buddhist temple discovered in Bangladesh

09.02.07 - Protest in Sri Lanka over killing of Hindu priest

09.02.07 - Continuing persecution of ISKCON in Kazakhstan alleged

09.02.07 - Raelians re-adopt swastika

09.02.07 - Scientology affiliate trained MPs

09.02.07 - Occult killer led double life - small NSW town in shock

8th February

1692

Three teenagers in Salem declared under influence of Satan, leading to witch hunt

08.02.07 - Paris court takes up Muslim cartoon case

08.02.07 - Muslim anger spreads at Israeli work at shrine

08.02.07 - Hungarian court grants access to communist files of religious leaders

08.02.07 - Uzbek government denies religious freedom violations

08.02.07 - Beijing games highlight China issues of religious freedom

08.02.07 - Buddhism to help cement Sino-Indian friendship: China

08.02.07 - Putin: It's religion and nuclear weapons that protect Russia

08.02.07 - Edwards backs bloggers after 'anti-Catholic' complaints

08.02.07 - Haggard, Colo. Springs church he founded reach a settlement

08.02.07 - Harvard curriculum puts more emphasis on religion

08.02.07 - Religious posters lure ACLU to library

7th February

1991

Haiti's first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is sworn in

07.02.07 - Hindu and Jewish religious leaders sign declaration

07.02.07 - Burma denies reports of religious suppression

07.02.07 - French survey finds anti-religious humor offensive

07.02.07 - Uzbekistan "harshening crackdown" on religious freedom and media

07.02.07 - Survey finds 300m China believers

07.02.07 - Woman denies charges in pagan church arson

07.02.07 - KKK growing, fed by anti-immigrant feelings

07.02.07 - Measure would assist polygamy 'Lost Boys'

07.02.07 - Factory owned by polygamist church on auction block

07.02.07 - Episcopal church names first woman bishop in Cuba

07.02.07 - Anglican synod to discuss embracing gays

07.02.07 - Brazilian church leaders plead not guilty to currency smuggling

07.02.07 - Prosecutor says religious parents punished their 8 y.o. son to death

07.02.07 - Professor's links to 'guru' probed

6th February

1748

Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati, is born in Ingolstadt

06.02.07 - Gate of ancient Nalanda university discovered

06.02.07 - Beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses come under the microscope

06.02.07 - How to evangelize Tibetan Buddhists in the West

06.02.07 - Group says John Paul II to return as anti-Christ

06.02.07 - Pope to address Chinese persecution of Catholics

06.02.07 - Descendant of Muhammad converts to Christianity

06.02.07 - Egypt top cleric says women presidents okay under Islam

06.02.07 - Israeli excavation in Jerusalem stirs Muslim anger

06.02.07 - German Muslim leaders slam interior minister for anti-Muslim discourse

06.02.07 - Iranian Holocaust Foundation demands documents on Jewish massacre

06.02.07 - US Jewish leaders converge on capital

06.02.07 - 70 sect members killed in DRC

5th February

1576

Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France

05.02.07 - Dalai Lama accepts university appointment at Emory University

05.02.07 - Hindu extremists attack pastors' conference in India

05.02.07 - Polish religious orders begin probe into Communist collaboration

05.02.07 - Anglican agenda laid out for upcoming global meeting

05.02.07 - Pope still weighing document on Latin Mass

05.02.07 - Baptist sects attempt to unite

05.02.07 - Religious minorities and Pakistan politics

05.02.07 - FLDS trust objects to a default

05.02.07 - China's shifting policies still hindering religion, witnesses say

05.02.07 - Saudi-funded school 'teaches religious hatred'

05.02.07 - Sikh scholar prepares Hijri calendar

4th February

1974

The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California

04.02.07 - Second largest Islamic religious meet ends in Bangladesh

04.02.07 - Coptic pope blesses altar of new Ambridge church

04.02.07 - Rowan Williams 'fostering schism', aide fears

04.02.07 - Bible scholar says Jehovah's Witnesses wrong about blood transfusions

04.02.07 - Iceland Buddhist Association wants to build a temple

04.02.07 - Hindu holy men express ire over Mulayam's remarks

04.02.07 - Texas city trying to get Santeria suit dismissed

04.02.07 - Scientology foe Keith Henson arrested, defense mobilized

04.02.07 - 'Scientology fugitive' arrested

04.02.07 - Filmmaker Lynch finds peace with Transcendental Meditation

04.02.07 - 23: How weird is that?

3rd February

1927

Kenneth Anger, occult film director, is born

03.02.07 - Dalai Lama consecrates Buddha's relics in Bodh Gaya

03.02.07 - Faith in Aum guru resurges as Joyu moves to form his own group

03.02.07 - Muslim religious observance Bishwa Ijtema begins in Bangladesh

03.02.07 - Lebanon's top Sunni clerics issue religious edict against killing

03.02.07 - Four more Shiite cult militants arrested in Iraq

03.02.07 - Famous cults pictorial: From The Family to the Branch Davidians

03.02.07 - Polygamous murderer denied parole

03.02.07 - Catholic priest faces attempted murder, sexual assault charges

2nd February

1882

The Knights of Columbus, a Catholic fraternal order, are formed in Connecticut

02.02.07 - Harmony lessons of Hindu festival

02.02.07 - Buddhist monk charged with raping Australian during ritual

02.02.07 - Georgia mayor converts to Islam

02.02.07 - Religious row erupts as school goes Halal

02.02.07 - Vietnam issues white paper on religious policy

02.02.07 - Epoch Times seeks mainstream credibility, despite Falun Gong ties

02.02.07 - From myths to missionaries: Taking a look at the truth about Mormonism

02.02.07 - Persection of North Korean Christians "worse" than ever

02.02.07 - Ethnomusicologist rabbi to speak on Ugandan Jews

02.02.07 - Pakistan sect members face religious hatred charges

02.02.07 - Scientology embraced by firefighters of Maharashtra, India

02.02.07 - Scientologists pledge to finish vacant shrine

1st February

1979

Patty Hearst released from prison after her sentence is commuted by Pres. Carter

01.02.07 - Messianic cult cover-up for a massacre?

01.02.07 - The Mormon who wants to be president

01.02.07 - Why Jehovah's Witnesses refuse blood transfusions

01.02.07 - B.C. seized surviving sextuplets for blood transfusions

01.02.07 - China's underground Catholics hope pope will clarify church relations

01.02.07 - Southern Baptists present religious liberty award to Bush

01.02.07 - As church loses appeal, Protestants try rebranding religion

01.02.07 - Sheikh snub: Jewish leaders boycott meeting

01.02.07 - Slovakia's chief rabbi attacked

01.02.07 - Associate professor publishes Buddhist translation

01.02.07 - Hindu organisations oppose Devaswom ordinance

01.02.07 - Study: China's army harvesting body parts from prisoners, Falun Gong

01.02.07 - Newspaper founded by Falun Gong members catching on in the U.S.

01.02.07 - Controversial Scientology group speaks out at Oxford Careers Fair

31st January

1876

All Native Americans were ordered to move onto reservations

31.01.07 - Buddha's ashes to move from Sri Lanka to Bodh Gaya in India

31.01.07 - Kashmir to promote Buddhist monasteries

31.01.07 - The Buddha of Gilgit at risk from neglect

31.01.07 - India's biggest ISKCON temple ready at Tirupati

31.01.07 - Dozens die in attacks linked to Shiites' religious holiday

31.01.07 - Doubts over battle with messianic cult in Iraq

31.01.07 - US religious-expression bill gets a preliminary OK

31.01.07 - Pope says he's consoled by stories of apostles, disciples arguing

31.01.07 - Falun Gong members in Singapore court

31.01.07 - Evidence implicates Moonie's leader in shark-poaching scheme

31.01.07 - International sect recruits under a different name

31.01.07 - Cuba releases new Castro images

30th January

1948

Mohandas Ghandi is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist

30.01.07 - Shiite Muslims mark solemn day of Ashura

30.01.07 - Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan out of hospital

30.01.07 - Warren Jeffs taken to hospital, returned to jail

30.01.07 - Jewish leader: New far-right faction in Europe is racist and anti-Semitic

30.01.07 - Armenian Jews applaud genocide bill

30.01.07 - Cambodian official says Dalai Lama still not welcome

30.01.07 - The economy of God

30.01.07 - Romanian religion law most restrictive in Europe, group says

30.01.07 - Blair says no exemption for religious organizations in gay adoptions

30.01.07 - Ancient civilization discovered at Stonehenge

30.01.07 - Proof shows 'hobbit' skeleton was human

30.01.07 - Jennifer Lopez: My dad is a Scientologist

29th January

1688

Emanuel Swedenborg, famous Christian mystic, is born

29.01.07 - Hindu scholar finds similarities with Maori culture

29.01.07 - Police clamp curfew on north Indian town following Hindu Muslim riots

29.01.07 - Efforts to curb politicised Islam backfiring - study

29.01.07 - Leader of Shiite religious cult killed by U.S., Iraqi forces

29.01.07 - "Soldiers of Heaven" cult leader formerly detained in Iran

29.01.07 - Brownback reintroduces Public Expressions of Religion Act

29.01.07 - LDS affirms neutrality on Romney and others

29.01.07 - Hunting the Klan

29.01.07 - Depts of Justice, Homeland Security receive religion training

29.01.07 - Visiting the most sacred Christian site

29.01.07 - Man says bald eagle shooting was religious

29.01.07 - French panel recommends measures to keep religion out of hospitals

28th January

Catholic feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas

28.01.07 - Israel gets first Muslim minister

28.01.07 - Ultra-Orthodox snatch religious woman's body

28.01.07 - Period of silence for newborn sparks uproar

28.01.07 - Religious festivities begin at Dharmasthala

28.01.07 - Ex-Taliban leader shot dead in Kabul

28.01.07 - Egypt's minister of religion rejects the veil

28.01.07 - Romney must tackle religion question head-on

28.01.07 - Three Sikh priests held on sexual abuse charges in Canada

27th January

1593

Vatican opens trial against occult philosopher Giordano Bruno, trial lasts for 7 years

27.01.07 - Jewish sect ostracized over Iran meeting

27.01.07 - Muslim Brotherhood condemns prejudice against Shias

27.01.07 - 13 killed in bombing near mosque in Pakistan

27.01.07 - UK city council bans Holocaust Memorial under Muslim pressure

27.01.07 - Parents want religious exemption for newborn blood tests

27.01.07 - Judge OKs two more parties into FLDS leader evidence case

27.01.07 - Chinese church growing; pope to write Chinese Catholics

27.01.07 - Continued attacks on religious freedom in China

27.01.07 - Vibrant 'spirit churches' thriving in South Africa

27.01.07 - Bills would help those who flee polygamy

26th January

1564

Council of Trent establishes a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism

26.01.07 - Sacred cave of Rome's founders discovered, archaeologists say

26.01.07 - German sunday closing law applies to new Scientology center

26.01.07 - Germany refuses to return Jewish art stolen by Nazis

26.01.07 - Records checked on Brethren sect's poll ads

26.01.07 - Property fight looms in U.S. Episcopal split

26.01.07 - Anglicans helped create Israel

26.01.07 - Muslim religious leader escapes assassination attempt

25th January

1971

Charles Manson and three female members of his "family" were found guilty.

25.01.07 - On Buddha`s trail

25.01.07 - Spiritual guru criticised for opposing statehood for Telangana region

25.01.07 - Feds ask to keep polygamist jailed sect leader's possessions

25.01.07 - Utah's feds ask for dismissal of sect leader's Nevada case

25.01.07 - Religious land-use law under fire

25.01.07 - Is Harar 'the forgotten city of Islam?'

25.01.07 - Rights group urges Saudis to stop Ahmadi arrests

25.01.07 - Are Canadian viewers ready to enter the dragon?

25.01.07 - Religious persecution increased in China

25.01.07 - Brazil wants church leaders extradited

25.01.07 - Baptist churches more vulnerable to clergy sex abuse, experts say

25.01.07 - Pope meets with Vietnam's prime minister after decades of tensions

25.01.07 - Church of England still valid as state religion?

24th January

1986

L. Ron Hubbard, founder and leader of Scientology, dies following two strokes.

24.01.07 - Syria and Iran to cooperate in religious affairs

24.01.07 - Scientologists in Sudbury to protest accused murderer's medications

24.01.07 - Chabad alerts students and community to proselytizers' techniques

24.01.07 - Survey: 93 per cent of Indians believe in God

24.01.07 - Indian Hindu militants attack missionaries, throw teenager from train

24.01.07 - Africans appeal for religious freedom

24.01.07 - God Squad HQ deal reached

24.01.07 - Invoices link Exclusive Brethren sect to Liberals

24.01.07 - Opus Dei accuses BBC of defamation

24.01.07 - Merkel wants EU charter to make reference to Christianity

24.01.07 - Pope seeks to heal long-standing rift with Chinese Church

24.01.07 - Vatican Astronomer: 'big science' and 'big religion' at peace

23rd January

1579

The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.

23.01.07 - Accept Tibet as part of China: Dalai Lama

23.01.07 - Polygamy: Should towns be put under county control?

23.01.07 - Men sue Mormon church, Boy Scouts in abuse case

23.01.07 - African church leader warns of 'disease' of Pentecostalism

23.01.07 - Brazil evangelical churches face fraud inquiries

23.01.07 - Old Christian rivalry moves into Lebanon streets

23.01.07 - Eritrea arrests 68 more Christians in new clampdown

23.01.07 - Christian 'American Idol' prepares to air

23.01.07 - Banned religious group leader arrested in Pakistan

23.01.07 - ISKCON Sadhus go corporate in Ardh Kumbh

23.01.07 - Top Scientologist claims Tom Cruise is "Chosen One"

23.01.07 - Microsoft caught attempting to doctor Wikipedia

22nd January

565

Eutychius is desposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.

22.01.07 - Nine faiths mark World Religion Day

22.01.07 - Walking from Tibet to Bodh Gaya

22.01.07 - Another four Buddhist records go into the books

22.01.07 - Pope and cardinals : Consensus on China

22.01.07 - City Council against changing the FLDS' court-managed trust

22.01.07 - Secret cult kingpin arrested in Mbiama

22.01.07 - Esalen Institute: Still mystical after all these years

22.01.07 - Posh won't pay to become a Scientologist

22.01.07 - Pakistan acquits mentally ill Christian accused of blasphemy

22.01.07 - Photographer 'spooked' by religious leaders

22.01.07 - New Zealand census says Church is doing okay

22.01.07 - Why do good? Brain study offers clues

22.01.07 - Holy war erupts as unorthodox Greeks revive ancient religion

21.01.07 - Kenya denies entry to Tibetan spirtual leader Dalai Lama

21.01.07 - Sex & Spirituality: The intimate connection

21.01.07 - Hindu activists riot in India's Bangalore

21.01.07 - Malaysian Hindu temple gets ISO certification

21.01.07 - Report: Myanmar eyeing end of Christianity

21.01.07 - Brainwashed woman wants compo

21.01.07 - Tony Blair gives lift to Scientology

21.01.07 - Ukrainian court rules Falun Gong engaged in illegal activities

21.01.07 - Arizona lawmaker targets visitation by polygamists

21.01.07 - Religious candidate Brownback enters US presidential race

20.01.07 - Connecting religion and the human brain

20.01.07 - Dalai Lama helps show the power of the mind to sculpt our gray matter

20.01.07 - Council looks at Maharishi land ... again

20.01.07 - 'Lost Boys,' other FLDS teens lobby lawmakers

20.01.07 - Program for prisoners draws fire over Scientology

20.01.07 - Eckankar sect hit with moratorium

20.01.07 - Satan worship on the rise in India

20.01.07 - Idols from India for restored Hindu temples in Pakistan

20.01.07 - ISKCON blast culprits identified, efforts on to arrest them

20.01.07 - Homosexual Lutheran pastor charged

20.01.07 - Episcopalian diocese says it will take legal action over property

20.01.07 - Church mural brings religious figures to life

20.01.07 - More than $100 billion owed to holocaust survivors

20.01.07 - Nazi archive to remain unavailable

20.01.07 - Wiccan ex-barista sues Starbucks over religion

19.01.07 - Chinese officials denounce Falun Gong-backed Lunar New Year show

19.01.07 - Setsuri cult no. 2 in hiding in Taiwan

19.01.07 - Sect member behind anti-Greens campaign

19.01.07 - Buddhist center comes to fruition 40 years after conception

19.01.07 - Organization attacks bigamy appeal

19.01.07 - Pope prods Turkey on religious freedom

19.01.07 - Church of England calls on BBC to safeguard religious programming

19.01.07 - BA overturns religious dress code ban

19.01.07 - Zeus worshippers demand access to temple

19.01.07 - New religious Sunni group declared in Iraq

18.01.07 - China clamp on Tibetan festival

18.01.07 - Bigamists' custody rights targeted

18.01.07 - Mormons cancel Wiesenthal proxy baptism

18.01.07 - Jewish teachers grapple with a big question: G-d

18.01.07 - Religious persecution growing worldwide, group says

18.01.07 - 12th century relic in Ukraine threatened

18.01.07 - Pro-Israel group asks Pope to remove anti-Semitism from religious art

18.01.07 - Syria and Vatican to enhance religious tourism

18.01.07 - First ever transgendered religion summit this weekend

18.01.07 - Nigeria: Reverend king and the exploitation of religion

18.01.07 - Tom fails to win over Victoria Beckham when it comes to cult

17.01.07 - Confucianism is philosophy not religion

17.01.07 - Day of Judaism unites Polish Jews and Catholics in Gdansk

17.01.07 - Evangelicals mourn Shtern's passing

17.01.07 - Santeria priest banned from animal killing

17.01.07 - Sextuplets are born into a religious debate

17.01.07 - Egypt: Additional members of Muslim Brotherhood detained

17.01.07 - Lawsuit to use Quran for courtroom oaths may proceed

17.01.07 - Freedom of religion right under attack, House speaker says

17.01.07 - Science + Religion = new alliance to save the planet

17.01.07 - 'Doomsday Clock' closes in on midnight

16.01.07 - Millions gather for Hindu Kumbh festivals

16.01.07 - Hindus oppose call for swastika ban

16.01.07 - Germany plans EU anti-Nazi legislation

16.01.07 - Rabbi: anti-Semitism threatens Germany's Jewish life

16.01.07 - German Christian Democrat elected head of EU

16.01.07 - Retiring Italian bishop chides colleagues' failure to confront Islam

16.01.07 - Pro bono effort muzzles Ordo Templi Orientis religion slur

16.01.07 - Religious dispute halts operation at Amish cheese plant

16.01.07 - New group at Penn studies the science behind spirituality

16.01.07 - US commemorates Religious Freedom Day amid concerns

15.01.07 - Robert Anton Wilson dies aged 74

15.01.07 - Prostrating Buddhist monk draws admirers in India

15.01.07 - 16,000 Vedic Pandits in India: Preparations progressing rapidly

15.01.07 - Debate over Scientology intensifies

15.01.07 - Bill limits workplace politics, religion

15.01.07 - Egyptian police arrest six top Muslim Brotherhood members

15.01.07 - Egypt religion minister bans 'niqab' for some employees

15.01.07 - Two Egyptians sentenced for 'degrading religion'

15.01.07 - Clocking a cult's final days in Jonestown

14.01.07 - Ganges flushed for Hindu bathers

14.01.07 - Hindu temples in Pakistan to get makeover

14.01.07 - Buddhist philosophy is helping Western women fight eating disorders

14.01.07 - Buddhist ritual stirs bird-flu fears

14.01.07 - Mungiki leader to be baptised

14.01.07 - Quiet and commitment at Orthodox monastery in the desert

14.01.07 - Court lets sect kids see dad, but not TV

14.01.07 - Becks and Posh may be Scientology's next big tuna

14.01.07 - School row over girl's crucifix

14.01.07 - Religion doesn't fit a narrow political definition

14.01.07 - A passion for Freemasonry's traditions

14.01.07 - Brooklyn's Bubbe Maryasha Dies at 106

14.01.07 - Scandals and disputes plague ultra-Orthodox circles in the U.S.

14.01.07 - Stem cell research 'consistent' with Jewish law, rabbi says

14.01.07 - Gujarat Freedom of Religion bill: Assault on Jainism

13.01.07 - Benin Voodoo Festival drumbeats echo lost history

13.01.07 - Oprah Winfrey symbolizes modern religious trends

13.01.07 - Akinola the face of change in Anglican church

13.01.07 - The 'religious right' does not exist

13.01.07 - Why the Mormons are going global

13.01.07 - Utah urges U.S. Supreme Court to ignore polygamist's appeal

13.01.07 - Holiday ritual: blaming the Jews for Christian suffering

13.01.07 - Prison time for Peicemakers leader

13.01.07 - Scientology opens new center in Germany

13.01.07 - How the Church of Scientology found its way into British politics

13.01.07 - In Turkey, a 'mystic' minority sect of Islam struggles against prejudice

13.01.07 - Strong rise in number of Germans converting to Islam: study

13.01.07 - Laughter, freedom and religion in Morocco

12.01.07 - Muslim Brotherhood plays-down Egyptian president's warning

12.01.07 - Twenty-two Muslim pilgrims killed in Saudi bus crash

12.01.07 - Australian Muslim cleric puts foot in mouth again

12.01.07 - Buddhist organization raided over forced membership allegations

12.01.07 - Last Chance to save Tamils from complete annihilation

12.01.07 - Hindu nationalists suspected in death of Christian

12.01.07 - Bill gives religious exemption for infant screening

12.01.07 - Orthodox Christians on the rise

12.01.07 - Publish or perish? Church struggles to judge communist collaborators

12.01.07 - In China, Christianity rises again

12.01.07 - Persecution against Christians in Burma revealed in new report

12.01.07 - UK Labour party given thousands by Scientology charity

12.01.07 - New Scientology center in Berlin riles authorities

12.01.07 - New book lifts lid on sordid Spaxton cult

12.01.07 - Rabbis throw book at Jimmy

11.01.07 - Tibetans banned from marking traditional Buddhist anniversary

11.01.07 - New Sangha Nayake for Scandinavian countries

11.01.07 - Maharishi outlines Inauguration of the Year of the Global Raam Raj

11.01.07 - Scientology may be monitored in Berlin

11.01.07 - The Falun Gong Show

11.01.07 - 2 Aryan Brotherhood gang leaders convicted

11.01.07 - President Bush proclaims "Religious Freedom Day"- January 16

11.01.07 - New comedy pokes fun at Muslim life

11.01.07 - Muslim congressman wants withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq

11.01.07 - Mubarak warns against religious state in Egypt

11.01.07 - Mormon university reopens its gates after 6 years

11.01.07 - Religious groups fail to block British gay rights laws

11.01.07 - Shakespeare's church needs aid, repair

11.01.07 - Cousins sentenced in desecration of religious shrine

11.01.07 - Judge: Men can seek damages from church

11.01.07 - India alone has that Light: Vivekananda

10.01.07 - Religious leader says ban on animal sacrifice is affront to faith

10.01.07 - Need for sextuplet transfusions clashes with Jehovah's Witness belief

10.01.07 - Catholic Church exodus in Austria slows down

10.01.07 - Pakistan's school kids to have Hinduism lessons

10.01.07 - Indonesian top politician ousted over polygamy

10.01.07 - Moroccan editor faces five years in prison for insulting Islam

10.01.07 - Egypt religion minister expels fully veiled employee

10.01.07 - Scientology exhibit won't help the mentally ill

09.01.07 - Court battle brews over FLDS sect leader's laptops

09.01.07 - Berlin concerned about huge new Scientology center

09.01.07 - Deviant Muslim sect with strange induction under probe

09.01.07 - Papal Nuncio installs new Zamboanga archbishop

09.01.07 - Pope didn't know Warsaw bishop spied, cardinal says

09.01.07 - Thousands throng Manila religious festival

09.01.07 - Federal judge clears use of religion in care for veterans

09.01.07 - 'Brainwashing' horrors recalled

09.01.07 - Maharishi followers move to Iowa and join hundreds more in meditating

09.01.07 - The spiritual side of The Beatles

08.01.07 - Hindu holy men threaten to boycott festival over polluted Ganges

08.01.07 - A magnificent Tibetan temple in India

08.01.07 - Thailand bans U.S. porn site for using Buddha as its logo

08.01.07 - Thai Buddhist teacher dies after months in coma from Muslim mob attack

08.01.07 - Evidence hearing for Jeffs today in Las Vegas

08.01.07 - Wed to Scientology, James Packer

08.01.07 - Revealed: how Scientologists infiltrated Britain's schools

08.01.07 - Italian scholar critiques pagan reinterpretation of Mary Magdalene

08.01.07 - Cypriot religious leaders meeting cancelled

08.01.07 - Crisis in Poland's Catholic Church escalates 2 years after Pope's death

08.01.07 - Philippine police step up security for annual religious procession

08.01.07 - Scottish Rite Masons announce newest NASCAR team

08.01.07 - Hundreds protest group that attended Iran's Holocaust conference

08.01.07 - Persian language helped promulgate Islam in China

08.01.07 - Local push for Islamic state

08.01.07 - Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan recovering after 12-hour surgery

07.01.07 - Thousands join pope Shenuda for Coptic Christmas

07.01.07 - Authorities plan to bulldoze Sikh Sacred spaces of Hazur Sahib

07.01.07 - Hindu leaders to discuss building temple at disputed site in India

07.01.07 - Book says Joseph Smith came from Jesus' family tree

07.01.07 - Non-Mormon guide to success in Utah

07.01.07 - FLDS towns: Marshals at risk of losing badges

07.01.07 - Italian priests join the war on Satanic crime

07.01.07 - Communist past fells Polish archbishop

07.01.07 - Persecuted Catholics honored by the pope

06.01.07 - Religious leaders must stress spiritual aspect of globalization debate

06.01.07 - Evangelical seminary has high-tech plans

06.01.07 - Who goes to hell?

06.01.07 - Orthodoxy and practical pluralism in American Judaism

06.01.07 - Slovakia bishop glorifies Nazi-era state

06.01.07 - Nation of Islam chief Farrakhan has surgery

06.01.07 - Scientology plans star-studded gala at new Berlin center

06.01.07 - Religious minority presses for rights in Turkey

06.01.07 - Legalized polygamy, here we come

06.01.07 - Pakistan religious leader vows boycott of bye-election

06.01.07 - Ancient Zoroastrian religion may face extinction

06.01.07 - Study: Praying online helps cancer patients

06.01.07 - 15 questions militant Atheists should ask themselves

06.01.07 - Under the shadow of Lakegala - Of Their Religion

05.01.07 - Shards of an ancient ritual

05.01.07 - The future of political Islam in Somalia

05.01.07 - Mulla Omar's elusiveness creating cult-like devotion

05.01.07 - 6 leaders arrested for protesting Holy Quran's desecration in Kashmir

05.01.07 - Six-party religious alliance faces new crisis

05.01.07 - Vietnam rejects fabricated report on Thich Huyen Quang

05.01.07 - Judge throws out religious defense in Arizona marijuana case

05.01.07 - Battered bride was possessed by spirit, 'holy man' claimed

05.01.07 - ICC 'Hall of Shame' names top 10 Christian persecutors

05.01.07 - UK Christian students fight legal battle

05.01.07 - $48M settlement reached in church sex suits

05.01.07 - Exclusive? That's the problem

04.01.07 - Masons honor one of their own: Gerald R. Ford

04.01.07 - Millions travel to Hindu Ganges festival

04.01.07 - Maharishi celebrates auspicious birthday anniversary of Shri Guru Dev

04.01.07 - Anglican Church of Canada appoints of first indigenous bishop

04.01.07 - Concerns over Scientology in Britain

04.01.07 - Church of Scientology International announce record expansion in 2006

04.01.07 - Romania President approves Europe's "worst religion law"

04.01.07 - Sociologists explore role of religion in America

04.01.07 - First Muslim member of Congress sworn in

03.01.07 - Exhibit explores "Sacred Texts" in the digital age

03.01.07 - Many polygamists don't want to be lumped with Jeffs

03.01.07 - Islam poised to swallow Jesus' boyhood home

03.01.07 - Promoting Islam in the Bible Belt

03.01.07 - Buddhist chants making waves world-wide

03.01.07 - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson is predicting terrorist US attack

03.01.07 - Social, religious funds have big returns

03.01.07 - Global shift in Christianity requires 'new paradigm missionaries'

03.01.07 - Cecelia Adkins, religious publishing pioneer, dies at 83

02.01.07 - N. Korea escalates 'cult of Kim' to counter West's influence

02.01.07 - Rebuilding Buddhas has become symbol in rebuilding Afghanistan

02.01.07 - Muslim leaders cite successful Makkah pilgrimage

02.01.07 - Malaysian activists to study polygamy

02.01.07 - 64-yr-old man from Mizoram marries 50 times and fathers 109 children

02.01.07 - Religious Zionist rabbis join El Al boycott

02.01.07 - Neturei Karta regrets Iran fiasco

02.01.07 - Sex, religion and conformity in India

02.01.07 - Nigeria: 12 Killed in a cult groups clash

01.01.07 - No religion and an end to war: how thinkers see the future

01.01.07 - Vayechi: Is Judaism dogmatic?

01.01.07 - Jewish groups unify under Hillel banner

01.01.07 - LDS Church leader with historic position nears 100th birthday

01.01.07 - Sect's Texas outpost looking permanent

01.01.07 - Homes abandoned in polygamous towns

01.01.07 - Alexander Litvinenko and Satanic society ritual murders

01.01.07 - Extreme Buddism in Nepal

01.01.07 - Concept of heaven and hell 'transcends religions'

01.01.07 - Eid-ul-Azha celebrated with religious fervour

01.01.07 - New religious freedom row over Saudi flight Bible ban

01.01.07 - Late Harald Bredesen helped found Christian network

31.12.06 - Muslim pilgrims perform symbolic stoning of the devil

31.12.06 - Egypt regrets Saddam's execution during religious holiday

31.12.06 - Three Iranians seeking conversion to Judaism denied Israel visas

31.12.06 - Iraq's religious split dates from prophet's demise

31.12.06 - Christian crusader starts major soul-saving effort

31.12.06 - Petaluma Episcopal parish splits from national church over gays

31.12.06 - Bronze-cast pagoda to glimmer in Buddhist holy land

31.12.06 - Yoga not religion, so easily accepted

31.12.06 - Religion and democracy threaten Beijing

31.12.06 - Turkmenistan announces monument to leader of vast personality cult

30.12.06 - David Lynch's shockingly peaceful inner life, Transcendental Meditation

30.12.06 - Religious land-use law is upheld

30.12.06 - Sacred mysteries, England's synagogues

30.12.06 - Sacraments mediate the sacred in Christian lives

30.12.06 - Religious makeup of new Congress is groundbreaking

30.12.06 - Harald Bredesen, charismatic Christian leader, dies at 88

30.12.06 - Religion important for Americans, Italians

30.12.06 - Secular Europe's fundamental test

30.12.06 - Barna lists 12 most significant religious findings from 2006 surveys

29.12.06 - Am I the Buddha? How to tell if you're the reincarnation of Siddhartha

29.12.06 - Britain`s leading Buddhist dies

29.12.06 - Santeria priest sues over animal sacrifice ban

29.12.06 - Iran's Ahmadinejad writes letter to pope

29.12.06 - Orthodox furious at anti-Zionist sect

29.12.06 - Mormon Deseret Book company buys out the competition

29.12.06 - Episcopal conservatives may be invited to global Anglican meeting

29.12.06 - Doctrine and law collide in a curious test of faith

29.12.06 - Kenya: Police arrest 800 Mungiki members

29.12.06 - Texas city to become test case for state's religious freedom law

29.12.06 - Top Saudi cleric issues religious edict declaring Shiites to be infidels

29.12.06 - Millions seek salvation on 'mountain of mercy'

29.12.06 - Indian film on reincarnation probes karma concept

29.12.06 - Religious films about Jesus of the past century

29.12.06 - Sarin aftermath

29.12.06 - Cult gone, California's Holy City up for sale

29.12.06 - Brown demands sect inquiry

29.12.06 - Exclusive Brethren bid to cover up sex assaults on girls

29.12.06 - The top 10 Religion Today stories of 2006

26.12.06 - Shahidi Jor Mela concludes with religious ferver

26.12.06 - Indian cultural relics on display in Beijing

26.12.06 - Chinese Christians face religious issues

26.12.06 - Death of religious tolerance in Malaysia

26.12.06 - Annual convention of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat begins

26.12.06 - Texas Supreme Court to tackle religious freedom law

26.12.06 - Uncle Sam wants US Muslims to serve

26.12.06 - Christmas is no holiday for Jehovah's Witnesses

26.12.06 - World needs a savior despite modern advances, pope says

26.12.06 - Poll: Americans more likely to believe in God than Europeans

26.12.06 - When Lamas danced wearing deities' mask to ward off evil in Gangtok

26.12.06 - 'Buddha boy' reappears in wilderness

25.12.06 - Exclusive Brethren sect told girl: banish your dad

25.12.06 - Jews aren't supposed to love Christmas

25.12.06 - Jesus and the black experience

25.12.06 - Nepal Christians celebrate X-mas with new spirit

25.12.06 - Poll: Most in U.S. think angels exist

25.12.06 - New Zealand census shows Christianity on decline

25.12.06 - Is Christianity dying in the birthplace of Jesus?

25.12.06 - Evangelical Christianity moving in the direction of compassion

25.12.06 - Pope condemns euthanasia of Italian man

25.12.06 - Watchdog group decries religion's TV treatment

25.12.06 - Mel B uses Voodoo to win back Murphy

24.12.06 - Christian Americans turn blind eye towards Bethlehem and Holy Land

24.12.06 - Will Graham steps into Evangelical spotlight

24.12.06 - Monk first US representative on World Buddhist Supreme Conference

24.12.06 - Displaced Buddhists demand new homes

24.12.06 - Projects still on Scientology's drawing board

24.12.06 - 10m state cash for first ISKCON UK school

24.12.06 - Mormon folklore gives a look into a unique culture

24.12.06 - Chief of Pakistan's main religious alliance slams UN sanctioning of Iran

24.12.06 - Protestant sects receive certificates of religious practice in Vietnam

24.12.06 - Religious populism spreads in Latin America

24.12.06 - Wiccans want recognition as a nature-based religion

23.12.06 - Monogamy, polyamory, and beyond

23.12.06 - Christmas Eve parties becoming a Jewish tradition

23.12.06 - The Episcopal schism affects all religions

23.12.06 - Lost Boy wants the FLDS leader to approve a reunion

23.12.06 - Watchdog group says TV negatively depicts religion

23.12.06 - Iraq's embattled religious minorities

23.12.06 - U.S. Muslim rep. pressured not to take oath on Quran

23.12.06 - Somali Islamists seek global jihad aid

22.12.06 - Chinese lawyer's sentence is unusually light

22.12.06 - Paris honours Jewish philosopher

22.12.06 - The Jewish roots of Christianity

22.12.06 - Is Christianity dying in Bethlehem?

22.12.06 - Market for religious toys, games expanding

22.12.06 - Polygamy debate on Indonesian streets

22.12.06 - Muslim insurgency escalates in Thailand

22.12.06 - Farmer shoots self over cult?

22.12.06 - One in three Americans believe in Divine healing

22.12.06 - US Lawmakers question assessment of freedom of religion in Vietnam

21.12.06 - Turkmenistan's cult leader-president dies

21.12.06 - Swiss conductor acquitted of sect killings

21.12.06 - Indonesia high court overturns conviction of Muslim cleric Bashir

21.12.06 - More cultural than religious, Kwanzaa grew out of Watts riots

21.12.06 - Origins of Christmas - both Pagan and Christian

21.12.06 - Hanukkah, a Jewish celebration

21.12.06 - Religious leaders arrive in Bethlehem for three-day pilgrimage

21.12.06 - Maui opens its