| October 8, 2006 | - A ministry in Atlanta, Georgia, was sending camouflaged
devotionals to U.S. soldiers serving overseas.
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WTVM.com
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| October 3, 2006 | - In Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, a man named Charles Carl Roberts IV, who said he was angry with God, entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse with guns, a bag of nails, a bucket, chains, clamps, and a tube of KY jelly, and shot ten girls, killing five; he then shot and killed himself. “We must not,” said the grandfather of one of the slain girls, “think evil of this man.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| June 15, 2006 | -
Gay
Episcopalian bishop Gene Robinson said that he is “not an abomination before God.”
| Source:
BBC News
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| March 9, 2006 | - Three college students in Alabama were arrested for setting nine churches on fire. One of the students, Benjamin Moseley, was planning to appear in a school theater production called "Young Zombies in Love."
| Source:
The New York Times
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| December 11, 2005 | - A religious studies professor at the University of Kansas was beaten up on a roadside after he mocked creationism in an email.
| Source:
CantonRep.com
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| October 15, 2005 | - Four Amish children in Minnesota were diagnosed with polio.
| Source:
AP
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| September 14, 2005 | - A federal judge in California ruled that requiring students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools is unconstitutional. "Undoubtedly," read the court's decision, "the pledge contains a religious phrase."
| Source:
CNN.com
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| July 20, 2005 | - Authorities in Malaysia arrested fifty-eight people who worship a giant teapot.
| Source:
MSNBC
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| May 8, 2005 | - Ave Maria University, a Catholic college founded by the retired CEO of Domino's Pizza, graduated its first class and gave an honorary degree to L. Paul Bremer, who told the assembled graduates that Muslim extremists were against the separation of church and state.
| Source:
Netscape News
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| March 2, 2005 | -
President Bush said that his administration granted $2 billion to social programs at churches, synagogues, and mosques in 2004--20 percent more than in 2003. The President made it clear that these programs did not discriminate based on faith. “All drunks are welcome,” he said.
| Source:
New York Times
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| January 22, 2005 | - and American evangelical groups were exploiting the ensuing chaos to recruit new members,
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 1, 2004 | - It was revealed that a Hmong who recently shot five hunters in Wisconsin is a shaman.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 23, 2004 | - Americans were celebrating National Bible Week.
| Source:
House
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| July 4, 2004 | - female rice farmers in Nepal were plowing their fields in the nude to please the rain god.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| July 3, 2004 | - The Bush-Cheney campaign asked church-going volunteers to provide church membership directories to state campaign committees, raising questions about whether the directive violates the separation between church and state.
| Source:
Reuters
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| June 22, 2004 | - It was reported that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon was crowned in the Senate office building after announcing that he is the "savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent." Several lawmakers from both major parties were present, including Rep. Danny Davis, who wore white gloves as he placed the crown on Moon's head.
| Source:
The Hill
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| March 11, 2004 | - In Penticton, British Columbia, a man cut off his penis and testicles and ran through the street naked, trailing blood, screaming, "Repent, repent, fornicators."
| Source:
Calgary Sun
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| March 3, 2004 | - Two hundred seventy-one Shiite worshipers were killed in simultaneous bombing attacks on mosques in Baghdad and Karbala; international telephone service was knocked out on the same day by a rocket attack.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| March 2, 2004 | -
Russian religious leaders refused to permit Roman Catholics to attend a conference on religious tolerance.
| Source:
New York Times
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| February 27, 2004 | - Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, which released sarin gas in the Tokyo subway in 1995, was sentenced to death, eight years after his trial began.
| Source:
BBC
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| January 14, 2004 | - "There will be a purge on God's orders, and evil will be eliminated like shadows," said the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the cult leader and owner of the Washington Times, in a recent speech. "Gays will be eliminated, the three Israels will unite. If not then they will be burned. We do not know what kind of world God will bring but this is what happens. It will be greater than the Communist purge but at God's orders."
| Source:
New York Press
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| December 30, 2003 | - Religious "Yahwists," people who try to follow Old Testament lifestyle rules, sued Arkansas to force the state to permit Yahwist prisoners to eat kosher meals and to grow long hair and beards.
| Source:
New York Times
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| December 26, 2003 | -
India's prime minister expressed support for building a Hindu temple on the site of a sixteenth-century mosque, which was destroyed by Hindu officials eight years ago, resulting in riots and killing. Hindus believe that Ram, a deity, was born there.
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| December 14, 2003 | - Lightning struck a church in Swaziland and killed a priest, five children, and three others.
| Source:
News.com.au
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| December 5, 2003 | - A priest was on the run in Congo after killing 64 members of his congregation with a potion he said would give them salvation.
| Source:
Reuters
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| November 23, 2003 | - The Russian Orthodox Church denounced the Mormons for buying the names of dead Russians so they can baptize their dead souls. "Our ceremony is not rebaptism," said a spokesman for the Nizhni Novgorod Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, "it only gives the soul of the deceased person the freedom of choice to accept our belief or to reject it."
| Source:
Guardian
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| November 18, 2003 | - L. Paul Bremer, the American proconsul of Iraq, said that Saddam Hussein is "a voice in the wilderness."
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 1, 2003 | - Shoko Asahara, the guru of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, claimed that he had lost control of his followers shortly before they released nerve gas in the Tokyo
subway eight years ago.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| October 25, 2003 | - The lawyer for Captain James Yee, the former American prison-camp chaplain who was arrested for being a Muslim spy, complained that his client was being mistreated in prison.
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 19, 2003 | -
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, insisted that the war on terrorism is not a religious war.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| October 19, 2003 | - and the pope beatified Mother Teresa.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| October 17, 2003 | - A Buddhist abbot in Thailand cured a sick woman with a magic wooden penis.
| Source:
Ananova
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| October 17, 2003 | - Prime Minister Malathir Mohammad of Malaysia denounced the Jews.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 15, 2003 | - Dr. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, said that Americans should remember that terrorists can "have serious moral goals." He said that "it is possible to use unspeakably wicked means to pursue an aim that is shared by those who would not dream of acting in the same way, an aim that is intelligible or desirable." Dr. Williams also warned America not to become "trapped in a self-referential morality."
| Source:
Telegraph
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| October 13, 2003 | - A Muslim girl in Oklahoma was suspended from school after she refused to take off her head scarf.
| Source:
CNN
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| October 2, 2003 | - A two-year-old Iraqi girl was shot dead in her home by American forces after a roadside bomb went off next to a military convoy. "If we determine there were deaths and/or injuries to innocent civilians as a result of U.S. forces responding to an attack," said Major Anthony Aguto, "we will compensate the family with three years of standard Iraqi salary." The grandfather of the dead girl said they didn't want the money: "I submit my complaint only to God."
| Source:
New York Times
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| October 1, 2003 | - School officials in Paris, Texas, apologized after the high school band played "Deutschland uber alles," with the Nazi flag flying, on the evening of Rosh Hashana.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 26, 2003 | - The Industrial Christian Fellowship, a Christian think tank, said that financial workers don't get enough prayer support and called on believers to pray for bankers and stockbrokers.
| Source:
Reuters
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| September 21, 2003 | - A U.S. Army chaplain was arrested on suspicion of being a Muslim spy.
| Source:
Independent
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| September 7, 2003 | -
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian prime minister, resigned, and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas, was injured in an Israeli
airstrike.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 5, 2003 | - The Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt condemned gay marriage.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 4, 2003 | -
Christians holding signs wept outside the prison; one sign read "Dead Doctors Can't Kill."
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 3, 2003 | - The World Council of Churches denounced the invasion of Iraq as "immoral" and "ill advised" and called for the withdrawal of American forces.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 3, 2003 | - Paul J.
Hill, a Christian who murdered an abortion doctor in Pensacola, Florida, was executed by lethal injection.
Hill said that he was looking forward to getting his reward in heaven.
| Source:
New York Times, New York Post
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| August 31, 2003 | - King Fahd of Saudi Arabia told Muslim clerics that it was time to start fighting religious extremism.
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 28, 2003 | - Ireland's Roman Catholic Kiltegan Fathers paid $353,000 to the victim of a pedophile priest who once attacked the victim as his father lay dying nearby.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 28, 2003 | - Judge Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument was removed from the Alabama supreme court building as Christians howled in anger outside, blowing ram's horns and shaking Bibles at the sky; the state was forced to hire a company from Georgia for the job because no one from Alabama would do it.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 24, 2003 | - John Geoghan, a defrocked pedophile priest, was strangled to death in prison.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 23, 2003 | - Chief Justice Roy Moore of Alabama was suspended (with pay) for refusing to obey a federal court order to remove his big Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Supreme Court building.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 13, 2003 | - Sylvester Stallone's mother said that her dogs, which she believes to be psychic, have predicted a victory for Arnold Schwarzenegger in the California recall election, and an apocalyptic Christian preacher named Jack Van Impe claimed that he had been contacted by Condoleezza Rice, who he said asked him for an outline of what the end of the world will be like.
| Source:
MSNBC.com
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| August 10, 2003 | - A Roman Catholic bishop in Canada warned that Jean Chrétien might burn in hell for legalizing gay marriage.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 9, 2003 | - The Archdiocese of Boston offered to pay $55 million to settle the lawsuits of 542 people who were sexually molested by priests.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 6, 2003 | - A forty-year-old Vatican document was discovered that commands "perpetual silence" and secrecy in dealing with priests who have sexual contact with "youths of either sex or with brute animals."
| Source:
CBSNews.com
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| August 1, 2003 | - The Vatican issued an edict calling homosexual unions "evil" and describing adoption of children by gay couples as "doing violence."
| Source:
Guardian
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| July 20, 2003 | - Officials from Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico changed the name of Highway 666 to Highway 491.
| Source:
AP
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| June 28, 2003 | - The court also ruled that a California law that retroactively abolished the statute of limitations on sex crimes is unconstitutional; California's attorney general said that the ruling will lead to the release of about 800 child molesters.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| June 4, 2003 | - A Lutheran minister in Denmark was suspended from his job for saying that "there is no heavenly God, there is no eternal life, there is no resurrection."
| Source:
Associated Press
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| June 1, 2003 | - Eric Robert Rudolph, the Christian
terrorist, was arrested in North Carolina after a five-year manhunt.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| May 17, 2003 | - L. Paul Bremer, the new American overseer of Iraq, informed Iraqi leaders that the United States and Britain had changed their minds about setting up an interim government made up of Iraqis and that he would remain in control until further notice. Bremer toured Mosul and praised it as "a great example of embryonic democracy"; elsewhere in the city a crowd chanted "America is the enemy of God."
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 8, 2003 | -
Administrators at Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky ordered the removal of American flags from tables in the Methodist school's cafeteria.
“God's people do not wave flags as a sign of conquest,” the food-service director was told.
“We bear crosses as the sign of reconciliation.”
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