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| Malaysian men jailed for ritual killing of parents BBC News Two Malaysian cousins have been jailed for 10 years each for beating the parents of one of them to death during a ritual to expel evil spirits. ... See all stories on this topic |
| We the Corporations Connect Savannah.com Benito Mussolini You witnessed a ritual killing last week, a public execution. Or was it a suicide? It took Republicans several years to convince Americans ... See all stories on this topic |
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GOZ BEIDA, 6 January 2010 (IRIN) - The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Chad is identifying pregnant women in refugee camps who have had their genitalia cut, in order to better prepare for potential complications, according to UNHCR and its medical partners. The exercise is part of efforts in the camps to tackle the health fallout of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) as well as prevent new cutting.
Since September 2009 heath clinic workers at the Djabal camp in eastern Chad started recording how many prenatal patients had been cut; for September it was 22 among 330 women. "This helps us identify at-risk pregnancies because women with closed vaginas [resulting from FGM/C] can tear while giving birth," camp health director Nassourou Drassadou told IRIN.
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Google News Alert for: "female circumcision" OR "genital mutilation" OR "genital cut"
| Mauritanian Muslim imams initiate rare ban on female circumcision Ethiopian Review Human rights campaigners who have been struggling for years to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM) in West Africa got a boost this week as news ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Uganda Urged to Stop 'Anti-Gay' Bill OneWorld.net In another triumph for sexual and women's health, the Ugandan parliament unanimously passed a bill in early December banning female genital mutilation. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Torture in Health Care Huffington Post (blog) Female genital mutilation is another practice that can cause severe suffering for no medical purpose. Human Rights Watch spoke with midwives and government ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Health Buzz: One Fifth of U.S. Kids Have High Cholesterol U.S. News & World Report Opponents of circumcision nevertheless call the procedure unnecessary and compare it to female genital mutilation; many contend that it's child abuse and ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| WeNews 21 Leader Survives Quake; 4 Haitian Activists Killed Women's eNews A group of 30 Muslim leaders have issued a religious edict banning female genital mutilation in the West African country Mauritania, the Associated Press ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Many here misunderstand Islam's teaching on violence, women, member says Evansville Courier & Press Oppression, female circumcision and families who murder or mutilate female relatives they believe have dishonored them are all cultural trappings, ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Police laud Bongo Civic Union for promoting peace Ghana News Agency He said negative cultural practices that were against the law including female genital mutilation, elopement and widowhood rites had reduced drastically. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
UNICEF (press release) It's part of a programme that promotes human-rights-based development and encourages communities to abandon female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Hairdos now in Indonesia Muslim clerics` crosshairs Moneycontrol.com ... need to [proscribe] everything as haram or not. Some injustices such as polygamy and female genital mutilation are more important" than rebonding, she said. See all stories on this topic | ||
| Where Do We Go from Here? Getting Rid of the Oligarchs OpEdNews No genital mutilation. No disease. No neediness. No lack. No starvation. No hoarding. No ownership. No cheating. No adultery. No hidden agenda. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
Vancouver Courier Fans of onscreen genital mutilation and talking foxes rejoice. Things get heavy and disturbing at Vancity Theatre as Lars Von Trier's controversial and ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| MPs debate Violence Against Women DeHavilland (press release) (subscription) The Government have developed a number of linked national action plans on domestic violence, which includes tackling female genital mutilation, ... See all stories on this topic |
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Guardian.co.uk
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When I was "circumcised" I was five or six, but it happens to girls as young as four. It starts as a ceremony – the girl is bought clothes, gold earrings and bangles. She has henna put on her hands and feet: the preliminaries are regarded as a celebration where she is the centre of attention.
But later they take her and put her in a gadha, which is shaped like a deep dish. They lay her across it and hold her legs open; there are often three people holding her very tight when she's on the gadha, two holding her legs and hands, and one holding her chest and head.
The equipment is handmade: a sharp curved knife which is not sterilised. And the girl is given no anaesthetic. It is usually mostly women in attendance. They leave a little hole for urination. There are no stitches; they treat the wound with herbs, salt and water. It bleeds a lot and the victim is in great pain. I was horribly frightened and crying. The "ceremony" takes as little as 20 minutes or as long as an hour, depending on how much the girl struggles.
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The AustralianContributed by Gandolf
POLICE are considering laying a further 24 charges against a NSW doctor who is already facing 69 charges of aggravated sexual assault and female genital mutilation.
Graeme Stephen Reeves, 59, a former obstetrician from Bega on the NSW South Coast, was originally facing 17 charges, including aggravated sexual assault, indecent assault, female genital mutilation, and grievous bodily harm offences, after being charged by police in September 2008.
Last month Sex Crimes Squad detectives laid an additional 52 charges in relation to further allegations of sexual assault, indecent assault, and grievous bodily harm, putting his March trial date for the previous offences in doubt.
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| Demonizing Haiti, ignoring slavery Ekklesia Yet Robertson, one imagines, finds animal sacrifice and blood vows repellent, and he has no reason to be accepting of any religion other than his own, ... See all stories on this topic |
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| Putting the Ph.D.'s to Work Inside Higher Ed ... even affection, while revealing — perhaps to the astonishment of many abroad — that Americans are not the horned minions of the Great Satan. ... See all stories on this topic |
| Iran blacklist puzzles Yale Yale Daily News ... Secretary of State went to Yale Law School. America is the Great Satan. Yale hosted the infamous artist Mr. Westerfeld whose art amounts to heresy in Islam. See all stories on this topic |
| A pragmatist of ease and grace The Australian On Iran, he helped the green movement immensely by removing the "Great Satan" card from the leadership's weakening hand. If he can target sanctions ... See all stories on this topic |
| Why They're Really at War With Us Human Events (blog) To bin Laden and his ilk, we are the Great Satan. They hate us more than they hate Israel. As for Hamas and Hizballah -- which Pat paints as if they have ... See all stories on this topic |
| History lost, history found Cabinet.com Perhaps Saudi Arabia will. Or Iran. Or, will they, as usual, leave it up to The Great Satan to help those who can't help themselves? See all stories on this topic |
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| Runoff charge debated Charleston Post Courier There's at least one small problem with the exemption -- figuring out how to exclude the religious campgrounds and not exempt business campgrounds. ... See all stories on this topic |
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Chicago Breaking News - Tribune The music director of a Roman Catholic parish in Glen Ellyn and his roommate have been charged with possession of child pornography. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Priest taken into custody on sex assault charge Joliet Herald News 4 by Kane County's Child Advocate Center. Detectives were reportedly on the way to interview Flores on Jan. 6, when he went missing. ... See all stories on this topic |
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| Trial Airs Mormon Church's Role in Fight Over Prop 8 Law.com He testified that his parents discovered a journal in which Kendall confessed homosexual thoughts, and often berated him over his orientation. ... See all stories on this topic |
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Google News Alert for: "female circumcision" OR "genital mutilation" OR "genital cut"
| FORWARD Awarded £30000 To Help Protect Bristol Girls From Genital Mutilation eGov monitor "Female genital mutilation has very serious health implications for girls in this country. Cutting is usually performed before puberty and we estimate that ... See all stories on this topic |
| Raising Awareness At Davos Forbes (blog) The 2010 winner, Julia Lalla-Maharajh, is pitching the cause of ending female genital mutilation. Now she gets a free trip to Switzerland--five days of ... See all stories on this topic |
| Kelis makes fun of PETA News Trends Or female circumcision. Or the Rights of Women in America, we are still paid less for the same work as men. "Moreover, the singer took the opportunity to ... See all stories on this topic |
| Live: Charlotte Gainsbourg's First Live Solo Show Literally Ever Village Voice (blog) ... this year, she won Best Actress at Cannes for a graphic role that included her own genital mutilation; her gamine allure is frequently, mercifully, ... See all stories on this topic |
| Pro-Life is a misdirection Amador Ledger-Dispatch In other areas, female genital mutilation, foot binding, women burning ("witch burning") and other forms of violence go back five to ten millennia after a ... See all stories on this topic |
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| Muslim anger over US 'Jesus' rifles Ninemsn The report said the religious codes - referencing passages from the New Testament ... Disease threat as vaccination rate dropsAustralia is facing the ... |
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| Board of Ulema member rebukes minor marriage Saudi Gazette "It is impossible to use the marriage of Ayesha, the Mother of Believers (May Allah be pleased with her) as a measure for child marriage because of the ... See all stories on this topic |
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AllAfrica. com
Kigali — Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Lesotho and Sierra Leone have numerous cases of female genital mutilation in Africa.
Female genital mutilation (FGM) sometimes called female circumcision or female genital cutting involves the cutting of the girl's genitals in order to curb their sexual desire and preserve their sexual honour before marriage.
It comprises all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons. It has no health benefits and harms girls and women in many ways.
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OregonLive.com ARCHIVE: Previous stories about faith healing in Oregon. Jeffrey and Marci Beagley, members of the Followers of Christ church, are charged with criminally ... See all stories on this topic |
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| Taliban Using Suicide Attacks to Hold Sway Over the US The Epoch Times A group of Taliban fighters stormed Kabul's capital killing five people and injuring more than 70 through the use of suicide bomb vests and firearms. ... See all stories on this topic |
| World datelines Deseret News 30 suicide bombing that killed seven CIA employees at a remote base in Khost province. JERUSALEM — Israel is arresting a growing number of prominent ... See all stories on this topic |
| After Afghan Attack, Some See US Role New York Times Amrullah Saleh, the chief of intelligence, said the original target had been the government's central bank, which a suicide bomber tried to enter, ... See all stories on this topic |
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The Independant
This is Hanna Abera. She is seven. Her mother and grandmother wanted to slice off part of her genitals. But she was saved by an extraordinarily brave intervention from her aunt after a British charity launched a programme of education on the consequences of female circumcision – which is still widely practised throughout parts of Africa and the Middle East.
No one knows how many women are subjected to the procedure but it is thought that over two million procedures are performed every year. Amnesty International estimates that over 130 million women worldwide have been affected by some form of what it calls female genital mutilation.
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FrontPageMag.com
First, when I say that the marriage of nine-year-old girls in today’s Britain (and the rest of the EU, for that matter) is unsurprising, my statement is based on my own 17 years of experience in the field of immigration: forms of assault based on tradition and religion – including child marriage, forced marriage, genital mutilation, so-called honor-related offenses such as rape and murder – have become established here as a result of immigration, mostly from Muslim countries.
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MyWestTexas.com
So while Census Day, when all responses are due, won’t arrive until April 1, local workers already are preparing to reach Midland’s population groups. It launched a faith-based initiative outreach Friday asking local churches to urge members to participate in the Census. It also has partnered with Midland Independent School District and Midland College to recruit potential employees and to spread the word the 10-question survey should be arriving in mail boxes starting in March.
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“You’d be surprised how many people don’t even know we have a Census,” McBride said.
The Census is important, McBride said, because its numbers help determine how about $300 billion in federal funds are awarded each year. It also determines the number of representatives a state will have in the U.S. House and is useful in state and community planning that ranges from redistricting — as will occur in Texas during the next legislative session — to building new roads and schools.
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ChicagoBreakingNews.com
A Shorewood Catholic priest who parishioners described as a "very holy man" apparently tried to kill himself by jumping from the balcony of a shuttered downtown Joliet church Wednesday as Kane county investigators began looking into allegations he molested a 13-year-old boy, authorities said.
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The White House has dismissed as "stupid" comments by evangelist broadcaster Pat Robertson suggesting that quake-struck Haiti was cursed.
Spokesman Robert Gibbs said he was amazed by the remarks.
During a broadcast on his Christian Broadcasting Network, Mr Robertson suggested the Haiti's earthquake was divine retribution.
He said Haiti had sworn a pact with the devil when it freed itself from French colonial rule.
The White House said the comments were completely inappropriate.
"It never ceases to amaze, that in times of amazing human suffering, somebody says something that could be so utterly stupid," Mr Gibbs said.
"But it, like clockwork, happens with some regularity."
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London Free Press
A former Anglican minister is facing historical sexual offences after a woman came forward and reported alleged abuse.
Meurig Pari Lloyd, a 79-year-old Chatham man, is charged with two counts of rape, two counts of gross indecency, two counts of intercourse with a girl under 14 and indecent assault on a female. Lloyd is scheduled to appear in court March 16.
Det. Jim Niven of the Chatham-Kent Police Service's major crime unit said the alleged incidents happened more than 40 years ago
The crimes allegedly took place inside St. Paul's Anglican Church, Holy Trinity Church and a private residence.
The complainant, who resides in Chatham-Kent, recently told police of incidents she says happened when she was between the ages of eight and 15. Niven said it's not uncommon for a sexual assault victim to wait decades before coming forward.
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The girl, Patricia, had practised witchcraft for five years and, practically overturned the fortunes of her family.Contributed by Gandolf
She was exorcised by Prophet Michael Osei of the Ebenezer Healing Church, Kasoa, after she delivered a live snake in the presence of hundreds of worshippers during an all-night service at the church's premises last month.
God revealed to the holy man that the spiritual pot belonging to Pat in her hometown, Achiase, would have to be exhumed before the witchcraft spirit allegedly given to her by a grandmother, would be totally off her.
Opposition came from the witches' camps in the area and the evil ones, according to the prophet, mounted a full spiritual and physical attack on him and his prayer warriors who went with him.
"When we reached the town, the first thing I saw was a 10-year-old-boy who was playing with his colleagues in an open space. He was walking about upside down, that is, his head was on the ground, his legs high in the air with fire coming out from his backside (anus).
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Eyewitness News
Zimbabwe police have been co-opted to try to force a religious sect to have its children vaccinated against measles.
Members of an apostolic sect have been locking their sick children in huts or hiding them in the hills to evade vaccination.
The Health Ministry said at least 41 people have died of measles, many of them children, since the outbreak began last month.
Members of the Johannes Marange sect’s beliefs allow them only to pray and use holy water to treat measles.
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Irin Plus NewsContributed by Gandolf
MAGADI, 29 December 2009 (PlusNews) - Attempts to promote HIV awareness among Kenya's Maasai community have often foundered on the community's unwillingness to accept externally driven change; but a new initiative is using Maasai 'morans', or warriors, to spread the word.
"The Maasai are very traditional people and the best way to reach them is to go in without trying to dilute their culture - we give them free space to learn by using cultural systems to integrate reproductive health education," said Peter Ngura, programme manager for a nomadic youth project of the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), a health and development NGO.
"Because I have been taught about the dangers of sex without a condom and circumcizing girls and beating women, I have made it my duty to tell the same to my fellow 'morans'," he told IRIN/PlusNews. "There are things we have done like cutting women [female genital mutilation/cutting] but I think there haven't been valid reasons for doing it."
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The White Coat Underground
Being a physician and a father, I keep an eye out for news about childhood vaccinations. I've always been concerned about local statutes that allow kids to be admitted to school unvaccinated, especially when all that is required is an affirmation or a letter from a doctor or religious figure. This not only endangers these individual children but also others. As the rates of vaccination drop vaccine-preventable diseases regain a foothold.
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Philly.comContributed by Gandolf
Through a broken blind, a bizarre scene of animal sacrifice was visible yesterday inside the otherwise completely closed front porch of a Feltonville house.
There were bones and feathers arranged in a ritualistic pile. There were bloody knives and a machete, figurines of African or Caribbean design, candles and incense.
On Sunday, Pennsylvania SPCA officers used a warrant to search the property after receiving a tip that two emaciated dogs were being kept at the house, in the 4800 block of North Front Street.
They found the dogs, but only after confronting an elaborate altar and the bones of possibly several hundred animals that had been killed, apparently as part of Santeria - a combination of African religions and Catholicism that originated among slaves in the Caribbean.
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EmpowerHer
The Ugandan Parliament unanimously passed a bill in the beginning of December, 2009, that bans female circumcision which is also known as female genital mutilation, or FGM.
According to the United Press International, people who are convicted of performing FGM will have to spend up to 10 years in prison and will face life sentences in those cases where the girl dies from this brutal procedure. The Ugandan Parliament is considering an amendment that would give compensation to the victims of this form of mutilation.
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IndianCountryToday
The case before the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concerns a non-Indian Utahn who insisted on his right to possess eagle feathers for Native religious practices.
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cocorioko.netContributed by Gandolf
Article 21 of the African Charter is on the rights and welfare of a child, protecting him/her against harmful social and cultural practices and this includes the elimination of all harmful practices affecting the welfare, dignity normal growth and development of the child.
In Africa about 140 million girls have undergone female genital mutilation (or circumcision as others would want to call it) and 2 million are subjected to it every year. Several basic human rights are violated by the procedure. These primarily include the right of physical integrity, the right to freedom from violence and discrimination and in most severe cases, the right to life.
FGM is an irreversible operation that removes part or all of a girl's external genital organs. It's performed on women but mostly done on girls between the ages of 4 and 12. The practice is performed in various ways which include just the removal of the clitoris; removal of the clitoris and surrounding labia; infibulations –where all the external genitalia are removed and the opening is stitched so that only a small hole remains; a variety of unclassified traumatic procedures of cutting, stretching or piercing performed on the external genitalia, such as cauterization by burning of the clitoris and tissue surrounding the opening of the vagina.
In addition to the above, research done by World Health Organisation involving 30,000 African women found that 'circumcised' women were 31% more likely to have a caesarean delivery, 66% higher chances of having a baby that needed to be revived and 55% more likely to have a child who died before or after birth. In addition to the physical complications, there are psychological and sexual impacts including severe trauma, depression and/or frigidity.
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The Post
The incident took place in a district known for gold mining—Obuasi in the Ashanti Region. The "wizard" in question is a 17-year-old boy I will not name for ethical reasons even though he is named in the news report. Apparently, he was sitting on top of a tree in a forest when a James Ankrah, 37, opened fire on him with a shotgun, wounding him in both hands and his shoulders.
The only evidence of witchcraft was villager suspicion, no more.
But the facts are that the boy is still in hospital and his assailant is cooling his heels in a police cell awaiting trial for attempted murder.
I wondered: what fate awaits the teenager when he returns to his village? For sure, there will be no welcoming committee to drape a garland of flowers round his neck when he is discharged. Instead he might find a lynch mob, which is not uncommon in this part of the world.
In the same edition, The Spectator regaled readers with another bizarre report of an 11-year-old witch who was exorcised by a prophet from the Ebenezer Healing Church to a small village, also in the Ashanti Region. The prophet also exhumed a "spiritual pot" containing a snake which belonged to the girl. According to the report, she'd used the pot to impoverish the village and to cause the businesses of family members to fail.
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Foodconsumer.org
The Resolution urges State and Federal legislators in Hawaii "to amend vaccine laws to include medical, religious, and philosophical exemptions from any vaccine program," including those declared urgent by health officials.
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aljazeera.net
Dozens of villagers in the Kenyan district of Kisii are falling prey to superstitious groups accusing them of witchcraft.
The poverty-stricken western district, known as Kenya's sorcery belt, has seen an increase in mob attacks on individuals and even killings.
The poor and elderly in particular are being targeted.
Three months ago, a group of youths tortured five suspected witches before setting them on fire.
Joseph Ondiek's 65-year-old mother was one of those killed. He says says he and his family are living in constant fear and cannot even think about getting justice for their mother's killing.
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JerusalemPost
Peres also came out strongly against ethnic or religious discrimination in Israel, declaring that "every expression of discrimination should be crossed out."
The Interior Ministry must make sure that young people of all faiths have the same opportunities to acquire higher education, he said, mindful that many young students from minority communities have difficulty in getting past security checkpoints to attend institutions of higher learning.
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Theophilos was diplomatic in his references to the Israeli authorities, specifically in relation to "free movement of the faithful, provision for entry visas for clerics, honoring the privileges of tax exemption sanctioned by sacred history and the historic standing of the ownership of Church property
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BERNAMA.COMContributed by Gandolf
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 30 (Bernama) -- An Al-Arqam follower who is charged with murdering a couple admitted in the High Court here today that he had hit the victims with a piece of wood, crash helmet and mop handle to exorcise them.
The accused Muhammad Ilyas Abdul Razak, said he, however, had no intention of causing death to the couple as they were his uncle and aunt, and was unaware that his action during the exorcism would cause their deaths
"I had hit my uncle with a helmet and a piece of wood from a broken table. He did not protest, cry or say that he was in pain.
"I also asked my aunt to sit on the floor and hit her with a mop handle, the helmet and a detached table until she bled," Muhammad Ilyas said from the dock.
He said after the house had been cleaned of the blood spots, he ordered Muhammad Fauzi to pour hot water over the couple's motionless body to revive them.
"I had no intention of causing the death of my uncle and aunt as they were among the people closest to me and we loved each other. I only wanted to do good for them.
"Nobody, including my uncle and aunt, had restrained me and I only knew that they had died when the police came to arrest me," he said
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NewYorkPost
"Plaintiffs sought the exemption because they hold sincere and genuine religious beliefs, based upon Christian doctrine and Christian teachings that are contrary to vaccinating, that prevent them from injecting diseases into their bodies," the suit says.
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IndianExpress.com
A Survey conducted by a group of students on the status of child rights has found that child marriage is still prevalent in Kutch district and cases of abuse of young girls and physical harassment are being reported from the urban areas.
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Virtueonline.org
The covenant (section 4) talks of "interdependence" and argues that "where a shared mind has not been reached...every effort must be made to facilitate agreement." It is true that the Standing Committee may request a Church to defer a controversial action, say consecrating Mary Glasspool, a lesbian, as the next Suffragan Bishop of Los Angeles, but would not the Covenant also exclude any African Anglican bishop practicing or promoting female circumcision? Why infer that homosexuals are the only persons at risk of breaking up the communion.
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Houston Chronicle
* Health care reform includes religious groups urging assistance for “the least of these;” Roman Catholic bishops seek restrictions on abortion funding.* A devout Muslim, Maj. Nidal Hasan, the accused gunman in the Fort Hood massacre, prompts a review of the role of Islam in terrorism.
* Abortion doctor George Tiller is shot to death at his Wichita, Kan., church.* Mormons in California come under attack from some gay-rights supporters because of their November 2008 efforts to outlaw gay marriage. Iowa, Vermont and New Hampshire approved gay marriage, but it was overturned by Maine voters.
* Obama gives the commencement speech and receives an honorary degree at the University of Notre Dame after the Roman Catholic university becomes embroiled in debates over his abortion views.* The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America votes to ordain gay and lesbian clergy who are in a monogamous committed relationship, prompting some conservative churches to move toward forming a new denomination.
* The recession forces cutbacks at faith-related organizations.* The Episcopal Church's General Convention votes to end a moratorium on installing gay bishops.
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CNN
"I've been through all sorts of emotions with this -- tears, anger and absolute despair," he said. "I wasn't sure if I ever wanted to let people know and, to be honest, I feel anxious about people's reactions and the effect it might have on my family."
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"I could never accept it because I knew I would never be accepted as a gay man and still achieve what I wanted to achieve in the game," he said.
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"It's pretty tough for me being the only international rugby player prepared to break the taboo. Statistically I can't be the only one, but I'm not aware of any other gay player still in the game.
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