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  • Catholic Church - Philippines

    MANILA, Philippines -- Angered by a new law in the Philippines that would provide poor Filipinos easier birth control access, leaders of the Catholic Church threw their weight behind an effort to sway public sentiment just before the midterm elections on May 13 -- but they appear to have miscalculated their influence.

  • Canadian Organized Religion

    Two recent reports released by Statistics Canada show that figures gathered from the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) indicate that despite Canada still being very much a predominantly Christian country, there is a definite growing trend away from organized religion, and projections indicate this trend is very likely to continue.

  • Women - Iran Election

    Women have been barred from competing in the upcoming Iranian presidential election, scheduled for June 14. The decision was passed down by Iran's Guardian Council, an organization responsible for interpreting the Iranian constitution as well as approving presidential candidates.

  • Twitter Users Condemned to Hell

    The Kingdom's concern about Twitter stems from the fact that the social media platform has been made use of to keep people informed of human rights activists on trial. Twitter has been used not only to post tweets about the protests that the Eastern Province witnessed recently, but also to upload images of the human rights activists when the trial was underway in the court.

  • Michelle Bachman

    On May 8, 2013, numerous members of Congress joined Religious Rights activists in Washington D.C. for an event titled "Washington: A Man of Prayer." Representative Michele Bachmann was among the Congressional speakers who attended the event.

  • Alicia Gali

    Alicia Gali was an Australian employee of hotel chain Starwood in the United Arab Emirates when she was subjected to a brutal attack. While using her laptop in the hotel bar, her drink was spiked and, while she was unconscious, Gali was raped by three of her colleagues. Gali woke up with multiple bruises and four broken ribs. At this point, she took herself to hospital and reported the crime herself.

  • Child Abuse Case - Robert Waddington

    A joint investigation carried out by the Times and an Australian newspaper has unearthed a child abuse case that was not reported to the police by the former archbishop Lord Hope of Thornes. The alleged perpetrator of the abuse was a former dean of Manchester Cathedral Robert Waddington. Waddington died in 2007 following throat cancer

  • Bangladeshi Hifazat-e Islam activists

    The streets of Dhaka, Bangladesh's capital city, have been the home to uprisings during the past two months. Some Bengali people want justice for those playing a role in the war crime tribunals from the 1971 War of Independence. After the tribunal sentenced Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a Bangladeshi Islamist party leader, to death, people took to the streets, ensuing riots

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