International Business News - Religious http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Kazakhstan's lower house of Parliament approved controversial legislation Wednesday to increase government control over religious groups, drawing criticism from a major international group Kazakhstan is to lead in 2010. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/kazakhstan-passes-restrictive-religion-measure.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:50:56 EST Jewish and Muslim leaders on Monday cautiously praised recent remarks by Pope Benedict XVI, who said that dialogue among faiths should be pursued even though it is impossible on strictly religious issues. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081124/pope-dialogue-among-religions-should-be-pursued.htm Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:05:05 EST The Supreme Court warily confronted a case Wednesday that mixes limits on free speech with issues of church-state separation. The justices engaged in lively arguments over a small religious group's efforts to place a monument in a public park that already is home to a Ten Commandments display. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081112/high-court-hears-dispute-over-religious-monument.htm Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:37:34 EST Pundits declared evangelicals among of Election Day's losers. Conservative Christian leader James Dobson confessed he was grieving. Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State said religious right leaders "kept their own flock in line, but the majority of Americans were unmoved." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/171379-measure-of-a-nation-drawing-together.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081109/christian-right-regroups-after-obama-victory.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081109/christian-right-regroups-after-obama-victory.htm Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:04:55 EST Pundits declared evangelicals among of Election Day's losers. Conservative Christian leader James Dobson confessed he was grieving. Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State said religious right leaders "kept their own flock in line, but the majority of Americans were unmoved." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081108/christian-right-regroups-after-obama-victory.htm Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:43:59 EST Indian church leaders said Tuesday that Christians killed in recent clashes were "sacrificial lambs" targeted by hard-line Hindus seeking an advantage in upcoming national elections. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081014/christians-denounce-attacks-by-hindus-in-india.htm Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:03:11 EDT Clashes between Hindus and Muslims in a western Indian town left at least four people dead and 80 injured, forcing police to impose a curfew, an official said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081006/hindu-muslim-clashes-kill-4-in-india.htm Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:47:34 EDT Maoist rebels say they murdered a hard-line Hindu leader whose death triggered violence between Hindus and Christians that left dozens dead, a television news channel reported Sunday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081005/report-maoists-say-they-murdered-hindu-leader.htm Sun, 05 Oct 2008 09:50:50 EDT They are largely invisible, sometimes as simple as a small, plastic marker affixed to a utility pole. There's one around the White House and one in Manhattan that sprawls from the East River to the Hudson. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081001/battle-of-religious-symbol-roils-hamptons-village.htm Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:10:45 EDT The European Union said Friday it is "very worried" about what it sees as a deterioration of religious freedom in Iran. A statement from the French Foreign Ministry on behalf of the EU says pressure has increased on religious minorities in the Islamic Republic in recent months, with arrests in the Christian and Baha'i communities. France currently holds the EU presidency. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/eu-worried-about-freedom-of-religion-in-iran.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:50:14 EDT The European Union says it is "very worried" about what it sees as a deterioration of religious freedom in Iran. France, which holds the rotating EU presidency, says pressure has increased on religious minorities in the Islamic Republic in recent months, with arrests in the Christian and Baha'i communities. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/eu-worried-about-freedom-of-religion-in-iran.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:02:40 EDT About 50 Christians armed with knives, sticks and stones hacked a Hindu man to death in the eastern Indian state of Orissa in the latest outburst of sectarian violence that has left 27 people dead, police said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/hindu-christian-clashes-kill-1-in-eastern-india.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:53:28 EDT An investigation into one of India's worst outbursts of violence between Hindus and Muslims cleared the Hindu nationalist state government Thursday of any involvement in the riots. Opposition politicians branded the report a whitewash. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/report-clears-india-state-of-role-in-deadly-riots.htm Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:25:04 EDT Police in southern India have arrested a senior leader of a right-wing Hindu group in connection with attacks on Christian churches and prayer halls last weekend, an official said Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080920/hindu-leader-arrested-in-indian-church-attacks.htm Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:32:56 EDT Hundreds of armed attackers stormed a police station and killed one police officer Tuesday in a part of eastern India wracked by weeks of Hindu-Christian violence, authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/131508-india-religious-violence.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080916/mob-attacks-police-station-in-india-killing-1.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080916/mob-attacks-police-station-in-india-killing-1.htm Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:18:53 EDT Police searched Friday for two suspects in the killing of a Hindu religious leader last month that sparked violent Hindu-Christian clashes in eastern India in which at least 17 people died. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080912/police-search-for-suspect-in-death-of-hindu-leader.htm Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:34:34 EDT Vietnamese authorities denied Friday that they had used force or stun guns to break up a demonstration by Catholics who are demanding the return of land the Communist government took more than four decades ago. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080829/vietnam-denies-use-of-stun-gun-to-break-protest.htm Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:58:31 EDT Police used stun guns and beat parishioners protesting the arrest of fellow church members who have demanded the return of land they say was taken by Vietnam's communist government in the early 1960s, a Catholic priest said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080828/vietnamese-catholics-complain-of-police-violence.htm Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:53:09 EDT Christians clashed with Hindu mobs who attacked churches, and eight people died in the violence in an eastern region known for deadly religious fighting. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080826/hindu-christian-clashes-kill-8-in-eastern-india.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:41:13 EDT A federal appeals court ruling that a Christian university in Colorado can receive state scholarship money is the latest in a string of legal victories for religious schools seeking public dollars. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/97264-religious-colleges.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/another-courtroom-victory-for-religious-colleges.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/another-courtroom-victory-for-religious-colleges.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:12:40 EDT