RELIGION

Westboro Church to Picket Funerals of Norway Massacre Victims

A police woman holds flowers as she takes part in a march near Utoeya island to pay their respects for the victims of the killing spree and bomb attack in Norway, in the village of Sundvollen
The Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church has issued a press release saying that they will picket the funerals of the Norway victims who lost their lives when Anders Breivik set off a bomb in Oslo and gunned down 69 at a youth camp in the island of Utoya.
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Warren Jeffs

Polygamist Leader Warren Jeffs? Trial Goes to Jury

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs' trial has concluded, and the jury is deliberating the fate of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' fate in the Texas underage sexual assault case.
People offer flowers on a memorial stone in Tyrifjorden lake near Utoeya island

Norway Soul Searches on Crime After Rampage

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg urged Parliament Monday to preserve the democratic values of Norway as public pressure grew for stiffer sentences for serious crimes after an anti-immigration zealot's bloody rampage.
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Insurers to Pay for Women?s Health Screenings and Birth Control

The Obama administration announced Monday that private health insurers must pay for an assortment of women's health screenings, counseling and birth control. The benefits will begin on Jan 1, 2013 and will be offered "without cost-sharing" (no co-pay, co-insurance or deductibles).
Warren Jeffs

Polygamist leader says is persecuted

Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs interrupted his Texas child sexual assault trial on Friday, shouting that his religious rights were being violated and warning the court it was stomping on "sacred ground".
At Issue: Circumcision

San Francisco Circumcision Ban Struck from Ballot

A judge blocked a controversial ballot measure that would have banned the circumcisions of minors in San Francisco, citing religious freedom and laws regulating medical procedures in deciding it had "no legitimate purpose."
Police continue their investigations on the Utoeya island in the Tyrifjorden lake

Norway Mass Killer Says U.S. Has 'Jewish Problem,' Rants Against Hitler

Norwegian mass killer and right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto "2083: A European Declaration of Independence" which supports cultural conservatism is under close scrutiny to figure this perpetrator's theories which distance itself equally from Nazis as well as Jews.
Linda Christian with Tyrone Power

First Bond Girl Linda Christian Dies at 87

Linda Christian, the Hollywood actress of the 1940s and heartthrob Tyrone Power’s second wife, who became the first Bond girl, died on Friday in Palm Springs, California.

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