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July 8, 2009

How doubt redeems belief

To fear one's doubts and to deny them, is to take away the silence from the music and the space from the sculpture, says Jill Segger. As with all untruth, denial demeans, diminishes and eventually destroys.
February 20, 2009

Welsh equality seminar rounds off series on 'religion or belief' issues

The last of four major conferences looking into issues regarding equality, human rights and ‘religion or belief’ took place in Cardiff earlier this week
January 12, 2009

Driving a bus through belief?

By adding more weight to the debate, the campaigning atheists won’t stop the worry about God, says Mark Vernon. Unless they can stop talking about it, they’ll only succeed in giving the rumour new life.
October 22, 2008

Cold water, buses and shared humanity

The usual internet ranters apart, the much-publicised 'atheist bus project' has provoked some lively discussion and response.
October 21, 2008

Non-religion beyond Christendom
June 27, 2008

Chinese government permits religious literature in the Olympic village

The Chinese government has given permission for special distribution of booklets of the Gospels, copies of the New Testament and full Bibles during the Olympic Games, but other concerns about freedom of speech and expression remain.
March 14, 2008

Religion and Society research programme

A major five year research programme on faith and society is underway, and has a valuable new website.
February 2, 2008

Scouts' honour questioned over its exclusion of the non-religious

Two leading organisations speaking for the concerns of non-religious people in the UK have challenged a major youth organisation over its exclusion of non-believers, in spite of its repeated claims to be open and inclusive.
December 26, 2007

Forgiveness and suffering for beliefs is a sign of hope, says Pope

Pope Benedict XVI has declared in one of his key Christmas messages that believers facing persecution, torture and death in some parts of the world and those who die forgiving their killers are a sign of hope and faith for humanity.
October 19, 2007

Freedom of belief under threat, says new book on India

Despite India remaining the world's most populous and vibrant democracy, freedom of religion is in decline and plural secularism threatened, says a journalist-turned-Christian activist who is now secretary general of the All India Christian Council.