Dmitry Medvedev on Music, Religion and His Rise to Power



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Nightline Satan Debate

This ABC Nightline debate happened at Mars Hill Churchs Ballard campus, and featured Pastor Mark Driscoll and Annie Lobert debating the existence of Satan with Deepak Chopra and Bishop Carlton Pearson.




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Hat at centre of fur ban debate

Israeli Ultra-Orthodox MP's are lining up against activists proposing a total ban on furs, saying traditional fur hats are an important part of their religious tradition.




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FOCUS - Italy/Burqa: Woman fined for wearing full veil.

Italy/Burqa: Woman fined for wearing full veil


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Benedict XVI, five years on

VATICAN - April 19th- 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to succeed the popular John Paul II. The task ahead is difficult for this theologian.. .he prefers the solitude of his Vatican study to large crowds. Pope Benedict decides to reunify the Church and return to the fundamentals of the Catholic faith.


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Indonesian Christians under attack


Violent attacks against Christians in Indonesia have forced the closure of 20 churches in recent months, testing the fragile religious balance in predominantly-Muslim nation.

But the government denies the incidents are a sign of growing religious intolerance, putting the blame on politics and regional elections instead.

Exclusive | Cardinal Levada: 'We Should Hold Ourselves to a Higher Standard'

As part of a series of reports from the Vatican, Cardinal William Levada, the head of the office that handles sex abuse claims, speaks to Margaret Warner in his first television interview about the scandal rocking the Catholic Church.


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Opinion: A Tale of Two Churches - nytimes.com/video

Nicholas Kristof profiles Father Michael Barton and the grassroots Catholic Church in southern Sudan.

http://www.salon.com/news/2010/05/11/eu_portugal_pope/index.html

Pope: Church's Own Sins to Blame in Sex Scandal


In his most thorough admission of the church's guilt in the clerical sex abuse scandal, Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday the greatest persecution of the institution 'is born from the sins within the church,' and not from a campaign by outsiders. (May 11)


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Iraq shias "offered" to aid army

Violence in Iraq has increased since March elections and al-Qaeda recently announced that they will launch a new series of attacks against security forces and and Shias. Mosques have also been attacked leading to Muqtada al-Sada, the Shia cleric who leads the Mhadi Arny malitia, offering "hundreds of believers" to support security forces. So far the government has rejected the offer. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Baghdad (15 May, 2010).





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Italy cracksdown on "religious" coccaine ring

Police in Italy have arrested 33 people on Wednesday accused of being part of a cocaine trafficking ring from South America.

The group is said to have used a Catholic convent in the city of Milan to distribute narcotics throughout the country.

Jose Cervantes, a Peruvian working as a doorman for the convent, had allegedly organised the drug smuggling operations through couriers disguised as religious pilgrims, who hid stashes of cocaine in prayer books among other things.

Authorities said the nuns at the convent had no clue about the illegal operations.



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Battling religious extremism


Many in the US now say the landscape of religious extremism has shifted from Afghanistan to Pakistan. We ask: To what extent is Pakistan becoming the new epicentre of religious extremism and what can be done to reverse that trend?