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Faith in Recovery Pt. 10: Faith and Addiction in Prison

27 Sep 2017
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WRN Editorial Staff

Are Prison Drug Rehab Programs More Effective with Religion? “You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.”David Gerrold “No prison can shut out God.”J.F....

Hindus Are Outraged by An Australian Ad

07 Sep 2017
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Alison Lesley

Conservative Hindus take umbrage at the depiction of Lord Ganesh ostensibly partaking meat A Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) from conservative Hindu groups. The latter's bone of contention:...

Faith in Recovery Pt. 5: Are There Dangers In Faith-Based Drug Treatment?

24 Aug 2017
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WRN Editorial Staff

Should faith overrule reason in matters of addiction treatment? “As time passes our book literature has a tendency to get more and more frozen – a tendency for conversion into something like dogma....

Over 4,000 Faith Leaders Want Trump to Keep Johnson Amendment

18 Aug 2017
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Derek Welch

President Trump has signed the executive order to stymie the law About 4,000 faith leaders from different religions have given their signatures to a letter which urges Congress to keep the Johnson...

Report Says Atheists Are More “Morally Depraved” than the Religious

11 Aug 2017
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WRN Editorial Staff

The attitude is due to ingrained religious belief. An international study conducted by Nature Human Behavior, a journal, revealed that atheists are suspected in greater numbers of doing evil...

The Malaysian Government is Hunting Atheists

11 Aug 2017
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C Barnett

Government Investigating Members in Facebook Group Malaysia’s deputy minister stated on Monday, August 7, that the Malaysian government is investigating an international atheist organization after...

46% of Christians Believe Myth “Poverty is Based on Poor Work Ethic”

09 Aug 2017
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Alison Lesley

53% of white evangelical Protestants blame a person's lack of work ethic for their poverty level. A recent poll by The Washington Post and Kaiser Family Foundation shows differences between Christians...

Karen Armstrong TED Talk: Reviving the ‘Golden Rule’ For Everyone

30 Jul 2017
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Gary Nguyen

Karen Armstrong -- Religious Scholar and winner of the 2008 TED Prize -- is a provocative, original thinker on the role of religion in the modern world. In this compelling TED talk, Karen Armstrong,...

Trump Axing Law in Move to Allow Churches to Support Political Candidates

27 Jul 2017
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Gary Nguyen

The present US administration wants to defang the Johnson Amendment. Hiding behind the din of Obamacare repeal, The U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted during the third week of July to keep...

No Religion, Tops Religious Affiliation Poll in Australia

28 Jun 2017
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Kelly Frazier

Islam, Hinduism increasing; number of religious nones higher than Catholics The number of Christians in Australia was over 88 percent fifty years ago. As per the latest census, only 52 percent of Australians...