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  • January 16, 2008
    Italian scientists attack Pope's equivocation on Galileo trial

    Pope Benedict has cancelled a visit to the prestigious La Sapienza University in Rome after protests about his past remarks about Galileo. But a professor there says attempts to stop him speaking violate intellectual freedom.

  • January 16, 2008
    Evangelical Christians and Muslims meet for historic dialogue

    The second meeting of an Evangelical Christian-Muslim Dialogue took place in Tripoli last week, and is seen by participants as an important step forward in understanding between two faith traditions that have often been at loggerheads.

  • January 11, 2008
    Rethinking religion in an open society
  • January 8, 2008
    Religion, state, and society

    Religion, Discrimination and Accommodation: the Role of the State in a Multi-Faith Society

  • December 30, 2007
    More big questions

    The crisis in Pakistan, human responsibility and the nature of evil, astrology, the regulation of alcohol...

  • December 24, 2007
    Bishop of London worries about 'secular fundamentalism'

    The Anglican bishop of London says in a Christmas letter that the return of religious issues to centre stage in the public sphere is welcome, but he claims it has provoked a dangerous reaction from what he calls "secular fundamentalists".

  • December 13, 2007
    Theology in the Fiction of George Eliot - Review

    Theological truth and creative fiction are much closer to each other than might at first be presumed, Alison Goodlad discovers in reviewing Peter C. Hodgson's evocative treatment of the work of George Eliot.

  • December 10, 2007
    Rupert Murdoch buys into online religion

    Rupert Murdoch's global media organization News Corporation has announced it has acquired Beliefnet, said to be the largest faith and spirituality information site on the World Wide Web, for an undisclosed sum of money.

  • December 4, 2007
    Intelligence report on Iran nukes undermines US hawks

    A report from United States intelligence agencies has undermined those close to the White House who have been arguing for unilateral military action against Iran by saying that Tehran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003.

  • December 1, 2007
    Non-religious in Europe are disadvantaged, claim secularists

    Europeans who have no religion are growing in number but are becoming increasingly disadvantaged in the political process, claimed the National Secular Society in the UK at a meeting in the European Parliament on religion and politics.