Catholics set up their own social networking website

by | May 11, 2008

Following the worldwide success of online social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo, the Roman Catholic Church is getting in on the act with a website which hopes to attract more than just the usual faithful. Bishop John Arnold launched Catholic...

Burma’s dictators make propaganda out of suffering

by | May 10, 2008

Burma’s military regime is distributing international aid today. But it is covering the boxes with the names of top generals in an effort to turn the relief effort for last week’s devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise, say news agencies. The...

Religious polemics migrate to cyberspace

by | May 9, 2008

New technology has always played a part in religious polemics and in the sense of identity generated through the heated exchange of opinion – such as we see in cyberspace today. The invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century has been credited by...

The struggle between good and bad religion

by | May 9, 2008

The Quilliam Foundation, a new think tank, is named after William Quilliam (1856-1932), an Englishman who embraced Islam and set up the first mosque in Britain, in Liverpool. According to the founders of this initiative, the history of European Islam — and especially...