BELIEF BLOG
Only at The Washington Times: Julia Duin blogs on religion.
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Kazakhs and religious freedom
A big religious freedom conference is tomorrow at Georgetown University as the topic continues to be a front-burner in foreign relations.
Fasting Presbyterians
Members of the Presbyterian Church USA are fasting this weekend for world hunger.
Paying to pray on Rosh Hashana
Should Jews pay to pray at the local synagogue?
Bishop Duncan gets the heave ho
The Episcopal bishop of Pittsburgh is dispatched - on paper that is - from his post as head of southwestern Pennsylvania's Episcopalians Thursday at a meeting of Episcopal leaders in Salt Lake City
Episcopal blood-letting
Pittsburgh Episcopal Bishop Robert Duncan may be on the way to losing his job if Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori gets her way Thursday in a crucial vote by the Episcopal House of Bishops
Sept. 11: the other side
Atheist and humanist groups are turning Sept. 11 into a day against religion, saying religion caused the terrorist attack
Bishops to discuss abortion at meeting
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announces they're placing abortion on the agenda of their annual meeting in November because of recent comments by Sen. Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Take that, Nancy Pelosi: Catholic history on abortion
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has rushed out a 2-page summary of 2,000 years of teaching on abortion lest other politicians decide to go the way of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in stating the church has not always opposed the procedure.
Sarah Palin - Pentecostal
A brief look at Sarah Palin's religious beliefs
Nancy Pelosi and the Catholic bishops
Advice for the speaker of the House to consider when dealing with the leaders of her church
Denying Communion: Here we go again
In a reprise of 2004, it's the bishops versus the politicians in Round 2 of who does or does not get Communion.
Why spill your grief on TV?
Three months after the death of 5-year-old Maria Sue Chapman, her family appears on TV to talk about their grief. But why?
Gelfoam sponges needed in Kirkuk
The ethics of allowing the residents of Kirkuk to die for the want of simple medical equipment
Lambeth and gays
The world's Anglican bishops met for three weeks this summer for their once-every-10-years Lambeth Conference in Canterbury, England, and it's indicative of the low news value of that gathering that not one American newspaper sent over one of its staff writers to cover it.
Operation Worship
There's been plenty of Bible-sending campaigns to the military, but this one includes a personalized note to the troops.
