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Six members of the nonviolent campaigning group Trident Ploughshares have been arrested after blocking the entrance to a meeting of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly at Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

A new book documents the elite media's preoccupation with denigrating former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.A A Weekly Standard associate editor Matthew Continetti has written a new book that details the quantity and intensity of misinformation that was hurled at Sarah Palin by the mainstream media since she stepped onto the ...

Conservative members of America's largest Lutheran denomination announced Wednesday that they are splitting from the Chicago-based Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, making it the second mainline Protestant church to undergo a major schism over the issue of biblical authority.

Senate Majority Harry Reid late Wednesday published the final text of a Senate health care bill that would mandate federally subsidized abortion.

A techie hired by a group of radical clerics who went to the capitol to denounce homosexuals decided not to risk the bad karma.

JERUSALEM: Yehuda Glick is a 44-year-old American-born Jew who spends most of every day preparing for the arrival of the Messiah in Jerusalem. Since he became the executive director of the Temple Institute, Mr Glick's main task has been to supervise the manufacture of the utensils the high priests will need when the day arrives. Crowns and other instruments made of solid gold fill glass cases in the Temple Institute museum in Jerusalem's Old City. Other artefacts include an array of copper urns, trumpets made of silver and garments to be worn by the High Priest, woven from golden thread. Musical instruments, including hand-made harps and lyres, lie ready to be brought to life upon the Messiah's appearance.

Amid growing concern about the victimisation of travelling people across Europe, human rights activists have condemned the forced eviction of a community of some 400 Roma people in the Italian capital, Rome.

After reports that police are investigating alleged voting fraud in the Glasgow North East by-election, a leading democracy group has called for reform of the system.

At its recent biannual meeting, the Board of Trustees of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions elected as its chair Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid.

A Pentecostal bishop who aided the conversion to Christianity of the leader of a violent religious group says she has advised him to go into hiding after he received death threats - writes Fredrick Nzwili .

There must not be a tea-bagger alive who has ever had to sit all night in the Charity hospital in a city like New Orleans, waiting for the morning shift to call their number.

Abortion is not a liberal, secular invention; there are examples in Jewish, Muslim, and even Christian theologies - and in Buddhist and Hindu traditions - of instances in which abortion is justified.

The head of the National Council of Churches of Kenya says he is not happy that the east African country has failed to refer cases of post-election violence to the International Criminal Court - writes Fredrick Nzwili .

Christian churches in Maine whose leaders encouraged support for a referendum that repealed a law allowing same-sex marriage are being targeted in an intimidation campaign urging homosexuals to file complaints against them with the Internal Revenue Service.

The head of the multinational arms company BAE Systems has provoked criticism with a dismissive comment about the Haddon-Cave Report into the deaths of 19 members of the UK armed forces in a Nimrod aircraft.

A British soldier who refused to return to Afghanistan after developing a principled opposition to the war, has been re-arrested and charged with five more offences following his part in an anti-war demonstration.

A failed California beauty pageant contestant who loves Jesus and fake tits, and disapproves of homosexuals, at some point in her life made a film of herself masturbating, and according to an Internet Gossip Web Site, the existence of this film caused this woman to lose a lawsuit ...

Rep. Louise Slaughter , chairwoman of the House Committee on Rules, which threw out more than 200 amendments proposed for HR 3962, including 11 that required Congress and other government officials to sign on to the same government-run health plan they want for the American people.

The Howard League for Penal Reform has today announced an independent inquiry into former armed service personnel in prison.

A special Armistice Day service at Westminster Abbey today, attended by the Queen and leading public figures, will remember civilians who have died in war as well as soldiers, following calls for change in Remembrance ceremonies.