Category: Religion
Prayer event puts Detroit Muslims on edge
(AP) DETROIT – An area with one of the largest Muslim communities outside the Middle East is bracing itself for a 24-hour prayer rally by a group that counts Islam among the ills facing...
WANT WEIRD WEATHER? COME TO OKLAHOMA!
“Even for Oklahoma, this is crazy,” said Rick Smith, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Norman. “Since January, we’ve been setting records. People are just kind of amazed and shocked.” State records set this...
Lasers Could Control Rain, Scientists Say
Lasers could help cause rain, scientists now suggest. The finding may give bone-dry regions of the world much-needed moisture, scientists say. Rainclouds form when airborne pockets of tiny particles condense water vapor around them....
Porn Industry Gets Green Light for Red-Light .XXX District
The world wide web is about to get a red-light district. After more than a decade of debate, rejections and legal challenges, the Internet’s governing body began accepting applications for .xxx websites from the...
Mississippi Defeats Life at Conception Ballot Initiative
JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi voters Tuesday defeated a ballot initiative that would’ve declared life begins at conception, a proposal that supporters sought in the Bible Belt state as a way to prompt a legal...
Election Day 2011: Personhood, Collective Bargaining Dominate Ballots
Mississippi is in the national spotlight today as voters there cast their ballots on the controversial “ personhood” measure and a voting provision that has spurred national debate. Initiative 26 is an ambiguously worded...
The killing of ‘cursed’ infants in Ethiopia?
(CNN) — His top teeth came in before his bottom teeth. That is how elders of the Kara tribe determined that a healthy baby boy needed to be killed. The child was “mingi” —...
More Than 100 Tibetan Protesters Detained in Nepal
KATMANDU, Nepal — Nepalese police detained more than 100 Tibetan exiles on Tuesday who had gathered to pray for nine Tibetans who set themselves on fire to protest against Chinese rule. About 400 Tibetans,...
7 billion reasons to empower women (about abortion)
If fertility rates continue at expected levels, the world’s population is likely to reach 10.1 billion in the next 90 years. Based on conservative estimates, the number of people in the world should pass...