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Hindus Ask Pope Francis To Punish Priest Who Said Yoga Leads To Satanism, 'Kingdom Of Darkness' By Bruce Wright @bctw on February 23 2015 The pope has been asked by some Hindus to discipline a Catholic priest who equated yoga and the devil. Reuters/Max Rossi A group of Hindus is appealing to Pope Francis to intervene after a Catholic priest from Northern Ireland insinuated that the ancient discipline of yoga is tantamount to Satanism and paganism. Rev. Roland Colhoun from Glendermott parish was delivering a sermon in the village of Drumsurn on Feb. 8 dealing with the devil and exorcism...

Haredi extremists in Jerusalem discover reason for troubles befalling Israeli people: Immodest clothes worn by women. For months, activists go door to door collecting clothes that don't hold up to rabbis' modesty standards. Thursday confiscated clothes set ablaze, pamphlets with list of forbidden clothes distributed The war against immodesty waged by haredi extremists escalated Thursday night as clothes deemed "immodest" were set ablaze in Shabbat Square. The "clothes of impurity" were burned in a barrel in the center of the stage. Rabbis who spoke at the rally stood nearby admonished the crowd that congregated around the site. Burning clothes to...

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here on Friday that the big powers' atheism is the rootcause of man's problems today. Addressing a group of locals, President Ahmadinejad said the only remedy to the plight is recourse to God and injunctions of the divine messengers. Ahmadinejad said the Iranian nation is on the path to progress, setting God Almighty as its ultimate goal. He said strong faith in God and monotheism are the key to durable peace and calm.

Rabbi: Vote Shas or go to hell Member of Shas' Council of Torah Sages says during sermon at Jerusalem synagogue that PM Sharon had stroke because he went with Shinui, hurt religious services Ilan Marciano Rabbi Shimon Baadani, a member of Shas' Council of Torah Sages, provided on Saturday evening amazing explanations for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's illness. "Ariel Sharon had a stroke because he went with Shas and hurt religious services," Baadani explained during a sermon he gave at a Jerusalem synagogue. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef: 'Vote Shas, reach heaven' / Ilan Marciano Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef speaks at...

JAKARTA: The 200-plus demonstrators from the student group Concerned Muslims who had gathered in light drizzle at one of Central Jakarta's main roundabouts had a simple message for passing motorists. "Reject Playboy! Reject Playboy!" they shouted. "Don't publish that filth here. Keep the Indonesian nation clean." "We don't need that sort of porno here," said Muhammad Salim. "There's enough vice here already." Yesterday about 500 protesters - all members of a conservative Muslim political party - demanded the parliament quickly pass tough laws now under debate to crack down on existing girlie magazines and pornographic DVDs, which are widely available...

Rev. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, says it's "an absolute revolt against God's design" if husbands and wives purposely avoid bearing children. On his Web site and other articles and interviews, Mohler argues that "marriage, sex and children are part of one package" and that "to deny any part of this wholeness is to reject God's intention in creation and his mandate revealed in the Bible." In a CNN interview, the Baptist leader added, “We grow up by having children. Without that responsibility, we have a generation of perpetual adolescents just growing old."

When Israel's most prominent Sephardic rabbi described Hurricane Katrina as America's punishment for supporting Israel's withdrawal from Gaza; and condemned its mainly black victims for failing to study Torah, many Jewish leaders here were appalled. But in Israel, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef's view linking the worst natural disaster in American history to U.S. support for the Gaza withdrawal is not unique among rabbis. Rabbi Joseph Gerlitzky, the leader of the Lubavitch chasidic sect's center in central Tel-Aviv, among others, gave a sermon from his pulpit soon after the hurricane voicing the same theme. A popular radio rabbi echoed him. And a...

This Good Friday, we commemorate two ritual murders: Jesus of Nazareth and Theresa Schiavo. snip Where are the people who lobby against domestic violence or, as it used to be called, wife-beating? Like the other feminists, they are uncharacteristically silent. They have apparently had a mass change of heart, and now endorse the indissolubility of marriage and the patriarchal authority of husbands, overthrowing 200 years of feminist rhetoric going back to Mary Wollstonecraft — who described women as the "convenient slaves" of their husbands. Mrs. Schiavo's problem appears to be that she is an inconvenient slave. But she doesn't even...

President Bush will make remarks on the death of Terri Schindler (Schiavo) at 11:40 am EST.