religion in the media Articles
Kabbalah leader's Holocaust 'slur'
January 14, 2005
Eliyahu Yardeni, of the London Kabbalah Centre, made the astonishing claim to an undercover reporter investigating high-pressure sales techniques employed by the group, which promotes its own brand of beliefs, part ancient Jewish mysticism and part pseudo-science. The film also revealed how Kabba...
Fox TV Accused of Stereotyping American Muslims
January 13, 2005
The Fox television network said on Thursday it will provide its stations with TV spots that portray Muslims in a favorable way after it received complaints for featuring followers of Islam as terrorists on its hit television show "24."
Madonna\'s Kabbalah Centre in Holocaust row
January 13, 2005
In a documentary film BBC recently aired, a senior figure is seen saying that Jews died in the Holocaust because they did not follow the sect. The documentary is about a branch of Kabbalah, the mystical form of Judaism that counts pop idol Madonna among its devotees, filmed by a few undercover re...
Were waves the fault of 'infidels'?
January 12, 2005
In the midst of an outpouring of support for tsunami victims, words from the Middle East seen in the regional media sound a strikingly discordant note. The Saudi justice minister was seen on the Saudi Arabian/United Arab Emirates Al-Majd television channel, saying "Whoever reads the Koran, given ...
Last film by slain filmmaker premieres
December 13, 2004
The last movie by slain Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh -- a feature-length film about the May 2002 assassination of populist anti-immigration politician Pim Fortuyn premiered Sunday (Dec. 12) in Netherlands. The release of an English-language version is under negotiation with international distrib...
A new station of the Cross
December 12, 2004
The Toronto-based Salt+Light Television channel went national this week with rapping priests and recipes of the saints. It is the reincarnation of the Inner Peace Television Network. The non-profit station, licensed to broadcast in five languages, is now the seventh Canadian religious television ...
AWOL soldier seeks Canadian help
December 07, 2004
Jeremy Hinzman, a 26-year-old U.S. Army deserter who is seeking refugee status in Canada, cites that his growing awareness that killing is wrong was partly born from an interest in Buddhism and attendance at Quaker religious meetings. He applied for conscientious objector status in 2002 but was d...
Media's tendency: over eager to view disputes and conflicts as religious problems
December 07, 2004
Violence returned to southern Thailand shortly after the army planes dropped a "peace offering" of 100 million origami birds into soothe the troubled region, where more than 500 people have been killed this year in religion-related violence between Muslim 'rebels' and the Buddhist.
1998 Media Scan
June 17, 2004
During the first week of June 1998, 270 journalists and representatives from various faith communities converged on the Journalism school of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. The first ever Faith and the Media conference sought to bring together these two 'groups' to discuss how together th...
