religious tolerance/intolerance Articles
Pope urges Holand to reflect on euthanasia
January 23, 2005
Pope John Paul urged Dutch authorities and medical personnel on Saturday to weigh the gravity of their choices about euthanasia in their country, the first country to legalize euthanasia for adults who no longer want to live with unbearable, incurable pain.
RCMP take 180 students on civic tour for 'respect'
January 22, 2005
Two dozen RCMP officers from different religious backgrounds, including a Sikh, volunteered their own time to a unique anti-violence program, leading about 180 Grade 8 students on a tour of Richmond's diverse places of worship. The aim of the program, Common Ground Days, is to address some of the...
Faith that celebrates life
January 16, 2005
Afro-Brazilian religions like Candomble are flourishing across Brazil, even among the middle class At the many Candomble terreiros, or temples, people eat, flirt and court, writes Michael Astor.
Darwin beats God in Red America
January 15, 2005
A US federal judge ordered the school board of Cobb County, an affluent district north of Atlanta, to immediately remove stickers from its school science textbooks that had informed students that \\\"the theory of evolution was not a fact and should be viewed critically.\\\" According to the Toro...
Lessons in tolerance should be made universal
January 12, 2005
Late last year, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) made anti-homophobia education mandatory for students of the downtown Toronto Market Lane Public School. It was a debate between the rights of the gay parents for tolerance vs. the rights of the Muslim parents for tolerance of their way of ...
A window into militant secularism
December 29, 2004
True religious tolerance requires a desire to accommodate and foster religious practice, not to grudgingly quarantine it as a threat, writes Father Raymond J. de Souza, a chaplain at Queen's University in Ontario. He is talking about the incident in Calgary: a stained glass window in one of the c...
Imam issues fatwa against conference
December 23, 2004
A local imam has issued a warning against a major Islamic conference scheduled to be held this weekend in Toronto, decrying one of North America's most popular Muslim gatherings as unholy. The imam declares that organizers have no knowledge of the Islamic sharia law and its aims, and the conferen...
Theatre ends play in Sikh protest
December 22, 2004
The sold-out run of Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti's play, drama Behzti, or Dishonour, which depicts murder and rape scenes taking place in a Sikh temple, has been cancelled after violent protests by Sikhs in Birmingham, England. The play will not be shown again. Welcoming the decision, a representative fr...
Sikhs storm theatre to demand closure of play that 'violates their sacred place'
December 20, 2004
Hundreds of angry Sikh demonstrators across from Britain gathered to protest a controversial play, which depicts sexual abuse and murder in a Sikh temple, and clashed with police last Saturday (Dec. 18), The Independent reported. They attacked security guards, destroyed a foyer door and windows, ...
"Honour killings" claim thousands of women a year
December 08, 2004
Thousands of women are killed every year by relatives for choosing a partner or lifestyle that "dishonours" the family, in a phenomenon that crosses national and religious borders, experts say. In Sweden, the shock of the "honour killing" of student Fadime Sahindal, who was shot dead by her Musli...
