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News in the media involving religious
change, conflict, intolerance & violence

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In early 1999-NOV, we started  to collect items from various news sources which describe incidents of religious change, intolerance, conflict and violence. These include:

If this list were available in the past, it would have dealt with the great ethical question(s) of the day. It would have discussed in depth:

Fortunately, except perhaps for Christian Identity, other religious white supremacy groups, and some other small religious organizations, these questions have been largely settled.

The 1990's and 2000's are unusual in that we have many relatively new topics being simultaneously debated. New topics (physician assisted suicide, spanking children, and same-sex marriage) are emerging, while other topics (e.g. married clergy, allowing women into the clergy, and equal rights for homosexuals) have been active for a decade or more and are still not resolved completely.

We also maintain news summaries elsewhere. These are recent developments, both positive and negative, which are related to a specific topic: e.g. abortion access, homosexual rights death penalty, etc. We also track developments concerning the acceptance of gays and lesbians as church members and clergy. This is reported separately for each denomination.

[Comments within square brackets] are added by ourselves. Sometimes we cannot resist.

On a positive note....

This listing should be interpreted with care. We only report on negative events here,  because these are areas that may need improvement. Not included in either list are reports of the actions of millions of devout believers of all faiths, who, day after day, help the hungry, homeless, broken and hurting throughout the world.

After reading so much hatred, oppression, mass murder etc. on our website, you may need an emotional lift or a reconfirmation of the basic goodness of people. We suggest that you read the "Acts of Kindness" section of the Toronto Star. The newspaper lists dozens of stories submitted by their readers of random acts of kindness towards people in trouble. See: http://www.thestar.com/ Although most of the acts were perpetrated and received by Canadians and located in Canada, the stories are universal.

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2005-JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG, SEP, OCT, NOV, DEC
2006-JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG, SEP, OCT, NOV, DEC
2007-JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG, SEP, OCT, NOV, DEC

2008-JAN, FEB, MAR, APR, MAY.

Legal notice

In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. sec 107: The news items contained in the above hyperlinks are provided by the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, Box 27026, Kingston ON Canada K7M 8W5. They are intended to be available to anyone interested in the topics included, for educational purposes only. Any editor, author, Webmaster, writer, publisher, news service, etc that objects to being part of this listing may request that future works be excluded. We will also attempt to delete all previous entries from the same source.

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Copyright © 1999 to 2006 by Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Originally written: 1999-NOV-3
Latest update: 2006-FEB-08
Author: B.A. Robinson