Day: September 20, 2012

Religious restrictions on the rise worldwide, Pew survey shows

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A study released today by the Pew Forum shows that religious intolerance is on the rise globally, and that a majority of the world’s population live in countries with “high government restrictions on religion or high social hostilities involving religion,” a 5 percent increase percent over the previous year. The Guardian reports:

More musing on the life and wife of Jesus

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I do find this week’s news about the discovery of a tiny piece of ancient papyrus on which is written a reference to Jesus’ wife fascinating. I especially enjoyed this piece by the Guardian’s religion writer Stephen Bates about the academic debate on all this. He writes:

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