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News for: August 2, 2002
Sect pair offered plea deal in baby's starvation death
The Boston Herald
Bristol County prosecutors have offered plea bargains to two Attleboro sect members set to face trial in connection with the 51-day starvation death of infant Samuel Robidoux, a source said yesterday.
ALASKA
Religious faith at odds over new ballot
BAHA'I: Belief system doesn't allow involvement in partisan politics
The Associated Press
Juneau -- Alaska's new closed primary system, which requires voters to chose a ballot from one of six political parties, has members of the Baha'i faith in a quandary.
MASSACHUSETTS
Oct. sentencing for supremacists
The Boston Herald
Two white supremacists convicted of building a bomb in a conspiracy to start racial holy war are scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 24 before U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner.
Cemetery chicken sacrifice probed
MetroWest Daily News
SOUTHBOROUGH - A woman taking her daily walk Sunday at the Southborough Rural Cemetery made a gruesome discovery - two dead chickens with their throats slit.
NORTH CAROLINA
End to Islamic Book Lawsuit Sought
The Associated Press
GREENSBORO -- The University of North Carolina is asking a judge to in effect throw out a lawsuit that seeks to block the school from assigning students to read a book on Islam.
TEXAS
Man who set wife ablaze gets life sentence
The Houston Chronicle
A man who claimed he set his estranged wife on fire because he thought she was a witch was found guilty today of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and sentenced to life in prison.
WASHINGTON
Is it garlic or religion?
The Daily Herald
ARLINGTON -- A debate over whether the Love Israel family's Arlington Garlic and Music Festival really is a religious event probably won't stop the 13th annual fete from taking place next week.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Bush Denounces 'False Religion'
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- After President Bush condemned "some kind of false religion" for motivating Mideast terror attacks, his spokesman hastened to emphasize Thursday that the president believes Islam is a peaceful religion.
FEATURE
THE NEW PAGANISM
How Christianity is being replaced by 'green' religion, goddess worship, globalism
WorldNetDaily.com
Relentless attacks on America's Christian churches - not just from without, but from within - which are steadily remolding institutionalized Christianity to serve a new, non-Christian, globalist agenda, are the focus of August's eye-opening edition of WorldNetDaily's popular monthly Whistleblower magazine.
CANADA
Sikh boy switches to private school as public school fights religious dagger
The Canadian Press
MONTREAL -- The parents of a Sikh boy who is at the heart of a legal battle about whether he can wear a religious dagger to school have decided to send him to a private academy.
INDIA
Bengal tribesmen kill 'witches'
BBC News
Five women have been killed in India's West Bengal state by local tribesmen who believed they were witches. Police said the tribesmen admitted responsibility for the killings but said a local priest had told them to do it.
ISRAEL
UHart Professor: Skeleton May Be John The Baptist
The Hartford Courant
An archaeology team led by a University of Hartford professor says it has found a 2000-year-old skeleton in Israel believed to be that of a prominent religious figure, possibly John the Baptist.
NIGERIA
4 Unical Students Killed in Cult War
This Day
No fewer than four persons have been killed in different parts of Calabar, Cross River State in the last one week by persons suspected to be cultists while 19 suspects were arrested by the police in connection with the killings.
Death sentences for Nigerian policemen
BBC News
Three Nigerian police officers have been sentenced to hang for executing two students in December 2000. The sentence was passed by the High Court in the central town of Makurdi, Benue State on Wednesday. The killings followed a raid on suspected members of an illegal cult at Benue State University.
Focus On the Menace of Student Cults
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
This report does not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations
No-one paid much attention to three cars as they pulled up on the afternoon of Friday 14 June in a car park at the University of Nigeria's campus at Nsukka, in the southeastern state of Enugu State.
PAKISTAN
Pakistan police probe relic theft
BBC News
Police in the Pakistani city of Lahore are investigating the theft of a pair of shoes believed to have belonged to the Prophet Mohammad.
ROMANIA
Witches threaten Romania's EU interests as revenge for TV ban
Ananova.com
Witches are threatening spells in revenge for being banned from TV by laws demanded as part of Romania's integration into the EU.
WALES
Teenager guilty of 'vampire' murder
BBC News
A teenager has been found guilty of the "savage" murder of a 90-year-old widow at her north Wales home. The judge at Mold Crown Court recommended that Mathew Hardman should serve a minimum of 12 years.
ZAMBIA
Witchcraft convict had heart wrapped in cloth
Reuters
LUSAKA -- A Zambian man has been jailed for witchcraft after a human heart was found in his possession, and police are investigating a possible murder, state radio and prosecutors said Thursday.
