Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup

The Princeton Review released its list of colleges with the most and least religious students. Turns out the top spot goes to Brigham Young University (shocking!) while the mantle of “least religious school” goes to heathens of Bennington College in Vermont. May God have mercy on their GPAs. Catholic pharmacists in the United Kingdom could […]

The Princeton Review released its list of colleges with the most and least religious students. Turns out the top spot goes to Brigham Young University (shocking!) while the mantle of “least religious school” goes to heathens of Bennington College in Vermont. May God have mercy on their GPAs.

Catholic pharmacists in the United Kingdom could “face the sack” (that’s “get fired” to us yanks) for refusing to hand out birth control pills to customers.

The hand of St. James the Great – yes, an actual, super-dead hand – has returned to St. James’ church in Reading, England just in time for St. James’s Day.


China is having some religious issues: A Tibetan monk has burned himself to death in southwest China, protesting the exile of the Dalai Lama. This is the second monk to do so in five months.

Meanwhile, Muslim Uighurs in far western China are becoming increasingly frustrated with government land seizures.

A Florida megachurch pastor has been found dead in a New York Hotel Room. The cause of death is still unknown, although some suspect a drug overdose.

Catholic clergy in Madrid are protesting a visit by the pope, particularly its $72 million price tag – some of it paid for with tax dollars.

Seven people have been found dead in an Iraqi mosque, killed execution-style, as part of a larger series of attacks that left 70 dead in Iraq on Monday.

Apparently the Ramadan fast lasts 2 minutes longer for people residing in Dubai’s Burj Khalifa skyscraper, according to the city’s top cleric. At a height of 2,716 feet, people on its upper floors can still see the sun even after it has gone down for the rest of the people in the city, and thus have to wait a bit longer before they can eat. (I know what you’re thinking: what do Muslims astronauts do? Don’t worry, Muslim leaders have been over this kind of stuff before)


— Jack Jenkins

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