Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup

The Vatican has posted on the Internet its internal files on a priest accused of molesting young people in Ireland and the United States . In other Vatican news, it has granted priests the right to forgive the sin of abortion when hearing the confessions of hundreds of thousands of young people attending a Roman […]

The Vatican has posted on the Internet its internal files on a priest accused of molesting young people in Ireland and the United States

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In other Vatican news, it has granted priests the right to forgive the sin of abortion when hearing the confessions of hundreds of thousands of young people attending a Roman Catholic youth festival in Spain this week.


Security forces have locked down the area surrounding a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in southwest China where a young monk burned himself to death calling for the return of the region’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

A researcher who studies the fast-growing population of American secularists, or “Nones,” said they are a particularly ethical group.

Three crosses that have stood for decades at a vista point near Julian, California will be removed by the state transportation department because of complaints about religious symbols on public property.

Reality Church in Washington state church, which wants to hold a barbecue and Baptism on the grounds of the state capital, has decided to fight a state decision denying the request.

Kobe Bryant is denying that he hurt a young man in a San Diego church. Bryant thought the man, who reportedly suffered a slight wrist injury when Bryant grabbed his mobile phone camera, was trying to take his picture.

A Christian group in Kentucky is building Noah’s ark to spec, and plans to make it the centerpiece of a $155 million theme park called “Ark Encounter.” The group – which aims to show that the Bible is literally true – also plans to build a Tower of Babel for the park.

The first Biblicaly-based Facebook game, “The Journey of Moses,” is free, unlike Jim Bakker’s organic cereal. See below.


Televangelist Jim Bakker is hawking “Jim’s Organic 8 Grain Cereal,” which you can buy for $10 a pound. Are the milk, bowl and spoon included?

– Lauren Markoe

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