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A Mosaic of Human Beliefs

WorldReligions.com presents an array of current news, features, and opinions from field of religious life as it interacts with the family of humankind around the globe.

Wikipedia includes the following definition, which while necessarily limited, gives some context to the topic of this website.

A religion is a set of stories, symbols, beliefs and practices, often with a supernatural quality, that give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life through reference to an ultimate power or reality. It may be expressed through prayer, ritual, meditation, music and art, among other things. It may focus on specific supernatural, metaphysical, and moral claims about reality (the cosmos, and human nature) which may yield a set of religious laws, ethics, and a particular lifestyle. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and religious experience.

While it will be impossible to cover the vast spectrum of activities encompassed by the description above, we provide though-provoking news and commentary related not only to so-called "mainstream" religions, but to other ideas and practices dealing with man's search for meaning within the universal mystery.

Religion Notes: New Catholic museum to open in St. Augustine
Bishop Victor Galeone will join celebrations marking the 445th Founder’s Day for the city of St. Augustine and the opening of a new Catholic museum Saturday. Following morning events commemorating the city’s founding, Galeone will celebrate Mass at 11 a.m. at the outdoor rustic altar near the water’s edge at Mission Nombre de Dios, 27 Ocean Ave.  At about 11:45 a.m., the casket of Pedro Menendez ...
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God's biographer discusses Obama, religion and US policy
What role does religion play in the United States' foreign and domestic policy? Prize-winning author of GOD: a Biography, Jack Miles will explore this and more in a Sydney Ideas lecture co-presented by the United States Studies Centre on Monday 6 September.
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Religion reporting matters
The state of religion reporting is in peril. The newspaper industry is struggling on 46 percent less revenue than just four years ago, according to USA Today . As newspaper revenues drop it is not the business or sports sections which are being significantly scaled back.
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Religion isn't basis of Middle East conflict: Fuller
Graham Fuller admits the title of his latest book, and the thesis he puts forward in it, is both 'intriguing and provocative.'
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Part Five: Freedom of religion
MOUNT VERNON -- Knox County Juvenile Court Judge James Ronk, in the fifth part of the lecture series being featured at the Knox County Memorial Theater, explained how the first 16 words of the Bill of Rights affect the freedom of religion in our country, and the world and U.S. history which shaped those words.
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Nigeria: Religion Not Main Cause of Jos Crisis, Says Commission
Another step in the peace building efforts in Plateau State was taken last week with the submission of the report of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Jos Crises to President Goodluck Jonathan.
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