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Music bible NME returns to print five years after axing weekly edition

It will now be bi-monthly.

The Independent UK

Dismantling the myth that ancient slavery 'wasn’t that bad'

As someone who researches slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world, especially in the Bible, I often hear remarks like, “Slavery was totally different back then, right?” “Well, it couldn’t have been that bad.” “Couldn’t slaves buy their freedom?”

The Conversation

Tourists search for Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia – but does a geographical location for pivotal Bible event even exist?

Since Saudi Arabia relaxed rules and expanded visas for tourists in 2019, Christians have been increasingly visiting the country, drawn by word of mouth and promotional YouTube videos, in search of Mount Sinai, where the Bible recounts God revealing the Ten Commandments to Moses.

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The Talk To Me Hand: How The Supernatural Appendage Works In The New A24 Horror Movie

Talk To Me directors Danny and Michael Philippou know a lot more about the embalmed hand than what we learn in the movie.

Cinemablend

Seven in 10 US adults believe in angels and a third in astrology, new poll shows

Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America

The Independent UK

OLD Do you believe in angels? About 7 in 10 U.S. adults do, a new AP-NORC poll shows

Compared with the devil, angels carry more credence in America

The Independent UK

Man Who Threatened To Burn Holy Books In Sweden Ditches Plan

In a last-minute about-face, a Muslim activist who received permission from Swedish police to burn the Bible

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A former pastor is charged with murdering an 8-year-old girl nearly 50 years ago

David Zandstra, 83, has been charged with criminal homicide, first-degree murder and other crimes. Investigators say he admitted to killing Gretchen Harrington in 1975.

WEKU

The Bible will stay in Florida's Palm Beach County schools, board decides

A rabbi, a Baptist church pastor, a born-and-raised Catholic and an atheist walked into a Palm Beach County School Board meeting Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Religion shapes vaccine views – but how exactly? Our analysis looks at ideas about God and beliefs about the Bible

Many scientists and public health officials were surprised that large swaths of the public were hesitant or outright hostile toward COVID-19 vaccines. “I never saw that coming,” Francis Collins, a former director of the National Institutes of Health, commented in 2022. Even today, three years after the start of the…

The Conversation

Sweden protester abandons plan to burn Torah and Bible

Ahmad Alloush says his intention was to denounce those who burn sacred books such as the Quran in the Nordic country.

Al Jazeera

The man who threatened to burn holy books outside the Israeli Embassy in Sweden abandons the plan

The man who said he would burn the Torah and the Bible outside the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm gave up his plan and instead held a one-person demonstration against burning holy books

The Independent UK

Swedish Police Approve Burning Of Bible Outside Israeli Embassy

Controversial decision follows Koran burnings, sparks outrage in Islamic world

Zenger

Swedish police authorize protest by man who plans to burn Torah, Bible outside Israeli Embassy

Stockholm police say they have authorized a protest this weekend by a man who has stated that he wants to burn the Torah and the Bible outside the Israeli Embassy in Sweden's capital

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Missouri public schools will be allowed to teach electives on the Bible under new law

Missouri public schools will be allowed to offer elective courses on the Bible under a new law signed by Republican Gov. Mike Parson this week.

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak gives Bible reading about feeding the hungry and inviting in strangers

The Prime Minister read a famous passage from Matthew's Gospel where Jesus teaches the disciples about the importance of helping strangers

The Guardian - US

Utah district returns Bible to school libraries after reversal of parent-led ban

Davis school district, north of Salt Lake City, voted unanimously to accept recommendation by subcommittee to reinstate book

The National (Scotland)

Retired solicitor completes 17-year translation of the Bible into Doric

A RETIRED solicitor says he is "elated" after finishing an epic 17-year project to translate the full Bible into Doric.

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The Independent UK

Utah school district returns the Bible to shelves after appeals and outcry

The Bible will return to the shelves in a northern Utah school district that provoked an outcry after it banned them from middle and elementary schools last month

The Conversation

The tree of life has been a powerful image in Jewish tradition for thousands of years – signifying much more than immortality

After weeks of wrenching testimony, jurors delivered a guilty verdict June 16, 2023, for the gunman who killed 11 worshippers in a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018 – the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. The next phase of the trial will focus on sentencing, and whether Robert Bowers should face…

Evening Standard

‘Highway to Hel’ bus journey in Poland banned after religious groups oppose ‘Satanic’ 666 bus route

In the Bible 666 is identified as the “number of the beast”

WEKU

Arizona Republicans try and fail to expel Democratic lawmaker over Bible prank

Democratic state Rep. Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, who is a minister, was investigated after hiding Bibles in the Arizona House lounge. Republicans narrowly voted to censure – but could not expel – her.

Zenger

Bible Found Opened To Psalm 106 And 107 One Of Few Objects To Survive Deadliest Fire In US History

Peshtigo, Wisconsin was once a lumber boom in America's dairy land prior to the blaze that burned the town down.

The Independent UK

Bible-waving demonstrators gather outside Utah Capitol to protest its ban from school libraries

Davis County school district announced earlier that those in middle and elementary school in about eight schools would lose access to the Bible

The Independent UK

Utah Republicans defend book removal law while protesting district that banned Bible

Bible-toting parents and Republican lawmakers convened on Utah's Capitol to protest a suburban school district that recently announced it had removed the Bible from some schools

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