Humanists, Atheists Look to Higher Global Profile
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Humanist and atheist groups around the  world are looking to boost their profile in 2005 to counter  religious fundamentalism and efforts by some Western leaders to  relaunch faith as a keystone of national life.
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World leaders and personalities from some 60 countries Tuesday launched a new UN forum aimed at averting the "predicted clash of civilizations" in the wake of September 11 and other terror attacks.
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Comment is free: Will Hutton: There's much to celebrate in the moves towards greater tolerance of others and understanding of ourselves and the world around us
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University of Oxford researchers will spend nearly $4 million to study why mankind embraces God. The grant to the Ian Ramsey Center for Science and Religion will bring anthropologists, theologians, philosophers and other academics together for three years to study whether belief in a divine being is a basic part of mankind's makeup.
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YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia  - President Susilo Bambang  Yudhoyono of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim  nation, called on all religions Monday to rise up against  terrorism and show that faith could be a force for peace.
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The leaders want their faith to be enshrined as the national religion, governing marriage, divorce and family inheritance.
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Mental illness according to experts is assuming an alarming dimension all over the world. The preponderance of such cases is attracting the attention of individuals, governments and non-governmental organisations
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I was looking at what my friend Stephen Lewis wrote in HakPakSak a few days ago &#151; specifically newspapersâ roles as public trusts and cornerstones of our informational infrastructure &#151; i.e. sources of solid information and independent commentary essential to informed citizenry, democratic government, effective public policy, and well-functioning economies. What this brought up for me is the notion that human beings are themselves infrastructural;  especially when they are constuctive contributors to the structure we call civilization.
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Voices of Faith: How can people of faith help the environment?  ___  DO NO HARM  Rushdy El-Ghussein, former president of the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City: Muslims believe that God entrusted human beings to act as his agents in this life.
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From activists to tycoons, politicians to inventors, these remarkable people offer hope for the future
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A new 10-nation survey of Pentecostal and charismatic Christians, considered the fastest-growing stream of Christianity worldwide, shows they are deeply influencing the Roman Catholic and mainstream Protestant churches and are poised to make a big impact on global affairs.
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Having the United Nations on   your doorstep has its advantages but it also means letting   world leaders visit once a year -- even those who call you the   devil, denounce your foreign policy as neocolonialism and   question the Holocaust.
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Michael Douglas says technology is helping children from across the world gain a better understanding of humanity's cultures and religions.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University proposed a curriculum overhaul Wednesday to emphasize sciences, religious beliefs, and world cultures.
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CIXI, China -- In a borrowed classroom of the provincial Communist Party School, a newly busy philosophy professor addressed 15 well-groomed adult students. His message: Try to have a soul.
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A popular purveyor of atheism comes out with a neurological study that shows little difference between the way our brains process religious and "objective" beliefs
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ATLANTA, Oct. 21 -- The Dalai Lama and other spiritual leaders called Sunday for followers of the world's religions to work toward understanding each other rather than bickering over differences.