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Do We Need God to be Moral?

Do We Need God to be Moral? - One of the world's leading primatologists believes his decades of research with apes answers a question that has plagued humans since the beginning of time. Are we moral because we believe in God, or do we believe in God because we are moral? ABC News - Do We Need God to be Moral? (ABC News) Frans de Waal argues in his latest book that the answer is clearly the latter. The seeds for moral behavior preceded the emergence of our species by...

Ancient site unearthed in Iraqi home of Abraham

This photo taken on March 31, 2013 photo provided by Manchester University professor Stuart Campbell shows excavation in progress at Tell Khaiber, Iraq. A British archaeologist says he and his colleagues have unearthed a huge, rare complex near the ancient city of Ur in southern Iraq, home of the biblical Abraham. Stuart Campbell of Manchester University's Archaeology Department says it goes back about 4,000 years, around the time Abraham would have lived there. It's believed to be an administrative...

The terror plot involved targeting British reserve troops using a toy-car packed with explosives

4 UK men jailed for toy-car terror plot — The terror plot involved targeting British reserve troops using a toy-car packed with explosives. But investigators said Thursday Britain's domestic spy agency of MI5 and police were able to stop Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, Umar Arshad and Syed Farhan Hussain before they could launch the deadly attack. Iqbal and Ahmed were given extended sentences of 16 years and 3 months, which means they will be in jail for more than 11 years...

Priceless 14th century Latin 'dictionary' that let nuns translate the Bible and survived the Dissolution of the Monasteries goes on display for the first time

Priceless 14th century Latin 'dictionary' that let nuns translate the Bible and survived the Dissolution of the Monasteries goes on display for the first time - History enthusiasts will be able to see Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie - Priceless book helped nuns to understand the holy book centuries ago - It is incredibly rare because it survived Henry VIII's monastery purge A priceless 700-year-old Bible 'dictionary' which gives a unique insight into the way nuns lived has gone...

Myanmar fire kills 13 Muslim students, adding to Buddhist-Muslim tensions

Myanmar fire kills 13 Muslim students, adding to Buddhist-Muslim tensions - Police are blaming the blaze in Yangon on an electrical short, but some of Myanmar's Muslims are suspicious following religious violence around the country. Myanmar police say an electric fire is at fault for the blaze that killed 13 youth in an Islamic school in Yangon today. But on the heels of widespread religious and ethnic violence last month, some fear the deaths could add to the rising religious tensions in the...

Myanmar riots raise concerns about escalating sectarian tensions

Myanmar riots raise concerns about escalating sectarian tensions - The clashes have intensified fears that last year's sectarian violence between Buddhists and the Muslim Rohingya minority in western Burma is now spreading to the Burmese heartland. Rights groups are asking Myanmar lawmakers to "change their approach" on how they handle sectarian violence after three days of fighting between Muslims and Buddhists in central Myanmar has reduced a town to smokey rubble, leaving at least 20...

Myanmar Communal Unrest Threatens Reforms

Myanmar Communal Unrest Threatens Reforms - Few imagined Myanmar would embrace democracy when the U.S. began its historic engagement with the military regime. The country's rapid changes were lauded by visiting Western leaders, and the nation's president was hailed as a hero. But spasms of spreading, communal violence show the reform path is bumpier than expected and have taken the sheen off a foreign policy success of the Obama administration's first term. While Washington says the country's...