Tolerance.org: MOVE OVER BARBIE: The Changing Face of Dolls non-tech digression

Wired News: XXXchurch Wants No More XXX Christian anti-pornography website controversy

CNN.com - Cyber church reacts to 'Satan' visit - May 19, 2004 "Britain's first three-dimensional cyber church has been forced to tighten security after a slew of abusive visitors ranted from the pulpit and swore in the aisles."

Middle East Online, 'Hand of Fatima', is it protective?

The Daily Star - Lebanon News - 'The Passion' gets a new twist on Al-Manar: "Al-Manar Television has triggered yet another storm of controversy by broadcasting trailers mimicking Mel Gibson's contentious film, 'The Passion of the Christ,' with coalition soldiers compared to the Romans and Jews in the movie, and the Iraqis' suffering to that of Jesus."

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Guardian Unlimited | Online | Nanny knows best "Considerate to a fault, the Chinese authorities have closed down more than 8,600 unlicensed internet cafes in the past three months to ensure the "healthy development" of the nation's impressionable young minds."

ABCNEWS.com : People Seek Haven From Too Much Data: "For the past 20 years Levy, a self-confessed e-mail addict, has sought balance between these disparate worlds. It has led him to meditation, aikido and, with his rabbi wife, a disciplined practice of Judaism. 'Because we observe Shabbat — the Sabbath — it means we don't work during that time, and I'm not on the computer,' he says. 'And as soon as the Sabbath is over, I run upstairs and go see what's happened in the last 24 or 25 hours.'"

Wired News: Dropping the Bomb on Google: "In March, during a casual Web search, the 26-year-old real-estate investor accidentally found that Jew Watch, an anti-Semitic site, was the top Google result."

Yahoo! News - Internet Church Marries Christianity And Technology

"For those Internet junkies who embrace faith but just can't pull themselves away from their computers to attend church, fret no more. The United Kingdom's Ship of Fools--a Web site that dubs itself "The Magazine Of Christian Unrest"--has launched its Church of Fools, a Web-based place of worship that could go a long way toward assuaging modern Christian guilt."

The Daily Star - Arts & Culture - An Egyptian bishop's tech-savvy plan to build a unified country

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Prophets of Cyberabad face rural backlash

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Religious hatred flourishes on web