BBC NEWS | Technology | Asia puts faith in mobiles

MEMRI: Liberal Muslim Scholar: The Term 'Jihad' is Misunderstood by Islamist Clerics "In an article in the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari, former dean of the Faculty of Islamic Law at the University of Qatar, stated that modern Islamic Fatwas (religious legal opinions) distort the meaning of Jihad to justify an aggressive ideology."

sfgate.com, SAN FRANCISCO / Singing the gospel of Transcendence / Nation's first all-transgender gospel choir raises its voices to praise God and lift their own feelings of self-love and dignity

Newsday.com - God talk is everywhere
"An online poll on Beliefnet.com, answered by about 12,000 people, found that 62 percent were reading the Bible more often after seeing "The Passion.""

Inter-Press, Activists Crusade Against E-Jihad interesting use of the term 'crusade' here

Reuters/Khaleej Times Online, “Passion” flouts Islamic taboos to rapt Arab viewers

Haaretz - Israel News - Musings / Een, Yuudaayaa naa interesting article about Aramaic

Haaretz - Israel News - Digging for the roots of an age-old scourge discussion on what has been dubbed the "new anti-Semitism"

Aljazeera.Net - Palestinians love Mel Gibson's film
I'm sure that Mr Gibson is delighted in this news, although he won't be so pleased to learn that the film has been widely pirated in Gaza and the West Bank.

BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Sikh holy book flown to Canada

IIAS Newsletter 32- IIAS contains several sgnificant articles associated with the Internet in China

MSNBC - Religion as mainstream pop culture:

Middle East Online, Gibson film stirs religious controversy in Kuwait

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Film | Python film to challenge Passion

BBC NEWS | Technology | Bookies suffer online onslaught not a religious issue (necessarily - depending on whether divine intervention is part of a betting strategy), but an interesting technical one

Daily Star, Teens take to the Net in Madrid mourning

staugustine.com: World News: Web of Islamic militants who share bin Laden's ideology grew out of al-Qaida recruiting drive 03/16/04

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Desire to integrate on the wane as Muslims resent 'war on Islam'

The Register, EC seeks to stamp out Net child porn, racism and spam lofty ideals here, but how are they going to achieve these aims?

World Religions found this interesting one in my travels. It's a class blog from the World Religions course a St Andrews. I'm going to be integrating blog into my teaching next session too. Seems to work well.