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As reported in the Winnipeg Free Press, the Winnipeg City Council voted on Wednesday to approve $4.2 million in funding for an $11.7 million centre to be run by Youth for Christ. Council's decision will allow Youth for Christ to access up to $3.2 million in Federal infrastructure funds for the project.
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The good news: the Gideon Society will no longer have a monopoly to distribute religious materials in public schools under the District School Board of Niagara.

The bad news: rather than stopping the practice, the DSBN has opened the doors to other faith groups to follow the Gideons' lead.

As the St. Catharines Standard reports, under new DSBN rules, principals and the director of education can now approve the distribution of materials from groups of any religion, not just Christian bibles from the Gideons.
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Last week officials from the Justice and Health and Human services department held a meeting with the Secular Coalition for America (click here for original story). It was the first time in American history that an administration had held a policy briefing with a 'nontheist' group. Despite the fact that President Obama was not at the meeting, and no policy changes are scheduled to be announced, the religious right wing has labeled the meeting as being part of an anti-religious agenda held by the current administration.
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By Andrew Gilligan @ Telegraph.co.uk

A Labour minister says his party has been infiltrated by a fundamentalist Muslim group that wants to create an “Islamic social and political order” in Britain.

The Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) — which believes in jihad and sharia law, and wants to turn Britain and Europe into an Islamic state — has placed sympathisers in elected office and claims, correctly ...

By Elizabeth Landau, CNN (CNN) -- Political, religious and sexual behaviors may be reflections of intelligence, a... ...