In short, the big religion story in the last century is not one of ideological struggle between Christianity and Islam, with Islam winning. It is a story of growing corporatization, with local and folk religions everywhere being gradually but inexorably replaced by churches and mosques that are affiliated with two of the world’s main religious brands. You may regret it or welcome it, but it has proved unstoppable. By Paul Seabright.
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Friday 22 May 2015
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A crowd of people from various churches in Tonga led by some church leaders, today marched to the Palace Office in Nuku'alofa to present four petitions to King Tupou VI, in opposition to Tonga's intention to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).
Friday 23 May 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A small bone, said to be the remains of an English missionary, Rev. Thomas Baker, who was killed and eaten at Navosa, Fiji, in 1867, has been discovered in a small concrete box found beneath a hall in Nausori, Fiji.
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