Clerics News

The United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) issued a scathing report, accusing the United States of failing to properly deal with "sexual abuse committed by clerics and leading members of certain faith-based organizations."

One Muslim cleric, Omar Bakri Mohammed, a radical cleric in Lebanon, is saying that the sea burial of Osama Bin Laden was a way for Americans to humiliate Muslims. Others however are saying that the White House showed wisdom in the burial of Bin Laden.

Iran's clerics made an unprecedented move yesterday by siding with the country's reformation movement, and publicly saying that the results of the recent election are "illegitimate."

Qom, Iran has always been torn between the past and the present, particularly at the Aalulbayt Global Information Center. Imams are on the 'Net, typing out Web pages of analysis of the Koran and religious edicts into 30 languages.

Plot to attack Najaf apparently involved killing Shiite clerics.

"KRAKOW, Poland, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A Polish Roman Catholic clergyman in Krakow plans to identify 39 priests, including three bishops, as former communist police agents, reports said."