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Fighting threatens Islamic artifacts in troubled Timbuktu
(RNS) Fighting in the Muslim country of Mali in western Africa has delayed the American tour of a unique exhibit featuring centuries-old texts and artifacts from Timbuktu, an ancient center of Islamic learning.
"The Legacy of Timbuktu" was scheduled to open April 20 at the Fort...
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Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress takes veiled swipe at Tim Tebow
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(RNS) So much for turning the other cheek.
After evangelical icon Tim Tebow canceled his scheduled appearance at First Baptist Church in...
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Dwindling Catholic schools see future in Latino students
LOS ANGELES (RNS) Martha Rodriguez always thought Catholic school was expensive and out of reach -- not a place for her kids. But when the time came to send her daughter to the same public middle school she'd struggled at decades earlier, Rodriguez decided to check out what the chur...
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For Hollywood couple, “The Bible” miniseries is a ‘labor of love’
LOS ANGELES (RNS) Before actress Roma Downey met her husband, her "Touched by an Angel" co-star Della Reese had a bit of advice.
"Baby, you need to pray that God will choose a partner for you," Downey recalled Reese telling her. "Maybe in the past you didn't choose so well and...
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GUEST COMMENTARY: Congress must address real roots of immigration
WASHINGTON (RNS) This passage from the Gospel of Matthew inviting us to welcome strangers into our midst could not be more salient than it is now, as our lawmakers embark on the long-awaited debate over immigration reform.
Senate hearings recently began after both President Oba...
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Exhibit highlights blacks’ connection to Scripture
NEW YORK (RNS) A new exhibit at New York's Museum of Biblical Art makes one point clear and inescapable: Biblical narratives and imagery have been an underlining constant in the life of African-American Christians.
From the days of slavery onward, "African-Americans felt the Bi...
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Fox apologizes for comments on Wiccans at University of Missouri
COLUMBIA, Mo. (RNS) Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson has apologized for comments he made about Wiccans, saying he "should have left them alone."
"Comments in the story offended a number of people -- that was never my intention," Carlson said on the show Saturday (Feb 23). "I...
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Singing on “Idol,” and facing the wrath of religious traditionalists
(RNS) The biggest worry for most "American Idol" contestants is whether the judges will let them continue to the next round.
Some singers on Idol-like programs abroad have a bigger worry: that religious extremists will kill them.
Appearing on a version of the show in conse...
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Eccentric Russian artist finds a career as papal portraitist
VATICAN CITY (RNS) As the popes' official painter, Natalia Tsarkova says she tries to capture both the physical reality and the spiritual essence of her subjects.
But the Russian-born artist confessed she was "shocked" just like everyone else when Pope Benedict XVI, who pos...
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The gospel roots of the ‘Godmother of rock’n’ roll’
(RNS) Before Elvis and Chuck Berry and Johnny Cash. Before Aretha and Whitney and Beyonce. Before the blues met gospel and conceived rock'n' roll, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
The first gospel superstar, Tharpe was a guitar hero in a flower-print dress whose bluesy chops an...
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