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‘Davey and Goliath’ creator dies at 90
Richard T. Sutcliffe, the creator of the "Davey and Goliath" animated television series, died May 11.
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10 minutes with ... Sandeep Singh Caberwal
c. 2008 Religion News Service
SAN FRANCISCO _ Is a turban just a turban when it's featured in a Kenneth Cole ad campaign?
Sandeep ``Sonny'' Singh Caberwal, 28, is one of 11 people featured in a national ad campaign titled ``We All Walk in Different Shoes'' to mark the company's 25th...
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Police say rosaries are newest gang symbol
c. 2008 Religion News Service
ALBANY, Ore. _ Never did Jaime Salazar imagine that wearing a rosarylike crucifix to school would provoke a national stir.
But when Salazar, 14, and his 16-year-old friend Marco Castro were suspended recently for refusing to remove the religious beads b...
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COMMENTARY: Postcards from the edge
c. 2008 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) It's Spring break. Let's go tour a slum.
A recent New York Times story told of tourist trips through some of the most dangerous shanty-towns on earth. You can go sightseeing in Rochina, the largest of Rio de Janiero's 750 favelas. Or you can v...
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Artist takes burqa from frumpy to flirty
c. 2008 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) It may look like a burqa, but it certainly doesn't act like one. A new invention by a German artist uses technology to turn the exceptionally modest garb into a mobile flirtation device.
Apparel artist Markus Kison invented the CharmingBurka b...
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Sculptor nun hears God’s voice in her chisel
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. _ Deep in the basement of the Marywood motherhouse, tucked among water pipes and storage rooms, Sister Phyllis Mrozinski patiently chips away at a chunk of pink New Mexico alabaster. Mrozinski gently pounds a chisel, kicking up flying chips of stone and sprays of d...
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COMMENTARY: Looking ahead, not back
c. 2008 Religion News Service
(UNDATED) Like many religious institutions, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) has commissioned countless works of art to educate believers and non-believers about its history and doctrines.
Now, like other churches, Mormons a...
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The Vatican enters the digital age
The Catholic Church's leadership is keeping up to date with information and communications technology.
Last week, "Benedict XVI became the first Pope to utilize the technology of SMS texting services to broadcast a papal message."
Then the Cardinal who heads the Vatican's office on sa...
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Take That, Taliban
According to National Geographic, the earliest known oil paintings, according to recently performed chemical analyses, are in caves in Afghanistan. And guess what? They're Buddhist murals.
The finds, dated to around the 7th century A.D., predate the origins of similar sophisticated pa...
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Thou shalt not mock
Joy Behar is lucky she doesn't live in Slovakia.
As RNS columnist Fr. James Martin reported yesterday on the America magazine blog, the television personality made some offensive remarks this week disparaging the mental health of Roman Catholic saints.
One wonders what those cracks wo...
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