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COMMENTARY: Smiles faded by time and nuclear disaster
(RNS) Japan was the scene of the devastating opening chapter of the atomic age, and now it may be writing the closing chapter on the world's quest for secure nuclear energy.
It is the only nation to have suffered atomic bomb attacks when our nation struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki three...
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Thursday’s Religion News Roundup
So Daniel Sullivan Burke, our resident jolly Irishman, is off for a few days so you're be left with this dour Swede to guide you through the festivities of St. Patrick's Day. Truth be told, the real Irish saint with a fondness for the brew (green or otherwise) was St. Patrick's friend...
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Catholics try to lure lapsed sheep back into the fold
MADISON, N.J. (RNS) A small bucket filled with bottles of cold beer sat on the floor, down the hall from the chapel, as about a dozen young adults lounged around on comfortable couches.
They weren't there to pray or preach -- just to enjoy one another's company at St. Paul Inside the...
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Court rules for Jewish man in Shavuot dispute
(RNS) An Orthodox Jew has won a new trial after Maryland's highest court ruled that a lower court erred when it denied his requests to suspend a trial so he could observe a religious holiday.
Alexander Neustadter had argued he could not be in court during two days of a medical malprac...
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Age-old Lent gets a 21st-century makeover
(RNS) For Janis Galvin fasting for Lent has long meant saying no to candy for the 40 days before Easter. But when the season begins this year on March 9, it's apt to mean something more: walking when she'd rather drive, for instance, or turning the thermostat way down.
Galvin, an Epis...
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Christians concerned about conscience clause
WASHINGTON (RNS) Catholic bishops and Christian medical groups are "disappointed" that the Obama administration has rescinded Bush-era conscience clauses for health care workers.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday (Feb. 18) issued its new guidelines, which gove...
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Biggest obstacle for Catholic nuns lies at home
(RNS) If she had listened to her parents, Sister Jenn Graus might never have professed vows last month to join the Congregation of St. Joseph.
Though lifelong Catholics, Graus' parents had met few nuns or sisters near their home in Sterling Heights, Mich., and assumed most were cloist...
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`Miracle Detectives’ on the hunt for answers
(RNS) Dirt at an ancient holy site in Chimayo, N.M. reputedly cures a woman's rare bone cancer.
In North Carolina, a 14-year-old girl stricken with pneumonia is removed from life support but survives after an angelic image appears on a security monitor outside her hospital room.
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Southern Baptist leader resigns coalition supporting mosques
(RNS) A top leader of the Southern Baptist Convention has resigned from a new interfaith coalition, saying some fellow Southern Baptists felt it was inappropriate for him to support the building of mosques.
Richard Land, who heads the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, tol...
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Tuesday’s Religion News Roundup
Thousands of abortion opponents rallied Monday on the National Mall, encouraged by recent federal and state GOP wins and hopeful about proposals to tighten bans on federal funding for abortions, according to WaPo.
Deadly attacks against Shiite pilgrims in Iraq continued on Monday, inc...
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