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Scholar challenges Thursday date of Last Supper
LONDON (RNS) A top British scientist claims his biblical, historical and astronomical research shows Christians have been observing Jesus' Last Supper on the wrong day of the week.
Cambridge University Professor Colin Humphreys says Jesus' final meal with his disciples actually was ea...
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British astrophysicist wins Templeton Prize
(RNS) A British theoretical astrophysicist who has achieved renown for his study of the cosmos and for sounding warnings about the future of humanity has won the $1.6 million 2011 Templeton Prize.
Martin J. Rees of Cambridge University, a former president of Britain's prestigious Roya...
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Coalition works to protect religious employees
WASHINGTON (RNS) A coalition of religious and civil liberty groups is pushing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to stop employers from segregating "visibly religious employees from customers and the general public."
In a March 25 letter submitted to the EEOC, the groups aske...
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Study suggests young adults can get fat at church
(RNS) Thou shalt not serve pizza?
Young adults who regularly attend religious activities are 50 percent more likely to become obese when they reach middle age than their nonreligious peers, a new study shows.
Based on their findings, researchers at Northwestern University's medical sc...
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Missionaries grapple with leaving Japan
(RNS) Wolfgang Langhans, a Tokyo-based field director for missionaries, calls the week since the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan "the busiest and most stressful week of my life."
But when those twin crises created a third -- the threat of dangerous radiation leaks from a damaged nucl...
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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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