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Rivals find common ground on religious grounds
It took, of all things, a Mets fan, to resolve a religious conflict that surfaced around an upcoming Red Sox-Yankees game. Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that it will move back the Sept. 27 game between the famous rivals to a 1 p.m. start to accommodate Yom Kippur, which begi...
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United Church of Canada: No churchwide boycott of Israel
(RNS) The United Church of Canada General Council adopted a resolution Thursday (Aug. 13) that denies calls for a churchwide boycott of Israel, but encourages church members to consider boycotts to help resolve to the Middle East conflict.
"The United Church has not begun or approved...
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COMMENTARY: Hey, religious partisans, relax
SAN FRANCISCO -- Which is the "real" San Francisco?
The city we saw from the sky, or the son who greeted us with a big smile and big hugs? We're here to see our son, of course, so the rest was real estate.
Maybe the "real" San Francisco was the epic downtown that suddenly swung into v...
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Faith in Football?
Looks like Florida Gators' quarterback Tim Tebow is tackling prison inmates and other potential believers with his faith. Sports Illustrated profiled Tebow using his force off the field as a Christian missionary man.
From the story: "Watching Tebow zip passes into the seams of opposin...
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I Belong to Jesus
The Brazilian football (or soccer for those of us Americans) team was chastized by FIFA, world football's governing body, for bearing their souls and chests during the finals of the Confederations Cup last month.
Stripping out of their jerseys to show T-shirts that read "I Belong to J...
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COMMENTARY: A heart is a terrible thing to waste
(UNDATED) The hole in Vasco Sylvester's heart isn't there anymore.
In a three-hour operation on June 10, surgeons at Hope Children's Hospital outside Chicago, using a piece of white Gore-Tex, patched the quarter-size hole that had been there since Vasco was born.
The doctors also remo...
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Hockey as religion? Many Canadians think so.
TORONTO (RNS) May the puck be with you. And also with you.
Hockey as religion? Many Canadians wouldn't argue that their hard-core fandom borders on religious fervor. Even when they don't bring home the holy grail of the Stanley Cup, storied teams like the Toronto Maple Leafs and Montr...
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Promise Keepers invites women to 2009 gathering
(RNS) Promise Keepers, the evangelical ministry known for its focus on making men better fathers and husbands, is inviting women for the first time to its main 2009 conference, the ministry announced.
"This year we are calling men to bring the women in their lives," founder and chairm...
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CREW files Brownback complaint
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonpartisan good-government group, filed a Senate ethics complaint against Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) over the use of faux Senate letterhead in a fundraising letter on behalf a conservative Catholic group.
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Return to sender?
National Catholic Reporter has received a fundraising letter lambasting liberal Catholics and bearing Kansas Senator Sam Brownback's signature. The letter's from Catholic Advocate, a conservative Washington-based group.
The undated Brownback letter names many prominent Catholic Democr...
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