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Christians join fight against cockfighting
(RNS) Christian leaders are joining with animal rights defenders to advocate against cockfighting, calling the sport antithetical to biblical values. By Chris Herlinger.
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Thursday’s Religion Roundup: Cage-fighting for Jesus? Apocalypse now—again?
Evangelicals debate the ethics of cage-fighting, George Soros channels Harold Camping, Alaska Airlines stops handing out prayer cards, we reveal “most exciting archival discovery in the post-Reformation era.”
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Thursday Godbytes: Occult New York City; Holy Punches
Have you ever noticed how many gargoyles there are in New York City? (Probably not, because looking up would make look like a tourist)
Does riding the subway make you hear voices? (That's probably the guy next to you on his cellphone.)
Has Grand Central Station ever felt kind of...mys...
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Boy is source of Native American saint’s miracle
(RNS) Jacob "Jake" Finkbonner of Ferndale, Wash., was 5 years old in 2006 when he split his lip playing basketball, developed a deadly flesh-eating strep infection and lay near death for months at Seattle Children's Hospital.
Jake's father, Don, is Native American and a member of the...
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Thursday’s Religion News Roundup: Iraq war ends; 2011’s top religion story; “menor
The killing of Osama bin Laden and the reactions it provoked in faith communities was the top religion story of the year, according to a Religion Newswriters Association survey.
Congress's hearings on radicalization among American Muslims was voted the No. 2 story, followed by the ind...
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How much ‘Tebowing’ is too much?
(RNS) Along with politics, it is one of two things we don't talk about at parties: sports and religion.
Football has always been a religion to some. But now, thanks to Denver quarterback Tim Tebow, sports and religion have become the topic du jour.
Arguments over Tebow's path to...
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Tuesday’s Godbytes
CNN offers story on professional Christian Soccer teams, proving once again that God is probably the only entity that can make Americans care about soccer:
"The team was established in 1993 after a 'sports junkie fell in love with God,' Eagles co-founder Brian Davidson says. But if h...
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Championship coach talks God and gridiron
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) After Auburn University's football win over Clemson last season, coach Gene Chizik declared, "It's a God thing."
After the national championship game win over the University of Oregon, he told a national TV audience, "God was with us."
Chizik sees the hand of Go...
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Orthodox basketball play allowed to cover her arms
JERUSALEM (RNS) The international basketball federation has decided to permit an Orthodox Jewish basketball player to cover her arms during competitions in accordance with her religious beliefs.
FIBA made the decision several weeks after point guard Naama Shafir, a member of the Israe...
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Muslims, FBI search for answers after aborted Oregon terror plot
CORVALLIS, Ore. (RNS) The damage from a fire at the Salman Alfarisi Islamic Center early Sunday (Nov. 28) did not amount to much in material loss. But the symbolic wound went far deeper.
Fire was apparently set to the mosque just a day after one of its on-again, off-again members was...
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