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COMMENTARY: Kidnapping unveils the `spirit of bondage’
(UNDATED) Why didn't she escape?
In 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped by Phillip Garrido at a school bus stop near her home in South Lake Tahoe, Calif.
For the next 18 years, she was held captive in a concealed area behind her abductor's home in Antioch, Calif., about...
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Churches step into health care debate
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Congress may be on summer recess, but Americans who are motivated by their faith are joining the conversation over changing the way that health care is paid for in the United States.
The Huntsville Chapter of Health Care for Everyone-Alabama, for example, includes...
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Jews irked as cancer race scheduled for Rosh Hashana
PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) Friderike Heuer has walked in the Race for the Cure breast cancer fundraiser many times, but this year she's hit a roadblock: The date of this year's Portland race, Sept. 20, conflicts with Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year. Her faith won't allow her to attend.
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Secular Buddhism
It's no secret that mindfulness meditation and other Buddhist-based cognitive studies are gaining in popularity in the West, particularly in the U.S. But in bringing mindfulness to the masses, is something lost in translation? That is to say, are Westerners gradually stripping Buddhis...
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Senate confirms Diaz as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican
WASHINGTON (RNS) The U.S. Senate on Tuesday (Aug. 4) confirmed a Cuban-born theologian as the ninth U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
Miguel H. Diaz, 45, will be the first theologian and the first Hispanic to serve as American envoy since Washington established formal diplomatic ties wi...
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Britain, hard-hit by swine flu, alters worship rituals
CANTERBURY, England (RNS/ENI) Fears about the spread of the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, are curtailing religious activities of both Christians and Muslims as they worship and express their faith, especially in Britain.
Health authorities believe that the H1N1 flu pandemic is...
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Pope meets Obama with abortion as topic No. 1
VATICAN CITY -- President Obama met Pope Benedict XVI for the first time on Friday (July 10) in a closed-door meeting that a Vatican statement said covered multiple topics but focused on the Catholic Church's opposition to abortion.
The pope also gave Obama copies of his recent encycl...
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Jehovah’s Witnesses more likely to die in childbirth, study finds
(RNS) Pregnant women who are Jehovah's Witnesses are six times more likely to die during childbirth and three times more likely to have serious complications than the general population, according to a new study by Dutch researchers.
All of the cases of death examined by the researche...
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For renowned ethicist, academic debates turn personal
SALT LAKE CITY -- The moment Brooke Hopkins' heart stopped beating, Peggy Battin found herself in a scene whose ending she had written time and again.
Doctors, nurses and aides swarmed Hopkins' hospital bed, urgently working to save his life. Battin watched in horror as his eyes rolle...
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Thou shalt not kill*
The publisher of the anti-abortion newsletter that suspected murderer Scott Roeder subscribed to told the Des Moines Register on Tuesday that killing abortion doctors is biblically justified.
The publisher, Dave Leach of Des Moines, told the paper that did not condone the shooting dea...
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