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‘PopUp Sukkah’ helps Jews on the go celebrate Sukkot
(RNS) If you're wondering why your Jewish neighbors built a hut in their yard, it's because the Jewish harvest festival of Sukkot began Wednesday night (Oct. 12), a sort of Jewish Thanksgiving that lasts through Oct. 21.
The temporary hut is a "sukkah," a place to eat and even sleep d...
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10 minutes with ... Robert Lupton
WASHINGTON (RNS) Food pantries, clothes closets and mission trips have become unquestioned bastions of America's charitable landscape. But do these well-intended services -- many of them run by religious organizations -- really help the poor?
According to Robert Lupton, not really. Hi...
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Jesus cell phone ad ruled `disrespectful’
LONDON (RNS) A newspaper ad that showed a winking Jesus giving a thumbs-up sign to a line of cell phones has been given a thumbs-down by a British government watchdog panel that called it "disrespectful."
The Advertising Standards Authority, which governs media advertising, ruled that...
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Dalai Lama, Nobel laureates tussle (gently) over violence
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) The Dalai Lama says peace in the world begins with peace in oneself. Some of his fellow Nobel laureates, however, aren't convinced.
"It isn't that I'm just an angry human being, it's anger at injustice," said Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for...
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Toxic Chinese drywall taxes Katrina relief groups
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) Relief organizations whose volunteers built or repaired hundreds of damaged houses after Hurricane Katrina have found they installed toxic Chinese drywall in more than 200 buildings, requiring hundreds of low-income families to move out for months while the houses ar...
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Brooklyn Rabbi pleads guilty to money laundering
TRENTON, N.J. (RNS) Of all those targeted in what became the biggest FBI sting operation in New Jersey history, Rabbi Mordchai Fish was among the most secretive.
He changed cell phones constantly, worried aloud about electronic bugs and had cash couriers all over Brooklyn.
On Friday (...
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Evangelist testifies in ex-bodyguard’s murder trial
WATERLOO, Ill. (RNS) Televangelist Joyce Meyer said Wednesday (April 6) she testified "honestly and truthfully" in a closed pretrial deposition in the murder trial of her former bodyguard, Christopher Coleman.
But Meyer said she would honor a request not to reveal the substance of wha...
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Court says Adventist postmen can’t get Saturday off
(RNS) Neither snow nor rain nor Saturday Sabbaths should keep a Missouri mailman from his appointed rounds, a federal appeals court has ruled.
Seventh-day Adventist Hosea Harrell argued he was the victim of religious discrimination when the U.S. Postal Service refused to give him Satu...
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COMMENTARY: As we forgive those who trespass against us ...
(RNS) How do I forgive those who have wronged me? Can I restore a relationship with someone who has deeply hurt me? Can ethnic groups set aside centuries of grievances and warring ways? Can the proverbial lion lay down with the lamb?
My friend Marty composed the music for the most suc...
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Poll: Most Americans don’t blame God for natural disasters
(RNS) We may never know why bad things happen to good people, but most Americans -- except evangelicals -- reject the idea that natural disasters are divine punishment, a test of faith or some other sign from God, according to a new poll.
The poll released Thursday (March 24), by Publ...
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