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Obama rallies Hispanic Christians on immigration
WASHINGTON (RNS) President Obama assured Hispanic Christians on Thursday (May 12) that he hears their pleas for immigration reform, calling it a "moral imperative" that requires action from the pews and the White House.
"What I can do is sign a law," he told more than 600 people gathe...
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Many genocides to be commemorated on Holocaust Memorial Day
CANTERBURY, England (RNS/ENInews) After the Nazi slaughter of 6 million Jews during World War II, the world cried out "never again." But one of Britain's best-known young rabbis, Jonathan Romain, said the phrase has proved tragically wrong.
"Genocide has happened again and again and a...
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The steady drip, drip, drip of WikiLeaks
Britain's Guardian newspaper has released four more WikiLeaks documents from the U.S. embassy to the Vatican, from 2001, 2002 and 2009, all somehow related to Catholic-Jewish tensions over the possible canonization as a saint of Pope Pius XII.
One of the cables, from last October, rep...
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Unitarians move investments over Sudan conflict
(RNS) The Unitarian Universalist Association is moving its retirement plan from Fidelity Investments to TIAA-CREF because of differing views on the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.
The church's estimated 2,800 retirement accounts -- totaling $173 million in investments -- will be mo...
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Friday morning roundup
First Tinky Winky was made a foot soldier in the culture war over gay rights --- now Dora the Explorer is bloodied and bruised (quite literally) in the tussle over Arizona's get-tough immigration law. Also in the desert, the controversial cross in the Mojave National Preserve that dis...
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Churches face uphill fight on immigration reform
WASHINGTON (RNS) Religious leaders hope to bring tens of thousands of activists to Capitol Hill next week to push Congress to act on immigration reform, but at least one study shows they may have to convince the pews before they can try to sway the politicians.
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Muslim woman expelled from school in veil dispute
TORONTO (RNS/ENI) A Muslim woman has filed a human rights complaint after she was expelled from a Canadian college for refusing to remove her face veil.
The Egyptian-born woman, who is a permanent resident of Canada, was enrolled in a government-sponsored French language class for new...
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Priest faces nine years in immigration fraud case
LONDON (RNS) An African man who once sought asylum and set up his own church as a cover for smuggling illegal migrants into Britain has been sentenced to nine years in prison on 14 charges of violating immigration laws.
The Rev. Anthony Quarco built a reputation as a respectable pilla...
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Jews launch new year appeal aimed at Iowa meat plant
(RNS) Rebuffed after seeking a meeting with the new owners of an Iowa kosher meat plant that was devastated by an immigration raid last year, a social justice group is using the upcoming Jewish New Year to send a message from the marketplace.
The Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iow...
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10 minutes with ... David Plotz
(UNDATED) For more than 30 years, David Plotz, a self-described proud but less-than-pious Jew, would robot through religious rituals.
One day, bored at a bat mitzvah, he picked up the Bible and started reading. Until, then, Plotz had always assumed the Good Book was the collection of...
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