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Sociologist and 'Bowling Alone' Author Robert Putnam "The mountain bikers for God, the geeks for God, the small group for people who have breast cancer or whose spouses have breast cancer," Putnam says. "In the context of a very big organization, everybody feels connecte...
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(RNS) The Roman Catholic Church and an evangelical megachurch are among the religious groups applying for newly available Internet domain names. But as .com and .org are replaced by more specific online addresses, should names such as .Catholic and .church be under the control of religious partisans? By Daniel Burke.
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VATICAN CITY (RNS) Two new exhibits in Rome offer delights for Christian history buffs. One displays documents from the storied Vatican Secret Archive, and the other is dedicated to the Bible, and displays more than 150 rare biblical texts and artifacts. By Alessandro Speciale.
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(RNS) "If you are looking for problematic texts in the Quran, yes, they exist. They also exist in the Bible and Torah and other books," said Emory University's Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im. "But Christians aren't judged based on what the Bible said 2,000 years ago, but on how they behave today. Why are Muslims judged according to these literalist interpretations, and not according to how the vast majority of good Muslims behave today?" By Omar Sacirbey.
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WASHINGTON (RNS) Researchers plan to release a comprehensive census of American mosques on Wednesday, charting their growth, followers and their leaders' interpretations of Islam. By Lauren Markoe.
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Today's issue of L'Osservatore Romano carries a laudatory obituary of the late Paul Newman.
"In his films he was the tough guy and the braggart, the rebel and the conquistador," recalls the official Vatican newspaper. "In reality Newman was a generous heart, an actor of a dignity and style r...
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