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Presbyterians target Caterpillar for divestment
(RNS) A Presbyterian Church (USA) committee will recommend that the church add heavy equipment giant Caterpillar to its divestment list because the company profits from the "non-peaceful" use of its products by Israel against Palestinians.
According to the PCUSA, Caterpillar equipment...
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COMMENTARY: The barbarians among us
(RNS) I love the cartoon that shows a hapless customer in a bookstore facing three shelves. One is labeled FICTION. The next is NONFICTION. The third: NOT SURE.
Everything these days is relative, even fiction. Consider the recent case of the lobsterless lobster salad at New York's fam...
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Intrepid young activists push condoms at World Youth Day
(RNS) Sending a small band of young people to talk about condoms at World Youth Day, the triennial Catholic jamboree that opens in Madrid on Tuesday (Aug. 16), sounds like penance, if not a kind of martyrdom.
The six-day event is expected to draw close to 1 million young pilgrims, as...
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Thursday’s Godbytes
Lots of folks are blogging and tweeting away about Middle Eastern politics, as different religious and political groups grapple for power after the Arab Spring.
Reza Aslan writes on the Washington Post's On Faith blog that although Islamists in Egypt are less influential than one migh...
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Hill hearing again targets radicalized Muslims
WASHINGTON (RNS) The third in a controversial series of congressional hearings on the "radicalization" of American Muslims showcased on Wednesday (July 27) a militant Somali group that some experts say poses a serious risk to the United States.
Al-Shabab has recruited more than 40 Ame...
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Poll: God has better approval ratings than Congress
WASHINGTON (RNS) More than half of U.S. voters approve of God's job performance, according to a new poll, making God more popular than all members of Congress.
The poll -- which was conducted by the Democratic research firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) -- surveyed 928 people and found...
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Imams trained to adapt Islamic finance to U.S. economy
(RNS) Abdullah Nana, an imam at the Islamic Center of Mill Valley, Calif., just north of San Francisco, has a distinct advantage over many of his fellow imams in the United States.
It's not fluency in Arabic or training in Islamic jurisprudence. It's his bachelor's degree in business....
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Pennsylvania debates whether thou shalt not hunt on the Sabbath
HARRISBURG, Pa. (RNS) Two of the most influential forces in conservative lobbying are poised to go head-to-head this fall over an issue that some Pennsylvania lawmakers dread might be one of the most difficult of the session.
It's the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau vs. the National Rifle As...
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tweet roundup
Welcome to the first Religion News Service Twitter roundup! This is where we share with our readers some tweets we found interesting from around twitterverse - or where the most profound, enduring questions of the universe are boiled down to 140 characters or less.
Let's jump right in...
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Catholics return check from lawmaker over marriage vote
(RNS) A New York lawmaker has found himself at odds with the Roman Catholic Church after a parish school refused a $50 donation because of his vote in favor of same-sex marriage.
Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, a Democrat, sent a $50 check to honor a student at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Sch...
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