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Friday’s Religion News Roundup
Best wishes for a Good Friday to our Christian friends and a happy Earth Day to our eco-conscious friends, including our eco-conscious Christian friends.
CNN attends a blasphemy trial for Jesus in Richmond, Va., which was intended to call attention to the state's death penalty system...
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Love lost and found on opposite sides of border
BARTA'A, Israel (RNS) Fatmeh Kabaha spent most of her life surrounded by her brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews in a small Palestinian village just minutes from the border that separates the Palestinian territories from Israel.
Six years ago, she married a fellow Palestinian wid...
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French ban on full-face veils takes effect
PARIS (RNS) Police arrested several veiled Muslim women Monday (April 11) and protests continued to spread as France's controversial ban against the full-face veil came into force.
At least two women wearing the face-covering veil, or niqab, were reportedly arrested at a small protest...
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U.S. embassy condemns Quran burning at Fla. church
(RNS) The U.S. ambassador to Pakistan called the burning of a Quran at a small Florida church "abhorrent" as Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari condemned the act as a "serious setback" to world harmony.
U.S. Ambassador Cameron P. Munter tried to distance the United States from the S...
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Methodists shun the bottle that no one wants to talk about
(RNS) The Rev. James Howell knew he had a problem on his hands when several teenagers arrived at a church dance drunk and had to be taken from the church by ambulance for treatment for alcohol poisoning.
Starting in 2009, he urged his flock at Myers Park United Methodist Church in Cha...
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Churches press Obama to reengage on Middle East
(RNS/ENInews) Nearly two dozen Christian leaders are calling on the Obama administration to renew diplomatic efforts to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"With rapid change underway in the Arab world we believe that the time to act is now -- before events make the task of reach...
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Alumni defend paddling at Catholic school
NEW ORLEANS (RNS) One by one, alumni of St. Augustine High School took the microphone on Thursday (Feb. 24), recalling one paddling at the hands of a St. Augustine teacher that turned them around and taught them a lesson.
The 60-year-old tradition of corporal punishment at St. Augusti...
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Zondervan CEO leaving Christian publisher
CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (RNS) Zondervan CEO Maureen "Moe" Girkins will step down March 11, the Grand Rapids-area publisher has announced.
A search for a new CEO will begin immediately, according to a statement released by the company.
The company declined to comment on the reason for...
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Jesuits sued over sex abuse bankruptcy
PORTLAND, Ore. (RNS) Lawyers representing a group of people who accuse Jesuit priests of sexual abuse filed 37 lawsuits Thursday in bankruptcy court, asking for about $3 million.
The lawsuits claim that the Roman Catholic order paid money to various entities before declaring bankruptc...
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Most Americans support congressional probe on Muslims
(RNS) Americans haven't heard much about upcoming congressional hearings on the radicalization of U.S. Muslims, yet more than half think it's a good idea, and nearly as many believe Muslims here haven't done enough to fight extremists in their midst, according to a new poll.
At the sa...
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