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Tuesday Godbytes
Did you know that Presidential candidate Ron Paul used to be an Episcopalian? No? Me neither, but you can learn about that and a lot more (like why Paul left the church) in Christianity Today's interview with the congressman from Texas.
The Associated Press (via the Wall Street Journa...
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Thursday Godbytes
So some of you asked yesterday if we here at RNS "forgot" about Rosh Hashanah...
Oh ye of little faith.
The twitterverse certainly didn't forget, what with President Obama tweeting well-wishes to all his Jewish followers. Not to be left out, Republican Presidential candidates Mitt Rom...
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Pope seeks Protestant allies to combat secularism
BERLIN (RNS) All faiths have to work together to stanch the tide of secularism sweeping the world, warned Pope Benedict XVI on Friday (Sept. 23) during the second day of a tour through his native Germany.
Benedict focused Friday on ecumenical meetings, including a service with Luthera...
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Clock is ticking for religious freedom panel
WASHINGTON (RNS) The independent and bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom could be forced to shut its doors if the Senate does not vote by week's end to reauthorize the panel.
The commission appears to be in legislative limbo after the House voted Sept. 15 to...
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Southern Baptist president floats name change
(RNS) The Southern Baptist Convention could be renamed after President Bryant Wright set up a task force to consider a new identity for the nation's largest Protestant denomination.
"The name `Southern' really no longer reflects who we are as convention in reaching all of North Americ...
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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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