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The health care law, Catholics and birth control

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

PolitiFact - By Becky Bowers - Feb. 10 (Fact Check) - Is President Barack Obama’s administration requiring the Catholic Church to provide birth control coverage to nuns? As rhetoric rises in a clash between Catholic leaders and the federal government over a rule requiring co-pay-free coverage of contraceptives in most health plans, here’s a guide. What the rule says The newly final rule stems from the Affordable Care Act of 2010 — what Republican presidential candidates call "Obamacare." It affects the health plans employers offer their ... >>More

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Ban on School Christmas Carols Upheld

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

beliefnet - By Jeanette Rundquist - Oct. 05 (News) - "Silent Night" and other religious songs will remain off the program at holiday concerts in one New Jersey school district -- and possibly others across the country -- after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a school ban on religious holiday music.

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Court Puts Limits on German Church’s Ability to Fire Workers

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Ethics Daily - By Niels Sorrells - Sep. 27 (News) - The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday (Sept. 23) that a church organist’s employment rights were ignored when he was fired by a Catholic church for remarrying outside the church.

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Bishops Rebuke Theologians’ Book Over Views on Homosexuality

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Ethics Daily - By Daniel Burke - Sep. 27 (News) - The U.S. Catholic bishops have issued a rare public rebuke of two Roman Catholic theologians, saying their 2008 book on sexual ethics marks a “radical departure” from church teaching and could be “harmful to one’s moral and spiritual life.”

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Poll: Glenn Beck the wrong person to lead religious movement

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Religion News Service - By Nicole Neroulias - Sep. 16 (News) - Glenn Beck's recent "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington focused more on faith than politics, but most Americans don't consider the conservative broadcaster the right person to lead a religious movement - or even know what religion he follows, according to a new poll.

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Religious tracts target Catholic church in St. Petersburg

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

St. Petersburg Times - Sep. 14 (News) - Parishioners leaving Mass at St. Raphael's Catholic Church in St. Petersburg one recent Sunday evening weren't prepared for the sermon plastered to their windshields. "Am I going to Heaven?'' asked the religious tracts, protected in sandwich bags

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For Muslims, the bonfire that wasn’t still carries implications

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Religious News Service - By Omar Sacirbey - Sep. 13 (News) - The crowd-control barriers and TV satellite trucks are gone after a Florida pastor called off a bonfire to burn 200 Qurans, but American Muslims say the political firestorm in Gainesville was more than a momentary flare-up.

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Interfaith Center leads coalition against privatization

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Richmond Times-Dispatch - By Staff Reports - Sep. 13 (News) - The Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy is leading a coalition and a petition drive in opposition to Gov. Bob McDonnell's plan to privatize the state's liquor stores.

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India Court Convicts Legislator in Second Christian Murder Case

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Christian Post - By Vishal Arora - Sep. 10 (News) - A Hindu nationalist legislator was arrested yesterday after a court pronounced him guilty of playing a major role in the murder of a Christian during anti-Christian carnage in Orissa state’s Kandhamal district in August 2008.

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August 10th – The “-ing” that Stings : Victory In Grace

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

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Jesus and His Apostles Affirm the Need to Obey God's Command

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ucg.org - Aug. 10 (Other) - In Matthew 19:16, Jesus was asked what must be done to inherit eternal life. His answer: "If you want to enter into life, keep the commandments" (verse 17). Jesus then listed several, including enough of the Ten Commandments to make clear which commandments He meant: "'

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Do you love the truth? - by Adam J. West (guest columnist)

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

tomorrowsworld.org - Aug. 03 (Other) - Why do some celebrities experience a rapid rise to stardom out of relative obscurity, and then simply fade into the backdrop of history, seldom to be remembered? Because popularity is fleeting. An article in the Kansas City Star dated July 29, 2010 titled “A Real Lady” states the philosophy and one of the goals of the singer, Lady Gaga.

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Money paved way for Maciel's influence in the Vatican

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

National Catholic Reporter - By Jason Berry - Apr. 12 (Investigative Report) - The saga of the disgraced founder of the Legion of Christ, a secretive, cult-like religious order now under Vatican investigation, opens into a deeper story of how one man's lies and betrayal dazzled key figures in the Roman curia and how Maciel's money and success helped him find protection and influence. For years, the heads of Vatican congregations and the pope himself ignored persistent warnings that something was rotten in the community where Legionaries called their leader Nuestro Padre , "Our Father," and considered him a living saint.

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Swiss Islamophobia Betrays Enlightenment Ideals

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Informed Comment - By Juan Cole - Nov. 30 (News Analysis) - Switzerland on Sunday voted by 58 percent in favor of banning minarets. This campaign poster was banned for being racist, but apparently the goal of the poster, now that is all right. Swissinfo surveys the headlines in Switzerland Monday morning and finds that the press there universally condemned and expressed dismay at Sunday?s vote . Editors expressed consternation at the inevitable tarnishing of Switzerland?s image and worried about the consequences. Will there be boycotts? Sanctions? Appeals to the European Court of Human Rights? I can anticipate right now arguments to excuse this outbreak of bigotry in the Alps that will be advanced by our own fringe Right, of Neoconservatives and those who think, without daring saying it, that "white culture" is superior to all other world civilizations and deserves to dominate or wipe the others out. The first is that it is only natural that white, Christian Europeans should be afraid of being swamped by people adhering to an alien, non-European ...

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Christian Pakistanis, Called "America's Dogs," Have Long History Of Persecution In Punjab

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Naveen Naqvi - Aug. 06 (News Report) - After eight people were burnt alive, over 50 houses destroyed and a church desecrated in the village of Gojra, Pakistani Christians have expressed their rage and frustration. There have been nationwide protests, and Christian schools across Pakistan were closed for three days from the 3rd of August.

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Pakistan: Condemning Gojra Riots

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Sana Saleem - Aug. 05 (News Analysis) - Last Saturday riots broke out in the Gojra town of Pakistan over alleged desecration of the Holy Quran and houses of the local Christian community were set on fire leaving 7 burnt alive and 18 severely injured. The widespread communal violence has been condemned severely by the Pakistani blogosphere.

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Gojra

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Roznamcha – Bach - By Saesneg - Aug. 04 (News Analysis) - In the aftermath two long-running Pakistani discourses emerge – militancy and Pakistan’s Islamized criminal code. On Monday “sources” told Dawn that a mob went on rampage after “youths delivered provocative speeches and set on fire houses and places of worship”. The government believed the incidents were “planned to trigger riots between Christians and Muslims and the government was not ruling out involvement of an external hand”. Fingers were pointed at the Sipah-e-Sahaba, the Guardian reported, which the South Asia Terrorism Portal claims receives significant funding from Saudi interests and is known for violence against Shia’s.

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Pakistani Taliban behind Gojra carnage, says Punjab governor

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) - Aug. 04 (News Report) - Speaking to the media here, Punjab Governor Salman Taseer said: We strongly condemn Gojra carnage. Such heinous acts of violence and brutality are not an enriching sign for any one. If the number of police (personnel) deployed now could have been

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Pakistani president vows to restore Gojra

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CCTV - Aug. 03 (News Report) - Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari has ordered authorities to ensure the restoration of law and order in the eastern city of Gojra, after riots broke out there last week. Interior Minister Rehman Malik, on the directions of President Asif Ali Zardari, ordered a paramilitary force to head to Gojra. Zardari's spokesperson conveyed the president's "grave concern" over the incident, in which seven innocent people were burnt to death. Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti says 40 Christian homes were torched on Saturday in rioting led by the banned terrorist group Sipah-e-Sahaba. He said there was no truth to allegations that a Quran had been defiled. Officials say the riots, which began on Thursday but had calmed before flaring again on Saturday, had been instigated by members of a banned extremist Muslim organization. Hundreds of Muslims burned and looted Christian homes in the city in a rampage sparked by allegations that a Quran had been defaced. Shooting broke out, and six people were killed, including a child and four women. Two men wounded by gunfire died in hospital overnight. Christians make up a tiny minority of Pakistan's predominantly Sunni Muslim population of 160 million people.

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Christian Houses burnt by Muslims in Gojra, Pakistan (raw footage)

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Peace In Asia - Aug. 02 (Breaking News) - More than 60 poor Christians houses set to burn and demolish by a mob of thousands of Muslims in Chak 362 Korianwala, Tehisl Gojra, District, Toba Tek Singh. Some Muslims suspected that Quranic have been desecrated by Christians. Muslim clerics formed a mob and attacked Christian houses.

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The Floral Majority

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New Republic - By J. Lester Feder - Dec. 31 (Special Report) - it would be wrong to conclude that the evangelical grassroots have rejected environmentalism. Instead, evangelical environmentalists at the grassroots level simply conceive of the problem in different terms.

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Christian right regroups after Obama victory

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Eric Gorski - Nov. 09 (News Analysis) - Pundits declared evangelicals among of Election Day's losers. Conservative Christian leader James Dobson confessed he was grieving. Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State said religious right leaders "kept their own flock in line, but the majority of Americans were unmoved." But few are writing obituaries this week for the Christian right, which has been wrongly considered dead after setbacks like the demise of the Moral Majority and crumbling of the Christian Coalition.

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McCain's VP Courts Conservative Evangelicals

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Religion Dispatches - By Kathryn Joyce - Sep. 02 (Special Report) - From the sound of Palin's acceptance speech, it sounds as though Crouse knows her woman. In a line that evoked George W. Bush's 2000 campaign references to the "power in the blood," (referencing an old gospel hymn There is Power in the Blood [of the Lamb]) Palin declared that she would approach government with "a servant's heart." Just as Bush's stump speech was later judged a vehicle for courting the religious right in psalmic and hymnic code, Palin is delivering a very clear message to religion-savvy listeners, who hear in her call for "servant's hearts" the message of twenty years' worth of "complementarian" sermons, exhorting Christians to be "servant-leaders" and, among women, to view their highest calling in service to male leadership: willing helpmeets to their husbands', fathers' and pastors' authority. She also employed a word usage common among profamily pronatalists who encourage large families, referring to her children as "blessings" in the same way that women of the Quiverfull conviction call every pregnancy a blessing.

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Theocratic Sect Prays for Real Armageddon

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Casey Sanchez - Aug. 30 (Special Report) - Todd Bentley has a long night ahead of him, resurrecting the dead, healing the blind, and exploding cancerous tumors. Since April 3, the 32-year-old, heavily tattooed, body-pierced, shaved-head Canadian preacher has been leading a continuous "supernatural healing revival" in central Florida. To contain the 10,000-plus crowds flocking from around the globe, Bentley has rented baseball stadiums, arenas and airport hangars at a cost of up to $15,000 a day. Many in attendance are church pastors themselves who believe Bentley to be a prophet and don't bat an eye when he tells them he's seen King David and spoken with the Apostle Paul in heaven. "He was looking very Jewish," Bentley notes.

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Dems' Godly God-Fest Ends with Prayer by Former Christian Coalition Leader

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland, - Aug. 30 (News Analysis) - So there was a lot of God Bless this and that, although, interestingly, nobody asked God to damn America. And there were lots of "faith leaders" in attendance. Contrary to popular belief, I have no qualms with any of this, even if I question to what degree it might be effective. I did want to draw attention to one leader in particular -- the man who followed Obama, offering the prayer that closed the convention. 'Twas none other than Joel Hunter, mega-church pastor and, briefly, head of the rightwing Christian Coalition.

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