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submitted by Julia Leigh for team Obama Watch 166 weeks 2 days 19 hours 15 minutes ago
A Roman Catholic priest has told parishioners they should confess if they voted for Barack Obama because the president-elect supports abortion.
The Rev. Joseph Illo says his parishioners at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Modesto shouldn't risk losing their "state of grace" by receiving communion sacrilegiously. He...(more)
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ALBANY — Church groups are staring down eviction from city schools after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver spiked a Senate bill to let them stay — instead starting work on his own rescue plan. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ALBANY — Church groups are staring down eviction from...(more)
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submitted by Ari 177 weeks 3 days 23 hours 1 minute ago
Saudi Arabia's top judiciary official has issued a religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite
TV networks that broadcast immoral content.
The 79-year-old Sheik Saleh al-Lihedan said Thursday that satellite channels cause the "deviance of thousands of people."
Many of the most popular...(more)
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submitted by Jazz 187 weeks 2 days 13 hours 53 minutes ago
A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after...(more)
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submitted by enikhanjohorns 149 weeks 17 hours 56 minutes ago
De-baptism organisers say the initiative is a response to what they see as increasing stridency from churches.
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submitted by Micca 187 weeks 7 hours 36 minutes ago
The Church of England decided last night to consecrate women bishops, with minimum concessions to opponents and despite the threat of a mass exodus of traditionalist clergy.
After one of the most contentious debates faced by the Church’s General Synod, its members voted to allow the consecration...(more)
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submitted by Julia Leigh 152 weeks 1 day 20 hours 10 minutes ago
Unemployed for a year and with an ailing wife at home, Mike Hammer stepped out of his truck in a Concord strip mall and walked into the heart of one of the most sophisticated private welfare systems in the country.
Here, in a plain white box of...(more)
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submitted by Oscar Contreras 97 weeks 5 days 10 hours 51 minutes ago
Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church...(more)
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submitted by Micca 224 weeks 20 hours 37 minutes ago
My father imposed the veil on me three times and I took it off three times. The following is the story of how I took off the veil for that final time.
Although I have lived in Britain for the past 23 years I was born and...(more)
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submitted by Micca 105 weeks 2 days 18 hours 30 minutes ago
AFP - Female students at Cairo University are defying religious and state efforts to ban the controversial niqab from schools and colleges, saying that wearing the controversial face veil is a religious obligation that also protects against sexual harassment.
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submitted by AB 247 weeks 6 days 23 hours 26 minutes ago
Archaeologists have unearthed the grave of King Herod the Great, it was announced today.
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 171 weeks 3 days 8 hours 48 minutes ago
Before the year is up, nearly 45 million people will get more than a sermon at their churches -- they'll get a brochure titled "Why We Should Be Concerned About Christian Zionism."
The brochure says Christian Zionism "fosters fear and hatred of Muslims and non-Western Christians" and...(more)
